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UNC Asheville's Fall 2013 Symposium

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Snack Attack: Comical Paintings Exposing Hidden Deceptions of the Modern Food Industry 237 Owen Hall Unit Plan on Found Object Sculptures 221 Highsmith Union Kevin 012 Karpen Hall

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Obscuring the Narrative 237 Owen Hall EdTPA in a high school social studies classroom 221 Highsmith Union Kevin Kills 012 Karpen Hall

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The Burning Life: Everyday Reality, Spectacle, and “Webs of Signification” 137 Zageir Hall Mapping Sites in Gα12 for Activation Independent Binding to the TPR Region of Protein Phosphatase 5 125 Rhoades Robinson Hall Marginal Revenue Product and the Black Sox Scandal of 1919: Were the accused players underpaid? 016 Karpen Hall Digital Textbook Project on Rosa Parks 246 Zageir Hall The Effect of Exercise on the Work-Family Interface: A Follow-Up Survey 406 Wilma Sherrill Center “He Was Something He Hated:” Psychologically Internalized Racism in Richard Wright’s Native Son 033 Karpen Hall Tarantino’s Blending of Genre 038 Karpen Hall

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Imagined Perfection 237 Owen Hall EdTPA-Identify the main topic and retelling key details of a text 221 Highsmith Union Nerd Rage 012 Karpen Hall

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Don’t Tell Me to Relax: A Discourse Analysis on Stress in the Academic Environment 137 Zageir Hall Analysis of Ga13 Mutants to Determine Critical Regions for Signal Transduction 125 Rhoades Robinson Hall Cell Sounds: A Harmonious Game of Life 217 Rhoades Robinson Hall The Affordable Care Act: Game Theory and the Strategic Forecast for Insurance Firms 016 Karpen Hall Wilma Mankiller Digital Textbook Chapter 246 Zageir Hall Examining VO2 assessment as a tool to incite health behavior change 406 Wilma Sherrill Center Remaining Men Together: Chuck Palahniuk’s Revitalization of Masculine Identity in Fight Club and Survivor 033 Karpen Hall Does social television make new dramas a hit? 038 Karpen Hall

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Con-Conforming Practices by Drivers at Merrimon and Edgewood. 230 Owen Hall

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Translating Creativity to the Canvas 237 Owen Hall Rectangles 221 Highsmith Union Coping Methods 012 Karpen Hall

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Goal to Shots on Goal Verification 230 Owen Hall Joking About Rape: Exploring the Contexts of Dark Humor and Sexual Violence in Pop Culture 137 Zageir Hall The Effects of Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) Larvae and Cladocerans (Daphnia spp.) on the Oviposition Behavior of the Mosquito Culex restuans 125 Rhoades Robinson Hall Seeing the Task Forest for the Trees 217 Rhoades Robinson Hall Relative Earnings and the Choice of Major: Evidence from Economics and Biology Majors 016 Karpen Hall Laura Towne 246 Zageir Hall More than just skin deep: A cross-country comparison of skin lightening products 406 Wilma Sherrill Center Getting Mad or Going Mad: Advocating Alison Langdon’s Non-Conformity towards Gender Expectations in Carson McCullers’ Reflection 033 Karpen Hall Gangsters as Everything: Comparing Gangster Films to War Films and The Western 038 Karpen Hall

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Rewind and Press Play: A Sculptural Installation on Memory Distortions 237 Owen Hall EdTPA in a middle school art classroom 221 Highsmith Union Affairs of the Heart 012 Karpen Hall Power/Control 012 Karpen Hall

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Comparison Between Stop Watch Times and Radar Times collected for baseball Pitches” 230 Owen Hall

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10,000 Melodies 217 Rhoades Robinson Hall Allusions to Greek and Roman Mythology in Jesuit Relations: The Definition of Civilization 117 New Hall Nationalism, Westernization, or Neither? How International Exposure is impacting the Views of Chinese Youth on the Ideas of Nationalism and Chinese Cultural Superiority 202 Zeis Hall Understanding Place in Socio-visual Geographies 223, 224 Highsmith Union Understanding Place in Socio-visual Geographies 223, 224 Highsmith Union Understanding Place in Socio-visual Geographies 223, 224 Highsmith Union

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Collecting Feminisms: An Ethnographic Study of the UNC Asheville Feminist Collective 137 Zageir Hall Southern Appalachian Forest Community Response to Three Methods of Exotic Invasive Removal 125 Rhoades Robinson Hall A Case Study of the Golf Industry in Western North Carolina 016 Karpen Hall Margaret Bourke-White 246 Zageir Hall “I’m Indian in my bones”: Debunking Stereotypes and Subverting Dominant Culture in the Works of Sherman Alexie 033 Karpen Hall Marketing in Argentina: Perceptions and Propaganda 406 Wilma Sherrill Center The Mother Figure in Horror Film and her Relation to the Classical Conception of 'Mother' 038 Karpen Hall

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Determining if Arrival Times Are Possion Distributed 230 Owen Hall Artifacts 237 Owen Hall

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2nd Grade Literacy: Using Illustrations to Better Understand Character, Setting and Plot 221 Highsmith Union Guerre 012 Karpen Hall

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Digital Communication- Is Privacy Possible? 217 Rhoades Robinson Hall Revolutionizing the Instrument & the Genre: the Scruggs Impact on Bluegrass 117 New Hall The State of Health in China: Assessing the Viability of the Most Recent Five-Year Plan 202 Zeis Hall

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Everyday Practical Uses of Control Charts 230 Owen Hall Shamans, Pagans, and Witches: Magical and Mystic Practices Revealed 137 Zageir Hall Physiological Response of Southern Appalachian High-Elevation Rock Outcrop Herbs to Reduced Cloud Immersion 125 Rhoades Robinson Hall A Recreation Demand Study of Richmond Hill Disc Golf Course 016 Karpen Hall Digital Textbook Project: Consumer Culture and the Perception of Women: A comparison of the 1920s and present day 246 Zageir Hall Taking the Tardis to Neverland: Parallels Between Peter Pan and “Doctor Who” 033 Karpen Hall The Motherhood Penalty 406 Wilma Sherrill Center Blue and Orange: Has Color Grading Altered The Action Blockbuster? 038 Karpen Hall

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It’s Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus: The Perceptions of Ghosts in Contemporary Culture 237 Owen Hall Community Ties: Goals, Challenges, and Solutions in the Implementation of the Burton Street Resource and Technology Center Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Analysis of Social Issues Portrayed in Orange is the New Black Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Content Analysis of the Portrayal of Female Lead Characters in Television Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse How Well Do Television News Broadcasts Cite Their Sources for Health Information Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Mental IllnessPortrayed in Law and Order:Special Victims Unit Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse The Relationship Between Family Dynamic & Mental Illness: A Content Analysis of Popular Television Programs Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse An Examination of Adverse Childhood Experiences Within a College Population Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse The Effect of Spatial Continuity and Displacement on the Auditory Motion-Onset Response Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Snack Attack: Comical Paintings Exposing Hidden Deceptions of the Modern Food Industry Wilma Sherrill Center - Scholarship Deck

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Graphic Organizers in a Third Grade Classroom 221 Highsmith Union

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Halogen Headlights: The Effect of Humidity in Western North Carolina 230 Owen Hall Data Remanence: Magnetic Ghosts 217 Rhoades Robinson Hall Rethinking Pre-modern figures: Prince Henry ‘the Navigator’ as a Nationalist Sentiment 117 New Hall Rapid Economic Growth and the Burdens of Uneven Development: A Case Study on Regional Variation in the Chinese Cities of Beijing, Ha’erbin, Xi’an, and Shanghai. 202 Zeis Hall

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The Camouflaged Minority: Culture, Trauma, and Repatriation of the Student Veteran Diaspora 137 Zageir Hall TheatreUNCA Senior Production: “Sorting Trash” 038 Karpen Hall Is Gender significant in Major Choice at UNC Asheville? An Application of Human Capital Theory 016 Karpen Hall Black Panthers 246 Zageir Hall Determining the Presence of the Eastern Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) and Differentiators of Occupied vs. Unoccupied Habitats in Bent Creek, Buncombe County, North Carolina 125 Rhoades Robinson Hall Reconceptualizing the Past: An Exploration of Angela Carter’s Black Venus 033 Karpen Hall Job Satisfaction in a Multi-Generational Workforce 406 Wilma Sherrill Center

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The Language of the Birds: A Ceramic Exploration of Alchemical Transmutation 237 Owen Hall

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Advances in Quality Control Research 230 Owen Hall Peer Editing (3rd Grade) 221 Highsmith Union Luck Strike 012 Karpen Hall

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Swiss-ARMy Microcomputer 217 Rhoades Robinson Hall Unionizing the Jim Crow South: The Brother of Timber Workers and the Industrial Workers of the World 117 New Hall Food Security and Social Welfare: The Effects of Hydropower Dams on the Lower Mekong River in Laos 202 Zeis Hall

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Inside the Hidden House of Healing: Visual Anthropology and a Domestic Violence Shelter 137 Zageir Hall Exploring Attitudes and Behaviors Associated with Investments in Household Energy Efficiency 016 Karpen Hall Eleanor Roosevelt & Her Contributions to Society 246 Zageir Hall The Emotions of Bioshock: Video Games as Interactive Fiction 033 Karpen Hall Risk Management and Leadership 406 Wilma Sherrill Center Toward a Better Understanding of Hydrologic Controls on a Southern Appalachian Fen in Ashe Co., NC 125 Rhoades Robinson Hall

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The Boston Red Sox Career Win Percentages 230 Owen Hall Telling Gestures: Exploring Body Language Through Ceramics 237 Owen Hall

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Conceptual Understanding of Theme in Students with Limited English-Language Proficiency 221 Highsmith Union Mourning Sickness 012 Karpen Hall

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Common Ground: The Land Question and Multi-Racial Class Consciousness in Early Twentieth Century Oklahoma 117 New Hall A Study of Nationalism: The Evolution of Saudade and Portugueseness Through 20th Century Portugal 202 Zeis Hall

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Applications for C-Charts 230 Owen Hall Climate Change in China, 1960-2010 125 Rhoades Robinson Hall Wheat market disintegration between North America and Britain: 1927-1932 016 Karpen Hall YWCA Chapter for Digital Textbook 246 Zageir Hall Are Byronic Heroes Really Heroes? A close reading of Heathcliff in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights 033 Karpen Hall Systematic Pedagogy to Solving PERT CPM with EXCEL 406 Wilma Sherrill Center

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Biblical Creatures: fact or fiction? 237 Owen Hall Nationalism, Westernization, or Neither? How International Exposure is impacting the Views of Chinese Youth on the Ideas of Nationalism and Chinese Cultural Superiority 417 Mountain View Room: Wilma Sherrill Center

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Leading an Interactive Middle School Social Studies Classroom 221 Highsmith Union Spoiler 012 Karpen Hall

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Assignable Cause Variables in Win Loss Volleyball Records 230 Owen Hall

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The Human Instrument 417 Mountain View Room: Wilma Sherrill Center

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Personal Best Times for One Mile 230 Owen Hall

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EdTPA and Impact on Student Learning 221 Highsmith Union

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Southern Appalachian Forest Community Response to Three Methods of Exotic Invasive Removal 417 Mountain View Room: Wilma Sherrill Center

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Evaluating Student Learning in Elementary Math 221 Highsmith Union

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Online Grocery Store 033 Karpan Hall A Bioinformatics Analysis of Enzymes Participating in a Mixed Acid Fermentation Pathway as Observed in Brachybacterium faecium Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Analysis of Ga13 Mutants to Determine Critical Regions for Signal Transduction Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Bio-informatics Analysis of Multiple Genes in Brachybacteria faecium in Pyridine Nucleotide Formation Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Detailed bioinformatics analyses of four genes necessary for peptidoglycan synthesis in Brachybacterium faecium Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Detailed Bioinformatics Analysis of the Histidine Biosynthesis Genes in Brachybacterium faecium Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Detailed Bioinformatics of Genes Encoding Enzymes Involved in Biosynthesis of Arginine and Proline in Brachybacterium Faecium Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Manual Annotation of Brachybacterium faecium Genes Utilized in Uridine Monophosphate Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Manual Annotation of Brachybacterium faecium Genes whose products inactivate reactive forms of oxygen Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Manual Annotation of Five Gene Products in the Histidine Biosynthesis Pathway of Brachybacterium faecium Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Manual Annotation of the Mixed Acid Fermentation Pathway Genes in Brachybacterium faecium Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Mapping Sites in Gα12 for Activation Independent Binding to the TPR Region of Protein Phosphatase 5 Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Computational Cracking of Carbon Carbon bonds within plant biomass Undergraduate Research Symposium Abstract Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Quantitative Analysis of Minerals in Vitamins and Fortified Cereal Centered on Child Nutrition from Before Birth to Preteen Years Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Study of the effects of chemical etchants on the quality of silver nanowires grown on periodically poled lithium niobate Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Corrosion Mineralogy of Pennies, Nickels, and Dimes in Different Environments Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Establishing a Hydrologic Study Site at Franklin Bog Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse WNC Falls Prevention Coalition: Assessment of Effectiveness of Community Outreach Through Building Better Balance Screenings Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Discrimination towards the Hispanic Race in the Workplace Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Interactive Origami Sculpture Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Analysis on Potential Multirefringent Properties Calcite. Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse Epitaxial Growth of Graphene on Silicon Carbide Wafers Using Carbon Dioxide Laser Stimulation: Progress Report Wilma Sherrill Center - Concourse

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“Wild Thing Creations”: Assessing Student Learning in an Art Classroom 221 Highsmith Union

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S.E.E.D (Students Excited for Environmental Development) 033 Karpen Hall

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Convulsive Beauty: The Female Body as a Site for Fragmentation in the Surrealist Photography of Claude Cahun and Man Ray 237 Owen Hall Multiplying Learning for Fifth Graders 221 Highsmith Union Alice Paul 246 Zageir Hall Eating Local: A Cost Analysis of Foods Purchased at Farmers Markets vs. Store-Bought Foods in Asheville, North Carolina 016 Karpen Hall These Dudes Got Moves 012 Karpen Hall Definitions of Sexual Behavior Among Young Adults 230 Carmichael Hall Satanic Manic, a Look Into Panic in the United States and Post Soviet Nations 137 Zageir Hall

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Are Your Screens Bugging You? 033 Karpen Hall

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The Colossal Works of Viola Frey 237 Owen Hall EdTPA Research: Reading/ Writing Strategies for Second Grade Students 221 Highsmith Union Little Rock Nine 246 Zageir Hall Comparison of Standard Soil Amendments and Calcined Clay on crop yields in an urban garden at University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, North Carolina. 016 Karpen Hall My Brothers Mafia 012 Karpen Hall Extending the Rural Health Pipeline in Western North Carolina 230 Carmichael Hall Afoot and Lighthearted: Experiencing the Ineffable on the Appalachian Trail 137 Zageir Hall

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Typing with a Purpose 033 Karpen Hall

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Beardsley’s Bodies: Androgynous, Hyper-Sexualized, and Grotesque 237 Owen Hall EdTPA in the Elementary Spanish Classroom 221 Highsmith Union Women in World War II 246 Zageir Hall Survey to Evaluate Student Awareness of Local Gardens in Asheville, NC 016 Karpen Hall It's not the same for Girls 012 Karpen Hall Erotic moan or painful groan: top-down influence on emotional responses to sounds 230 Carmichael Hall John Milton, Agent of Chaos: A Justification of Divine Disorder in Paradise Lost 137 Zageir Hall

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Dining Services Disconnect 033 Karpen Hall

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Street Critique: The Viewer’s Phenomenal Experience of Art in the Street 237 Owen Hall EdTPA-Learning Sequence of Events in third grade 221 Highsmith Union The Sexual Revolution: A Digital Textbook 246 Zageir Hall Cultivating the Wilds: Culinary Reform in Appalachia 016 Karpen Hall Peter Poops His Pants 012 Karpen Hall Cortical Responses to Different Resolutions of Sound Motion 230 Carmichael Hall The Occupy Wall Street Movement: A Civil Religious Expression 137 Zageir Hall

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Surfaces In Flux: Aerial View Landscapes Using Experimental Pouring Techniques and New Mixed Media 237 Owen Hall Title IX Chapter of the Digital Textbook Project 246 Zageir Hall Local Food Availability in the City of Asheville 016 Karpen Hall Testing the Effects of Age on Cognition and Creativity 230 Carmichael Hall The Exploration of Angelic Understandings within Christianity and The New Age 137 Zageir Hall

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Affect Regulation: The Relationship between Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Risk-Taking Behaviors 230 Carmichael Hall

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United Textile Workers Digital Textbook Chapter 246 Zageir Hall Mel's Hole 012 Karpen Hall Preparation of Lithium Niobate for Silver Nanowire Synthesis by Mechanical Polishing 125 Rhoades Robinson Hall Response to Death-related Fears Among the Religious “Nones” 137 Zageir Hall

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Chicana Feminism 246 Zageir Hall The Space Rangers Corp! 012 Karpen Hall Predicting Blood Pressure using Demographics and Consumer Behavior 125 Rhoades Robinson Hall Dawkins v. Sagan: A Sagacious Response to the God Delusion 137 Zageir Hall

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The Life and Work of Georgia O’Keeffe 246 Zageir Hall Thick 012 Karpen Hall Haitian Vodou and The Process of Zombification: The Ethical Dilemma of Furthered Research 137 Zageir Hall

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Prostitute as ideal of ‘new’ American woman 246 Zageir Hall Like Nothing Else in Tennessee 012 Karpen Hall Purchasing the Spirit: The Cultural Functionality of the Bòkò in Haitian Vodou 137 Zageir Hall

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Women’s Suffrage 246 Zageir Hall The Consultation 012 Karpen Hall There is No God and We Are His Prophets: Christianity in Contemporary America 137 Zageir Hall

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Jesse Lopez de la Cruz 246 Zageir Hall A Glimpse of Gold 012 Karpen Hall Finding Religion: Liminality in Japanese Popular Culture 137 Zageir Hall