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This collection of Wheaton College Undergraduate Honors Theses includes honors theses from a variety of Wheaton College academic departments. Please note that this is not a complete collection of honors theses done at the College. Only theses whose author(s) have given Wheaton College permission to post their work online are included here.The complete collection is housed in the College Archives and is searchable (1928-1969, 1990-present) through the HELIN catalog.
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The role of visual perception in the hopping locomotion of rhinella marina.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)Hopping is a saltatory form of locomotion utilized by a diverse range of species across the animal kingdom. The Cane Toad, Rhinella marina, is a common model used to examine this movement, due to its ability to sustain ... -
Cultural capital among zero waste consumers.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)Ethical consumption has emerged as a prominent alternative consumption strategy designed to address the negative impacts of mass consumerism. The zero waste movement has been observed to be a distinct segment of this trend. ... -
Using an energy balance model to determine exoplanetary climates that support liquid water.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)The purpose of this thesis is to modify an energy balance atmospheric model created by R. Pierrehumbert (Pierrehumbert 2011). His energy balance model gave an estimate of Gliese 581g’s, a tidally locked exoplanet, atmosphere. ... -
Small pond water chemistry and algal ecology : a study of two eutrophic bodies.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)Anthropogenic contamination of water bodies with excess nutrients and road salts has resulted in cultural eutrophication and freshwater salinization throughout the Midwestern and Eastern United States. This study focuses ... -
Assessing 20 years of change in the interdunal swale plant communities of Sandy Neck.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)Interdunal swales occur between sand dunes and support a relatively high density and diversity of plants. In the mid-1990s, data were collected on the plant communities of various swales at Sandy Neck in Barnstable, MA. ... -
Super hooah : an exploratory study of the role conflict between being a mother and a soldier.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)There are 8,793 female active duty service members in the Army who are single parents. There is little research that focuses on the experiences of the enlisted active duty single mother as opposed to studies on the impact ... -
Secrecy in Flux : The CIA and Changing Context.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)This work covers a period of American history stretching from the initial proposal for the creation of the American Central Intelligence Agency in 1944 to the conclusion of Jimmy Carter’s presidency in 1981, analyzing ... -
The geometry of narrative : from naturalism to postmodernism.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)This thesis examines the interrelationship between narrative form and geometry. The firstsection will address the parallels between naturalist writing and Euclidean geometry, using Nana by Emile Zola as a case study. The ... -
Applied civics : the potential of civic education to transform american political engagement.
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The structure and composition of functionally specialized skeletal muscle in the cane toad (rhinella marinas).
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)This study examines the structure and composition of functionally specialized skeletal muscle in the cane toad (Rhinella marinas). Contributing to the suggestions of previous studies, my yearlong research exhibits a ... -
For love of countryside : politics, rural England, and the mid-victorian novel.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)My thesis argues that the rural setting of provincial England depicted in popular Victorian novels reflects corresponding political changes introduced by Parliamentary acts, such as the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867. While ... -
Quantitative analysis of gene expression in longfinned zebrafish.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)For years, researchers have studied how organ and appendage sizes are tightly regulated to produce species-characteristic proportions. The Schleier zebrafish is a mutant zebrafish that is characterized by elongated fins ... -
Molecular variation and gene expression of toll like receptor 22 in atlantic killifish, fundulus heteroclitus.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a type of transmembrane I protein that play a key role in the innate immune system. Variation in immune system genes such as TLRs may be a reflection of environment and pathogen co-evolution. ... -
“Down” time : experiences of agency and structure in a women’s prison.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)The voices of incarcerated women remain largely unheard and underrepresented in sociological discourse. Though the rise of modern feminism did spark an influx of research regarding incarcerated women, the result of these ... -
Grounding friendship in non-traditional moral frameworks.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)I distinguish between two types of questions about the conflict between friendship commitments and rule based morality: normative questions, and metaethical questions. In order to answer the normative questions, we must ... -
Our world is kind of strange : surrealism in postmodern picture books.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)This thesis examines surrealist influences in postmodern picture books. Although Surrealism is a modernist movement, it shares many characteristics with postmodernism, showing that it continues to be relevant and provocative; ... -
Numerical analysis of periodic motion of tethered satellite systems.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)Momentum exchange space tethers offer an alternative solution to orbital maneuvering and attitude control. However, the issue of induced tether vibrations remains one of the major challenges. Large oscillations in the ... -
My name is not Annie Sullivan, a plovella.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)This thesis introduces a new form of literature, the plovella, which combines elements of novels, plays, poems, and songs to form a complex layering of interaction between narrator and characters. This approach enables the ... -
Methylmercury promotes the growth and progression of breast cancer in danio rerio embryos.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)Estrogen is a female sex hormone that is important in the development of secondary sex characteristics in females and promotes breast cancer growth and metastasis of estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer cells. ... -
Temperature and pH effects on the formation of cyclodextrin-fluorouracil and cyclodextrin-uracil complexes.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)This study analyses the effects of pH and temperature on cyclodextrin-fluorouracil and cyclodextrin-uracil complexes. Fluorouracil is a chemotherapy drug given in high dosages leading to severe adverse effects. To reduce ...
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