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Filtering by: Date issued sim 2007-06-01 Resource Type Honors College Thesis

The Eyes of Tunis

Creator:

Van Bossuyt, Douglas L.

Abstract:

People often grow increasingly culturally confused when spending significant amounts of time in a foreign land. Identity can become lost only to reform in the image of the host society. This thesis presents a creative nonfiction series of essays that explore the author’s loss of self and contextual identity, the...

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"What Fools Call Crime": The Boundaries of the Pornographic Imagination in Sade’s La Philosophie dans le Boudoir

Creator:

VanLaningham, Christie A.

Abstract:

On the surface, the written works of the Marquis de Sade appear to be nothing more than pornographic mania articulated, the narrative trajectory of which oscillates between illicit words and acts. Yet his life and works are important to historians, if not due to their inherent quality then because they...

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Location of the neutral axis in wood beams

Creator:

Holm, Sarah C.

Abstract:

It is commonly accepted that for the analysis of wood beams, the neutral axis coincides with the centroid of the beam. Although this assumption is used in analysis, wood is not an isotropic material, as it has different elastic properties in the tangential, radial and longitudinal directions, nor is it...

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Aegir Innovations: The Journey Untangling the Web of Social Networking

Creator:

Johnson, Brendan

Abstract:

Social networking is the concept that personal connections can form a large web of people and institutions that are essential in an individual’s realization of a goal. Social networking plays an important role in almost every business venture. This has proved to be especially true in the story of Aegir...

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Honors College Thesis