Univ., Diss.--Mannheim, 2007.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2006. / Title from title screen. Mary E. Stuckey, committee chair; David Cheshier, Carol Winkler, James Darsey, Daniel Franklin, committee members. Electronic text (297 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 26, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-297).

Zugl.: Bonn, Universiẗat, Magisterarbeit, 2007.

Thesis (M.A.)--Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 1973 / Author's surname added in ms. on t.p. Photocopy of original. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-71). Also issued in print and microfiche.

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English. / Bibliography: leaves 85-86.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University. / Vita. Pub. also as Teachers college, Columbia university, Contributions to education, no. 44. Bibliography: p. 156-157.

Zugl.: Mannheim, Univ., Diss., 2007

Television's role in American presidential politics is significant; sixty percent of the American people identify television as their sole soure of news. Thus, a presidential candidate must do his best to appear favorably in the media. Some scholars have suggested that this involves the creation of an "image" which appeals to the electorate, even to the exent of creating the appearance of a "reality" unsupported by known facts. We continue to explore the creation of these televisual images with the assistance of some insights made by a controversial french social theorist, Jean Baudrillard. Applying his ideas of hyperreality, simulation, "will to spectacle," fate, and power to Bill Clinton's 1992 appearance on 60 Minutes (in which he denys allegations of an affair with Geniffer Flowers) and that year's Democratic National Convention film, The Man from Hope, we corroborate the "image making" aspects of theories purported by Tim Luke and Joanne Morreale. However, we also suggest that the televisual images generated by the presidential campaign satisfy more than the candidate's political aspirations, they also fulfill a social demand for reality's production. Furthermore, we find that difficulties determining an image's meaning suggest that its appeal to the electorate is based more on "sentiment" than its ability to construct a comprehensive, consistent representation of reality. These arguments are then summarily applied to Monica Lewinsky's introduction into political discourse in late January and early February 1998. / Master of Arts

This work involves not only a study of the mode and pattern of land utilization as it exists in Clinton Township in 1953 but also a consideration of the reasons why man is making use of the land in the manner that he is. It has been found that even in a micro-study of this nature, positive correlations can be made between the various ways that man is making use of the land and the diverse factors of his environment. In some cases he has overcome adverse physical conditions by artificial means and so altered the physical environment to suit his needs. In other cases the physical conditions have been unalterable and man has been forced, therefore, to adapt his activity to conform to them. As regards the human environment, it has become evident that man himself creates difficulties which are almost as serious as those of the physical sphere and which, in some instances, may curtail freedom of economic activity considerably. / Thesis / Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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