Browsing Student Theses and Honors Collection by Title
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(2011-02-16)This thesis will examine the visually-created inner workings of the bilingual brain, while also portraying the conflict and frustrations that come with being raised bicultural. I explore the ideas of language and duality: ... -
A Modern Dance with Death: Percy Delf Smith and the Aesthetic of Direct Experience
(2020-05-25)In 1919, immediately following the First World War, the English artist Percy Smith produced a series of seven etchings entitled Dance of Death 1914-1918. Contemporaries responded enthusiastically to his inventive treatment ... -
Ability of Orconectus rusticus to Recover from Exposure to the Pesticide Imidacloprid
(2018-07-02)Imidacloprid, the most widely used pesticide in the world, is known to affect invertebrates’ ability to move and feed. There is growing concern about the effects Imidacloprid may be having on non-target organisms. In my ... -
Abject Utopia
(2012-05-21)Through bodily mark-making, overlapping and layering multiple lithographs and screen prints, and the use of color, I strive to reference a sexual encounter within a figural landscape, so the figure is both the subject and ... -
About our cognitive processes: computational verses embodied
(2015-05-20)This thesis discusses two distinct cognitive theories in philosophy of mind. In 1975, Jerry Fodor proposed the Language of Thought Hypothesis (LOTH). This hypothesis essentially offers a computational theory of mind. It ... -
Access to Death: Prisons, Hospice and Voices
(2011-06-27)Since, 1992 the number of inmates over the age of fifty in the United States has almost tripled. This rapidly growing population of elderly inmates is due to a national “tough on crime” attitude, which has put 1 in 100 ... -
An Acre of America in Cairo: The American University in Cairo and the Production of Americanized Egypt from 1919-1948
(2013-07-02)In 1919, after years of planning and earning financial support, the American University at Cairo (AUC) opened its doors to students from the Middle East in a building formally built as a palace turned cigarette factory ... -
Adsorption of poly(vinyl alcohol) onto polydimethylsiloxane substrates: formation of continuous films, honeycomb structures, and fractal morphologies
(2015-05-05)While polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) has many uses in analytical, biomedical, and electronic systems, its hydrophobicity hinders some of its applications by causing incompatibility with aqueous media. Specifically, this can ... -
After the Evening Bell: Working Women and Leisure Time in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1830-1860
(2016-06-13)In the fall of 1836, Harriot Curtis opened a letter to her friend and suitor, Hezikiah Wead, with a statement about the boundless sense of independence she cherished. “Alone, I am fancy free,” she declared, “… with the ... -
The Age and Petrogenesis of a Sillimanite Gneiss within the Belchertown Igneous Complex, Massachusetts
(2021-05-24)This study applies chemical dating of monazite following the methods of Williams et al. (2017) in samples from a septum of metapelite that lies within the Belchertown intrusion in central Massachusetts. This septum is ... -
Algebraic Number Fields and Codes
(2011-02-16)We explore error-correcting codes based on algebraic number fields using a particular code construction given by Guruswami in ``Constructions of Codes from Number Fields". After reviewing the necessary mathematical ... -
Alleviating Harm Within International Development
(2019-05-13)This thesis examines the relationship between cultural values and international development policies in Samoa to discern the uneven distribution of harm within the development apparatus. In so doing, I analyze the a) ... -
Almost Human
(2013-05-15)When I begin to paint, I am starting a conversation between the surface I paint on and myself. I most often work on a vertical surface, plywood, and depict forms based off of my materials, marks, and thematic explorations. ... -
Altered Expression of Core Circadian Gene Bmal-1 in Cancer-associated Macrophages
(2017-05-30)Circadian rhythms are endogenous time-keeping machines that allow organisms to anticipate and respond to environmental changes. In the past decade, accumulating evidence has pointed at the direct association between circadian ... -
Alternative Education in New Jersey High Schools: An Analysis of Policy and Practice
(2011-02-16)There is no denying it: America has a dropout crisis. According to research, 30 percent of young adults in the United States fail to graduate high school. To combat the dropout crisis, one solution that has been explored ... -
America’s White Whale: The Inescapable Search for an Impossible Identity
(2015-05-12)America’s White Whale: The Inescapable Search for an Impossible Identity is concerned with questions of American identity as explored in American literature. It explores how Sinclair Lewis, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain, ... -
Anahnu Tannaiot (We Are Reciters): South, Central, West Asian, and North African Jewish Women's Voices as Resistance in Art, Music, and Writing
(2021-06-08)This thesis analyzes modes of expression that form the “voice” of SCWANA (South, Central, West Asian, and North African) Jewish women. By expanding the definition of voice, my study engages with multiple modalities which ... -
Analysis of Interspecific Genital Shape Variation in Watersnakes of the Genus Nerodia and the Potential for Female-driven Species Divergence
(2021-07-03)Genital evolution can be driven by a multitude of selective pressures, including the pressure to avoid harm and hybridizations. Recent studies reveal how rapidly evolving female genital structures may drive speciation under ... -
Analysis of Iron Oxidation in Garnets
(2011-02-16)Abstract The oxidation state of iron indicates the amount of oxygen present when a mineral is formed. If the environment was abundant in oxygen, many of the minerals in the assemblage will contain oxidized iron, Fe3+. If ...