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Caution – ideological mechanisms at work : interpellation and the melancholic turn in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden

Creator:: Travers, Jessica D.
Abstract:: In this thesis I examine the ideological mechanisms that work to constitute, construct, and maintain subject identity. Such mechanisms include repetition, performativity, identification, and interpellation. I incorporate structuralist, post-structuralist, and psychoanalytic theories as a means to discuss the ways in which gender, sexuality, and identity are performative masquerades. Furthermore, these...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: Evan Gottlieb In this thesis I examine the ideological mechanisms that work to

The relationship between the cerebral lateralization for Arabic language and achievement in science

Creator:: Hafez, Abdullah Ibrahim M.
Abstract:: The major purpose of this study was to test the relationship between students' cerebral lateralization for the Arabic language and their achievement in science. A secondary purpose was to investigate handedness as a factor in that relationship. The experiment was conducted in the City of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, using dichotic...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: approved: Redacted for privacy Thomas P. Evans The major purpose of this study was to test the

The effect of PACE on self-reported anxiety and performance in first year nursing students

Creator:: Irving, Jan Louise
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was (a) to determine the effect of a four-step learner readiness profile: positive, active, clear, and energetic (PACE) on self-reported anxiety in first year nursing students before skill performance tests, and (b) to determine the effect of PACE on the performance of first year nursing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: -Reported Anxiety and Performance in First Year Nursing Students. Abstract approved: Thomas P. Evans

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Creator:: Foster, Emily S.
Abstract:: Celebrity culture is part of a long history of fame, but the modern celebrity individual came into focus in the nineteenth century. The first part of this thesis distinguishes modern celebrity – including its morality – from other types of fame, explores the intersection of celebrity and gender through the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Deronda. Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Evan

Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

Creator:: Drury, Adam Marshall
Abstract:: Asynthesis & Act is a signiﬁcant intervention into the discourse of the sublime. Through a deep investigation of the critical metaphysics of Immanuel Kant, the ﬁrst chapter of this thesis puts forth the claim that the sublime is a radical experience that occasions a possibility for the individual to commit...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Evan Gottlieb Asynthesis & Act is a significant intervention into the discourse of the

Our Moral Educators : Educational Debate and Representations of Teachers in the Mid-Century Victorian Novel

Creator:: Taylor, Corey
Abstract:: In this thesis, I read the teachers in four mid-century Victorian novels--Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850) and Hard Times (1854), Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857) and Charlotte Brontё's Villette (1853)-- within the context of mid-century English educational debate in an effort to explicate the ways in which these characters...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: —Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield (1850) and Hard Times (1854), Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown’s Schooldays

Metagenomics, barcoding, and metabarcoding statistical analysis to facilitate integrative genomic studies of microbial and eukaryotic assemblages

Creator:: Senn, Savanah
Abstract:: The body of work aims to contribute to the area of Quantitative analysis in Environmental Sciences, and is focused on the microbiome. The underlying theme for the dissertation is methods and workflow. The unique bioinformatics workflow used for the analysis of genomic data was used to answer distinct and pressing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Gerald Presley The body of work aims to contribute to the area of Quantitative analysis

Differential Effects of First Year Wheat Genotype on the Suppression of Take-All Disease and the Establishment of Suppressive Microbial Agents in the Rhizosphere

Creator:: Perkins, Evan M.
Abstract:: Recent research in the UK has found that the wheat cultivar grown in the first year can have a significant impact on the amount of take-all that develops in the second year, regardless of the cultivar planted in year two. ‘Einstein’ is one such cultivar that reduces take-all disease (reduced...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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The identification and division of Steve Jobs

Creator:: Anderson, Scott M. (Scott Matthew)
Abstract:: On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak entered into a partnership agreement to found Apple Computer. In the decade that followed, Apple experienced remarkable growth and success, as Jobs catapulted Apple to the Fortune 500 list of top‐flight companies faster than any other company in history. Under direction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text::  last tenet, the  appeal to convert, unifies others to Christianity (Holland 450).     Gerald Driskill

A Numerical Investigation of the Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations on Salt-Encrusted Flat Sabkha

Creator:: Refaei, Raied
Abstract:: Salt-encrusted flats, or Sabkha, are common in arid and semi-arid regions worldwide, including coastal and inland areas. Due to their low shear strength and high compressibility, these soils are often unsuitable for supporting infrastructure or structures. The unique salt content of sabkha formations sets them apart from other soil types....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: advisor, Dr. Matt Evan, for his guidance and support throughout my thesis research and while taking the

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Caution – ideological mechanisms at work : interpellation and the melancholic turn in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden

The relationship between the cerebral lateralization for Arabic language and achievement in science

The effect of PACE on self-reported anxiety and performance in first year nursing students

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

Our Moral Educators : Educational Debate and Representations of Teachers in the Mid-Century Victorian Novel

Metagenomics, barcoding, and metabarcoding statistical analysis to facilitate integrative genomic studies of microbial and eukaryotic assemblages

Differential Effects of First Year Wheat Genotype on the Suppression of Take-All Disease and the Establishment of Suppressive Microbial Agents in the Rhizosphere

The identification and division of Steve Jobs

A Numerical Investigation of the Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations on Salt-Encrusted Flat Sabkha

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