Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Sacred Nature: Metaphysics of Place in William Blake, Emily Dickinson and Seamus Heaney
(2024-01-04)Abstract William Blake, Emily Dickinson and Seamus Heaney are read as practitioners of ecopoetry (in Jonathan Bate’s phrase) and ecotheology. Where each poet locates the sacred is plotted against their depictions of the ... -
Sahara as Symbol in Later Twentieth-Century North African Literature: An Introductory Essay and Three Stories of the Desert
(2017-10-05)The Sahara, with its harshness and apparent emptiness, is a place that even Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, harnessed symbol to describe. Images—or perhaps mirages—of seemingly endless wind-swept ergs, an oftentimes murderous ... -
San Francisquito Creek Watershed Sustainability Analysis: A Novel Approach
(2018-10-09)In the western US, most water consumers rely on imports from outside their local watershed. This has implications for both the recipient watershed as well as those which provide the water. The most widely-used metric ... -
Satirizing the Use of Children as Soldiers in Africa: An Analysis of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy – a Novel in Rotten English and Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation and the First Half of an Original Novel, Odi’s Odyssey
(2017-02-07)This essay on satire of war explores how two African writers, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Uzodinma Iweala, deride the use of children as soldiers in their novels, Sozaboy – A Novel in Rotten English (1985) and Beasts of No Nation ... -
Saving Lives While Sharing Power: The United States and China in United Nations Peacekeeping Missions in Africa
(2021-05-21)In past years, many American politicians, intelligence officials, academics, and foreign policy analysts have predicted a dire fate for the future of the international system, especially global issues that may become harder ... -
Savoring Sacrifices: Unraveling the Impact of the Restaurant Industry on Fuzhounese American Lives
(2023-08-17)This thesis studies the relationships between the restaurant industry and the lives of Fuzhounese Americans. The Fuzhounese community has long been known for its significant presence in the Chinese restaurant industry in ... -
Scaffolds and Spelling in Preschool: Using a Movable Alphabet to Measure Early Literacy
(2018-04-27)Understanding young children’s spelling abilities may provide unique insight into their overall linguistic development as well as assist in identifying children at risk for reading difficulties in ways that typical reading ... -
Science Diplomacy Policy in Colombia, New Horizons for a New Country?
(2016-10-20)As Colombia moves towards a new phase of development, due to social, economic and political improvements, and the prospect of successful peace talks, the country has the opportunity to use science as an engine of development, ... -
Science in the Boardroom: A Road Map for Context-Based Environmental Targets in California Organizations
(2016-04-28)Today more than ever, organizations are expected to actively participate in solving the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Yet the continuing degradation of ecological systems indicates that organizational ... -
Scorched Earth: Expressions of Modernity in Dashiell Hammett's Pulp Fiction
(2018-02-09)Samuel Dashiell Hammett (“Dash”), American author and activist, is today best known for one of the novels he published 1930, The Maltese Falcon. My thesis presents evidence that a close study of a selection of Hammett’s ... -
Screening Potential Treatments of Hepatocellular Carcinoma through Single-Cell RNA Sequencing and the Connectivity Map
(2022-12-08)Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common form of liver cancer, which is the second most prevalent cause of cancer mortalities worldwide. The current standard of care for non-resectable HCC is to combine immunotherapy ... -
Security Culture: The Infrastructure of Black Mobility in Chicago and Compounding Racial Trauma
(2022-05-12)The City of Chicago is one of the most racially segregated cities in America. This thesis looks at the series of decisions made to create a culture that allowed the policy of hate to be ensconced in the lives of Black ... -
Seed of the Serpent
(2022-12-21)Seed of the Serpent is an epic fantasy novel set in a mythic stone-age past, wherein man must compete and contend with several species of intelligent beasts. The plot follows Reysen, a former warrior turned reclusive ... -
Seeing faster, recalling different? The memory correlates of non-conscious prioritization speed
(2023-10-11)Nonconscious prioritization speed (NPS) is the speed with which meaningful visual stimuli reach conscious awareness in visual masking paradigms. Robust individual differences were found in NPS, which were not explained by ... -
Seeing Ghosts in Late Eighteenth-Century China in Luo Pin's 1766 "Guiqu tu" ("Ghost Realm Amusements") Scroll
This study investigates the origin and reception of an eighteenth-century Chinese painting scroll on the subject of ghosts, Guiqu tu (Ghost Realm Amusements) by the Chinese painter Luo Pin (1733-1799). Painted around the ... -
Seeking God beyond the wall: Evangelicals, social justice, and the rise of Nones
(2022-12-16)Ongoing research into the rise of religious Nones, people with no particular religious affiliation, demonstrates a rapid growth in this segment of American society (Hout 2017, 53; Thiessen and Wilkins-Laflamme 2017, 64; ... -
Seems Pretty Real: An Examination of 9/11’s Impact on the American Post-Apocalyptic Novel
(2024-01-04)The September 11th, 2001, terror attacks delivered a shock to the American identity that began manifesting itself in early 21st century post-apocalyptic novels. Unlike similar works written by American authors in the ... -
Self-Identifying in the 21st Century: Race and Ethnicity Reconsidered
(2016-08-22)Racial categories continue to persist in present day multi-ethnic and cultural societies such as the U.S. The lack of an agreement between science and public opinion on how to account for human variation has resulted in ... -
Selling Innocence: The Sexual Exploitation of Unaccompanied Boys in Refugee Camp Settings and the Limitations of Sexual Gender-Based Violence Conversations
(2022-05-10)The illicit and exceedingly lucrative act of sexually exploiting vulnerable populations of refugees continues to thrive, especially in the often-unchecked environments of refugee camps. Unaccompanied and separated children, ... -
Sex Hormones in Parkinson’s Disease
(2021-11-08)The incidence of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is higher in the male population, and males are more likely to have earlier onset and more severe disease course, characterized by an akinetic-rigid phenotype with progression to ...