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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 2007

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Complex Adaptive Systems Approach for Investigating Genetic Epistasis, Thomas A. Goth

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Anhedonia and depression: Anticipatory, Consummatory, and Recall Deficits, Kaitlin Hanley

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Cold and Silver – A Novella, Kyle Haskett

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Demon Rum, Devious Politics: the Lessons of Neal Dow’s Crusade for the Maine Prohibition Law, Andrew J. Herrmann

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Developing a Tool to Assess Human Health Impacts of Purchasing, Kaitlin C. Himmelmann

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Salmoninae Commensal Bacteria Show a Positive Correlation Between Antibiotic Resistance and Mercury Resistance Profiles, E. McClure

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Religion and Renunciation in Wordsworth: the Progression of Natural Individualism to Christian Stoicism, Geoffrey L. Meldahl

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Fun World – Pilot' A Television Screenplay, Drew Moreland

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Quantitative PCR reveals preferential nuclear DNA alkylation by epichlorohydrin in the chicken genome, Adam Newman

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Intramolecular Chemistry of ß-acetoxyethylidene and Photochemical Generation of Vinylidenes, Jennifer M. Nguyen

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Optimizations for hardware-software partitioning using WalkSAT, Andreea Olea

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Detailed Mechanistic and Optimization of the Photochemical Production Method of Superoxide, Ta-Chung Ong

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POV-IT: the POV-Ray Interactive Tutorial, Eleanor O'Rourke

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The Politics of the Spoken Word in African American Poetry and the Vernacular Tradition, Charlie Patton

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Too Many Bad Cooks Spoiling the Broth? Effectiveness of NGOs in Addressing Child Labour in El Salvador, Ivica Petríková

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Short History of Waterville, Maine, Stephen Plocher

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In Any Weather : a Collection of Short Stories, Stephen J. Plocher

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Gendered Struggle for the Freedom From Violence Using Frantz Fanon’s Theory in Three Postcolonial Novels: Albert Wendt’s Pouliuli, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, and Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory, Robin M. Respaut

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World Bank -CPA conflict: the Struggle to Define Human Rights and Development in the Philippines, Adam B. Robbins

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Collective Moral Responsibility, Allyson Rudolph

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Museo de la memoria: an exploration through memory of ESMA, Cornelia Sage

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Hearing Arnold in a new space : building a transformational-theory patrimony, Whitney Simmonds

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Saturday Night Random, Elizabeth Stovall

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Obstacles and Stepping Stones to the Hero’s Pedestal: Reunified Germany’s Selective Commemoration of Resisters to National Socialism, Suzanne J. Swartz

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Immunological effects of written disclosure in athletes, Kristen Thatcher

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Voices of the Poor: Poverty and Growth in Albania, Magda Tsaneva

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An Epistolary Heritage: An Examination of the Influence of Clarissa, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Julie on Lady Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon, Delwyn Webster

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Two essays in the Indiana family cap provision, Aimee Williams

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Confronting Convention: Ideologies of Gender & Marriage in the Works of Edith Wharton, Naomi Wilson

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External Control of Electron Temperature in Ultra-cold Plasmas, Roy O. Wilson

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Dialectics of Diaspora Space: a Study of Contemporary, Diasporic, South Asian Fiction, Christopher A. Zajchowski

Honors Theses from 2006

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Awakenings: A Collection of Short Fiction and Memoir, Emily Allen

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League of their own: the competition for Jewish-American identity in the novels of Philip Roth, Rebeccah Amendola

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John Coltrane: Jazz Improvisation, Performance, and Transcription, Garry J. Bertholf

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The Virtues of Impurity: Exploring Repulsion in the Works of Samuel Beckett, Marissa Chin

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Northern Door, Emilie Coulson

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Determining the Hydrologic Seasons and Creating a Numerical Model of the Belgrade Lakes Watershed, Katherine E. Curtis

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Carrying Emptiness: the Ecology and Zen Buddhism of Gary Snyder’s Poetry, Erica Dorpalen

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Some Big Tragedy, Travis Downs

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Non-adherence: a Symptom of the Current Health Care Model, Margaret Duggan

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Exploring Opportunity in America: Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Rags to Riches Success, Anna Erdheim

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Investigating the mechanisms of a novel ribosomal RNA degradation system, Daniel Fowler

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Vector Theory of Spontaneous Lorentz Violation, Shu Hong Fung

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Modernist Success in a Postmodern Failure: Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism, the Avant-Garde and the Ascension of Late Capitalism, Art after 1945, Russell Gullette

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A Computational Study of the Reactivity Differences of Two Carbonyl Dianions, Sylvia Haller

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Resistance of forest community types to structural and compositional change following beech bark disease infestation, Sarah Ann Hoskinson

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Altering finite Markov chains to more accurately model forest succession, Malcolm Itter

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Land, Consciousness and Continuance: The Poetry of Simon J. Ortiz and Joy Harjo, Ashley Jones-Pierce

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Modeling spatially explicit human-wildlife conflict: GIS and moose-vehicle collisions in Maine, Alexandra Jospe

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Patterns of dorm energy use and potential opportunities for dorm energy conservation at Colby College, Sarah Kelly

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Assisted living: The politics of Medicaid and Medicare, Sarah Lim

The Tastes of a Nation: M.F.K. fisher and the Genre of Culinary Literature, Melina Markos

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A Journey Through Memory and Self in the Works of Edwidge Danticat and Julia Alvarez, Kara McCabe

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The travel imagination and the hybrid reality in the wake of colonialism, James McLaughlin

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Media Coverage and Disaster Relief: Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?, Jessica H. Minty

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Environmental awareness of Waterville Junior High School students, Jenna Morrison

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Creating a code snippet wiki repository, Nicholas Kinyua Mwai

The Case of Raging Bull: Homophobia and the Masculine Cinema of Martin Scorsese, Michael O’Brien

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A broad-spectrum mer operon in a multi-drug resistant strain of the fish pathogen, Aeromonas salmonicida, Erin Parry

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Beautiful Reckonings: Thought, Pain, and Complexity in John Keats’s Letters and Poetry, Erin Rhoda

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Women, Erin Rhoda

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Position tracking and motion prediction using Fuzzy Logic, Patrick Rodjito

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Hydrogeologic investigation of the Serpentine Bog, Belgrade Lakes Watershed, Maine, Christopher J. Russoniello

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Of Catholics and Politics in China: an Evaluation of the Political Agency of the Chinese Catholic Church, Sarah J. Schleck

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Literary love making in Nicholas Sparks novels: Finding the balance between the writer’s life and the writer’s work in bestselling Romantic Literature, Ryan Spanich

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Infinite Jest’s Spectacular Resistance: Subversion and Hope in a Pluralizing Entertainment Culture, Samuel Stark

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Role of home equity in retirement saving: building your nest (egg), Caroline Theoharides

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Politics and Poetry: The Evolution of Adrienne Rich, Eleanor Thermansen

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Liberating the 'Murderer' A Defense of Ted Hughes and his Decisions Concerning the Composition of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel Through an In-Depth Look at the Major Themes in her Writing and her Life, Emily Tull

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Catalyzing Change: Towards Accelarated and Expanded U.S.-EU-Russian Action to Reduce the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism, Jessica C. Varnum

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Characterization of the Wheat Grain PKABA1-Interacting Protein TaWD40, Natalie Wayne

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The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself: The Modern and Postmodern Implications for Family and History’s Effect on Individual Identity in Selected Works of William Faulkner, Lauren Woodward

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Liz Wyckoff

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Synthesis of 2-oxo-16-(3', 4'-methylenedioxyphenyl)-trans-15-hexadecene, Adelajda Zorba

Honors Theses from 2005

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The Use and Characterization of Rivers in Modern Literature, Jessica Beetz

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Role of private owners in the conservation of exotic species, Jessica L. Beetz

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Mysticizing Philosophy, Megan Celeste Burd

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The Transboundary Implications of Wolf Reintroduction and Recovery in Maine, Brendan J. Carroll

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The Synthesis of Biomimetic Tungsten and Molybdenum Complexes, John Sterling Cole III

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United Methodism in New England: A historical, organizational, and spiritual study, Benjamin Davis

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Guest-host chemistry of p-sulfonatocalix[6]arene and nizatidine, Galia Debelouchina

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Speechless, Caitlin Dennehy

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Extension of national membership: government promises, immigrant expectations and the impact on the foreign population in Germany, Justin Dubois

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Synthesis and characterization of di- and tri-oxacalix[4]arenes, Michael Feldman

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Sew and Tell: Making Rebozos, Stories and Thinking about Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo, Melissa Hernandez

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Liberalization of village banking in Guatemala: structural differences in village banking institutions, Erica L. Hill

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Finding Family Trees: Barbara Kingsolver’s Creation of An Ecological Community, Melissa Hinkle

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Governmental resistance in international intellectual property rights, Emily Honig

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How Unpleasant It is to be Locked Out' Gender, Value and The Canon, A Reception Study of Three Modernist Women Writers, Elizabeth Johnson

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On Messalonskee Lake, Michael King

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The rhetorics of violence in Joshua: Foucauldian Power, Israelite Identity, and the Ethics of Interpretation, Clara Koh

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Towards the production of a mutant stylar ribonuclease that inhibits the self-incompatibility response, Yan Kung

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Quite Off the Beaten Track: The Emergency of Sentimental Travel Writing and Its Influence on Anglo-American Society, Daniel Lynch

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The Extraordinary Ordinary West: Humanity and Realism in McMurty’s Old West Narratives, Ann MacDonald

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So I Guess You Know What I’m Thinking: A Collection of Short Stories, Mary Medlin

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Analytical tools for studying phosphorus and nitrogen lake nutrient dynamics and their application to the field, Ivan Mihajlov

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Beyond the Ordinary: The Consoling Power of Fantasy Literature in War, Todd Moore

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Timing is Everything, Gillian Nadel

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Synthetic approaches to rigid "rod-and-panel" macrocycles, Timothy Newhouse

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Maternal and Cultural Influences on Individual Identity: The Novels of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner, Rebecca Nisetich