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Disabled by “Repair”: The Textual and Extratextual Prosthesis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The (Love of the) Last Tycoon by Katie Warczak
F. Scott Fitzgerald's final unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western is a text that has historically received minimal scholarly attention due ot its incomplete state. Most often put in dialogue with other Fitzgerald works, such as…
Undermining Whiteness and Promoting Protest: Frank Yerby’s The Foxes of Harrow and the Fledgling Civil Rights Movement by Katie Warczak
This paper offers a revisionist perspective on the relationship between white-life novels, or literature written by African Americans that features majority white casts of characters, and the early Civil Rights Movement in the United States. While…
10 Ways to Get Lost in Your Own Neighborhood by Maddison Vega
The poem upon which this video is based, titled 10 Ways to Get Lost in Your Own Neighborhood, was written by Maddy Vega during Professor Gannon's ENG 310: Advanced Poetry course. It was then selected for use in a video project, for which students…
Formerly Buddhist Practices Offer Great Potential to the World of Western Psychology by Katlyn Troisi
Over time science has grown in importance in the way in which people live today. This has caused conflict in the eyes of those who are religiously affiliated and have been instructed to ignore scientific findings. The true issue is the polarization…
Does Exposure to Social Media Discourse Affect Openness to Future Political Discourse? by Katlyn Troisi & RaeAnn Brixius
The present study sought to expand on previous research which had indicated that engaging in political discourse through social media increases the level of comfortability people have when discussing those topics in person. This study used…
Studiorum Classicorum et Linguae Latinae Laudatio by Ryan Slattery
Original Latin oration on the importance of the Latin language and foreign language study.
Apocalyptic Islam: What Makes ISIS a Serious Threat to America by Jacob Sahr
ISIS poses a serious threat to America and the American way of life. Whether ISIS has the ability to target the United States currently or in the near future, the aspects which constitute the brutal terror organization and state-like characteristics…
A Captive President: Gerald Ford’s Presidency and the Fall of Saigon by Jacob Sahr
Gerald Ford, the President of the United States starting in 1974 and extending through the fall of Saigon, reasonably should have had the ability to exercise his constitutional foreign policy powers. By exercising his foreign policy powers, Ford…
Primary Succession on the Basin of a Catastrophically Drained Lake in the Boreal Forest by Andrew Pierson
This study examined primary succession on the basin of a catastrophically drained lake in northern Minnesota. The site, Bass Lake, suffered this drainage as a result of logging operations in 1925, which reduced the total area of the lake from…
Poetry Collection by Amberlee Perry
I chose to present five poems that I have written during this past year -- the most challenging, and most rewarding, year of my college career. The first two poems I wrote at the beginning of the semester in the Intro to Poetry class, while the last…
Images of Irish Rebellion Against Great Britain by Kay Luling
In this exhibit, photographs of leaders, individuals, and groups of different Irish parties against the British will be featured. These will be photographs of individuals, such as Patrick Pearse and Countess Markievicz, and groups, such as Conradh na…
Toward the Structure of the C-terminal Domain of EcoR124I Restriction Enzyme by Nicholas Leudtke
Using the type I restriction-modification (R-M) system of plasmid EcoR124I, E. coli cells systematically distinguish their own DNA from foreign DNA. Self DNA is protected by
methylation within a specific recognition sequence, while foreign DNA,…
methylation within a specific recognition sequence, while foreign DNA,…
What’s Mine is Mine, Because it’s Better if it’s Mine: A Defense of a Utilitarian Incentives-Based Account of Intellectual Property Rights by Jeffrey Grinde
Intellectual property (IP) rights have been codified into law ever since we have thought about intellectual property. What we want is a theory that grounds our right to intellectual property. Upon examination of historical precedents of thinking…
Transcriptional Regulation by λBacteriophage Antitermination by Sean Gibbons
As a regulator of transcription, antitermination works to allow for RNA polymerase to read through termination signals and express genes found downstream of these termination signals. The Q protein of phage λ displays this antitermination phenotype…