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"Religious" and "Secular" in Socialist Bosnia-Herzegovina
(2011-02-16)This thesis analyzes the Communist experiment of the separation of Church & state and secularization policies, alongside an ethnic accommodation of Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims in multi-confessional Bosnia-Herzegovina ... -
Remains of Genocide: The Impact of Objects in Negotiating Politically Sensitive Memorial Spaces in Rwanda
(2013-07-01)In 1994, the genocide in Rwanda killed over 500,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu citizens in approximately 100 days. The extent and brutality of the violence affected nearly every Rwandan. In the aftermath, civil society and ... -
Remembering and Forgetting: French Politics and Ceremonies of May 8, 1954
(2018-07-02)From May 7-9, 1954 the ninth anniversary of the German surrender was celebrated through ceremonies and commemorations throughout the city of Paris. That Friday, May 7th and the first day of ceremonies, the French army ... -
Rendered Rightless: Exercising Agency in Nation-Spaces
(2019-07-02)Dahagram is a community in Bangladesh, at least on paper. Despite being on Bangladeshi territory, it is completely surrounded by Indian territory. Prior to 2016, it was one of 163 enclaves which existed on either side of ... -
The "Rent-A-Womb" Boom: The Political Economy of India's Transnational Commercial Surrogacy Market
(2016-07-01)Reproductive justice issues have been a heavily debated topic in the modern, globalized world. With the advent of many modern day reproductive technologies, there have been increasing concerns expressed within the realms ... -
REPENSAR EKOMO DE MARÍA NSUÉ ANGÜE: UN DESAFÍO ECUATOGUINEANO A LA HISPANIDAD
(2011-02-16)Ekomo by María Nsué Angüe has widely been considered the first post-independence novel of Equatorial Guinea by a woman. Scholars from three continents have tried to define this literary work linguistically, culturally, ... -
Rescuing a nestmate from a predatory antlion enables ants of Tetramorium sp. E to avoid antlions, Myrmeleontidae spp., in subsequent encounters
(2014-06-15)Tetramorium sp. E, commonly known as pavement ants, have shown the ability to rescue conspecifics as well as the capacity to learn. Given that pavement ants have these capabilities, the goal of the present study was to ... -
Researching Aging in Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells at The Jackson Laboratory
(2018-03-27)At The Jackson Laboratory this summer, I studied aging in hematopoietic progenitor cells collected from mice. I was participating in the Summer Student Program, where I was placed in a lab with a research mentor, in addition ... -
Researching Restoration and Researching Research: What My Summer Internship Taught Me
(2019-04-22)Understanding the impacts of wetland restoration is an important part of informing this practice. In order to figure out which methods will best improve the ecosystem functions of wetlands, different restoration efforts ... -
Researching Your Roots: What's at Stake When Conducting Hometown Research
(2015-08-24)In the past sixty years in the United States, many sports teams at the high school and university level have switched from their Native American mascots to something less controversial. After two years of debate, in 2009, ... -
Reshaping the Media Landscape: From the Birth of Journalism to Social Media Preservation of Ethics and the Rise of Niche Audiences
(2011-02-16)In the midst of all the talk about the rise of participatory news online, it is worth noting that world communities have historically engaged in socially driven news exchanges. The human impulse for informed dialogue is ... -
Restorative Justice: Recidivism Reduction and Implementation
(2015-06-01)This paper will explore different methods of restorative justice in an attempt to determine which of these is the most effective at reducing recidivism. The restorative practices that will be explored in this paper are ... -
Rethinking Money: A Survey on Economic Theories of Money
(2016-05-26)Money is a tool people deal with on a daily basis. It is also an important instrument for governments to manage their functions. But despite the familiarity, probably few people could tell exactly what money is, or how it ... -
RETHINKING SHELTER DESIGN: ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP
(2017-07-06)The issue of post-disaster housing for displaced people has become essential in international discussion due to an increase in displacement over the past decades.1 There are inadequacies in the way we design for and respond ... -
A Retrospective Clinical Study and Analysis of Cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr Virus Infection and Disease in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients
(2017-06-26)Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) are two ubiquitous Herpesviruses that are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients (Britt 2008; Cohen 2000). In transplant recipients, ... -
Reunidxs en la Frontera: Understanding the Non-Human Animal as an Intersectional Identity
(2016-06-17)The main objective of this thesis is to interrupt dominant narratives in Critical Animal Studies that ignore histories of colonization, which shape the experiences of people of color and their conversations about non-human ... -
Revising Art History: The Critical Fortunes of Botticelli
(2011-02-16)I seek to argue that Alessandro Botticelli s unique critical fortunes that is, his success as an artist in late-fifteenth century Florence, his dismissal by Giorgio Vasari and subsequent obscurity, and his rehabilitation ... -
Revolutionary Mathematics: Transforming Urban Math Classrooms
(2015-08-24)African American students are deterred from STEM education, especially mathematical education and mathematical careers. The systematic blueprint of the urban education system has resultantly pipelined students into a ... -
The Rhetoric of Environmental Change Narratives
(2019-05-15)For many, ‘pure environmental science’ is inaccessible. Arduous content has created a divide between environmental researchers and their beneficiaries, leading audiences to seek secondary source interpretations, rather ... -
"Rhodes Must Fall": Student Activism and the Politics of Memory at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
(2016-05-25)Launched at the University of Cape Town on March 9, 2015, the Rhodes Must Fall movement is a student-led initiative that advocated for the removal of the statue of Cecil John Rhodes from the University’s upper campus. The ...