Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008. / Abstract and vita. Includes final project proposal. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-152, 219-225).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Municipalities throughout the country are increasingly seeking out innovative partnerships with the private sector to acquire, operate, and/or maintain public parks. An example of this is found in Lafayette, Louisiana, where Lafayette Consolidated Government recently purchased a 100-acre farm from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and collaborated with community leaders to form a public-private partnership with a new non-profit, Lafayette Central Park, Inc. This entity is currently undertaking the necessary steps to lease, plan, design, fund, build, operate, and maintain a new community park on the property. This report explores the history of public-private partnerships found within park administration, as well as the myriad legal, organizational, and financial structures in place within those partnerships. The research also highlights potential benefits and drawbacks to these partnerships, found within four case studies in the Southeast, as well as through precedents found in previous research. The four case studies are Audubon Park and City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Memorial Park and Discovery Green in Houston, Texas. The insights, challenges, and best practices found through the examination in this report are used to create a series of recommendations for the fledgling non-profit organization, Lafayette Central Park, for both short-term and long-term success. / text

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Communication, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-77).

Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Geography, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008. / Abstract and vita. Includes final project proposal. Description based on Print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-152, 219-225).

Ce travail présente la première traduction française, assortie de notes et précédée d’une introduction détaillée, d’un roman à clef néo-latin intitulé Peruviana (1644), qui transpose au Pérou les intrigues politiques et sentimentales du Royaume de France au temps de Louis XIII. Son auteur, Claude-Barthélemy Morisot (12 avril 1592 - 22 octobre 1661), était un parlementaire dijonnais appartenant à un cercle de “libertins érudits” de la République des Lettres de la première moitié du XVIIème siècle, auteur d’ouvrages savants et de cet unique roman.L’étude en trois parties servant d’introduction offre d’abord une contextualisation de cette fiction romanesque et de son auteur, livrant les premières clefs nécessaires à la lecture ; puis une analyse narratologique aborde les enjeux littéraires et l’exploitation des sources, notamment antiques : la confrontation des référents et de la structuration de l’intrigue met en évidence la double portée, stéganographique et politique, de ce roman, que la fin de l’étude tentera d’élucider. Il apparaîtra alors que l’auteur, par le jeu de l’analogie et de la métaphore que permet le principe du roman à clef, a envisagé son œuvre comme une utopie où les mécanismes historiques, entrant en concordance avec ceux du Cosmos, pourraient être appréhendés et harmonisés par l’application d’un art bienveillant, prenant en compte tous les aspects et tous les états de la matière sociale afin de guider celle-ci vers un accomplissement proche de l’idéal. Cette lecture alchimique révèle que tout le roman est une métaphore de l’Œuvre, dont l’artisan serait le Poète, mettant au service de l’humanité à venir ce fruit de sa sagesse. / This dissertation is the first translation of a Neo-Latin roman à clef entitled Peruviana (1644) which transposes to Peru the political and sentimental intrigues that took place in France under Louis XIII. This edition is accompanied with notes and preceded by a detailed introduction. The author of Peruviana, Claude-Barthélemy Morisot (April 12, 1592 – October 22, 1661), was a native of Dijon and belonged to a group of libertine scholars from the Republic of Letters during the first half of the 17th century. He is the author of several scholarly works, but Peruviana is his only novel.The first part of the introduction provides contextual elements about the narrative and its author, while also giving some of the keys to read the novel. The second part consists of a narratological analysis which deals with its literary issues and the use of sources – especially classical literature ; the confrontation between the referents and the structure of the plot highlights the steganographic and political dimension of this novel, a point on which third part of this study sheds light.It then becomes clear that thanks to the use of analogy and metaphor – which are characteristic devices of romans à clefs – the author conceived his work as a utopia in which the historical mechanisms reflecting those of the Cosmos might be apprehended and harmonized through a benevolent art that would take into account all the aspects and states of the social Materia(l) in order to lead it to an (almost) ideal fulfilment. This alchemical reading reveals that the entire novel is a metaphor of the Magnum Opus, whose architect would be the Poet offering the product of his wisdom to the future of mankind.

This thesis examines how Black queer men and transmasculine individuals navigate Black heteronormative and White queer spaces in New Orleans. Over the last few decades, articles, including anthropological and sociological, have focused on the relationship between race, gender performance, sexuality, and emotional expression among men such as Christian (2005), which analyzed how Black queer men expressed their masculinity within queer spaces (Christian 2005). This thesis builds on this literature to explore how societal and cultural pressures of masculinity can hinder Black queer men institutionally, socially, and romantically.

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