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Model Illegal Alien: How Undocumented Asian Americans “Deserve” Citizenship
(2019-04-15)This thesis explores how DACA and the model minority stereotype affect self and public perceptions of undocumented Asian American immigrants. An undocumented Asian American immigrant was interviewed in depth about their ... -
The Company You Keep: The Relationship between Friendship Qualities and Mental Health among Undergraduates
(2019-04)Prior research has shown that stress and mental illnesses increase during college years. Strong social support may contribute to better mental health while weak social support may exacerbate mental illnesses. Because college ... -
Stories for Success: Culturally-Driven Maternal Influences on Children’s Language Development
(2019-04)Maternal speech holds a pivotal role in infant language development. Mothers differ cross-culturally in terms of responding to infant inquiries for information, providing word labels, and incorporating emotional talk into ... -
Poisson Percolation on the Square Lattice
(2019-04-01)In this paper, we examine two versions of inhomogeneous percolation on the 2D lattice, which we will refer to as non-oriented and oriented percolation, and describe the limiting shape of the component containing the origin ... -
When the Day Closes Itself: A Collection of Poems and an Essay
(2019-04-22)This paper is a creative work that explores the relationship between psychological healing and the writing of poetry. Primarily creative, the paper presents poetry written in a variety of contemporary styles, from French ... -
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 ... -
The Effects of Everyday Discrimination on the Mental Health of Muslim Students at Duke University
(2019-04-10)This thesis seeks to elucidate the relationship between experiences of discrimination and mental health state among the Muslim population at Duke. In the first chapter, I argue that although the negative relationship between ... -
Otome Games: Narrative, Gender and Globalization
(2019-04-04)The goal of the thesis is to answer the question of how otome (maiden) games, despite their heavily cultured origins, have been able to create playable romance narratives that a global audience can understand, relate, play, ... -
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. ... -
Yes, “All Students Can Be Taught How to be Smart”: How Anti-Bias Teacher Preparation Paired with Scaffolding of Rigorous Curriculum Can Eradicate the Achievement Gap
(2019-04-10)Lauren Resnick, an educational psychologist, claims, “all students can learn to be ‘smart’" through a process called educational nurturing. In this paper, I explore the central question: Is it feasible that policies can ... -
Assessing Ecological Civilization Performance: An Application of Systematic Economic-Ecological Accounting (SEEA)
(2019-04-28)China's central authority has included constructing ecological civilization among the top-five development strategies of China, but there is no well-developed tool to assess the the local governments' performances on ecological ... -
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 ... -
Collectives Against Conflict: Evaluating School-Based Interventions Against Intimate Partner Violence in Durham, Wake and Orange Counties
(2019-05)This thesis investigates the current status, challenges, and opportunities of school-based intimate partner violence primary interventions in Durham, Wake, and Orange counties. Particular attention is paid to program efficacy ... -
Interactions between oxidative stress and insulin/IGF-1 signaling for starvation resistance in Caenorhabditis elegans
(2019-04-22)Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are a natural byproduct of metabolism with roles in cell signaling and homeostasis but also generate oxidative stress. Past research demonstrates that ROS are a major factor in pathological ... -
The Black Female Body and Time Travel through the Works of Octavia Butler
(2019-03-25)This project argues that time travel functions as a literary device represented through the Black body in Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Wild Seed. This project includes four parts. The introduction begins with an intensive ... -
The Relationship Between Education and Politics in North Carolina: A Historical Perspective
(2019-06-08)My motivation for writing this paper is based on a twenty-five-year observation of the decline of North Carolina’s public school system. I witnessed an aggressive and reactionary North Carolina state legislature reducing ... -
Interpretable Almost-Matching Exactly with Instrumental Variables
(2019)We aim to create the highest possible quality of treatment-control matches for categorical data in the potential outcomes framework. The method proposed in this work aims to match units on a weighted Hamming distance, taking ... -
Clustering-Enhanced Stochastic Gradient MCMC for Hidden Markov Models
(2019)MCMC algorithms for hidden Markov models, which often rely on the forward-backward sampler, suffer with large sample size due to the temporal dependence inherent in the data. Recently, a number of approaches have been developed ... -
Student Paths in CS1: Case Studies of Initial Poor Performers
(2019)With the high influx of computer science enrollment in universities in the last decade, there is increasing value and wide-reaching effects in improving pedagogy in the field. This improvement is especially useful in introductory ...
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