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The Trends In Accuracy Of Ancient History In Filmed Media And Its Implications On Society And Education, Anthony Jay Votta
The Trends In Accuracy Of Ancient History In Filmed Media And Its Implications On Society And Education, Anthony Jay Votta
Honors Projects
How have accuracies and inaccuracies of historical filmed media changed throughout time and historical contexts? What are these films’ effects on society and education? Are these films moving away from the truth when their educational worth grows yearly? Historical filmed media has not become more or less accurate over time. The real issue, however, is the need for increased historical education and properly preparing students to recognize and research any inaccuracies they might come across. The success of this rides on the backs of educators and will decide how easily media can change historical memories of figures and events.
History Has Its Eyes On Hamilton: An Analysis Of How Hamilton: An American Musical Changed Broadway And Society, Elizabeth Seastrom
History Has Its Eyes On Hamilton: An Analysis Of How Hamilton: An American Musical Changed Broadway And Society, Elizabeth Seastrom
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This paper analyzes the ways in which Hamilton: An American Musical impacted both Broadway and society. When Hamilton premiered on Broadway in 2015, it quickly became a massive phenomenon, one that had a major impact on Broadway itself and on society at large. The show’s use of color-conscious casting and unique hip-hop style drew in audiences that would not otherwise be drawn to Broadway. The Original Cast’s demand for royalties also had a hand in impacting Broadway’s finances and inspiring actors to strike. Additionally, Lin-Manuel Miranda made it a priority to involve the show in education, launching the EduHam program …
When Identities Align: An Examination Of Co-Constructed Identities, Autumn Messier
When Identities Align: An Examination Of Co-Constructed Identities, Autumn Messier
Honors Projects
When Identities Align: An Examination of Co-Constructed Identities
Dorsal Fin Innervation Of The Bluegill, Lepomis Macrochirus, Amanda Torick
Dorsal Fin Innervation Of The Bluegill, Lepomis Macrochirus, Amanda Torick
Honors Projects
Recent work has shown that the dorsal fins in fish operate not only as locomotive appendages, but also as sensory structures that aid in proprioception. To investigate how fish use these structures for sensing, the innervation of the dorsal fins in bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) was assessed through immunohistochemistry assays. I conducted staining using anti-acetylated tubulin (AAT), a non-specific neuron marker, calcitonin-gene related peptide (CGRP) which stains sensory neurons and cytokeratin 20 (CK20), which binds to mechanoreceptor structures. Stained samples of bluegill dorsal fins were imaged under a laser scanning epifluorescence microscope to visualize mechanoreceptors, as well as sensory and …
A Swift Spin On Literature: Taylor Swift's Feminist Reimagination Of Male-Dominated Literature, Autumn Messier
A Swift Spin On Literature: Taylor Swift's Feminist Reimagination Of Male-Dominated Literature, Autumn Messier
Honors Projects
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Everyday Life History Of The Soviet Laborer, 1920s-1930s, Brianna Lee Hutchins
Everyday Life History Of The Soviet Laborer, 1920s-1930s, Brianna Lee Hutchins
Honors Projects
This thesis provides a comprehensive view of the daily lives of the Soviet Proletariat in the 1920s and 1930s. Both negative and positive outcomes of the policies implemented during this period are discussed regarding the growth and experiences of the working class. The discipline of everyday life history is explored and applied to this socioeconomic group. Work, education, home life, family structure, gender roles, and standard of living are the main subsets of daily life examined in this thesis. The research presented here concludes that the Soviet Communist Party considered itself an urban vanguard creating a proletarian serving state and …
Legacy Effects Of Forest Clearcutting On Ecosystem Function And Biogeochemical Cycling In A New England Forest, Andre Solomon Gomes
Legacy Effects Of Forest Clearcutting On Ecosystem Function And Biogeochemical Cycling In A New England Forest, Andre Solomon Gomes
Honors Projects
Terrestrial soils comprise the largest reservoirs of carbon (C) in the biosphere holding some 2500 Gt C, which is 4x the amount found in plant biomass and 3x the C content of the atmospheric pool. Approximately 1500 Gt of soil C is in an organic form, thus making it available to mineralization by heterotrophic organisms [10]. Changes to the drivers of mineralization such as climate change and aeration due to anthropogenic land use, such as logging, have the potential to strongly affect global carbon and associated nutrient cycles, plant production, and atmospheric composition. With the aim of better understanding the …
Food Insecurity And Food Justice In The Rhode Island Food Bank, Hannah Lennox
Food Insecurity And Food Justice In The Rhode Island Food Bank, Hannah Lennox
Honors Projects
In 2021, 18% of Rhode Islanders were food insecure, with a higher prevalence for Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities, as well as households with children (Rhode Island Community Food Bank, 2021). Levels of food insecurity were also heightened during the COVID-19 Pandemic both nationally, and locally, in Rhode Island. This project inquires about the experiences of food insecurity and food justice among Rhode Island residents. The purpose of this study is to understand on a deeper level the recent scope of food insecurity in Rhode Island with respect to food insecurity disparities. A secondary purpose of this project is to …
"Morality Sucks": The Final Generation In 1980s Horror Cinema, Lily Mae Bruscini
"Morality Sucks": The Final Generation In 1980s Horror Cinema, Lily Mae Bruscini
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The Final Girl term, created by Carol Clover, tried to identify the surviving victim as a virtuous and chaste girl, eventually masculinized in overcoming her killer. 1980s horror cinema portrays characters being plagued by normative society. The main cast of protagonists in these films are teens in late adolescence, and/or early adulthood. These teenagers are targeted because of their substance abuse, sexual tendencies, and their independence. As a way to explore Clover's theory of the Final Girl, this essay uses Lee Edleman's theory of reproductive futurism to understand the generational conflict through three selected films: A Nightmare on Elm Street …
Becoming Body In Euripides: Affect And Object In Bacchae, The Trojan Women, And Hecuba, Olivia Kulczycky
Becoming Body In Euripides: Affect And Object In Bacchae, The Trojan Women, And Hecuba, Olivia Kulczycky
Honors Projects
In this thesis, I explore the material and immaterial flux of bodies in three plays by Euripides as they attempt to reach the Deleuzian body without organs (BwO). The first chapter, “Flesh,” focuses on the corporeal body of Dionysus in Bacchae as he transcends its boundaries to reach the BwO. The next chapter, “(No)Thing,” examines presence, absence, and elements in The Trojan Women, drawing attention to the role of affective breath. In my thesis’ final chapter, “Sound,” I analyze the sonic body of lamentation that Hecuba builds in Hecuba to territorialize herself with a refrain and deterritorialize herself to reach …
The Power Of Sound: The Positive Effects Of Music For Students With Autism, Julianne Elsie Svoboda
The Power Of Sound: The Positive Effects Of Music For Students With Autism, Julianne Elsie Svoboda
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Sound is a powerful force that can change the lives of many people. Individuals with Autism may struggle in different areas including various forms of communication, social skills, behavioral difficulties, and more. Vocal and/or instrumental sounds (music) can make a significant difference in how individuals on the spectrum make sense of the world and deal with their challenges. Music is an essential tool, an important educational element for students with autism, that must be provided as part of their education so that they may have better opportunities to blossom to their full potential. The power of sound is explored through …
Are Medical Support Staff Provided With Sufficient Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Training?, Margareth A. Alvarado
Are Medical Support Staff Provided With Sufficient Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Training?, Margareth A. Alvarado
Honors Projects
Purpose: This study was conducted to determine the need for workforce development and training of diversity, culture, and inclusion in small healthcare offices in Rhode Island. Method: This study utilized phone interviews from participants in twenty-one primary and specialty care offices throughout Rhode Island. Results: Findings suggested the need for more workforce development and training of DEI within small offices. More education is needed to understand and define the meaning of diversity, culture, and inclusion in these smaller primary care and specialty care settings. Conclusions: A repeat study should be conducted to allow for additional data collection. The geographical and …
Refusing To Be Silent: A Case Study Of Act Up & The Dual Role Of Anger In Social Movements, Juliet Aurora Antonio
Refusing To Be Silent: A Case Study Of Act Up & The Dual Role Of Anger In Social Movements, Juliet Aurora Antonio
Honors Projects
The central question for my thesis is: How much can activism be fueled by anger, and how can that anger lead to a movement destruction? Anger is an effective catalyst for a movement; However, if a movement fails to change its goals to adapt to a shifting political climate, and if activists begin to turn their anger on each other, then the movement will decline and collective action will cease. I argue that those emotions led to ACT UP demise as the organization fractured after its controversial responses to routine opposition and failure to adapt to a changing political context. …
The Effects Of Listening To Music On The Anxiety Of Nursing Students, Madisen S. Martin
The Effects Of Listening To Music On The Anxiety Of Nursing Students, Madisen S. Martin
Honors Projects
The purpose of this project is to examine the effects of listening to music on the anxiety of nursing students with the goal of lowering levels of anxiety. Anxiety is how the body is able to respond to stress. Many people experience anxiety on a daily basis. A mild level of anxiety before an exam or a job interview may be unpleasant but motivates the person to perform. When anxiety reaches higher levels, it may hinder academic performance and interrupt activities of daily living. Nursing students are not immune to anxiety. Once students are admitted to a nursing program, they …
Parenthetical Elsewhere(S), Nathan Thomas Veloso
Parenthetical Elsewhere(S), Nathan Thomas Veloso
Honors Projects
This creative project focuses on the grammatically interrogative, elusive and allusive sound, and the interrelation between landscape and language. Music and sound, not only in terms of musicality as a poetic device with potential for meaning, but sound as historical sound-vestige(s), runs throughout the collection, as does experimentation with form, syntax, foreign languages and etymology. The research portion of this project was grounded in movements such as French Symbolism, Anglophone Imagism, and Postmodern American Poetry, especially those considered to be experimental such as Susan Howe, Ronald Johnson and Gustaf Sobin.
San Francisco: A Love Affair, And Other Essays, Ellen J. Taylor
San Francisco: A Love Affair, And Other Essays, Ellen J. Taylor
Honors Projects
My honors project is a collection of personal essays that focus on themes of place, identity, and interpersonal relationships. 'San Francisco: A Love Affair,' looks at the way one special place and cultural era can shape a life. 'Ballet is a Country' examines how an early path isn't always the one ultimately followed. In 'Our Truest Selves' I explore family relationships using the technique of midrash, an ancient form of Hebrew scriptural commentary that augments the main text with added insight. 'Wavelength' is a brief treatise on the profound differences, at least to my eyes, between the east and west …
Understanding The Effects Of N-Terminal Acetylation On The Oligomeric State Of Tau, Miguel Jose Martinez Guzman
Understanding The Effects Of N-Terminal Acetylation On The Oligomeric State Of Tau, Miguel Jose Martinez Guzman
Honors Projects
Protein production, purification, and analysis done in order to find the effects of N-terminal acetylation on microtubule associated protein tau.
Using Graph Theory For Design And Safety In Railroad Systems, Kaleigh R. Poirier
Using Graph Theory For Design And Safety In Railroad Systems, Kaleigh R. Poirier
Honors Projects
Trains, a method of transportation for people and/or goods, are different than other methods of transportation, such as boats or trucks. Trains can only travel in a railroad system, specifically upon tracks. If something is prevent ing the train from moving on the tracks, then that whole line of railroad is shut down. If boats and trucks cannot travel on a particular route, there are alternative routes that can be taken. The design of the railroad system may appear to be created by chance, in that no trains crash into each other or into stations, but there is an application …
The Responsibility To Protect And Syria- Looking At The Future Of Humanitarian Intervention, Nikola Jana Trahan
The Responsibility To Protect And Syria- Looking At The Future Of Humanitarian Intervention, Nikola Jana Trahan
Honors Projects
This thesis assesses the legality of humanitarian intervention in the context of the Syrian Civil War. It specifically investigates the international legal principle the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)" and critiques it. "
In The Devil's Shadow: Sacred Agency, Cosmic Struggle, And The Cultural-Religious Clashes That Shaped Colonial New England, 1620-1693, Mark Laskey
Honors Projects
The diabolic portrayal of resident native populations featured prominently in the seventeenth-century colonial Separatist and Puritan worldview, with the Algonquian peoples cast as a corrupted race in the service of the Devil; a means by which God challenged religious complacency or chastised collective sin; and, in times of spiritual crisis and despair, a mortal threat to the "rule of saints" in the region. This study focuses on the real-world impact of the nonconforming Reformed Anglo-Protestant belief system and the resulting cultural-religious clashes that shaped New England's early colonial period.
Monty Hall Meets Game Theory, Jamie Lynn Dobson
Monty Hall Meets Game Theory, Jamie Lynn Dobson
Honors Projects
I explored the Monty Hall game scenario and how to calculate the chances of winning by staying or switching doors using a probability and game theory approach. I also calculated how these chances change when there are 4, 5,..., n doors.
Senior Level Nursing Students Knowledge And Attitudes Regarding Sexually Transmitted Infections, Maddison Stacy Pontes
Senior Level Nursing Students Knowledge And Attitudes Regarding Sexually Transmitted Infections, Maddison Stacy Pontes
Honors Projects
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a continuous health concern in the United States (United States Department of Health and Human Services [HHS], 2021). Nurses, as health promoters and leaders within the community have a unique role to provide education, screening, and treatment for STIs in all health care settings that could in turn result in a substantial decrease to overall STI rates. Current research indicates STI rates are increasing across the country, and Bungay et al., (2016) asserts that nurses may not be working within their full scope of practice to address this issue. Lack of focused nursing education resulting …
Between The Axe And The Anvil: Internal Reconstructions Of Modern Subjectivity In Alfred DöBlin's Berlin, Alexanderplatz, Zachary Lopez
Between The Axe And The Anvil: Internal Reconstructions Of Modern Subjectivity In Alfred DöBlin's Berlin, Alexanderplatz, Zachary Lopez
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Berlin, Alexanderplatz holds a unique place in literary history; for despite being considered one of the major Gro√üstadt‚Äîor big city‚Äînovels of the modernist period, it has largely been forgotten. Between the Axe and the Anvil: Internal (Re)constructions of Modern Subjectivity in Berlin, Alexanderplatz is an essay that grapples with the problem of subjectivity within the city‚Äîa problem that is peculiarly similar to the novel‚Äôs, as both seem to have been lost amidst the buildings and crowds of Weimar Berlin. By reading the text as a dialectic between the social pressures of modernization and the spatiality of the city, Berlin, Alexanderplatz …
Expression And Purification Of N-Terminally Acetylated Microtubule Binding Protein Tau, Abigail Fleurima
Expression And Purification Of N-Terminally Acetylated Microtubule Binding Protein Tau, Abigail Fleurima
Honors Projects
The microtubule-associated protein Tau (MAPT) plays a critical role in many neurodegenerative diseases. Tau functions to stabilize microtubule structures that are essential for transport within the neuron, and transport disruption leads to loss of neuronal function. Tau binding is regulated by phosphorylation with the help of kinases that add phosphate groups which block microtubule binding sites, and phosphatases that remove phosphate groups and expose the microtubule-binding regions. Tau can be found in hyper-phosphorylated states, which causes Tau to self-assemble into aggregates and prevent microtubule binding. It's clear that post-translational modifications (PTMs) of Tau play a key role in the dysregulation …
Identifying Knowledge Of Celiac Disease In Family Nurse Practitioner Students, Gabrielle Paige Pommenville
Identifying Knowledge Of Celiac Disease In Family Nurse Practitioner Students, Gabrielle Paige Pommenville
Honors Projects
This honors project aims to determine the knowledge that family nurse practitioner students have of celiac disease, to promote awareness, education, and earlier diagnosis of celiac disease in the pediatric population.
Function Of Spiny Dorsal Fin Erector Muscles In The Bluegill, Lepomis Macrochirus, Zakiyat Djabakatie
Function Of Spiny Dorsal Fin Erector Muscles In The Bluegill, Lepomis Macrochirus, Zakiyat Djabakatie
Honors Projects
Local motor control directly contributes to stability, which can be compromised by injury or multiple neuromuscular disorders. In addition, lack of sensory perception as experienced by decreased limb sensation can further deteriorate one‚Äôs quality of life. The goal of this study is to use bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) fins as model systems to study and gain insights on local motor control and sensory perception to improve stability and locomotion in humans, especially in a rehabilitative state. We hypothesize that 1) when exposed to turbulence (T), bluegill will use the spiny dorsal fin to recover stability and muscle intensity and duration will …
"I Did Not Plant The Seeds Too Deeply": Intergenerational Trauma And Shame In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye And Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory, Grace Ann Kimmell
"I Did Not Plant The Seeds Too Deeply": Intergenerational Trauma And Shame In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye And Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory, Grace Ann Kimmell
Honors Projects
When trauma‚Äôs genesis is in societal racism or the patriarchal power structure, it can leach its way into our intimate family relationships. Those damaged relationships can in turn create a profound loss or division within the self, as Freud explains in ‚ÄúMourning and Melancholia.‚Äù The trauma victim has lost what a parent or family should be and the security that comes with feeling accepted and loved. If trauma begins with systemic racism and sexism and gets passed down intergenerationally, what is its effect on a black female child‚Äôs identity? Is this trauma survivable? What is necessary to recover? My thesis …
Impact Of Structural And Individual Level Traits On Delinquent And Criminal Behavior: Building A Testable Multilevel Model, Jason Benjamin Gieck
Impact Of Structural And Individual Level Traits On Delinquent And Criminal Behavior: Building A Testable Multilevel Model, Jason Benjamin Gieck
Honors Projects
The creation of a multilevel model to examine the structural and individual level characteristics that contribute to delinquency and criminality, and how the created work can inform future research, counseling and policy strategy changes in the future.
An Investigation Of Form And Function In Greek Pottery, Kyra L. Garabedian
An Investigation Of Form And Function In Greek Pottery, Kyra L. Garabedian
Honors Projects
This work investigates the relationship between form and function in Greek Pottery. Vessels are recreated in different ways that experiment with tipping the scales between form and function.
Mad Men, Troubled Mothers, And Scarred Children: Representations Of Traumatic Parent-Child Relationships In Mad Men, Katarina Dulude
Mad Men, Troubled Mothers, And Scarred Children: Representations Of Traumatic Parent-Child Relationships In Mad Men, Katarina Dulude
Honors Projects
The television series Mad Men is fraught with traumatic parent-child relationships. The thesis examines three central characters from the Draper family--Don, Betty, and Sally--and their various defense mechanisms. Through the use of psychoanalytic and trauma theory, it determines why certain characters succeed in confronting and recovering from their trauma while others do not.