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A Woman’s Place: How the Civil War Redefined the Roles of Nineteenth Century American Women
(2020-05-18)This paper was completed as a final term paper for History 419: Civil War and Reconstruction for Dr. John Daly. This paper analyzes the role of women in the American Civil War as well as the lasting impacts that the war ... -
American Solipsism: How Sectional Differences in American Culture Affected the Reception of the Congo Reform Movement, 1890-1905
(2019-12-12)As part of HST 390: Research Methods, this paper seeks to look at how Civil War sentiments regarding slavery, and Africans by extension, influenced American reporting on the Congo crisis by comparing news reports from the ... -
Caring For those with Dementia: How Can Evidence Based Care Support Healthcare to Improve Outcomes?
(SUNY Brockport, 2023-04)For healthcare professionals, a large percentage of the geriatric population in need of care has a diagnosis related to Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2019) estimate ... -
Exploration or Exploitation? Wombs, Warriors, and Women in António Lobo Antunes’s Os Cus de Judas
(2019-12-02)This research paper was the final essay for my capstone class (ENG 472.01) with Dr. Sharon L. Allen. Abstract: Using postmodern technique, Portuguese author António Lobo Antunes forces his readers to stare into the soul ... -
From Conservation to Recreation: Al Smith and Robert Moses and the Dawn of the Modern Liberalism
(2020-04-01)Written for Doctor Jose Torre's "History of New York" course, this paper examines the early 20th century's shift from TR progressivism to FDR liberalism by identifying a vital intermediary between the two traditions. ... -
Great Lakes Water Levels Trends
(2017-01-01)This paper began as a literature review paper for Great Lakes Issues class and was adapted for an Environmental law paper. The paper explores the past, present and future trends of the Great lakes fluctuating water levels. ... -
Harbingers of Change: Casement and Morel in the Congo
(2016-10-01)This paper was written for the History 390 (Research Methods) class focusing on the Congo Free State, the atrocities found there under the control of King Leopold II of Belgium, and the humanitarian effort surrounding the ... -
Insight into the Salmonines of California
(SUNY Brockport, 2023-04)California is home to an astounding 32 distinct species of salmonids with 20 of them being endemic and 21 of them being anadromous species, depicting the necessity of the Pacific Ocean. The California Current is one of ... -
Perceiving Emotion Through Music
(2017-12-10)Music is a vital aspect of life as we know it, in part due to the emotion it conveys. This paper examines the current ideas and theories regarding how music conveys emotion, and some of the varying opinions regarding this ... -
Polska Imigracja (Polish Immigration)
(SUNY Brockport, 2022)The three days prior to Easter Sunday are important across the world for Catholics, as it typically marks the end of their Lent. Celebrations take up most of that weekend up until Easter Sunday itself when families, ... -
Positive Reinforcer Identification and Behavioral Training with Goats (Capra hircus)
(2020-05-11)This paper was written as part of an independent study, during which I participated in research conducted by Dr. Desrochers in the Psychology Department. As opposition to pesticides increases, the agricultural community ... -
Rattus norvegicus hypothetical protein LOC685762 classification with in silico bioinformatics computational tools
(SUNY Brockport, 2023-04)Computer software capable of protein analysis, such as bioinformatics tools, were used to help gain preferential, thorough, and accessible significant classifying information on a hypothetical protein of interest. The ... -
Spinning a Yarn: Newspaper Misrepresentation of Women Garment Workers on Strike
(SUNY Brockport, 2022)In the January cold of Rochester, New York in 1913, thousands of garment workers took to the streets. For several months following “the streets were filled with young women marching, singing, protesting, and fighting.” ... -
The Assistance of Counsel a Defendant’s Right
(2016-12-01)Class History 408 Dr. Alison Parker Abstract- The conclusion of my paper is given the complexities of the law and obstacles in the trial process, the Supreme Court correctly upheld the right for United States citizens to ... -
The association between owning domestic dogs as pets and the productivity amongst college students
(2017-12-05)In the class Research Methods in Healthcare, we explored an introduction to the different kinds of research that are commonly used in healthcare and the benefits and uses of each kind. Always having a love for dogs, I ... -
The Female Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Epidemic: Awareness and Prevention
(2018-05-05)The author wrote this paper for the Spring 2018 course, Global Perspectives on Women and Gender (WMS330.61). Dr. Sharon Jacobson was the instructor. Female Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST) is a global epidemic requiring ... -
The Intersections of Empathy and Mobility
(2018-04-01)This essay fulfilled the requirements of ENG 472, the Capstone for the English Literature Major. In the essay, I explore the relationship between empathy and emotional disconnection at an individual and collective level ... -
The Kingfish in the Sunday Edition: Senator Huey P. Long’s Media Presence, 1932-1935
(2019-12-01)This paper was created for Dr. Leslie's HST420, a research intensive history class. Huey P. Long was the Democratic governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 before his final political engagement, a 1932 to 1935 stint in the ... -
The re-emergence of seasonal hypoxia in Lake Erie: Causes and implications
(2019-11-01)Hypoxia is an extreme environmental condition occurring where dissolved oxygen is present at concentrations /L. During the mid-late 20th century, Lake Erie began experiencing exaggerated seasonal hypoxia in its central ... -
Thumbs Up for Retribution: Capital Punishment, Neuroscience, and Culture
(2022)The American criminal justice system does not exist apart from society; how we conceive criminality and how we punish criminals institutionalizes certain philosophical assumptions and intuitions about human nature and ...
