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Honors Theses

The Honors Thesis is a research project for which eligible students apply during their junior year and complete in their senior year. Colby departments and programs that have an honors program establish the requirements for the project and its final format. Each student, upon completion of the thesis, has the opportunity to publish their project in Digital Commons so that it may be made available to the Colby community and to the world at large.

Honors Theses from 1998 1998

Modeling the economic growth of Greece, Karolos A. Alexakos

The Power of the Press: A Content Analysis of Congressional Press Coverage in National, Regional, and Local Newspapers., Kendra Page Ammann

Deja vu in 1946: Reinterpreting the Origins of Containment, Jonathan Barry

Astride the black horse : the politicization of famine relief operations in the Third World, Jon Bolton

Approaches to the synthesis of two substituted aromatic natural products, Shana Bondi

The African-American Bildungstroman: The Creation of a Collective Genre, Ellen Bruce

The Harlem Renaissance: The Cultural Reassessment of Afro-American in the American Urban Landscape, Carrie Clough

Across the sea: African musical elements in African-American vocal music and literature, Kate Conklin

Molecular Design and Association Constants of Nizatidine-Guest Complexes, Elizabeth Corbeil

Of Poets and Killers: Solipsistc Seekers of Artistic Immortality in Vladimir Nabokov’s Fiction, Harris Eisenstadt

Heroic Endurance: Sequences of Religious Design in Hemingway, Tara Falsani

Contributions of private investment in post-conflict Guatemala: evidence from socially responsible Maquiladoras, Jeana L. Flahive

"Entre la espada y la pared" : "Up against the wall": Bolivian coca farmers and alternative development under the Estrategia Boliviana de la lucha contra el narcotráfico 1998-2002, Heather Anne Golding

Approaches and Methodologies for the Synthesis of Aromatic Natural Products, Christina A. Goudreau

Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Their Readers: Subterfuge, Challenge, and Transcndance in Victorian Gender Politics, M. Joann Harnden

Are NGOs the answer? Two cases of ecotourism development in Nicaragua, Liza Hillel

Alternatives to nitroprusside, William T. Hiscock

The Sweet Valley Series: The Transmission and Reeption of Cultural Ieologies Through Popular Literature, Alyssa Hughes

Continue with the old or start anew? An examination of Congressional election theories in the context of the 1946, 1948, 1994 and 1996 elections, Elizabeth Ivry

(Re)Written on the body: Intertextuality and the Scarred Black Female Body in Contemporary African-American Women’s Literature, Holly Kozlowski

Determinative factors of decision making in Congress: an analysis of sub-party coalitions, Benjamin Ling

‘The Importance of Being Earnest,’ by Oscar Wilde: A Production Exploring the Play’s Homosexual Undertones and Emphasis on the Power of Women, Dan Maccarone

Fire Man (a screenplay), Andrew Magary

DNA Bending Induced by Diepoxybutane, Elisabeth Aimee Pimentel

Waterlogged: A Novella in Four Voices, Brook Pisarsky

New approches to oxepane systems, Kenneth P. Raiche

Shrimp aquaculture: an analysis of its evolution and organization; and the development of a shrimp growth model, Adam Rana

Methods of pentacene and related organic molecules for semiconductor applications, Emily Reith

Missing from the Miracle: Microcredit and Urban Market Women in Bolivia, Stephanie L. Small

Identity and Change in the Scottish Literary Tradition: George Douglas Brown’s The House with the Green Shutters as a Defining Moments in Scottish Literature and Reaction to the False Self-Analysis of the Kailyard School, Andrew C. v. S. Smith

The Predicament of Woman’s Propriety in Hane Austen’s Sense and Sensibiity., Katie Taylor

Temporarily and other stories, Catherine Torphy

This mean and unrefined ore of mine Will make your glist’ring gold but more to shine - Anne Bradstreet, Anne Finch, and the Women’s Writing Tradition in Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Kate Westhaver

Demystifying the "Amy Tan Phenomenon" - The Contemporary Popularization of Asian American Women's Literature, Kristin M. Wildman

quiet ditches, Shelley Wollert

Honors Theses from 1997 1997

Desiring Against Empire: Homoeroticism and Patriarchy in J.r. Ackerley and E.M. Forster, Zahid Chaudhary

Celluloid blackness : race, modernity, and the conflicted roots of American cinema (1915-1939), Lincoln Farr

In Harmony: a novella, Robert Gee

Power of the party: an assessment of political party impact on the nomination processes for the U.S. House of Representatives, Cary Gibson

Signal transduction pathways in Volvox Carteri, Heide Girardin

Mystic, the heretic, and the Dame of Norwich: a study of Meister Johannes Eckhart, Bl. Jan Van Ruysbroeck and Julian of Norwich, A. Glos

‘This the childrens heard from our own lips’: History, Orality and the Black Female Body as Text, Caroline Guy

Mirabai's divine poetic: a feminist reading, Emily Heiss

The Woman Behind the Monster: The New Woman and Sexual Politics of the 1890’s, Danielle Herget

Firefall and Other Stories, Rebecca Hoogs

Form(ed) From the Body: The Theatrical Texts of Ntozake Shange & Susan-Lori Parks. An Interpretive Autobiography 'frank', Jenny Johns

Sherman Alexie and the Creation of a Mediational Text: Native Traditions vs. Western Culture or Native Traditions and Western Culture, Jenna Klein

Piedras De Luz, Stones of Light: Translations from Spanish, Nicole Marina LaBrecque

Virginia Woolf and the Constructing, Destructing, and Reconstructing of Gender, Amanda Magary

Predicting Gibb's free energy changes for chemical processes: interaction of cations with poly-y-glutamate, Stephanie Mann

For Was It Truth and Faithfulness? The Destruction of Camelot Through Passionate Love, Kelsey Miller

Storytelling as it Deconstructs Linear Time in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead, Erika Moore

Beckett: The Drama of Hope and Exile in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy - Malloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable - As Antecedent to His Later Dramatic Works, Andrew Morton

Trails and Other Stories, Alicia Nemiccolo

Calcium metabolismn in Volvox Carteri, Bridget Anne Neville

Characterization and purification of a novel calcium binding protein in the nematocysts of Metridium senile, Joshua Oeltjen

Computational studies of hydroboration: remote functional groups and ring size effects, Sarah Liberty Olbrich

You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me: Covenant in Faith and History, David H. Palmieri

Strong Women, Brilliant Women: An Analysis of the Empowerment of Women Through Nature n Native American Literature, Kim Parker

Suspended particulate matter and sediment of Penobscot Estuary, Craig M. Pochini

A Farmer’s Almanac and other stories, David Regan

¿Diversión, subversión, o desconstrucción?: la cuestión de la conversión en Ozmín y Daraja, Anthony Rosenfeld

"Vox Populi, Vox Dei" - A Discussion of Dissent Within the Modern Catholic Church, Sleven W. Suomi

Feminine Landscapes, Maternal Groves, and Mystic Gardens: Constructions of Nature in the Contemporary Fiction of African-American Women, Elizabeth Train

Honors Theses from 1996 1996

Excavation of structure 1A-48 in the urban core of La Sierra & investigation into development of the urban core in a late classic settlement Naco Valley, Honduras, Peter A. Agelasto IV

Moments of Being in the Life and Work of Virginia Woolf, Suzanne Arnold

Synthesis of a PEG-bipolar-dimyristoylphosphatidylethanoline, Hacho Bohos Bohossian

Fine, Good Women' and 'Meeting Québec', Sarah Borchers

Outside the Discourse of Patriarchy: helene Cixous and Ecriture Feminine, Carrie Califano

Hypertext: You Said You Want a Revolution!!, Dori Deis

Methods and methodologies for organic synthesis, Frank Favaloro

Remote marine aerosol in the Gulf of Maine: an SEM study, Eric S. Gordon

State of the world's promise: the children are waiting..., Anna Hamlen

Contemporary African-American Literature: Power Structures, Community and Magical Realism in the work of Gloria Naylor and John Edgar Wideman’s Homewood Trilogy, Brant Janeway

Determination of wavelength dependent quantum yields for iron (III) photoreduction in well defined chloride media, J. Catherine Kneece

US Conference of Mayors: National Office Paper Recycling Project, January 1996 - May 1996, Katharine Laurence

Alternatives to nitroprusside as hypotensive agents, Timothy Casey McCullough

(De)Constructing the Good/Evil Dualism: American Gothic Fiction, Psychic Tensions, and the Face of Fear, Sarah Morgan

Naming Personal power: In(ter)dependence in Audre Lorde’s Biomytholography Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Heather Moylan

The Call of the West: Mary Austin and The Desert Experience, Amy Phalon

Spinning the Wheel of Globalization: Employment Effects on the French and Mexican Spokes, Jennifer Pope

Studies directed toward the total synthesis and analoging of a natural product iron chelator, Kevin Peter Rice

Application of a CCD-Based Raman Spectroscopy System, Wilfredo Rodriguez Alvarez

The Semiotics of Hysteria: Conversatons with Charlotte as Woman, Writers, Hysteric, Jodi Schwartz

La pícara Justina: La condenación de la voz marginada del siglo XVII en España, Carmen E. Spear

A Computational and Experimental Investigation of the Pinacol Coupling and Rearrangement Reactions, Ryan Sullivan

Mark Twain and a Textual (Re)Creation of the Child Hero in Four Works: Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Huckleberry Finn, and The Mysterious Stranger, Julia Tatsch

Balancing Development: The Neoliberal Economy and Women in Chile, Marybeth Thomson

Elemental Analysis of Individual Particles from the Penobscot Bay Estuary, Matthew D. Weaver

Poet and Child: Unreconciled Opposites in Wordsworth’s Poetry, Brett Wilfrid

Honors Theses from 1995 1995

Pay Inside: Two Elm Street Stories, Darren Bruce

Ken Kesey and the Societal Machine: The Quest for Transcendence of Life’s 'Mundane Certainties', Joshua Burker

The Trouble Inside: Alcoholism in Raymond Carver’s Short Stories and Poetry, Jonathan Cannon

Life and Death: The Religious, Philosophical and Moral Dilemmas in Medicine, Brendan James Cavanaugh

Exploration of heteroatom effects on reactive and structural properties of bicyclic systems, John A. Charlton

DNA interstrand crosslinking efficiencies, sequence preferences, and organic syntheses of diepoxide metabolites in fixation, Sara Charnecki

Diners in America : an evolutionary process, Jill Gardner

Pinacol coupling of cycloalkanones, Andrew E. Greenberg

Met-him-pike-hoses: The Joycean Hero and the Novels of Flann O’Brien and John Banville, Brian Gressler

Determination of Hydroxyl Radical Production Rates in Natural Waters Using the Fluorometric Reagent p-Hydroxyphenylacetic Acid, Jason D. Hosmer