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“I’m Here to Understand You”: The Roles of the First, Second, and Third-Person Perspectives in Empathy
(2023)The project of empathy marks a long-standing debate between Theory of Mind defenders and phenomenologists. While they differ on their mechanisms of empathy, their research generally circles around the same question, “Do ... -
Time Course of Metabolic Shifts in Cartilage Explants Exposed to Short-Term Simulated Microgravity
(2023)Abnormal mechanical joint loading leads to an imbalance in chondrocyte metabolism that results in cartilage degeneration – a hallmark of osteoarthritis (OA). Microgravity exposure in space significantly reduces mechanical ... -
Meaning, Morality, and the Good: Articulating the Self through Nietzsche, Sartre, Taylor, and Murdoch
(2023)In this paper, I seek to establish a Best Account of the self as it relates to two of the self’s fundamental components, meaning and morality. Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre’s phenomenological accounts of the ... -
Going Full Circle: How to Implement Circular Economy
(2023)In society’s quest for progress in every single aspect of life, humanity has clearly pushed the boundaries of what can be exploited out of nature past the limit in the last few years, which has resulted in severe climate ... -
Beating the Pandemic: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Cooperative Board Game Strategy
(2023)Pandemic: Hot Zone - North America is an intricate board game in which players work together to treat disease and research cures for those diseases [3]. The game is part strategy and part luck. In this project we attempt ... -
A Headline is Worth a Hundred Words: An Analysis of Syrian Opposition and Government Media
(2023)With about thirteen million displaced Syrians worldwide, the Syrian refugee crisis remains one of our most significant global challenges. In 2015, images of Alan Kurdi, a Kurdish-Syrian two-year-old refugee, lying dead on ... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(2023)Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a 14th century chivalric romance poem written in Middle English with a combination of alliterative and rhyming meter. Despite the poem’s popularity in recent media, this is all of what ... -
The Catholic Church and the Holocaust
(2022-04-29)This paper explores the motivating factors of the Catholic Church’s heavily criticized lack of response and action taken during the Holocaust. Through addressing distinctions between the Church’s institutional response and ... -
Changing Times: Translation and meaning in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(2022-04)Despite its popularity in recent media, we know almost nothing about the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or of the context surrounding it. In fact, the entire poem is relatively new to us, only having been ... -
Accessibility Scan of Carroll College
(2022-04)Research done in a national study in 2011 found that only 34 percent of college students with disabilities will complete a 4 year program (NLTS2: Home, n.d.). This is due to numerous issues with accessibility on college ... -
An Analysis of the Representation of Swans in Heinz and Aronofsky's 'Black Swan'
(2022)The 2010 film ‘Black Swan’ brings stereotypes of swans and femininity into the spotlight. Based on the ballet ‘Swan Lake’, this film is heavily influenced by the lore surrounding both the black and the white swan. While ... -
Artificial Nipple Use and Breastfeeding Patterns
(2022)The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2021) identifies that “One of the most highly effective preventive measures a mother can take to protect the health of her infant is to breastfeed.” Infants who are breastfed ... -
What Can Love Accomplish?: The Constructive and Destructive Impacts of Love on the Self in Their Eyes Were Watching God and King Lear
(2022)Their Eyes Were Watching God and King Lear display many different types of love. While King Lear explores familial love, Their Eyes Were Watching God delves into romantic love. As Janie pursues her romantic interests in ... -
Optimization of Lactose-Functionalized Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimer Synthesis
(2022)Glycopolymers have been previously shown to regulate multivalent galectin-3 mediated processes in cancer progression including in vitro homotypic cancer cellular aggregation/tumor formation, cancer cellular migration, ... -
Characterization of Metabolomic Profiles of Encapsulated Chondrocytes Exposed to Short-Term Simulated Microgravity: A Pilot Study
(2022)Mechanical loading of cartilage stimulates chondrocyte metabolism to maintain cartilage integrity. Shifts from physiological loading conditions, such as overloading or reduced loading, can lead to an imbalance in chondrocyte ... -
Impact of Seizure Alert Dogs in Epilepsy
(2022)Epilepsy, a seizure disorder, is characterized by a disruption of electrical activity in the brain. Most commonly, epilepsy is diagnosed after a person has two or more seizures (Shafer, 2013). Worldwide 65 million people ... -
Childhood Obesity and Motivational Interviewing
(2022)Childhood obesity is a public health problem that is increasing at an alarming rate. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) by 2056, the number of school-age children and adolescents aged 5-19 with obesity would ... -
Discovering Potential Biomarkers for Osteoarthritis, Gouty Arthritis, and Rheumatoid Arthritis
(2022)In the United States alone, 24% of adults have arthritis, which include many different types. The three most common forms of arthritis are osteoarthritis (OA), gouty arthritis (gout), and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Despite ... -
A Virtue Ethics Argument for Music Education
(2022)Ethics and music are fields that may appear to have nothing in common, one is involved in the expression of emotion, while the other is ordered towards doing the good. Despite initially seeming very different these fields ... -
Synthesis of 3-oxyangeloyl Trematone
(2022)The natural product 3-oxyangeloyl-tremetone has been found to be a potent analgesic. Analgesic compounds have pain killing properties, and are widely used in pain management. This compound can be found in the plant Parastephia ...