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Performimg Education: The Utopian Potential of Creative Peer-to-peer Sexual Health Education for Queer Youth
(University of Waterloo, 2012)In this cultural moment, young queers are struggling to imagine themselves and find community. A significant component of enabling a youth's self-discovery is providing access to inclusive and culturally-relevant education ... -
Positive Materialsim: How Does Money Shape Family Happiness?
(University of Waterloo, 2009)Why do some families let money shape their happiness in a negative way while others control their money and shape their happiness in a positive way? Maslow (1943) described his first two levels in his Hierarchy of Needs ... -
A Prototype Web Platform to Facilitate Public Engagement with Medical Evidence about Rheumatoid Arthtritis Medications
(University of Waterloo, 2016)Contemporary technologies and user interface design enable people to routinely interact with data in their everyday lives. While consumer applications for shopping and travel often feature data-driven user interfaces, health ... -
Quantum Indefinite Spacetime
(University of Waterloo, 2017)We combine the principle of superposition from quantum theory and the principle of dynamical causal structure from general relativity to attack fundamental questions in quantum gravity. We generalize the concept ... -
Realism in Contemporary Fine Art
(University of Waterloo, 2010)Usually I start out with a technical concept. I try to get as detailed as possible in regards to the logistics of how I'll carry out the work. The ideas themselves are quite intricate and so an intuitive approach to process ... -
Salacious Sade and Perverted Poe: Perversity and the quest for knowledge from 1740 to 1895
(University of Waterloo, 2014)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of perversity within the Self as a quest for individual knowledge. Libertine and Gothic literature will be characterized as an individualized reflection on society’s ... -
Second-Generation Stack Computer Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2007)It is commonly held in current computer architecture literature that stack-based computers were entirely superseded by the combination of pipelined, integrated microprocessors and improved compilers. While correct, the ... -
What's in a Subtitle Anyway?
(University of Waterloo, 2016)This paper is a critical examination of the subtitling process. The film that is the subject of this paper is Rurouni Kenshin (2012), a film adapted from the previous media of manga and anime. The examination of subtitles ... -
The Write Choice
(University of Waterloo, 2009)This paper compares and contrasts movies, television, and video games from the perspective of the writer. This is done in order to determine which is the superior story telling medium. It is accomplished by examining how ... -
Writing to Tell, Telling to Live: Reading the Storyteller in Alistair MacLeod's Short Fiction
(University of Waterloo, 2008)This essay examines the way Alistair MacLeod‘s short fiction formally and thematically invokes the presence of Walter Benjamin‘s oral "Storyteller" figure/and culture, elaborated in his 1936 essay, in order to ask broader ...