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Fifty sights to see before you die: a short story

Wellman, Billie (2020-12)

For years, popular media has pushed a narrative that science and technology are bad, scary, or dangerous; from films to books to television shows, we have all been inundated with the message that we need to be intimidated ...
Student perceptions on climate change: an analysis and story map

Van Skyock, Taylor (2020-12)

Throughout the entirety of history, the Earth’s climate has been changing. A small fraction of warming is natural over time, but most scientists agree that humans are the primary contributor to this change. Although some ...
Not all computer scientists: an analysis of computer science stereotypes in popular media

Turley, Madison (2020-12)

The computer science field has had a problem with diversity, specifically among women, Black, and Latinx populations. This has remained since the 1980s despite other STEM fields seeing improved diversity. It is important ...
School faculty perceptions of concussions in the school-age population

Thieneman, Megan (2020-12)

The purpose of this project was to explore topics related to school reintegration of children with concussions. Topics explored include school faculty’s self-evaluation of knowledge, the training the participant has ...
Family law in Indiana: how can enhanced legislation better protect children from abuse and neglect?

Schuler, Anna Leigh V. (2020-12)

The study and practice of family law in the United States is an ever-evolving realm of legal and social issues that cannot fundamentally be addressed without many factors taken into consideration. Though many family law ...
Illuminating Herstories: women of the Pimeria Alta in Spanish Colonial missions

Scheets, Dorien (2020-12)

Illuminating Herstories: Women of the Pimería Alta in Spanish Colonial Missions follows a loosely chronological organizational pattern in order to show how indigenous women navigated the changing cultural, religious, and ...
COVID-19 new graduate, did that case study prepare you?

Miller, Ashley (2020-12)

result, the health care system faced its greatest challenge in more than a decade. Global death rates soared as hospital equipment and beds quickly depleted. The uncertainty of the epidemiology of the virus instantaneously ...
Comparing classrooms around the world: a unit plan

Lambertson, Kailyn (2020-12)

Often times, social studies are a forgotten subject in early childhood education. With a huge focus of the school day being on language arts and math, subjects like science and social studies have seemingly become second ...
Quantum mechanics and density functional theory of the Rosen-Morse potential

Hinojosa, Eric (2020-12)

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is an electronic structure method widely used to calculate the electronic, optical and magnetic properties of materials in terms of atoms and the electrons that glue them together. One way ...
Using poetry to introduce content in the elementary classroom: a unit plan

Gillum, Erin (2020-12)

Poetry is an important style of writing that is studied throughout the American education system. However, most students are not introduced to poetry until they are in late middle school or high school. If poetry is ...
Privileged to suffer: the story of Helen Roseveare

Danzeisen, Natalie (2020-12)

Dr. Helen Roseveare was a medical doctor from England who spent twenty years of her life treating patients and establishing hospitals in the Congo from 1953 to 1973. At the end of her first stint in the country, she was ...
The dimensions of mental health and violence among students in 9th to 12th grade

Scovell, Amber (2021-07-24)

This study focuses on the several dimensions of violence and mental health within high school students. Using the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS), the evidence suggests 3 unique subpopulations within ...
Protecting citizen integrity: the shortcomings of constitutions in Nepal, Sri Lank, and India

Rogers, Amanda (2021-07-24)

“For the [R]ule of [L]aw to exist, people must believe in and be committed to the rule oflaw…” (Ashby). The rule of law is outlined most prominently by nations’ constitutions. A nation’s constitution is comprised of every ...
Behavioral profile analysis of a semantic field of near synonymous adverbs in English

REdd, William (2021-07-24)

Dictionaries tend to define the English adverbs literally, totally, and wholly with respect to each other, thus failing to distinguish their nuances. Although adverbs are well known for their complex functional and syntactic ...
Baseball analytics and performance enhancing drugs

Kramer, Colette (2021-06-24)

This study provided insight into the relationship between the usage of performance enhancing drugs and Major League Baseball performance analytics. This study utilized a logistical hierarchical model to analyze the ...
Modern faerie tales: monstrosity (In)action

Hurst, Mika (2021-07-24)

Despite the increasing popularity of Young Adult Literature (YAL), there are still YAL subgenres, like fantasy, which have received little to no attention in literary criticism. This research paper hopes to remedy that ...
A comparison of the Kaufman assessment battery for children second edition and the children's HOPE scale

Hughes, Sydney (2021-07-24)

The present study aimed to assess whether a KMeans clustered sample of scores on the Children’s HOPE Scale differed with respect to scores on the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children via one-way MANOVA. The results ...
Sexual source domain selection: contrasting reddit forums and academia in American English

Gramlich, JJ (2021-07-24)

This research contrasts metaphor usage across formal and informal writing in American English. The data was taken from a public forum, Reddit, and a Psychology and Behavioral Sciences database to contrast the ways that ...
An analysis of the relative efficacy of different measures of socioeconomic status in predicting academic achievement in math

Emminger, Jaden (2021-07-24)

13The relationship between socioeconomic status SES and academic achievement has long been investigated. The way SES has been operationalized in studies has also often varied. It has been measured through the use of a ...
Social justice approaches to social sustainability: a qualitative analysis exploring the costs and benefits to the defund the police initiative in Washington Park, Chicago, IL

DeJohnette, Natalee (2021-07-24)

Recent nationwide demonstrations against police brutality and institutional racism perceptions in law enforcement have sparked renewed controversy concerning the United States criminal justice system. Much of this debate ...

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