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.

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Honors Theses from 2012

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The Socio-Spiritual Value of Zombie Horror Films, Sierra N. Medling

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Isometries and Spontaneous Lorentz Violation in General Relativity, Greg Merritt

Revisions of Day, Matthieu Nadeau

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A Web Application in REST: The design, implementation, and evaluation of a web application based on REpresentational State Transfer, William O’Brien

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Queer Sex Gods or Patriarchs with Fangs? Gender and Sexuality in Modern Vampire Narratives Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood, and Twilight, Ashley Oliver

Swim Swam Swum, Grant Patch

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Electronic Detection of Ultra Cold Neutral Plasma, Nirakar Poudel

Damaged Pieces, Lindsay Putnam

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Reintroduction of the South China Tiger: Lessons, Assessments, and Implications, Yiyuan Qin

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Royal Crisis: Masculinity in Disney Princess Films, Kathleen Ricciardi

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The Sexual Brain: Essentialism in Queer Popular Science A Study of the Science of Dr. Simon LeVay, Nicole G. Sintetos

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The Effect of Democracy on Economic Growth, Amy Slipowitz

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Nine, Emily C. Stuart

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What Causes Ministers of Finance to Get Fired?, Bradley Turner

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Return from Exile: The Untold Story of Pinochet-Era Exiles' Reintegration in Chile, Katy Wassam

'The saddest word[s] of all': Quentin Compson's Derridean Obsession with a Great Southern Babel of Myth, Time, & Language in a Selection of William Faulkner's Fiction, Dashiell Wasserman

MILLENNIALS: A Collection of Short Stories, Aliya Weiss

Clamor and other poems, Winsor Wesson

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Life in Color, Lucy Wilhelms

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Mediums Change, Fears Stay the Same, Lucy Wilhelms

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Let Them Eat Cake, Courtney Yeager

Let Them Eat Cake, Courtney Yeager

Honors Theses from 2011

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Biomass Energy at Colby College, Rachel E. Baron

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Zooplankton of the Belgrade Lakes: The Influence of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Forces in Family Abundance, Kimberly M. Bittler

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The One That Carries You Away: Essays, Blair S. Braverman

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Lawns and Backyards, Darcy K. Bullock

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Happy Pills: A History and Critique of Antidepressant Technology, Sarah M. Carter

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Optimization and Analysis of a Model of the Mammalian Circadian Clock, Andrew M. Cox

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Communicating Health Care Options: Dominican Herbal Remedies in the Dominican Republic and New York City, Marisa K. Crommett

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Do male physiological condition and territory quality affect female choice in the Brown Anole, Anolis sagrei?, Sarah P. Flanagan

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The Ku Klux Klan: The Transformation from a Fraternity into a Religious Denomination, Amanda L. Forrester

The Director as God: Pedro Almodóvar's Quest for Ultimate Control in Relation to his Representations of Spanish Women, Elizabeth A. L. Fort

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From Victims and Villains to Protagonists: Immigration and Citizenship in Modern Italy, Rachel Gleicher

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Economic Development Under Dominant-Party Regimes, Christopher J. Gorud

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PlayZam: An Online Learning Environment, Peter A. Graham and Sarah M. Harmon

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Unpacking the Past: Collection and Recollection in Virginia Woolf and Walter Benjamin, Duncan H. Hardock

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Who Shall Trace the Void?’ The Marginalization of the Modern City in Lord Byron and the Shelleys’ Authoritative Representations of Rome, Elizabeth A. Hathaway

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Genes on Trial: An Evaluation of Gene Therapy in Print Media, Hana L. Haver

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The Biased White Reader: Reading, Revisiting, and Revising Racial Identity through Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Catherine W. Hawkins

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The Flypaper and Teflon Effect: Evidence From China, Cong Sheng Lyoe Lee

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’Is Blooming Budding Withering?’: A Study of Samuel Beckett’s Extension into the Poetics of James Joyce, Kevin Lucas

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Summer Camp As A Rite Of Passage: An Explication Of Camp As A Transformative Experience, Deborah J. Merzbach

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The Tubercular Prostitute: Contaminating the Consumptive Courtesan in La Dame Aux Camellias, Katherine W. Muto

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Keeping Nuclear Programs From Becoming Nuclear Weapons: A Game Theoretic and Econometric Analysis, Benjamin Guy Ogden

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Comparing Middle Permian and Early Triassic Environments: Mud Aggregates as a Proxy for Climate Change in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, Bryce Pludow

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Hastening the Wheels of Change: International Cold War Pressure and Civil Rights Reform During the Truman Presidency, Caley A. Robertson

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State Leadership for Safer Chemicals Policy Reform: Lessons from California, Maine, Minnesota and Washington, Michelle A. Russell

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Buffernomics: Assessing Willingness to Pay for Lake Conservation on North Pond and East Pond, Sophie D. Sarkar

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Purpose Found: Conditions of Meaningful Existence, Selfhood and the Role of the Other in John Milton's Paradise Lost, Anna Sawch

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Failing Marx: Locating Class Issues and the Potential for Transgressive Pedagogy in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Aleah Starr

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The Effect of Identification Style on Confidence Inflation in Eyewitness Testimony, Kelsey L. Stratton

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The impact of tricaine methanesulfonate, 2-phenoxyethanol, and carvone-methyl salicylate on the innate immune response of zebrafish (Danio rerio), Charles R. Wulff

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We the Peoples of the United States of America: Constituting American Identities through Pluralism and Narrative, Michael .. Yohai

Stasis Past Living and other poems, Nicole Ziemlak

Honors Theses from 2010

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Cytotoxicity of Diepoxybutane and Epichlorohydrin in Relation to Stages of the Cell Cycle, Bethany L. Bartley

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Soviet Education: Communism in the Classroom, Alison W. Berryman

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Race & Rock & Roll: A Visual Analysis of Rolling Stone Cover Photography, Erica D. Block

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Describing Gray Wolf Movement Using Brownian Motion and PDEs, Ashley M. Blum

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Analysis of the Electron Withdrawing Capability of Acetylene Groups for Promoting Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution, Eric D. Braunstein

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Erasing the Steps of Kingdom: Indigenous Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico and the Zapatistas' Re-conception of Power, Tara Brian

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The “Lunatic Fringe” -- Barry Goldwater and the Conservative Revolution of the 1960s --, Nicholas L. Bromley

Shakespeare and Homoeroticism: A Study of Cross-dressing, Society, and Film, Leigh Bullion

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Shakespeare and Homoeroticism: A Study of Cross-dressing, Society, and Film, Leigh Bullion

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American Catholics in the Age of Obama: Identities, Politics, Dialogue, Amanda R. Burgess

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Hiding, Jean M. Burnet

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Lithium- and Oxygen- Isotope Profiles of a Mid-Atlantic Ridge Oceanic Core Complex: The Atlantis Massif, 30°N, Ellen J. Crapster-Pregont

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Determinants of Credit Ratings for U.S. Private Colleges and Universities, Robin A. Daley

Beneath the dark and equivocal and symbolical archways of midnight:' An Exploration of Twilight as a Narrative Device in Three Faulkner Novels, Alison B. Madison Davis

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Central Bank Independence and Fiscal Dominance, Roberto Delhy Nolivos

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A Method for the Photochemical Production of Superoxide Radicals in Aqueous Acetone-Ethanol Solutions, and the Simultaneous Chemiluminescent Detection of Superoxide and Hydrogen Peroxide, Brian DiMento

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Development of a Spectral 2-D Fast Fourier Transform Analysis for Sand Ripple Morphology Interpretation, Christopher M. Englert

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Family Ties: Mainstream Environmentalists' Understanding of Radical Environmentalism in America, Zachary W. Ezor

When You are Gone, and Reason Gone with You': The Rhetoric of Love and Gender in John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets, Francesca R. Gentile

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Fast: The Stories of a Team, Katrina J. Gravel

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The role of TaABF1 in abscisic acid-mediated suppression of 𝒶-amylase gene expression in cereal grains, Lauren J. Harris

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Right On Poole, Dana L. Himmelstein

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External Sensory Organ Expression of D-Pax2 is Activated by Two Temporally Distinct Enhancers, Seth A. Johnson

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The wheat bZIP factor, TaABF1, mediates ABA-induced gene expression in bombarded barley aleurone layers, Benjamin R. Keyser

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A Disappearing Boundary?: The Changing Distinction between Combatants and Civilians from the First World War to the Present Day, Aimee Kidder

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Late Permian Paleoenvironmental Factors Expounded Through Analysis of a Forest-Floor Paleosol Profile, Karoo Basin, South Africa, Cassi Knight

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The Impacts of Land Use and Development Patterns on Water Quality of the Belgrade Lakes, Ian M. McCullough

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Stopgap: Short Stories, Eric T. McDowell

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Foreign Direct Investment in Ethiopia: Determinants and Effects, Mesay Melese

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The differential roles of D-Pax2 variants in regulating Drosophila eye and bristle development, Colin J. O’Shea

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Patterns of Apoptotic Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase Cleavage Induced by Laromustine and its Analogs, Adam N. Paine

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Continuity of FDI: Determinants and Effects on Growth, Loredana Popescu

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The Purely Reflected Self, William A. Price

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On Perfect Friendship: An Outline and a Guide to Aristotle's Philosophy of Friendship, Kristen Psaty

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Assessing Genetic Differentiation Among Populations of the Invasive Plant Impatiens glandulifera in Maine, Jordan R. Schoonover

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The Metaphysics of Modality, Kevin P. Smith

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Realistic Fantasy: A Study of the Effects of the Women's Movement on Harlequin American Romance Novels, Samantha G. Smith

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Migration, Food and Cultural Production Across Changing Afro-Ecuadorian Geographies, Amelia J. Swinton

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The Budworm and the Mill: The Spruce Budworm Epidemic and the Evolving Forest Products Industry in Maine from 1975-1985, Steven A. Tatko

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Revitalizing the Signaling Power of Class Rank at Colby College, Nicholas Van Niel

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Therapeutic Discourse and the American Public Philosophy: On American Liberalism's Troubled Relationship with Psychology, Clifford D. Vickrey

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The Emerging Civil Society in China and Its Impact on Democratization, Haolu Wang

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No, I’m really, really bad at math: Competition for self-verification, Alexandra E. Wesnousky

Honors Theses from 2009

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Janeiteism: An Exploration of the Pleasures of Jane Austen in Contemporary Popular Culture, Cynthia C. Anderson-Bauer

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Keys and Orchards: Memory and the Palestinian Diaspora, 1948-Present, Daniela Andreevska

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The Effect of Religious Participation and Permanent Income on Suicide Risk: Micro--Level Analysis, Ivan Balbuzanov