Now showing items 37-56 of 367

    • Bag of Flesh: MFA Thesis 

      Donnelly, Ellen Hathaway
      Bag of Flesh: MFA Thesis is a collection of short stories and poems centered on dysfunctional personalities. Using a range of voices, the book explores issues of identity and selfhood in restrictive societies. By employing ...
    • Barriers to Fighting Against Human Trafficking Through Non-Profit Organizations and Programs 

      Sampang, Megan Nicole (2018)
      As human trafficking has become a global issue, many survivors of human trafficking are faced with a new challenge - navigating a world with the freedom to make their own choices. The definition of human trafficking has ...
    • Barriers to Temporary Inter‐District Water Transfers in the Yakima River Basin: Irrigation District Perspective 

      Meza‐Garcia, Oscar (2016)
      Water marketing, or mechanisms to acquire and redistribute water such as temporary water transfers, can represent a valuable response to drought for irrigation districts. The Department of Ecology, the US Bureau of ...
    • Battles for School Choice 

      Thatcher, Anthony (2018)
      Education is widely regarded as one of the most critical aspects of society with great potential when successful and dire consequences when neglected. How to best arrange and manage a national education system is fought ...
    • The Beginning of a Long Conversation: Insights into Hanford Advisory Board Members Opinions on Diversity, Language Services, and Community Engagement 

      Jones, Denise (2021)
      The Hanford Nuclear Site is an important part of Washington state’s past, present and future. Onsite cleanup of hazardous radioactive waste has been underway for more than 30 years and will most likely continue for another ...
    • Beyond Access. Assessing Institutional Barriers for Underrepresented Minorities in STEM & High Employer Demand Majors 

      Maidadi, Ismaila (2015)
      Access to higher education in Washington State public institutions has reached an unprecedented level for underrepresented minorities (URM); completion rates in STEM and high demand majors however lag behind other groups. ...
    • Beyond the Curtain 

      Woo, Raelynne
      Beyond the Curtain is a work of hybrid autofiction that explores the facets of performance through dance in the studio and stage, as well as in everyday life. The speaker in the work navigates how her identity is shaped ...
    • Big Brother and His Magic 8-Ball: A Legal Analysis of the Applications of Data Assisted Predictive Policing 

      Bushnell, Lawrence David Jr (2020)
      This paper investigates the relationship between predictive policing methods or so called “pre-crime,” and Fourth Amendment protections. In the body of sociological research, the study of state observation and carceral ...
    • Black Medicine 

      Hoffman, Andrew
      Black Medicine is a novella that combines elements of both the Western genre and the Gothic ghost story. The intention of the tale was to place the claustrophobia of Gothic ghost stories within the open spaces of the Western ...
    • Blade Against the Heart 

      Loomis, James
      An account of the adventures of Luke Muston, a protégé of Italian sword master Vincentio Saviolo, as he tries to find a place for himself in London in 1592. While it follows the pacing and rhythms of historical romance, ...
    • A Blunt Look at the Impacts Marijuana Has on Violent Crime 

      Rice, Anjelica (2019)
      From 1990 to 2017, more than 30 states have passed laws legalizing the use of marijuana. While marijuana remains prohibited at the federal level, these laws provide the opportunity to research the impact that marijuana has ...
    • A Blunt Stakeholder Analysis on Initiative 1631 and How It Failed at the Ballot 

      Conejo, Saiwa (2019)
      After researching and interviewing four stakeholders on initiative 1631, three main reasons continued to come up explaining why initiative 1631 failed: 1) funding from the opponents, 2) the initiative’s approach to build ...
    • The Boatman of Hades 

      McArthur, Colin J.
      University of Washington Abstract The Boatman of Hades Colin McArthur Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Rebecca Brown Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences—Bothell The Boatman of Hades follows the life of Odis Heathman: ...
    • Breaking new ground: Puget Sound agriculture 

      Brockman, Michael (2011)
      Farmers in Western Washington experience challenges when making business decisions. Among these challenges are regulations, input prices, and development pressures. With these challenges has come opportunity for the ...
    • Bwai \ Remapping 

      Bentley, Scott
      This thesis is a collection of twenty visual poems and a poetics statement that comments on LandBack, biodiversity, and conservation. The visual poems draw maps of occupied Indigenous territories in tribal languages and ...
    • California Calling 

      Singer-Velush, Natalie
      California Calling is a literary memoir that traces the narrator’s story of crossing over into California from Canada at sixteen and her desire to assimilate into both a place and herself. By asking what it means to be ...
    • Campaign Spending in City Council Elections : A Comparison of At - Large and District Contests 

      Malinowski, Jason (2013)
      This study seeks to add to the research literature on city council electoral system s by investigating the association between campaign spending and whether councilmembers are elected at - large or by district. ...
    • Campus Safety in the 21st Century 

      Garcia, Adrian (2022)
      This needs assessment as my capstone project serves a dual purpose, fulfilling graduation requirements for the Master of Arts in Policies Studies program, and gathering useful information for the 2022 Campus Safety Task ...
    • Can Intelligent Hyperparameter Selection Improve Resistance to Adversarial Examples? 

      Burkard, Cody
      Convolutional Neural Networks and Deep Learning classification systems in general have been shown to be vulnerable to attack by specially crafted data samples that appear to belong to one class but are instead classified ...
    • Carbon Capture, Sequestration, and Storage in Washington State Parks: A Review of Relevant Policy and Project Feasibility 

      Gresh, Greg O. (2018)
      Successful examples of carbon capture and sequestration/storage (CCS) projects within voluntary carbon markets exist throughout the country. This paper examines policies related to the Washington State Parks and Recreation ...