Barrett, The Honors College Thesis/Creative Project Collection
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Barrett accepts high performing, academically engaged undergraduate students and works with them in collaboration with all of the other academic units at Arizona State University. All Barrett students complete a thesis or creative project which is an opportunity to explore an intellectual interest and produce an original piece of scholarly research. The thesis or creative project is supervised and defended in front of a faculty committee. Students are able to engage with professors who are nationally recognized in their fields and committed to working with honors students. Completing a Barrett thesis or creative project is an opportunity for undergraduate honors students to contribute to the ASU academic community in a meaningful way.
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This creative project represents the only creative writing that I have had the opportunity to create during my time at Barrett as a finance major. As such, I had to learn the story-telling process from scratch. My endeavors were further complicated by the fact that I desired to emulate the writing of Ernest Hemingway. He is a man whom I have come to admire, and I believe that even though it is impossible for most of us to live our lives with as much external vigor and daring, we would do well to internalize his appreciation of life as a rare commodity to not only be treasured but also utilized fully. To prepare for this project, I read Hemingway's work extensively and embarked on an in-depth analytical study of his prose and premises. While writing my own story, I found Hemingway's edict to the writer to "write one true sentence . . . write the truest sentence you know" extremely useful; it helped me through writer's block more times than I can count. The story I created, "Gambles of the Living," follows the journey of Lewis Turner and his wife, Mary, as they travel to Arizona to cure a chest ailment Lewis seems to have picked up after fighting in the Second World War. As with the work of Hemingway, the themes of war, courage, and the fleeting nature of life run deeply through my work.
ContributorsWilson, Thomas (Taxi) (Author) / Dalton, Kevin (Thesis director) / Mokwa, Michael (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2012-05
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The purpose of this analysis of the Cottonwood Clippers Swim Team is to give the team and its Board members another perspective on the team's functioning and to identify potential changes that could benefit the team. As a previous member and coach, I have a unique perspective from my experiences being on the team and from being a coach interacting with swimmers, parents, and the Board members. The idea of this thesis project stemmed from my personal experiences with the team and a desire to give back to the team members by helping them improve their business operations and helping to create new marketing strategies and tactics for the team to use in the future. In the sections that follow, the external environment will be examined to provide information about Cottonwood and the surrounding area. Then the internal environmental analysis will give insight into what the team is currently doing and its structure. This information will then be used to identify strategies and tactics that will help meet the goals the team has established.
ContributorsWilber, Amanda (Author) / Ostrom, Amy (Committee member) / Milliken, John (Committee member) / Estes, Erin (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2012-05
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The concepts of animal rights and animal welfare are often used interchangeably, but it is important to recognize their distinctions when conceptualizing an argument about animal welfare laws. The animal rights approach is the more radical, as its advocates advance the belief that humans should not use any products from of created by animals. On the other hand, animal welfare advocates set out to improve the legal structure that protects animals from suffering and push for more humane treatment. It is important to the movement to have laws that clearly define cruel acts and impose punishments to deter people from violating these laws. In order to make the laws better, we must examine where and how the laws are deficient before we can understand how to improve them. This paper will analyze why humans have an obligation to protect all animals from unjust and harmful cruelties inflicted, with a specific focus on Phoenix and Arizona's legal framework of anti-cruelty laws. The evaluation of these laws and how they are enforced exposes a disparity in our accountability to animals and our approach to their ultimate protection.
ContributorsWilson, Jessica (Author) / Kramer, Zachary (Thesis director) / Facinelli, Diane (Committee member) / Sigler, Mary (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2012-05