In this thesis I provide historical contextualization of contemporary Church doctrine and official statements, as well as explore the transitional moments in the church's history as shown by General Conference talks and ...

African Americans' experiences of racial and gender-related stress and discrimination negatively impact their behaviours and emotions related to their health care during pregnancy 6 that is deeply rooted in the United ...

In this thesis, I use an autoethnographic approach to demonstrate how the transition to college can be viewed as a migratory process, particularly for second-generation migrants. I leverage my lived experience as the eldest ...

Legal precedent is an integral, yet often overlooked, factor in producing social change. Through an interdisciplinary approach, I utilize a legal textual analysis of the asylum case ​Matter of A-B-​ in order to make visible ...

This thesis will aim to consider the social processes and sociocultural environment central to viewing imagery of dead and dying bodies in Late Medieval Italy. Specifically, I will investigate The Triumph of Death (Il ...

Haverford College was founded in 1833 by a group of Quakers. In 1980, one hundred and forty-seven years later, Haverford officially became a coeducational institution. This year, 2020, marks 40 years since the first admitted ...

My ethnographic research focuses on how rumor and gossip create a toxic atmosphere of suspicion, fear, and even paranoia of the Trump Administration within the Latinx community of Franklin, Pennsylvania. Through an examination ...

This thesis documents the spelling system created by Aurora Sánchez Gómez for Zapotec (Otomanguean) as spoken in San Bartolomé Quialana, Oaxaca. Beyond documentation, areas of over and underrepresentation of the underlying ...

This paper will investigate different loss functions used for various natural language processing (NLP) machine learning tasks. These loss functions have proven their worth in the area of machine translation but they have ...