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Sun hunting
Title
Sun hunting: adventures and observations among the native and migratory tribes of Florida, including the stoical time-killers of Palm Beach, the gentle and gregarious tin-canners of the remote interior, and the vivacious and semi-violent peoples of Miami and its purlieus.
Creator
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
Humorous description of 1920s Florida and the customs of the northerners who visit its resorts in Palm Beach and Miami as well as its free auto camps around Tampa.
Date Issued
1922
Identifier
AAA6246QF00004/30/200308/02/200413398BfamIa D0QF, ONICF176- 1, FHP C CF 2003-04-30, FIPS12099, FIPS12086, FIPS12057, FCLA url 20040215xOCLC, 55693466, CF00001620, 2572037, ucf:14261
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001620.jpg
Central Florida School Districts' Responses to Hispanic Growth, 1980-2010
Title
Central Florida School Districts' Responses to Hispanic Growth, 1980-2010.
Creator
Hazen, Kendra, Cassanello, Robert, Lester, Connie, Walker, Ezekiel, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Since the 1980s, Hispanics have been the fastest growing minority in the United States and have been moving into rural, Southern areas where there have previously not been populations of Hispanics. Studies of these demographic changes have concentrated on how communities impacted by the influx of Hispanics have created or adjusted socioeconomic and political infrastructures to accommodate the linguistic and cultural needs of the Hispanic population. The public-school system is a...
Show moreSince the 1980s, Hispanics have been the fastest growing minority in the United States and have been moving into rural, Southern areas where there have previously not been populations of Hispanics. Studies of these demographic changes have concentrated on how communities impacted by the influx of Hispanics have created or adjusted socioeconomic and political infrastructures to accommodate the linguistic and cultural needs of the Hispanic population. The public-school system is a sociopolitical structure that has affected and has been affected by the increase in Hispanics. Whereas the modern Civil Rights movement had created legal precedence for students' language rights and led to the creation of the federal Bilingual Education Act of 1968, nationalist backlash to this rise in Hispanic immigrants led to the eventual defunding of federal bilingual education programs by the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001. This thesis is a policy history of Hispanic growth in the public-school systems in Orange, Lake and Osceola counties in Florida from 1980 to 2010. During that time, the three counties grew and diversified at different rates and made decisions for their English for Speakers of Other Languages programs that correlated with the size of their Hispanic population. This time frame encompasses Osceola's fastest period of growth which led to the creation of the Florida Consent Decree, Florida public schools' framework for remaining compliant with federal and state language policies. Even though federal funds for English acquisition programs replaced funds for bilingual or native language instruction during this time, Hispanic and non-Hispanic teachers, administrators, community or activist groups and parents continued to exert agency in gaining culturally inclusive and linguistically affirming language instruction programs for their children.
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Date Issued
2019
Identifier
CFE0007649, ucf:52507
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007649
The teachings of Karl Marx
Title
The teachings of Karl Marx.
Creator
Lenin,Vladimir Ilich
Date Issued
1933
Identifier
367819, CFDT367819, ucf:5340
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/367819
Hearing the Voices of the Deserters: Activist Critical Making in Electronic Literature
Title
Hearing the Voices of the Deserters: Activist Critical Making in Electronic Literature.
Creator
Okkema, Laura, Salter, Anastasia, Beever, Jonathan, Fanfarelli, Joseph, Moulthrop, Stuart, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Critical making is an approach to scholarship which combines discursive methods with creative practices. The concept has recently gained traction in the digital humanities, where scholars are looking for ways of integrating making into their research in ways that are inclusive and empowering to marginalized populations. This dissertation explores how digital humanists can engage critical making as a form of activism in electronic literature, specifically in the interactive fiction platform...
Show moreCritical making is an approach to scholarship which combines discursive methods with creative practices. The concept has recently gained traction in the digital humanities, where scholars are looking for ways of integrating making into their research in ways that are inclusive and empowering to marginalized populations. This dissertation explores how digital humanists can engage critical making as a form of activism in electronic literature, specifically in the interactive fiction platform Twine. The author analyzes the making process of her own activist Twine game The Deserters and embeds the project within digital humanities discourses on activism and social justice, hypertext, electronic literature, critical making, and hacker culture. The Deserters is a text-based digital game based on the experiences of the author's family as refugees from East Germany. The player's objective in the game is to research a family's history by searching the game-world for authentic documents, including biographical writings, journal entries, photographs, and records, thereby retracing historical events through personal experience. The Deserters aims at inspiring a compassionate and empathetic stance towards immigrants and refugees today. The author reflects on the ethical, narrative, aesthetic, and technical choices she made throughout the creation process of The Deserters to create a critical activist game. The results of the analysis demonstrate that Twine offers a unique environment for composing politically impactful personal narratives. From the project, the author derives best practices for activist critical making, which emphasize the importance for makers to imagine the needs and perspectives of their audience. The work expands digital humanities' theoretical and practical toolkit for critical making.
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Date Issued
2019
Identifier
CFE0007421, ucf:52701
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007421
The Ontological Sociology of Cryptocurrency: A Theoretical Exploration of Bitcoin
Title
The Ontological Sociology of Cryptocurrency: A Theoretical Exploration of Bitcoin.
Creator
Villarreal, Omar, Gay, David, Hinojosa, Ramon, Corzine, Harold, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
For millennia, money has been a basal element of everyday life reality in market-organized societies. Albeit money has changed extrinsically (e.g., form, use, utility) countless of times, some intrinsic characteristics remain the same, i.e., money is reified value. But why? What gives money value? Even more crucial, what is money in the first place? This exploratory study delves into the intricacies of money, in particular the revolutionary 21st century pecuniary techno-phenomenon, a...
Show moreFor millennia, money has been a basal element of everyday life reality in market-organized societies. Albeit money has changed extrinsically (e.g., form, use, utility) countless of times, some intrinsic characteristics remain the same, i.e., money is reified value. But why? What gives money value? Even more crucial, what is money in the first place? This exploratory study delves into the intricacies of money, in particular the revolutionary 21st century pecuniary techno-phenomenon, a cryptocurrency called Bitcoin. Though cryptocurrencies have been the topic of several financial and legal scholarly publications for a few years, we rather focus our analysis on Bitcoin's ontological characteristics under a schema of overlapping theoretical layers: Social Exchange Theory, Marxian Dialectics, and Social Construction of Reality. Our intention is to dissect Bitcoin sociologically and empirically examine its global exchange, consumption, and institutionalization. Consequently, we venture to ask, can Bitcoin redefine the meaning of money and how we relate to it? Reformulate the role of banking? Disrupt the universally accepted objective reality of currency value attached to sensorial experience? Transfer trust from ambivalent human relations to an incorruptible algorithm? Or even become (")the Internet of money(")?
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Date Issued
2016
Identifier
CFE0006412, ucf:51468
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0006412
Physical-Virtual Patient Simulators: Bringing Tangible Humanity to Simulated Patients
Title
Physical-Virtual Patient Simulators: Bringing Tangible Humanity to Simulated Patients.
Creator
Daher, Salam, Welch, Gregory, Gonzalez, Laura, Cendan, Juan, Proctor, Michael, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
In lieu of real patients, healthcare educators frequently use simulated patients. Simulated patients can be realized in physical form, such as mannequins and trained human actors, or virtual form, such as via computer graphics presented on two-dimensional screens or head-mounted displays. Each of these alone has its strengths and weaknesses. I introduce a new class of physical-virtual patient (PVP) simulators that combine strengths of both forms by combining the flexibility and richness of...
Show moreIn lieu of real patients, healthcare educators frequently use simulated patients. Simulated patients can be realized in physical form, such as mannequins and trained human actors, or virtual form, such as via computer graphics presented on two-dimensional screens or head-mounted displays. Each of these alone has its strengths and weaknesses. I introduce a new class of physical-virtual patient (PVP) simulators that combine strengths of both forms by combining the flexibility and richness of virtual patients with tangible characteristics of a human-shaped physical form that can also exhibit a range of multi-sensory cues, including visual cues (e.g., capillary refill and facial expressions), auditory cues (e.g., verbal responses and heart sounds), and tactile cues (e.g., localized temperature and pulse). This novel combination of integrated capabilities can improve patient simulation outcomes. In my Ph.D. work I focus on three primary areas of related research. First, I describe the realization of the technology for PVPs and results from two user-studies to evaluate the importance of dynamic visuals and human-shaped physical form in terms of perception, behavior, cognition, emotions, and learning.Second, I present a general method to numerically evaluate the compatibility of any simulator-scenario pair in terms of importance and fidelity of cues. This method has the potential to make logistical, economic, and educational impacts on the choices of utilizing existing simulators.Finally, I describe a method for increasing human perception of simulated humans by exposing participants to the simulated human taking part in a short, engaging conversation prior to the simulation.
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Date Issued
2018
Identifier
CFE0007750, ucf:52402
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007750
Time to keep
Title
A Time to keep: history of the First United Methodist Church of Oviedo, Florida, 1873-1973.
Creator
Adicks, Richard, Neely, Donna M., Evans, Clara Lee, Jones, Ben H., Lawton, Kathryn, PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
Brief history of the church from its beginnings to 1973, including photographs of early members, changes in the church structure, the new church, and the first wedding performed in the new church. Also includes a list of pastors and other officers of the church.
Date Issued
1973
Identifier
AAB9017QF00007/26/200511/14/200620916Bfam D0QF, FIPS12117, FHP C UCF 2005-08-03, FCLA url 20060601xOCLC, 75968729, CF00001726, 2585000, ucf:19840
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001726.jpg
The heritage of Gene Debs, selections
Title
The heritage of Gene Debs, selections.
Creator
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), Trachtenberg, Alexander
Date Issued
1955
Identifier
2100238, CFDT2100238, ucf:4899
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2100238
Recycled Modernity: Google, Immigration History, and the Limits for H-1B
Title
Recycled Modernity: Google, Immigration History, and the Limits for H-1B.
Creator
Patten, Neil, Dombrowski, Paul, Mauer, Barry, Grajeda, Anthony, Dziuban, Charles, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Regulation of admission to the United States for technology workers from foreign countries has been a difficult issue, especially during periods of intense development. Following the dot.com bubble, the Google Corporation continued to argue in favor of higher limits under the Immigration and Nationality Act exception referred to as (")H-1B(") for the section of the law where it appears. H-1B authorized temporary admission for highly skilled labor in specialty occupations. Congressional...
Show moreRegulation of admission to the United States for technology workers from foreign countries has been a difficult issue, especially during periods of intense development. Following the dot.com bubble, the Google Corporation continued to argue in favor of higher limits under the Immigration and Nationality Act exception referred to as (")H-1B(") for the section of the law where it appears. H-1B authorized temporary admission for highly skilled labor in specialty occupations. Congressional testimony by Laszlo Bock, Google Vice President for People Operations, provided the most succinct statement of Google's concerns based on maintaining a competitive and diverse workforce. Diversity has been a rhetorical priority for Google, yet diversity did not affect the argument in a substantial and realistic way. Likewise, emphasis on geographically situated competitive capability suggests a limited commitment to the global communities invoked by information technology. The history of American industry produced corporations determined to control and exploit every detail of their affairs. In the process, industrial corporations used immigration as a labor resource. Google portrayed itself, and Google has been portrayed by media from the outside, as representative of new information technology culture, an information community of diverse, inclusive, and democratically transparent technology in the sense of universal availability and benefit with a deliberate concern for avoiding evil. However, emphasis by Google on American supremacy combined with a kind of half-hearted rhetorical advocacy for principles of diversity suggest an inconsistent approach to the argument about H-1B. The Google argument for manageable resources connected to corporate priorities of Industrial Modernity, a habit of control, more than to democratic communities of technology. In this outcome, there are concerns for information technology and the Industry of Knowledge Work. By considering the treatment of immigration as a sign of management attitude, I look at questions posed by Jean Baudrillard, Daniel Headrick, Alan Liu, and others about whether information technology as an industry and as communities of common interests has achieved any democratically universal (")ethical progress(") beyond the preceding system of industrial commerce that demands the absolute power to exploit resources, including human resources. Does Google's performance confirm skeptical questions, or did Google actually achieve something more socially responsible? In the rhetoric of immigration history and the rhetoric of Google as technology, this study finds connections to a recycled corporate-management version of Industrial Modernity that constrains the diffusion of technology.
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Date Issued
2014
Identifier
CFE0005685, ucf:50135
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005685
seventy-fifth anniversary of the First Congregational Church of Winter Park, Florida, 1884-1959
Title
The seventy-fifth anniversary of the First Congregational Church of Winter Park, Florida, 1884-1959.
Creator
PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
Brief history of the first church in Winter Park with a section on each pastor and an overview of church activities in 1959.
Date Issued
1959
Identifier
AAB9128QF00008/09/200511/14/200614934BfamIa D0QF, FIPS12095, FHP C UCF 2005-08-03, FCLA url 20060515xOCLC, 75964971, CF00001724, 2584818, ucf:19750
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001724.jpg

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