This thesis explores the artistic and personal development of Ernest Hemingway through the portrayal of three of his most compelling heroes: Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises, Robert Jordan in For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Santiago in The Old Man and t . . .

Although there is a surfeit of scholarship on Emily Dickinson, with topics ranging from the obvious focus on her reclusiveness to more rarefied topics such as her passion for flowers and baking, there is a dearth of academic writing using the psychoan . . .

In this tricentennial year of the founding of New Orleans, the city and its people of color deserve a revisionist meta-narrative of the Crescent City’s contribution to new world modernity. This thesis takes as its structure the three elements of Berna . . .

All industries can benefit from the improved productivity and success that result from attention to the costs of producing quality products, including the aerospace defense industry. Yet, this sector has struggled to accurately track costs of quality . . .

The purpose of this study was to extend the research related to the effectiveness of home visits designed to demonstrate phonemic awareness intervention strategies with seven elementary school students, aged five to seven years old, with specific lear . . .

The present period has witnessed the emergence of many contemporary learning models because of the digital revolution. Due to the prevalence of learning models, a comprehensive understanding of these educational practices and an assessment framework a . . .

This thesis seeks to addresses a number of serious problems in the prison theories of Michel Foucault. It argues that no explanation for the rise of corrective penality in the US can be sufficient without inclusion of the topic of Christian salvation. . . .

Traditionally, universities rely on Likert-scale or multiple-choice surveys to capture students’ Voice of the Customer (VOC) regarding educational program performance. Such surveys, convenient to collect and post-process, provide limited information f . . .

Toni Morrison’s Sula and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening illustrate the negative implications of a patriarchal society as their female characters are compelled to sacrifice their identities to conform. Although they are from different time periods, settin . . .

The issues with women and wrongful institutionalization, questions about their intelligence, and confining feminine gender roles are often elusive. Using a neo-Victorian approach, this work studies wrongful institutionalization of women in Victorian l . . .

The purpose of this study was to examine whether students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) experience executive dysfunctions and how these dysfunctions affect their writing process during an expository synthesis essay. It was then predicted t . . .

The purpose of this study was to understand how community-based instruction (CBI) effected the development of life skills for students with moderate disabilities. The data for this study were gathered using observational checklists to monitor progress . . .

Attempts have been made (with research efforts encouraged) to deconstruct the “race” concept into language, cultural, and life experience variables that can help explain performance differences found between ethnic groups on neuropsychological tests ( . . .

Increased internet service usage places increased demand on data centers posing new problems such as degrading performance and increased security risks. Middleboxes such as load balancers and intrusion detection systems are one way of addressing the i . . .

There has been a growing population of non-religious people in the United States, and a gradual shift towards secularization. Additionally, there has been a renewed interest in the idea of spirituality as more people have denounced religion and the su . . .

This study examines the early history of Reno, Nevada’s Twentieth Century Club and its relationship to the state suffrage movement. Several Club women attempted to introduce the idea of female equality to members with speeches, paper presentations, an . . .

Although research has been done on handwriting and its relationship to academic achievement, as well as ADHD and mathematic achievement, there has been little research that ties these three concepts together; nevertheless, this paper contends that the . . .

The focus of this thesis project is to explore the specific barriers and difficulties that international students face in the host country of the United States. The study examined a group of 16 international students from Arabic-speaking countries who . . .

An international examination of the experiences of LGBTQ+ social work students in the U.S., Canada, and UK suggest that students notice a lack of visibility of LGBTQ+ issues in curriculum, experience an unsafe climate in their program, and in some ins . . .

This thesis explores how the relationship between the violence occurring during the 1990s in Los Angeles, California; historical and modern police training; the California penal code; and legal decisions and precedent resulted in the militarization of . . .