Theses/Dissertations from 2019
TAIWAN IS GIVING BUDDHISM BACK TO THE LIVING: A Study of the Four Great Mountains of Buddhism in Taiwan with a Focus on Fo Guang Shan, Lorelei Domke
‘DÈYÈ MÒN GEN MÒN’: AN EXAMINATION OF HEALTH DISPARITIES AFFECTING HAITIAN COMMUNITIES IN FLORIDA, Eva Ernst
REAL LIFE OR FANTASY? QUEEN’S “BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY” AND ITS POPULARITY, Sofia Eury
The Scientific Method in the Formulation of Physics, Jasper Fay
LINGUISTIC RIGHTS IN THE CLASSROOM: THE EDUCATION OF LANGUAGE MINORITIES IN THE UNITED STATES, Julia Frichter
AUTONOMY AND CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS, Sara Friend
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CHARGE DISTRIBUTIONS IN HOMOLOGOUS THERMOPHILIC AND MESOPHILIC PROTEINS, Connor Galvin
SMOOTH: ADAPTING JOYCE CAROL OATES FOR FILM IN THE ME TOO ERA, Thomas Ghebrezgi
Convo: An Android Application Aimed to Facilitate Social Connectedness on New College of Florida’s Campus, Ozan Gokdemir
STRIVING FOR LOVE: SPINOZA AND TILLICH ON LOVE AND SELF-ACTUALIZATION, Jordi F. Gonzalez
EXTRACTING THE UNEXPECTED: THE RESOURCE CURSE AND THE UNDERLYING CONDITIONS THAT ALLOW IT TO EMERGE, Lawrence Gonzalez
ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF CAPILLARY DIAMETER ON THE DESOLVATION OF PROTEINS USING ESI-MS, Tyler Gonzalez
Exporting Corruption: Brazil’s Bittersweet Role in the Integration of Mercosur, Jonathan Goodman
SUPER BOMBERMANN: Q-LEARNING WITH DEEP ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR THE BOMBERMAN VIDEO GAME, Austin Gray
INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF FRUCTOSE, STEVIA, AND ASPARTAME ON THE LIFESPAN AND BODY FAT CONTENT OF CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS, Kara Grissom
A Discussion of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Olivia Sage Grunwald
Disruptive Mathematicians, David Bruce Guild
A TEST FOR VOCAL SUPPRESSION IN MALE X. BOREALIS AQUATIC FROGS, Susan A. Hajmohammad
TOPOLOGICAL K-THEORY AND BOTT PERIODICITY, Zachary Halladay
ON THE EDGE OF THE VOLCANO: SCIENCE AND THE SUBLIME IN JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY’S VIEWS OF MOUNT VESUVIUS, Jaime Hampton
THE Aa SPECTRA OF VARIOUS FAMILIES OF GRAPH PRODUCTS, Zachary Hanna
Error Analysis of Transit Predictability Using Observations from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), Mallory Harris
The United Fissure: Temporality and Projection in the Poetics of Robert Creeley and Charles Olson, Jacquelyn Grace Harrison
AFFLICTION AS INSIGHT: DISABILITY AND EMPATHY IN DOSTOEVSKY’S THE IDIOT, Alyson Hart
PUNISHMENT ON DISPLAY: EXPLORING THE PHENOMENON OF PRISON TOURISM IN AN AGE OF MASS INCARCERATION, Kaelyn Hartley
THE FRANKENSTEIN TRADITION: INTERTEXTUAL READINGS, Amanda Hash
THE ONE WITH NO AUTHOR: EXPLORATION OF TEXT GENERATION MODELS FOR FRIENDS, Sunwoo Ha
DISMANTLING DIGITAL FIRST: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR LOCAL PUBLICATIONS, Michala Anne Head
UNDERSTANDING THE REAL DIONYSUS: A MODERN TRANSLATION OF EURIPIDES’ BACCHAE, Jakob Hedin
ROUGH AND TUMBLE PLAY IN THE DOMESTIC DOG (CANIS FAMILIARIS), Aren Hendrickson
ARTIFICIAL ARTISTS: A DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS VIEW OF THE SUBJECTIVE JUDGEMENTS THAT DRIVE CREATIVITY, Leinani Hession
The Effect of Anthropogenic Noise Pollution on the Foraging Efficiency of Corn Snakes (Pantherophis guttatus), Margaret Hoffswell
Attempted Synthesis of a RuBisCO Model Complex Using Bis(3,5-di-tert-butylpyrazol-1-yl) Acetate and Magnesium Trifluoromethanesulfonate, Kevin D. Howlett
A TOP-DOWN APPROACH TO NATIONAL MEMORY FORMATION: HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE AND MEMORY LAWS IN RUSSIA, UKRAINE, AND POLAND, Bailey Humyn
MOTIVATIONS BEHIND THE ARAB SPRING: A CASE STUDY OF TUNISIA AND EGYPT, Rozana Jaber
Usonian Lyric: Examining the Place of Populism in American Politics, Helen Jasper
INFLUENCE OF VARYING SAND ALBEDO ON SEA TURTLE NEST DEPTH TEMPERATURES, Mackenna Louise Jensen
LUCIFERIAN PROTO-INDIVIDUALISM IN TWO ADAPTATIONS OF THE FAUST LEGEND, Jasmine Johnson-Bullara
WATER WITH STANDING: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL PERSONALITIES OF LAKE ERIE AND TE AWA TUPUA, Devin Johnson Hogan
WHO WILL WIN THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION IN 2020? CREATING A MODEL TO FORECAST THE NOMINEE, Matthew Johnson
CRITIQUING ENVIRONMENTAL RHETORIC: AN EXPLORATION OF ECOCRITICISM AND ITS VALUE TO ACTIVISM, Tristen Johns
Social Segmentation and K-means Analysis at Jiangzhai: Quantitative Analysis and the Social Formation of a Pre-dynastic Yangshao Banpo Phase Community., Kirkland Judge Jones
RESETTING THE CONNECTION: LEGAL PERSONHOOD AND DECOLONIZATION IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND, Sarah Kelly
“THIS IS WHO WE ARE, THIS IS WHO I AM” EXPLORING QUEERNESS IN CARTOONS THROUGH STEVEN UNIVERSE, Roxanne Seraphina Kennedy
UP IN SMOKE: THE RISE OF THE CIGARETTE IN CHINA, Kenneth Kent
"THE FORWARD MARCH OF HUMANITY" IN AN ERA OF CHANGE: CREATIVE WORKS WITH PROGRESSIVE IDEAS AND THEIR IMPACT ON LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY EUROPEAN SOCIETY, Alexander Koutelias
Justification Must Come to an End! Wittgenstein and William James's Shared Commitment to a Theory of Worldviews, Colton Kunzeman
MOVING AND SCHOOLING: A STUDY OF DECLINING MOBILITY, Abigail Lang
ORBITAL CORRECTIONS DUE TO CPT VIOLATION, Leo Law
PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: CHRISTIANITY, IDENTITY, GENDER, AND BODILY AUTONOMY, Alice Corinne Leavengood
BREAKING THE BEE’S KNEES: AN OVERVIEW OF GLOBAL POLLINATOR DECLINE AND CONSERVATION EFFORTS ON THE NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA CAMPUS, Jackie Lebouitz
IN RUST WE TRUST: Integrating Rust code into a C codebase on MINIX 3, Andrew Leonov
SYNTHESIZING BN2TCMA FOR USE IN AN OXALATE DEGRADING ENZYME MODEL, Riley Lewis
HOW TO MAKE GOLD AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE THINGS: EXAMINING ALCHEMY IN GRECO-ROMAN EGYPT, Virginia Lewis
Files in (Cyber) Space: Comparing the Security of BitTorrent with the Inter-Planetary File System, Genevieve Liberte
SCIENCE EDUCATION, PERCEIVED OBJECTIVITY, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH RACIAL BIAS, Zachary Loomas
THE CONSTRUCTION OF PERCEIVED AUTHENTICITY IN ETHNIC TOURISM, Olivia M. Lowrey
CAPITALIST SELVES: PERFECTIONISM AND THE NEOLIBERAL IDEAL, Brianna Luis
FOOD JUSTICE, OR JUST FOODIES?: CULTIVATING LOCAL FOOD IN SEGREGATED SPACES, Timothy Manning
“SOMETIMES IT’S JUST BEYOND TELLING”: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNSPEAKABLE TRUTHS IN THE VIETNAM ERA, Cassandra Manz
CRAFTING THE LESBENROMAN: WRITING TWENTIETH-CENTURY LESBIANISM FROM THE WELL OF LONELINESS TO ZAMI, Gabriella Marcarelli
Conservation Genetics of the Florida Duskywing Skipper (Ephyriades brunnea), Amanda Markee
PERFORMING RESISTANCE IN THE HEGEMONIC DOMAIN: ALGORITHMIC OPPRESSION, ONLINE SEX WORK, & THE POLITICS OF EMPOWERMENT, Wolly Mason
EPISTEMIC INJUSTICES OF ECONOMICS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON ECONOMIC THEORY, Kaylie J. McCarthy
Solutions to the Oberwolfach Problem and Odd Coverings of Graphs, Daniel McGinnis
Psychopathy and Head Injury: A Correlational Study Between Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychopathic Traits, Eryn McIntyre
LITTER CARBON POOL VARIATION BETWEEN RESTORED AND DISTURBED COASTAL HABITATS IN MANATEE COUNTY FLORIDA, Angela McTigue
“STEP EASILY INTO THE DREAMER’S TALE”: HEALING TRAUMA THROUGH THE MAGICAL IN THE WORKS OF GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ AND TONI MORRISON, Shelby Meyers
Utilizing Lipid Tethering Technology Allows for Unique Analysis of Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells, Zachary Michel
INVENTIVE REMEMBRANCE, Jack Micoli
LIVING TO SURVIVE: CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY AMONG LOW INCOME, WHITE, SINGLE MOTHERS, Sabrina Mikes
PLASMID CONSTRUCTION TO REPLACE RNA HELICASE A (rha-1) WITH GFP USING HOMOLOGY DIRECTED REPAIR, Sorin Ophelie Miller
AN EXPLORATION OF JOINT ATTENTION AND EMOTIONAL STATE IN A DIR/FLOORTIME BASED INTERVENTION FOR AUTISM, Alberta Momenthy
UNDERSTANDING THE MACHINE UNDERSTANDING US, Jamie Moriarty
“Our Father, Our King”: The Creators of Artificial Life in Novels Featuring Artificial Intelligence, Golems, and Frankenstein’s Creature, Emily Mulholland
Comparative Effects of Acute Low and High-Toxin Red Tide (Karenia brevis Wilson) Exposure on Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica Gmelin) Feeding Response, Daniel Collins Niedospial
THE YUCATEC MAYA MILPA: INTEGRATING LIVELIHOOD, ENVIRONMENT, AND CULTURE, Allegra Nolan
Economic Voting Analysis of the 2016 Presidential Election: A County-Level Analysis, Amanda Norton
Exploration of molecular basis for rebound weight gain in Caenorhabditis elegans., Sarah Nosacka
IN/VISIBLE IDENTITIES: Illusion, Abstraction, Politics, and the Phenomenology of Stateless Being, Abeer Obaido
NON-CONFORMATIVE GENDER EXPRESSION IN MANGA, VISUAL ARTS, AND FASHION IN MODERN JAPAN, Hannah Oberlin
TO FLOAT ABOVE WATER: MAPPING MODERNITY AND IDENTITY IN RECENT CHINESE ECOCINEMA, Derek Harootune Otis
ATTENTION AND AUTONOMIC FUNCTION: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME AND ADHD, Margaret Joan Owens
THE PERCEPTION OF VALUE: AFFECT, PHYSIOLOGY, AND THE ROLE OF REENACTMENT, Daniel Parr
A Literary and Visual Analysis of Extinction in the Anthropocene: Focus on Puma concolor coryi (Young and Goldman 1946) and Cyclargus thomasi bethunbakeri (W.P Comstock and Huntington 1943), Dani Patarroyo-Avila
WHO’S NEXT TO YOU: PERCEIVED EMOTIONAL CLOSENESS AS A PREDICTOR OF RESPONSE TO PRODUCT ADVERTISEMENTS, Bianca Persechino
VIDEO GAMES AND GENDER REPRESENTATION: TIME FOR A CHANGE?, Rebecca Phillips
ROOTING FOR THE RIOTOUS LIFE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF AGROFORESTRY IN THE DELAWARE VALLEY, R. A. Pic
“¿ERES TÚ, ANTÍGONA?”: INTERTEXTUALITY AND REPRESENTATIONS OF AUTHORITARIANISM IN TWO 20TH CENTURY RETELLINGS OF ANTIGONE, Ari A. Plymale
RE-EXAMINING THE EDUCATION SYSTEM: POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FLORIDA EDUCATION REFORM, K-12, Ariel Powell
Fill the Earth and Subdue it: Evangelicals, Environmentalism, and Religious Divides, James Spencer Powell
ANIME MADE ME GAY AND TRANS: INTERACTION, FORMATION, AND PERCEPTIONS OF QUEER AND ANIME FAN IDENTITY, Gloria Pritchard