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Live Music Capital of the World? The Effects of Austin's Urban Branding on Its Local Musicians
(2018-05)Since 1991, Austin has branded itself and been heralded as the “Live Music Capital of the World,” drawing people from all over to take part in a culture fueled by its creative residents. This thesis aims to answer the ... -
Me and Earl and the Adapted Girl: Learning to Write a Young Adult Adaptation
(2018)Since the late 2000s, the movie industry has experienced a boom in Young Adult (YA) book-tomovie adaptations, from the wildly popular Twilight series to romantic drama The Fault In Our Stars. Having been an avid YA ... -
A Surrealist Homecoming: An Investigation of Corporeal Metamorphosis in Leonora Carrington's Down Below
(2018-05)During the 1920s, war, political flux, and social revolution ravaged Western Europe as xenophobic and violent rhetoric fueled political ambitions. Starting with the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto written by French author André ... -
An Unsettled Return: Memory and Self-Identity in Lina Meruane’s Volverse Palestina
(2018-05)Chile is home to one of the largest Palestinian communities outside of the Arab world. Despite its significant size of more than 400,000 people, few have undertaken comprehensive studies of the group and the literature it ... -
Conceptualization of Space within the Tang Landscape Quatrain
(2018-05)The thesis explores the poet’s creation of conceptualized space within the Tang landscape quatrain in the Tang dynasty (618-907) by usage of literary techniques, the focal point being that of temporal and spatial progression ... -
"A Community Unlike Any Other": Incorporating Fansubbers into Corporate Capitalism on Viki.com
(2018-05)Viki.com, founded in 2008, is a streaming site that offers Korean (and other East Asian) television programs with subtitles in a variety of languages. Unlike other K-drama distribution sites that serve audiences outside ... -
Kind, Brave, & Zesty: Leveraging Character Strengths In Impactful Social Entrepreneurs Across Cultures
(2018-05)This thesis is a search to answer the first principle questions of: How can we leave the world a better place than I found it? and How can we be happy? That exploration led to research on social entrepreneurship, positive ... -
An Analysis of Socio-demographics and Public Space in Austin, Texas
(2018-05)Past research has shown that access to and use of public spaces is connected to quality of life, sense of community, overall public health. With this is in mind, the understanding of how the availability of public spaces ... -
"He takes false shadows for true substances": Madness and Metadrama in The Spanish Tragedy and Titus Andronicus
(2018-05)Although scholars have written extensively about madness and metadrama, they have rarely discussed the relationship between the two on the early modern stage. In many plays, however, mad characters become acutely metatheatrical, ... -
Evaluating Effective Altruism And Its Implications On The Fight Against Malaria
(2018-05)While malaria cases and fatalities have fallen since 2000, there were still an estimated 216 million cases and 445,000 deaths worldwide in 2016 -- comprising 0.8% of global deaths. One movement calling great attention and ... -
Campus Place-Making: Assessing Outdoor Spaces at the University of Texas to Improve Student Experience
(2018-05)In this thesis, I aim to answer the question: How can the University of Texas’ campus be improved to better utilize outdoor spaces to serve the needs of the students? To address this question, I take a multifaceted approach ... -
Martyrs & Meists
(2018-05)Martyrs & Meists attempts to deconstruct World War II in terms of individuals and the choices they made rather than as Axis vs. Allies. Each song focuses on the perspective of a different individual from that time period. ... -
A Spatial Theory of Precapitalist Money: Evidence from Feudal Europe
(2018-05)In this study, we seek to interrogate and explain how relations of exchange respond to changes in relations of production. To explain the interaction between the underlying processes of production and their epiphenomenon ... -
Revolutionary Fervor: The History and Legacy of Communism in Abd al-Karim Qasim's Iraq 1958-1963
(2018-05)The 1950s were a time of political and social upheaval in the Middle East as exemplified by the Iraqi Coup of 1958. Within the country there existed the classic internal economic and social strife that so often leads to ... -
Big Data in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Promising Courtship
(2018-05)The energy industry remains one of the highest money-producing and investment industries in the world. The United States’ own economic stability depends greatly on the stability of oil and gas prices. Various factors ... -
Beauty as the Beast: Constructions of the Girl in Three Modern Variants of the Tale as Old as Time
(2018-05)This thesis aims to answer the following question: How is the girl constructed across three modern variants of “Beauty and the Beast?” The three primary texts examined in this paper are Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Angela ... -
Digitally United We Stand, Divided We Fall: How Does the Digital Divide Influence the Way Americans Vote?
(2018-05)The results of the 2016 Presidential Elections will go down as one of the most unforgettable moments in U.S. history. Regardless of which side of the political spectrum Americans fell under, President Trump’s win came ... -
Connecting The Dots: An Examination Of The Relationship Between Civil Unrest, City Planning, And Civil Liberties
(2018-05)The urban environment shapes our experiences within our worlds by creating the background for our everyday lives. The importance of the planning of public space cannot be underestimated, so we must ask the question of where ... -
THE ZONE D’ÉDUCATION PRIORITAIRE: Why French Legislators Revived a 1981 Public Education Program in the Wake of Mass Youth Riots
(2018-05)This paper is public policy analysis that looks into the design and history of the French Zone d’Éducation Prioritaire (ZEP) program in order to understand why policymakers revived the program in the wake of 2006 mass youth ... -
Interventions to Improve HIV/AIDS Outcomes in Latinx Immigrant Populations
(2018-05)Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a powerful virus that suppresses patients’ natural immune response to disease, making them susceptible to opportunistic infections that can prove fatal if HIV is left untreated. Though there ...
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