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As a cornerstone of American identity, the American Dream serves as a hegemonic ideology rooted in myth. This myth centers on an ardent belief in equity despite the existence of systemic racial and economic exclusions, which includes inconsistent access to healthy food resulting in the hunger-obesity paradox. Because fast food plays a leading role in generating this paradox where an individual can be both hungry and obese, this thesis analyzes the 2015 Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising campaign to identify how the campaign perpetuates Dream discourse and understand how that discourse contributes to the hunger-obesity paradox. With the Colonel anchored at the heart of this campaign, the analysis found that he embodies the Dream and acts as a megaphone for Dream discourse. And ultimately, because Dream discourse overlooks and even admonishes low-income people and people of color, the people who most often face hunger and obesity, it contributes to the paradox.

My dissertation contains three chapters studying the strategic allocation of resources in political environments. Chapter 2 asks if redistricting is the result of partisan gerrymandering or apolitical considerations. I develop a statistical test for partisan gerrymandering and apply it to the U.S. Congressional districting plan chosen by the Republican legislature in Pennsylvania in 2001. First, I formally model the optimization problem faced by a strategic Republican redistricter and characterize the theoretically optimal solution. I then estimate the likelihood a district is represented by a Republican, conditional on district demographics. This estimate allows me to determine the value of the gerrymanderer's objective function under any districting plan. Next, I use a geographic representation of the state to randomly generate a sample of legally valid plans. Finally, I calculate the estimated value of a strategic Republican redistricter's objective function under each of the sample plans and under the actual plan chosen by Republicans. When controlling for incumbency the formal test shows that the Republicans' plan was a partisan gerrymander. In Chapter 3 I introduce a new and novel electoral reform that continues to allow redistricting but changes the incentives to do so. This reform ensures that parties earn seats proportional to their performance at the polls without substantially changing the electoral system in the U.S. In order to evaluate the reform's impacts, I model and solve a game that incorporates the redistricting decision, candidate choice, state legislative elections, and policy choice. Unsurprisingly, strategic redistricting biases policy in favor of the redistricting party. In the environments studied, the new reform never increases policy bias, and often reduces it. Political campaigns often require the strategic allocation of resources across multiple contests. In Chapter 4 I analyze these environments in terms of the canonical Colonel Blotto game, beginning with the most basic of Blotto games: Two officers simultaneously allocate their forces across two fields of battle. The larger force on each front wins that battle, and the payoff is the sum of the values of the battles won. I completely characterize the set of Nash equilibria to any such game and provide the unique equilibrium payoffs. This characterization comes from an intuitive graphical algorithm which I then apply to several generalizations of the game. I completely characterize the set of equilibria and provide the unique equilibrium payoffs to Blotto games with battlefield values that vary across players and games with general resource constraints. I also use my approach to solve the Blotto games on more than two battlefields with asymmetric battlefields and force endowments. / text

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2018-10-02T19:11:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Oscalina Maria de J. Nascimento.pdf: 405715 bytes, checksum: e9f3b47631fc21bf462ac07cd1be6f2b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-02T19:11:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oscalina Maria de J. Nascimento.pdf: 405715 bytes, checksum: e9f3b47631fc21bf462ac07cd1be6f2b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-03-26 / NASCIMENTO, Oscalina Maria de Jesus. The local political system of the colonels and the legitimacy of its hegemony by the Roman Catholic Church. Thesis in fulfillment of the Master’s degree submitted to the co-ordenating committee of the Religious Sciences’ department, The Catholic University of Goiás. Goiânia, Brazil. 2004. What is proposed in this thesis is the interpretation of the regionalist literary work of Bernardo Élis underscoring the hogemony of the political system of the colonels as legitimated by the Roman Catholic Church. In order to achieve this objective a research bibliography of important authors was composed. The concept of hegemony and reflection on the religious question were investigated in Gramsci showing how the Catholic Church was an ideological instrument of the State. In Maria Isaura P. de Queiroz, Victor Nunes Leal, Francisco Itami Campos, Eul-Soo Pang, Nasr Fayad Chaul, and others views about the political system of the colonels were extracted. Initially, one proceeded in an analysis of the socio-economic and political context of the formation period of Bernardo Élis as an individual in exercize of this citizenship and a committed writer trying to delineate the characteristics of his regionalism, the space that this takes up in the literary milieu, and his dilemma between a religious formation and a Communist ideology. What was sought, in following, was a description of the political system of the colonels, Its structure, its function, and the system of its local manner of execution. What was also investigated in the prose works of Bernardo Élis was his vision of the power of the colonels and the client- colonel relationships which evidence his denouncement of the orders, disorders, and injustices practicised by that land gentry. On the same it was examined how the author potrays religious manifestations while showing his respect for them. Finally, the hegemoniacal structure of the pocitical system of the colonels was discussed as legitimated by the Church which finds itself allied not only to tho local, but also to the national power structure. / NASCIMENTO, Oscalina Maria de Jesus. O mandonismo local e a legitimação de sua hegemonia pela Igreja Católica em Bernardo Élis. Dissertação de mestrado apresentada à coordenação do Mestrado em Ciências da Religião. Goiânia: Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2004. Fazer uma interpretação da obra regionalista de Bernardo Élis, destacando a hegemonia do coronelismo legitimada pela Igreja é o que se propõe neste trabalho. Para o alcance desse propósito, fez-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica de alguns importantes autores. Em Gramsci, buscou-se o conceito de hegemonia e a sua reflexão sobre a questão religiosa, mostrando a Igreja Católica como um aparelho ideológico de Estado. Em Maria Isaura P. de Queiroz, Victor Nunes Leal, Francisco Itami Campos, Eul-Soo Pang, Nasr Fayad Chaul e outros extraíram-se noções sobre coronelismo. Inicialmente, procedeu-se a uma análise do contexto sócio-econômico e político do período da formação de Bernardo Élis como indivíduo no exercício de sua cidadania e como escritor engajado, buscando salientar os traços de seu regionalismo, o espaço que ocupa no meio literário e seu dilema entre a sua formação religiosa e a sua ideologia comunista. Procurou-se, em prosseguimento, descrever a origem do coronelismo, suas características, sua estrutura, sua função, o mandonismo local. Também, investigou-se, na prosa bernardiana, a sua visão do poder dos coronéis, as relações coronel-clientela as quais evidenciam sua denúncia sobre os mandos e desmandos e as injustiças praticadas por esses senhores da terra. Igualmente, examinou-se como o autor apresenta as manifestações de religiosidade, mostrando o seu respeito por elas. Por fim, discutiu-se a estrutura hegemônica do coronelismo legitimada pela Igreja a qual se encontra aliada não só ao poder local mas ao poder nacional.

This dissertation examines the impact and influence of Colonel Edward House. House occupied a unique position in American history. The Texan wielded great power for most of Woodrow Wilson's presidency. House left an enduring impact on U. S. foreign policy while he served as the president's closest advisor. The project covers House's early life because it offers valuable clues as to how the colonel constructed his latter role as a presidential advisor and international figure. House believed in the idea of great men shaping history and bending events to their will. He also thought that the political arena provided the best arena to achieve greatness. Moreover, House knew due to his poor public persona and persistent illnesses had to construct a distinctive position for himself. House found that his path to greatness rested in exerting power behind the scenes. During his early years in politics he served as confidential advisor to a series of Texas governors, a position House later fillled in the Wilson administration. House found his chance to move onto the national scene through the presidential candidacy of Woodrow Wilson. He provided some key services for Wilson during the course of the 1912 campaign and quickly gained the confidence of the candidate. After Wilson's election House acted as a de facto chief of staff as he helped fill administration jobs. When the president-elect assumed office on March 4, 1913 House offered some advice on domestic policy but his ambition soon turned towards diplomacy. House believed that global politics provided the best way to achieve prominence. Though driven by ambition and ego House helped to usher in an era of American internatiionalism. His role as peace envoy, during American neutrality, marked the first time in the modern era that the U. S. involved itself in a European war. House continued his internationalist stance when America entered the war when he helped draft the Fourteen Points and an early covenant of the Fourteen Points. House was an important figure in bringing America out of its era of isolationism onto the world stage.

Thesis (M.A.)--Sonoma State University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-138).

The release of the two films, Madame Bovary (1992) by Claude Chabrol and Le Colonel Chabert (1994) by Yves Angelo, arouses an interest in a method which studies the rapport between the seventh art and literature. Following the studies of the narratologists, Gerard Genette, Yves Reuter, Gerard-Denis Farcy, Celestino Deleyto, Andre Gaudreault and Francois Jost, a method of analyzing and studying the relationship between literature and cinema can be developed. The principal interest of a comparative study can reside in the relationship between the story and the narration of the two genres of works. The study conducted at this level of analysis allows the appreciation of the impoverishments or the enrichments operated by the adapter. The comparative analysis of the works of Flaubert, Chabrol, Balzac, and Angelo reveal the problems relative to the cinematographic adaptation.

The Historic John and Landon Carter Mansion, a satellite property of Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area in Elizabethton, Tennessee, is one of Tennessee's earliest historic homes. Because the house is not open year-round, the state park service has expressed a need for an interpretive kiosk to stand on the property and provide visitors with information on the Carter Mansion. This project represents an effort to summarize existing knowledge on the house, to address common misconceptions, and to create an interpretive kiosk design based on historical research.

In 1767, Mme Benoist published an epistolary libertine novel entitled Lettres du Colonel Talbert. Although she has received little critical attention to date, she was a prolific author who appeared with great regularity at minor literary salons. Her presence at these salons is well-established in personal memoirs and correspondences, and actively remarked upon by other authors—men and women—of the period, including Mme Roland and Choderlos de Laclos. Mme Benoist’s preferred genre was the novel with its explicit blend of high and low literary cultures, its melding of the philosophical and the sentimental, its pursuit of formal innovation, and its deliberate marketing in multiple formats and for multiple audiences, including publication through the mainstream book market, and serial publication in revues and journals with a large female readership, such as the Journal des Dames. This study focuses on Lettres du Colonel Talbert (1767) as both a paradigmatic and privileged text inside Mme Benoist’s larger corpus, and one which explicitly engages many of the most pressing moral and philosophical debates of the period, including the legal status of women. To do so, Mme Benoist appropriates the libertine novel as specific novelistic subtype. In Les Lettres du Colonel Talbert, Mme Benoist parodies the libertine novel and in doing so, converts the libertine textual economy to one in which well-established narrative codes of femininity and masculinity are inverted. Although her depiction of the heroine, Hélène—an exceptional and courageous young woman who resists the predatory advances of a man through sheer strength of moral character—is not in itself unusual, Mme Benoist’s choice to frame her heroine’s moral struggle in a narrative epistolary exchange between two diametrically opposed male “types” in enlightenment thought—the libertine and the honnête homme— Mme Benoist effectively subverts masculine textual dynamics at the level of plot and character. More importantly, she also subverts the libertine novel’s traditional identification with masculine authorship. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

O coronel e o lobisomem (The Colonel and the werewolf) recreates the world of rural activity in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro and presents a fictional account of the memoirs of Colonel Ponciano de Azeredo Furtado. Organized into thirteen chapters, the theme of the second novel by José Cândido de Carvalho is the decline of the rural way of life against the increase in urbanization. Within the same subject there are other works such as Angústia (Anguish) by Graciliano Ramos, O Amanuense Belmiro (The amanuensis Belmiro) by Cyro dos Anjos; Coivara da Memória (Kindling for the Memory) by Francisco J. C. Dantas; and Banguê (Bier) by José Lins do Rego. Those writers knew how to combine form and content to discuss a social and historical vision of Brazil within a rigorous formulation of language. And they present a decadent narrator that has death hanging around and is roaming between the rural world - in which he or his family were large landowners - and the urban world - fraught with bureaucrats and marked by degradation. This analysis will defend that the subject of decay pervades the whole work of José Cândido de Carvalho, but reaches its pinnacle in O coronel e o lobisomem (The Colonel and the werewolf) and thus characterizes the plot of José Cândido de Carvalho as plots of decadence. Ergo, the main aim of this paper is to analyze the novel in order to discuss the driving forces that propel its topic. In an attempt to reveal the ways in which the author determines this subject, we will address the roles played within the narrative, in the first place, the reason for the death; then the persistent duel between the countryside and the city, which in turn represents the tradition and the renewal; and finally, the cultural, popular and fantastic elements that pervade the text. And besides that, we will try to insert the romance into the literary scenario and reveal what were the main contributions left by O coronel e o lobisomem (The Colonel and the werewolf) in Brazilian fiction. / O coronel e o lobisomem recria o mundo da atividade rural no interior do Rio de Janeiro e apresenta um relato ficcional das memórias do coronel Ponciano de Azeredo Furtado. Organizado em treze capítulos, o mote do segundo romance de José Cândido de Carvalho é o declínio do modo de vida rural diante da urbanização crescente. Temática da qual também são tributárias obras como Angústia, de Graciliano Ramos; O Amanuense Belmiro, de Cyro dos Anjos; Coivara da Memória, de Francisco J. C. Dantas; e Banguê, de José Lins do Rego. Os escritores dessa tradição souberam conjugar forma e conteúdo para discutir uma visão social e histórica do Brasil, porém dentro de uma rigorosa formulação de linguagem. E apresentam um narrador decadente, rondado pela morte e deslocado entre o mundo rural em que ele ou sua família eram grandes proprietários de terras e o mundo urbano repleto de burocratas e marcado pela degradação. Esta análise defenderá que a temática da decadência perpassa toda a obra de José Cândido de Carvalho, mas atinge seu ponto culminante em O coronel e o lobisomem e, dessa forma, caracteriza a poética carvalhiana como uma poética da decadência. Assim, o objetivo principal deste trabalho é analisar o romance para discutir as forças-motrizes que impulsionam sua temática. Na tentativa de revelar as maneiras como o autor fixa este tema, trataremos dos papéis que assumem, dentro da narrativa, em primeiro lugar, o motivo da morte; depois, o insistente duelo entre o campo e a cidade, que não deixam de representar a tradição e a renovação; e por fim, os elementos culturais, populares e fantásticos que permeiam o texto. Além disso, procuraremos inserir o romance dentro do cenário literário e expor quais foram as principais contribuições deixadas por O coronel e o lobisomem na ficção brasileira.