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"Compton's Human Sacrifice": Kendrick Lamar and the Identity of Exile
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
Social Horror and Social Media: The Threat of Emergent Technology in "Unfriended" and "Sickhouse"
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
Absent Characters: Stage Space and Social Change in Modern Drama
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
“Insuring Peace: British Intervention in Northern Ireland After the Belfast Peace Agreement”
(Vanderbilt University, 2017)
This work examines the political transformations in Northern Ireland after the Belfast
Peace Agreement of 1998 ended 30 years of conflict between the country’s Protestant, Unionist
and Catholic, Nationalist communities. ...
“ ‘The Best Laid Plans’: French and British Diplomatic Strategy in the Jacobite Rising of 1745”
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)
This project analyses the Jacobite Rising of 1745 in an international context. In particular, the thesis looks at French involvement and promises of support for the Jacobites both before and throughout the first months of ...
We'll Always Have Allusions: The Cultural Function of Allusions
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
Infant Tool Use and Executive Function
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)
How do toddlers’ executive function skills relate to abilities to use familiar tools in unfamiliar ways? What method might encourage infants to employ executive function skills to override their prepotent, or automatic, ...
Is what I think really what I think?: Examining implicit and explicit attitudes toward stuttering
(Vanderbilt University, 2017)
This study assessed implicit and explicit attitudes toward people who stutter. Twenty-four typically-fluent college-aged participants completed an Implicit Association Test, a measure of implicit attitudes, to assess the ...
Memory Encoding: The Costs and Benefits of Cueing
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)
This project investigated the benefits and costs of cueing on memory. Participants were shown images, some of which were cued as especially important to remember, in encoding blocks. The percentage of images cued changed ...
Preschoolers’ word learning when highlighting lexical or phonological awareness
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-17)