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How Does It Feel to be Creative? A Phenomenological Investigation of the Creative Experience in Kinetic Places

Description: How does it feel to be creative? Such a question, when approached from a phenomenological perspective, reveals new understandings about the embodied experience of creativity, and how it feels as it is being lived. This investigation begins with a provocative contrast of two environments where creativity is thought to manifest itself: school art classrooms, where creativity is often legislated from an authority figure, and New Orleans Second Line parades, where creativity is organically and kin… more
Date: December 2017
Creator: Bartholomee, Lucy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Mama D's 2 Blocks: A Documentary Film

Description: Mama D's 2 Blocks tells the story of a neighborhood home in New Orleans that was transformed into a distribution center and used to assist residents impacted by Hurricane Katrina's devastation in 2005. Mama D stayed at her home throughout the storm and remained there until the floodwaters had subsided. After the water had drained, socially minded youth from all over the country were drawn to Mama D's home and stayed there while supporting local renewal efforts. The film documents their joining … more
Date: May 2007
Creator: Ferris, Mika
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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Performance Evaluation and Opportunity Assessment for St. Bernard Project

Description: This report describes efforts by IBACOS, a Department of Energy Building America research team, in the St. Bernard Project, a nonprofit, community-based organization whose mission is to assist Hurricane Katrina survivors return to their homes in the New Orleans area. The report focuses on energy modeling results of two plans that the St. Bernard Project put forth as 'typical' building types and on quality issues that were observed during the field walk and Best Practice recommendations that cou… more
Date: June 1, 2011
Creator: Dickson, B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rising Above the Water: New Orleans Implements Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Practices Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (Fact Sheet)

Description: This fact sheet describes the technical assistance that the U.S. Department of Energy, through its National Renewable Energy Laboratory, provided to New Orleans, Louisiana, which helped the city incorporate energy efficiency into its rebuilding efforts for K-12 schools and homes following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. NREL also provided support and analysis on energy policy efforts.
Date: July 1, 2012
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Green Building Policy Options for New Orleans

Description: This document is adapted from a memo and report delivered to the City Council of New Orleans, the office of the Mayor of New Orleans, the Chairperson of the Citizen Stakeholders Group (New Orleans Energy Task Force) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Project Officer in 2008. The report outlines ideas for and potential impacts of various green building policies in New Orleans in the years following Hurricane Katrina.
Date: September 1, 2011
Creator: Doris, E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Leading the Nation in Clean Energy Deployment (Fact Sheet)

Description: This document summarizes key efforts and projects that are part of the DOE/NREL Integrated Deployment effort to integrated energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies in cities, states, island locations, and communities around the world. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is pursuing an aggressive, scalable, and replicable strategy to accelerate market adoption of clean energy solutions to power homes, businesses, and vehicles. Using the comprehensive Integrated Deployment approach dev… more
Date: July 1, 2012
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Community Greening: How To Develop A Strategic Energy Plan, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) (Brochure)

Description: This guide provides an overview of strategic electricity planning for communities, using a step-by-step approach to develop the plan. This method has a high chance of success, because it is based on stakeholder buy-in and political commitment. Not all communities will need to follow all steps, but the process is designed to incorporate all parties, maximize solution-based thinking, and develop a plan that can be carried out by community leaders.
Date: February 1, 2010
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Creole Angel: The Self-Identity of the Free People of Color of Antebellum New Orleans

Description: This thesis is about the self-identity of antebellum New Orleans's free people of color. The emphasis of this work is that French culture, mixed Gallic and African ancestry, and freedom from slavery served as the three keys to the identity of this class of people. Taken together, these three factors separated the free people of color from the other major groups residing in New Orleans - Anglo-Americans, white Creoles and black slaves. The introduction provides an overview of the topic and st… more
Date: August 2006
Creator: Hobratsch, Ben Melvin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Between Logos and Eros: New Orleans' Confrontation with Modernity

Description: This thesis examines the environmental and social consequences of maintaining the artificial divide between thinking and feeling, mind and matter, logos and eros. New Orleans, a city where the natural environment and human sensuality are both dominant forces, is used as a case study to explore the implications of our attempts to impose rational controls on nature - both physical and human nature. An analysis of New Orleans leading up to and immediately following Hurricane Katrina (2005) reveals… more
Date: May 2008
Creator: Moore, Erin Christine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Wright Amendment]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6 P.M.
Date: December 2, 1992
Duration: 2 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Water test]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: June 10, 1984
Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Alice McGee to to Aunt Mary and Uncle Charles Moore]

Description: Letter from Alice McGee to her aunt and uncle, Mary and Charles Moore. She wrote about her trip home to Tennessee through New Orleans. She encountered a train wreck and saw flooding in Morgan City. Her letter that said that she was returning home had not arrived, so her arrival surprised her family.
Date: May 1890
Creator: McGee, Alice
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Mary Moore to Charles B. and Linnet Moore, November 8, 1897]

Description: Letter from Mary Moore to Charles and Linnet Moore in which she updates them on the health of family and friends; the weather; and the people she has seen or missed seeing. She has plans to visit a grave yard. She writes about the crops and what price farmers are getting for their produce.
Date: November 8, 1897
Creator: Moore, Mary
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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No Quarter: the Story of the New Orleans Greys

Description: The purpose of this thesis document is to explain the process of making the documentary film, No Quarter: The Story of the New Orleans Greys. The document is organized by having the prospectus and the film proposal at the beginning, with the body describing how the film was made based on the prospectus. The purpose of the film is to tell the history of a unit of volunteers in the Texas Revolution, the New Orleans Greys. The document describes the methods used to make the film and how it will be… more
Date: December 2015
Creator: Barnes, Travis S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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Rebuilding for Sustainability: Case Studies in the Making

Description: NREL has made significant contributions to communities suffering from natural disasters since 2007 in terms of technical assistance regarding energy efficiency and renewable energy options. NREL's work has covered all aspects of energy, including energy opportunities in community planning, policy design, new program design, and specific project design and implementation for energy related to electricity generation, building energy use, and transportation. This presentation highlights work done … more
Date: June 1, 2013
Creator: Billman, L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steps to Developing the New Orleans Strategic Energy Plan

Description: This presentation was given by NREL's Elizabeth Doris (Brown) to the New Orleans City Council in January 2008. NREL was funded by DOE to provide technical assistance to New Orleans after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The presentation provides an overview of strategic energy planning, case studies, and suggested next steps for implementing energy efficiency and renewable energy into the city's rebuilding efforts.
Date: January 1, 2011
Creator: Brown, E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: Dixie mafia]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Kirksey McCord Nix Jr. being treated at St. Paul Hospital after being charged with a murder in New Orleans.
Date: April 24, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Smuggler]

Description: Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a federal crackdown on narcotic distributions.
Date: February 24, 1971, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Potential Next Steps for the New Orleans City Council Energy Efficiency Resolution

Description: This document is adapted from an actual February 2008 deliverable memo and report delivered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to the City Council of New Orleans, the office of the Mayor of New Orleans, the Chairperson of the Citizen Stakeholders Group (New Orleans Energy Task Force) and the Department of Energy Project Officer in February of 2008. In January 2008, the New Orleans Utility Committee requested review, commentary, and suggestions for Utility Committee next steps re… more
Date: September 1, 2011
Creator: Doris, E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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New Orleans, Louisiana: Solar in Action (Brochure)

Description: This brochure provides an overview of the challenges and successes of New Orleans, LA, a 2007 Solar America City awardee, on the path toward becoming a solar-powered community. Accomplishments, case studies, key lessons learned, and local resource information are given.
Date: October 1, 2011
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Portraits of Young Artists: Artworlds, In/Equity, and Dis/Identification in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Description: Using portraiture methodology and social practice theory, this study examined the identity work of young people engaged in a teen arts internship program at a contemporary arts center in post-Katrina New Orleans. This research asked four interrelated questions. Through the lens of a teen arts internship at a contemporary arts center in post-Katrina New Orleans, 1) How do contextual figured worlds influence artist identity work? 2) How does artist identity work manifest through personal narrat… more
Date: May 2018
Creator: Travis, Sarah Teresa
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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