• Hybrid Rice: State Intervention, Minority Resistance, and the Future of Agriculture in the Uplands of Northern Vietnam 

  Bellow, Dakota (2018-05-21)

  Vietnam is among the world’s largest rice producers, exporting 6 million metric tons of rice in 2017. Much of this success is attributed to the doi moi reforms of the late 1980s, credited for decollectivizing agricultural ...

• The Coyote Along the Border 

  Andrade, Kimberly (2018-05-21)

  The Coyote Along the Border Kimberly Andrade Director: Victor Hinojosa, Ph.D. Throughout the years, the United States’ migration policy has changed, and these changes have created ripple effects. The United ...

• A Review on the Relationship between Parenting Style and the Prevalence of Callous and Unemotional Traits in Children and Adolescents 

  Schulz, John (2018-05-21)

  Many people consider callous and unemotional (CU) traits to be a simple subsection of another disorder, often overlooking the significance they may have in children, adolescent, and undiagnosed populations. Studies on CU ...

• The Defeated Pharaoh: The Fall of Hosni Mubarak 

  Rofeil, Mary (2018-05-21)

  The Arab Spring of Egypt, The Revolution, took place in 2011 when the public demanded the end of the thirty-year-old Hosni Mubarak’s regime. President Mubarak was the only president that many Egyptians knew, and he ruled ...

• Violence in Civil War: Understanding Insurgencies and Civilian Casualties 

  Adams, Jasmine (2018-05-21)

  Civilian deaths during times of war is usually seen as a horrific tragedy that armed forces should take care to avoid. Insurgent groups like ISIL have terrorized the local population with deadly attacks that often end in ...

• Most Restrictive Environment: The Impacts of a Mainstream Education on Deaf Children 

  Potter, Justin (2018-05-21)

  Deaf students are taught in a variety of different educational settings, from deaf only residential schools to mainstream education classrooms. The current laws governing Special Education state that deaf students should ...

• Socratic Citizenship as a Model for Christians in Liberal Societies 

  Mackenzie, J. Andrew (2018-05-21)

  Many Christians today are struggling with the question of how to reconcile their religious identity with the pressures of citizenship in a liberal society, while others question whether reconciliation is possible at all. ...

• Rhetoric and Philosophy: Cicero’s Model for Moral Education 

  Blythe, Janessa (2018-05-21)

  Cicero recognized that rhetoric was a powerful art and that it was necessary to develop virtue and integrity in those trained as orators. In De Oratore, he seeks to reunify the subjects of philosophy and rhetoric for the ...

• Chrysis: Text, Translation, and Commentary of Enea Silvio Piccolomini's Latin Comedy 

  Liu, Cynthia (2018-05-21)

  Enea Silvio Piccolomini’s Chrysis, a Latin comedy written in 1444, was lost until the 19th century when a single manuscript of the play was found hidden in a library in Prague, surviving the humanist-turned-pope’s general ...

• Borrowed Flames: Intertextuality in Lucan's Bellum Civile 

  Liu, Cynthia (2018-05-21)

  Intertextuality is far from a linear or one-directional relationship. Rather, it is a radiating and multi-faceted conversation between authors. This thesis explores Lucan’s intertextual allusions by tracing how Lucan treats ...

• Analyzing the Islamic State from a Lockean Perspective 

  Zamora, Katherine (2018-05-21)

  As the threat of religious extremism continues to capture global attention, it is necessary to dissect the aims and motives behind an organization’s acts of terror. At the time of this project, the Islamic State established ...

• Sovereignty and Salvation: Engaging the Problem of Free Will with the Augustinian Tradition 

  Neal, Riley (2018-05-21)

  The problem of the relationship between divine sovereignty and human activity in conversion is one theologians continue returning to over the centuries. Augustine established one line of interpretation by arguing that ...

• Ray-tracing Techniques and The Simulation of Large-Scale In-Flight Wi-Fi Signal Propagation 

  DeHaan, Riley (2018-05-21)

  As consumer expectations for data usage continue to rise, the acceptance of poor connectivity on airplanes will become increasingly untenable. Reliable, high speed inflight connectivity is in high demand in the airline ...

• A Study of the Burial Practices and the Treatment of Women in Etruscan Civilization 

  Cheney, Arianna (2018-05-21)

  This paper seeks to analyze Etruscan burial and religious practices and determine how the treatment of women is reflected in these customs. Background information involving ceremonial rituals, cremation, ceramic, tomb ...

• Forbidden Salvation 

  Smith, Courtney (2018-05-21)

  Princess Ilenia’s beloved Sae kingdom is locked in war with the powerful Medean empire. When the dark elf Perilon arrives in the kingdom and kidnaps the Sae Queen and Medean King, Ilenia is forced to ally with her archenemy, ...

• Origins of Democracy in Costa Rica and Nicaragua 

  Pottinger, David (2018-05-21)

  An incredible disparity exists between the current political state of affairs in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Costa Rica is a stable democracy with a high rate of development for its region, while Nicaragua is widely considered ...

• Hispanic Culture and Dental Caries Risk Assessment 

  Ouellette, Grace (2018-05-21)

  Dental decay is one of the most prevalent infectious diseases in humans and is a complex process involving both protective and pathogenic factors. Dental caries risk assessment is a methodology utilized by dentists to ...

• Molecular changes in Staphylococcus aureus fem (factors essential for methicillin resistance) mutants, analyzed via Mass Spectrometry 

  Nguyen, Thanh (2018-05-21)

  As Staphylococcus aureus is becoming increasingly resistant to beta-lactam antibiotics, it is important to identify the mechanism of resistance on a molecular level. This study seeks to explore the molecular changes in ...

• Investigation of Cruzain Inhibition by Thiosemicarbazone Compounds 

  Lill, Isaac (2018-05-21)

  Chagas disease, the result of infection by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is transmitted by blood-feeding insect vectors that are members of the Reduviidae family called kissing bugs. The vectors are found ...

• Jesus Christ Warrior-King: Analysis of the Old English Christ and Satan 

  Schwartz, Hannah (2018-05-21)

  The Old English poem Christ and Satan is an interesting and important work of literature, but various circumstances have left it without the widespread scholarly attention or fame of other Old English poems. This thesis ...

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