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151	Help, Hinder, or Hesitate: American Nuclear Policy Toward the French and Chinese Nuclear Weapons Programs, 1961-1976 Holloway, Joshua T. 01 May 2019 (has links) No description available. History American History International Relations Military History Modern History Political Science Science History Nuclear weapons nuclear policy nuclear proliferation nonproliferation foreign policy United States Kennedy Johnson Nixon Ford Bundy Kissinger France de Gaulle Pompidou Giscard China Mao Zhou national security Cold War Soviet Union
152	All Of Chinese Literature Condensed: A Sourcebook From The Playwright, Director, And Biggest Fan Emerson, Whitney 01 January 2013 (has links) Aristotle stated in his Poetics that theatre’s dual purpose was to educate and entertain. Centuries later the Roman Horace and Indian Bharata echoed his same sentiments. I intend to realize all three theorist’s ideas on the theatre by creating an original educational and entertaining work and bringing it to performance. The audience will retain information without being aware of learning if it is presented in a pleasurable way. The most important geopolitical relationship of this century will be between China and America. In order to educate the American public about the culture of The Middle Kingdom, I propose to write and direct my own play, condensing all three thousand years of Chinese literature into a one hundred and ten minute performance. I will benefit from the personal nature of this thesis by experiencing every stage of a play’s production: from idea to page to performance. My thesis will be made of three major parts: conceiving and writing the play, a journal of directing the debut production, and a third section made of choices, influences, and reflection on the entire experience. In this manner, the ideas swirling in my head may be made clear to others reading this thesis. The play itself will be a comical distillation of ten selected works of Chinese literature. Four non-gender specific American actors will seem to make up the show as it performs in a tongue-in-cheek way. Taking my stated goal of entertaining and educating the audience to heart, the overarching plot of the play will center on the four actors teaching the audience about the literature and culture of China by acting out scenes and telling stories. The information in the scenes will be targeted to a normal American citizen’s educational level with liberal doses of humor added. The four actors will be playing fictionalized versions of themselves and at times iv breaking character by explaining and setting up the theatricality of the piece to the audience. Part of the fun of the show will be seeing how these actors explain a subject as obtuse as Chinese literature to Americans. Perhaps a cooking metaphor is the best way to think of the play: I will chop up raw Chinese literature, the actors will boil it onstage, the theatregoer will consume the mix, and exit the theatre full of entertaining intellectual nourishment. My experiences directing and producing the finished play will be recorded in a journal as a resource for future directors. I imagine directing the play will be the most challenging aspect of this thesis. How is the play changed when other people interact with it? How will the audience receive it? In addition, Committee Chair Mark Routhier and my thesis Committee Members, Mark Brotherton and Tan Huaixiang, will also give written responses to the play’s performances. The play will be performed October 10-13, 2013 in the University of Central Florida’s Performing Arts Complex Studio 2 classroom. In the final section I will write a reflection on the entire process. This will serve the dual purpose of giving me a place to collect my thoughts and giving others a special insight to the growth they might experience when producing this play. Foremost among my influences in writing a play with this subject matter are the style and tone of The Reduced Shakespeare Company Drama play chinese literature director playwright writing journey to the west the romance of the three kingdoms dream of red mansions the art of war the dao daoisim wu song lin chong lu zhi shen sun wu kong the outlaws of the marsh mao zedong sha wu jing guan yu liu bei cao cao Theatre and Performance Studies
153	Transgressing the last frontier : media culture, consumerism, and crises of self-definition in the works of Allen Ginsberg, Don DeLillo, and Chuck Palahniuk Beaulieu, Pierre-Luc 23 April 2018 (has links) Ce mémoire de maîtrise démontre la continuité du mythe de la frontière dans la littérature américaine produite après la Seconde Guerre mondiale et il identifie le concept d'hyperréalité de Jean Baudrillard en tant que nouvelle frontière américaine. L’hyperréalité désigne un monde produit par la simulation et le simulacre que la population perçoit comme étant réel. J’analyserai les poèmes « Howl » (1955), « A Supermarket in California » (1955) et « America » (1956) d'Allen Ginsberg ainsi que les romans Mao II de Don DeLillo (1991) et Survivor (1999) de Chuck Palahniuk afin d’expliquer de quelles manières chacune de ces œuvres dénonce le climat socio-culturel qui produit l’hyperréalité et comment, du même coup, celles-ci récupèrent des éléments du mythe de la frontière. L’organisation chronologique des chapitres me permet d’établir que l’hyperréalité a joué le rôle de nouvelle frontière dans la psyché américaine à partir des années 50 jusqu’à la fin des années 90. L’opposition dialectique entre un Ancien Monde corrompu et un Nouveau Monde utopique, un élément fondamental du mythe de la frontière, est au cœur de chacune des œuvres étudiées. De plus, dans chacune d'elles, le ou la protagoniste parvient à redéfinir le sens de sa réalité en traversant la frontière entre l’Ancien et le Nouveau Monde ce qui évoque la fonction d’autodétermination attachée à la frontière. L’argumentaire de ce mémoire repose sur la notion que l'hyperréalité correspond à l’Ancien Monde et que celle-ci voile l’existence possible d’un Nouveau Monde. Dans les œuvres de Ginsberg, DeLillo et Palahniuk que j’ai choisi d’analyser, la société américaine est assujettie à une hyperréalité qui est omniprésente. Dans cet Ancien Monde, la population s’identifie et se définie par rapport à des images et des produits à la fois fabriqués et célébrés par les médias et la culture de masse. Les protagonistes de ces auteurs s’opposent tous à l’idéologie conformiste et déshumanisante de la société de consommation. Je définis ce rejet comme une réactualisation du mythe de la frontière puisqu’il symbolise le passage entre un Vieux Monde hyperréel et un Nouveau Monde. Dans ce nouveau paradigme, les protagonistes de Ginsberg, DeLillo et Palahniuk sont en mesure d’affirmer leur individualité. / This thesis demonstrates the persistence of frontier mythology in post-WWII American literature and identifies Jean Baudrillard’s concept of hyperreality as the new American frontier. Hyperreality designates a world fabricated through simulation and simulacra that people have accepted as real. Through close-reading analyses of Allen Ginsberg’s poems “Howl” (1955), “A Supermarket in California” (1955), and “America” (1956) as well as Don DeLillo’s Mao II (1991) and Chuck Palahniuk`s Survivor (1999), I explain how the critiques of the socio-cultural climate that produces hyperreality present in each of these works recuperate elements of frontier mythology. My chapter organization allows me to establish the persistence of hyperreality as the new frontier in American consciousness from the 1950s to the late 1990s. The dialectical opposition between a corrupt Old World and a utopian New World, which is fundamental to frontier mythology, is central in each the studied works. Also, in each of them, crossing the frontier between the Old and the New World allows the protagonist to re-define the meaning of his/her reality according to his/her vision, which is evocative of the empowering function the frontier. This thesis is founded upon the idea that hyperreality corresponds to the Old World and, as such, that it veils the existence of a possible New World. The American society depicted in Ginsberg’s, DeLillo’s, and Palahniuk’s chosen works is one where hyperreality is omnipresent; in this Old World, individuals identify with images and products both fabricated and celebrated by media and consumer cultures. These authors’ protagonists all oppose the conformist and dehumanizing ideology such cultures endorse. This thesis conceptualizes their rejection as a re-actualization of frontier mythology that symbolizes their passage from the hyperreal Old World to the New World. In this new paradigm, the protagonists can then re-define themselves and their realities based on their own self-determined visions and ideals rather than on those disseminated in media and consumer cultures. PR 13.5 UL 2016 DeLillo, Don. Mao 11 DeLillo, Don -- Thèmes, motifs Palahniuk, Chuck. Survivor Palahniuk, Chuck -- Thèmes, motifs Réalité dans la littérature Frontières dans la littérature Médias dans la littérature Perception de soi dans la littérature
154	Investigations into cyclopropanation and ethylene polymerization via salicylaldiminato copper (II) complexes Boyd, Ramon Cornell 23 January 2007 Two distinct overall research objectives are in this Masters thesis. Very little relates the two chapters apart from the ligands. The first chapter addresses diastereoselective homogeneous copper catalyzed cyclopropanation reactions. Cyclopropanation of styrene and ethyl diazoacetate (EDA) is a standard test reaction for homogeneous catalysts. Sterically bulky salicylaldimine (SAL) ligands should select for the ethyl trans-2-phenylcyclopropanecarboxylate diastereomer. Steric bulk poorly influences trans:cis ratios. Salicylaldiminine ligands do not posses the correct symmetry to affect diastereoselectivity. The SAL ligand belongs to the Cs point group in the solid state. Other ligand motifs are more effective at altering the trans:cis ratios. The second chapter addresses the general route toward successful copper(II) ethylene polymerization catalysts. Catalytic activity of the copper(II) complexes is very low. Polymer chain growth from a copper catalyst is very unlikely. Copper-carbon bonds decompose by homolytic cleavage or C-H activation. Copper-alkyls and aryls readily decompose into brown colored oils and salts with different colors. Ligand transfer to trimethylaluminum (TMA) appears to explain low yield ethylene polymerization. bulky migratory insertion mechanism coordination/insertion methodology d-block metal late transition metal phenolic ring coordination number ketimine precatalysts ketimine nitrogen bis(salicylaldiminato)copper(II) ratio cyclopropane steric bulk salicylaldiminato TMA salt trimethylaluminum aryl oil alkyl copper-aryls copper-alkyls C-H activation homolytic homolytic cleavage copper(II) polymerization ethylene cis trans symmetry diastereomer salicylaldimine SAL EDA ethyl diazoacetate styrene cyclopropanation copper diastereoselective steric protection stable CH(SiMe3)2 intermediate catalytic activity associated TMA free TMA vacant coordination site hydrolysis Lewis acid halogen anionic anionic ligand donor ligand monodentate anionic ligand aluminum(III) monodentate polymer chain polymer chain aluminum-carbon bond bulky SAL ligand open coordination site first row transition metal PE paramagnetic high molecular weight polyethylene alkylate methylaluminoxane MAO anionic ligands arylate aluminum carbon aluminum carbon bond beta-hydrogen elimination beta hydrogen elimination Aufbau reaction Aufbau neutral dialkyl aluminum aluminum-alkyl aluminum alkyl copper(0)
155	Investigations into cyclopropanation and ethylene polymerization via salicylaldiminato copper (II) complexes Boyd, Ramon Cornell 23 January 2007 (has links) Two distinct overall research objectives are in this Masters thesis. Very little relates the two chapters apart from the ligands. The first chapter addresses diastereoselective homogeneous copper catalyzed cyclopropanation reactions. Cyclopropanation of styrene and ethyl diazoacetate (EDA) is a standard test reaction for homogeneous catalysts. Sterically bulky salicylaldimine (SAL) ligands should select for the ethyl trans-2-phenylcyclopropanecarboxylate diastereomer. Steric bulk poorly influences trans:cis ratios. Salicylaldiminine ligands do not posses the correct symmetry to affect diastereoselectivity. The SAL ligand belongs to the Cs point group in the solid state. Other ligand motifs are more effective at altering the trans:cis ratios. The second chapter addresses the general route toward successful copper(II) ethylene polymerization catalysts. Catalytic activity of the copper(II) complexes is very low. Polymer chain growth from a copper catalyst is very unlikely. Copper-carbon bonds decompose by homolytic cleavage or C-H activation. Copper-alkyls and aryls readily decompose into brown colored oils and salts with different colors. Ligand transfer to trimethylaluminum (TMA) appears to explain low yield ethylene polymerization. bulky migratory insertion mechanism coordination/insertion methodology d-block metal late transition metal phenolic ring coordination number ketimine precatalysts ketimine nitrogen bis(salicylaldiminato)copper(II) ratio cyclopropane steric bulk salicylaldiminato TMA salt trimethylaluminum aryl oil alkyl copper-aryls copper-alkyls C-H activation homolytic homolytic cleavage copper(II) polymerization ethylene cis trans symmetry diastereomer salicylaldimine SAL EDA ethyl diazoacetate styrene cyclopropanation copper diastereoselective steric protection stable CH(SiMe3)2 intermediate catalytic activity associated TMA free TMA vacant coordination site hydrolysis Lewis acid halogen anionic anionic ligand donor ligand monodentate anionic ligand aluminum(III) monodentate polymer chain polymer chain aluminum-carbon bond bulky SAL ligand open coordination site first row transition metal PE paramagnetic high molecular weight polyethylene alkylate methylaluminoxane MAO anionic ligands arylate aluminum carbon aluminum carbon bond beta-hydrogen elimination beta hydrogen elimination Aufbau reaction Aufbau neutral dialkyl aluminum aluminum-alkyl aluminum alkyl copper(0)

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