Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This study uses the zooarchaeological record to examine the range of activities represented in Late Archaic period samples excavated from Jacob's Island -1B, in the Trent-Severn Waterway region in Ontario. Radiocarbon dates from sixteen features were used to establish a chronology of site use and occupation. The faunal remains analyzed in this study were recovered from seven dated… more Full Text: HOLOCENE RESOURCE EXPOLITATION: A ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS FROM JACOB’S ISLAND, PETERBOROUGH COUNTY, ONTARIO A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Martin, Steven Henry, Thesis advisor (ths): Cazorla-Sanchez, Antonio, Degree committee member (dgc): Andriewsky, Olga, Degree committee member (dgc): Kay, Carolyn, Degree committee member (dgc): Shubert, Adrian, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Carlism and anarchism were revolutionary social movements that acquired significant popular support during the most intensive period of modernization in Spain (mid 19th to mid 20th centuries). It was noted but not well explored by contemporaries and historians that these enemies were similar in their hostility towards modernization and in their intense idealism. This thesis compares the… more Full Text: The Commonality of Enemies: Carlism and anarchism in modern Spain, 1868-1937 Steven Henry Martin A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Schmidt, Jodi Lee, Thesis advisor (ths): Keenleyside, Anne, Degree committee member (dgc): Williams, Jocelyn, Degree committee member (dgc): Conolly, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Garvie-Lok, Sandra, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This study analyses deciduous dental pathology and stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes to investigate the relationship between dietary composition, feeding practices, and oral health in a subadult skeletal sample from the Greek colonial site of Apollonia Pontica, Bulgaria (5th to 3rd century BC). Stable isotope analysis of 74 bone collagen samples indicates that weaning began between the… more Full Text: CHILDHOOD DIET AND FEEDING PRACTICES AT APOLLONIA: EVIDENCE FROM DECIDUOUS DENTAL PATHOLOGY AND STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS. A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Shore, Deborah Ann, Thesis advisor (ths): Siena, Kevin P, Degree committee member (dgc): Andrew, Donna T, Degree committee member (dgc): Hurl-Eamon, Jennine, Degree committee member (dgc): Miron, Janet, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>British pornographic texts arguing the texts were part of a wider cultural discourse on luxury, criticising the upper echelons of society for their decadent and vice-ridden lifestyles. Pornographic texts consistently portray the elites of Britain as partaking in sexual deviances including lesbianism, sex with dolls, dildos and household objects. The portrayals could be dismissed as tales… more Full Text: Nymphs, Satyrs and Impotent Old Men The Portrayals of Elites in Eighteenth-Century British Pornography and Medical Literature A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Grummitt, Julia, Thesis advisor (ths): Dunaway, Finis, Degree committee member (dgc): Junyk, Ihor, Degree committee member (dgc): Walden, Keith, Degree committee member (dgc): Braddock, Alan C., Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Since 1979, photographer and sociologist Camilo José Vergara has taken repeat photographs of American cities in decline, focusing on evolving landscapes of postindustrial decay. Vergara's images subscribe to an aesthetic of ruin while providing a record of America's crumbling ghettos rooted in social documentary concerns. Vergara's work diverges from the ahistorical… more Full Text: AMERICAN ACROPOLIS, AMERICAN RUINS: CAMILO JOSÉ VERGARA’S REPEAT PHOTOGRAPHY AS IMAGISTIC HISTORY A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The last two decades have seen thousands of Canadian university graduates go to teach English in places such as China, South Korea, and Japan. In this thesis, drawing on Clandinin and Connelly's concept of narrative inquiry, I situate the stories I heard about the experiences of 15 teachers who taught English as a Second Language in South Korea between 2003 and 2012. </p><p… more Full Text: Unexpected Journeys: Unmasking Home While Abroad A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY Peterborough, Ontario, …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The world has met the target of halving the number of people without access to improved-drinking water . However, the focus in rural areas (where 83% of the people without access to improved-drinking water live) has been on the construction of infrastructure, rather than on the strengthening of existing local institutions to create a long-term sustainable solution. This research aims to… more Full Text: THE SUSTAINABILITY OF COMMUNITY-BASED WATER SUPPLY ORGANIZATIONS (CWOs): A CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF RURAL COLOMBIA A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Priest, Allen George, Thesis advisor (ths): Sheinin, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Dunaway, Finis, Degree committee member (dgc): Durand, Caroline, Degree committee member (dgc): Kay, Carolyn, Degree committee member (dgc): Pruessen, Ronald, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>A presidential spouse in an era of rigid gender norms, Jacqueline Kennedy frequently straddled the divide between celebrity, social acceptability, and personal desire. Yet, history remembers America's thirty-seventh First Lady more for her fashion and soft-spoken nature. Forgotten is that she was a `transitional' figure, who oversaw America's largest restoration of the… more Full Text: Beyond Paris Jacqueline Kennedy and the Presidency A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY Peterborough, …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This thesis is an attempt to explore the role that musical texts played in the development of a public by writing a work of fiction and then applying to it a critical exegesis. Part One, the literary text Some Of This Is True, (re-)creates and remembers punk in its iteration in Regina, Saskatchewan, in the late 1970s. Part two, the critical exegesis, examines how the theories of public… more Full Text: PUNK AS PUBLIC, PUNKS AS TEXTS: SOME OF THIS IS TRUE A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY Peterborough, …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Pond, Robin Simon, Thesis advisor (ths): Conolly, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Lohmann, Roger I, Degree committee member (dgc): Chan-Reynolds, Michael, Degree committee member (dgc): Fox, William, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Flaked stones tools are the oldest and longest persisting human cultural remains. Some of these tools were made by hominins who were not anatomically or cognitively modern. My thesis uses an eye-tracking device, developed by psychology, to study modern day novice and expert tool making. By comparing these two groups I was able to characterize the behaviours that lead to successful flake… more Full Text: VISUAL INFORMATION-PROCESSING AND THE EVOLUTION OF FLAKE MAKING SKILL A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This thesis examined the applicability of the sexual self-control model to men, which resulted in the creation and analysis of a new two-dimensional sexual double standard scale. In Study 1, a sample of 124 men completed the Self-Control Schedule assessing general learned resourcefulness, the Sexual Resourcefulness Inventory, Sexual Self-efficacy Scale, Reasons for Consenting to Unwanted… more Full Text: Application of the Sexual Self-Control Model and the Two-Dimensional Sexual Double Standard Scale to Heterosexual Undergraduate Men and Women A thesis submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Boileau, Arianne, Thesis advisor (ths): Morin, Eugene, Degree committee member (dgc): Healy, Paul F, Degree committee member (dgc): Powis, Terry G, Degree committee member (dgc): Freiwald, Carolyn, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This study examines the foraging strategies of animal resource exploitation during the Middle Preclassic period (900-300 BC) at the ancient Maya site of Pacbitun, Belize. The faunal remains analyzed in this study were recovered from various domestic structures associated with the production of shell artifacts. Detailed taphonomic analyses have revealed that the Pacbitun faunal remains… more Full Text: MAYA EXPLOITATION OF ANIMAL RESOURCES DURING THE MIDDLE PRECLASSIC PERIOD: AN ARCHEOZOOLOGICAL ANALYSIS FROM PACBITUN, BELIZE A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This study demonstrates that the New Brunswick government rationalized the 2011 elimination of the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women (NBACSW) by discursively framing it as a duplication of services and as a non-essential service. The study relies on interviews with women who had been involved with the NBACSW, as well as literature about the use of neoliberal and anti-… more Full Text: “TOUGH BUT NECESSARY”? AN ANALYSIS OF NEOLIBERAL AND ANTI-FEMINIST DISCOURSES USED IN THE ELIMINATION OF THE NEW BRUNSWICK ADVISORY COUNCIL ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Cook, Philip, Thesis advisor (ths): Fitzsimons, Rodney D, Degree committee member (dgc): Ianonne, Gyles, Degree committee member (dgc): Lohmann, Roger, Degree committee member (dgc): Devolder, Maud, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This thesis examines the mobilization of labour required for fortification construction during the Late Helladic (LH) period of the Aegean Bronze Age. It adopts an "energetics" approach to architecture, as a framework for systematically calculating the labour costs of construction, and using such costs to infer relative differences in political power among groups and… more Full Text: THE “ENERGETICS” OF MYCENAEAN DEFENSE WORKS: ASSESSING LABOUR INVESTMENT FOR FORTIFICATION CONSTRUCTION DURING THE LATE HELLADIC PERIOD (ca. 1600-1200 B.C.) A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Introduced as part of the Canada-Ontario Immigration Agreement, Local Immigration Partnerships (LIPs) mark a fundamental shift in local settlement policy. To address the gap in knowledge about the implications of this policy change, this thesis research features a case study of Durham Region's LIP. Objectives were designed to examine the impact of Durham's LIP by interviewing… more Full Text: Local Immigration Partnerships: A Case Study in Regional Governance of Durham Region, Ontario A thesis submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Faculty of Arts and …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Beales, Eric John, Thesis advisor (ths): Conolly, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Fox, William, Degree committee member (dgc): MacDonald, Robert, Degree committee member (dgc): Fitzsimons, Rodney, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This thesis centers on analyzing the spatial, temporal, and ecological patterns associated with the introduction of maize horticulture into Southern Ontario - contextualized against social and demographic models of agricultural transition. Two separate analyses are undertaken: a regional analysis of the spread of maize across the Northeast using linear regression of radiocarbon data and… more Full Text: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ADOPTION OF MAIZE IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO AND ITS SPATIAL, DEMOGRAPHIC, AND ECOLOGICAL SIGNATURES A thesis submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Barry, Jack, Thesis advisor (ths): Iannone, Gyles, Degree committee member (dgc): Haines, Helen, Degree committee member (dgc): Elton, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Estrada-Belli, Francisco, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>It has long been hypothesized the location of the ancient Maya center of Minanha was a strategic one based on its ability to control the flow of communication and key resources between major geopolitical zones. Situated in the Vaca Plateau, at the nexus of the Belize River Valley, the Petén District of Guatemala, and the Maya Mountains, Minanha became a Late Classic polity capital that… more Full Text: A GIS-BASED SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF VISIBILITY AND MOVEMENT USING THE ANCIENT MAYA CENTER OF MINANHA, BELIZE. A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This research explores the obstacles Jordan is facing regarding the sustainable treatment and reuse of wastewater in the agricultural sector. It assesses the technical, socio-cultural, and political aspects of decision-making around water and wastewater management in Jordan by focusing on a case study involving wastewater usage in the Jordan Valley. It includes a literature review and… more Full Text: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT AND REUSE IN JORDAN: A CASE STUDY OF THE JORDAN VALLEY A Thesis submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Dreams that occur in bereavement have been mainly overlooked in the psychological literature. This study focuses on the most memorable dreams of the bereaved that contain imagery of the deceased. There were 52 participants who completed the study via email. The main goal of the study was to investigate the occurrence of common themes in the dreams that have the deceased as a character.… more Full Text: EXAMINING DREAMS, DREAM CONTENT, AND MEANING OF DREAMS IN BEREAVEMENT A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This thesis analyzes the history of the Inter-American Schools Service (IASS), which ran under the auspices of the American Council on Education beginning in 1943. The program was defined as a private initiative aimed at spreading U.S. democratic values throughout the hemisphere for the mutual benefit of both the United States and Latin America. Yet the program was ultimately one facet… more Full Text: SPONSORING PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN AN INFORMAL EMPIRE: THE UNITED STATES AND THE INTER-AMERICAN SCHOOLS SERVICE A Thesis submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of …
