Thesis Archives
Honors Thesis Archives
This search engine will let you explore the over 1800 theses written in Honors at The University of Maine since the Program’s inception in 1935. You may search our thesis archives based on any of the fields listed above. If the thesis is available at the Reynolds Library (Thomson Honors Center) or Fogler Library (Special Collections), the information will appear below the bibliographic data. At last count, we had about 1800 theses in the Reynolds Library.
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Can Training Restaurant Servers on Managing Customer Harassment Influence Turnover Intentions?
Author:
Mariza
Budri
Major: Management Graduation Year: 2019 Thesis Advisor: Christian M. Graham
Description of Publication:
This pilot study seeks to answer if customer harassment training can influence server's turnover intentions. My research question was formed from the lack of literature surrounding customer-perpetrated sexual harassment. The articles that do address this phenomenon explain the disruptions it causes in the workplace along with the detrimental effects it has on the employees. Through this research I came up with the question: Can training restaurant servers on managing customer harassment influence turnover intentions? This was a mixed-method study that included five semi-structured interviews and a questionnaire. The women I interviewed dealt with customer sexual harassment either daily or weekly which exhausted them emotionally. The five women dealt with this type of customer behavior informally. Furthermore, the participants of this study spoke of the importance of management involvement in an organization. The participants (36) in the questionnaire discussed that workplace policy is helpful, more so than training. Management involvement and workplace policy that addresses customer perpetrated harassment were found to be the two most important factors in limiting employee turnover intentions as well as keeping employees happy.
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URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/573/
Major: Management Graduation Year: 2019 Thesis Advisor: Christian M. Graham
Description of Publication:
This pilot study seeks to answer if customer harassment training can influence server's turnover intentions. My research question was formed from the lack of literature surrounding customer-perpetrated sexual harassment. The articles that do address this phenomenon explain the disruptions it causes in the workplace along with the detrimental effects it has on the employees. Through this research I came up with the question: Can training restaurant servers on managing customer harassment influence turnover intentions? This was a mixed-method study that included five semi-structured interviews and a questionnaire. The women I interviewed dealt with customer sexual harassment either daily or weekly which exhausted them emotionally. The five women dealt with this type of customer behavior informally. Furthermore, the participants of this study spoke of the importance of management involvement in an organization. The participants (36) in the questionnaire discussed that workplace policy is helpful, more so than training. Management involvement and workplace policy that addresses customer perpetrated harassment were found to be the two most important factors in limiting employee turnover intentions as well as keeping employees happy.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/573/
Cancel Culture Conundrum
Author:
Hannah
Marsh
Major: Political Science Graduation Year: 2022 Thesis Advisor: Mark D. Brewer
Description of Publication:
The term cancel culture describes a phenomenon in which people are effectively shunned from society for their actions or statements due to others’ dislike of those actions or statements. While this term has become widely used in politics in recent years, many of the reasons people are cancelled have no direct link to politics. However, there are several characteristics, some politically-linked, that make people more apt to engage in cancel culture. Statistics show that the two characteristics which mark people as likely to engage in cancel culture are identifying as a Democrat and being part of the millennial or GenZ generations. These two factors hold true within the broader culture and in academia. While those who are ideologically more liberal are more likely to cancel, there are examples of conservatives cancelling as well, and examples of cancellations by both parties are illustrated in four case studies. Understanding cancel culture is vital for those who are attempting to avoid finding themselves cancelled, as well as for those who study or involve themselves in politics. For those who have political involvement, understanding the overlap between cancel culture and political characteristics is important, as political affiliation is one of the two biggest predictors of whether individuals will engage in cancel culture.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/761
Major: Political Science Graduation Year: 2022 Thesis Advisor: Mark D. Brewer
Description of Publication:
The term cancel culture describes a phenomenon in which people are effectively shunned from society for their actions or statements due to others’ dislike of those actions or statements. While this term has become widely used in politics in recent years, many of the reasons people are cancelled have no direct link to politics. However, there are several characteristics, some politically-linked, that make people more apt to engage in cancel culture. Statistics show that the two characteristics which mark people as likely to engage in cancel culture are identifying as a Democrat and being part of the millennial or GenZ generations. These two factors hold true within the broader culture and in academia. While those who are ideologically more liberal are more likely to cancel, there are examples of conservatives cancelling as well, and examples of cancellations by both parties are illustrated in four case studies. Understanding cancel culture is vital for those who are attempting to avoid finding themselves cancelled, as well as for those who study or involve themselves in politics. For those who have political involvement, understanding the overlap between cancel culture and political characteristics is important, as political affiliation is one of the two biggest predictors of whether individuals will engage in cancel culture.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/761
CAPRICE K_-PR_S AN UNPREDICTABLE SONG WHOSE REFRAIN IS ACCOMPANIED BY VICTIMIZATION, BUT RESOLVES INTO CONSONANCE
Caprice k?-pr?s An Unpredictable Song Whose Refrain is Accompanied by Victimization, but Resolves Into Consonance
CAPTURING CARING IN NURSING PRACTICE THROUGH ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTATION
Capturing Climate Change: Investigating the Connections Between Environmental Science & Photography
Author:
Sophia
Wilcox
Major: Ecology and Environmental Sciences Graduation Year: 2021 Thesis Advisor: Michael Grillo
Description of Publication:
A powerful symbiotic relationship is the one between photography and the field of environmental science. They coexist together in such a way that the progress of one inherently allows for progress in the other. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate and illuminate this specific link. From the earliest cameras, photography was able to capture small details that the eye wasn’t able to see. This ability gave scientists the opportunity to capture images of up-close cells, viruses, certain species, and more. As the popularity of caring for the environment increased, the technologies of science and photography grew alongside. The documentation of climate change, the impacts of pollution, and all the damage humans were causing pushed mass amounts of support towards environmental science. Public awareness made great reason for governmental change. Everyday around us there are consequences of human actions in terms of climate change, but it can be hard to see on a personal level. Photography captures this problem and forces us to acknowledge it. The average person can no longer ignore it because the documentation is right there. Scientists use photography to seize what they are seeing and support their theories. In environmental science alone, photography has provided the field with the ability to visualize detrimental changes in the world, discover new species, and monitor environments. This undeniable link is one which deserves to be further investigated to better understand how it can be harnessed to bring about change.
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URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/691/
Major: Ecology and Environmental Sciences Graduation Year: 2021 Thesis Advisor: Michael Grillo
Description of Publication:
A powerful symbiotic relationship is the one between photography and the field of environmental science. They coexist together in such a way that the progress of one inherently allows for progress in the other. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate and illuminate this specific link. From the earliest cameras, photography was able to capture small details that the eye wasn’t able to see. This ability gave scientists the opportunity to capture images of up-close cells, viruses, certain species, and more. As the popularity of caring for the environment increased, the technologies of science and photography grew alongside. The documentation of climate change, the impacts of pollution, and all the damage humans were causing pushed mass amounts of support towards environmental science. Public awareness made great reason for governmental change. Everyday around us there are consequences of human actions in terms of climate change, but it can be hard to see on a personal level. Photography captures this problem and forces us to acknowledge it. The average person can no longer ignore it because the documentation is right there. Scientists use photography to seize what they are seeing and support their theories. In environmental science alone, photography has provided the field with the ability to visualize detrimental changes in the world, discover new species, and monitor environments. This undeniable link is one which deserves to be further investigated to better understand how it can be harnessed to bring about change.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/691/
Cardenolide Uptake in Oncopeltus Fasciatus (Dallas) (Heteroptera: Luggaeidae)
Cardiovascular Disease and its Relationship to Structural Modifications of Oxidized Low Density Lipoproteins
Carlisle Indian Boarding School’s Role in the Unconstitutional Relationship Between Organized Christianity and the U.S. Federal Government
Author:
Kayleigh
Hogg
Major: Political Science Graduation Year: 2023 Thesis Advisor: Mark D. Brewer
Description of Publication:
The Carlisle Indian Boarding School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was the first large Indian boarding school to open in the United States. Carlisle was founded by Richard Henry Pratt and opened in 1879. Carlisle was the first of hundreds of Indian boarding schools that operated throughout the United States and served as the model for many of the schools that followed it. The school was military-run and federally funded until its closure in 1918. The purpose of Carlisle and the rest of the boarding schools was to culturally assimilate American Indians and do so by forcibly removing them from their families. The boarding schools eventually were run by Christian churches instead of the military, and adopting Christianity was a requirement for the Native children to be labeled as “civilized”. After Christian churches took over control of the schools, the federal government continued to fund the schools to keep them running despite the violation of the Establishment Clause. The root of this violation occurred because of the “success” of the Carlisle Indian Boarding School. Through meeting with historians, touring the Carlisle campus, and analyzing archival research through Carlisle digital archives identify three main programs at Carlisle that were used to gain government and public support for the continuation of the boarding schools and discuss the relationship between the federal government and organized Christianity. Carlisle’s outing system, football team, and marching band were three aspects of the school that were viewed as “successful” and created the opportunity for the federal government to participate in a continual unconstitutional relationship with organized Christianity, violating the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution for nearly a century.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/844/
Major: Political Science Graduation Year: 2023 Thesis Advisor: Mark D. Brewer
Description of Publication:
The Carlisle Indian Boarding School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was the first large Indian boarding school to open in the United States. Carlisle was founded by Richard Henry Pratt and opened in 1879. Carlisle was the first of hundreds of Indian boarding schools that operated throughout the United States and served as the model for many of the schools that followed it. The school was military-run and federally funded until its closure in 1918. The purpose of Carlisle and the rest of the boarding schools was to culturally assimilate American Indians and do so by forcibly removing them from their families. The boarding schools eventually were run by Christian churches instead of the military, and adopting Christianity was a requirement for the Native children to be labeled as “civilized”. After Christian churches took over control of the schools, the federal government continued to fund the schools to keep them running despite the violation of the Establishment Clause. The root of this violation occurred because of the “success” of the Carlisle Indian Boarding School. Through meeting with historians, touring the Carlisle campus, and analyzing archival research through Carlisle digital archives identify three main programs at Carlisle that were used to gain government and public support for the continuation of the boarding schools and discuss the relationship between the federal government and organized Christianity. Carlisle’s outing system, football team, and marching band were three aspects of the school that were viewed as “successful” and created the opportunity for the federal government to participate in a continual unconstitutional relationship with organized Christianity, violating the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution for nearly a century.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/844/