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Item An experimental program in personal improvement for low income Latin-American women(Texas Tech University, 1965-08) Hawk, Barbara LynnNot availableItem Devising Beauty: A Pedagogy for Devised Theatre(2011-05) Wampler, Katie; Gelber, William F.; Donahue, Linda L.; Steele, Brian D.; Stoune, Michael; Durham, GenevieveThis Professional Problem Dissertation presents a particular method for devising theatre using an educational model. The project addresses a significant gap in scholarship: although it has garnered considerable attention in the United Kingdom, devised theatre is relatively little known in the United States, where it is also referred to as collaborative collaboration. In particular what is lacking in this scholarship is a pedagogy which prepares the students to create an original performance. Madeline Hunter’s seven aspects of a lesson plan can be utilized to facilitate a discussion of the issues involved in creating theatre from a group perspective. Hunter’s seven aspects, in combination with other tools such as Viewpoints, a movement/voice technique, were crucial to my creating and teaching my own course in devised theatre. Devised theatre, which usually originates from the participants, offers the potential advantage of involving students with issues central to their own experiences in order to create a performance which affects their lives and those of the people around them. At the same time, it requires the instructor to adopt roles not always common in educational settings – those of guide and facilitator, for example. Curriculum design is thus a key component; this study augments theoretical approaches to curricular issues with an explanation of the actual realization of lesson plans, rehearsals, and performances. I have also created an assessment and evaluation of the course with perspectives from the audience, students, and the instructor. In conclusion, this new model of devising theatre stimulates collaboration, group problem solving, collective artistic creation, and individual and group reflection on the part of the participants. Devised theatre deserves implementation as an innovative pedagogical method that promotes the development of fundamental educational objectives.Item The economics of beautification and beauty(2013-05) von Bose, Caroline Marie; Wiseman, Thomas E., 1974-The first chapter examines adolescent beauty as a potential originator of the observed wage premium for adult beauty and finds that adolescent beauty has its own separate effect on adult wages. Adolescent beauty also affects early human capital development, as evidenced by its significant impact on educational outcomes. Changes in beauty over time are shown to be positively correlated with changes in wages for full-time workers, and changes in beauty are generally not correlated with appearance-related choice variables. I explore the possibility that self-confidence and social capital are potential mechanisms through which adolescent attractiveness affects future wages but find that these do not change the magnitude of the effects of adolescent beauty, although they are of themselves significant determinants of wages. The second chapter examines the effects of personal grooming behaviors on earnings and shows evidence that these effects are due to persistent differences in preferences or productivity between workers displaying different grooming choices and not statistical discrimination on the part of employers. In a longitudinal sample of lawyers graduating from the same law school, men who wear glasses and men with facial hair face an earnings penalty in first-year income and to some extent in subsequent years. Some grooming behaviors are positively correlated with income in the 1970's cohort and negatively correlated with income in the 1980's cohort (and vice versa), suggesting that fashion signals change relatively quickly. I also find that grooming behaviors are correlated with beauty ratings and that the beauty premium is unaffected by earnings, but the estimated effects of some grooming behaviors partially result from their correlation with beauty. I do not find evidence that grooming behaviors act as a signaling mechanism in the labor market. The third chapter evaluates the claim that design piracy is beneficial to certain status-goods firms. It builds on Pesendorfer's model of fashion cycles by introducing the possibility of design imitation for a market in which designs are used as a signaling mechanism. There exist equilibria in which both the designer and imitator are active in the market, but there are no conditions under which imitation is profitable to the designer. Under some conditions the presence of a potential imitator will ensure that the designer does not produce at all.Item The effects of physical appearance and behavior upon ratings of social attractiveness(Texas Tech University, 1978-08) Mahoney, Sandra DianePhysical appearance is an obvious personal characteristic which is immediately accessible to others during social interactions and which contributes to expectations regarding other persons. Yet, until recently, physical appearance had not held much credibility as a scientifically respectable variable. Little research had been conducted to test its relationship to other variables aithough even casual observations would indicate tnat people react differently to beautiful women versus homely women or handsome men versus ugly men.Item The Making of Beauty: Aesthetic Spaces in the Fiction of D. H. Lawrence, Muriel Spark, and Virginia Woolf(2013-08-01) Lee, JooriThis dissertation rethinks textual images of the other?s beauty, depicted in works by D. H. Lawrence, Muriel Spark, and Virginia Woolf, whose fascination with the other, called by this dissertation the beloved, urged them to inscribe the beloved?s original beauty in texts. Their works make perceptible the singularity of the beloved, while revealing the writers? predicament in translating the beloved?s ineffability in texts. Taking the untranslatability of the beloved into consideration, this dissertation traces the ways in which these writers? texts capture the beloved?s original beauty at moments of revelation, related to epiphanies entering the terrain of literary modernism. My study thereby scrutinizes the dynamics of images of beauty and their impacts on art and politics in the context of modernism. In doing so, I argue that the texts I consider express the beloved?s singularity in challenge of the beautified images that many other artists invented for self-directed purposes in the early and mid-twentieth century. First, I explore Lawrence?s creation of aesthetic spaces in Lady Chatterley?s Lover (1928) in keeping with his desire for making palpable visual spectacles through the text. Analyzing how this ambition helped to create the novel?s aesthetic scenes, I would like to define Lawrence as an aesthete whose aspiration lay in expressing the beauty of things. Then, I discuss Spark?s affection for her characters and her desire to visualize the figure?s originality in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) and The Girls of Slender Means (1963). Considering Spark in relation to both modernists and Fascists, I propose that her making of the image of her character breaks away from Fascism?s aestheticization of human figures. Finally, I investigate Woolf?s love for words by focusing on ?The Duchess and the Jeweller? (1938), a short story written for expressing various modes of beauty in words. Drawing to the represented link between words and smell, considered the most ?wasteful? sense, I examine how the sensory medium makes perceptible intrinsic qualities of words, and argues that her depiction of words, linked to smell, reveals the anti-utilitarian nature of words, unconstrained by a craftsman?s manipulation of words.