My interest in Gerard Manley Hopkins began after I read a brief collection of his later poetry for the first time. Hopkins* acute sensitivity and tremendous depth of character reveal the man’s search for meaning in life, ...

Where should I go, Mexico or Spain? When I began a year long journey with lifelong results, that was the first question I asked myself. I knew, before I was even a student at Carroll College, that I would spend a year of ...

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Prostate cancer affects one in seven men in the United States. Thus, prostate cancer provides a very serious healthy threat to men in the United States. ...

My undergraduate thesis explores the implications of consumption related rhetoric, references to eating, stomach, and digestion etc., within the context of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. I begin by developing my own ...

In this paper, the effects of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome on endothelial cell’s mitochondrial response to shear stress will be discussed. I will also be addressing nuclear texture and differences in these same ...

One of the purposes of the Immigration Act of 1990 is to ease the barriers for professionals to enter the United States workforce. This paper will evaluate how well this law has met its goal. It is my contention that a ...

The freshwater sponge, Ephydcitia muelleri, harbors symbiotic algae within its cells. These algae are taken up by phagoctyosis, but they fail to be broken down. One explanation for the lack of degradation is that their ...

Vinculin is an intracellular protein that links the cytoskeleton with the plasma membrane. It is found in all adhering junctions--both cell-cell and cell-surface. Its location puts it at the center of a fundamental process ...

In this experiment I attempted to devise a procedure for the localization of the cytoskeletal protein tubulin in the somite of the early chick embryo. I also checked the distribution of tubulin in the early chick somite ...