Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Tales You Won't Tell Your Daughter
(2023-05-03)Tales You Won't Tell Your Daughter is a collection of three short stories of modern, dark, Chinese twists on classic western fairytales. The trilogy tells the story of three generations of women in China from the period ... -
Taming a Wicked Problem: Energy Access Planning From an Energy-Poor Perspective
(2017-05-23)In practice, addressing universal energy access has largely been treated as a simple planning and delivery problem – identifying the target, selecting the least-cost technology, and implementing the recommended solution. ... -
Teacher expectancies and student social emotional learning post-pandemic
(2024-01-05)The integration of social and emotional learning (SEL) in P-12 classrooms may impact student psychological, social, behavioral, and academic outcomes. The present paper examined teachers’ beliefs about SEL, their perceptions ... -
Techno-Intransigence: The Resistances to Representation in Video Games
(2022-10-11)Though video games are the new dominant media in entertainment, there is a significant disparity in representation of gender, race, and sexuality. Upon examination of major titles and their supporting texts such as The ... -
Technology versus the Atlantic Halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) of the Gulf of Maine: The Impact of Railroads, Sharpshooters, Ice Preservation, and the Telegraph on This Fishery, 1848-1868.
This study investigates the role of the industrial revolution in the precipitous decline of the offshore Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) population in the Gulf of Maine, from 1848 to 1868. New technologies ... -
Temporal Social Network Analysis using Harvard Caselaw Access Project
(2021-11-08)Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and graph algorithms on 100 years of state and federal legal decisions, the names of lawyers and their relationships are extracted using transformer-based language models and then ... -
Temporary Marriage as a Vehicle for Human Trafficking: A Study of the Practice of Temporary Marriage among Syrian Refugees
(2022-05-23)In-person trafficking reports and recent journalism on temporary marriage in refugee camps raise concerns about the exploitative nature of such marriages. This exploratory thesis examines the temporary marriage of refugees ... -
Testing Bi-Partisan Climate Change Messaging Using Prospect Theory
(2020-07-01)When we read a newspaper article or hear a story about climate change on the news, that message is likely crafted by the news team without consulting scientific research about how to deliver the story. As we have entered ... -
Texas Slave Narratives Expose Effectiveness of "General Order No. 3": The Fragmentation of Juneteenth's Emancipated
(2023-05-03)The language of General Order No. 3, “the Juneteenth Order,” exposes the complexities of freedom for roughly two hundred fifty thousand enslaved black Texans; therein, archival slave narratives challenge how its constructs ... -
“That Unfailing Comfort Is, It’s All Predestinated”: Ishmael’s Calvinist Journey in Moby-Dick
(2017-10-05)This study examines Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick through the lens of Calvinism, analyzing Ishmael’s journey through the narrative in light of this particular theology. The text itself, through specific words that continue ... -
The 13 Bookson Architecture, Love and Villainy, by Cletus
(2023-01-10)Juxtaposing text and illustration can induce a state of subtle confusion in the reader and “defamiliarize” select elements of literary craft—in the case of this thesis, the authorial mask in a work of historiographic ... -
The Adapting Game in the U.S. and Japan: Do Introverts, Extraverts, or Ambiverts Experience the Greatest Wellbeing During the Global Transition Toward Virtual Living?
(2022-05-23)This study investigated individuals falling along the Extraversion-Introversion continuum, with ambiverts falling in the center, and how they are adapting mentally to technological advancement and virtual living (e.g., ... -
The Affordability of Public and Private Housing in Boston and Greater Boston
(2018-05-16)This thesis examines the cost of public housing and the market cost of non-public housing, why there is at present a continually escalating cost of housing since 2000, and how the financially challenged residents in ... -
The Ambiguous Emperor: Hirohito's Role in Engaging in and Ending the Pacific War
(2017-10-26)Currently, Japan is the only country to sustain a nuclear attack. The devastation of such an attack resonates with only Japan’s citizenry, but is also a grave reminder that such a force exists in the world. It is important ... -
The Association of Steroid 5-Alpha Reductase Type 2 and Estrogen Receptors in the Prostate
(2021-05-14)Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) continues to remain a significant health problem. Steroid 5α-reductase 2 (SRD5A2) is the predominant enzyme responsible for prostatic development and growth. Our previous study demonstrated ... -
The Athenian Edge: The Role of Gender Equality in Climate Security
(2023-09-15)Athena and her brother Ares, the Greek goddess and god of war, had polar opposite definitions of victory. Athena leveraged her wisdom and resourcefulness to gain a strategic “edge” on the battlefield, shielding warriors ... -
The Beat Goes On: The Plastic People of the Universe and the Politicization of the Second Culture: 1968 - 1976
This study investigates the story of the Plastic People of the Universe (PPU), a Czech rock band formed in the wake of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, who were, like the majority of Czech citizens, suffering ... -
The Birdbath
(2023-10-12)The following is an in-progress novel that explores whether amends can be made for a long-ago wrongdoing. The story is told by a nameless narrator who, as a child, abandoned the first friend he ever made, Joseph Longo. His ... -
The Book of Questions
(2022-12-21)"The Book of Questions" is intended to become a Middle Grade novel about a magical philosophy world that exists within a portal at the New York Public Library. The thesis consists of the first four chapters of the novel. ... -
The British Effect: Is colonial legacy a contributing factor to post-colonial democratization?
(2024-01-05)The drivers of democratic success are well-studied and comprise a complex topic with a plethora of economic, environmental, and historical factors given to explain the relative degree of democratic performance across ...