Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 2016, Popular Culture

The pop punk band Green Day is a surprisingly interesting source for a discussion of class. Despite their working class background, and their massive successes with Dookie in 1994, and American Idiot in 2004, Green Day performs many middle class values in their song lyrics, stage shows, and interviews. Using Chris McDonald's book Rush: Rock Music and the Middle Class as a template, this paper analyzes Green Day's performance of class through theories about social class in North America. Throughout Green Day's career, there is a noticeable tension between wanting to stick to their working class roots and acknowledging their sudden and unexpected thrust into an upper class economic standing. Yet, despite skipping a middle class standing economically, their song lyrics, stage shows, and interviews articulate many middle class values such as individualism, professionalism, and the middle class family.

Committee: Jeremy Wallach Dr (Advisor); Jeremy Wallach Dr (Committee Chair); Esther Clinton Dr (Committee Member); Jones Dalton Dr (Committee Member) Subjects: American Studies; Music

MARCH, University of Cincinnati, 2003, Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning : Architecture

Like the appliances that were pivotal for the evolution of the Modern home, the gadgetry of the digital home will change its identity and its programmatic requirement. Increased mobility provided by the portable device blurs the boundary between work and home, home and leisure, leisure and reality. Can an emotional attachment to architecture persist in an unconditional environment? How will the body's extensions, lost in the virtual experience, be reintroduced into a contemporary habitat? In what ways can incorporation of digital technology become physically engaging in the programmatic requirements of Home?

Committee: Michael McInturf (Advisor) Subjects:

Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, 2002, History (Arts and Sciences)

This thesis explores the French farmer and activist Jose Bove and his widely publicized protest against McDonald's France in August 1999. With the help of 300 demonstrators, he dismantled a partially constructed McDonald's restaurant and caused an international stir. Many factors influenced Bove's protest: his background in radical agricultural activism, a historical overview of French-American cultural relations, and tensions over globalization in France. Jose Bove's protest has undergone many interpretations, some that favor his cause and some that do not. Even after his trial a year later, several issues remained unresolved—how much damage the protest caused and whether the action against McDonald's was a legitimate (if illegal) form of protest. McDonald's France has responded to Bove's criticisms by changing its image, decor, and menu offerings. Jose Bove is a complex character; though his tactics are extreme at times, he has successfully raised awareness about issues that contemporary French society faces.

Committee: Chester Pach (Advisor) Subjects: History, Modern

MA, Kent State University, 2007, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Geography

There has been a growing interest among the academia and the private sector for the use of GIS techniques in the analysis and planning of retail store network. Over the past few decades the methodologies used for research of sighting of retail outlets have become more sophisticated as a result of applicable modeling procedures being developed with GIS. This study conducts a retail location analysis of the relationship between the fast-food store performance of McDonald's and Burger King and the various spatial and socio-economic factors of their respective catchment areas. Analytical procedures in GIS and statistical techniques have been applied to carry out the analysis in this study. Study areas have been partitioned into a set of Thiessen polygons and into various spatial configurations using variable buffer polygons to emulate various spatial configurations of catchment areas (i.e., trade areas) associated with each fast food store. The socio-economic profiles in the partitioned polygons have been analyzed with a series of regression models. The result of the study has brought out a better understanding of how location factors influence the performance of the stores as well as how the socio-economic attributes of the catchment areas affect the store revenues.

Committee: Jay Lee (Advisor) Subjects: