This thesis is a short coming-of-age novel following the life of a twenty-three-year-old girl as she moves from Minnesota to Washington, DC and desperately seeks to become the worldly, venerable person she imagines as her ...
This thesis explores themes of mental health and identity through two key lenses: the
internal, through subverted monster/creature tropes, and the external, with end of the
world themed Americana. Both of these lenses ...
An individual's ability to engage in self-regulated learning (SRL) is associated with positive self-beliefs and academic achievement. Yet research suggests that very young children are not capable of engaging in SRL. The ...
Climate change is one of the biggest 21st-century global health problems. Developing nations like Nigeria are the hardest hit, with pregnant women being the most vulnerable and at-risk populations. Despite the overwhelming ...
The religiously unaffiliated, also referred to as “nones,” are a quickly rising
population in the United States. Changing cultural life as part of religious and political
discourse, the sub-group “liminal nones” is ...
This thesis describes the portrayal of the female protagonist in Émile Zola’s 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin. Zola, a Naturalist author, communicates a critique of nineteenth-century bourgeois Parisian society and explores ...