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Revamping The Gaze: How Twilight Hosts the Conditions for Female Spectatorship
(2024)
This thesis seeks to understand how narrative pleasure operates in romance novels in order to better understand how women's consumption of romantic literature affects their personhood. The primary text examined in this ...
Motion Sickness
(2024)
In this collection of stories from Toledo-based writer Alex McCullough, young adulthood and all its various joys and sorrows are rendered with equal measures humor and poignancy. In one story, a young woman and her sister ...
The Ones That Got Away: The Role of Eugenicists in the Sustainment of Medical Atrocities in Nazi Germany
(2024)
Holocaust atrocities have been well-documented, and many prominent leaders of the Nazi Party were subsequently held accountable at the Nuremberg Trials. Nevertheless, many culpable individuals escaped scrutiny, including ...
Bahrain Beyond the Pearl: Political Prisoners and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the Gulf's Forgotten Uprising
(2024)
In February and March 2011, thousands of Bahrainis flooded into the streets and the Pearl Roundabout to protest political, economic, and social inequality. After approximately two weeks of protest, the Bahraini government, ...
Deciphering an Enigma: Maecenas and Gender Nonconformity
(2023)
This thesis conducts a case study, inspired by queer theory, on Maecenas. As the patron of Virgil and advisor to Augustus, he was an incredibly wealthy man who embraced luxury and ultimately challenged established norms ...
New World, New Rules: Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 Responses in Sweden and Denmark
(2024)
The COVID-19 Pandemic presented significant challenges for the Danish and Swedish governments. Despite overarching political and social similarities, these longstanding historical connections between countries did not ...
Choreographing National Identity: The Role of Movement and Biopower in Countries of Real Socialism
(2024)
The driving research question behind this thesis is: how do ballet and its derivatives choreograph society in countries of real socialism, like Cuba and Yugoslavia, by disseminating political motivations into the body of ...
Los intercambios globales como herramienta para mejorar la comprensión lectora en hablantes de español como lengua de herencia
(2024)
Los niños hispanos en EEUU que mantienen la lengua de herencia (español) mientras adquieren inglés se benefician cultural y académicamente más que los hablantes monolingües de inglés o los hispanos con atrición en español. ...