Category: Fall 2024
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COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions on Sleep Timing, Sleepiness, and Sleep Quality in Early Adolescents: Insights from a Longitudinal Study
in Fall 2024Abstract COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, including school closures, caused dramatic changes to sleep behaviors, such as sleep duration, wake and bedtime, and the associated outcomes such as daytime sleepiness and sleep quality, some of which have been positive. Studies in young children have found that sleep duration increased during the height of the COVID -19…
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Characterizing the Effects of Misinformation Regarding Pediatric Cancer in the High School Setting
in Fall 2024This thesis is dedicated to the Vanderbilt Hematology/Oncology Team. Acknowledgements I would like to express my appreciation for my field of study advisor, Brenda Royal, English teacher, Ellie Wiggins, mentor, Scott Borinstein M.D. PhD., and peers for assisting me with formatting my research and revisions. Abstract This thesis primarily focuses on the implications of misinformation…
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Evolution Through Elevation: A New Era of Folk Horror Film
in Fall 2024The classic subgenre of folk horror, with origins in the late 1960s, is finding new popularity in the twenty-first century. The 2010s saw the beginnings of a “folk horror revival” (Andres 79) with the release films such as Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England (2013), Robert Eggers’s The Witch (2015), David Bruckner’s The Ritual…
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A Lady’s Yearning
in Fall 2024A Lady’s Yearning Her crimson dress, embroidered with wine threading, Tulips and hyacinth decorated by beading, Blew beside her bed. Her eyes heavy with rues, Her heart a stoic stone. “Laments of Romance” labeled the diagnosis, but rues of dread– Dread of kindred, present and future, dread of God, Godly yearnings: To be a champion…
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Portfolio of the Mind
in Fall 2024Enemy What actions do we deem, That demand the veneration of the masses? How do we elevate these truths or Rather these saints of war? On the tip of the spear of a young soldier do we lay our hopes, Yet we wait till his death to propose a parapet of peace. Remaining tantalized by…
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Teaching Tyrants: Analyzing the Impact of Foreign Military Education and Training on Coup Risk in Africa
in Fall 2024Abstract This study examines the relationship between Foreign Military Education and Training (FMET) and coup frequency in Africa, shedding light on a controversial program in a region vital to US national security. Correlation analysis is performed for the number of coups and the mean amount of FMET, non-FMET, and total military aid provided to African…
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The Crisis of Self-Help on YouTube: Recommendations of Misogyny and Hegemonic Masculinity
in Fall 2024Abstract Through a rhetorical content analysis of 79 videos, this research aims to explain the function of hegemonic masculinity (Connell & Messerschmidt, 2005; Messner & Messerschmidt, 2018) on YouTube. It looks to understand how YouTube videos in the “self-help for men” community perpetuate and legitimize hegemonic masculinity. This study suggests hegemonic performances inevitably cause crises…
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Romantic Transcendence
in Fall 2024To Be a Ghost Rising from bed, Wobbling on feet That I could not feel Creeping into rooms, Swaying with Thoughts That I could not grasp Feeling myself A Ghost Hidden from the World Mind detached from Body A lone Memory In a soft And most quiet Darkness To Be Color…
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La femme, une Patrie, une Légende: Issues of Documentation and Memorialization of Haitian Women Revolutionaries
in Fall 2024The preservation and presentation of history is never a neutral act. No matter the intentions of the historian, archivist, or scholar, every person who approaches an event with the intention of recording it for posterity brings with them their own specific viewpoint and context. This lack of neutrality ultimately impacts what, and who comes to…
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Vitamin D and Multiple Sclerosis: A Comprehensive Review
in Fall 2024Abstract Multiple sclerosis (MS), characterized by autoimmune-driven demyelination in the central nervous system, poses significant challenges in diagnosis and treatment due to its varied symptoms. This synthesis of existing observational studies looks to determine the impact of vitamin D levels on MS development. Findings suggest a potential role for vitamin D in MS prevention and…