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Characters Through Time, Alyssa Venezia

Honors Thesis

T. S. Eliot once wrote that we “often find that not only the best, but the most individual parts of [an author’s] work may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously” (Eliot 37). By focusing on character adaptations, one comes to understand how authors of children’s books are able to adapt classic literature into age-appropriate texts that retain the merits of the original. Five sets of characters shall be analyzed to demonstrate the success of the adaptations presented in children’s literature. In the first, Sir Bedivere from Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur …

T.S. Eliot: A Never-Ending Exploration, Kristina Krupilnitskaya

Honors Thesis

The following thesis explores the work of T.S. Eliot before and after his conversion to the Anglican Church. While the paper explores the stylistic qualities of Eliot's poetry, the main focus of the essay lies in bridging the pre and post conversion works together in order to show that both of the periods were significant in the poet's life. While many critics viewed Eliot's early poetry as a lot more exploratory and challenging, calling his later poetry banal and bland, my essay aims to show that even though the poetry had shifted in its content, its significance, complexity, and experimentality …

Aggregation Characterization Of Wild-Type P53 And Six Common P53 Mutants, Taylor A. Arhar

Honors Thesis

P53 is a tumor suppressor protein, which functions in maintaining the cell cycle. When p53 loses its function, cells may multiply at an uncontrolled rate and form tumors. This loss of function is linked to over fifty percent of human cancers. This investigation aims to explore the possible link between p53 aggregation and tumorigenesis. There is a possibility that p53, especially in mutant form, will aggregate beyond its normal tetrameric conformation and lose its function, leading to tumor formation. Wild-type p53 and six mutants, R175H, R175C, R248Q, R248W, R273C, and R273H (six of the most common mutations found in human …

Financial Crises And Government Regulation, Yusef Trad

Honors Thesis

In the midst of turmoil, regulation is “a rule or directive made and maintained by an authority” to maintain order. More often than not, the authoritative figure that imposes and upholds regulatory standards, following its introduction to the specific industry or firm, is the government of the respective country or region. However, politicians, like the rest of us, are unable to predict when a crisis will occur and what appropriate regulation should be imposed to prevent that crisis. Thus, an inevitable concern with regulation is the fact that it is unable to thwart an unforeseeable future crisis but is instead …

Answer To The Portuguese Crisis: Turning Vacant Land Into Urban Agriculture, Cecilia Delgado

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

The increase in demand for spaces for agricultural production during times of crisis is well recognised (Cities, Poverty and Food, 2010) and this phenomenon can be verified in Portugal. This paper focuses on the access to urban land for agriculture and the need to revisit Land Use Planning to become a facilitating tool for long-term consolidation of UPA.

This paper is an original essay drawing lessons from two paradigmatic Urban and Peri – Urban Agriculture [UPA] Portuguese experiences. They are relevant examples of UPA as a response to the economic crisis, by their expansion through time (more than 10 years), …

What’S Wrong With Peg?, Charles J. Higgins

Finance Faculty Works

PEG is a newer investment ratio measure of a security’s PE ratio divided by the firm’s growth rate as a percentage. It is examined and contrasted with other investment valuation measures. PEG is shown to be problematic in terms of its units of measure, in what it purports to appropriately determine, and it is non monotonic for relatively profitable firms and is only slightly indicative of correct security selection for relatively unprofitable firms.

Happenings@Hannon, December 2015, William H. Hannon Library

Happenings @ Hannon

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Teacher Implementation And Impact Of Academic Vocabulary Instructional Protocols For Long Term English Learners, Rosa I. Isiah

LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations

English learners are expected to acquire academic language and content simultaneously. Long Term English Learners (LTELs), a growing English Learner subgroup, struggle academically and do not have the necessary academic vocabulary proficiency to achieve academic success in our current educational system.

This mixed-methods study examined the implementation of Academic Vocabulary Instructional protocols in the upper grades in a small urban elementary school district. Semistructured interviews, focus group, observation protocol, and data analysis methods were used as primary methods for data collection. Overall, four key themes emerged in this study. First, all 4th- and 5th-grade teachers implemented the new Academic Vocabulary …

Determining False-Positives Requires Considering The Totality Of Evidence, Andrew Healy, Neil Malhotra, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

Economics Faculty Works

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Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, And Slaves: Colonial America And The Indo-Atlantic World, Kevin Mcdonald

Faculty Pub Night

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Cities And The Environment: Eight Years Of Urban Ecology Research And Practice, Eric G. Strauss, Laurel Hunt, Michele Romolini, Dexter H. Locke

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Since its inception, Cities and the Environment has sought to showcase a broad range of urban environmental research and practice. Thus, as we celebrate the closing of our eighth anniversary, the purpose of this paper is to remind (or, for some, introduce) researchers and practitioners of the aims and scope of the journal by describing the first eight years of its history, and to outline our vision for the next eight years.

Wastelanding: Legacies Of Uranium Mining In Navajo Country, Traci Voyles

Faculty Pub Night

No abstract provided.

Save The Date: Nina Revoyr, Author Event

Resources

This poster was created to promote Loyola Marymount University Common Book 2015 author's visit, Nina Revoyr.

Happenings@Hannon, November 2015, William H. Hannon Library

Happenings @ Hannon

No abstract provided.

Must Be An American Citizen, Guadalupe Astorga

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

Living in a limbo state is something many individuals have experienced throughout America’s history, and it is something author Guadalupe Astorga has lived through firsthand. Though she has worked to make Los Angeles her home since moving from Mexico as a young girl, Astorga struggles with the legal definition of “American,” which causes her to feel as though she is living a border existence with “little to no control over [her] future.” Through an exploration of collected memories, Astorga fights against the fear, impatience, and doubt over her “American” identity, but as she waits for an interview that will decide …

The Guide To Leadership: How The System’S Daughter Learned Strength, Maya Combs

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

Maya Combs has found herself both implicitly and explicitly governed by the rules, regulations and expectations of what it means to be successful as an African-American woman and scholar. She uses the different forms of adversity she has experienced, along with the presence of the strong matriarchs who surround her, to articulate the importance of leadership and progress despite socioeconomic disadvantage and the inevitability of death.

La Gente No Nace, Se Hace, Angelica Diaz

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

In her narrative, author Angelica Diaz writes about her development as a daughter, sister, and aunt. Through the use of flashbacks to her childhood she relates the experiences that have brought her to where she is now—a student at Loyola Marymount University working to find her own place in the world and reflecting on her past experiences. By considering the life of her mother—her best friend—Diaz is able to realize her strength and her drive, and that her own place in her world is here and now, at the crossroad between the past and future, right where her faith has …

Pieces Of Me, Cynthia Garcia

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

By describing the relationship with the most important people in her life, Cynthia Garcia connects the ways in which each individual has contributed to shaping her into the young woman she is today. As a first-generation college student, she struggles with pleasing her parents, accepting the unsuspecting financial sacrifices of her younger siblings, and the exploration of herself through a romantic relationship.

Too Much Of Everything And Not Enough, Guadalupe Mejia

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

For author Guadalupe Mejia, the notion of identity as a multifaceted marker of one’s personhood created a sense of confusion and displacement within her. She struggled with a feeling of not belonging. Chronicling some of her experiences leading up to her college years, Mejia attempts to negotiate the ways in which her lived experiences, heritage and customs, and language and accent play a role in the person she strives to be and is expected to be. In the end, she comes to terms with her multicultural reality as a first-generation college student and first-generation U.S.-born American, but it isn’t easy.

Te Doy Gracias, Citlaly Orozco

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

Citlaly Orozco came into college as a quiet and shy person, obedient to all authority including her parents. This narrative reflects on the challenges, conflicts, and contradictions that Orozco has experienced with her mom, who she considers a close friend. Orozco shows how fear and guilt have shaped her college experience and interactions with her family; however, by being the strong, independent, and loving woman her mom taught her to be, Orozco comes to understand that she can be true to herself without feeling guilt. This realization helps Orozco to work through the challenges and moments of weakness to arrive …

Tenemos Que Trabajar, No Hay Otra, Rene Silva

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

Growing up, Rene Silva spent most of his time after school with his father. Despite this early connection, however, today father and son share few words. In the following narrative, Rene Silva delves into the nonexistent relationship he has with his father through the lenses of Latino culture and masculinity.

The Haunting Of Hannon Library Iii: Little Dead Riding Hood Digital Signage

Promotional Materials

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The Haunting Of Hannon Library Iii: Little Dead Riding Hood Poster

Promotional Materials

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Human Library Catalog

Materials for the 4th Annual Human Library

No abstract provided.

Human Library Digital Sign

Materials for the 4th Annual Human Library

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Human Library Poster

Materials for the 4th Annual Human Library

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Is Your Teaching Style Racism Free?, Shani Byard

Faculty Pub Night

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Growing Food And Community: Long Term Community Land Management In Boston, Matthew Delsesto

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Sustainability has become a popular trend and policy tool for urban interventions in American cities, including the implementation of sustainable urban agriculture projects. In practice, effective urban agriculture projects require long term engagement in community management of land with a deep connection to the specific context and history of a neighborhood, as the case of The Food Project in Boston demonstrates. The strong presence of The Food Project in Boston’s Dudley Street neighborhood today grew out of a larger neighborhood history that involved a series of unlikely but powerful collaborations. Part of this context is the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative’s …

Feeding Citizenship: Strategies For Accessing And Transforming Spaces, Gaëlle Janvier, Justin Doucet

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Since 2003, Alternatives’ Feeding Citizenship program has been developing new ways to interact with urban man-made environments and the food cycle, towards a greener city and healthier communities. It does this by encouraging public participation in the creation of new green collective and edible spaces. The program has contributed to identifying opportunities in vacant land by expanding the scope of adequate growing space and it has facilitated transformation by actively bolstering public participation in the creation and investment of these spaces. This paper describes the context and issues surrounding community land access in Montreal. It tells the story of the …

Coupling Benefits: Strategies For Vacant Land Reuse Along Cleveland's Opportunity Corridor, Jeffrey Kruth

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

This paper discusses large scale planning efforts pertaining to vacant land reuse, economic development, and public participation along the Opportunity Corridor project in Cleveland, Ohio. The Corridor is a $331 million roadway project that will span 3.3 miles through some of Cleveland’s most blighted neighborhoods. Issues of distributional justice including underperforming public education, poor public health indicators, high rates of vacancy, and aging infrastructure contribute to neighborhood blight throughout the area. Stormwater management, access to multi-modal transportation, brownfield mitigation, and economic development are also prevalent issues throughout the project area. Advocacy work by the Kent State University Cleveland Urban Design …