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A Spoon Full of Sugar: Exploring Real World Social Issues in YA/NA Retellings

Weir, Jennifer Leann (2020-04-07)

This thesis reviews four young adult/new adult retellings to understand how these novels shape understanding of and empathy for real world social issues. The first chapter explores the novel Girls Made of Snow and Glass ...
Investigation of genes coding for potential tetrodotoxin binding proteins in Canthigaster valentini and Taricha granulosa

Yanez, Ivette (2019-08-08)

Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a powerful neurotoxin that selectively binds to voltage gated sodium channels in excitable tissues causing paralysis, asphyxiation, and death. TTX is found in a variety of unrelated taxa where multiple ...
The Cosmic Race, Decolonization, and Neo-Zapatismo: Mexican Philosophical Thought on Race and Revolution

Medina, Elías (2019-08-07)

This thesis project will argue that the participation of indigenous Mexicans in the Revolution of 1910 and the EZLN uprising of 1994 forced José Vasconcelos, Leopoldo Zea, and Enrique Dussel to reflect on the legacies of ...
A History of Violence, Masculinity, and Nationalism: Pugilistic Death and the Intricacies of Fighting Identity

Gonzalez, Omar (2019-08-05)

Boxing is a fascinating subject inspiring scholarship on the meaning of the sport’s violence. Few, however, have examined the fatal results of this violence and its contributions to the development of manhood. This thesis ...
Breaking Binaries in Postmodern Poetry: Gender Identities in Prelude to Bruise, [Insert Boy], I Am Not Your Final Girl, and Femme in Public

Pinkham, Shelby Marie (2019-07-16)

Bodies have often been assigned one of two genders—male or female. When individuals disrupt this binary code, they are often met by violence. Women have long been considered the sole victims of gender violence, but there ...