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An Exploration of Harry Potter and its Effect on the Millennial Generation
(2018-04-23)
The Harry Potter phenomena has spanned the globe from its publication in 1997. Even today, several years after the last book was published and the last movie released, Harry Potter continues to enthrall readers around the ...
Three Factors That Positively Shape Open Communication Within the Operating Room
(2018-05-21)
The purpose of this thesis is to formulate three components that positively shape communication among operating room team members. Creating open communication requires surgical teams to reevaluate the way they visualize ...
Forbidden Salvation
(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, ...
Borrowed Flames: Intertextuality in Lucan's Bellum Civile
(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 ...
Engaging the Other: Examining How Empathy Facilitates Self-Efficacy
(2018-05-21)
Self-efficacy is the belief that one can effect change by one’s actions. One way to increase self-efficacy is through “vicarious experiences,” or identifying with someone who has been previously successful. This paper tests ...
Probing the Inconsistencies of State Feticide and Abortion Law
(2018-12-18)
This paper serves as an analysis of both intrastate and interstate statutory inconsistencies between feticide and abortion law within the thirty-eight American states with criminal feticide laws on record. By reviewing the ...
Walker Percy's Comic Vision: Reconciling Grace in a Racially Riven Culture
(2018-05-21)
Walker Percy—at once an heir of Southern Stoicism and also a Christian convert who rejected it—stands in a uniquely well-suited place to comment satirically and constructively upon the shortcomings of Southern culture. ...
Catholicism, Contraception, & the Bottom Billion: A Grounded Theory Study of Family Planning & Global Poverty
(2018-05-21)
The World Health Organization and leading global aid distributors have made access to contraception one of their number one priorities for global health intervention this century, citing the corresponding improvements in ...
The Psychology of the Criminal in Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
(2018-05-21)
At surface level, Friederich Nietzsche and Fyodor Dostoevsky are two completely different authors, in that Nietzsche completely rejects the faith which is so important to Dostoevsky's novels. However, in his letters, ...
Factors Affecting Positive Expectations of Social Mobility Opportunities: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
(2018-05-21)
Positive perceptions of an individual’s or family’s social mobility opportunities can be influenced by a variety of factors. In this study, the point of interest is the positive perception of social mobility opportunities ...