MLAS Student Research
This collection included papers written for courses in Master of Liberal Arts and Science degree program.
For more information on the MLAS degree and available courses go to Master of Liberal Arts and Science website
Recent Submissions
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-12-17)
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(Vanderbilt Universityhttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/, 2009-04)Throughout the Transatlantic slave trade enslaved Africans sang. In holding pens called barracoons awaiting shipment, aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic, and in the transatlantic colonies, singing was a common feature ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-01-05)The zodiac, a pagan symbol believed to have originated in 7th century BCE Babylonia, appears in the floor mosaics of numerous synagogue ruins through the Palestine region, including one found in a fifth century synagogue ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-01-05)In 1955, construction began on a new apartment building located between the Via Latina and the Via Dino Compagni, two streets in southeast Rome. Workers pouring concrete for the building's foundation were surprised to see ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-10-15)Art and images serve as cultural memories for many diaspora groups, from early Judaic to African American communities. Religion is one of the strongest cultural beliefs subject to creolization when art attempts to preserve ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)At the first World's Fair with it's own women's pavillion, chaired by a woman, designed by a woman, and decorated by a woman at a time when sewing was the predominate activitiy for women, why were no quilts in the Women's ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-05)Piracy in the Caribbean can be segmented into five distinct overlapping eras, which this paper will examine: the French Corsairs, 1500-1559 the Elizabethans, 1558-1603 the Dutch Sea Rovers, 1570-1648 the Buccaneers ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)This paper provides an overview of Delbert Mann's life from his community theatre activities in Nashville and Columbia, South Carolina, to his work in the early days of television and his subsequent career as a film director.
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The Importation, Adaptation, and Creolization of Slave Leisure Forms in the Americas: 1600 to 1865 (Vanderbilt University, 2009)Leisure, the escape from the tedium of everyday existence, is found in all cultures including those in which slavery exists. At first glance the terms "slavery" and "leisure" may seem to be contradictory, mutually exclusive ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04)