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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 |
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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 |
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Parker, Braden | The internet's informal influence on newspaper writing and presentation | For over two hundred years, newspapers served as America's primary text based news medium. That began to change in the 1990's with the advent of the internet. Today, newspapers compete with an expanding array of internet based news sources. This competition has caused some newspapers to fail and oth... | Newspapers - United States; Writing - Technique; Writing - Technological innovations | 2012-01 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Cash, M. Gabriela | The psychopath: legally, but not morally, responsible | Psychopaths present a peculiar problem for philosophers of legal and moral responsibility. They acknowledge the rules and conventions of society but are impervious to the moral foundations of these rules and conventions. This phenomenon may be attributed to the psychopaths' lack of empathy that lead... | Psychopaths - Ethics | 2012-05 |
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Prestgard-Duke, Robert | The significance of Chinese nuclear arms to American efforts toward the 1968 treaty of nonproliferation | In the midst of the heightened climate of fear and militarism of the Cold War, an event shocked America and the rest of the world-the Chinese successfully created and exploded a nuclear bomb based on highly enriched uranium on October 16, 1964, at their Lop Nurtest site in Inner Mongolia. The unvei... | Nuclear nonproliferation | |
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Manwill, Savannah | The sociolinguistics of Basque in the U.S. | This thesis examines the history of the Basques (both in Europe and the United States), the ethnolinguistic vitality of Basque in the U.S. (including the role of language and language revitalization efforts), and some linguistic features of Basque today. It makes use of various articles, studies, an... | Basque language - Social aspects - United States; Sociolinguistics - United States | 2013-05 |
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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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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 |
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Miller, Megan | Transforming spaces: Women's use of communication technology in the Middle East and North Africa | This paper deals with the use of communication technology by women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and how it relates to concepts of private and public space, i.e., gendered spatial segregation. Using available scholarship and data on female Internet usage in the MENA region as well as se... | Communication technology - Social aspects - Middle East; Communication technology - Social aspects - North Africa | 2012-06 |
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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 |
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Kopcrak, Gina | Unearthing Hamlet in Ulysses | Although Ulysses is a complex work, it is possible to discover aspects of it by close reading and analyzing specific aspects of particular episodes. I use a variety of critics of Ulysses to discover aspects of Shakespeare's play Hamlet in the Scylla and Charybdis episode, the ninth episode of Ulysse... | Hamlet (Legendary character) - Examination; Joyce, James, 1882 -1941. Ulysses - Examination; Shakespeare criticism | 2012-07 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Pecchia-Beekum, Annika | Who's got the pants?: breeching distinctions of power in restoration theatre and pre-hays code hollywood | In the 1660s, after the Restoration of Charles II to the throne, female performers acted on stage for the first time, leading to increasingly sexualized female characters and investigations into gender roles. "Breeches" roles, where women cross-dressed, became progressively more popular, with actres... | Cross-dressing - History; Cross-dressing in art; Gender & sexualities in minds & cultures | 2012-05 |
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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 |
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Fierro, Jasmine A. | Writing home: language as a vehicle for Latina/O identity formation | Latinas/os living in the United States experience a cultural split between their native culture and the American culture that blocks the creation of a whole Self. Each culture stakes a claim in their identity even if it tears them in opposing directions. In the United States, many Latinas/os assimil... | | 2013 |
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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 |