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Wachter, Kira | Career Immersion Prior to Graduation: an Analysis o the Efficacy of Student Marketing Agencies | Modern college graduates are faced with a hiring paradox: employers are more willing to hire workers with experience, but college graduates lack professional experience when they graduate. Many educational disciplines encourage experiential work as a solution to this problem. In the marketing indust... | | 2017 |
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Jochim, Jordan | Forging a truce, forcing an encounter: James Baldwin and the paradox of injury | In States of Injury, Wendy Brown argues that emancipatory projects premised upon the "injured identity" of oppressed groups work inadvertently to solidify hierarchical social structures and generates forms of resentment that are ultimately self-defeating. As such, she urges the abandonment of injure... | Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 - Criticism and interpretation; Political science - Philosophy; Power (Social science) | 2014-05 |
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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 |
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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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Mimi Locher | The body in modern architecture: Perceptions, philosophies and design consequences in the work of Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto | This thesis explores the place of the human body in architectural design during the modern period. A brief history of using the human body as design inspiration is given, which includes a discussion on our tendencies as humans to use anthropomorphism, cognitive patterns, and our body to understand t... | Architecture - Human factors | 2014-05 |
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Russell, Curtis | The Zion curtain: A documentary play | The Zion Curtain is a documentary play about the collision of ideology and civil rights, using the words of real people to trace the roots and show the effects of reactionary, homophobic doctrines in the Mormon Church. Every "um," "uh," and pause is performed as spoken in original interviews by the ... | Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Latter Day Saint churches; Mormon gays | 2014-04 |
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Guernsey, Michael | Mclr is not solely responsible for pigmentation variation among domestic pigeons | Feather pigmentation in the domesticated rock pigeon, Columba livia, is stunningly diverse. Plumage pigmentation in this, and other, columbid (pigeon and dove) species plays an important role in mate choice and thus is a driving factor in the process of sexual selection. To study the genetic basis o... | | 2012 |
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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 |
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Owen, Cameron J. | Infrared Multiple Photon Dissociation Spectroscopy and Guided Ion Beam Tandem Mass Spectrometry: Experimental and Theoretical investigations of Transition Metal and Lanthandie Cations | Employment of Free Electron Lasers (FELs) and a Guided Ion Beam Tandem Mass Spectrometer (GIBMS) has allowed for the spectroscopic and spectrometric investigations of a variety of ionic complexes, respectively. The data presented in Chapters 2 and 3 of this thesis were obtained using two FELs locate... | | 2019 |
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Enquist, Anneke | Discovery of platinum (II) and azulene derivative cocrystals with fluorinated cyanoaromatics | Pentacyano-trifluoromethyl benzene was synthesized using a novel technique. Before isolation, it was noted that plate like crystals had formed leading to study regarding the ability of acetic acid to co-crystallize with pentacyanotrifluoromethyl benzene. The crystal structure of acetic acid with pen... | | 2024 |
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Johnson, Kent | In search of a universal model for personal data | A comprehensive model of personal data provides citizens across the globe with protections to breaches of personal data and facilitates the sharing of valuable data. Personal data are valuable to those who create it and those who use it. Creating a universal model for personal data enables that valu... | Personal data protection; OpenID; Facebook Connect | 2012-05 |
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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 |
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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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Pozernick, Audrey | The house, the ghost, and the grave presentations of the racial hybrid and mixed raced phenomenologies in literature and in creative writing | | | 2024 |
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Endow, Danielle Miyako | Modern representation of female protagonists in media: An exploration of identity | Coming from the perspective of a woman living in Utah, I have explored what it means to be an ambitious, yet lost individual in today's media. Over the course of one year I wrote a full-length screenplay that follows the journey of a woman who loses her sense of self and must find her way back by te... | Screenplay writing | 2014-12 |
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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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Bertelsen, Brandon | Word of the wild | Many people value and experience what the natural world has to offer and many people do not. The opportunities that exist outdoors include recreation, education, development, and therapy. Everything I do, school, work, volunteer, and play, is to better provide outdoor experiences for people of all... | Outdoor life - Psychological aspects | 2014-12 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |