This thesis consists of two long essays. The first, “Hang on St. Christopher,” tells the story of a cross-continental roadtrip that I took with my girlfriend Meg before I moved away from her in Pennsylvania to attend ...

This ethnographic study seeks to better understand the bounded and restricted engagement with educational technologies that prevails in many U.S. high schools, despite the widespread expectation since the 1980s that digital ...

Naples, 1541 It is the middle of the night, and someone knocks at the door of the physician Don Antonio Marizzi. It is Brother Matteo, a monk sent by the abbess of the illustrious convent of San Francesco delle Monache ...

This study examines communication skills in the nurse–patient communication process through interdisciplinary data from the nurse and communication fields. The call for improved communication competency over the last 20 ...

The 1569 union between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania established the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - the most populous and largest state in 16th century Europe. Two hundred years later ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects cognition, behavior, and function. AD is considered a growing health concern because the number of patients with AD doubles every five years after age ...

This manuscript explores the human capacities to look and to love and how that becomes complicated by death, my brother’s. The poems are meditations on these ideas, as well as what it means to be writing about them at all, ...

The Holy Spirit spans a year in the life of the Potters, as tragedy and exceptional circumstances cause a skeptical family to wonder about faith and their shared future. The novel opens in San Diego in the summer of 2008 ...

This thesis attempts to explore through the lens of personal experience the role that leaving plays in living. The thesis pays particular attention to the people, places, and moments humans leave behind during their ...

This dissertation examines the change in time that occurred at Arlington National Cemetery over acceptable commemoration and treatment of Confederate burials from 1864 to 1914. Soon after the end of the Civil War, Confederate ...