http://hdl.handle.net/10125/587 Sun, 19 May 2013 23:02:35 GMT 2013-05-19T23:02:35Z http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20390 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-72).; iv, 72 leaves, bound ports. 29 cm Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20390 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Westfall, Mandy R. K http://hdl.handle.net/10125/12045 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-78).; vi, 78 leaves, bound ill. (some col.) 29 cm Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/12045 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Fonoti, Rochelle Tuitagavaʼa http://hdl.handle.net/10125/12044 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-169).; vii, 169 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/12044 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Ikenaga, Naoko http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7098 In the spring of 1986, I began the study of a new skill in computer-aided design and drafting (CADD). My intent was to fulfill one of my life long interests concerning the Pearl Harbor attack by producing scaled drawings depicting the damage inflicted on each of the five sunken American battleships at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperial Navy. My aim was the creation of highly detailed computer graphics that would precisely illustrate the enormous amount of damage inflicted on the five ships. xii, 103 leaves Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7098 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z De Virgilio, John F http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7075 There are at least three major moments of nihilism in American intellectual history. Against European tradition, Emerson had advanced a conception of culture that was radically interpretive, pluralistic and anti-foundationalist, and this eventually worked its way back into the United States through the social sciences (via Nietzsche and then Weber). Likewise, American pragmatist philosophy, conceiving science as serving plural values rooted in human needs, originated with Emerson. The various European conceptions of value had always conceived value as objective and transcendent, and this was reflected in the European ideas of culture; the chasm between subject and object was a feature of the Western intellectual tradition. This notion of transcendent value was discredited, it led in the European tradition to a crisis of nihilism. In contrast, the early American culture idea united (subjectivity) values and culture with objectivity (science and technique); this revolutionary conception conceived value as immanent and not transcendent, and some critics felt that this was a nihilistic betrayal of eternal truths and ideals. By the middle of the twentieth century, especially in the United States, the close union of subject and object characteristic of early twentieth-century American academic theory led to a new kind of nihilism, in the form of the technocratic subordination of values to technique and the negation of existential meaning by rationality in American thought and society. The early balance between an interacting subject and object was lost in positivist pragmatism and in the functionalist social sciences. Since the 1960s, the response to this crisis was ultimately counter-cultural protest, and consisted of undermining the legitimacy of the technocracy by attacking rationality in general. On the theoretical level, this was accomplished primarily by collapsing the distinction between subject (culture) and object (science). However, this libertarian rebellion drew its values of self-expression and self-fulfillment largely from consumerism, and in its quest for greater individual empowerment laid the groundwork for the information age by equating technology with personal creativity. This is an ambiguous victory over the technocracy. xxiii, 357 leaves Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7075 2002-12-01T00:00:00Z Kim, Kevin D http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7067 My intention to conduct research and write a thesis about Volunteers in Asia developed while taking the course HIST 639C, U.S. Diplomatic History, in the Department of History, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, during the Fall semester 2001 with professor Naoko Shibusawa. Among the books she assigned for that course, Michael Latham's Modernization as Ideology provoked me the most, particularly its two last chapters "Modernization for Peace: The Peace Corps, Community, and America's Mission" and "Modernization at War: Counterinsurgency and the Strategic Hamlet Program in Vietnam." In his book, Latham examines the U.S. government's application of development theory and modernization ideology to its implementation of non-military Cold War policies. Reading about the Peace Corps volunteers and their complicity to the anticommunist war in Viet Nam through community development and teaching assignments, I could not help but relate it to Volunteers in Asia (VIA), a Stanford-based, non-government, and non-sectarian organization with which I have had close relationships through my VIA teacher, Ms. Miranda Arana. I discovered that many of the Peace Corps' teaching materials and ideals were similar to what I learned from Ms. Arana. For example, my teacher provided us with critical readings about development policies in Southeast Asia, agricultural and industrial revolution, and materials that train independent, critical, and assertive thinking for personal growth and professional success, all of which have U.S.-based contents. On the one hand, this forced me to question whether or not my VIA teacher had intended to reshape Vietnamese students' thinking and transform Vietnamese society into an American model through her teaching as accomplished by the Peace Corps volunteers. On the other hand, my long-held belief in her progressive and conscientious character remains and challenges such an assumption. These concerns inspired me to examine VIA's objectives and accomplishments through its teaching and administrative principles. In writing this thesis, I hope to offer readers a better understanding of this "non-governmental and apolitical" organization, shed a more critical perspective toward "international volunteerism" and, more importantly, explain the policies of the United States toward Viet Nam during and after the Cold War. xi, 115 leaves Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7067 2002-12-01T00:00:00Z Do, Bich Ngoc