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2019 Academic Excellence Showcase Abstracts
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Shattered Green: A Novel
Get PDFMy thesis takes the form of a fantasy novel. In it, a girl is teleported to medieval times the night before her eighteenth birthday. I’ve always enjoyed fantasy and medieval stories, and I wanted to write one where a main focus was on the characters and their relationships. While I created an entire world for the majority of the novel to take place in, I also worked to create a variety of primary, secondary, and background characters to make the world feel more authentic. In my novel, the main character has to deal with missing friends and family and what to do when she finds them again. She has to come to terms with her own history and personality and mesh that with her new circumstances. While there are still aspects I need to rework, as I would like to self-publish my novel in the future, I pushed myself to make the manuscript the best it could be
Initiating and Improving Business Relations in Serbia: Analysis and Recommendations
Get PDFThe purpose of this project is to create a model for the effective initiation and improvement of business relations in The Republic of Serbia. Using Serbia as an example, different economic and cultural values will be analyzed to determine the suitability and benefits of doing business in this market. I will discuss what has been trending politically and economically in Serbia, neighboring countries, and the European Union (EU) to help fill an existing information gap. This information will be published in the interest of producing a comprehensive paper that is relevant for domestic operations, foreign investment opportunity, businesses with individual overseas assignments, or interests in expanding operations. This will include recommendations for improvement and demonstrate characteristics of the current environment for businesses that are interested in expanding their global presence to Serbia’s unique market
“The Show Must Go On!” But Where?: The Use of American Sign Language Interpretation in the Theater
Get PDFAmerican Sign Language (ASL) interpreting for theatre has three main placements of interpreters: platform interpreting, zone interpreting, and shadow interpreting. Each of these placements has its own positive and negative aspects, depending on the type of play and the scenic design. This will be addressed through a survey, literature review of articles, journals, and blogs. The final result will be the creation of an educational guidebook for directors and theatre companies about the various forms of interpretation. The intent is to provide a way to easily compare and contrast the placements according to different theatrical production demands. Other demands addressed will include the effects each placement has on audience members, the production team, and the theatre company. Some other aspects include the demands on the interpreters themselves with respect to prep-work, time spent in rehearsals, and production needs. Although this thesis will not be able to address every decision that goes into providing access for interpreted performances, it can be used to initiate the discussion by being a conversation starter for directors and theatre companies about the placement of interpreters, and the best match for their production. If successful, the findings can be applied to different theatres, productions, and even concerts. To improve both the Deaf consumer’s and the hearing consumer experiences
The Effects of Rhythm Versus Visual Images on Working Memory Recall
Get PDFIn the current study, the researcher aimed to examine the interaction between the independent variable of mnemonic modalities (visual images versus auditory rhythms) and working memory recall. Previous research indicates that information encodes better when presented with rhythm compared to a no-rhythm condition. This suggests that rhythm acts as a mnemonic, or a memory aid. However, across the numerous studies on rhythm and memory, rhythm’s effectiveness on memory retention has not been compared to the effectiveness of more commonly used mnemonics, such as images. The researcher hypothesized that the auditory rhythm condition would produce better working memory recall compared to the visual images condition. Participants for this study included 11 undergraduate students at Western Oregon University. In Learning Condition A, participants learned ten words in Estonian and their associated English meaning, paired with images related to each word shown. In Learning Condition B, participants learned the same list, paired with a rhythm. After a short distraction, participants in both conditions were asked to recall the English meanings. The difference between the two conditions was significant, t(10) = 3.184, p \u3c .05, supporting visuals as the better mnemonic device, leading the researcher to fail to reject the null. Future research should include more participants
A Changing Understanding of Writing
Get PDFAs student writers gain more instruction and experience, their beliefs about writing and their own writing practices change. Based on prior research about writing development and the author\u27s own experiences, a developmental scale was created that can be used to chart the typical course of a writer’s growth and understanding of writing. It is not strictly linear, and stages might be skipped, condensed, or combined. Like the writing process itself, the scale is recursive; ideally, the writer would get into a cycle of repeating the final two stages, building on former knowledge and always seeking new understandings that can be applied to both learning and teaching writing
Newton’s Method and Chaotic Behavior
Get PDFThis project will explore why, when using an iterative algorithm, specifically Newton’s Method, to solve nonlinear equations, certain functions can be observed to behave predictably while others behave chaotically. In attempting to answer this query my project will elaborate on what Newton’s Method is and how its used as well as demonstrate that Newton’s Method itself behaves predictably via mathematical proof. In this context, I will examine real-valued functions with solutions then introduce complex-valued functions. Following a proof of Newton’s Method for complex functions, the project will compare the behavior of these complex-valued functions with the previously mentioned real-valued functions. The project will examine the convergence behavior of Newton’s Method when analyzing complex-valued functions and determine if the behavior is chaotic. Upon observing this chaotic 4 behavior, my project will seek to find complex functions that do not exhibit chaotic convergence behavior. Subsequently, I will analyze my discoveries and discuss their implications. As of yet, there has been no comprehensive study of iterative methods in the context of solving complex valued equations. Ultimately, my project will produce an analytic discussion of the behavior of several functions within Newton’s Method along with computational experiments. From this process we might find some distinguishing factor that determines whether behavior will be predictable or chaotic
2019-02-20 (The Western Howl)
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2019-10-02 (Western Howl)
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