The Negative Effect of Relationships on Female Characters in Jane Austen’s Emma and Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin

 Both Jane Austen, in ‘Emma,’ and Margaret Atwood, in ‘The Blind Assassin,’ arguably present romantic and platonic relationships as having a negative effect on their female characters. In ‘Emma,’ it is a woman’s status that influences the complex circumstances that occur within and surrounding their various relationships; social position is influential upon whom they … Read more

2018 Astrological Changes for Nira

 2018 Astrological Changes for Nira The overall theme for this year is emotional purification. 2018 – Your job will make you feel you are outside of your comfort zone, this brings change, possible new job, enhanced travels, long working hours, but you are feeling that the testing phase is over. New hope for moving … Read more

Vibrio Cholerae: Causes, History, Morphology, and Epidemiology

 Briar Gosvenor McGuire Microbiology March 28, 2018 Vibrio Cholerae Vibrio cholerae, or more commonly known as cholera, is a deadly bacterial disease that causes severe diarrhea, that can lead to extreme dehydration and possibly death if left untreated. Vibrio cholerae is typically found in contaminated water, and is transmitted through drinking said contaminated water. … Read more

The Social Life of Things: Exploring the Personal Significance of a Hindu Statue

 In his work The Social Life of Things, Appadurai remarks that the study of material culture and the social significance of “things” is “…at the heart of exchange theory and social anthropology generally,” (Appadurai, 5). Indeed, objects are a crucial part of the foundation of culture, with meaning in its every aspect; economically especially, … Read more

The Effects of Climate Change on Marine Life

 The Effects of Climate Change on Marine Life Introduction Plastic pollution is something in which is highly recognized worldwide as a problem for our seas and for our future, but what most people fail to notice is that it is not the only culprit as to why our marine ecosystems are deteriorating. As the … Read more

What is Influenza? History, Clinical Presentation, and Treatment Recommendations

 What is influenza? “Contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses that infect the nose, throat, and lungs”1    History of Influenza5 ● Flu pandemic of 1918 to 1919 infected about 500 million people worldwide and killed 20 to 50 million. ● In the U.S., more than 25% of Americans became sick, and 675,000 Americans … Read more

The History and Introduction of Carbon Nanotubes: From Bucky Ball to Nanotube Production

 History and IntroductionThe experiments on the synthesis of new carbon clusters during the mid-1980s by Harry Kroto and Richard Smalley are the prelude to the story of nanotubes. From the vaporization of graphite and its expected condensation in carbon clusters of different sizes, particular structures containing precisely 60 and 70 carbons appear to be … Read more

School of Engineering Bachelors (Hons) Engineering in Mechatronics Individual Project Final Report

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 Bachelors (Hons) Engineering in  <MECHATRONICS> T317 Individual Project ENGD 3000 Project Title < Color sensing Pick and Place > Final Report  MUJEBUR RAHMAN G1686944T P16245956 Acknowledgement Foremost of all I would like to thank our supervisor and the lecture John Mateo for the adaptable advice and the guideline for this project … Read more

Unravelling the Role of Drosophila Gut in Dietary Restriction-Mediated Lifespan Extension

 Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2018, 19, x; doi: FOR PEER REVIEW www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms 1 Review 2 Drosophila gut—a nexus between dietary restriction and lifespan 3 Ting Lian1,†, Qi Wu1,† ,Brian A. Hodge2, Guixiang Yu1, Mingyao Yang1,* 4 1 Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 5 611130, P. R. China 6 2 … Read more

Minimum Wage: Should It Stay or Go? by Chris Hamilton

 Minimum Wage Should It stay or should it Go By Chris Hamilton Specific Purpose Statement: To invite my audience to think about the various perspectives of minimum wage, these perspectives being why minimum wage is enforced, those who believe that it should be increased, and those that believe it should remain where it is. … Read more

Impact of Palm Oil Commodification

 Jessica Moss 10/4/18 GEOG 276, Zhou Commodification of Nature: Palm Oil Palm oil is omnipresent. It touches almost all parts of the globe, and its uses range from industrial lubrication, to replacing trans fats in food products, to being an ingredient in soaps. In observing palm oil’s pervasiveness in global trade and packaged food … Read more

Solving BLM with a Can of Pepsi? Controversy Behind Pepsi’s “Live for Now” Campaign

 Who knew sharing one can of Pepsi could fix the world's problems? Pepsi’s “Live for Now” campaign seemed to suggest a can of soda could fix some of the biggest problems within America’s social and political climate. The Pepsi Company may have missed the mark on this ad campaign, but luckily the public saw … Read more