Corinne Jackman and Dr. Barbara Mandleco, Nursing The purposes of this research are to 1) discover perceptions children/adolescents with diabetes have about their lives/illness and 2) develop appropriate interventions based on these perceptions. A number of youth diagnosed with type 1 diabetes face difficult challenges concerning their care and causing great stress on their family. […]
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Voodoo Villains, Zombies, and Black Magic: The Role of Hecate in Orson Welles’ “Voodoo” Macbeth
Rachel Wise and Dr. Nancy Christiansen, English Main Text On 14 April 1936 at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, Orson Welles’ adapted Shakespearean play “Voodoo” Macbeth opened. The play was set in nineteenth-century Haiti and cast with only African Americans. This production was the first professional Shakespearean play with an allblack cast performed in the […]
Veterinary Medicine
Jeffrey Tucker and Dr. Michael MacKay Importance of Project It is not an overstatement to claim that the work Dr. Michael MacKay and I were able to conduct through the benevolence of the ORCA programme represents the cutting of history of medicine research. We have engaged a field that is strikingly underdeveloped, yet extremely relevant […]
An Observation of Public Behavior among Ecuadorian Orphans
Emily Miller and Dr. Charles Nuckolls, Anthropology Identity within a social structure is easily analyzed when found in a culturally traditional setting. However, when physical and mental handicaps, parental figure transience, and varying levels of familial contact become factors the social structure and the roles within that structure are not as easily defined. Research for […]
Transformative Processes in Marriage: Effects on Father-Adolescent Relationships
Brandon McDaniel and Dr. Erin Holmes, School of Family Life Main Text Researchers suggest that marital processes and the father-child relationship are linked (Holmes, Duncan, Bair, & White, 2007). Unfortunately, much of this work focuses on negative marital processes. For example, low marital satisfaction, emotional distance between spouses, and high marital conflict undermine father involvement […]
Everybody’s Talkin’ at Me: Analyzing the Effect of Multi-Source Television News Content on Civic Learning
David Lassen and Dr. Christopher Karpowitz, Political Science Main Text Consumers of media during the past ten years have seen a dramatic shift in the way information is presented to the American public. With technical innovations associated with the Internet and the cultural adaptations that have accompanied them, modern American media has become increasingly interactive. […]
The Portrayal of Museums in Family Films
Alexa Hysi and Dr. Paul Stavast, Department of Anthropology In the last decade the number of new museums and museum visitors has increased worldwide (Frey and Meier 2008, 410). Likewise, the instances of museums in family films have also increased. The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) lists 260 films since 1914 that use museums in some […]
Inter-Caste Adoption in India: Effects on Kinship and Caste as Understood by the Adoptive Family
Kelly Hacker and Dr. Charles Nuckolls, Department of Anthropology In his studies of kinship (1984), David Schneider put forth the theory that kinship is not inherently biologically-based, but is rather a symbolic and flexible understanding of the relationship between individuals. Inter-caste adoption in India, where a husband and wife adopt an unrelated child born to […]
Portrait of a Tree: Exhibit A
Hannah Wertz and Professor Sunny Taylor, Department of Visual Arts Abstract and Justification for “Exhibit A”, on public display October 17-31, 2011 Exhibit A is an explanation in four parts, of my attempt at knowing more about the Populus Tremulus (Aspen Tree). Eighteen months ago my experiments started shallow by painting portraits of the tree as […]
An Artistic Investigation of Coming of Age: Inspired by Jugendweihe
Alyssa Grant and Professor Daniel Barney, Department of Visual Arts I am profoundly grateful for the opportunities opened to me through the funding of this ORCA grant. With my grant I was able to travel to Germany to gather source material and experience relevant to my artistic investigation of personal identity and notions of coming of age. […]