This thesis examines the development and articulation of ideas about modern political Zionism and the Palestine question by the Labour Party and the wider Labour Movement in Britain during the 1920's and 1930's. This study also explores the Party and the Movement's understanding…
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Walking is a critical dynamic practice that has largely been overlooked in archaeological studies. There has been a tendency to focus on static places as the loci for activity rather than on the movement that infuses life into those places. This study seeks to move beyond this b…
The development of the translation movement in Islamic history was a long, intricate movement which encompassed a large number of people over a long period of time. It is the objective of this paper to assess the historical setting which gave rise to this movement as well as to …
Hibat-Zion, the first Jewish national movement of its kind, emerged in Czarist Russia during the early 1880s. Over a fourteen-year period (1881–1895), the movement made a profound contribution to the birth of a modern Jewish national ideology. Hibat-Zion created and inspired the…
This thesis develops a disjunctivist approach to action as an alternative to the standard causal theory, or 'causalism'. The standard theory promotes a concept of action as constituted by a bodily event joined to certain mental conditions by a bond of causation. A disjunctivist …
This interdisciplinary practice-based thesis interrogates the term ‘operatic’ with particular reference to movement. It thereby aims to extract operatic movement from the practice of opera singers and investigate ways to transfer ‘operaticness’ into the bodies of non-singing per…
Why do social movement organizations change? This study attempts to answer this question by observing forty diverse social movement organizations (from both random and convenience samples) active across a wide spectrum of social movements in Seattle, Washington between 1999 and …
My dissertation analyzes the experiences of Africans who travel out of their home countries seeking a life of safety, peace, wealth and dignity. Different life circumstances and sets of aspirations lead them to Dakar, Senegal, where their journeys come to a halt. They don’t want…
The eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallapovo silvestris) was nearly extirpated from the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV) from overharvesting and habitat loss in the early 1900s. Habitat restoration with hardwood regeneration has likely improved habitat suitability for turkeys i…
The purpose of this study is to understand the non home-based travel behavior of urban market traders in Onitsha, Nigeria, where 58-70% of the labor force is engaged in trading. Relevant trip-inducing variables--gender, location, a means of personal transportation, size of stall…
Pastors have been called by God to disciple their flocks. Moreover, they have been called to equip the flock to disciple others in order to fulfill the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20). Southern Baptists have long decried the woes of deficient discipleship. However, many have n…
The Chicana/o Student Movement of the 1960s and 1970s in urban Southern California has been extensively researched and documented, yet very little attention has been given to the contributions of Chicanas/os in California’s rural Central Valley. The Valley’s historically oppress…
Traditional accounts of the German Peace Movement before and during the Weimar Republic have generally focused on national-level organizations and high-profile figures and activists. This thesis makes use of ego-documents written in fall 1939 and winter of 1940 to place two lowe…
For my Culminating Project towards the completion of my MFA in Television, Film and Theatre/Acting Option at California State University, Los Angeles. I explored the Make Up of Identity. Three parts: history/family, sexuality, and self-acceptance. My culminating project delved i…
Due to the nature of their lifestyle and inherent mobility nomadic groups of the past have left little if any discernible imprint in excavated archaeological records. This is regrettable since most regions of the world that saw the emergence of complex societies were shaped by p…
Negative interactions with nonnative species are a concern for many species including Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout (YCT) Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri . In many YCT fisheries, managers are tasked with balancing angler satisfaction and fish conservation. Trying to balance these ne…
Connectivity is essential for the maintenance of genetic diversity and stability of wildlife populations. However, aquatic habitats are becoming more isolated, particularly in semiarid regions of the southwestern United States. An artificial aquatic mosaic of stock tanks often r…
Henri Bergson’s interpretation of Aristotle has not been adequately considered in scholarship. Bergson was greatly inspired by Aristotle’s method and discoveries in psychology and metaphysics, but Bergson also accused Aristotle of having reduced philosophy to an analysis of lang…