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  • Biological considerations for a new approach to regulating genetically modified crops in the United States

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    McDonough, Ashley
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    The debate over GM crops is one of the most controversial issues of recent decades. The debate has many dimensions, including environmental impacts, benefits and risks to human health, intellectual property rights, adequacy of biosafety regulations, and fundamental ethical acceptability. The potential benefits of GM crops are numerous, including improved...
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    : ____________________________________________ Steven Strauss The debate over GM crops is one of the most controversial

  • Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

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    Summers, Stephen James
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    Thomas Stearns Eliot’s 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land presents itself as an alternative to the decaying society Eliot found himself inhabiting. It begins as a personal means of pulling together one’s fragmented consciousness, but in doing so Eliot manages to present a solution to a world of selfishness—looking beyond...
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    invites us to: Come under the shadow of this gray rock— Come in under the shadow of this gray

  • Softly to the East

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    Hector, Rachel Claus
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    Growing up on a ranch in eastern Oregon, life is hard. Adelaide Stevens knows this at sixteen, when her father shoots her wounded horse and her mother divorces him. Five years later, Addie returns from college to her small town to take care of her ailing mother, and over the...
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    push the thoughts out of my mind. There is no gray sky here because the wind would not allow a cloud

  • A Novel Elysium

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    Anderson, Evan Crichton
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    As a metafictional work of science fiction literature, A Novel Elysium explores the timelessness of both the human mind and its literary surroundings, comparing the self-awareness of its characters to the sometimes tragic or empowering metaphysical realizations of human beings. Within this framework, any concrete place or time is unimportant;...
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    : ______________________________________________ Steven Kunert As a metafictional work of science fiction literature, A Novel Elysium

  • Estuaries in Motion : Teaching Estuarine Flow Concepts through Video

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    Cameron, Marina R.
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    A short (approximately 8 minute) video was created to explain key concepts in estuarine flow and numerical modeling of estuaries for high school students. Animation, real picture videography, and numerical model outputs were used to illustrate how scientists use physics and physics models to understand how flow in an estuary...
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    . Weather was also an important aspect in filming, as a gray day is not as visually appealing to an

  • Interposing Quarrels : Factors Influencing Neutrality Policy Formation, 1860-2016

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    Su, Andrew Philip
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    When analyzing foreign policy, a significant question arises. How do nations make decisions about foreign engagement and neutrality? Understanding what factors and influences shape foreign policy decisions is often a difficult task as the motivation for action is never clear or absolute. This work will analyze whether or not the...
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    . 2 Howard Jones, Blue & Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations

  • The Other Side of Marin : A Novella

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    Keating, Jacqueline K.
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    The Other Side of Marin investigates how the lack of communication between family members can lead to potentially devastating consequences. The novella, set in the 1970s in Northern California, is told from the points of view of Lucy, a middle-aged mother of four, and her teenage son, who for his...
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    Steven Kunert The Other Side of Marin investigates how the lack of communication between

  • Turn-Taking in Face-to-Face Conversations: A Proposed Theory of Chair Swiveling

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    Smith, Lyshuand R.
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    The purpose of this thesis is to propose swiveling behavior as a potential speech transitioning device and to discuss the methodology behind qualitative and quantitative analysis of swivels in relation to subjects’ partners. Due to the impacts of gaze and body orientation direction on speech transitioning, it is deduced that,...
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    Abstract approved:_____________________________________________________ Steven Ortiz The purpose of

  • Posthumously Yours : A Kunderian Approach to Fiction

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    Tellvik, Dani N.
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    In this piece of original work, I employ a Kunderian approach to fiction. The purpose of my novel is to examine how the causative element, a pivotal moment of change for a cast of characters, changes spatially and temporally. In Posthumously Yours, I explore themes of trauma, loss, and grief...
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    the clouds, a silver spot amidst the gray. She was reading Their Eyes were Watching God a second

  • Visual Metaphors on Album Covers: An Analysis into Graphic Design's Effectiveness at Conveying Music Genres

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    Le, Vivian T.
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    The rise of digital streaming has largely impacted the way the average listener consumes music. Consequentially, while the role of album art has evolved to meet the changes in music technology, it is hard to measure the effect of digital streaming on modern album art. This research seeks to determine...
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    amount of gray in each color. The level of saturation can range from 0 to 100. Zero (0) represents