Browsing Student Theses and Honors Collection by Title
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Fighting the Good Fight: Challenge Scenes in Ovidian Poetry
(2011-02-16)Through his presentation and interpretation of contest scenes in the Fasti, Metamorphoses, and Tristia, Ovid offers a non-Augustan reading. His intentions through his poetry were neither to praise the Emperor or bring ... -
Flattened Architecture
(2011-02-16)This project discusses my exploration into depth and space using three-dimensional elements within a two-dimensional surface. Individually drawing different elements from sculptures I have previously created and then ... -
Flesh and Mud: Bodily Deconstruction through Handmade Paper
(2020-05-11)My art practice primarily utilizes handmade paper to create works that are both alluring and repulsive in the ways they represent the human body. As a transmasculine nonbinary artist, I am challenging representation that ... -
For the Love of Carrots and Community: Examining The Food Project's Youth Engagement in the Context of Dominant Discourses About Food and Health
(2016-08-22)Salad is good, and French fries are bad. People who eat salad are healthy, and those who eat French fries are not. These are some of the assumptions and dichotomies produced by dominant discourses around food and health ... -
Foreign Policymaking and Perspective
(2011-02-16)"Neoconservatives" have consistently mistrusted the traditional intelligence bureaucracy in America. This fact and the tendency of neoconservative policymakers to politicize (skew for political purposes) intelligence ... -
The Formation of Religious Identity and Practice among American Muslim College Students
(2011-05-13)The Muslim identity in Western media and politics is often represented in opposition to the secular and rational West. Utilizing ethnographic work and interviews among local American Muslim college students and Dorinne ... -
A Four-Strain Model of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the United States
(2016-06-02)Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of global epidemiological concern. It is estimated that one-third of the world’s population (including 11 million people in the US) are currently infected with TB. Insufficient or irresponsible ... -
Fragments
(2011-02-16)A poetry thesis invoking Elizabeth Bishop, questions of modern-day travel, and ekphrastic works. -
Fragments of Revolution: The Jewish Labor Bund and the Making of American Jewish Political Identity
(2020-06-01)How are political identities formed? This thesis takes a historical-institutionalist, process-based view of the phenomenon of political identity formation in the United States, specifically focusing on the mixed impacts ... -
Framing the Issue of Orphans and Vulnerable Children
(2011-02-16)The Framework, published in 2004, presents a series of recommendations designed to strengthen the international response to orphaned and vulnerable children through a range of organizations, institutions and governments. ... -
Fräulein Doktor Marie Munk – erste Richterin Deutschlands: Eine Fallstudie über das jüdische Bewusstsein und die Pionierarbeit einer Frau am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts
(2012-06-29)Fräulein Doktor Marie Munk – erste Richterin Deutschlands: Eine Fallstudie über das jüdische Bewusstsein und die Pionierarbeit einer Frau am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. “Doctor Marie Munk – the First Female Judge in ... -
"Frightful Persecutions" or "Persians Who Protect Us?": Re-examining the Jewish Experience Under Sasanian Rule
(2012-05-23)Under the rule of the Sasanian dynasty (224-651 CE), the last of the Persian empires before the rise of Islam, Jewish scholarship flourished, resulting in the creation of the Babylonian Talmud, which remains one of the ... -
From Bracero to Mojado to Chicano: Farm Labor, Immigration, and Mexican Identity in California Agriculture, 1942-1980
(2015-06-26)The development of California’s large-scale farm industry occurred in the aftermath of World War I. When the United States joined World War II, the domestic labor force ran scarce and the Department of Agriculture brought ... -
From Ichiko to Ma-Kun: The Politics of Baseball in the US-Japan Bilateral Relationship
(2015-06-02)At first glance, baseball, current controversies in the US-Japan bilateral relationship, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s recent increase in international diplomatic visits may appear to have little connection. ... -
From the Classroom to the Streets: A Fight for Education in Contradictions
(2012-05-11)Can education transform into a social movement? A simple enough question, but one that I asked while researching alternative schools in Buenos Aires. Specifically known as Bachilleratos Populares (Popular Mini-Bachelors ... -
From “Wholesome Discipline” to “Something Fatal”: Portraiture in the Victorian Novel
(2014-06-27)In Victorian England, the biological processes behind the act of seeing were coming under new scrutiny. These changes in the public’s perception of sight, it has been argued, resulted in what Jonathan Crary calls “a massive ... -
Fuel Cells: Optimizing Grain Boundaries in BaZrO3 and Modeling Proton Conduction Using Kinetic Monte Carlo
(2012-05-17)Perovskite oxides have attracted much interest due to their possible use in proton conducting fuel cells. Today fuel cells have the potential to solve some of our nations most pressing problems, such as dependence on foreign ... -
Functional Analysis of Inner-Arm Dynein Knockdowns in Trypanosoma brucei
(2011-02-16)African Trypanosomasis is an endemic disease in sub-Saharan Africa caused by infection with the Trypanosoma brucei parasite. These unicellular eukaryotic organisms rely heavily on their single flagellum for movement and ... -
Functionally Illiterate Adults Resolve Reading Difficulties Presented by Lexically Ambiguous Words: An Investigation of the Ability of the Lexical Quality Hypothesis to Describe Differential Reading Skill
(2011-02-16)The present study examined the characteristics of functionally illiterate adult readers reading skill using the Lexical Quality Hypothesis (Perfetti & Hart, 2001). The quality of less skilled adult readers word representations ...