Experiencing The World Of Franklin: The Making Of An Immersive And Interactive Historical Exhibit

This thesis involves the creation of a historically-themed museum element. The element, titled “Improving Community,” is a virtual interactive game that allows players to explore certain realities of colonial American life. Within the game, players are presented with a number of civic-related issues that existed throughout the eighteenth century, and they are then given options to improve the situation. Interactivity and immersion are key features of the game, and they have been incorporated so that players may engage with the past and assume a more active role in the process of historical reconstruction. Research for the games draws mostly upon historical primary sources, including firsthand accounts, letters, diaries, periodicals, pamphlets, meeting minutes, and legal documents. In addition, the process of developing the games was informed by a number of secondary source works, and therefore this study inspects the ways in which “Improving Community” fits within the ongoing scholarly debates. Ultimately this project contributes to the field of public history by demonstrating the usefulness of games as a tool for historical exhibition. “Improving Community” is both entertaining and educational, and as a result, the game provides individuals with a unique outlet for exploring and experiencing the past

Resisting change : toxic masculinity in the post modern United States Armed Forces, (1980s-Present).

This thesis examines the changes regarding women and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) serving and toxic masculinity in the United States Armed Forces from the end of Operation Just Cause to the War on Terror, which includes Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The role of women and LGBTQ+ within the military changed significantly from late 1980s-2010. During the 1990s, sex abuse scandals and homophobic murders raised public awareness of the toxic masculinity that existed in the military. Toxic masculinity is an extreme expression of hegemonic masculinity, which promotes masculine supremacy, strict gender roles, and devalues women. This thesis analyzes occurrence rates, dynamics that might contribute to the elevated rates of sexual assault within the Armed Forces, and the impact of military sexual violence. It also explores the military's reaction to sexual assault amongst those who serve, as well as proposals for further improvement. Gendered violence remains an ongoing problem within and outside of the military service. To eradicate sexual assaults and homophobic violence requires new programs and most important cultural change. There also needs to be additional assessments of the existing programs to ascertain their efficiency. This thesis argues that a close examination of the years following Operation Just Cause, will reveal that a toxic masculine subculture exist within the post-Cold War US Armed Forces that employs gendered violence and refuses to accept policy changes of the Department of Defense that removed service restrictions on women and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender, Queer +(LGBTQ+)

Analyzing Country Risk: Estimating the Probability of External Debt Repudiation in the Post-Oil-Embargo Decade

This dissertation examines the use of logit analysis as a tool for assessing the likelihood that a sovereign risk cannot, or will not, adhere to the terms of its foreign debt obligations as a result of adverse political, social, economic, or financial disruptions. The discussion is divided into two parts. Part one is devoted to a review of the topic of assessing the likelihood of debt servicing difficulties by borrower nations by first tracing the growth of international bank lending activities by U.S. commercial banks, followed by a general discussion of the international debt crisis and a brief survey of some of the conventional approaches employed by many international institutions to assess overseas lending risk. Part one continues with a survey of a variety of social, economic, and political considerations incorporated into the risk evaluation process and concludes with a discussion of how these factors are integrated into the microeconomics of international bank lending. Part two of this study discusses specifically the use of logit analysis as a tool for evaluating country risk under alternative sub-set data specifications. It begins with a review of the major empirical studies on the use of econometric techniques for predicting the incidence of foreign debt repudiations followed by an investigation of the rescheduling process subsequent to the first oil price shock in 1973-74. The analysis attempts to improve and expand upon the work of others by specifically addressing a variety of empirical and theoretical deficiencies present in earlier studies. The paper concludes with a discussion of the possible presence of dynamic elements in the rescheduling process which may ultimately help to improve upon the predictive performance of the logit model

Duval County Medical Society, Hundredth Birthday, 1853-1953

This book is a hundredth year anniversary celebration of the Duval County Medical Society and it\u27s place in Jacksonville history. It offers an overview of its founding and the society\u27s participation in the major events Jacksonville experienced such as the 1854 fire, the Yellow Fever epidemic in the 1850\u27s, the Civil War, Small pox epidemic in the 1880\u27s, Reconstruction, the 1901 Jacksonville Fire, World War I, World War II, and the city\u27s economic expansion. PALMM.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/northeast_fla_books/1017/thumbnail.jp

Brave Men Behold Your Fallen Chief

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