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Eric Nhem | Comparing Educational Engagement and Extracurricular Activity Participation for First-Generation Versus Continuing-Generation College Students | First-generation college students (FGCS) typically have difficulty adjusting to college compared to continuing-generation college students (CGCS). Previous research has found that FGCS are less engaged in their higher education classes. However, engagement in college should also include participatio... | | 2018 |
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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 |
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Checketts, Cynthia | Why white mice? improving biological literacy through animal history | Throughout the undergraduate experience, biology students are introduced to hundreds of experiments, theories, and principles, many of which are rooted in animal experimentation. However, in required and information-heavy biology courses, the erasure of animals from the scientific story-which repres... | | 2021 |
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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 |
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Chan, Tiffany | Why gender matters: an empirical case study of the China-Pakistan free trade agreement | China is one of the world's largest economies that boasts expansive and ambitious economic policies and has numerous trading partners across the globe. A closer look through an economic lens shows gender inequity runs pervasive. Thus, in this paper, I ask, "How does the presence and/or absence of ge... | | 2023 |
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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 |
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Turner, Joselyn | Accurate communication : explaining a medical technology to a mass audience | The purpose of this thesis project is to describe the process I have taken, and that others could follow, to use the written communication tecliniques that I have learned during my undergraduate career to accurately inform a non-medically trained mass audience of a medical technology. Clear communic... | Medical technology; Communication and technology | 2013-05 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Auduong, Priscilla | Spinal muscular atrophy modeled in drosophila melanogaster | Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is the most commonly inherited cause of death in children (Park, Kariya, & Monani, 2010 for review). This disease is characterized by a loss of motor neurons which leads to muscle degeneration, paralysis, and eventual death by respiratory failure (Monani, 2005 for revie... | Spinal muscular atrophy - Research; Drosophila melanogaster - Researcher | 2012-05 |
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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 |
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Nilson, Jens C. | An examination of the bioethical and legal dilemmas surrounding genetic editing through narrative and story telling | Examining complex topics and issues through narrative and storytelling is a staple of the fiction genre. By presenting abstract problems and ethical dilemmas in a relatable context, and giving examples attached to real characters, the reader becomes emotionally and mentally invested in the issues fa... | | 2022 |
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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 |
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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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Coronado, Yvette Sonia Gonzalez | The pedagogy of sistahood : Living in this skin in the classroom | Historical and contemporary social dynamics have constructed a 'commonsense' of Latina youth as submissive characters to el macho (the male), in addition to portrayals as sexually promiscuous, destined for marriage and pregnancy, quiet, resistant learners, and as lacking in ambition. These deficit m... | Hispanic American teenage girls; Social conditions | 2009 |
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Williams, Sydney Porter | Education, art and Activism: Collecting the Stories of World-Changers | This thesis explores the idea of civically-engaged artwork that sparks conversation, specifically artwork created by young people, and often fostered by educators and community collaborators. For the purpose of this thesis, I define civically-engaged and activist art as art that is created with the ... | Activism; youth; art; civic-dialogue; community | 2020 |
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Norris, Aileen | Dance as Activism: Exploring Gun Violence Through Movement and Text | In my thesis, I explore the potential for dance to take on an activist role, serving to springboard conversations and personal understandings of social issues in ways that conventional activism does not access. Through creative and textual research, I created a 20-minute long dance work titled "Aler... | | 2019 |
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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 |
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Uchida, Kimberly Akimi | Post-translational regulation of the tumor suppressor PDCD4 | Expression of the tumor suppressor Programmed cell death 4 (PDCD4) is correlated with better survival outcomes in several types of cancer. When PDCD4 is coexpressed with protein arginine methyltransferase 5, however, this trend does not hold true, suggesting that PDCD4 methylation is involved in the... | Tumor suppressor proteins - Regulation | 2013-12 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Boren, Alex | Questioning my answers: Exploring Cloud Atlas in relation to my B.U.S. degree, "Philosophy for Life" | In my sophomore year, I wanted to choose courses that helped me question my answers. Choosing a traditional major felt too restrictive, so I created my own major through the Bachelor of University Studies program. Titled "Philosophy for Life," my major includes courses from 13 academic disciplines o... | Mitchell, David (David Stephen). Cloud Atlas; Philosophy | 2015-04 |
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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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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 |