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1	Saarela, Elise	"Negative news" isn't always negative: Utah journalists reflect on news values and audience engagement in the digital age	The purpose of this thesis is to explain the general notion of negativity in the news and how journalists perceive both their professional and personal standards. Specifically, journalists from Utah were interviewed to determine the main ethical values they consciously think of during their practice...		2019
2	Stott, Trevor	"The wanderers" novel project	The title of the novel is "The Wanderers." My objective in writing this book was first and foremost to create something personally meaningful, which might connect with readers by touching on something in the cultural zeitgeist of young Millennials coming of age in an era of drastic change and global...	American fiction - 21st century	2015-04
3	Nagie, Doug	"We go where they go" a history of anti-racist action	Anti-Racist Action was a national network of local anti-racist activist groups that mobilized in North America from 1987 until 2013. It grew from conflict in the Minneapolis punk scene, when an anti-racist skinhead crew of friends called the Baldies organized to eject white-power skinheads from thei...		2019
4	Brown, Zackary	A man of genius makes no mistakes: Joycean textuality in contemporary writing	When James Joyce first published Ulysses in 1922, he was at the forefront of a literary movement that would forever change our conceptions of textuality. In crafting a text that contained intentional grammatical and syntactic errors, Joyce, I will argue, created a scenario in which a text's material...	Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses; Creation (LIterary, artistic, etc.)	2015-08
5	Curtis, Caleb A.	A Mycenecan enviorment: an analyasys of textual and archaelogical data from the aegean, c1400 BCE-2023 CE	The historical climate of the Aegean is a topic that has become a focus among scholars as of late. In the face of anthropogenic climate change, the urge to look back to the past to see the outcome that climate had on the environment and how past people reacted to those events is strong. Looking to t...		2023
6	Sonderegger, John Christian	A New Era: War, Crime, Terrorism and Propaganda in the Digital Age	The evolution of the Internet has changed global dynamics and international relations drastically, possibly more than any other single invention or creation. But the Internet is not just a singular action, object, or device, it is the connection of communications, relationships, ideologies, governme...		2018
7	Gutierrez-Prieto, Andrea	A Psychopy implementation of the artificial grammar learning paradigm: replication LAI (2015)	Phonology has long focused on not only occurrence of patterns, but also the absence of certain patterns. Various proposals have attempted to address this question by suggesting that this is due to biases that affect learnability. In addition to studying the presence and absence of phonological patte...		2023
8	Wall, Alyssa Victoria Mae	A tradition of appropriation of culture for political gain: Music in Korea	Although appropriation of music by political organizations and individuals is a practice in no way unique to Korea, analysis of the phenomenon on the peninsula provides valuable insight its strength in real-world political arenas. This project provides an analysis of the appropriation of music for ...	Music - Korea - History; Cultural property	2016-05
9	Saifee, Zahra	A value-based exploration of Zion National Park and assessment of future solutions	This thesis is a case study which explores the development of Zion National Park. Currently, National Parks as a whole, and Zion National Park in particular, face issues of environmental degradation, lack of racial diversity, and the erasure of indigenous history. However, the most challenging part ...		2022
10	Johnson, Bennett	A Wideneing Divide: An Examination of Constitutional Polarization in Supreme Court Nomination Hearings	At its core, this paper seeks to explore polarization and partisanship within Supreme Court nomination hearings. The role partisanship plays in contemporary nomination hearings has appeared to increase greatly, leaving many wondering if the Supreme Court has lost its sanctity as a neutral arbiter of...		2020
11	Pannier, Samantha T.	African Americans, women, and the 1910 Flexner report: progressive medical reform and professional exclusion	Between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century the American medical profession expanded greatly both in size and in attention paid to scientific knowledge. During this time African Americans, women, and even African American women gained access to medical education through the prolifera...	Medicine - Study and teaching - United States; Women in medicine - United States; African Americans in medicine - United States	2016-04
12	Stannius, Austin Gunter	America's Jihad: The constructivist prescriptions for military strategy within the Islamic world	Since 2001, the United States of America has lead a frustrating and often complex Global War on Terror. Efforts have shown small effect in nation building and difficulty in obtaining longitudinal results from counter insurgency efforts. Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, conduct...	Operation Iraqi Freedom - United States; Operation Enduring Freedom - United States; Iraq war, 2003-2011- Afghanistan	2014-05
13	Keate, Max (Makayla)	The American dream: how befief in meritocracy impacts the U.S. prison system	The United States continues to unquestionably violate the human rights of incarcerated individuals. Further, the nation does so with a general disregard to whether or not U.S. prison policies effectively prevent crime or in fact exacerbate it. This paper posits that widespread American belief in rad...		2023
14	Williams, Savannah	American Exceptionalism and its Roles in Foreign Intervention and Culture	American exceptionalism is a multi-faceted concept with not one simple definition. These facets are not mutually exclusive, but are in fact intertwined. One facet endorses the United States as an "exceptional" nation with an equally "exceptional" story - rising from a group of British colonies to no...		2014
15	Allen, Marina	The American revolution's impact on women's property rights: the changes in the legal property rights of women in the United States from 1765 to the present	This study details the shaping of women's property rights in the United States as it proceeds from the American Revolution. This specific event formed multiple political, social, and legal standards that are both visible and unseen in the postmodern United States. The associated literature for revie...	The American Revolution; women's property rights; paradigm; The United States	2023
16	Robinson, Tian	An initial examination of themes surrounding english writing education at an international branch campus	The research question this paper aims to answer is, how and to what effect do internationalizing American universities and IBCs help their L2 English-speaking students transition from high school writing to standard American college writing, and what challenges still remain? To answer this question,...		2020
17	Mann, Sara	Applying the theory of planned behavior to aggressive treatments at the end-of-life	Physicians and other health care experts are continuously studying the efficacy of treatments and their long-term effects. For instance, research has shown that aggressive end-of-life care could be potentially more harmful to the patient than previously known. Naturally, this has led to a wave of ...	Terminal care; Death	2016-04
18	Townsend, Colby J.	Appropriation and adaptation of J material in the Book of Mormon	This study explores the influence of the King James Bible (KJV) on the Book of Mormon (BM) by examining how the BM appropriates and adapts the text of the J source of the Pentateuch-a narrative strand from Genesis to Deuteronomy-and weaves phrases, ideas, motifs, and characters into the text. I iden...	Book of Mormon - Criticism, Textual	2016-05
19	Felton, Caroline	The Argumentation of Relious Policy Change in Restoration England	During the 15th and 16th centuries in England, there was significant political and religious turmoil. Following the English Civil Wars and a secular tyrant, the English people exuberantly welcomed King Charles II. Charles began his reign with enthusiasm for political reform and religious freedom. De...		2019
20	Oman, Candace	Art's "background of flame" and the Paterian temperament of art	This thesis examines how Walter Pater uses hot and cold imagery in his descriptions to further his understanding of art, arguing that it contains both beauty and commentary, whether social, political, etc. Beginning with Studies in the History of the Renaissance, Pater associates heat with the sensu...	English	2014-05
21	Enda, Michael	Bayesianism in a Social Context	In this paper I push for and defend the adoption of a Bayesianism belief structure. Bayesianism is a belief structure based on the probability axioms of Kolmogorov. Given this, Bayesianism inherits the mathematical formulations of its origin. In order to explain and motivate the adoption of Bayesian...		2019
22	Poma, Sasha	Being latina: the crossroads of identity in U.S.-Latino literature	This thesis focuses on issues of Latina identity in U.S.-Latino literature and my personal experience as a woman of Latin American descent. Specifically, the thesis uses Gloria Anzaldúa's groundbreaking work, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza to define and contextualize the Latina feminism i...		2022
23	Gaykowski, Logan Sara	Birth Control and Depression: Science VS. the Media	Previous research has shown that the media can have a large effect on how readers internalize news and information, as well as on their choices, opinions and behaviors. Research has also shown that the media often reports scientific findings inaccurately or not in their entire form, providing reader...		2017
24	Jackson, Rachel	Breastfeeding and the media: race representations in formula advertisements targeting new parents	Research has shown that mediated advertisements can play a role in a woman's decision about whether or not to breastfeed her baby. Percentages of breastfeeding among African American women have been shown in national data to be significantly lower than other races in the United States. There have be...	Communication	2014
25	Smith, Hayden	Brown v. Board: The racial meridian: Racial segregation in the U.S. public education system before and after Brown v. Board of Education 1954	The primary concentration of this project is an analysis of post-Brown v. Board segregation issues within the public education sphere. I focus primarily on the legal history of school desegregation in Texas as it is a Southern state with a long history of racial segregation. Furthermore, Texas effec...	Segregation in education - Texas	2014-04
26	Olschewski, Erin	C is for carrots, community gardens, and co-ops: A thematic analysis of the ways in which Sesame Street tackles nutrition, sustainability, and social justice	In the realm of entertainment education and media studies, there is a sizable amount of research linking children's nutrition and early educational television shows. However, there is a paucity of work that attempts to connect nutrition with sustainability and/or social justice in the context of chi...	Children's television programs -- Social aspects; Nutrition in mass media; Sesame Street (Television program); Social justice in mass media; Sustainability in mass media	2014-12
27	Nilsen, Grady Cole	The Celebrity Product Endorser in American Advertising: Five Components of a Successful Campaign	This thesis seeks to provide information and insight for any brand that is considering utilizing a celebrity advocate to sell its product or service. An analysis is presented within the framework of Professor Robert Cialdini's book, Influence: The Power of Persuasion. First, the history of the celeb...		2017
28	Weeks, Lily	Chattering humor and crooked habits: disability as metaphor in early modern English drama	This honors thesis project examines representations of disability in early modern English plays. I analyze two little-known plays of the period: Look About You (c. 1600) and The Fair Maid of the Exchange (1607), both anonymous works. Through the characters of Redcap and Cripple, these plays present ...		2023
29	Reyes, Abby Michelle	Chicana/o student journalism, Peldaños 1974-1977	My engagement with a local student news publication named Venceremos, which had first been published 1993 and was later revived after a five-year hiatus in 2008, provoked larger-scale critical inquiry on the history of alternative Chicano/a journalism in the state of Utah and the University of Utah ...	Martinez, Gilbert A -- Interviews; Student newspapers and periodicals -- Utah -- Salt Lake City; Mexican American newspapers -- Utah -- Salt Lake City; Mexican American college students -- Utah -- Salt Lake City; National Geographic peldaños	2015-04
30	Cockrell, Nicholas Allan	Civil Rights and the Cold War: How Racism Undermined United States Leadership on Human Rights	After World War II, the United States found itself in the difficult position of trying to be a human rights leader while also reckoning with its own record on race relations. Trying save its image, the United States entered a propaganda war with the Soviet Union. Throughout the 1950s and 60s, the Un...		2020
31	Konecny, Kassandra	Communicating walls	This thesis consists of 30 pages of poems and an essay introduction that details everything from my writing process to the meanings and/or collective themes of the poems themselves. With the combination of newly written poems and older poems I've written over the course of my college career, I have ...	American poetry - 21st century	2014-05
32	Meadows, Natalie	Communication is key: A critical analysis of Spanish language policies and ideologies in healthcare settings in the United States	Effective communication is a vital component in providing quality healthcare. Communication between patients and their healthcare providers has been shown to have substantial effects on health outcomes. According to the 2012 U.S Census 5% of the U.S population who identifies as Hispanic or Latino re...	Language policy - United States; Hispanic Americans - Medical care	2014-08
33	Troester, Landon	Communities and New Americans: the Process of Joining and Building Communities Among 1880-1920 Immigrants and World War II Refugees	During the late 19th and early 20th century, the United States faced substantial changes in the nature of European immigration to the country. Unlike previous phases of immigration, many of the European arrivals were from Southern and Eastern Europe, and as a result struggled to identify existing cu...		2019
34	Cook, Uinta Blue	Connecting Cultures, Connecting People: U.S. Public Diplomacy in Cuba	The theory of soft power, as described by Joseph Nye (1990), is evaluated, along with the theory behind public and cultural diplomacy as a means of engaging foreign publics in order to promote international rules in line with the practicing country's own goals and values. The tenets and implements o...	soft power; public diplomacy; cultural diplomacy; Cuba	2017
35	Wood, Weston G. W.	Consciousness is a Conversation Towards an Eco-Dialogical Theory of Communication	Within the expanding field of environmental communication we make what we assume are well-justified assumptions about communication, and then rely on those assumptions about communication to make sense of "the environment." In other words, environmental communication is often the study of how we tal...	Ecology; Dialogue; Voice; Bateson; Dolar; Abram; Systems; Deep Ecology; Psychoanalysis; Metalogue; Addiction; Patriarchy; Capitalism; Individualism	2017
36	Barth, Charles	Construction of space, time, and free will through sound in Paradise lost	John Milton's Paradise Lost makes frequent reference to sound and music in its descriptions of heaven, Earth, and hell, and substantial research has been dedicated to dissecting how the poem's descriptions develop a figurative and literal hierarchy between these realms and their inhabitants. Much co...		2021
37	Myler, Laurel	Conversations with Caligula	Conversations with Caligula is a play in two acts which combines research in the field of psychology with an exploration of Ancient Roman history. Topics include the life and exploits of Caligula, third emperor of Rome; the writings of Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus; mental health, specifically sympt...	Mental illness in literature	2016-04
38	Avondet, Callie	Curriculum as resistance: social studies at the Hampton institute in the late nineteenth century	As the Civil War concluded, freed people claimed their freedom to literacy. Schools teaching both basic literacy and offering higher education for Black people were quickly established throughout the South, supported by missionary associations, the Freedmen's Bureau, and Black communities. In 1868 t...		2022
39	Sammann, Suzy	Dandelions among the wheat: A novel	My Honors Creative Thesis is a manuscript of a novel I completed in Professor Gills Honors Novel Writing Workshop. Dandelions Among the Wheat is 74,782 words, 239 pages. It addresses the complex issues of alcoholism and abuse in families through humor and heartfelt truth, offering raw and relatable ...	American fiction -- 21st century	2015-04
40	Fife, Cody	Diary of a Pig: Considering Animal Perspective in Animal Liberation	In the early summer of 2017, an animal advocacy group risked arrest to enter Circle Four Farms in Milford, Utah and rescued two piglets named Lucy and Lizza from the facility. This group, called Direct Action Everywhere, was hoping to document and publicize forms of animal exploitation and abuse tha...		2019
41	Laws, Tyler	Differences in Voice-Onset Time (VOT) in Spanish Between First Language (LI), Second Language (L@), and Heritage Speakers	Heritage speakers are individuals who acquire their first language (L1) in a naturalistic setting, such as the home. Then, they experience a change in linguistic environments and acquire a second language in the new environment, such as school, usually before the onset of adolescence. It is "the sec...		2019
42	Palomino, Sara I.	Diglossia: The case of Quechua languages & Spanish	Individuals who grow up speaking an indigenous language in Peru, have historically struggled between maintaining their native mother tongue as a means of constructing their identity and connecting to their cultural heritage; versus, being pressured to linguistically shift to Spanish, as this languag...	Diglossia (Linguistics); Quechua language -- Social aspects -- Peru; Spanish language -- Social aspects -- Peru	2015-07
43	Koldewyn, Casey	Disabling Science Fiction	Representation of marginalized identities has broad implications for the lived realities of those identified and identifying as such. I argue that science fiction's representation of disability-both physical and mental-is of particular importance because of the genre's role in utopia-building, where...		2018
44	Markham, Airyana	Dressing the part: Early Christian identity North Africa, 100-200 CE	The study of early Christian identity in the second-third centuries is problematic. This is because there is a paucity of material evidence and assigning a religious affiliation to that evidence is highly contested. For this reason, early Christian identity is often viewed by scholars in a distinct,...	Clothing and dress -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Identification (Religion); Christian life -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600	2014-12
45	Liu, Julianne	Du bled a la banlieue et de Kif-Kif a Kiffe Kiffe: the creation of a new narrative	France has long been portrayed in a romanticized singular narrative as the country is routinely praised for high culture, enchanting art, and Republican values. However, beneath this gilded surface exists a complex past and present. Multifaceted exclusion forced immigrants into les banlieues, which ...		2021
46	Thorne, Samanta	Effects of Bribery and Terrorism to 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics' Profitability	The purpose of this paper is to analyze effects that bribery and the 9/11 terrorist attacks had on the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic games' profitability. More specifically in terms of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee's (SLOC) operating budget and how the two events affected committee actions to...		2019
47	Tang, Nicolas	El Argenchino: A personal memoir	This personal memoir follows the life of Nicolas Tang, a 25 year old student at the University of Utah. Though still very young, Nicolas has already traveled much of the world and speaks fluently in three languages. He was born in Argentina, raised in Bolivia, and is of Chinese heritage. Recently, h...	Tang, Nicolas Immigrants -- United States -- Biography Chinese Americans -- Biography South Americans -- United States	2014-12
48	Redmond, Nicholas K.	Elephants and empire: The Asian elephant, from Alexander to Akbar	This thesis studies the prominence of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) in the historical record. The purpose is to show the impact of elephas on human affairs, most notably in the formation and destruction of empires. Of these empires, two are of primary importance: the conquests of Alex...	Elephants -- War use -- History	2015-05
49	Lipman, Joshua	Environmental ethics in the Book of Mormon	Current LDS environmental theology, championed by George Handley, includes critiques of Mormon pioneer history, analyses of the Doctrine of Covenants (the LDS book of laws), and LDS influenced nature writing such as the work of Terry Tempest-Williams. However the lack of ecological thought dedicated...	Book of Mormon - Criticism, interpretation, etc	2014-12
50	Scholes, Connor G.	The Ethics of Uncertainty in Clinical Genetics Testing	Recent years have seen the explosive development of genetics and its subsequent use in medical practice. In the face of such rapid technological advancement that impacts the health of thousands each year and constitutes a multi-million-dollar industry, ethical analysis of the various shortcomings th...		2019
51	Goel, Divyam	Evidence-based medicine in times of crises: what we can learn from covid-19 to adapt early on in a pandemic	Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the current philosophical paradigm by which contemporary healthcare practices are guided. A related field, evidence-based public health (EBPH), similarly advises practices in the field of public health. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated weaknesses in th...		2022
52	Day, Bailey	Exploring the ethical event horizon: assessing an approach to responsible siting in black hole imaging			2024
53		Exploring the ethical event horizon: assessing an approach to responsible siting in black hole imaging	The field of astronomy has a history of approaching large-scale development projects with a limited gauge of the interests of stakeholders beyond the immediate scientific community. Traditional processes of decision-making have demonstrated little regard for the broader communities affected by major...		2024
54	Welsh, Timothy Britton	Family curds and ways: Divergent representations of U.S. families through cheese making	In this essay, I examine how contemporary cultural politics around family and gender are reflected in representations of food, specifically in two different styles of cheese: industrially produced and handcrafted, artisanal cheeses. The growing rift between handcrafted, artisan cheese and industrial...	Cheesemaking - Social aspects	2015-04
55	Kim, Jean	Female labor participation in South Korea: implications of policy and culture	South Korea, although being a highly developed nation, surprisingly exhibits a lower female labor participation rate when compared to other countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), such as the United States. The percent of Korean women in the workfor...	Policy - South Korea; Culture - South Korea; Female labor - South Korea	2015-04
56	Davis, Rachel	Fiction Seeps into Reality: Traumatic Media Texts in the Babadook and the Ring	In The Babadook (directed by Jennifer Kent, 2014) and The Ring (directed by Gore Verbinski, 2002), seemingly fictional media texts-the Mister Babadook book and a mysterious VHS tape-move from the realm of apparent fiction into characters' material and psychological realities. The shift into reality ...		2017
57	Jones, Olivia	Forgotten Histories: Interracial Communities in the Colonial United States	This thesis discusses the existence of mixed-race communities in the United States in colonial and antebellum times. With a primary focus on the New Jersey community of Gouldtown, it highlights the surprising number of these communities and traces their histories. It also discusses the things that t...		2019
58	James, Michelle	Framing History: An Analysis of News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Debates	This thesis analyzes news coverage from the 2016 presidential election, looking specifically at the coverage of the three presidential debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. I engage in content analysis of the news coverage and identify the frames that overarchingly characterized the medi...	Framing; Gender; Politics; Clinton; Trump	2019
59	Christensen, Daniel	The Franco-German Identity of Alsace-Lorraine: A Literary Analysis	This work analyzes the Franco-German identity in the Alsace and Lorraine regions of France. I begin by tracing the dual Franco-German history in the region from the time of the Carolingian Empire in the 9th century to the second World War, but putting an emphasis one time period between the Franco-P...		2017
60	Mothershead, Alaina	Gay Cuba: Oppression Under the Revolutionary Government	Following the otherwise socially progressive Cuban revolution, government-sponsored homophobia and anti-gay state-sponsored popular culture constructed a narrative to separate homosexuality from revolutionary modernity and instead associate it with U.S. decadence, therefore justifying the persecutio...		2019
61	Bischoff, Sarah	Genre Experimentation and Argumentative Efficacy in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans and Viet Thanh Nguyen's the Sympathizer	In Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Fiction, Betsy Huang posits that genre experimentation within Asian American literature rebels against the xenophobic histories of various crime genres. This thesis contests that view, reading genre experimentation as both a defying of genre histor...		2018
62	Jones, Adam	Give me a Viking Funeral: Fighting Ideology with Ideology in the Dystopia of V for Vendetta	A photograph of the Antarctic landscape is, for many, the only way through which they understand the continent's existence. Most have never travelled there and for them, photography and other representations of its geography are the only proof that it actually exists. This photograph then becomes th...		2015
63	Liu, Hans	Glimpses of Chinese and Indian Coolie Resistance in the British West Indies, C. 1834-1917	Many people are relatively unaware of the hundreds of thousands of indentured workers from China and India, known as coolies, that labored in the British West Indies during and after the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade between 1834 and 1918. While some scholars have acknowledged the presence o...		2019
64	Manwill, Emmylou	Grassroots yet global: the Idle No More indigenous movement in twenty-first century Canada	The focus of this thesis is the indigenous sovereignty and land rights movement, selfidentified as the "Idle No More movement" (INM), that began in opposition to federal Canadian policies in December 2012. While Canadian natives have organized in resistance before, the INM movement sticks out compar...	Idle No More (Movement); Protest movements - Canada; Indigenous peoples - Canada	2014-05
65	Pace, Eliza Jane	High School curriculum on social media and mental wellbeing: combating the negative effects through education and application	Over the past ten years, there has been a significant rise of depression and suicide rates in adolescents. These rates coincide almost exactly with the rise in smartphone use and the development of social media. Evidence of multiple studies over the last twenty years suggests that social media plays...		2021
66	Goodger, Sally	The Holocaust and Identity in Young Adult Fantasy: Jane Yolen's Briar Rose and Ryan Graudin's Wolf by Wolf	This thesis examines Briar Rose by Jane Yolen and Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin, two novels that broaden conversations about the Holocaust by using fantastic elements to examine Holocaust identity issues. "Fantasy" and "fantastic" are understood here in a broad sense, accounting for all fantastic sub...		2017
67	Steadham, Angela	Human trafficking in Utah, America and the world	To define human trafficking is to describe one of the most inhumane crimes in daily practice. It is modern day slavery. Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring, and receipt of persons by coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or force to exploit them. The ...	Human trafficking - United States	2014-07
68	Najarian, Anastasia S.	I Choose Life Project : Resolving the Disparity of Political and Human Rights Interventions a Strategic Communication Plan to Implement Treatment for Trauma and Suicide Prevention and Reduce Global Conflict VIA Digital Diplomacy	If one is faced with the daunting challenge of climbing Mount Everest or entering a battlefield, the best option is to follow the lead of someone who has done it before, rather than someone who has only read about it. Such is the case with current trends in addressing human rights interventions for ...		2018
69	Danielson, Hailey	If i should die before i wake	In my senior year at the University of Utah, I edited and improved upon the movel I wrote in the Honors Novel Writing Workshop course taught by Michael Gills. My novel If I Should Die Before I Wake is the story of a young woman named Emma meeting a young man named Cale by coincidence, and how they s...		2022
70	Farese, Ludovica	The impact of Global Health education in American Academic Medical Center (AAMCS)	Global health has become an increasingly popular field of study among college and graduate students in the United States. A growing body of literature purports the benefits of Global Health Education (GHEs) in American Academic Medical Centers (AAMCs), including introduction to a wider spectrum of d...		2018
71	Foote, Carol	The Impact of Past Drug Enforcement Legislation and Potential Success of a Three-Pronged Approach to the Opioid Epidemic	The opioid epidemic has gained widespread attention over the past decade as overdose and addiction rates soar across the country. Opioid abuse has been a problem for the United States dating back to the Civil War. With the pain revolution and aggressive marketing tactics by prescription drug manufac...		2018
72	Lloyd, Lauren	Implementing education on objectification theory and why it is more beneficial for women's issues than the body positivity movement			2022
73	Asplund, Brenna	In border country: The nature of magic and reality in Terry Pratchett's Discworld	Magic and reality in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series are difficult to place among well-known fantasy tropes and dichotomies. Defining either magic or reality in his invented world (either as opposed to each other or as different aspects of each other) is nearly impossible. Reality on the Disc is ...	Pratchett, Terry. Discworld series	2015-04
74	Warren, Bailey J.	In context of consumer education: the environmental, human health, and community based externalities of confinement operations in Brazil	Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (henceforth CAFOs) are a signature feature of modern food production and consumption. This thesis will explore the various types of environmental pollution and contamination that surround CAFOs and what this means for neighboring ecosystems, human health, and t...		2022
75	Colby, Natalie	In depth: a collection of short stories on Queer Adolescence	This thesis is a collection of fiction short stories written over the course of my undergrad degree, with some produced particularly for this project. In these stories, I explore themes that are of particular interest to me, including, queer adolescence and the intersections between queerness and re...		2023
76	Fine, Elizabeth	In His Own Hands: Autonomy in the Legend of Theophilus	Looking at stories that embodied medieval values, there are none that do it so well as the "Legend of Theophilus," the story of a man who, after making a contract with the Devil to regain his lost status in his community, prays to Mary to save him from his sins. After Theophilus's extended repentanc...		2019
77	Kobe-Rundio, Maya	In Our Element: Outdoor Recreation as a Tool for Female Empowerment and Community Building	This research investigates the meanings of outdoor recreation in the lives of college-aged female-identified and non-binary individuals. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 16 current students and recent graduates of the University of Utah generated rich narratives on the themes of challeng...		2019
78	Cohen, Susan	In search of visual privacy in a technological world	Americans value a "right to privacy" even though that right is not spelled out in the Constitution, and only loosely defined in a patchwork of federal and state laws. Much of our understanding of privacy is rooted in the Fourth Amendment, but when the First Congress wrote the Fourth Amendment, no on...	Privacy, Right of - United States; Electronic surveillance - United States	2014-05
79	Weller, Kristine C.	Incarceration, art, and agency: newspaper portrayals as an outlet for creative expression inside Japanese American relocation camps	The purpose of this thesis is to explore the role of art in publications created by interned Japanese Americans during World War II. Newspapers and magazines published inside internment camps were examined to see how they depicted art as a response to various needs and loss, in what ways camp public...		2023
80	Helm, Audrey	The individuality of women characters in Shakespearean drama: a study of much ADO about nothing and Macbeth	The individuality of Shakespeare's female characters is often underestimated. Many modern Shakespeare readers view his plays through a contemporary lens, which prevents a complex understanding of the way Shakespeare portrays highly individualized female characters, who operate in complex, male-led s...		2023
81	Kay, Sydnee	Influence of cultural fear of terrorism on imprisonment in Egypt	Terrorism has had an expansive impact on Egyptian culture and politics in the last century. With terror activity being somewhat regular in current president Sisi's Egypt, the general fear of terrorism has allowed President Sisi to imprison political dissidents, journalists, and others that could sup...		2022
82	Castaneda, Carol N.	Integrating Social Justice Lessons in a Spanish High School Classroom to Increase Motivation in Learning Spanish as a Second/World Language	Universities across the nation recommend, if not require, students to take two, or more, consecutive years of a world language (Grove, 2017). In high school setting, required languages toward graduation may be burdensome for students who would prefer to take other courses. For this project, I was in...		2017
83	Heman, Claire	Intersections	This creative thesis explores the intersections of identity, gender, and sexuality, relevant topics in our times of binary gender roles and pervasive heteronormative social structures. This thesis is divided into two parts: 1) an introductory essay to place the creative work in an existing conversat...	Gender identity in literature; Sexual orientation in literature	2015-08
84	Rush, Jacob	Is it not just for me to do what i will with mine own? Redressing the egalitarian's pareto dilemma	In this paper, I consider one justification for people's sincere, daily choices - G.A. Cohen's ethos of justice - that seeks to (a) discourage people from demanding incentives for choosing highly productive lines of work and (b) motivate them to do choose the most socially useful occupation. Cohen f...	Pareto dilemma	2014-05
85	MacDonald, Cara	Israel VS Palestine: A Game of Media	Bias in newspaper reporting about conflicts and what happens within them has an impact on how that conflict plays out due to global perceptions. This paper will analyze three news sources: Al Jazeera, The Jerusalem Post, and The Palestine Chronicle. It will assess biased reporting in their coverage ...		2018
86	Ehmann, Kylee	Jane Austen's realism revisited: Pride & Prejudice, Emma and Sanditon in the digital age	There are hundreds of film, television and book adaptations of Jane Austen's novels in the world, all different retellings and interpretations of the original source texts. And while these adaptations' quality is typically judged based on its fidelity to the original novels, this value judgement on...	Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 - Criticism and interpretation	2014-12
87	Norris, Garrett	Kanji education for non-Chinese character background language learners: bone oracle script and Shirakawa kanji science	The logographic writing system used in Japanese and Chinese, known as kanji or hanzi /H ^ respectively, is a source of both fascination and frustration for students faced with learning the thousands of characters necessary for literacy in either of these Asian languages. This is often compounded by ...	Kanji - education	2014-05
88	Robbins, Colt	Legality of sex work as a national project in post-colonial egypt	This thesis will analyze the gendering of nationalism in post-colonial Egypt. The thesis will begin by explaining how the military occupation of Egypt led to the development of laws that governed women's sexuality and specifically sex work. It will then analyze how 20th-century Egyptian intellectual...		2022
89	Giannopoulos, Diona	Let be: A novel	Diona Giannopoulos' novel Let Be is the story of 26-year-old Zoe, who after abandoning her family nearly seven years prior, returns home to discover her childhood house the exact same, her sisters barely changed, and her previously alcoholic father showing the beginning signs of Alzheimer's Disease....	American fiction -- 21st century	2015-04
90	Evans, Megan	Linguistic Autonomy and Political Sovereignty: the Case of Catalonia	The significance of language on human life is undeniable: it not only allows for communication, but also contributes to the construction of a cultural identity. Groups that have experienced cultural oppression, such as the Catalans, tend to establish even stronger connections to their language, usin...		2020
91	Nakashima, Elizabeth	Linguistic Reclamation in the LGBTQ+ Community	This thesis analyzes and determines whether or not the pejorative fag or faggot is in the process of being reclaimed by the LGBTQ+ speech community. Previous research on linguistic reclamation has not provided an adequate model for determining whether or not a pejorative is within the process of bei...		2017
92	Payne, Christopher	Looping as a Foundational Mechanic of Video Games	The past five decades have witnessed the dramatic birth and growth of the video game medium into an essential facet of popular culture. Since then, innumerable games have been created across every conceivable genre and technological platform, each relying on some unique blend of mechanics, dynamics,...		2020
93	Hammons, Liam	The lovecraftian chronotope: a formalist analysis of "At the Mountains of madness"	H. P. Lovecraft's fiction has long fascinated critics for the portrayals of cosmic terrors and indescribable monsters. The fiction, however, betrays a common structure and conceit that manifests Lovecraft's ideological and philosophical objectives. This essay applies Mikhail Bakhtin's chronotope the...		2021
94	Cattani, Shelby I.	Making accomodations for millennial metal health in the workplace	1.Executive Summary Employee wellness is important to address in a business for a variety of reasons. Even before the pandemic, anxiety and depression were estimated to cost the economy around 1 trillion dollars in lost productivity according to the World Health Organization (2021). There is an inte...		2021
95	Tvrdik, Barbora	Male-Female Dynamics and Women's Power in Marriage: An Analysis of Mariama BA's Une Si Longue Lettre	The novel Une si longue lettre [So Long a Letter] (1979) by Senegalese author Mariama Bâ (1929-81) takes the form of a long, fictional letter of a newly-widowed woman named Ramatoulaye to her childhood friend Aïssatou. While writing this letter, she reflects upon her 25-year-long marriage and conf...		2020
96	Heiner, Catherine	Man up: Sexual Violence, Masculinity, and Rhetoric	In discussion of sexual violence, very specific rhetoric is used. Discussions on the topic include questions of "what was she wearing? How much did she drink? Don't you think she was asking for it?" This language creates a situation where this action is perceived as an abnormal act of violence, rath...		2017
97	Wagstaff, Katya	Marketing the Arts: Social Media Marketing and University of Utah College of Fine Arts	This paper evaluates the effectiveness of social media marketing efforts for university performing arts events. This was accomplished by working with the marketing and communication team in the University of Utah 's College of Fine Arts to analyze the success of their social media marketing efforts ...		2019
98	McSweeney, Catherine Lindsay	Media representations: The health and beauty of the female body	This thesis examines the media representations of women in advertising through textual analysis. Discussed are the possible influences advertising and media have on obesity and health through the perceived pressures placed on women to maintain a body type and figure similar to the women in advertisi...	Women in advertising	2015-05
99	Hermansen, Hillary	Mediating silence: translation in Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star	In Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, a male narrator, Rodrigo, mediates a feminine and impoverished subject, Macabéa, for a middle class audience. Likewise, two male translators, Giovanni Pontiero and Benjamin Moser, mediate the original Brazilian work for their English-speaking audience. I...	Lispector, Clarice. Hora de estrela. English	2016-04
100	Paseman, Anna Marie	Migration and Financial Innovation: Analyzing the Cost of Remittances Across Time and Space	Remittances are a substantial source of external financing and a tool for economic development. However, the efficacy of remittance flows is hindered by high remittance transaction costs. Acknowledging the high cost of remittance transactions, this thesis employs a quantitative analysis to examine t...		2019
101	Beasley, Addison	Moving past the human/nature binary: catalyzing collective action to combat the climate crisis	Climate change is one of the prime social issues of the modern era. I argue that in order to achieve the necessary collective action to reduce the harmful effects of the climate crisis, society needs to move past the human/nature binary. This binary obfuscates the reality that humans have a place wi...		2022
102	Hanks, Kelley	The multinational company of Jesus: A modern corporation in the early modern world?	There is significant debate concerning whether or not the Company of Jesus should be considered a modern corporation. There are those who support this view, such as Magnus Morner and C.R. Boxer, while others, such as Dauril Alden, are critical of it. Much of the debate is centered on the economic ac...	Jesuits -- History	2015-04
103	Jessen, Jenica	Musical Evidence for Syllabification of Highly Moraic Structures in English	This study uses musical data as evidence for syllabication patterns for native English speakers. Our research seeks evidence from musical pitches in songs by American singer-songwriters that syllables with a diphthong and a liquid in their rime undergo bi-syllabification at a rate contrastive to oth...		2017
104	Hannon, Jackson	National strategy and military doctrine in Afghanistan and Iraq and the creation of the office of foreign affairs and reconstruction	The 9/11 terror attacks in New York by al Qaeda have largely been considered a landmark moment in American hist ory, and in the path of the Bush presidency. While the Bush administration had something of a general foreign policy and guiding strategy, the attacks on 9/11 were a seminal moment for the...	United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century; United States -- Military policy; United States -- Military relations -- Afghanistan; United States -- Military relations -- Iraq; United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan; United States -- Foreign relations -- Iraq	2015-08
105	Jecmen, Devon	Nature, depression, and the vagus nerve	The positive effects of natural environments on mental health have been observed and studied for decades. Specifically, psychology research from across the world has provided evidence that being immersed in nature has positive effects for those suffering from depression, although there is uncertaint...		2022
106	Thomas, Alyssa	The new age of after-school programs	Through the course of the COVD-19 pandemic, it became apparent that the education system is increasingly reliant on technology. As a result of the transition to online learning, there is a burgeoning demand for research concerning online education and extra-curricular programs, such as supplemental ...		2021
107	Mortenson, Alexandra	No Longer a Guest: Christianity's Role in Hwang Sok-Yong's Metaphorical Exorcism	The title of Hwang Sŏk-Yŏng's historical fiction The Guest refers in part to two foreign ideologies that were introduced to Korea in the modern era-Christianity and Communism. The Guest explores the suffering caused by the arrival of these two foreign ideologies. The purpose of this thesis is to a...		2016
108	Breiholz, Camille	Not there yet: The effect of persistent grief on an immigrant's ability to assimilate	Grief is a component of immigration present no matter the time period or mode of migration. In the Distance by Hernan Diaz tells the story of a young Swedish immigrant to America during the 1800s gold rush as he traverses the country in search of his brother while Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck r...		2023
109	Allan, Hallie	Noun Incorporation in Crow: an Assessment of Various Approaches	Polysynthesis is generally understood to be some form of morphological complexity in the verb, encoding information about the predicate and its related arguments. One feature associated with polysynthesis is noun incorporation, where noun and nominal structures are brought into the verbal structure....		2020
110	Silianoff, Caitlin	Objectified: Bodily Fragmentation in the Metaphysical Conceit	This Honors thesis investigates bodily fragmentation and metaphoric direction in seventeenth-century poetry. I focus in particular on John Donne and Richard Crashaw, two contemporaneous metaphysical poets who are often regarded as critical opposites. Close analysis of their use of bodily imagery wit...		2020
111	Hanswille, Isa	Origins of a monotheistic worldview among the ancient Israelites	The early Israelites, like all of their closest Ancient Near Eastern neighbors, began their journey as a people with the worship of a pantheon full of gods. However, as the books of the Hebrew Bible progress chronologically, a shift in thinking occurs toward an alternate worldview. Proscriptions aga...	Monotheism -- History; Judaism -- History -- To 70 A.D; Jews -- History -- To 70 A.D	2015-04
112	Cho, Yeajoon (Joon)	The Patriot: A Creative Exploration of Critical Race Theory in Film and Media	Bigotry pervades our daily lives and the idea of a patriot has drastically changed. Since the beginning of our recent political turbulence, jingoism has become prevalent, while sexism and racism follow a growing trend of prejudice. Delineating said jingoism through research and media is a powerful m...		2019
113	Soto, Giulia	Peruvian immigrant paradox: Exploring differences in learning cultures and math curriculum	Math instruction for immigrant students often begins with the assumption that this student population lacks math knowledge and the skills necessary for academic success in the United States. Immigrant students in the U.S. are often placed in lower level math classes due to the misconception that it ...	Immigrants - United States; Mathematics - Study and teaching - Social aspects	2016-03
114	Siddiqui, Rija	Pilot Testing a Rapport Building Checklist with Law Enforcement and immigrant Communities	This study engages with local law enforcement authorities (LEAs) and immigrant service providers (SPs) in order to construct a list of recommended practices which can be implemented to enhance rapport between LEAs and immigrants. Producing an efficient list of practices requires the assessment of cu...		2019
115	Eldredge, Natasha	Policies and Procedures in the communication and collaboration of IEP team members for autstic children	Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurological disorder, affecting the functions of the brain that can significantly impair an individual's ability to develop the necessary skills to live a full and independent life as an economically contributing member of society. Studies from the Cente...		2017
116	Morgenstern, Camille	Powerful Paradigms: Theoretical Frameworks Activated in National Discourse on Mining Policy and Political History in Peru and costa Rica	This comparative analysis between Costa Rica and Peru serves as an examination of the paradigms guiding national policy and discourse, with the potential outcome of being able to provide a clearer conceptualization of national and international relations that would be useful in other situations and ...		2019
117	Mcbride, Ryan	Presidential prediction models using down ballot election results	Research has demonstrated that polling in American elections has accurately predicted election results within a reasonable margin of error. However, due to the nature of the electoral college system, small deviations from polling averages in important states can result in large, surprising underdog ...	ballot measure; elections; predictive models; polling; American politics	2023
118	Kelsey, Khrystine Danielle	Prostitution and the construction of female identity	In the modern and postmodern worlds, most people see sex work as something on the fringes of society, yet prostitution and its history reflect mainstream modern women's sexuality and sexual life in myriad ways. This paper will examine how sex work exemplifies constructs of female identity. Writings ...	Prostitution Women -- Identity	2015-04
119	Nash, Alexander	The Proto-Indo-European urheimat: The Armenian hypothesis	This thesis analyzes the viability of the Armenian Hypothesis, which places the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Armenian Highland (Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1990, Kavoukjian 1987). Arguments supporting the hypothesis are evaluated in the light of linguistic, archeological, and genetic evidence. Afte...	Proto-Indo-European langauge; Armenian Highlands	2015-12
120	Reiser, Alexander	Providing healthcare for the uninsured: How the media frames conflicting ideologies in achieving the same goal	Current coverage of the Affordable Care Act (AC A) is just one opportunity to analyze the use of media in framing health care policy. An examination of the history of media and their influence surrounding the implementation of the AC A in 2013 and a veto for additional funding of the State Children'...	Medical policy - United States; Medically uninsured persons - United States; Healthcare in mass media	2014-08
121	Parkinson, Angela Lei	Proving woman: From Heloise to Heloisian an examination of the authenticity debate surrounding the letters of Heloise of the Paraclete	This thesis examines and resists the tendency for a total subsumption of the identity of Heloise of the Paraclete, the 12th century abbess perhaps best known today for her tempestuous affair with Peter Abelard, within and under his identity. The authenticity debate surrounding the three letters addr...	Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 -- Criticism and interpretation	2014-11
122	DeGrauw, Alexandria R.	Public understanding, opinions about hot topics in Science	Because of a recent decrease in people who believe science is beneficial to society, organizations like the Association for the Advancement of Science have sought to improve communication between scientists and the public in order to increase the public's opinion of science (Pew Foundation, 2015). H...		2018
123	Tran, Kathy Thanh	Reproductive rights of incarcerated women: Disrupting the system in the women's jail	The history of the reproductive rights of incarcerated women and the current trends of mass incarceration demonstrate the prevalence of the hegemonic system that still expects women to embrace a maternal and feminine role. Historically, the United States has incarcerated women because they break awa...	Women prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States; Reproductive rights	2015-05
124	Fishburn, Laura	Restoration, Repentance, and Reformation: the Sermon's Higher Purpose in the Legend of Theophilus	"Restoration, Repentance, and Reformation: The Sermon's Higher Purpose in the Legend of Theophilus" seeks to analyze the function of a bishop's sermon at the end of the medieval myth of a man named Theophilus, who lives in France. Theophilus, a good man, commits a grave error and makes a deal with t...		2018
125	Blackley, Taylor	The Rhetoric of Donald Trump: Continuing an American Discourse of White supremacy	This thesis is about function of racist discourse and ideology, and its effects on bodies, past to present. In particular, it undertakes a critical interrogation of the rhetoric of President Donald J. Trump, which has exacerbated racial tensions and further authorized White supremacist ideology. It ...		2020
126	Lloyd, Cailey N.	The Role of Written Input in the Acquisition of a German-Like Pattern of Final Devoicing by Native English Speakers: Evidence from a Listening Task	In German, underlyingly voiced obstruents are devoiced in final position (e.g., the word ‘wheel' /ʁad/ is pronounced [ʁat]). Adult, native English-speaking learners of German are known to experience difficulty acquiring phonological processes such as German final devoicing. It has been hypothes...		2020
127	Bauer, Malea	Silence is violence: a nationakl legislative proposal for the criminalization of the enabler to institutional abuse	For centuries, institutions have exploited their power to abuse the vulnerable and avoid culpability. In many cases, the abuse would not have been possible if not for the institutional underpinnings which protect the perpetrators. These people, who initiate cover ups or turn a blind eye, ought to be...		2023
128	Morgan, Kate	Social media as the modern diary: authenticity and prevalence of personal record keeping	Social media is one of the newest forms of publishing, catering mainly to an individual and their thoughts to an audience ranging from anyone who uses a particular platform, to a curated list of those they have allowed to follow them. It has become a part of daily life for many, allowing anyone to p...	Social Media; Personal Records; Journaling; Authenticity	2023
129	Loveland, Jessica	Sociolinguistic differences between Japanese and English as seen through English translations of Manga	Manga (Japanese graphic novels) is a growing market in the United States and allows readers from foreign countries access to literature in a way that is enjoyable and easily accessible. However, translating manga from Japanese to English provides an interesting challenge as the Japanese language enc...	Comic books, strips, etc -- Japan; Japanese language -- Social aspects; English language -- Social aspects	2016-05
130	Whalen, Zachary	Statesmen in the arena: The policy and politics of the ancient games	The intent of this work is to illuminate the many ways in which policy and politics influenced the games of Ancient Greece and Rome, and to demonstrate their importance in understanding the persistence of the games beyond their religiously driven origins. Utilizing numerous ancient sources, this th...	Olympic games (Ancient); Athletics - Greece - History; Athletics - Rome - History	2016-04
131	Vlasic, Kajsa	Storytelling and the patient experience: Narratives of breast cancer survivors	Through my young life, I have been fortunate enough to be surrounded and supported by a loving and extended family of mothers. Although I will only have one biological mom, I have collected other women as role models and confidantes who have guided and spoken words of encouragement through my most i...	Breast cancer patients' writings	2014-12
132	Hawe, Samantha	Strained alliance: American ideal and Saudi expertise in fostering Islamic extremism	During the Cold War, the United States and Saudi Arabia worked together to bolster the efforts of Islamic fundamentalist groups who were battling the Soviet Union. The training, funding, and connections given to some groups in that era led to many of the conflicts in the Middle East today, such as...	Islamic fundamentalism; Radicalism	2016-05
133	Lami, Morgan	Subverting the Stereotype: Sherman Alexie's an Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian as a crucial Intervention in Today;s Language Arts Classrooms	Sherman Alexie is known as the contemporary voice for the modern American Indian because of his deep and wide popularity amongst many different ethnic and racial groups. His novels and short stories have become very popular in classrooms and libraries across the nation. By being the voice of a whole...		2016
134	Prince, Stephen Tanner	Super Mario Maker and Dashiegames a Youtube, Folk Palimpsest	Folklore is traditional, informal, unofficial culture. And right now, on the internet, it's changing everything you know about entertainment. In this thesis, I look at the gaming tradition, past and present, and at the major game developer Nintendo. I present Nintendo's fascinating history, and an a...		2019
135	Sanchez, Eliana C.	Surgery or mutilation?: How autonomy can strengthen the anti-FGM movement	The World Health Organization (WHO) defines female genital mutilation as any alteration to the female external genitalia or genital organs for nonmedical reasons. This definition is both over- and under-inclusive. Western cosmetic surgeries, such as vaginal rejuvenation, are technically included in ...	Female genital mutilation	2014-05
136	Schwendiman, Lindsai Gren	Surrogacy and sisterhood: How female alliances challenge patriarchal society in Shakespeare	In Shakespeare's plays, women sometimes form alliances to protect each other from the oppressive patriarchal expectations of their time. These relationships often manifest as surrogate mother-daughter relationships, or a more sisterly connection. In Hamlet, Queen Gertrude adopts Ophelia as a surroga...	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women; Women in literature; Patriarchy in literature	2014-12
137	Harrell, Haylee	To whom it may concern: a one act	What am I? My child you are caramel. You are white sugar, you are brown sugar, you are milk and butter and vanilla all heated into one. Sweet on the lips but strong and sticky-you are a treat, you are a gift, my child you are a decadence. But they call me mulatto…Mama don't like that word, best no...	American drama - 21st century	2014-05
138	Anderson, Lucius	The transhuman and posthuman in contemporary horror film: a case study for David Cronenberg's crimes of the future	As the uncertain future of humanity's relationship to technology causes widespread apprehension, themes related to transhuman and posthuman theory have begun to appear in the horror genre. By synthesizing posthuman and transhuman philosophy with horror criticism, this project aims to ascertain these...		2024
139	Vermillion, Alex N.	Transitioning Outside of the Binary	Labels were created to create distinctions between words in order to classify and better understand our surrounding world. Gendered labels (i.e. man, woman, trans, queer, non-binary, etc.) serve the same purpose of classifying while also aiding the overall function of systematic privileges in our so...		2016
140	Townsend, Colby	The use of scripture in 1 Enoch 1-36	This study analyzes the use of prior authoritative literature in the Book of Watchers (BW), an ancient Jewish text written ca. 200 BCE. The authors of this text were intimately familiar with several texts that would later become part of the Hebrew Bible, and they interacted with and altered the na...	Book of watchers - Criticsm	2016-05
141	Hull, Sofi	Using network analysis to visualize the role of emotion in murder mystery novels	Heightened emotion is a key element at the root of the crimes in most mystery novels. Despite this, not much literature exists examining the part emotion plays in the structure of classic detective fiction. Network analysis provides a new avenue for exploring the role of emotion between characters i...		2021
142	Hoff, Cassidy	The Utes Nickname: Mascots, Symbols, and Nickname a Critical Discourse Analysis	The University of Utah maintains a unique relationship with the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in northeast Utah. The University has permission from the Ute Indian Tribe to use the "Utes" nickname for athletic purposes. Yet, existing outside of the nickname's sphere, and withou...		2017
143	Roberts, Ashley	The View From Our Mother's House	The View from Our Mother's House is a novel about a family of three women struggling to understand and accept their past, full of abandonment and manipulation, while dealing with the immediate needs of the mother dying from Alzheimer's disease. This project combines research in the field of literatu...		2019
144	Hansen, James Christian	Visionary Minds, Visionary Worlds: Analyzing Three Video Games from Fumito Ueda, Hidetaka Miyazaki, and Jenova Chen	The objective of this thesis is to analyze Fumito Ueda's Shadow of the Colossus, Hidetaka Miyazaki's Dark Souls, and Jenova Chen's Journey in order to see how together they represent the storytelling potential of video games. Each embody in their work the notion that games as a medium can convey and...		2018
145	Olson, Eve	Voice Onset Time in Arabic and English Stop Consonants	In this project, I investigate the voice onset time (VOT) of stop consonants as produced by Arabic speakers in comparison to English speakers. In English, there exists a phonological contrast between voiced and voiceless pronunciations of bilabial, alveolar, and velar stop consonants. These pairs ar...		2017
146	Barber, Shaelyn	Volunteer Tourism in Cambodia: Persuasive Strategies of Recruitment and Postcolonial Impacts	An emergent area within tourism is volunteer tourism, in which people journey to developing countries and perform service as part of their trip. These volunteers are typically young, well-educated Westerners. International volunteering is an increasingly popular option for tourists traveling abroad,...		2019
147	Oman, Candace	Who you gonna call?: Domestic responses to the threat of nuclear terrorism	The World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001 demonstrated the threat of terrorism in the twenty-first century-and made the prevention of nuclear terrorism all the more pressing. Despite the newfound attention to nuclear terrorism, the possibility of nuclear attacks, and, later, nuclear terro...	History	2014-05
148	Edson, Shauna	Writing center programming inside out	Writing Center programs serving refugee, sexual minority and other underserved populations are expanding but there is little evidence to support their effectiveness. The purpose of this research is to examine the effectiveness of writing center programs and determine the populations utilizing writin...	Writing centers - United States - Research - Methodology	2014-08
149	Draper, Mark Helzen	Writing off nature: how literacy changes our relationship with the natural	This thesis will examine how writing has changed our relationship with the natural world. Using a phenomenological methodology in combination with media theory, I will examine the costs and benefits of the revolutionary invention of alphabetic writing on that relationship to our lived-experience of ...		2022

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