College of Arts and Sciences: Recent submissions
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The global war on terror memorial and the rhetoric of commemoration.
(2019-04-30)This paper will discuss the rhetoric surrounding the plan to construct a national memorial for the Global War on Terror. It looks at three distinct areas of discourse relating to the project: the congressional debates over ... -
Communio a meditation on the theological transformation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Harlem.
(2019-04-30)The following is a thesis outlining the creative influences, research, methodology, and resulting production of a short documentary entitled Communio about Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theological transformation in Harlem. -
Representations of disability in contemporary film : the afterlife of the freak show.
(2019-04-24)This project is an excavation of the ways in which cinema has relied on a one-dimensional approach to its representations of disability. I argue that the way disability is represented becomes a modern instantiation of the ... -
Articulating a decolonial materialist rhetoric.
(2019-04-24)This thesis is preoccupied with challenging the way current rhetoricians approach criticism of Native discourse, that which is produced within and by Native communities. Beginning with Ronald Greene’s “A Materialist ... -
Lex vincit? The Chicago Legal News and the changing status of household dependents from 1868-1873.
(2019-04-24)This thesis uses Myra Bradwell and the Chicago Legal News (CLN) to explore the changing legal status of household dependents (wives and children) during the middle years of Radical Reconstruction, 1868-1873. Emancipation ... -
Philosophical inheritances: Nietzsche and the twentieth century American novel.
(2019-04-23)In this dissertation, I argue for the influence of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy on four significant writers of twentieth century American literature: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Richard ... -
Positive, negative, and ambivalent attitudes toward one's spouse : longitudinal associations with health and well-being.
(2019-04-23)Incompatible feelings are inevitable in social relationships, and individuals can simultaneously hold both positive and negative attitudes toward others. This finding has led to the emergence of research on the causes and ... -
The quantification and characterization of soil carbon pools in biofuel agriculture.
(2019-04-18)The shift toward renewable energy resources through agricultural biofuel production provides an opportunity to study and implement sustainable land management practices that improve soil health and a deeper understanding ... -
Scientific racism, mass collecting, and NAGPRA : a study of the transformation of relationships between museums, anthropology, and the public from the late 19th century to the 21st century.
(2019-04-18)Humankind has collected materials and remains for centuries as a way to depict social status, educate, and fascinate. The relationships between anthropologists and museums in the late 19th and early 20th century set the ... -
Religion, anti-immigrant sentiment, and attitudes toward democracy : an evaluation of a changing Europe.
(2019-04-22)Currently, Europe struggles to negotiate the challenges of a changing society and its historical commitment to liberal values. Nativist backlashes against mostly Muslim immigrants challenge the European project’s dedication ... -
Climate and landscape reconstruction of the Arroyo Chijuillita Member of the Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico : providing environmental context to early Paleocene mammal evolution.
(2019-04-18)Sedimentologic, stratigraphic, and paleopedologic attributes of an outcrop of the lower Paleocene Arroyo Chijuillita Member (Nacimiento Formation) in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area (San Juan Basin, New Mexico) are ... -
Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of dihydronaphthalene and chalcone-based anticancer agents inspired by the natural product combretastatin A-4.
(2019-04-17)Hallmarks of tumor progression include, abnormal tumor-associated vasculature, regions of hypoxia, and overexpressed proteins. These abnormalities provide opportunities for therapeutic intervention though various targeting ... -
Asad’s Syria : the key to the perpetuation of the Arab-Israeli conflict 1973-1984.
(2019-04-17)Syrian President Hafez al-Asad strove to lead Arab resistance against Israel in the 1970s and 1980s. When Egypt made peace with Israel in the 1970s, Asad had an opportunity to assume the leadership position Egypt vacated. ... -
Plant community change across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Gulf Coastal Plain, Central Texas.
(2019-04-16)During the early Paleogene (~58-53 million years ago), the earth experienced long-term global warming punctuated by several short-term ‘hyperthermal’ events, the largest of which is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum ... -
The bully's pulpit : the bodily rhetoric of President Trump's diplomatic handshakes.
(2019-04-16)President Donald Trump’s administration has revealed ideological fault lines and rapidly transforming power-balances underlying U.S. diplomacy. This thesis examines Trump’s handshakes as rhetorical gestures that constitute ... -
Lamentation in the late plays of Shakespeare.
(2019-04-16)This thesis will consider portrayals of lamentation and weeping in The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and Cymbeline. These late plays of Shakespeare identify and assess various motivations behind affective response. In The ... -
Influences of spatio-temporal variability during aquatic assessments of ionizable contaminants.
(2019-04-16)Urbanization and evolving land-use is challenging water management strategies in semi-arid regions of the United States, where stream flows are often dominated by treated wastewater effluent discharges. Effluent-dominated ... -
Topic on the statistical analysis of high-dimensional data.
(2019-04-15)High-dimensional genomic data can provide deep insight into biological processes. However, conventional statistical methods typically cannot be applied directly to genomic data sets because the high dimensionality of markers ... -
A holy stream and a strange marriage : environmental and sacramental healing in Wendell Berry's Jayber Crow.
(2019-04-11)Wendell Berry’s novel, Jayber Crow, dramatizes both ecological and theological realities, and is invested in the fields of blue-ecocriticism, environmental humanities, ecofeminism, and ecotheology. I consider the images ... -
Jonathan Swift's response to the challenge of modernity : a reading of Gulliver's Travels.
(2019-04-08)In Gulliver’s Travels Swift does obliquely what he does in his sermons and non-satirical writings more directly: he defends a settled social order, which was held together morally by a common Christian religion and led ...