The book of Genesis portrays the character Jacob as a brazen trickster who deceives members of his own family: his father Isaac, brother Esau, and uncle Laban. At the same time, Genesis depicts Jacob as YHWH's chosen from ...

During the summer of 2014 for ten weeks I interned at the Utah State University Eastern Prehistoric Museum. My internship focus was working in collections specifically the museum’s archeology artifacts, which consisted ...

Young Adult Literature is a fast-growing genre, with both diverse readers and content. However, YA Literature has no clear, universal definition to describe the criteria for a YA novel. The first part of this paper provides ...

Using Thomas Jefferson's Presidency as an overarching example, the way Presidents reconstruct and implement lasting institutional change is examined. The idea that the only way presidential reconstruction occurs is in ...

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 ...

Throughout the twentieth century, the United States experienced vast changes such as large-scale immigration, world wars, and civil rights movements. The effects of these changes on minorities, women, and especially ...

In 1998 Calvary Baptist Church, in Waco, Texas, appointed Julie Pennington-Russell: the first female Baptist pastor in Texas. This thesis will show the dynamic relationship between the conservative and moderate Baptist ...

During the summer and fall of 2018, I worked with the Martin Museum of Art to design and produce the exhibit, John James Audubon: Life, Work & Legacy. To do this I broke the project into three main areas: design, fabrication, ...

Due to congested wireless radio spectrum, next-generation radar transmitters will need to be adaptive and reconfigurable in real time to share spectrum with wireless communication devices. Typical system optimization methods ...