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Weiss, Katherine. "Beckett’s Ruined Landscapes: Dystopian Visions after WWII." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2252.
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Langley, Sarah Hitchcock. "The National WWII Museum-Entertainment Department (Internship Report)." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/aa_rpts/172.
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The purposes of this paper are to report on my internship at the National World War II Museum and to analyze the structure and practices in the Entertainment Department through a 480 hour internship. The Museum, located in New Orleans, LA, is a rapidly expanding tourist spot that captures and displays the history of World War II and the surrounding era. Beginning in October of 2013, under the direction of Director of Entertainment Victoria Reed, the position of Entertainment Assistant was filled to fulfill these hours and delve into the world of entertainment through a non-profit corporation. The hours of the internship were completed in January of 2014, but employment continued until August of 2014. This report concentrates on the first 480 hours. The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the organization and department will be considered and compared to best industry practices.
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Meier, Lori T. "Learning with Walt Disney: Primary Sources from WWII to Tomorrowland." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5904.
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Brasca, Daria. "The fate of Jewish-Owned cultural property: Florence during WWII." Thesis, IMT Alti Studi Lucca, 2016. http://e-theses.imtlucca.it/212/1/Brasca_phdthesis.pdf.
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The research investigates on the fate of the Jewish-owned Cultural Heritage during WWII in Italy and In the particular in Florence and its Province. Starting from the Report of the Anselmi Commission published in 2001 and of the publication of L’Opera da Ritrovare in which is listed the heritage still missing from WWII, the research addresses the issues left pending regarding the management, the transfer, the appropriation, the protection and the looting of the artworks and artistic objects owned by the Italian and foreign Jews during the war.
The anti-Jewish legislation. Especially under the Social Italian Republic, had a drastic effects on the property rights and assets. When the Nation provisions were applied from the beginning of 1944, the confiscation orders listed everything: not only silverware, real estate, land, carpets, household objects and personal effects, but also artworks & valuable objects. But in many cases the provisions have acted quite outside the law, engaging pillages and forced appropriation of artworks, for the most part, subsequently proved untraceable. The decisions made the institutions and local public bodies, as the Florentine Head of Province and Prefecture, not only flew in the dace of individual rights but also revealed the clear temptation to become an accomplices of the illegality, or even to act for their own personal advantage.
To understand the complexity of this political and cultural climate, the research plan was to predicate upon a precise choice: to consult as many sources as possible in order to throw light on events that involved both individuals and institutions. Crossing the data of the documentation conserved in the Central Archive of the State and in the Florentine public archives with that of the Jewish community and of the heirs of the persecuted, the study re-frame the fate of art and book collections collected in Florence and its Province.
Every single collection that the research investigated had a really personal story of taste, value and fate during and after the war. What they have in common is the fact that the all the collections were transferred from the right owners to others possessors – Fascists, Nazis, or common people, inside and outside the city. The result of the investigation through various archival funds shows clearly the right responsibilities amongst individuals and the institutions. In the frame is fundamental the role of the Superintendence of the Galleries of Florence, that while through inefficient regulatory instruments, tried to limit the misappropriation of the many important collections conserved in the Jewish and ‘enemy subjects’ house.
The looting that took place in Florence are not limited in the cases that I’m presenting in this research. The information do not reflect the full scale of the seizures that occurred with regard to the cultural Jewish property; many objects of lesser artistic value, quite untraceable yesterday like today, were transfer in/out the city for all the duration of the war and post. The caution becomes necessary when listing the property that has definitely been lost or recovered. The investigation, especially in the criminal trials’ funds, demonstrates that it is determinant do supplementary analysis of acts of despoilment where the ultimate fate of the material seized is still unknown.
The research on the Florentine case, due to its complexity, pretend to became a model to be apply in the rest of the country where the attention is not yet focused on this issue.
Based on a massive archival investigation through different funds of many archives and on the consolidated international guidelines, the research provides a new prospective of the Italian Shoah studies and in the Nazi Era Looted Art field.
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Sacquety, Troy James. "The organizational evolution of OSS detachment 101 in Burma; 1942-1945." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-3280.
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Capps-Tunwell, David. "WWII conflict archaeology in the Forêt Domaniale des Andaines, NW France." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/22611.
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This thesis integrates archaeological survey, aerial photographs and historical documents to undertake the first analysis of the conflict landscapes and military history of some of the most important German logistics facilities in northern France during the Battle of Normandy in 1944. Post-war survival of features has been remarkably good in this forested setting and this likely constitutes one of the best- preserved and most extensive examples of a non-hardened WWII archaeological landscape yet documented in northwest Europe. Over 900 discrete archaeological earthworks have been mapped and interpreted with the aid of primary source material from both Allied and German archives to characterise munitions, fuel and rations depots in the Forêt Domaniale des Andaines around Bagnoles-de-l’Orne, Orne Département, Basse-Normandie. These landscapes also preserve bomb craters associated with air raids on the facilities by the US Ninth Air Force and these have been mapped and analysed to show that despite 46 separate attacks by over 1000 aircraft, and the dropping in excess of 1100 tons of bombs in the forest during the spring and summer of 1944, the depots continued to function and to support German Army operations until the area was occupied by American forces in August 1944. In some areas of the forest it has been possible to link discrete arrays of bomb craters to individual air raids and even specific flights of aircraft. This work is yielding new perspectives on the character and operation of fixed depots in the German logistics system in Normandy both before and during the battles of 1944, while also permitting a detailed analysis of the effectiveness of Allied intelligence gathering, targeting and bombing operations against forest-based supply facilities. In doing so it is making a unique contribution to the newly-emerging record of WWII conflict archaeology to be found in the forests of northwest Europe.
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Braun, Sandra J. "The contribution of the chaplaincy and the gospel message in WWII." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.
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Fisher, Kevin B. "Intimate elsewheres altered states of consciousness in post WWII American cinema /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1565346871&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Caccia, Ivana. "Managing the Canadian mosaic: Dealing with cultural diversity during the WWII years." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29281.
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The thesis examines the public discourse on race, foreignness, ethnic diversity, inclusion of "new Canadians" in the Canadian national community, and the meaning of "Canadianism" during the WWII years, from 1939 to 1945, and maps the dialectic course of its construction by the Canadian mainstream intellectual and political elite (mostly Anglo-Saxon and Protestant) and the Liberal government in place.
The pre-WWII years were marked by noteworthy official disinterest in "Canadianizing" newcomers and by a latent "racialization" of diversity mostly articulated on the basis of "foreignness" or cultural "strangeness" of so-called "racial" origins of non-British and non-French immigrants. With the outset of war, the "we vs. they" polarization, until then specifically implying on the political scene the British vs. French dualism, began to refer as well to a rather different tension in power relations, generated by the "Canadian born" vs. resident "foreign born" or "immigrant" dichotomy. The meaning of this duality briefly shifted to signify the potential distinction between "loyal citizen" and "enemy alien". Fascist or communist ideological leanings and strong nationalist feelings for the fate of the embattled homelands in Europe further exasperated this tension.
In the heat of the WWII years, the Canadian government hired Tracy Philipps---an Englishman with expertise in colonial, Middle-Eastern and East-European affairs---to act as an adviser in its endeavours to secure loyalty and support for its war efforts among Canadians of continental European origin, to mitigate the adversarial relationship among various cultural groups, and to encourage faster assimilation of "new Canadians". To this end, the government set up the Committee on Cooperation in Canadian Citizenship and established the Nationalities Branch within its Department of National War Services, with Philipps as its European Adviser.
The thesis explores the subsequent changes in the discursive practice created by the mediation of different ideological approaches brought forward by Philipps, various politicians and adult educators in their search to recognize and define what constituted being a "citizen", a "foreigner"---and, most of all, a "Canadian". The debates accelerated the process of common national self-identification and the emergence of a new institution of "Canadian citizenship". The resulting new discourse affirmed the idea that Canada was a national unit with, nevertheless, an inherent diversity that can be contained and managed if that management were entrusted in the state authority as guarantor of the equality of all its citizens.
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Carrell, Miranda Rae. ""I was not political" the gendering of patriotism and collaboration during World War II /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1240595461.
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Mackenzie, Vincent. "Neutralitet med förhinder : En undersökning i hur bilden av Sveriges neutralitetspolitik under andra världskriget har förändrats i läroböcker i historia." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-6866.
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Sweden’s role during the Second World War has been a matter that has been under much debate since the war’s end in 1945. The debate has however ebbed and flowed and established a discourse that Sweden was forced to give in to German demands and did so to avoid conflict that would have severely damaged Sweden. However, in 1991 a Swedish journalist Maria-Pia Boëthius published a book known as Heder och Samvete in which she explained that the Swedish concessions to Germany during the war were made out of profit rather than giving in to German demands. This sparked a debate that ended with the establishment that Sweden compromised and even broke its neutrality in favor to gain profit from the war. This project investigates how Swedish schoolbooks have chosen to depict this piece of history and whether Maria-Pia Boëthius’s book has influenced them or not.
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Howlett, William Peter. "The competition between the supply departments and the allocation of scarce resources in the Second World War." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293199.
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Klammer, Ivana R. "Reinventing the Colonial Fantasy in the Post-WWII era: Jovita Epp's Amado Mio." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2285.
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Austrian playwright Jovita Epp's German language novel Amado mío, which takes place in post-WWII Argentina, is a modern adaptation of the traditional colonial novel. As such, the romances between the female main character, an Argentine of German descent, and her two love interests, an Argentine of Spanish descent (Criollo), and an Austrian Argentine, reflect the hopes and fears of persons and/or cultures caught up in the imperialist dreams of their nation. In the wake of WWII, Argentina becomes a space in which European(-descended) settlers can look back at Europe's "barbarism," questioning the imperialist worldviews that brought Europe to the brink of destruction. At the same time, these colonists search for European values that are salvageable from the cultural wreckage in Europe and employable in reconstructing a new identity in Argentina.
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Beckhoven, Ellen van. "Decline and regeneration : policy responses to processes of change in post-WWII urban neighbourhoods /." Utrecht : Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap : Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Geowetenschappen, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016413115&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Kozak, Andrea Moody. "Die Frauen, Der Strafvollzug, und Der Staat: Incarceration and Ideology in Post-WWII Germany." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/61.
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This thesis explores how the material reality of Germany's women's prisons has been largely determined by their ideological foundations, and by the historical developments that have produced these ideologies. The German women's prison system is complex and imperfect, yet in many ways very progressive. It is the result of the last sixty years of tumultuous German history, and has been uniquely shaped by the capitalist and communist histories of the once-divided state. In its current state, it seems to have incorporated elements of a supposedly “rational” or individualistic conception of humanity as well as one that is relational and interdependent, thus promoting independence while still fostering and supporting care-based familial and social support systems. In this way, it reflects the remarkable development of Germany since the end of the horrific Second World War, providing a window into ideologies of gender, crime, and incarceration as they evolved and eventually merged. Germany serves as an excellent case study of the ways in which prisons are a product of their countries' histories, and is a model for understanding how prisons around the world must be analyzed in the context of their nations' past. Any attempt to compare prison systems across international borders must be centered around the unique contextual development of each country and its prisons.
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Wiedemann, Susan M. "Ethical Leadership: Life Story of George Ciampa, U.S. WWII Military Veteran and Community Leader." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1592914267573177.
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Shoaff, Robert Harrison 1973. "Urban infill housing in a post-WWII landscape : housing in the City of Dresden, Germany." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70316.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1999.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-169).<br>The goal of this thesis is to develop an approach to reconfigure a district of former socialist housing with two intentions. The first, to create a stronger urban framework in the form of a master plan that is based on the planning department assumptions and values based on my research and analysis. The second, to design housing prototypes that work with the existing housing to achieve the first intention. The basis for the design is in the research of the city and its context, both in the past and present. Essentially, the development of the city can be viewed in distinct periods of growth, each having distinct block and building typologies. The most drastic change in growth occurred during the destruction of the city through fire bombing on February 13/14, 1945. History and context were erased and Dresden's 's were presented with two paradigms of rebuilding. The first was based on the principles of socialist planning and the second based on the order of the city before the war. The first paradigm was chosen as a new approach to urban design during this time period up until the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 12, 1989. This date signifies the rethinking of past ideals and traditions of the socialist city by the Germans, prompting a change in the physical form of the city in the minds of the urban planners and architects of Dresden. Based on an urban structure plan stating development guidelines, competitions were held to redesign specific areas and a master plan was created. This is the premise of this thesis. Unfortunately, their intention in the plan was to develop the major spaces and their edges, leaving areas of socialist housing untouched. Through the understanding of past and present conditions, this thesis focuses on the Seevorstadt West sector with a similar stance as the urban planners and architects in Dresden. The goal is to resolve the architecture and urbanism of socialist Dresden through the addition of new building types not to resurrect the "Florence of the Elbe", but shape the city for the future.<br>by Robert Harrison Shoaff.<br>S.M.
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Chang, Amanda T. "What a Waste: Segregation and Sanitation in Brooklyn, New York in the post-WWII Era." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/69.
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Through studying the intersections of sanitation and segregation in Brooklyn, New York in the post-WWII era, this thesis reveals a web of willful white negligence that constructed a narrative that supports continued environmental injustices towards black Americans. As a result of housing discrimination, the lack of sanitation, and the political and social climate of the 1950s, black neighborhoods in Brooklyn became dirtier with abandoned garbage. Institutional anti-black racism not only permitted and supported the degradation of black neighborhoods, but also created an association between black Americans and trash. In the present day, this narrative not only leads to the increased segregation of black Americans into dirty neighborhoods, but also justifies more environmental injustice in these vulnerable communities. Based on a case study of Brooklyn in the 1950s, this thesis asserts that environmental injustices are more than just siting landfills and toxic sites proximate to vulnerable neighborhoods, but rather they are dependent on the creation and preservation of narratives that claim minority communities are naturally predisposed to or deserving of living in dirty and unclean places.
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Verhulst, Monika. "Resocialisation of children in refugee camps : a comparison between the WWII situation and modern Indochina." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1994. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26753.
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The phenomenon of the refugee exodus is not unique to the twentieth century. On the contrary, refugee masses have existed since the dawn of Empires and the wars which accompanied their construction. However, the twentieth century is, in many respects, a turning point in the aggravation of the refugee problem:
The modern nation state, consolidated after WWI, implies a rigid partition of formerly porous territories. Whereas in the nineteenth century the questions relating to refugees were treated on a more individual level, without public intervention, the compartmentalisation of the world gave rise to an international dimension of these specific population movements.
Modern technologies enable the nations to make intensified wars and to generate mass destruction. This phenomenon, accelerated by the rise of totalitarian regimes3, has led to an increasing number of uprooted people.
The world-wide decline in mortality rates and the resulting over-population in countries of the South, combined with an uneven distribution of resources, and the ruthless over-exploitation of land are at the origin of an intensifying economic and ecological dimension of the refugee problem.
Today, the number of uprooted men, women and children is greater than ever before. The U.S. Committee for Refugees reported an increase of 52,595 of the world's refugees4 between 1984 and 1989. Presently, there exist over 15.1 million refugees, of which children represent nearly one half of the total (7.5 million)5 . The number of displaced persons (about 20 Million) is even more important.
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Vallet, Victor Jay. "Infection and Infectious Disease US Military Medicine in the Pacific Theater of Operations during WWII." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193017.
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Yocco, Caitlin A. "La Seconde Guerre mondiale et l'Holocauste dans la littérature en français pour enfants." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1275578962.
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Pfeiffer, Anna. "The Medicine of Middle Earth: An Examination of the Parallels Between World War Medicine and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/447.
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s pioneering work of fantasy fiction, The Lord of the Rings, was written in a period of twelve years, starting in 1937 during WWII and ending in 1949 a few years after the war ended. However, Tolkien’s experience with war began in 1915, when he entered combat in WWI as a young second lieutenant. Understandably, Tolkien’s war experiences have led many fans and scholars to question to what extent the World Wars influenced his works. In response to these queries Tolkien adamantly denied any connection, stating in the forward to the second edition of LOTR that “The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion.” Despite Tolkien’s flat denial of any connection between his personal war experiences and his fictional world, many critics have dedicated their studies to identifying concrete similarities that exist between LOTR and WWI. Yet, there exists a substantial and entirely ignored connection between Tolkien’s own wartime experience and his writings. More specifically, no significant study exists examining the connection between Tolkien’s depictions of medical treatments in LOTR and his own experiences with wartime medicine. These connections are particularly noteworthy because after the trauma of the Somme, Tolkien spent almost the entirety of the war as an invalid, in and out of war hospitals. Tolkien’s descriptions of medical remedies, which are richly detailed and significant to the plot, are therefore connected to his own experience. Examining each of these remedies within LOTR and linking them to medical practices used in WWI reveals previously unidentified points of correlation.
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Ghaiyed, Andrew Peter. "A genomic ancestry panel for Australian and Japanese WWII military remains recovered in the Asia-Pacific." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211296/1/Andrew_Ghaiyed_Thesis.pdf.
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The Ghaiyed population-specific panel (GPSP) is an ancestry prediction strategy comprised of ancestry-informative DNA markers that was developed to assist Unrecovered War Casualties-Army (UWC-A) in the accounting of historical military remains. The GPSP was able to significantly increase the proportion of individuals that could be assigned ancestry compared to conventional methods used by the Forensic Science community and previous UWC-A methodology. The GPSP is supported by the novel application of admixture simulation tools and a modified Chi-square Automatic Interaction Detector/Probability Decision Tree (CHAID/PDT) method for ancestry classification, to more reliably account for the remains of those fallen in previous conflicts.
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Mujdzic, Amer. "Surkål, Jänkare och Skotthål : Historiebruk och Historiemedvetande i Call of Duty WWII – Datorspel som komplement till historieundervisning." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-36398.
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Studiens mål är analysera ett specifikt kommersiellt datorspel som komplement till undervisning i ämnet historia. Studien bygger på och är inspirerad av teorier om historiebruk och historiemedvetande. Spelet, Call of Duty WWII (2017), är av kategorin first-person shooter spel inom genren actionspel. Spelet innehåller ett linjärt narrativ med mer eller mindre interaktiva mellansekvenser. Inspiration från tidigare forskning och liknande studier har lett till undersökning av följande teman i spelet: historia, fakta och stereotyper. Frågeställningarna i studien är följande: Vilka historiebruk kan man som spelare tolka ur spelet Call of Duty WWII?, Kommuniceras historiemedvetande till spelaren i spelet och på så sätt hur?, På vilket sätt skulle användandet utav detta spel kunna berika historieundervisning?. Analysen i studien visar på att spelet är användbart som ett komplement till undervisning men att användningen i undervisningssammanhang är begränsad.
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Quast, James Wilton. "Was the WWII U.S. army general George Smith Patton jr, a conserver, or a waster of men? /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arq17.pdf.
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Greear, Wesley P. "American immigration policies and public opinion on European Jews from 1933 to 1945." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2002. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0322102-113418/unrestricted/Greear040102.pdf.
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Blum, Timothy. "Profits Over Patriotism: Black Market Crime in World War II Sydney." Thesis, Department of History, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7985.
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This thesis examines the multi-faceted phenomenon of black market crime in World War II Sydney. Using previously classified archives, coupled with oral sources and newspaper articles I provide a complete survey of this phenomenon. As a concept the black market was a social construct with a level of stigma attached to offenders that would not exist in peace time. This was moral policing. I begin by discussing the relationship between the geography and morals of the city. Both women and men in Sydney related to the black market differently. I outline and evaluate the official response to the problem. I also examine broader community attitudes in relation to this issue. The research provided here should form the basis for a more comprehensive understanding of white-collar crime and the moral regulation of behaviour.
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Horst, Bradley Thomas. ""In the Scale of Nature Each Seed is Important." Social Transformation, Food, and the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1942." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/216523.
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History<br>M.A.<br>The 900 day German blockade of Leningrad fostered an environment in which social relationships, which were pruned and altered during the 1930s, were reinvigorated and reinvented by Leningraders. By the outbreak of the war in the summer of 1941, Stalinist social engineering policies had eroded previously normalized social connections and networks. At the height of the Terror, it became beneficial and advantageous for Soviet citizens to cut off many of their social relationships that had been built up over years. The family became the site of the primary emphasis of social interaction. The strengthening of the family system under Stalin created family units that were remarkably elastic and durable. This familial elasticity allowed Leningraders to reknit social relationships during the siege which became primary as food became central to survival. Without intense monitoring and oversight from the state, Leningraders were forced to rekindle social ties and relationships to survive.<br>Temple University--Theses
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O'Leary, Owen Luck. "A model for recovery : predicting the location of human remains on WWII bombardment and cargo aircraft crash sites." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5222/.
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The United States government makes a solemn promise to the men and women of the armed forces that if they fall on the field of battle their remains will be returned home. Americans demand that this occur in order for the individual to be properly honored. This commitment and corresponding expectation applies to both current and past conflicts. The Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command (JPAC) is responsible for locating, recovering, and identifying the approximately 90,000 American military personnel who remain missing from the beginning of World War II through to the end of the Vietnam War. To help increase the rate of identifications, this thesis builds a model that predicts where human remains will be found within WWII bombardment and cargo aircraft crash sites based upon each individual duty station. The JPAC’s previously resolved loss incidents were critically examined, working through the identification process in reverse. This allowed for the determination of where each crew member was recovered from within their respective crash sites in relation to the corresponding wreckage. Hypotheses are developed for each crew position within the aircraft based upon the patterns observed. The validity of these predictions is then tested against an additional case for each category of aircraft. Results show that bombardment aircraft crew members will be found within approximately 8 m of their assigned duty station and that the distribution of all cargo aircraft personnel mirrors that of the cockpit wreckage. For the cases in this thesis, it is determined that the physics of the crash, not the actions of the crew or subsequent erosion, that primarily dictates where individuals will be found within a crash site. This research is contextualized within archaeology as a discipline, the broader conversation of conflict archaeology by filling a gap in the current historical and archaeological literature, evaluating JPAC’s impact on the heritage of material culture, and this type of research can provide temporal and cross-cultural insight into people’s interactions with the battlefields and crash sites. Finally, weak points within the JPAC’s identification processes are highlighted and recommended solutions provided.
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Miller, Malik. "The reconstruction and FEA analysis of the decommissioned WWII era destroyer USS Cassin Young in the SolidWorks environment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83728.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2013.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (page 29).<br>An attempt was made at reconstructing the now decommissioned World War II era destroyer USS Cassin Young using blueprints on file at the Hart Nautical Museum . After the electronic model was constructed, an attempt was made to run an FEA analysis to determine stress levels in the ship's hull. The ship was made using the various Solidworks tools available including surfacing and extrusion tools while using the available blueprints for recreation accuracy. The FEA was not completed due to problems encountered in the meshing and analysis of the complex geometry of the ship hull.<br>by Malik Miller.<br>S.B.
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Smith, Chamberlain Tiffany Leigh. "Uncle Sam Does Not Want You: Military Rejection and Discharge during the World Wars." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538659/.
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In the United States, rapid military mobilization for the world wars marked a turning point in the national need to manage and evaluate manpower. To orchestrate manpower needs for the military, industry, and those relating to familial obligations, Woodrow Wilson's administration created the Selective Service System during the First World War. In categorizing men, local Selective Service boards utilized rapid physical and psychological diagnostic techniques and applied their assessments to current military branch induction standards to pronounce candidates as militarily fit or unfit. From World War I to World War II, the Selective Service System expanded as a bureaucracy but did not adequately address induction issues surrounding rapidly changing standards, racism, and inconsistent testing procedures. These persistent problems with Selective Service prevented the system from becoming truly consistent, fair, or effective. As a result of Selective Service System, War Department, and military branch standards, military rejection and prematurely military discharge rates increased in World War II. Additionally, though Selective Service did not accurately predict who would or would not serve effectively, rejected and prematurely discharged men faced harsh discrimination on the American home front during World War II.
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Bajorek, MacDonald Helen. "The power of Polonia, post WWII Polish immigrants to Canada; survivors of deportation and exile in Soviet labour camps." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ57992.pdf.
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Schmidt, Sebastian Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "From global war to global cities : planning, art, and Post-WWII urban history in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111702.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Architecture: History and Theory of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "For copyright reasons, images in this dissertation have been redacted"--Disclaimer Notice page.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-244).<br>Thinking about cities became increasingly global during and after WWII. 'Global' here refers to how, in the context of the war, the roles and meanings of cities in the world were beginning to be understood differently. This dissertation investigates urban histories since the 1940s in their connection to changing imaginaries of the world that were shaped by the experience of war, and that have received little attention in historical literature. The dominant narratives of postwar urban history are focused on issues such as destruction and reconstruction, and the ideological divides between East and West. Global history is here employed as a non-hegemonic methodology for going beyond these larger narratives, and to demonstrate that in an age of global war, cities were becoming global long before economic discourses on globalization labeled them as such. New York City, West Berlin, and Tokyo are used as case studies because they are the principal cities of three industrialized nations that were heavily affected by WWII. New York became a center of the US war industry and beacon of the proclaimed Western values of freedom and democracy. However, the hypocrisy of fighting for freedom and democracy abroad, while racial violence and injustice was experienced at home, led to housing and segregation in New York being seen in global context. Discourses on fighting fascism at home and abroad, and artistic representations of the city illuminate these narratives. In Berlin-especially with the founding of the two German states in 1949 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961-urban planning and development are most easily understood to be part of East-West ideological divides. Visions for the city of the future that were produced in secluded West Berlin demonstrate, however, that the city was also imagined in ways that transcended its local conflict and positioned it as a democratic tool for a global urban society. Tokyo's destruction during WWII, and its subsequent reconstruction, dominates the city's postwar history, but Japan's experience of war and nuclear bombings led to the creation of urban models that were more global in scope. An analysis of Japanese involvement in world's fairs and of architectural and urban thought in response to the nuclear bombings connects these threads. In different ways, these case studies substantiate the connection between global war and global cities and introduce global history methodology into the analysis of global thinking in urbanism during and after WWII.<br>by Sebastian Schmidt.<br>Ph. D. in Architecture: History and Theory of Architecture
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Jakob, lina Birgit. "“Hooray, I am a Kriegsenkel!” - Transgenerational Transmission of World War II Experiences in Germany." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/104516.
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For decades talking about the wartime suffering of the German
majority population was felt to be a moral taboo. Out of shame
about the inconceivable crimes Germans had committed in the name
of the ‘Third Reich’, suffering of Germans was largely
excluded from public discourses and psychotherapeutic practices.
Recently, however, the topic has moved into public focus, and
questions about the long-term psychological impact of WWII on the
eyewitness generation and their families are being raised.
My PhD focuses on the generation of the ‘Kriegsenkel’ - the
‘grandchildren of war’. Although born in the 1960 and ‘70s
people who identify as Kriegsenkel feel that through processes of
transgenerational transmission, war experiences were passed on to
them by their families and underlie many of their emotional
problems, from depression, anxiety and burnout to relationship
break-ups and career problems. Kriegsenkel now meet across the
country in self-help groups, workshops and Internet fora, sharing
personal stories and discussing ways to overcome their emotional
inheritance. Common psychological symptoms and consequences are
extracted from Kriegsenkel life histories collected in popular
books, contributed to special websites, and continuously
negotiated in closed Facebook-groups.
Drawing on more than 80 in-depth biographical interviews and on
participant observation undertaken in 2012/13 in Berlin, I argue
that through this process of ‘sharing and comparing’, driven
by therapy-experienced participants themselves, a cluster of
symptoms for a new psychological profile as sufferers of
transmitted war trauma is slowly being assembled and associated
by them with a Kriegsenkel identity.
I show that this new identity is constructed, explored and
performed within the framework of Western ‘therapy culture’
(Furedi 2004). Sociologists have critiqued therapy culture as
cultivating vulnerability and victimhood and as promoting
political disengagement and narcissistic self-concern. Looking
from the subjective experiences of ‘consumers’ of therapy and
self-help culture, I argue that that they also create meaning for
emotional problems and offer therapeutic interventions, often
seen as the only hope for a better and healthier future.
In the second part of my thesis, I delve more deeply into
individual life histories of the Kriegsenkel generation. I
explore how mainstreamed concepts of transgenerational
transmission form the backbone of my participants’
auto-biographical accounts, and what they often find to be a
convincing explanation of their emotional suffering. I examine
the strengths and weaknesses of common models of transmission in
helping individuals to make sense of and address their problems.
Lastly, I call for a broadening of these models in a number of
ways to better capture the subjective experiences of descendants
of families impacted by war and violence.
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Achee, Jamie William. "Significance of the human being as an element in an information system WWII forward air controllers and close air support." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/6100.
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This research will explore the relevance of the human being as an element in an information system. The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence technology, especially information technology, has had on the way human beings understand and use information systems. This study will look at the use of forward air controllers and close air support in the European Theater of Operations during WWII and evaluate the technology, the doctrine and the people involved as they related to the forward air control-close air support information system. Other areas that will be discussed as they relate to the development of close air support include: incremental vs. radical change, organizational culture and change, and the dynamic nature of current and future operations as they relate to information systems. The primary research objective is to explore the answer to the following question: Based on the role of forward air controller in the European Theater of Operations during World War Two, what is the significance of the human being as an element in an information system? Secondary questions include: What are the necessary elements that make up an information system? How and where were forward air controllers used and were they effective? What were the information systems used by the forward air controllers and were they effective? Last, what implications do the findings of this research have for current technologies, organizational structure and the interaction between human beings and information systems in U.S. military operations?
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Fair, Alexandra Kathryn. "“THE PEOPLE WHO NEED US READ BETWEEN THE LINES”: THE FACES OF EUGENIC IDEOLOGY IN THE POST-WWII UNITED STATES." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1556874590527973.
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Devereux, Danielle Marie. "Through the Magnifying Glass: Exploring British Society in the Golden Age Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8404.
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This thesis uses the popular genre of detective fiction to explore the context of the heyday of the crime genre: the Golden Age. This sub-genre, best known for producing Agatha Christie, spanned the complicated history of Britain involving the Great Depression, two World Wars and huge changes to class structure. It is for these reasons that the Golden Age is such a pivotal period for changing notions of British identity. Through the very British Christie and the less well known New Zealander, Ngaio Marsh, expressions of national identity are explored as well as how the colonial fits in. Focusing heavily on the authors and their own personal experiences and views, this thesis is divided into four chapters to further break down how the Golden Age period affected its citizens and why this detective fiction held such a wide appeal. Chapter one explores gender roles and how Golden Age authors both conformed to them through their choice in detectives, yet also how they naturally resisted some through their own public image. Chapter two then examines the issue of class and how Golden Age detective fiction portrayed the changes. Contrary to popular criticism, Christie and Marsh were surprisingly progressive and forward thinking on this subject. Chapter three considers how both authors employed setting to emphasise these changes. Both Christie and Marsh used foreign settings to highlight British society and its flaws, and Marsh used her New Zealand settings to consider the relationship between Britain and her home. The final chapter will consider why Golden Age detective fiction was so popular: what was the appeal? For a period of violence and uncertainty, why were people drawn to crime fiction involving sometimes gruesome death? The appeal lay, and still does, in the puzzle: the game that diverted readers from their own problems. Golden Age fiction may have been highly formulaic and predictable, but it was also highly artificial and self-referential. This was a clever and diverting fiction that has been constantly underestimated by critics and deserves further study.
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Sauer, Philip. "“I'm Always from Elsewhere”: A Narrative Inquiry into Two Ethnic German Life Courses Shaped by the Second World War." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313426428.
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Imlah, Cherie. "World War II, Children's Literature and Aspects of Novel 'We'll Meet Again': an exegesis." Thesis, Griffith University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367830.
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The submission comprises an exegesis and a creative component. Part 1 of the exegesis is a research study of children’s literature set in World War II with an emphasis on Australian children’s novels. Comparisons are made with some United Kingdom and American children’s literature. Three themes are explored in these texts: World War II, Nationalism/Racism and Ethnocentrism, and Child Sexuality. The themes are further explored in Part 2 of the exegesis in relation to the creative component (my novel for pre-teens with a World War II setting). To my knowledge, my research has been more extensive than previous Australian studies and its coverage is relatively comprehensive of the Australian children’s literature available having World War II themes.
A particular focus of my research is the differences in degree of attention paid to domestic aspects of World War II. Very few Australian and American novels make significant reference to the war or its domestic effects. As one would expect, some United Kingdom children’s novels contain graphic detail of the domestic effect of war on communities. However, many of the Australian and United Kingdom novels contain strong elements of the adventure story genre in which the effects of war are muted. The American novels contain more depth of characterisation and a strong vein of moralism not found in most of the Australian and United Kingdom books. In this respect, realism is more apparent in the American stories.
In few of these novels for children is the tragedy of war fully expressed; but those which contain a deeper insight are successful in their emotive effect, particularly when realistic modes are employed. Several of these books (including a picture book) are addressed to very young readers, revealing a sensitivity and insight absent from the adventure story genre.
Rarely in the researched books is nationalism overtly revealed; however, underlying more prominent themes of racism and ethnocentrism is a sense of nationalism arising from the circumstances of war, fuelling racist and ethnocentric attitudes and behaviour. Critical concepts of ‘Otherness’ and ‘Whiteness’ are discussed in this exegesis, referring to a variety of theorists, including Morton-Robinson and Stevens.
In discussing child sexuality, authors of children’s literature, Marsden and Blume, are cited to indicate the degree of censorship inherent in children’s literature, and particularly in the novels researched. Child sexuality is explored most fully in Part 2 of the exegesis.
The creative product, the novel We’ll Meet Again, is set in Sydney and a coastal town to the city’s north, during the years 1942-1945. It is a ‘coming of age’ story of a female character who ages from twelve to fifteen years during the course of the narrative. The conclusion of her ‘growing up’ journey ends with the end of World War II in the Pacific, and with her departure from school and her ‘idyllic’ seaside childhood to be reunited with her family. The child characters in the novel each has a personal journey which ends with the end of the war.<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>School of Arts<br>Arts, Education and Law<br>Full Text
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Wright, Ellen. "Female sexuality, taste and respectability : an analysis of transatlantic media discourse surrounding Hollywood glamour and film star pin-ups during WWII." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/48807/.
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This thesis examines the cultural politics surrounding public femininity in Britain and the United States between 1939 and 1949 in relation to glamour and the figure of the film star pin-up. Using Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth – the era’s most popular Hollywood pin-ups - as its case studies, the study reveals the issues of taste, class, national identity, modernity and propriety which informed the wider reception of the film star pin-up in wartime Britain and America. A range of primary sources including magazine and newspaper articles, trade publications, promotional materials and advertising tie-ups, as well as contemporaneous surveys of public opinion which engage with these stars and with pin-up and with glamour are discussed with a view to exposing the varied and nuanced discourse surrounding female sexuality in circulation in Britain during this era and exploring the translation, understanding and acceptance of American mores when such products are imported into differing cultural contexts. Informed by Bourdieu’s theorisations surrounding taste and cultural capital, Skeggs’ work on glamour and working class respectability, Buszek’s discussion of pin-up and sexual agency, Moseley’s notion of resonance and Dyer’s work upon star personas this study elaborates upon existing discussions (from the 1930s up to the current day) regarding Hollywood’s female representations at large and the Hollywood pin-up in particular as either objectifying and oppressing its female subjects and audiences within a wider discourse of patriotic ‘beauty as duty’ or offering a potentially radical and empowering form of female sexual agency. This study therefore forms part of a wider reassessment of the film star pin-up and Hollywood glamour at large and of two popular Hollywood stars in particular, whilst contributing to revisionist histories of British and American women in the Modern era, of the study of class and taste, of transatlantic cinema audiences in the Second World War more generally.
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Gilmore, Allison B. "In the wake of winning armies : allied psychological warfare against the Imperial Japanese Army in the southwest Pacific area during WWII /." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148767311411488.
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Laguna, Alexis M. "“I Almost Hope I Get Hit Again Soon”: The Wartime Service and Medical History of Leon C. Standifer, WWII American Infantryman." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2620.
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The American GI’s experience in hospital during World War II is absent from official military histories, most scholarly works, and even many oral history collections. Utilizing the papers of WWII infantryman, Leon Standifer, this thesis offers the reader a rare glimpse of WWII military hospital life and chronicles one soldier’s journey from willing obedience to subversive action.
This thesis compares the stated goals and procedures of the US Army medical department to the experience of Leon Standifer, an infantryman who served in northern France during the last year of the war and the American occupation of Bavaria, whose service was marked by several periods of protracted hospitalization. Over the course of five hospitalizations, during which Standifer was treated for bullet wounds, trench foot, and pneumonia, he consistently wrote letters to his family describing his experience.
A careful reading of Standifer’s wartime correspondence in conjunction with his published and unpublished writings, secondary source material, and military records, suggest that while isolated in the hospital, after killing and experiencing the death of his comrades, Standifer lost his desire to fight. He began to make calculated decisions based on his knowledge of the military medical system in an attempt to ensure his survival and control the remainder of his military service.
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Grossmann, Elena. "The Silent Aftermath of the Second World War - Ethical Loneliness in Rape Survivors." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23481.
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This thesis engages with the issue of the post-WWII rapes of women in Germany committed by the soldiers of the winning parties that occupied Germany after the war. It asks how female survivors of sexual violence during the occupation of Germany in 1945-1949 experienced social responses towards their violation. It pursues these responses in public and private sphere and explores the effect they had on the survivors and their recovery. A qualitative method of thematic analysis is employed to analyse the material consisting of interviews based on secondary sources, empirical research done by historians and psychologists, and reliable news articles that address the issue under scrutiny.The thesis contributes to Peace and Conflict Studies empirically, by exploring sensitive civilians’ lived experiences in a particular post-war setting and theoretically, through an attempt at analysis based on the theoretical framing of ethical loneliness as developed by Jill Stauffer.It shows that the predominantly negative nature of social responses in both public and private sphere held to the condition of ethical loneliness that was a crucial hindrance for the survivors’ recovery. The issue of silence is found to be especially relevant as it pertains both to social responses and to the survivors’ own attempt at coping with the situation, thereby emerging as a key reason for the lasting experience of ethical loneliness.
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Furlan, Rafaello. "The Form of Houses Built by Italian Migrants in Post-World war II Brisbane, Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365639.
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This thesis begins with an enquiry into the way the house is the physical expression of interacting cultural factors. Despite views emphasizing the determinant influence of culture on the house form, an investigation of the literature on architectural sociology reveals that, in the contemporary development of the built environment, the relationship between house form and human behaviour and/or activities, as manifestation of the users’ cultural needs, was treated as secondary. This study provides a conceptual framework based on cross-cultural studies and architectural sociology to understand how first generation Italian migrants in Brisbane have influenced the form of a specific typology of dwelling, the archetypal ‘house on a quarter-acre block’, in the post WWII period, in response to cultural needs. Qualitative data collected from the testimonies of Italian migrants in conjunction with evidence left from four houses, were analysed to answer the research question: in what ways did Italian migrants influence the form of their houses built in Brisbane in the post WWII period, and what were the forces behind, and outcomes of, this influence? The findings revealed that the architectural form of the house is influenced by the need to continue architectural traditions. The spatial form of Italian houses was influenced by sociocultural factors and urbanization patterns. These are the lack of public urban spaces like a town square traditionally utilized by Italian migrants in their native built environment for performing social activities. This insight means that migration to another land represents a fundamental disruption of social activities and, in this regard, the spatial form of the house could be conceptualised as a means of re-establishing and enhancing social interactions.<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>Griffith School of Environment<br>Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology<br>Full Text
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Berkhout, Daniel J. "The Military-Industrial Complexes of WWII| Research Facility Expansion and Product Diversification at B.F. Goodrich and the Largest U.S. Industrial Manufacturers, 1941-1960." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10620837.
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<p> In his 1961 farewell address to the nation, President Dwight D. Eisenhower explained how a “technological revolution during recent decades” was “largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture.” As a result, this dissertation considers how and why post-WWII industrial research became, according to Eisenhower, “more formalized, complex, and costly.” The origins and characteristics of a paradigm shift in how American corporations conducted research are identified by comparing changes in R&D at the B.F. Goodrich Company from 1941 through 1960 to similar developments at the 200 largest U.S. industrial manufacturers in 1948. </p><p> For large-scale firms, WWII mobilization escalated into a crisis when federal attempts to organize industry for wartime and postwar production threatened to break down barriers to entry and increase competition in the marketplace. As a participant in the government’s synthetic rubber program, B.F. Goodrich was required to share patents and technical expertise with federal agencies and other rubber, oil, and chemical companies. Fearing that these exchanges might undermine its competitive advantages in rubber manufacturing, Goodrich reorganized its R&D departments and constructed a new research center by 1948 as part of its strategic transformation from an industrial corporation that refined and fabricated one particular raw material (rubber) to a <i>research company</i> with diverse product lines in rubber goods <i>and</i> chemically related sectors.</p><p> Likewise, an analysis of the 200 largest U.S. industrial manufacturers in 1948 reveals that from 1941 through 1960, nearly every one of these firms constructed new research facilities, hired armies of scientists and technicians, and implemented some type of product diversification strategy in order to hedge against the uncertainties of an evolving postwar political economy. These research facilities were themselves small-scale, brick-and-mortar “military-industrial complexes” where the technical and functional capabilities of large corporations were enhanced by managers and scientists who not only secured funding in the form of government contracts, but also coordinated the activities of corporate and university laboratories to achieve technological innovation.</p><p>
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Bartha, Dezso. "TRIANON AND THE PREDESTINATION OF HUNGARIAN POLITICS: A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF HUNGARIAN REVISIONISM, 1918-1944." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3914.
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This thesis proposes to link certain consistent themes in the historiography of interwar and wartime Hungary. Hungary's inability to successfully resolve its minority problems led to the nation's dismemberment at Trianon in 1920 after World War I. This fostered a national Hungarian reaction against the Trianon settlement called the revisionist movement. This revisionist "Trianon syndrome" totally dominated Hungarian politics in the interwar period. As Hungary sought allies against the hated peace settlements of the Great War, Hungarian politics irrevocably tied the nation to the policies of Nazi Germany, and Hungary became nefariously assessed as "Hitler's last ally," which initially stained the nation's reputation after World War II. Although some historians have blamed the interwar Hungarian government for the calamity that followed Hungary's associations with Nazi Germany, this thesis proposes that there was little variation between what could have happened and what actually became the nation's fate in World War II. A new interpretation therefore becomes evident: the injustices of Trianon, Hungary's geopolitical position in the heart of Europe, and the nation's unfortunate orientation between the policies of Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia predestined the nation to its fate in World War II. There was no other choice for Hungarian policy in World War II but the Axis alliance. The historian of East Central Europe faces a formidable challenge in that the national histories of this region are often contradictory. Hungarian historiography is directly countered by the historical theories and propositions of its Czech, Serb, and Rumanian enemies. By historiographical analysis of the histories of Hungary, its enemies among the Successor States, and neutral sources, this thesis will demonstrate that many contemporary historians tend to support the primary theses of Hungarian historiography. Many of the arguments of the Hungarian interwar government are now generally supported by objective historians, while the historiographical suppositions of the Successor States at the Paris Peace Conference have become increasingly reduced to misinformation, falsification, exaggeration, and propaganda. The ignorance of the minority problems and ethnic history of East Central Europe led to an unjust settlement in 1919 and 1920, and by grossly favoring the victors over the vanquished, the Paris Peace Treaties greatly increased the probability of a second and even more terrible World War.<br>M.A.<br>Department of History<br>Arts and Sciences<br>History
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Spagnolo, Simone. "Each tale chases another : metaphorical representations, non-linearity and openness of narrative structure in Italian opera from post-WWII to 'It makes no difference'." Thesis, City University London, 2015. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/13570/.
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This work addresses the demands of framing a theoretical problem and practice-based research and it therefore comprises two parts: a thesis and a composition. The thesis discusses the narrative structure of post-WWII Italian avant-garde opera in conceptual terms and demonstrates how it develops on three principal features: the metaphorical representation of socio-political conditions, the non-linearity of the dramaturgy, and openness to a plurality of interpretations. My composition It makes no difference contributes both as a new musico-theatrical work and an outcome of the discussion presented in the thesis. The main text is composed of three main chapters, each respectively dedicated to the features of socio-political representation, non-linearity and openness. Each chapter is in turn divided into two sub-chapters: the first presents the contextualisation and analysis of post-WWII Italian experimental operas, the second explores It makes no difference in relation to both these operas and the above three features. The discussion examines those works that have most significantly experimented with socio-political representations, non-linearity and openness. These include Luigi Nono’s Intolleranza 1960 (1961), Sylvano Bussotti’s La Passion selon Sade (1966) and Luciano Berio’s Opera (1977). At the same time, it omits both those operas relying on traditional operatic principles and those others that, although being experimental, do not focus on the three features this thesis puts forward. This study considers post-WWII Italian avant-garde opera in cross-disciplinary terms and highlights the necessity of discussing it in relation to disciplines other than those proper to the genre of opera, including prose-theatre, literature, politics and philosophy. The composition, on the other hand, provides a synthesis of the above three features: It makes no difference develops a multi-narrative structure whilst providing a representation of contemporary Italian socio-political life and epitomising the concept of openness. At the same time, it integrates theatrical and literary elements and combines traditional notation and graphic scores.
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Incerti, Silvia. "Interpreti e guerre – Il caso italiano durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/22807/.
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The aim of the following dissertation is to analyze the presence of interpreters during World War II in Italy to shed light on their origins, lives and work. This is the first investigation on the matter in Italy, and it also brings together two under-researched fields of interpreting studies, namely the history of the profession and conflict-zone interpretation.
For this purpose, the research has been carried out on paper and digital documents, mainly historiographies, memoires, biographies, and an interview with a direct witness.
The thesis is organized into five chapters. The first chapter offers a framework on interpreting history, with a focus on the history of interpreting in conflict zones, by analyzing the presence of interpreters from the first testimonies to today. Chapter two, on the contrary, provides an overview of the profession in current times by observing deontological complexities of the job, risks faced by interpreters in conflict zones nowadays, and, furthermore, by underpinning the importance of relevant training.
In the third chapter, the peculiar context of Italian WWII is described to present its most outstanding events and introduce the reader to the specific setting in which the interpreters - mentioned in the subsequent chapter - worked. As a matter of fact, chapter four displays the research results, dividing interpreters in consistent categories, such as interpreters for the Allies, for the occupying forces and in concentration camps. It offers a description of interpreters and their work, with detailed biographic information and a focus on the consequences and implications of their tasks.
Finally, chapter five draws some conclusions and suggests some reflections for future research and follow-up studies.
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Bingle, Joseph Kennedy. "La Déchirure Inévitable: The State of the Colonized Intellectual in Albert Memmi's La statue de sel." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1250178609.
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Cauley, Catherine S. "Queering the WAC: The World War II Military Experience of Queer Women." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2062.
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The demands of WWII mobilization led to the creation of the first standing women's army in the US known as the Women's Army Corps (WAC). An unintended consequence of this was that the WAC provided queer women with an environment with which to explore their gender and sexuality while also giving them the cover of respectability and service that protected them from harsh societal repercussions. They could eschew family for their military careers. They could wear masculine clothing, exhibit a masculine demeanor, and engage in a homosocial environment without being seen as subversive to the American way of life. Quite the contrary: the outside world saw them as helping to protect their country. This paper looks at the life of one such queer soldier, Dorothee Gore. Dorothee's letters, journals, and memorabilia demonstrate that for many lesbians of her generation, service in the WACS during WWII was a time of relatively open camaraderie and acceptance by straight society.