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A Cultural Approach to Understanding the Influence of Globalization on Venezuelan Art.
(2002-01-01)I propose to study how an increasingly global culture affects Venezuelan art. Because the center of the art world is the United States and Western Europe, Venezuelan art is often dismissed as simplistic folk art. I assert ... -
A Study of the Chinese Jamaican Exodus.
(1999-01-01)Beginning in the early 1970s, the Chinese population of Jamaica began to leave the island in great numbers. In 1970, the Chinese Jamaican community numbered 11,781. By 1980, that figure had dropped to 5,320. The Chinese ... -
A War for Peace: William Jennings Bryan and his Crusade
(2007-01-01)On June 28, 1914 Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student, killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo. This assassination set off the powder keg of Europe and plunged it into war from ... -
An Empire Divided: Regional anti-Catholic Policies in Bismarck's Germany
(2011-01-01)Bavaria, the largest Catholic state in Germany, was only incorporated into the Prussian dominated German Empire in 1871. Prussia, the largest Protestant state in Germany, served as the engine behind unification. From ... -
Anti-Semitism in Modern Russia
(2008-01-01)In 1791, under Catherine the Great, the Jews of Russia were forcibly compelled to settle in a small portion of the southwest region known as the Pale of Settlement. This was the first large scale anti-Semitic action to be ... -
Babies and Blunders: How Socialized Medicine Affects Maternity and Emergency Care in Sweden Anne Davis and Jeremiah Ray
(2004-01-01)As America moves into an election year, the question of how to provide health care to our nation has become a major issue. Caring for the poor, developing medical technology and controlling malpractice insurance costs only ... -
Children of the Revolution: The Red Army Faction and the Rise of Modern Terrorism in the 1970s
(2005-01-01)In the 1970s, the world saw the dramatic ascendancy of modern, international terrorism into the spotlight of global politics - most prominently through the actions of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. However, what ... -
City on a Hill: The Aftermath of Los Angeles' Utopia
(2008-01-01)The now derelict Socialist commune of Llano del Rio lies silent in the Mojave Desert 50 miles north of Los Angeles. Founded in 1914 by a prominent Socialist party politician, the commune represented the most successful ... -
Cultural Maintenance and Revitalization in Oaxacan Indigenous Communities in Los Angeles
(2010-01-01)The purpose of my research is to analyze what causes culture loss, specifically within the community of Oaxacan indigenous migrants here in Los Angeles (primarily the Zapotec and the Mixtec) and to analyze the different ... -
Discussing Hitler: The Rhetoric of Historians and its Implications for our Understanding of the Holocaust
(2007-01-01)Adolf Hitler is one of the most significant figures of the 20th century. Countless biographies have been written about him and will continue to be written about him. These biographies provide both a look into his life and ... -
East Meets West:Strengthening the Traditional Doctor-Patient Relationship with Alternative Medical Techniques
(2004-01-01)As scientists, today?s doctors are trained to cultivate a sense of mental detachment from spirituality and so-called ?alternative medicine.? Yet despite their skepticism, few physicians deny the healing potential encompassed ... -
Fanon, Cesaire and the Martiniquais Question
(2009-01-01)The Caribbean island of Martinique is a terribly underrepresented topic of academic inquiry. A former colony, Martinique is a currently French department?politically, economically and culturally tied to France?trading only ... -
From Housing to Home Plate: Chavez Ravine, Cultural Transition, and the Construction of History
(2006-01-01)History is constructed. Like any craft, it is shaped by the views and conceptions of those active in its construction. In modern America, popular media and the press are as active as, and often more influential and ... -
From Sisterhood to Objectivity:Social Workers, Unmarried Mothers, andthe Professionalization of Charity in the 1920s
(2004-01-01)Tracing the evolution of efforts to aid unmarried mothers in the 1920s exposes characteristics of social workers and evangelicals which simultaneously united and divided them, but which universally distanced them from the ... -
Hip Hop and Urban Space in Los Angeles
(2013-01-01)This project examines the ways in which contemporary hip hop culture in Los Angeles has drawn upon earlier African American sociocultural movements of the 20th century. Two movements in particular, the Central Avenue ... -
How Catalan Culture and Identity Survived the Franco Regime.
(2000-01-01)Franco gained power over Spain in 1939 and controlled Spain until his death in 1975. He believed that Castilian culture and language should be central to economic, political, and social institutions in all regions. He ... -
Interpreting France: American Perceptions of the French Nation During World War II
(2002-01-01)World War II transformed the United States from a nation dominated by isolationist sentiments to one committed to preserving democracy worldwide. The defeat of France by Nazi Germany in 1940 was one of many factors ... -
Land, Labor and Freedom: Post-Emancipation Community Formation in Jamaica and the Bahamas
(2007-01-01)When British West Indian colonies achieved full emancipation in 1838, Jamaica occupied the unique position of being the empire?s most important Caribbean colony. At the time, it dominated British and American imaginations ... -
Montaigne Abroad: Religion and Development in the Context of the Reformation
(2010-01-01)Montaigne?s journey from Bordeaux to Rome in 1580-1581 not only contributed to the formation of the second edition of Montaigne?s famous Essays, but also provides a notable contemporary description of civic life in ... -
Musical Forces At The Time Of J.S. Bach.
(1999-01-01)Joshua Rifkin, Andrew Parrot, John Butt, and Ton Koopman are just some of the names that stand in the forefront of contemporary thinking on the life and music of the enigmatic and illusory Johann Sebastian Bach. One of the ...