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...
Typically, scholars approach Holocaust literature with a focus solely on history or on trauma theory. And yet, as I propose in 'The Holocaust's Literary Perpetrator,' these modes of examination are not sufficient in their explanations of blame. ...
Child molesters -- New Jersey -- Registers; Child sexual abuse -- New Jersey -- Prevention
Today, all 50 states in the United States of America have created a system of registration and notification for convicted sex offenders. These laws were quickly enacted in the past several years in response to horrific crimes against children that...
Chávez Frías, Hugo; Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 1999-
This thesis represents an effort to evaluate the socialist reforms Hugo Chavez has implemented in Venezuela since his ascent to the Presidency in 1998. In order to understand Chavez's ideologies, the initial chapters of this thesis put Venezuela's...
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Criticism and interpretation
This thesis proposes the Samuel Coleridge's poetry attempts to forge an interdependent relationship between imagination and faith. In the Biographia Literaria Coleridge suggests that the imagination is an entity separate from man and similar to the...
American literature -- Hispanic American authors; Masculinity
This thesis focuses on how the male-male relationships in contemporary Latino novels by Piri Thomas, Abraham Rodriguez, Jr., Junot Díaz, Arturo Islas, and John Rechy help or hurt the protagonists’ developing masculinity and overall sense of...
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Hamlet; Hamlet (Legendary character)
This thesis analyzes Prince Hamlet's role as a divinely commissioned scourge in Denmark, asking whether Hamlet functions in a multifaceted capacity as a scourge or as a univocal scourge figure, a figure that is a stereotypically evil scourge. It...
High school dropouts; General educational development tests
This study examined the systemic characteristics of three major
risk factors of high school dropout in the Windsor Locks School District.
It further investigated the social dynamics of the circumstances which
force dropouts in the same school...
Women prisoners -- Family relationships -- Connecticut; Children of women prisoners -- Connecticut; Recidivism -- Connecticut
This exploratory study proposes to examine if the amount of contact an incarcerated mother has with her children influences her recidivism rate upon discharge. A survey was administered to female ex-offenders with children that addressed how much...
The role of the police officer cannot be adequately analyzed without an understanding of their historical and social context. An examination of the role of the police officer in a small town provides an elucidating window showing how social forces...
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers; Discourse analysis; Internet games -- Social aspects
The research presented here attempted to replicate previous work done by Peña and Hancock in 2006 which examined the proportion of socioemotional versus task based utterances used in online, recreational computer mediated communication (CMC). This...
American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism; Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity -- In literature
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the complexities surrounding the acceptance of personal and cultural identity for protagonists in Chicano/a literature. By way of close reading analysis and methodological comparison, I delve into three...
Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Connecticut
The present study explores the need to research, recommend and implement a
Juvenile Review Board and measures officer responses to that Juvenile Review Boards'
inception. The study begins with the police department looking at its ability to...
The introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002 created a new element of uniformity and extended the capabilities of the European Union. Through a lengthy process of trials, failures, and breakthroughs, which spanned from the European Union’s...
The goal of this thesis is to trace the development in mathematical theory that led to the proof of the insolvability of the quintic. That is, there does not exist a general formula in radicals for equations of the form [not reproducible-see full...
The dream of building a great canal across the Isthmus of Panama dates back
several centuries ago when Spanish explorers first visited the area. Their goal was to
build a canal designed to facilitate communications between the colonies and...
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism; Marriage in literature
The depiction of marriage in City Comedy is characterized by some striking differences from its depiction in Early Modern Romantic Comedy. In most cases, marriage is depicted in City Comedy as being of no greater importance than any other social...
RNA editing is a mechanism which is used to increase the number of possible protein products from a specific gene. The catalytic enzymes for RNA editing are known to be present in a wide variety of organisms, including many different insects. It...
Horáková, Milada,1901-1950 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government -- 1945-1992
Over the last twenty years and since the fall of the Iron Curtain, stories that were once silenced under the Czechoslovak Communist occupation are at last being voiced. The discovery of accounts of those who were persecuted under communism has...
Norman Mailer has never been portrayed as a favorite of female readers;
moreover, he has been persistently misunderstood in terms of the female role in his works
throughout his fifty-six year writing career. These misinterpretations may be...
