Hooray for Hollywood : Postwar Cinema and Trauma in Franco\u27s Dictatorship in Spain

In 1939, Spain saw the end of a bloody three year civil war and the beginning of Francisco Franco\u27s nearly forty year military dictatorship. The immediate postwar was one filled with hunger, poverty, and executions as Franco silenced all opposition. Although cinema was a respite from the terror outside of the theater, the regime utilized Spanish films in order to spread propaganda and write their own version of the civil war, glorifying the victorious Nationalists and demonizing the Republican losers. My thesis examines three pairs of films, each pair containing a Spanish production and a production from Hollywood, and analyzes how the imported American films spoke more to the immediate wounds of the losers from the war than the highly-political Spanish films. Although the American films were censored, their themes and images still provided opportunities for this traumatized audience to appropriate them and form their own subtle subversion to counter the terror and repression of Franco\u27s dictatorship

Motivational Changes for Students on a Travel Study Program

Motivational Changes for Students on a Travel Study Program Short Abstract The research was done on a travel study trip that takes university students from the United States to New Zealand and Australia. The purpose of the research was to see the likelihood of students in a group who may change their minds from not participating in adventure activities to participating in them. The research can help tour operators and guides understand more about motivations to participate in adventure activities. With little research on what causes people to change their minds in a group setting like the travel study program, this research hoped to shed some light on possible ways that tours operators can better market to groups and bring in more customers

Towards Feynman rules for conformal blocks

We conjecture a simple set of "Feynman rules" for constructing $n$-point global conformal blocks in any channel in $d$ spacetime dimensions, for external and exchanged scalar operators for arbitrary $n$ and $d$. The vertex factors are given in terms of Lauricella hypergeometric functions of one, two or three variables, and the Feynman rules furnish an explicit power-series expansion in powers of cross-ratios. These rules are conjectured based on previously known results in the literature, which include four-, five- and six-point examples as well as the $n$-point comb channel blocks. We prove these rules for all previously known cases, as well as for a seven-point block in a new topology and the even-point blocks in the "OPE channel." The proof relies on holographic methods, notably the Feynman rules for Mellin amplitudes of tree-level AdS diagrams in a scalar effective field theory, and is easily applicable to any particular choice of a conformal block.Comment: 59 pages + appendices, several figure