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We Warred Over Art: Pandemonium at Le Sacre du Printemps (thesis)
Diaghilev continued this process of bringing Russian art to France under the auspices of the Ballets Russes. With this company, Diaghilev assembled dozens of innovative artists, choreographers, and composers with the common ...
Outside the Law: Obstacles to Respecting Roma Housing Rights at a Toxic Landfill (thesis)
Nearly 2,000 people live at the site of a toxic landfill known as Pata-Rât in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Around 42 percent of the people who live at Pata-Rât were evicted to the site by local authorities. Additionally, approximately ...
Until the Breaking of Day: Stories from Penuel County, Georgia (thesis)
The most important thing to me in this collection is the presence of religion. I came up with the name of the setting of my short stories long before I had even decided that I wanted to write a senior thesis. In a “Bible ...
Mise en abyme chez Albert Camus; Narcissisme et Intersexualité dans l'Etranger, La Peste, et La Chute (thesis)
Though one of the most prolifically analysed writers of the 20th century, Albert Camus' fiction is not only remarkably limited in length, but also has also rarely been criticized from a metafictional perspective. Between ...
Hispanic K-12 Students in the United States Public School System: Why are they Disproportionately Underachieving in School?
Hispanic students account for 22% of all people enrolled in school in the United States and, on average, these students are significantly educationally underachieving compared to their white peers in every academic measure. ...
"The First Fruits of a Re-United People": The Loyalty, Motivation, and Allegiance of the Men of the Second United States Volunteer Infantry Regiment (thesis)
We were discussing the issues facing President Abraham Lincoln's Administration during the war when he mentioned that in 1864 it had to deal with the uprising of the Plains Indians in Minnesota. To address this threat, the ...
An Analysis of the Dissemination and Evolution of Christian Mysticism Through Middle English Vernacular Literature (thesis)
My thesis examines a total of three works of literature written in Middle English. I believe that Richard Rolle's Meditations on the Passion, the medieval religious lyric I have selected and The Book of Margery Kempe ...
Revolt on the Clyde: Birth and Significance of Red Clydeside, 1914-1922 (thesis)
Early attempts at characterizing the labor movement in Scotland and the rise of Red Clydeside were often too accepting of the received wisdom of the period and as such require some amount of revision. However, revisionist ...
The Persistent Problem of Gender Inequality in the Twenty-First Century: Why Sweden's Care and Leave Policies Are Not the Panacea (thesis)
This study focuses on the effects of leave and care policies in Germany, Spain, the UK, and Sweden. Leave and care policies are distinguished as two of the most important social policies affecting women's and men's work-care ...
If You Give a Boy a Baby: Encouraging Empathy in Preschool Boys through Toy Play and Emotion Talk (thesis)
Empathy, the ability to respond to another's distress with a similar emotion, develops in children as young as two to three years old as their role-taking abilities and emotion regulation skills increase (Feshbach, 1982). ...