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For the old, rich, and cultured? Historic house museums and their relationship with young adults.
(, 2012-08-08)It has been traditionally understood that young adults are not active participants in historic house museums. This is a concern because if it is true, it means that historic house museums are not fulfilling their ... -
"For the pleasure of the people" : a centennial history of William Cameron Park, Waco, Texas.
(2009-08-26)In this thesis I seek to trace the one hundred year history of William Cameron Park, Waco, Texas. The history of the park will be placed within the larger context of Waco and the United States. Special attention will be ... -
Force and persuasion in Plato's Republic.
(2009-08-25)Plato’s Republic begins with an act of force (327b) and ends with an act of persuasion (621c). Between these two bookends, force and persuasion appear well over one hundred more times, permeating the dialogue as recurring ... -
Foreign language learning: an exploratory study on the external and internal influences affecting success.
(2006-07-24)This study explores the influence that determinants such as age, length of exposure, learning environment, personality, attitude, study habits, personal practice, and personal motivation have on individuals studying a ... -
Foreign language teachers' attitudes and the benefits of learning a second language.
(2015-04-02)This project analyzes foreign language teachers’ attitudes towards learning a second language and the numerous student benefits associated with becoming bilingual. The scholarly research was narrowed to focus on four ... -
Forensic speeches in Acts 22-26 in their literary environment: a rhetorical study.
(2006-12-11)This dissertation offers an analysis of the form of the forensic speeches that occur in Acts 22-26 and the function of these speeches and the trial scenes of which they are a part. The study argues that these speeches ... -
The forest : a history of ideas : the movement for civil rights in suburban Madison, New Jersey 1955-1970.
(, 2013-05-15)The ideas emergent from the movement for civil rights in the American South transformed suburban Madison, New Jersey, and its nearby townships in the span of one generation. Protests burgeoned from the largely one-dimensional, ... -
Forgiveness in Kierkegaard's ethic of neighbor love.
(2009-08-26)I argue that Kierkegaard contributes to the contemporary philosophical discussion concerning forgiveness in at least two ways. First, he grounds his understanding of forgiveness in neighbor love so that neighbor love is a ... -
"Forms and ceremonies to be gone through" : performance and self-knowledge in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, North and south, and Wives and daughters.
(2009-08-24)This thesis looks at blatant and subversive performances in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters. Referencing studies of nineteenth-century performance theory, I will argue that Gaskell, ... -
Forwards and backwards : reading Harper Lee across time and text.
(2017-03-22)The recent discovery of Harper Lee’s manuscript, Go Set a Watchman, irrevocably changed the way readers approach her original text, To Kill a Mockingbird. Introducing a found manuscript and presenting it as a distinct work ... -
Frank O'Connor's "world of appearances" : epiphany and false personality in his stories of childhood.
(, 2012-08-08)This study illuminates the influence of two vastly different short story writers on the work of Frank O’Connor: James Joyce and Anton Chekhov. O’Connor vowed never to imitate the Russian master, and yet Chekhov’s theme ... -
The Freedmen's Bureau schools in McLennan County, Texas.
(2011-05-12)The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was established by the War Department on March 3, 1865, in an effort to provide relief to the 4,000,000 slaves emancipated at the end of the Civil War. From the beginning, ... -
"Freedom faith" : the civil rights journey of Rev. Dr. Prathia Hall.
(, 2014-06-11)Rev. Dr. Prathia Hall's theology revolved around freedom faith, the belief that God wants all people to be free and equips those who work for freedom. This dissertation offers a thematic biography of Hall, paying particular ... -
Freedom in the thought and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(, 2013-09-16)The purpose of this dissertation is to discover Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s interpretation of freedom. King’s life was dedicated to a pursuit of freedom for African Americans, the poor, and unfree people around the world. ... -
Friendship, rights, and community : Aristotle and John Locke on the family and political life.
(2010-06-23)This dissertation develops an account of Aristotle's view of the family in contrast to the now more familiar and influential understanding derived from Locke's theory of rights and government. For Locke, the individual as ... -
From extremism to extravagance : the impact of U.S. television on Iranians and Persians.
(2016-03-23)Middle Easterners are often negatively stereotyped in television, including the shows examined in this study: Showtime’s Homeland, and Bravo’s Shahs of Sunset. Both represent Middle Easterners poorly; in Homeland, they are ... -
From nature to virtue : moral formation and community in novels by Charlotte Yonge and Elizabeth Gaskell.
(2009-08-26)This thesis explores how novels by Charlotte Yonge and Elizabeth Gaskell contest popular Victorian assumptions that moral influence stems from maternal nature. By offering virtue as the true source of moral influence, these ... -
From Neo-orthodox theology to rationalistic deism : a study of the religious influences on the development of John Rawls's political philosophy.
(, 2013-05-15)The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate that John Rawls’s early religious beliefs guided the development of his later political philosophy. By first analyzing A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin & Faith, I ... -
From separationism to theocracy : how the domestic relationship between religion and state conditions the salience of religion in foreign policy.
(, 2013-09-24)The study of international politics has undergone a profound re-consideration of disciplinary assumptions about religion since the end of the Cold War. From Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations to Peter Berger’s ... -
From their eyes : a deeper analysis of career and technical education during secondary school.
(2015-07-16)The focus of this study was to gather the viewpoints and perspectives from secondary students currently enrolled in career and technical education (CTE). The use of a focus group and surveys were the main mediums of data ...