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“Pornographies of flight”: Anal(ytic) Eroticism in the Fiction of J.G. Ballard, William Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2021
Contributor:
St. Germain, Tristan (Author)
Redfield, Marc (thesis advisor)
Gould, Philip (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Eroticism in literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
Theses and Dissertations
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“Redefining” the College Experience: Students Who Abstain from Alcohol and Other Drugs

Description:
Although the US college is predominantly understood as an environment characterized by heavy substance use, studies have illustrated that about one in every five college …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Phillips, Kiana (Author)
Villarreal, Christina (thesis advisor)
Brown University. Education (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Alcohol abstinence
Temperance
Language:
English
Collection:
Education Theses and Dissertations
Education
Theses and Dissertations
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“Socio-demographic Factors, Not Race Alone”: Describing Racial and Socio-demographic Disparities in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Physical Activity, 2011-2019

Description:
Background: Studies are clear about the protective nature of a balanced diet and physical activity against chronic conditions, but review of the current literature indicates …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Brinker, Morgan (creator)
Aubert, Ronald E. (thesis advisor)
Smith, Katherine F. (reader)
Brown University. Biology Undergraduate Education (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Nutrition
Social status
Disparities
Determinants
Health--Social aspects
Public health--Social aspects
Exercise
socio demographic
Language:
English
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
Theses and Dissertations
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“That neat, angel-devil theory was no longer useful:” Prisoners Against Rape, The D.C. Rape Crisis Center and the Partnership that Transcended the Prison Walls and Critiqued the Society that Built Them

Description:
“While I was on the outside I raped women. Now, on the inside, I rape men. I want to stop raping. Can you help me?” …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Kupetz, Sophie R. (creator)
Shibusawa, Naoko (thesis advisor)
Hamlin, Françoise (thesis advisor)
Remensnyder, Amy (reader)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Imprisonment
Community organization
Sex crimes
Community education
Women's studies
African Americans--Study and teaching
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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“That odd whir of wings in the head”: Illness, Treatment, and Virginia Woolf’s Modernism

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Harvey, Anna Eve (creator)
Armstrong, Paul (thesis advisor)
Readey, John (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
Theses and Dissertations
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“The aesthetic tie that binds me to the outside world”: From intervals to episodes

Description:
Review of the book The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos, 2023
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Lacerda, Inês Forjaz de (Author)
Genre:
reviews (documents)
Subject:
Pessoa, Fernando > 1888-1935
Campos, Alvaro de > 1888-1935
Translating and interpreting
Translation
Poetry
New Directions Publishing
Tradução
Poesia
Language:
English
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Journals@BDR
Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies
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“The bond of said child’s blood through her, his slave”: The Social Worlds of Slavery in Late Medieval Marseille

Description:
This thesis explores the precarious and uncertain position of slaves in Marseille during the long fourteenth century (approximately 1280-1430). It argues that in Marseille, the …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Steinman, Charles E. (creator)
Remensnyder, Amy (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Middle Ages
Slavery
France--Marseille
Social history--Medieval
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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“The System Played a Glitch on Me:” Systemic Contributors to Burnout at a Refugee Resettlement Agency in Massachusetts

Description:
Based on original ethnographic research at a refugee resettlement agency, this thesis argues that various systemic contributors to burnout are overlooked in the existing literature. …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Cox, Isabel I (creator)
Flores, Andrea (thesis advisor)
Polatty, Dave (reader)
Sackett, Blair (reader)
Brown University. Independent Concentrations (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Refugees
Burn out (Psychology)
United States. Resettlement Administration
Social case work--Management
Civil service
Language:
English
Collection:
Office of the Dean of the College
Independent Concentrations
Theses and Dissertations
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“The Unlikely Homelands of George Abramovic Koval”

Description:
In this thesis, I look at an example of one family swept up in the migratory currents of twentieth-century Jewish politics to show how various …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Gomberg Shkolnikova, Maria (creator)
Pollock, Ethan (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
History, Modern
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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“They even came to give us keys…Then they collected the keys back and left”: Floods and the Politics of State-Society Relations in Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria

Description:
This paper examines how responses to devastating floods in Ibadan reveal and reshape state- society relations in Nigeria. The paper argues that flooding offers a …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Stella Mojisola Oyekanmi (creator)
Smith, Daniel Jordan (thesis advisor)
Lennon, Myles (reader)
Carter, Rebecca (reader)
Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Nigeria
Floods
Ethnography
Disaster victims
Language:
English
Collection:
Anthropology
Theses and Dissertations
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“To promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States”: Professionalization, Education, and Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, 1936-1939

Description:
When she died in February 1936, Agnes Wahl Nieman left the largest portion of her estate to Harvard University under the broad mandate that the …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Pincus, Melanie A. (creator)
Chudacoff, Howard (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Journalism
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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“Too intimate, too close, too hot:” Discussing Death, “Aggressive” Treatment, and Being Full Code in Hospice

Description:
Background: Hospice organizations increasingly admit patients who are full code and/or desire other “aggressive” treatments, such as chemotherapy, dialysis, and total parenteral nutrition, while on …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Dressler, Gabrielle (Author)
Garrett, Sarah B (Author)
Hunt, Lauren J (Author)
Thompson, Nicole (Author)
Mahoney, Katherine (Author)
Sudore, Rebecca (Author)
Ritchie, Christine S (Author)
Harrison, Krista L (Author)
Brown University. Alpert Medical School. Scholarly Concentration Program. Non-Scholarly Concentrator (research program)
Subject:
Hospice care
Terminal care
Bioethics
Palliative treatment
Language:
English
Collection:
Warren Alpert Medical School Academic Symposium
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“We Work as Lesbians”: Horizontal Knowledge Production and Labor in Lesbian-Feminist Publishing Collectives, 1974-1985

Description:
This thesis examines three lesbian-feminist publishing collectives in the United States between 1974 and 1985: New Victoria Printers and Publishers, the Bloodroot Collective, and Persephone …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Boggs, Zoe (creator)
Self, Robert (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Socialism
Feminism
Lesbian feminism
Publishers and publishing
Feminist spirituality
Ecofeminism
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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“Where Friends Quarrel”: Ghost Pipe [Monotropa uniflora L.]

Description:
Monotropa uniflora is also known as ghost plant, ghost pipe, or Indian pipe. According to some Cherokee stories, the plant was so named after a …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Ness, Robin W. (Creator)
Subject:
Indian pipe (Plant)
Monotropa
Cumberland (R.I. : Town)--History
Language:
English
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
Shared Magma: An American and Swedish Collaboration on Sisterhood and Sister Ore
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“Who is the ‘community’ in Community MusicWorks?”: Exploring Place and Power in Providence

Description:
How do the concepts and practices of “music” and “community” intersect in the experiences of the various constituencies of a Providence-based music school grounded in …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Hausknecht, Elana (creator)
Miller, Kiri (thesis advisor)
Lumumba-Kasongo, Enongo (reader)
Brown University. Music (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Politics and culture
Music
Community music
Language:
English
Collection:
Music
Theses and Dissertations
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“¡Venceremos!” (We will prevail!): Investigating the Allure of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement

Description:
The Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru, MRTA), was a Peruvian insurgent group that operated in the 1980s and 1990s. Through investigation of …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Saxl, Emily M. (creator)
Hu-DeHart, Evelyn (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Peru
Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group)
Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru
Berenson, Lori
Nineteen eighties
Nineteen nineties
Radicals
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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“¿CHE, DE QUÉ PARTE SOS VOS?”: EXAMINING LEXICAL DIFFERENCES IN SOUTH AMERICA

Description:
Using over one million tweets from Spanish speaking Twitter users in South America I aim to analyze in depth the linguistic differences in the region. …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Chase, Alexander (creator)
Vaquero, Mercedes (thesis advisor)
Potter, Dan (reader)
Brown University. Latin American and Caribbean Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Latin America
Spanish language
Linguistics
Statistics
Language:
English
Collection:
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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… CONTENITORE [… CONTAINER].

Description:
Photos with fantastical designs drawn onto actual locations for the screening of the film ORG at the 36th Annual Venice International Film Festival. Pictured is …
Year:
1978
Contributor:
Fernando Birri (Creator)
Subject:
Cinematography
Film festivals
Rome, Italy
Language:
Spanish
English
Collection:
Performance and Entertainment
Brown University Library
Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Pinturas, Fotos, Escritos
Hay Exhibits
A Pictorial Dragon, the Art of Fernando Birri
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Items (902001-902018) out of 902018 results