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Understanding and Withstanding: Comparing Colombian and Mexican Responses to Migration Crises
In the late 2010s, deepening crises in Venezuela, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have led to the migration of millions from their homes in pursuit of refuge and asylum. Received primarily by Colombia and Mexico, ... -
Refugee Haven or Dumping Ground? A Comparative Study of Displaced Persons in Central Asia During World War II
During World War II, Central Asia became a place for displaced people from across the Eastern Front. Displaced people included civilians and creatives from Ukraine and the western Oblasts, forced deportations, and ... -
Before the Numbers Disappeared: Media and Perception of the 1937 Soviet Census
This thesis surveys the 1936 All-Soviet Census and its importance to national image under Stalin as an explanation for its suppression shortly after completion. The census served as a vital data collection tool for the ... -
The Application of Machine Learning to Digitized Postcards as Artifacts
When machine learning is mentioned in the news, it is rarely in the context of historical artifacts. Often, the public learns about what machine learning promises through news about optimizing workflows, improving ... -
Alternatives to Exclusionary School Discipline: An Outline for Educational Administrators
Exclusionary discipline practices are intended to help students learn to act appropriately when in reality they have been shown to lead to negative school outcomes and exacerbate the “school to prison pipeline”. This ... -
The Paper Person: A Comparative Analysis of Rhetoric and Truth in Environmental Economics, Literature, and Policy
Environmental issues such as deforestation and climate change are some of the most pressing concerns today and require a concentrated global response. How does the rhetoric surrounding these topics affect how people ... -
Reconsidering the Unreliability and Treatment of Mentally Ill Narrators
Throughout her memoir, Girl, Interrupted (1993), Susanna Kaysen includes the images of several pieces of official medical documentation from just before and throughout her stay at McLean mental hospital. Each note is ... -
An Exploration of Socio-political Themes Represented in Strauss'
From Saint-Saen’s Carnival of the Animals to Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade to Gershwin’s American in Paris, tone poems often recall stories of specific people or events. One key figure in the the development of tone ... -
Native Hawai'ian and French Polynesian Participation in Organic Agriculture
I began research on the Big Island of Hawaii in May of 2016 and completed this ethnography in December of 2016 by examining the overarching aspects of food sovereignty, including the accessibility of organic agriculture ... -
Behind the Man, the Kneel, and the Protest
Pictures are apparently worth a thousand words, and for the picture Michael Zargaris captured during the 2016 football season of a sole player kneeling justly before an NFL game, one could say that this photo is not only ... -
Student Understanding and Navigation Patterns of Miami University Sexual Violence Webpages
I noticed through conversations within my own peer group that students were not that well versed in sexual violence policies and resources. And, because of that, they did not know the resources that they could refer friends ... -
Andrea Alciato and the Politics of the Printed Image: A Study of the Emblemata’s Origins, Evolution, and Abstraction
Focuses on the historical conditions in Milan during the early sixteenth century that influenced the emblem’s emergence. -
Metaphors We Love By: A cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors of Love in Metropolitan French and American English
What began with intensive background research, has developed into an extensive project which offers a cognitive linguistic analysis of conceptual metaphors of love in both English and French based on corpora linguistic data. -
Nimruz and Agadez: A Comparative Study on People Smuggling on the Route to Europe
Analyzing the Research Process: Comparing People Smuggling Operations in Afghanistan and Niger -
Investigation of Library Research Strategies in an Undergraduate Biochemistry Project
This paper investigates the use of Miami University Library resources and services in undertaking a Biochemistry research project spanning the author"s entire undergraduate career at Miami University. -
Lifetime sexual violence and alexithymia: the meditating role of dissociation, thought suppression, and shame
One in four women report experiences of lifetime sexual victimization (LSV), which includes unwanted sexual experiences in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood (Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000). Furthermore, college-aged ... -
The history of the body: concepts and care
I became interested in Renaissance literature when I conducted a research project on Shakespeare. It was apparent that the medicine of the bard’s time lacked one thing: scientific accuracy. I became inquisitive— how has ... -
The Discourse of Women's Experiences Under Communism
The relationship between time passing and the admission of guilt is a complicated one. For how long it took Germany to acknowledge and discuss the atrocities of the Nazi regime, people immediately wondered in 1989 when and ... -
Tapped: An Inside Perspective on the Craft Beer Movement
An ethnography of participants of the craft beer movement. This work investigates how craft beer is consumed, how it is made, and what it means to society. -
Dare to Be a Wildflower: an in depth study of heliostat technology
Through an in depth study and analysis of heliostats, this paper will explore the concepts and attributes offered through the emittance of indirect daylighting within structures. Heliostats, hence bears a dual function in ...
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