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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. ... -
Story As Biology
(2017-06-05)In Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Anthony Appiah writes “people tell and discuss stories in every culture as far back as the record goes.” Donald Brown agrees in his comprehensive cross-cultural anthropological survey, Human Universals, ... -
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 City Has Changed Them: Storytelling, Memory, and the Family Photo Album
(2015-04-29)The City has Changed Them: Storytelling, Memory, and the Family Photo Album is an interdisciplinary work that consists of five parts. Four of the parts have an analytical component as well as a personal story to accompany ... -
The Common Landscape: A Case for Using Participatory Strategies to Improve Management of the Blue Ridge Parkway Viewshed
(2018-08-31)The most popular site in the National Park System, the Blue Ridge Parkway—long-promoted as a key to the region’s economic and environmental well-being—generates billions of dollars in tourism-related activity in western ... -
The Diary of Mary McKeon, an Irish American Domestic Servant in Nineteenth Century America
(2016-08-31)What did young, single, unaccompanied Irish women experience when immigrating to the United States in the late nineteenth century? In this final project, I will explore primary and secondary sources that address ... -
The Disparity of Infrastructure between the Jewish Settlements and Palestinian villages located in the West Bank
(2017-07-06)Why is there such a disparity of infrastructure between the Jewish settlements and Palestinian villages adjacent to one another in the West Bank? Through historical events, agreements, and continuing conflicts, enormous ... -
The Duke Aeolian Organ: The Journey of an American Musical Instrument
(2015-12-18)The Aeolian Company built its last and largest church organ for Duke Chapel in 1932. The organ, one of the last examples of the Symphonic style of American organ building, survived three replacement attempts by the ideologues ... -
The Eastern Shore in Robert de Gast’s Wake
(2017-04-25)When any space becomes familiar, it becomes a place. Thus, place is a uniquely personal concept. This project began with a passion to explore this place I now call home—the Eastern Shore—and find a way to best define that ...
