This research acknowledges history and drama as dynamic, not static. The reading or viewing audience takes an active role in rewriting or re-viewing what is read on print or seen and heard on stage. Every audience member ...

The primary problem was to identify and describe the demographic characteristics, quiltmaking motivations, and quiltmaking practices of members of the Trinity Valley Quilters' Guild (TVQG). The study resulted in a ...

Richard de Mille (1967) considers personal invention crucial in comprehending and shaping socially constructed realities. Intrigued by what a woman's reality brings to the creative process and how these experiences become ...

In 1867 Charles Sanders Peirce detailed a pansemiotic perspective of the world that defines a sign as “something that stands to somebody for something.” The triadic semiotic theory that Peirce developed includes all phenomena ...

The purpose of this study was to document the process of change in overseas Chinese students' understanding and appreciation of Chinese culture through Lion Dancing workshop. It was confined to examining the methods used ...

In many of her plays, Lillian Hellman depicts situations related to women and economic equality in American society during the early twentieth century. Many of Hellman's dramatic works focus on family life, demonstrate to ...

While Michel Foucault's research on power, knowledge, and discourse has proved vital for validating research topics and agendas in emerging disciplines such as Disability Studies, the emphasis on the first person perspective ...

This study provided a curriculum for teaching art history to seventh and eighth grade students based on the principles of discipline-based art education (DBAE). The student included historical facts, descriptions and the ...

The recent publication of numerous and diverse dance interpretive texts has influenced developments in dance performance, choreography, research and education. Through the writer/scholar's arrangement of theory, language, ...

This study examined the effects of precategorized jazz and classical music and silence on state anxiety in mental health professionals. Ten staff members (music therapists, occupational therapists, recreational therapists, ...