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Geographic Inequalities: Exploring Green Space Access in New York City
Access to green space, areas such as parks, outside playgrounds, and general plant life, has been linked to positive physical and mental benefits. In metropolitan areas like New York City, it can be difficult to find and ... -
The Relationship between Vernacular Architecture and Embodied Energy
At the core of green building initiatives exits low embodied energy. This concept suggests the importance of reducing emissions in architectural development by implementing low-energy materials through low-energy mechanisms. ... -
Countering the Dominant Ideology of the Christmas Movie Genre
In the world of cinema, a strange phenomenon emerged in the 1940s and continues to this day: this is the phenomenon of the Christmas movie. This paper investigates the question of what defines a film in the Christmas ... -
Enabling New Interactions with a Library's Digital Collections: Automatic Gender Recognition in Historical Postcards via Deep Learning
The Walter Havighurst Special Collections from University Archives & Preservation at Miami University’s King Library has a growing collection of over 600,000 historical postcards, with approximately 30,000 digitized, ... -
Researching Lead Exposure Effects on Substance Use Disorders: My Passions in Environmental Health Equity
With underlying neurological effects of lead (Pb) on learning and neuron firing, which is seen in consequential developments of learning disabilities, could the comorbidity of ADHD and SUDs be determined, in part, by Pb ... -
“Documenting Shell Shock”: LAURE Research Story Essay
Since the fall of my junior year here at Miami, I have spent much of my time devoted to studying the topic of shell shock in the United States, specifically examining the ways in which newspapers facilitated the spread ... -
Communication: A Greater Analysis of Storytelling in Music Through Mayuzumi’s Bunraku
Imaginational responses similar to Eugene Gendlin’s “felt sense” appear in both music and writing. By studying a single composition for cello, Toshiro Mayuzumi’s Bunraku, writers, performers, and other creatives can ... -
Onward Echoes the Story: The Study of Religion amid Miami’s narrative of Justice & Change
Since the protests following the death of George Floyd in 2020, we see changes on a global to a local scale. In January of 2021, Apple committed to a $100 million pledge to challenge systematic racism including a new ... -
Everything But Carry a Rifle: An Article Examining the Members of the Women’s Army Corps and their Relationship to Guns
In 1942, the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) was created to help alleviate expected manpower shortages for World War II. Converted to the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) and officially made Army in 1943, the WACs performed ... -
Substance Use Disorder: A Criminalized Illness
Fifty years after the onset of the “War on Drugs”, evidence shows these policies are epic failures. Overdose deaths are at an all time high, 85% of people who go through rehabilitation relapse, and 80% of people who are ... -
An Analysis on Research Methods involving American Poverty and Education
Historical injustice in the United States has caused an inequitable distribution of wealth, which especially disfavors minority groups based on race, ethnicity, and geographic location. Opportunities in education, ... -
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 ...
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