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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 |
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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 |
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Valdes, Michelle | A Critical discourse analysis of Narratives of Victims of intimate partner violence | This thesis is a critical discourse analysis that analyzes the narratives of victims of intimate partner violence as it relates to "power" and "police". The analysis demonstrates that victims of intimate partner violence have unique understandings of power due to the violence they face. As well as, ... | | 2021 |
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Valdes, Michelle | A critical discourse analysis of narratives of victims of intimate partner violence | | | 2021 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Jones, Tanner | An analysis of stress patterns in bolognese | Bolognese, the language native to Bologna, Italy, exhibits a stress pattern that is mostly predictable, and tends to be word-final. This pattern becomes more interesting when it interacts with other phonotactic and morphophonological constraints. The two most prominent influences that cause stress t... | | 2024 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Yeates, Milo | Counterfactual utilitarianism: a new metaphysical framework for consequentialist ethics | In the thesis I motivate, explain, and apply a new broadly consequentialist and utilitarian ethical framework: counterfactual utilitarianism. In contrast to other utilitarian frameworks which might calculate cumulative or average overall utility, counterfactual utilitarianism aims to reapply focus o... | | 2024 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |