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BFA Thesis Project - I.D.E.M.O. Reconstructed
(2011-04-27)Video and mixed media installation with sound, projected video, and sculpture in an environment; completed for the BFA Thesis Project. -
The Influence of Roman Military Camps on Town Planning
(2011-01-27)Debate over what influenced Roman city plans has permeated the scholarly community for decades. One hypothesis, with which I am in agreement, is that it was the Roman castra, or military camps, that provided a source for ... -
SAMUEL JOHNSON AND AUGUSTANISM
(2011-01-27)One of the reasons why Samuel Johnson achieved his monumentality in literary history is that he was a comprehensive thinker whose treatment of social, political, and literary domains encompassed a wide range of concerns ... -
Iron delivery to cells: The role of human serum transferring
(2010-12-15)Iron is a metal essential to life and is necessary for a wide variety of metabolic purposes. Transferrin is a naturally occurring metal chelating protein responsible for the transport and donation of iron. My goal is to ... -
The Applicability of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Mormon Nauvoo, Illinois
(2010-11-30)At its height in the early 1840s, the Mormon metropolis of Nauvoo, Illinois boasted a population of nearly 12,000, rivaling Chicago as the state’s largest city. After the Mormons were forcefully exiled from the place in ... -
ENVIRONMENTAL RISK COMMUNICATION: A CASE STUDY OF A STATE AGENCY‟S COMMUNICATION WITH THE PUBLIC
(2010-09-22)Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a disease which affects white-tailed deer and elk in both wild and captive populations. In 2002 the Department of Environmental Conservation observed that CWD could possibly spread to New ... -
THE WRITERS‘ MYTH AND TEACHERS‘ REALITY OF WORKING IN ISOLATION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON WRITING INSTRUCTION REFORM
(2010-09-22)Writing and teaching have this in common – popular images of each foreground isolation and art and obscure community and craft. These images play a role in shaping writing instruction in the public schools, particularly ... -
BFA Thesis Project - sculptures, mixed media, and installation
(2010-09-07)Images of sculptures (wood) and mixed media completed for the BFA Thesis project -
BFA Thesis Project - Two Drawings on Paper
(2010-09-07)Two pen and ink drawings completed for the BFA Thesis Project. #1 Manifold is human strife (4 panels); #2 Serpentine Ascension (6 panels) -
BFA Thesis Project - Earthenware ceramic and performance
(2010-09-07)Earthenware ceramic sculpture entitled "Niatsus" (1 image) and installation with performance entitled "Business" (5 images) completed for the BFA Thesis Project -
Hemochromatosis and Ferritin
(2010-07-29)The importance of iron in living systems cannot be overestimated. If iron is not managed efficiently, the aftermath could be catastrophic. My research project focused on understanding the structure and function of a major ... -
BFA Thesis Project - Five Paintings
(2010-07-29)A series of portraits completed for the BFA Thesis Project: #1 Bubbles in the Bay Window; #2 Carrot Cake for Breakfast; #3 Squishing Midnight Oranges; #4 The Celery Eater 1; #5 The Celery Eater 2 -
WOMEN’S CULTURE IN POTSDAM RESCUE
(2009-09-23)The Emergency Medical field has been a predominantly male structured organization. Women entering this male dominated profession of Emergency Medicine are being met with struggle of creating their own place with in the ... -
GENDERED GENRE CONVENTIONS IN SOPHIA LEE’S THE RECESS
(2009-09-23)Sophia Lee’s The Recess played a key role in the development of the British novel. Written in the period between the rise of sentimental novels like Richardson’s Clarissa and Pamela in the 1740s and the explosion of popular ... -
USE OF UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION THEORY TO EXAMINE EMOTICONS AND OTHER CHAT ROOM TOOLS’ FACILITATION OF AFFILIATIVE NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
(2009-08-17)Physical cues of affiliative, nonverbal communication are unavailable in Internet chat situations. People utilize text formatting and constructs called smileys or emoticons to adapt affiliative, physical cues for expression ... -
CHARLOTTE BROOKE AND LADY GREGORY: IRISH LITERARY NATIONALIST WRITERS
(2009-08-13)Ireland’s literary response to British colonization produced two distinctly important literary movements: antiquarian nationalism in the eighteenth century and the Irish Literary Revival in the nineteenth. Writers in both ... -
SELF, SOCIETY AND SURVEILLANCE IN THE LITERATURE OF NINTETEENTH[sic]-CENTURY AMERICA
(2009-08-13)The rapid development of nineteenth-century cities in northeastern America led to a revision in the way many Americans, particularly middle and upper class men, viewed themselves and one another. Emphasis on competition ... -
A SEMIOTIC APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF BODYBUILDING: THE IMPORTANCE OF MALE BODY IMAGE AND ITS INDICATIONS OF MASCULINITY IN CONTEMPORARY WESTERN SOCIETY
(2009-08-12)In order to better understand American society’s attitude toward male body image, this paper utilizes a semiotic approach. Drawing upon social semiotics as an analytical framework, it examines the articulation of the modern ... -
THE POWER OF DISCOURSE AND ANALYSIS OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK
(2009-08-12)The following research was prepared as a study into Holocaust survivors in Buffalo, NY and their coping abilities post World War II. The research, analysis, and conclusions made from this study made it possible to have a ... -
THE LITOST-IDYLL FRAMEWORK IN MILAN KUNDERA’S WORK
(2009-08-12)Milan Kundera structures his novels through the thematic development of key terms. In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Kundera explores the meaning of litost, an untranslatable Czech word that means “a state of torment ...
