Browsing Undergraduate Honors Theses and Student papers by Submit Date
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Explorations of Black Health in America: The Effects of Trust on Health Care Utilization between U.S.-Born Black Americans and Black Foreign-Born African Immigrants
(2022-04)Historically, those that identify with the African diaspora have had a complicated and understudied relationship with the United States medical system. Available literature makes generalizations related to different populations ... -
Equity in Healthcare Access: Using Cultural Competency Training to Bridge the Gap between Providers and Latino Patients in Durham, NC
(2022-04)Alongside Asians, Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States with a projected population of 99.8 million by 2050 and 111.22 million by 2060. With this significant uptick comes an inevitable diversification ... -
La Promoción de la Salud en Intibucá, Honduras: Empoderamiento, Conexión Comunitaria, Confianza en Atención Hondureña
(2022-04-11)Esta tesis tiene una colección de conocimientos que adquirí por la curiosidad que tenía acerca de las brigadas médicas y su impacto en la confianza en servicios de salud, la influencia neocolonial estadounidense en el ... -
Justice Delayed: An Analysis of Municipal-Level Proposals for Slavery Reparations
(2021-12-03)In this paper, I aim to comprehensively document and analyze all municipal proposals for Black reparations in the United States. I first analyzed the demographic make-up of all cities with reparations proposals, which tended ... -
Carceral Care: Examining the Quality of Health Care for Pregnant Women in Jails in North Carolina
(2021-12-06)Most women who are incarcerated are of childbearing age and some individuals experience pregnancy while incarcerated. However, research on pregnancy in correctional facilities is limited to within prisons, even though healthcare ... -
Policy Proposals and Pinky Promises: Framing Print Media Coverage of Female Presidential Candidates
(2021-12)On the stage of the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hillary Clinton made history on July 26, 2016. For the first time, a major political party nominated a female candidate for President. “If there are any ... -
Carbon Price Pass-Through in the Chinese Emissions Trading Scheme: Lessons from Korea and the European Union
(2021-12)On July 16, 2021, the Chinese Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) opened trading. Covering more than 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide, the ETS accounts for 40% of China’s national carbon emissions and is the largest carbon market ... -
The Politics of Affirmative Action in North Carolina's Higher Education
(2021-12-03)Race-based affirmative action has been under threat for the past several decades since its rise during the middle of the 20th century. As several Supreme Court cases have upheld and rebuked certain elements of race-conscious ... -
At Home or On Campus? How Duke Students Decide Where to Register to Vote
(2021-12)Before they ever step into the voting booth, eligible Duke students must first decide whether to register at their permanent home address or their Duke address in North Carolina. 84 Duke students were surveyed to assess ... -
The Academic Impacts on College STEM Achievement of High-Rigor Secondary Courses
(2021-12-03)One of the most common ways that students can prepare themselves for rigorous and competitive STEM careers is by taking high-rigor STEM courses in high school, most likely through advanced placement (AP), international ... -
Are Refugees and Immigrants Different? Gauging the Correlation Between Refugee Status and Economic and Educational Success
(2015-12-15)Little previous research has analyzed the long-term economic and educational trajectories of refugee and immigrant arrivals in the U.S. Studies have found that refugees outperform immigrants in long-term earnings and economic ... -
Challenges and supports to aging in place in a gentrifying context
(2020-05)Background and Objectives: Neighborhoods play a critical role in healthy aging, with changes to neighborhoods having a profound impact on individuals’ ability to age in place. Using gentrification as an indicator of neighborhood ... -
L’Expérience Royale d’Henry Christophe en Haïti
(2021-04-27)Henry Christophe, a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the self-proclaimed “First Monarch in the New World, Defender of Faith, Founder of the Royal and Military Order of Saint-Henry”, founded the Kingdom of Haiti in April ... -
Usos de SER/ESTAR en los foros de discusión lingüística: la pragmática de la interacción entre aspecto verbal y clases semánticas
(2021-04)Este estudio es la culminación de muchos años de curiosidad sobre cómo el español que aprendí, estudié y desarrollé durante mi proceso de adquisición se encontraba con usos y ejemplos que no solo eran sorprendentes en términos ... -
The Dangerous Popess: Pope Joan, the Exclusion Crisis, and Restoration Theater
(2021-04-22)As a tale of subversive female power and disguise, the myth of Pope Joan has captured the attention of many throughout the ages. The early modern period saw much debate about the reality of Pope Joan as Protestants realized ... -
Implementing Non-Canonical Sylvan Resolutions
(2021-04-19)An implementation in Macaulay2 of the Non-Canonical Sylvan Resolutions explicitly defined in Minimal resolutions of monomial ideals. Intuition, explanation is given for the theoretical as well as the applied math, and any ... -
Solitons for the Closed G2 Laplacian Flow
(2021-04-19)Geometric flows are partial differential equations on smooth manifolds which describe the time evolution of some geometric structure on the manifold, such as a Riemannian metric. In the setting of G2 geometry, which is specific ... -
Reconsidering Occupy Oakland and Its Horizons: Media Misframing, Decolonizing Fractures, and Enduring Resistance Hub
(2021-04)Reconsidering Occupy Oakland and Its Horizons is an archival study of the creation, reception, evolution, and remembrance of Occupy Oakland using a feminist lens. I investigate how Occupy Oakland’s radically democratic ... -
Blurring Contagion in the Information Age: How COVID-19 Troubles the Boundaries of the Biomedical and Socioinformatic
(2021-04-19)This project reexamines contagion in the time of the internet through utilizing COVID-19 as a case study. I first look at the biomedical implications of the term contagion through a historical lens and then track its leakage ...
