The modern sport of bodybuilding in Western fitness culture has been uniquely defined as a way to assert self identity. The sport has long been based on aesthetic appearance and creating a perfected sculpture of muscular ...

The adsorption of CO molecules on models of the MgO (001) surface was investigated using GAUSSIAN 92. Different sized cluster models and basis sets were used to determine the optimized geometries of the CO molecule, the ...

Focusing on her five novels, this study examines the ways in which Carson McCullers prefigures late twentieth-century queer theory analysis. McCullers' fiction incorporates the post-modern concept of a continuum of human ...

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The Chesapeake Bay racing log canoe is one of the most unique indigenous craft on the Bay, and is a significant maritime artifact of material culture. This thesis studies the racing log canoe and the traditions which have ...

Proper screening for the risk of having an eating disorder is critical to provide necessary treatment and avoid negative health outcomes. The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) is one of the most prominent assessment tools for ...

Using process modeling to analyze data from the 2016 American National Election Study, this thesis investigates whether a model used to explain the paradoxical electoral success of criminally corrupt politicians in democracies ...

Traditional methods of teaching History in High School lead to disengaged students. Reacting to the Past is a university-level pedagogy that has improved retention rates among college students. The RTTP pedagogy could ...

The story of Native America is much like a phoenix. For thousands of years, culture soared, but it was eventually plucked out of the sky. For several hundred years the culture was stuck on the ground, and eventually ...

Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur is a landmark English prose work that places the Arthurian tales, the matter of Britain, into the history of England. Malory drew on the French romance material associated with King Arthur ...