The science fiction genre is a forgotten stepchild in the literary family; great writers can be marginalized by their choice to delve into the fantastic, while some excellent speculative novels face an uphill battle to ...

Fertilization in sea urchins, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, is the result of a series of interactions between the egg and sperm. Microfilament formation has been implicated in both the acrosomal process formation and ...

I wrote this paper as an exploration of the question, "where do we as individuals end, and the society that made us begin?" This question, in various forms, consistently nagged me throughout my last year at Goucher. Many ...

All of us--whether we are students or professors, young or old, political or apathetic--are children of the liberal philosophy that "progress" is the inevitable path towards the "good." Think about our speech: if "things ...

The concept for this paper originated from my work with the diary of American World War II soldier Vernon Goetz. I have been working with the diary and its artifacts in Goucher’s Special Collections since the fall of 2013 ...

This is a paper written for English 105 in Fall of 2007. The class focused on American media, and the assignment was to study and analyze a recent marketing campaign. When choosing a subject, I recalled hearing something ...

The ball-milling technique employs mechanical energy to reduce the particle size of reactants to a size small enough to cause defects in the reactants’ lattice structures and produce active sites. In exothermic reactions, ...

I attempted this essay last year while confronting my fundamental question about literary criticism: “why bother?” An interdisciplinary major, I have always been interested in pushing at the boundaries of the fields I study ...

I was instructed to write this paper for my internship with the Singapore Chemical Industry Council. The ASEAN Economic Community was a regional initiative which was to start on December 2015, and the chemical industry of ...

“The Customer Commodity” is the culmination of a semester’s study of commercial surveillance methods. After being given the broader topic of surveillance to research, I looked for a more specific theme that was applicable ...