Women--France--History--20th century; Women--Great Britain--History--20th century; Women and literature--France--History--20th century; Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century; Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986; Woolf, Virginia,...
This dissertation is a cross-cultural analysis of France and Great Britain during both the First World War and World War II in which Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf redefined "woman." Utilizing New Historicism, the first chapter...
Computer vision; Pattern recognition systems; Human face recognition (Computer science)
Humans have the uncanny ability to perceive the world in three dimensions (3D), otherwise known as depth perception. The amazing thing about this ability to determine distances is that it depends only on a simple two-dimensional (2D) image in the...
Buildings; Public accommodation facilities; Lodging houses
Side view of a two-story stone, stucco, or painted house with a shower head next to the building. A group of five boys are on the sidewalk in front. A for rent sign is in an upstairs window.
This image is part of a set of twelve photographs of houses where tax assessments were raised. In the photograph, five boys with caps sit on the front porch as a woman stands to the side with hands on her hips. The house is shotgun style with a...
Engraving, from John G. Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America.
Address: 830 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. On the stage of Columbia Auditorium, some men wear tuxedoes while others wear suits. The women wear dresses and a couple have corsages pinned to their shoulders. Five young girls are dressed in...
Portrait of a sleek horse standing in front of stable doors. This was the first portrait of an animal to grace the Macauley's Theatre collection. "Ben Hur" was performed at Macauley's Theatre five times between 1891 and 1917, but...
Learning and scholarship--Outlines, syllabi, etc.; English language--Rhetoric-- Outlines, syllabi, etc.; Education, Higher--Curricula; Instructional systems--Design
This dissertation is an investigation of composition's disciplinary conceptions of the course syllabus, from its often-relegated position as textual object to a more interactive and complex subject of our discipline. The course syllabus is an...
The term "promiscuity" is often used in academic literature and pejoratively
proliferated among society at large. The definition of promiscuity has not been clearly
and consistently defined within research and varies significantly from...
Production photo of a scene from Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell" (staged by the University of Louisville Players at Macauley's Theatre in April 1915). The scene takes place in a drawing room, with five well-dressed man and three...
Five barefoot girls wearing dresses (two are in the same striped dress) sit, facing the camera, astride a large dark horse on a dirt road lined by trees and wood buildings.
One of the most nationally-recognized, two-year legislative reform initiatives in the U.S. began in Kentucky with the passage of the Kentucky Postsecondary Education Improvement Act of 1997 (HB1). This exploratory, cross-sectional, correlational...
Gardeners--Kentucky--Louisville--Social conditions; Community gardens--Kentucky--Louisville
Using four surveys, two created by this researcher, another created by Walizcek, Mattson, and Zajicek, and a fourth created by Herbach, the researcher compared the characteristics of community gardeners, their motivations for gardening, and the...
Emotions (Philosophy); Literature--Philosophy; Ethics; Philosophy of mind
This dissertation offers a brief survey of the rise of reason and the tum to the self at the expense of emotion in Western thought. This marginalization of emotion has had deleterious effects on two areas: the cultivation of virtue and the...
This thesis is an economic and historical examination of Keeneland racetrack in Lexington, Kentucky. The material commences with a historical overview of the role of sport and recreational activities in the United States. Putting sport and leisure...
Channel modification has played a vital part in shaping the rivers and streams as
they are seen today. Channel modifications range from the construction of dams and levees
for flood control purposes to channelization of an existing meandering...
Twitter; Museum visitors--Services for--Technological innovations; Museums--Technological innovations; Online social networks; Museums--Marketing
With the evolution of social networks and technological innovations, services such as Twitter provide a platform for increased dialogue and participation. Micro-blogging features enable individuals and organizations to communicate directly,...
Buildings; Industrial facilities; Refrigerator industry
Five- or six-story commercial building with a train passing by on the train tracks in front. The sign on top of the building reads "Progress Refrigerator Co." Painted on the side of the building is a sign reading "Louisville Tin and...
Buildings; Religious facilities; Synagogues; Teenagers
Adath Jeshurun Temple. Five young teenage girls wearing white dresses and holding bouquets stand in front of five young teenage boys and a rabbi, each wearing a tallit and yarmulke. Address: Adath Jeshurun Temple, 749-757 South Brook Street,...
Counseling in higher education; Faculty advisors--Attitudes; College students--Attitudes
The best style of advising to offer students has been questioned over and over. The
literature review revealed uncertainty related to national surveys of advisors and students and
encouraged smaller institutional reviews. The Academic Advising...
