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Narratives of Migration and Diaspora: An Exploration into the Liang Family’s Alternating Experience as Sojourners and Settlers
(2014)This paper explores the significant periods of migration and diaspora within my family, the Liangs. It will take the form of a personal essay and will rely primarily on interviews conducted with family members to create ... -
New Agricultural Gospel: Protestant Agricultural Missions in China in the Early Twentieth Century
(2018-03-26)Agricultural mission was a mission taken by Protestant missionaries to improve people livelihood and, at the same time, to preach the Gospel, typically through applying modern science to the improvement of farming.This ... -
Obeying an Evolving Cultural Value: Influences of Filial Piety and Acculturation on Asian-Americans
(2018-07-24)Elder care is a concern for adult children with aging parents in Asia, America or practically anywhere else in the world. Yet, it is a particularly acute issue for members of the Asian-American community due, in no small ... -
Patent Pledges: Private Tool For Public Good
(2016-05-03)Patent pledges are undertakings by patent owners not to enforce their rights in order to innovate around the intellectual property embodied in their patents. They are a relatively new instrument for promoting open-innovation, ... -
Plain, Fancy and Fancy-Plain: The Pennsylvania Dutch in the 21st Century
(2018-01-12)In 1681, William Penn traveled to Europe’s Rhineland-Palatinate and invited Anabaptist and Protestant groups to live and worship freely in Pennsylvania. Over the next century, 111,000 German-speaking men and women sailed ... -
Protean: The Graduate Liberal Studies Magazine at Duke University (Prototype)
(2015-05-14)This analytical essay describes the creation of a prototype online magazine, titled Protean, for a Graduate Liberal Studies (GLS) program like the one at Duke University. Industry level production standards were implemented ... -
Quality and the Craft of The Good Life
(2016-01-08)“Quality and the Craft of The Good Life” is a personal essay exploring the relationship between work and the pursuit of a fulfilling life. Originally intended to follow the narrative arc of the construction of a table, this ... -
Queer Korea: Identity, Tradition, and Activism
(2017-01-11)This project is entitled “Queer Korea” and as such investigates issues surrounding sexual identity in contemporary South Korea. While there has been extensive research into non-heterosexual identities in other East Asian ... -
Red Lovers and Mothers on the Silver Screen: Hollywood’s Feminine Lens on the Soviet Debate from 1933-1945
(2014-10-06)The main goal of this thesis is to examine images of Russians in Hollywood film from 1933 to 1945, the years representing U.S. recognition of the U.S.S.R. through their WWII partnership as allies to the conclusion of the ... -
Rethinking Library Instruction: A Complete Curriculum for Understanding, Navigating, and Using Libraries for Duke Freshmen
(2015-05-18)This final project is a curriculum for library instruction for first year students at Duke University. I have created a set of learning goals and outcomes that first year students should be able to achieve for academic success. ... -
Revenue Generating Intercollegiate Athletics and Their Impact on American Universities
(2014)This essay explores the development of revenue generating sports in American universities. The definition of revenue generating sports in this essay is NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball and football programs. There ... -
Revising Justice: Punitory Thought and Action in the Work of Atwood, Jordan, and Oates
(2016-05-05)*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16*This paper examines how contemporary literature contributes to the discussion of punitory justice. It uses close analysis of three contemporary novels, Margaret Atwood’s ... -
Revisiting Jewish Role in Polish Security Service, the UB: Between Soviet Communist Rule and a Hard Place 1945-1948
(2016-05-09)This research paper provides insight into the political considerations and goals of the regime to institute a new order in Poland. It is ironic that after World War II, at the very time when the Jewish people was recovering ... -
Robinson Crusoe as Promotion Literature: the Reality of English Settlement in the Chesapeake, 1624-1680
(2019-06-06)In the seventeenth century a minimum of one hundred thousand English indentured servants emigrated to the Chesapeake Bay of North America. Virginia and Maryland plantations used indentured servitude in the production of ... -
Saving the Outer Banks – Lessons from the Life of Frank Stick
(2017-05-22)The joy of finding unspoiled beaches on the island of Ocracoke led to inquiring how these areas escaped the rampant development prevalent in coastal North Carolina. This project’s primary purpose was to investigate a mostly ... -
Screening Love: The Cinematic Representation of the Cultural Revolution, 1980s to Early 1990s
(2017-06-05)The ten-year Cultural Revolution exerts a tremendous influence on the domain of cultural production in contemporary China. After the Cultural Revolution, many filmmakers delved into the representation of this traumatic historical ... -
Shattered Moments: The Fall From My 30-Foot Pedestal
(2015-05-19)Part One of my final project consists of a series of creative non-fiction stories detailing a traumatic accident I experienced in 2009. The stories examine my physical recovery and reflect on my emotional recovery process. ... -
Smallholder Cooperatives, Climate Change and a Cup of Coffee
(2014-12-30)* Designated as an Exemplary Master's Project for 2014-15* This paper explores the ways that climate change is impacting coffee production in Guatemala, the strategies that smallholder coffee producers are using to adapt ... -
Southern Silence and Sexual Violence: A Memoir and Cultural Analysis
(2019-05-01)Southerners can easily be picked out by their thick accents and their choice of rhetoric, such as “Hey, Ya’ll” and “Bless your heart.” My southern rhetoric is more than the reason why I stand out in most crowds, but is the ... -
St.Wilfrid's Church: Fragments of the Soul of an Urban Church
(2019-05-22)This is a personal chronicle about a small stone church in Camden, New Jersey. St. Wilfrid’s Episcopal Church has survived de-industrialization, corruption, racist policies, and apathy over its one hundred-thirty-three years. ...
