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

    Creator:
    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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    Stephen James Summers for the degrees of Honors Baccalaureate of Arts in English and Honors Baccalaureate

  • The Usefulness of Stable Water Isotopes in Improving Drought Prediction

    Creator:
    Adams, Logan
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    Drought represents an import part of natural hydrologic cycles that govern the rate and transportation of water on global and regional scales. (Trenberth, et al. 2015) Agriculturally, drought represents a threat to crop production and can endanger political and economic stability through the loss of resources and the threat of...
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    Abstract approved: _ _______________________________________________________ Stephen Good Drought

  • Beyond the Carpetbagger: The Emergence of Racialized Terms as a Political Weapon in the Reconstruction Era South

    Creator:
    Farrington, Caprial E.
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    The Reconstruction era, beginning in 1863, was a time of radical change and movement in American politics and society. A significant number of northern Republicans migrated southwards, for various purposes, including political involvement. To white Democratic southerners who believed they had just fought a war of northern aggression and now...
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    Opportunity seeking brought settlers to the South. Many were young northern men whose lives were disrupted

  • Exploring Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sexual Behaviors among Young Adults in Rural Zacatecas, Mexico

    Creator:
    Jones, Garrett C.
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    According to The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS report of regional statistics for HIV/AIDS from 2001-2008, Latin America has the third highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS among children and adults in the world with about 2 million infected in 2008. Among all of these countries, Mexico has the...
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    : Exploring Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sexual Behaviors among Young Adults in Rural Zacatecas, Mexico

  • The People's band: U2 and international activism

    Creator:
    Peterson, Maxie Jean
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    The end of the Cold War brought about changes within international political relations that resulted in expanded interest in global civil society. Such developments, like globalization and democratization, have encouraged the growth of social and political organizations. Political scientists have found that these inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations have a significant...
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    relations. U2, L-R, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Bono and Larry Mullen, Jr. Photo by Mark

  • Illegal to Exist : The Criminalization of Houselessness in the United States

    Creator:
    Waite, Mariah E.
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    In the United States, the state of housing and the lack thereof has been declared a national crisis. In response, cities have taken measures to police behaviors that are associated with what they perceive to be disorder and decay. These behaviors are also commonly associated with houselessness. Laws that criminalize...
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  • A Comparison of Biofuel Market Potential in Selected Countries

    Creator:
    Patrick, Rozalyn St. Ann
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    Global population growth and dependence on traditional energy sources has created an interest in biofuels and other alternatives to traditional energy. The economic disparity between countries raises questions about their ability and willingness to create biofuel markets. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of specific factors...
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     in  Selected  Countries.     Abstract  approved:       Penelope  L.  Diebel

  • Imagining the Future into Reality: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of The Jetsons

    Creator:
    Myrick, Jane E.
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    This investigation examines The Jetsons’ vision of the future and tracks to what extent the content of the show is relevant to the modern era, both technologically and socially. Much of the dazzling technology in the show feels familiar, and most of it is either already available or is in...
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    , the show was relegated to the re-run time slot on Saturday mornings, where, “…the reception by young

  • Posthumously Yours : A Kunderian Approach to Fiction

    Creator:
    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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    worried about how much time Clementine spent with Cora. Clementine was young, impressionable, and

  • One Person, One Broadcaster Social Media and Iran

    Creator:
    Miller, Erin L
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    The post-election violence in the aftermath of Iran’s 2009 presidential election was viewed through the lens of new, social media. New media publishers created and supported a movement, and in the process they wove a national struggle into the global media landscape. This exploration places Twitter in the context of...
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    THESIS OF Erin L. Miller for the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Arts in English presented on May 13