Water quality--Connecticut--Eightmile River (New London County and Middlesex County); Eightmile River (New London County and Middlesex County, Conn.)
"Submited in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Arts in Biology."; Thesis advisor: Clayton Penniman.; M.A.,Central Connecticut State University,,2012.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-64).
Latin American literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Spanish American literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary); American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Multiculturalism -- Study and teaching...
This study provides an avenue for the integration of diversity appreciation into high school curriculum through literature. The major premise of this thesis is to illustrate how contemporary Latino and Latin American literature can be used as a...
Short stories, Latin American; Hispanic American women in literature; Women and literature -- Latin America -- History
Since the beginning of time people have used storytelling to pass on history and entertain. During the Middle Ages more formal short stories began to take shape. With the invention of the printing press and the exploration of the New World, short...
Geography -- Study and teaching; Geographic information systems
Geographic illiteracy is a chronic problem in the United States perpetuated, in part, by teachers who lack proper geography education training and by weak state education certification requirements. Initiatives for improving geographic literacy...
Valle-Inclán, Ramón del, 1866-1936--Criticism and interpretation.; Honor in literature.
"Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master in Arts in Spanish."; Thesis advisor: Ángela Morales.; Also available via the World Wide Web.; M.A.,Central Connecticut State University,,2012.; Includes...
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote -- Criticism and interpretation; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote -- Characters -- Women
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the representation of the feminine in the first and second parts of Cervantes's novel The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, published respectively in 1605 and 1615. The novel incorporates the...
United States. Africa Command; United States -- Foreign relations -- Africa; Africa -- Foreign relations -- United States
On February 6, 2007 the plan to create a United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), was announced by President Bush. Responsible for 53 African nations, AFRICOM is a consolidation of United States Department of Defense programs in Africa that had been...
Latin American drama -- History and criticism; Latin American drama -- 20th century
In this research study, based on eight contemporary Latin American plays. I examine the characterization strategies utilized by the authors in order to reflect the crisis of the modern Hispanic man. The titles and playwrights are the following:...
Discovering RNA editing sites in model organisms provides an insight into their adaptations in addition to finding potential sites for gene expression regulation. In this study, we focused on the grin1b gene of Zebrafish due to its important...
Eightmile River (New London County and Middlesex County, Conn.); Water quality -- Connecticut
Anthropogenic influences have significant deleterious impacts on the integrity of aquatic environments. Recent conservation efforts have been directed towards whole watershed management, whereby the quality of surface water is maintained through...
English language -- Slang; Homosexuality -- Attitudes; Sociolinguistics
There have been forays into research on reclamation of slurs by the very groups against whom they would be used, and also into differences in perception between native and non-native speakers of a language. This study attempts to unite these two...
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation; James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation; Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence; Social Darwinism in literature
Upon its publication in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species revolutionized the worlds of science, religion and literature. Many nineteenth-century authors immersed themselves in transposing scientific ideas onto their literary...
This thesis is based on the premise that textile arts, including those produced in West Africa, naturally reflect the cultures and customs of the ethnic groups in which they are created. As such, they can provide us with unique and fascinating...
Korean Americans -- Ethnic identity; Mass media and culture
This study intends to focus on the ethnic identity and media consumption of the Korean immigrants. The basic stance of the thesis is that identity is inherently a communication process, and must be understood as a transaction in which messages are...
United States -- Foreign relations -- Jamaica; Jamaica -- Foreign relations -- United States
This paper is an analysis of the political interaction between Jamaica and the United States, 1945-1988. It will seek to find out if there is a correlation between Jamaica‘s economic development, underdevelopment and U.S. foreign policy toward...
Mobile communication systems -- United States; Wireless communication systems -- United States; Communication in education -- United States
The purpose of this Capstone Project is to research and provide a solution on how mobile technology can be used as a communication tool between a faculty member and his or her students. The solution will be to allow faculty members the ability to...
“Was mathematics invented or discovered?” This is an age old question that has yet to be definitively answered. Some people believe that the human mind is the creator of mathematics, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. [N, p....
There is one thing we all have in common. Regardless of our gender, age, race, religion or socioeconomic status, we, as human beings, all experience the pain and suffering associated with life. This is an unavoidable, inevitable fact. We suffer in...
The prophage of bacteriophage P1 is a unit copy plasmid, stable in Escherichia coli during cell division due to its partition system. The active P1 partition system consists of two genes, parA and parB, and a cis-site, parS. ParS contains all of...
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on Earth, and all Ye need to know."
John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Nothing could be so well put to introduce the History of Graphic Design as this quote by John Keats. Truth is the basis of...
