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Temporarily Machiavellian: Performing the Self on "Survivor"
"Temporarily Machiavellian" examines the performance of self in reality television. This study demonstrates how contestants on "Survivor" manipulate and reinvent their identities in performance. Combining the disciplines ...
Social Media and the Changing Identity
(2017-05-03)
This thesis uses former literature on orality, literacy, pluralism, and power structures and applies their theoretical framework in order to provide insight into the rhetorical impacts of social media. Specifically, Facebook ...
The Intersectionality Identified Within Cognitive Dissonance with a Concentration on the Interactions Between Religiosity and the LGBTQ+ Community
Since their individual conceptions, the LGBTQ+ community and religion have been at odds. I believe that this feud is rooted in the cognitive dissonance of the individuals involved in both of these communities. Both of these ...
Drag Beyond the Body: Trixie Motel and Spatial Identity as Performance
In this paper, I analyze how drag queen Trixie Mattel utilizes fantasy themes to push the limits of drag performance based on overlapping performative principles of art, comedy, gender, and popular culture. I explore the ...
The Life and Death of Identity after Death in Texas Medical Schools
The current state of research with regards to the use of exhumed paupers’ graves in the 19th century is well established, but the extent to which attempts to preserve the documentation of personal and cultural identities ...