In this thesis, I propose a curriculum for first year composition (FYC), called the Game Studio curriculum, in which students learn writing through experiences playing, analyzing, and designing games. In Chapter 1, I review ...

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most prevalent vaginal infection for women of reproductive age, characterized by a lack of normal commensal bacteria and a proliferation of pathogenic species. BV infections can lead to ...

The present study explored whether there are significant differences between Black and White college freshmen students regarding factors related to retention (i.e., self-efficacy, perceived racism, cross-cultural communication ...

James Cox has outlined the World’s Religion Paradigm as a Christian narrative in which westerners project their preconceived ideological beliefs onto other religions against the Christian framework (Robertson 2013). Through ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the literacies of adolescent girls in rural Appalachia. This study focuses on the literacies of six girls, two girls each from sixth, ninth, and eleventh grades. Representing ...

In the last four decades, China has accomplished economic reform successfully and grown to be a leading country in the world. As the "world factory," the country is able to manufacture a variety of industrial products from ...

This thesis analyzes the 2013 observational documentary film Generation Iron, directed by Vlad Yudin and produced by Edwin Mejia. Methodologically, it employs a textual analysis along with a contextual grounding. The ...

The genocide literature focuses on the conditions and casual mechanisms that make a situation ``ripe'' for genocide. However, the literature posits factors and mechanisms that are more common than the outcome of genocide. ...

Growth performance is one of the most economic important traits for the aquaculture industry. In addition, fillet quality attributes are among the primary determinants of consumer acceptability. To study the genetic ...