Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Waking Experience and Circadian Rhythms Result in Differential Modulation of Sleep and Wake States
(2021-10-15)Sleep is thought to be tightly regulated by two processes, a homeostatic and a circadian process, which interact in a complex way to integrate prior wakefulness and circadian time (Borbély et al., 1982). Despite extensive ... -
Walt Disney’s Visual Interpretation of the Fairy Tales: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty
(2016-04-07)Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and other classic fairy tale characters were reborn through Walt Disney’s hands. For nearly a century, his unique adaptations of European fairy tales in animated films have provoked ... -
War With Cold Characteristics: How China Used the WTO Against America, a Historical Case Study
(2022-10-05)In the 1989-2012 period, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) gained influence on the world stage vis-à-vis the United States of America (USA) in virtually all spheres of geopolitical competition, emerging in its present ... -
A Watershed Moment: Development of a Multimetric Stream Index of Biotic Integrity to Assess the Ecological Integrity of the Credit River in Ontario, Canada
(2017-03-08)The Stream Index of Biotic Integrity (S-IBI) was developed in order to measure the ecological integrity of Credit River watershed streams. One goal of this research is to offer a predictive tool using a select suite of ... -
A Wave of Destruction: Time's Inexorable Effects in Hamlet and Macbeth
(2015-10-06)This thesis explores the typically cited character flaws of Macbeth and Hamlet and asserts that these flaws are not the main cause of their tragic downfalls, but, rather, it is the immense psychological and corporeal ... -
We Did It Together
(2022-12-07)Set in mid-twentieth century Jonesborough, Tennessee, We Did It Together is a two-act play based on true-life stories of people who helped shape this small Appalachian town during a tumultuous era of change. These ... -
Web Based Multidimensional Interactive Visualizations as Supplemental Material for Biological Research Articles
(2017-10-30)The goal of this study is to give a proof of concept model of a multidisciplinary interactive visualization that can be easily hosted in an online format as supplemental material for research papers. The hope is that by ... -
What Are the Greenhouse-Gas-Emission Impacts Associated With Vegan, Vegetarian, and Meat Diets in the United States?
(2016-03-25)The United Nations estimates that the growing human population will reach approximately 9.6 billion by 2050. In order to accommodate the subsequently higher demand for food and related strain on resources, careful consideration ... -
"What Ceremony Else?" Shakespeare, Hamnet, Prospero, and Ariel in The Tempest
(2021-05-21)Hamnet Shakespeare, the son of William Shakespeare, died at eleven years of age. Many critics have posited this death to have influenced many of Shakespeare's subsequent plays, including Hamlet and Twelfth Night. I explore ... -
What Difference Does It Make? The Impact of Religious Literacy on Engaged Pluralism in Service of A Just World at Peace
(2024-01-08)The field of religious studies has been increasingly emphasizing the importance of religious literacy as a means of addressing many societal and global challenges such as prejudice, discrimination, marginalization, and ... -
“What is this world?”: Confronting Conspicuously Literary Realms in Shirley Jackson’s Later Novels
(2023-01-10)This thesis addresses the presence of noticeable literariness within the later novels of Shirley Jackson, including the carefully crafted and repetitive inclusion of intertextual and metafiction techniques. Within what I ... -
What Led the United States to Encourage Authoritarian Governments in Iran and Saudi Arabia?
(2016-05-05)This study investigates the process by which the United States became the main supporter of authoritarian governments in Saudi Arabia and Iran during World War II. Prior to the war the U.S. had little involvement in the ... -
What Water Holds
(2023-04-20)This work blends prose with verse in an attempt to understand ancestry. I’m trying to excavate the historical archives that exist within my own body by excavating the historical archives embedded in the spaces of New Orleans ... -
What's the Matter with Walter? The Privatization of Everything in Breaking Bad
(2016-10-15)Television is the quintessential medium of popular culture. As such, its content can provide an important window into the cultural dynamics in a given period for a given society. Vince Gilligan’s award-winning Breaking Bad ... -
What’s the verdict? Have elections or appointments contributed more to gender and racial diversity among Florida’s trial court judges?
(2022-05-12)Florida uses two selection methods to determine who will serve as its judges – non-partisan elections and gubernatorial appointments. Little existing scholarship explores whether or how those selection methods influence ... -
What’s Yours is Mine: Yale, Peru and the Ownership of Cultural Property
(2023-12-08)Objects of material can be an invaluable source of information on the past, as well as a tool to help forge cultural identity. Such objects have value from aesthetic to academic, and from economic worth to political capital. ... -
When Autodidacts Teach: A Study of William Blake’s Pedagogic Opinions and their Manifestations in Songs of Innocence and Experience and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(2021-05-24)William Blake had an abiding interest in creating systems, and he saw this task as a matter of freedom. This thesis examines the characteristics of his educational system as manifested in his Songs of Innocence and Experience ... -
When Witches Mourn the Dead: Grieving Rituals of Contemporary Witchcraft in New England
(2023-04-20)This project is underpinned by ethnographic and phenomenological methods used to analyze the grieving rituals of contemporary witches in New England through the lens of anthropology, ritual studies, and grief counseling. ... -
WHERE ARE HER REAL PARENTS? Race, Adoption, and Lies in the 1970s
(2023-04-28)When I was a baby, I was adopted by a 54-year-old white widow who lived on the coast of Maine. She insisted that I, too, was white and had the birth certificate to prove it. But the boys at the bus stop called me “nigger,” ... -
Where No Genome Has Gone Before: Star Trek and Genetic Medicine at the Advent of Gene Therapy
(2021-05-14)The development and adoption of gene therapy as a new therapeutic modality represents a fundamentally new approach to treating diseases by directly modifying human genetic material. No longer the speculations of visionary ...