Neural machine translation (NMT) is often heralded as the most effective approach to machine translation due to its success on language pairs with large parallel corpora. However, neural methods produce less than ideal ...
I came to this topic of the agunah ("chained woman") after grappling with my own connection to religion and whether there is only one path to experiencing the divine. I turned to Orthodox Judaism because of my own personal ...
I sought to understand the factors affecting political support for public transit by studying the process of policy change that has taken place around recent attempts to boost state transit funding. This research connects ...
Like the title "Dreamlike" implies, this composition is meant to evoke one's state of mind throughout a dream. The first movement plays like process music, evoking one's recollection of a vague memory of what one has dreamt, ...
In October 2021, I visited the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB) while on a research trip. My experience in the museum's belowground section, in a set of hallways known as "axes," made me feel as if I was adopting the identity ...
Land use and disturbance history play a large role in understanding our environment as they can have long lasting effects on composition of modern ecosystems. This research aims to collate land use and disturbance histories ...
Exploration of the differences between physiological adjustment in evergreen and deciduous trees can help us gain a better understanding of how temperate ecosystems will fare under anthropogenic climate change. I compared ...
When one considers the greatest discoveries in the history of biology, one is naturally drawn to think of well-known model organisms, such as mice or Drosophila melanogaster, which have been the backbone for most contemporary ...
Holocaust memorials' physical structures and interpretations are necessarily mediated and shaped by local contexts, including place and the particular time of construction. Three monuments from across a wide geographic and ...
This thesis discusses the status and the use of the Russian Orthodox Church by both the invading Nazis and the Soviet Union in the opening two years of World War II. While the Russian Orthodox Church was once a significant ...
Since the 19th century, the United States has embarked on various interventions around the world to maintain an empire of influence and elevate its status to that of a global superpower. This was especially common in Latin ...
The American, French, and Haitian revolutions would not have been possible without the force of public opinion. Wrought by Enlightenment notions of the rational individual citizen, natural rights, and liberty, both rational ...
Roughly 1.2 million residents of the United States trace their ancestry to Colombia. They constitute one of the largest communities of South Americans in metropolitan areas like New York City and Miami. Accounts of this ...
In 1517, Martin Luther, a German priest, nailed a document to the door of All Saints Church. This document, entitled Ninety-Five Theses, laid out corruption within the Catholic Church, and caused an immediate uproar across ...
Using a 1944 transit strike as a lens, this thesis attempts to explore racial tensions in Philadelphia during the long civil rights movement as it relates to the city's trolley public transit system. The streetcar system ...
In 1794, the United States Congress officially authorized the creation of a national naval force and just ten years later pushed back Tripolitan soldiers on the coast of North Africa. Yet for decades prior to the First ...
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao trata sobre un joven dominicano estadounidense, Oscar, que está obsesionado con la ciencia ficción y la fantasía; lee cómics, juega juegos considerados "nerd" y le encanta escribir ...
This paper uses three Spanish films, El espíritu de la colmena (Spirit of the Beehive, 1973), ¿Quién puede matar a un niño? (Who Can Kill a Child, 1976), and El espinazo del diablo (The Devil's Backbone, 2001) to analyze ...
This study examines the function and meaning of hip-hop/rap to Mexican artists and cultural producers contributing to Chicago's Mexican underground hip-hop/rap music scene. Through in-depth interviews with artists who ...