In this paper, I seek to examine this darkness, this messiness and confusion, and to uncover how far it stretches: how much it reveals and how much it hides. I understand that this is a complex project, and I understand that I...
It is fair to assume that the average American knows how to use the library. They know how to maneuver inside, whether to borrow a book, access a desktop computer, sign up for a free group class, pay off a fine, or simply enjoy...
There have been many attempts to pin down exactly what makes certain things humorous. The goal of this paper is to review some of the main theories of humor, and to offer an alternative theory of what makes things funny. That...
Afya- Centro holístico da mulher (Afya- Women’s Holistic Center) is holistic healing center and non-governmental organization located in the neighborhood of Alto do Mateus, João Pessoa, state of Paraíba, Brazil. The...
The scholarship surrounding social change within movements is largely geared toward studying heated moments of contestation and their ability to spark social and systemic alternatives. But in order to fully understand their...
The weeds that are present in the landscape of the Dickinson College Certified Organic Farm, play a vital role in the agroecosystem that is created through human manipulations. The farm managers spend a great deal of time...
Philosophers, theologians, and average people have debated the definition of a person for a long time. This thesis explores the ideas of an ethnic group that has not been adequately explored. The Akan people from southern and...
Infestation with the gastrointestinal nematode Haemonchus contortus in small ruminants, such as sheep and goats, can cause farmers severe economic losses and endanger animal welfare. Adult H. contortus attach to the stomach of...
The study of how prairie rattlesnakes, a common species of reptiles across the United States, regulate their body temperature is essential to human efforts to conserve such species and maintain ecological balance. The...
Coal-tar-based sealcoats have been identified as a significant source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) pollutants. The concentrations and source profiles of PAHs in seal-coat samples from two commercial lots in...
The concentrations and distributions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and oxygenated PAHs (oxy-PAHs) in stream sediments collected from thirty-four sites along the Conodoguinet Creek were measured and analyzed. The...
In this paper I critically analyze the local food movement in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and the surrounding area. I argue that the local food movement is a response to a global, industrialized neoliberal food system. Consumers...
Constricting snakes must balance the energetic cost of constriction with the potential danger in releasing their prey too early. Therefore, it would be advantageous for these snakes to possess a mechanism to determine the...
Our research experimentally, mathematically, and computationally investigated the singularity that forms at the tip of water droplets freezing on a flat surface (Snoeijer and Brunet, AJP 2012). We designed an apparatus to...
Ensemble methods are widely applied in classification problems. Ensemble methods combine results from multiple classifiers to overcome the possible deficiency of any single classifier. One important question is how to construct...
Puerto Rico’s indeterminate status as a US territory has unquestionably left it vulnerable to political, economic, and environmental exploitation. Its status as neither country nor state has resulted in the small island of...
This thesis concerns the conditions of ascribing knowledge. It draws insight from Goldman’s reliabilism, McDowell and Brandom’s critique on reliabilism, Nozick’s tracking account, contextualism, and a novel approved-list...
Increasing human health concerns, predicted growth of insect populations due to global warming, and increasing prevalence of pesticide resistance in insects have led to a recent surge of interest in alternatives to traditional,...
In this paper we present two novel abstract syntax tree (AST) indexing algorithms that solve the get-descendants-by-type problem in near constant time. This work has been implemented in the U.S. Department of Energy's ROSE...
Se dice que la literatura sirve como un espejo de la sociedad en la que se radica. Y al analizarla, es posible identificar los rasgos sociales que sobresalieron en el momento de escribir. Como estudiante de antropología,...
In this paper, I reconceptualize sugarcane plantations in Hawai‘i outside of a narrative of progress to explore the dynamisms of Hawai‘i Japanese American identity. These dynamisms emerge from the perspectives and family...
This research looks into the role and presentation of the “Volk” in the fairy tales of the Grimm Brothers. These fairy tales, first published in 1812, then revised, and republished 7 times until 1857, feature the attempts of...
When minstrel shows were created in the 1830’s, they emerged under the claims of being entertainment that showcased black slave life. This entertainment was supposed to serve as a direct representation of black slaves and...
Although scholars have identified and celebrated the multicultural nature of Edwidge Danticat’s fiction, little scholarship exists that examines the complexity and significance of her multilingual craft. In response, this paper...
Boa constrictor possess an elongate lung containing an anterior vascular section that abruptly changes into a saccular lung incapable of gas exchange. Measurements and analyses of data have shown that the anterior vascular...
My series of oil paintings titled bitter/sweet investigates how women navigate physical and emotional intimacy with both themselves and others. I began this year thinking about selfportraits, questioning how I define my...
This research situates the origins of zine culture in early Black magazines from the 1800s
and 1900s that laid a foundation for contemporary zine culture, reinserting Black narratives into
the history of zine production....
This thesis is a feminist reading of Boundless, a graphic novel of short stories by Jillian Tamaki published in 2017. I focus on two of the nine short stories in Boundless, “Darla!” and “The ClairFree System.” Both of these...
When one thinks of violence, one tends to assume that the perpetrator and the victim of the violence are two separate individuals. But what happens when we discuss violence committed against the self? How can we work to...
Today the vast majority of Jews of Moroccan descent hail from Israel. In a 16-year period between 1948 and 1964, 220,000 of Morocco’s 250,000 Jews emigrated from the country.1 Most, but not all of these Jews settled in the...
Carolina Maria de Jesus literary works play an integral role in the development of Black feminism in Brazil. In both her texts, Child of the Dark and Bitita’s Diary she uses her writing as a fundamental tool for individual and...
We present a case study on the development of a formally verified PHP web social network application. With the expansion of social media and our presence in the cyber world, the privacy and security of our content online have...
Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are a branch of search algorithms popularly used due to their ability to find near optimal solutions in reasonable amounts of time. The algorithm itself stems from the Darwinian Theory of natural...
In this study, we investigate critical zone architecture and seismic anisotropy in Oregon Ridge Park, MD; specifically, the Pond Branch and Baismen Run catchments. Our characterization of critical zone architecture involves...
State capitalism, as adopted by the People’s Republic of China, represents a growing threat to the United States’ primacy in the international system. The Beijing Consensus, as it has been termed, represents a direct assault on...
China has risen from the subject of Western neo-colonialism to a rising hegemon that is beginning to buck the U.S.’s monopoly of the Asia-Pacific arena. Traditionally, Chinese society spurned the economic elite, Confucian-era...
When studying a dynamical system, it is common to partition the space (or a subset of the space) into a finite number of disjoint regions. Associated to each orbit is its itinerary, the sequence of regions it passes through. If...
Climate change is altering global temperature patterns and triggering phenological shifts,
including advancements in breeding events and changes in growth. Flowering in plants acts as an
indicator for phenological shifts and...
For over 70 years the Colombian government has struggled with legitimizing its rule over the entirety of its dominions. Whether enveloped in a civil war (1948-1958) or battling transnational organizations like insurgency groups...
Beginning in the Winter of 2019, the coronavirus pandemic took over the world, drastically changing our day-to-day lives. This study focuses on how the pandemic inflated intensive mothering standards, disproportionately...
The reuse of environmentally contaminated properties presents the opportunity for community revitalization in neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the United States. This study provides an in depth exploration of one...
The functional use of a primate’s body greatly influences its skeletal morphology. Previous morphological studies include analyses of the glenohumeral joint as a reflection of the locomotion distinct to each Old World monkey....
Previous experiments have compared the processes of perception and visual mental imagery at the visual cortex. Many researchers have reported that the visual cortex is activated during visual imagery, although some believe that...
Creolization is one of the most abstract and complex terms in anthropological scholarship.
Understood as a creation of new culture from two or more groups interacting, this word is
deeply steeped in its unique history and...
The aim of this thesis is to deconstruct contemporary “Do-It-Yourself” punk rock subculture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by presenting the inconsistencies of the subculture’s ideas and practices. The study employs cultural...
This thesis approaches Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet – which consists of the novels My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child – in two different...
This thesis is divided into three different sections. The first examines how Cosmopolitan sexually exploits women through its images, content, and advertisements. It argues that these images and content subordinate women by...
Climate change models predict more extreme rain events and drought to occur in different areas of the mid-latitude region. Farmers and researchers have been looking for solutions to reduce negative impacts of these...
In this paper, I critique Hume’s sentimentalist theory and propose an expansion of his common point of view in order to escape some of the dangers of meta-ethical relativism. My goal is to revise Hume’s universalism while...
This thesis examines how higher academia is moving to becoming more diverse and inclusive through a case study of the institutional changes of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA). As higher academia...
Additional Reading: After graduating from Dickinson, Courtney Weatherby drew deeply on this thesis in writing a book chapter on Chinese investments in Myanmar published by the Academy of Political Science. Citation: Scobell,...
This paper examines the impact of decentralization on political corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the recent literature finds that decentralization reduces corruption, an outcome which is often attributed to the ability...
Many people enjoying having numerous options available to them, yet when it comes to making a choice, people prefer selecting from fewer options. Research has shown that people tend to have the greatest satisfaction when...
Overabundance of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus Zimmerman) is a growing problem throughout the eastern United States. This study investigates the role that deer play as seed dispersers focusing on two main questions....
In Unnatural Doubts, Michael Williams aims to defeat Cartesian skepticism. This thesis defends Williams' anti-skeptical conclusion, which is the product of what he calls a theoretical diagnosis of skepticism, against an...