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Browsing by Type "Capstone project"
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A Comparison of Values around Cruise Tax in Iceland and Alaska
Cruise ships pose many environmental harms: they emit more black carbon and CO₂ per passenger-mile than any other vehicle, discharge untreated sewage and wastewater into the open ocean, carry large quantities of heavy fuel ... -
A Journey Chronicling Memories of Grief and Loss
(2018-04-18)Abstract Storytelling is a natural and necessary human behavior. Stories connect us to our past, our present, and, most importantly, to each other. They tease our imaginations and stir our emotions. Certain stories are ... -
An Analysis of Shaping of Female Characters in Films Directed by Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese and Chinese Diasporic Female Directors
(2021-04)This thesis intends to examine the shaping of female characters in films directed by Chinese female directors. Six films are selected as examples: The Crossing (Guo chun tian, Bai Xue, 2019), Angels Wear White (Jia nian ... -
An Interpretive History of the Lower Deep River Region, NC
(2022-04-15)How can interpreting the regional history of the lower Deep River region of North Carolina inform land conservation for future generational use, education, and recreation? I explore the Lower Deep River Region, NC, and its ... -
Co-location Opportunities for Dynamic Use of Existing and Proposed School Buildings
(2022-04-13)We have, on average, 1,098 to 2,168 annual school closures per year. That means thousands of school buildings need to be repurposed every year or they will stand vacant, become vandalized, and bring blight and a sense of ... -
Community Bonding: Rebuilding Duke University and Durham, North Carolina to Promote Sexual Autonomy
(2019-12-19)My central question asks how universities can engage with local communities to work towards increased sexual safety on campuses. Specifically, I first argue that universities can improve sexual safety on campuses ... -
Confession, Sexuality, and Desire in the Decameron
(2019-06-12)This essay discusses how in Boccaccio’s Decameron, the stories of I.1, III.3, VI.7, and VII.5 subvert the fundamentally religious and juridical activity – confession – to serve a wholly different and erotically-charged function. ... -
Durham, North Carolina: A 21st Century Case Study on Gentrification, Artists, and the Creative Economy
(2020-04)Artist communities both generate, and coalesce around, sites of cultural significance and aesthetic intrigue. In doing so, artists and artist-run spaces impact the cultural and socioeconomic value of place. The connection ... -
Enrollment Growth and Equity of Access: A Critical Analysis of the University of North Carolina's Strategic Plan
(2019-03-25)The University of North Carolina System’s strategic plan contains initiatives to increase access for low-income and rural students, improve student outcomes, and close achievement gaps. A complete assessment of UNC’s strategic ... -
Every Three Hours
(2020-12-14)Every Three Hours is a memoir about raising my son Patrick who has two rare medical conditions--Glycogen Storage Disease 1a (GSD1a) and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS). As I analyze the events in Patrick’s life when ... -
Fatal Automobile Crashes in North Carolina: A Historical and Present-Day Portrait of Grief
(2021-07-26)Between 1899 and 2018, nearly 3.8 million people were killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes on roadways in the United States. An average of 100 people died in wrecks every day in the country in 2018. There are names and ... -
Forecasting Consumer Preference of Film Genre
(2019-04)Central to the decision of filmmaking and a film’s success is the consumer response to a film. Specifically, in a market with multiple varied alternatives based on genre, plot, and other film attributes, the subject matter ... -
From Co-Production to Broken Relationship: Agencies, Idols, and Fans in the Making of K-pop
(2020-05-28)In this thesis, I argue that idols, talent agencies, and fans in K-pop constitute a triangle where idols and agencies, agencies and fans, idols and fans each has a double-directional relationship. I look into the relationship ... -
How Evolution, Stories, and Irrationality Influence Decision Making in Financial Markets: Analyzing Whether We Can Leverage Our Innate Traits and Heuristics to Improve Outcomes
(2020-12-13)One of the most commonly asked questions in investing is whether or not it is possible to achieve excess returns in the financial markets. To give a somewhat simple answer, for most investors a basic low-fee passive ("static") ... -
How Parents’ Perceptions of Public Schools Influence School Choice
(2020-04)This is a qualitative study regarding a rural fringe school district in North Carolina. Initial interest for this study involved analyzing the State School Report Card ratings and the impact of these ratings on parental ... -
I Knew Home When I Saw it: Mapping RaMell Ross’s Hale County This Morning, This Evening
(2022-05-06)This project consists of two parts: 1) an initial, written analysis of Hale County This Morning, This Evening, a 2018 documentary of my home county (Hale County, Alabama) by filmmaker (and former public school coach) RaMell ... -
Improving the Sales Training Program in the Mexican Notebook Company “Cuadernos Estrella”
(2022-01-07)The purpose of this research is to devise a new learning strategy to train the sales workforce of the Mexican notebook company “Cuadernos Estrella.” The goal of the Human Resources (HR) department of the company is to standardize ... -
Integrating Temporal Polyphony and Camera Consciousness into Literature: Inspired by the Cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni
(2019-04)Theorists and scholars primarily characterize Michelangelo Antonioni as a Modernist artist who uses Abstract Expressionist techniques seen through the geometric composition of framing: diagonals, counter-diagonals, vertical ... -
“Lifelong Learning to Beat AD”: Educational Attainment and Alzheimer’s Disease
(2019-04-19)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects people around the world, and there is no cure. Not only is AD a significant contributor to health care costs, it also has a deep emotional impact on society. There is a seemingly universal ... -
“Lifelong Learning to Beat AD”: Educational Attainment and Alzheimer’s Disease
(2019-05-23)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects people around the world, and there is no cure. Not only is AD a significant contributor to health care costs, it also has a deep emotional impact on society. There is a seemingly universal ...
