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Barbie as a Model of Gender Nontraditional Career Possible Self Content for Preschool and Kindergarten Girls (thesis)
Girls (N = 26, mean age = 4.38 years) were interviewed using Barbies dressed in gender traditional and nontraditional career outfits about their identification with the dolls and girls' own aspirations and self-efficacy ...
Computational Models of Spider Activity Patterns Integrated with Behavioral Experiments Hypothesize Adaptive Benefits of the Circadian Clock (thesis)
The purpose of this study is to combine behavioral and computational analyses to describe the
circadian systems of C. turbinata and P. tepidariorum in order to hypothesize adaptive benefits
of the observed behaviors. In ...
The Ethics of CRISPR: What We Can Do vs. What We Should Do
This research has two components. First, an extensive review of the primary and secondary literature on CRISPR [Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats] takes place. To begin speculating on the normative ...
Examining Effective Altruism as a Moral Guide to Alleviating Human Suffering
The individualistic nature of the effective altruism approach limits its capacity to adequately address needless human suffering caused by poverty. Its extreme position argues that one's personal choices on consumption and ...
"Men have power": A Feminist Reclamation of Marianne Moore's "Marriage" (thesis)
I began and ended my research with "Marriage" itself in the same way that this thesis begins and ends with the poem itself. From here I naturally moved to understand Marianne Moore, hoping that through knowing Moore's ...
Jerome's Jewish Asceticism The Targum of Qohelet's Influence on Jerome's Theology of Asceticism in the "Commentary on Ecclesiastes" (thesis)
This thesis examines Jerome’s engagement with Aramaic targumim, specifically the Targum of Qohelet. I survey the state of Hieronymian studies. I argue that Jerome’s theological work has been unfairly subordinated to his ...
'Pure Dew' on the Garden of Nations: Unearthing Johann Gottfried Herder's Religious Vision of German Nationalism (thesis)
This paper seeks to investigate and provide renewed clarity to the ways Johann Gottfried Herder's (1744-1803) theory of nationalism is contested by using more modern theories of 'nation' and 'religion.' Using Benedict ...