THE COMIC INTRUSION : AN ANALYSIS OF THE ORIGINS AND FUNCTION OF THE COMEDIC ELEMENTS IN GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BUSENELLO AND CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI'S "L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA" (MONTEVERDI CLAUDIO, INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA, AUSTRIA, OPERA, BUSENELLO GIOVANNI

DEACON, THEODORE RALPH University of Washington 1990 해외박사

Filipino artists, national identity and the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Deacon, Deborah Anne Arizona State University 2005 해외박사(DDOD)

Despite the status of the Philippines as Spanish territory from 1521 and a U.S. protectorate from 1898, the art of this former colony is little known in the West. This dissertation makes three key contributions to the study of Filipino art. First, based on archival research in Manila, St. Louis, St. Paul, Philadelphia and Washington, DC., it restores to published record the work of Western trained Filipino artists who exhibited at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and by reconstructing the St. Louis fair's art exhibition, it rediscovers the forgotten works of artists who, though once world renowned, had subsequently been lost to art history. Second, it examines the active role Filipino artists and patrons played in the formation of a Filipino national identity through the Fair display. Third, it provides the only English language survey of early and colonial Filipino art. The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition was a pivotal event in defining Filipino national identity and the Philippines' status in the world arena. Created under the direction of the new American colonial government, the display of primitive ethnic minority groups within the Philippine Reservation positioned Filipinos as primitives in need of American assistance to become civilized. This dissertation examines the active participation of Filipino artists in countering this cliche. Most of these artists have been neglected in contemporary studies of Filipino culture and omitted from post-colonial reconstructions of art's contribution to the Filipino national identity. This dissertation returns the artists and their works to their rightful place in Filipino and western artistic traditions.

Classroom learning environment and gender: Do they explain math self-efficacy, math outcome expectations, and math interest during early adolescence?

Deacon, Mary M University of Virginia 2011 해외박사(DDOD)

Despite initiatives to increase and broaden participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, women remain underrepresented in STEM. While U.S. girls and women perform as well as, if not better, than boys and men in math, research results indicate that there are significant declines in girls' math self-efficacy, interest, and ambition as early as middle school. These decreases are associated with awareness of negative stereotypes viewing math as a predominately male domain. The classroom is one context for developing self-efficacy beliefs and gender-role stereotypes. The purpose of this quantitative study is to examine the role that students' perceptions of the academic and emotional support provided by their math teacher has on adolescents' math self-efficacy, math outcome expectations, and math interest. Social Cognitive Career Theory provides a theoretical framework for the study. Researchers collected data used for this study through a larger study (NSF grant #0624724). Data was collected from 230 students in sixth, eighth, and 10th grade to answer the research questions. Items from the Beliefs, Belong, and Behavior Survey provide measures for students' perceptions of Math Learning Environment, Math Self-Efficacy, Math Outcome Expectations, and Math Interest. The results of the study found that the relationships among math learning environment, specifically students' perceptions of the academic and emotional support provided by their math teacher, and the other SCCT variables were as predicted by the modified SCCT model. Students' perceptions of the academic and emotional support provided by their math teacher influences their math self-efficacy, math outcome expectations, and math interest. There were gender differences observed in the fit the modified SCCT model. Learning environment influenced the expected outcomes of taking advanced math courses differently for boys and girls. There were also gender differences in students' perceptions of teacher support, math self-efficacy, math outcome expectations, and math interest, with the greatest differences found between sixth grade girls and the other gender-grade groups. Finally, there was a relationship between girls' perceptions of the effect that taking math courses would have on relationships and their math interest, a relationship not observed in boys. Implications for researchers and practitioners are provided.

Status, Closure, and Plot: The Perpetuation of Social Hierarchy in the Greek Ideal Novel

Deacon, Elizabeth Schaefer University of Colorado at Boulder ProQuest Dissert 2019 해외박사(DDOD)

The scenes which bring closure to the plots of the Greek ideal novels are all fundamentally supportive of the hierarchies of social order. The happy endings of these novels are happy not only because the lovers reunite, but also because elite youth are returned from slavery and degradation to their original elite station and accepted back into their natal families by their fathers. The joy of their return to high status is shared by the whole community, from the powerful citizens who control and represent it to the people who are left behind in slavery while the protagonists are rescued. The correctness of the social hierarchies of freedom, political power, and familial power is reinforced by the communal relief and satisfaction in seeing the characters correctly placed within the hierarchy.This pro-elite ideology is inherent to the plot structure of the novels and appears to be inherited along with it, as the same ideology is visible in the Odyssey as well. This ideology does not permeate the texts in their entirety, but only becomes unavoidable in the scenes that resolve the plot. Several of the texts have scenes earlier on that could be interpreted as drawing attention to the suffering of less powerful people in society and even the unfairness of that suffering. This suggests that the authors were not entirely committed to the pro-elite ideology themselves. The persistent presence of this ideology in the closural scenes is then best attributed to the structure of the plot itself. Part of the drama of this plot is the protagonists’ loss of status and their triumphant resumption of their original status in the closural scenes; this can only happen within a hierarchical society, and the more severe the suffering of the lower classes, the more dramatic the return to the ranks of the elite is.

The Action of the Grignard Reagent on cis-trans Isomers

Deacon, Benjamin Dimmick ProQuest Dissertations & Theses University of Illi 1941 해외박사(DDOD)

During the past ten or fifteen years, considerable information has been accumulated concerning the mechanism of organic reactions. One of the factors found to be of considerable importance is the relative space relationships of functional groups involved in reactions. However, an examination of the literature revealed that in only a few cases has the behaviour of both the cis- and trans-forms toward a series of reagents been studied. The primary purpose of the present investigation was to prepare both the cis- and trans-forms of a properly substituted α,β-unsaturated ester, whose structure is such that the two isomers do not readily undergo interconversion. Moreover, the compounds chosen should be such that the steric effects will be easily determined by subsequent reactions such as cyclisation.Specifically, this investigation was concerned with the preparation of the cis- and trans-forms of methyl o-bensoxy-cinnamate, and a study of the reactions of each of these isomers with (a) the Grignard reagent, (b) mercuric acetate in methanol, (c) methyl hypobromite, (d) sodium ethoxide, and (e) bromine.