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Black Medicine
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
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
(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
(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
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
(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
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
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
(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
(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?
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
(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 ... -
A Case Study of Municipal Elections and Latino Voter Behavior in Yakima, Washington
(2021)The purpose of this case study examines the aftereffects of the Montes v. City of Yakima ruling that led to Latinx political representation on the Yakima City Council. The study will look at the quick growth of Latinx ... -
The Case Study of Ningbo Foreign Language School. Privatized Education in China
(2017)Since 2003, China has deregulated its education system: the curriculum and textbooks have been diversified; there is no more national standardized admission test for colleges; and more types of schools are allowed, including ... -
Chairs
What drives prose if it isn’t the story? Or rather, what is a story? Anton Chekhov’s famous rule of storytelling suggests that a gun should not be included in the first act if it is not going to be fired in the second, but ... -
Charging
This is a homemade ceremony and an attempt to understand what home is made of. The present is only here with the past. Each street in Seattle has its own history. The Duwamish River tells the story of settlement in its ...