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Browsing Student Honors Theses by Title

Browsing Student Honors Theses by Title

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  • Alley, Kathryn (2021-05-08)
    I enter into resonance with the world around me and the worlds that I construct through painting and photography. My photographs capture the exterior space I exist in presently while my paintings depict interior spaces ...
  • Westfall, Kathryn Chandler (2012-05-07)
    "I collect artifacts of the people, places, and events that hold my roots. My inspiration began with the experience of looking through boxes of unsorted ancestral photographs in my grandmother's attic. I would like people ...
  • Pellicciotti, Michael (2000-05)
    The Student Senate has been the student government of Alfred University since 1906. This thesis shows, through a historical record of Student Senate, how national issues correlate with Senate's structure and its issues. ...
  • Owen, Kelly (2014-05-16)
    This honors thesis is revolves around the author's senior art show in which she explores memory and emotion through the narrative of Hope and The Librarian. The narrative revolves around three main characters: Hope, The ...
  • Ward, Dakota James (2015-05-07)
    In this paper, I will discuss the meaning behind Dr. David Canter's and Dr. Donna Young's new purposed 'mathematical' way of profiling a crime scene with 'A->C' equations, how I believe this method can be expanded and ...
  • Barr, Julie (2021-05-07)
    Based on the findings from previous studies, I will use operant conditioning with carrots as primary reinforcers to teach my horse, Elsa, to distinguish green from blue, red, and purple. I hypothesize that Elsa will be ...
  • Ramón, Jasmine A. (2016-05-05)
    The women in this study are described as sexy, fiery, and loud, and those adjectives exist in the context of the situations in which they present themselves. These three adjectives specifically carry negative connotations, ...
  • McGlynn, Kyle (2021-05-04)
    Many students do not eat a healthy diet, do not meet recommended amounts of sleep, and experience high perceived stress. It is possible that students lose their sense of intrinsic (self-fulfilling) motivation as their ...
  • Kuntz, Kara (2012-05)
    For my honor's thesis, I surveyed Allegany County farmers on their perceptions of abandoned land, with a goal of discovering how they felt personally affected by land abandonment and what personal factors (socio-political) ...
  • Paul, Morgan (2020-05-08)
    I look at my body as object and outfit, as self and mask. I continuously display and inhibit my own image, using pattern and clothing in order to give voice to who I am, and how I see myself. Painstakingly slicing, layering, ...
  • DeValue, Jacalyn (2013-05)
    Recent foraging trends in North America are endangering ramps, Allium tricoccum, which are a wild leek. Ramps germinate and grow more slowly than they are being foraged, which has led to a call for protection of the species ...
  • Streisel, Jessica (2012-05)
    In an effort to understand how the foreign-language-learning process works, I taught a series of Spanish lessons to a group of 21 fifth-grade students. Using the Total Physical Response Storytelling method, developed by ...
  • Johnson, Emma (2022-04-20)
    With consumers constantly exposed to brands, it is very important for businesses to ensure their brand stand out in the marketplace. Building brand loyalty creates a competitive advantage through increased customer ...
  • Tuttle, Emily (2018-04-17)
    This study seeks to objectively determine to what degree shoulder angle, shoulder slope, and leg length affect the stride length of the horse. Stride length is important if it is assumed that an increased stride length ...
  • Markajani, Savannah A. (2018-05-08)
    This paper explores the concept of residential mobility in general and in Allegany County, NY, in particular.
  • Rahner, Meghan (2018-12-17)
    Dogs have been shown to understand the human communicative behaviors of gazing and pointing, and understand these human social signals more than any other non-human species. Domestic dogs are shown to have similar attachments ...
  • Cox, Jennifer (2016-05-10)
    The release of the Disney/Pixar movie Inside Out raised the question if scientifically accurate entertainment films can be used to educate a population of parents about childhood mental health. I conducted a study with two ...
  • Howard, Noah (2022-12)
    Rather than just looking back and seeing the face-value of what our Founding Fathers believed, it’s important to look deeper and understand exactly what they believed, where they obtained these ideas, and, most importantly, ...
  • Rush, Michelle (2018-05-08)
    This study explores how motivation types, implicit theories and attitudes toward the body and exercise, and an external ‘fitspiration’ stimuli (Instagram feed) influences people’s intention to exercise in the future. ...
  • Williams, Abby (2018-05-07)
    The goal of this study was to examine whether there is a relationship between personality traits and humor styles. Although previous research has been conducted on humor and its relationship to personality traits, there ...

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