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...