A Beginner’s Guide to Drag

My presentation is the study of gender as it pertains to performance and theatre. My presentation will go over the different facets of how gender contributes to a performance. It will begin with a brief overview of masculinity in theatre and transition into the art of gender as performance, more commonly known as drag. The overall findings of this research will be presented in the form of a live performance of an original drag number

Great and Precious Things

A memoir in three parts: Them, Us, Me; Great and Precious Things is a personal investigation and discovery of how the past influences future decisions in life, romance, and behavior; the ways in which people disappear from our lives, and how we disappear into others’ lives, losing ourselves along the way. From the deaths of family members to strained relationships and the depths of loneliness, we are destined to carry the ghosts of our past while trying to discover our authentic selves

When You\u27re Done Digging

This is a work of fiction about a woman making poor decisions

SPOT1328 Meira Spit

Data in this folder are produced by a SoFarOcean Spotter wave buoy deployed along the south arm of the Great Salt Lake, near Antelope Island State Park from the period of July 13, 2021 through June 28, 2022, in relatively shallow water, approximately 1.6m. IMPORTANT NOTE: Water depths for #1328 (Miera Spit) started at ~1.7 m, but dropped rapidly to 0.9 m on July 15, 2021 and dropped further to ~0.4 m on August 17, 2021. The timing of these rapid water depth changes matches the timing of buoy location changes when the anchor was dragged inshore by waves. When buoy #1328 (Miera Spit) was retrieved at the end of the study period, it was partially beached with its ballast chain touching the bed. We surmised that data quality was suspect after the second abrupt change in water depth on August 17th, 2021 when the anchor was moved.https://scholarworks.uno.edu/salt_lake/1000/thumbnail.jp

It Isn\u27t Easy Fighting Crime in a Tutu, but It Helps!

It Isn\u27t Easy Fighting Crime in a Tutu, but it helps! is a description of struggles and triumphs of a woman working in a male traditional job for the New Orleans Police Department. She worked as a civilian and as a police officer and police sergeant from 1970 until 1996. Several Essays are included to provide a glimpse of the lighter side of the badge, the human beings wearing them, and an appreciation of the culture and some neighborhoods of New Orleans

New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians: Big Chiefs\u27 Perspectives

New Orleans’ strategic location on the Mississippi River is a centuries-old hub for economic growth, cultural exchange, and has been a prize for competing political forces since colonial times. Its multi-racial, multi-ethnic, and multicultural complexities where Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans transcultural sociopolitical experiences around enslavement and co-habitation produced the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians. The patriarchal Mardi Gras Indian tribes have been around for more than a hundred years and are known for creating extravagant handcrafted masquerading suits whose prominent features are feathers and beads and, through their traditions constitute a distinct cultural group. This research used oral histories supplemented by literature to explore Mardi Gras Indian history, origin theories, communal relations, class dimensions, and self-identity for understanding cultural transformation and leadership patterns while describing hierarchy, stability, and fluency within and among their tribes. Oral history narratives came from Big Chiefs, who are the paramount leaders and spokespersons for each tribe. The Big Chiefs gave descriptive interpretations that revealed societal structures, development, and sociopolitical dynamics

Frequency Variation of Sweeping Jets

Fluidic oscillators are devices that create a sweeping motion with a liquid or gas without moving parts and just fluid dynamics. There are different types of fluidic oscillators, one being a feedback, wall-attachment type. Fluidic oscillators have been researched in roles for heat transfer (such as impingement cooling) against steady jets since the fluidic oscillators can cover a larger area than a steady jet. An important characteristic of fluidic oscillators is the frequency of the jet, which can be varied by different ways. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) was used to begin studies into the variation of the frequency and its effect on heat transfer capabilities on a heated impingement surface. The inlet velocity of the fluidic oscillator varied from a baseline velocity to twice and quadruple the baseline velocities. This has shown an increase in the sweeping frequency but shows variation in other characteristics as well. The design of a physical experiment has begun to eventually compare the CFD data with real data