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The New Advocate: A History of Early Female Lawyers in the United States from 1860 to 1920
(2020-05-29)
This thesis will explore the history of the first female lawyers in the United States. I will detail the struggles and successes of those women who, from 1860 to 1920, formed a sense of professional identity for American ...
A New Look at the Role of the Female in Twentieth Century Spain: Understanding Maternal Love in the Works of Miguel de Unamuno
(2020-05-20)
During the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century, the idealization of the domestic woman as “el ángel del hogar” (the angel of the home), circulated in Spain and throughout the world. The Spanish author, ...
Preliminary Analysis of Body Mass Index and Long-Term Health Effects in Adolescent and Young Adult Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Survivors
(2020-05-19)
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (HL) is among the most common malignancy diagnosed in the adolescents and young adults (AYA). Fortunately, prognosis for HL patients is positive, and many return to normal life after treatment. Nonetheless, ...
His Hidden Face: An examination of how artistic lament can address the evidential problem of divine hiddenness
(2020-05-29)
The philosophical problem of divine hiddenness questions the existence of a divine being on the basis of what seems to be a lack of evidence to support reasonable theistic belief. This question, which troubles both atheists ...
Literary Models of Manhood: Forming a Foundational Understanding of Healthy Masculinity
(2020-05-19)
How are we to understand healthy masculinity? My thesis attempts to answer this question and redirect the current debate about masculinity in our culture from its focus on toxic masculinity to the more productive topic of ...
Molecular Correlates Of Hearing Loss: Oncomodulin And Prestin
(2020-05-21)
The exquisite hearing sensitivity of mammalian hearing is due to cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs) that amplify sound signals through changes in cell membrane potential and cell length. The OHC motor protein, prestin, is ...
Impressionism: A Comparison of the Stylistic Characteristics of the Movement in Music and the Visual Arts
(2020-09-02)
Impressionism is a well-known term when it comes to the visual arts, and a very important movement in the music world. Compositional techniques used during the Impressionist movement had revolutionary, lasting impacts on ...
A Spatiotemporal and Sociodemographic Analysis of Nonmedical Vaccine Exemptions for Texas Kindergarteners
(2020-05-22)
Across the United States, rates of nonmedical vaccine exemptions for schoolchildren have risen. Public health research has linked certain sociodemographic and school characteristics to higher nonmedical exemption rates. ...
An Evaluation of Group Prenatal Care for High-Risk Obstetric Patients: A Matched Cohort Comparison
(2020-09-02)
This study analyzes group prenatal care, branded as CenteringPregnancy specifically, as an effective model of treatment capable of 1) improving health outcomes, and 2) decreasing expenditures. Previous studies largely have ...
Weak Rule of Law as the Primary Cause of Lower-Quality Latin American Democracies
(2020-09-02)
Drawing on a deep tradition of rule of law literature, spanning from Aristotle to O’Donnell, this thesis argues that the main problem in modern Latin America is a weak rule of law evidenced by ineffective judicial systems ...