The Honors College

Traumatic brain injury can result in debilitating consequences, including a loss of speech, language skills, or cognitive communication awareness. Evaluation and treatment of speech, language, and swallowing disorders caused by traumatic brain injury are within the scope of practice of speech-language pathologists. According to the American Speech-Language­Hearing Association (ASHA), speech-language pathologists evaluate, diagnose, and treat swallowing, speech, language, and cognitive-communication disorders in individuals of all ages.

In 2007, the United States began the endurance of a surfacing of many financial perilous decisions that cultivated into what many economists have called “the perfect storm.” The clouds darkened and the waves grew a decade ago, as politicians, bankers, looking for an opportunity, created a nightmare. The current financial crisis deeply impacted citizens of the United States and across the world and is the most severe crisis witnessed since the Great Depression.

Writing about dance is like dreaming about living for it offers a glimpse of what it is like, but it cannot encompass the actuality. In fact, this is not a quandary specific to dance it spans across all like experiences. Dance cannot articulate the symbolism within words, as a picture cannot convey a texture, any more than a taste can be captured through the keys of a piano. In fact, the majority of today has been spent typing and deleting, typing and deleting, for I seem to be at a loss as to how to put words to my choreographic endeavor this semester, my Capstone piece.

There is a general consensus among citizens and government officials in the United States that the current tax code is too complex.  As a result of the complexities, many feel the code is inequitable.  The deduction for charitable contributions is one that some politicians and analysts have continuously felt over the years should be extended to individuals who do not itemize on an individual tax return.  Numerous studies have been conducted which have yielded different results concerning whether an extension of the deduction to nonitemizers would be an effective stimulant.&n

This paper examines specific examples of American racehorses who have been elevated to hero status in the societies in which they lived by the press and the general public. First examined are different media theories that have evolved over time to explain the relationship between the press and public opinion of a topic. Then inspected are the stories of the horses that best fit this theme—Seabiscuit, Secretariat, Barbaro, Smarty Jones and John Henry— to explain what role the underdog theme of their stories played in their becoming superstars in their own right.

Equity, Compliance, and Appalachian State offers a medium for a more robust dialogue between students and the university as to the myriad of problems that stem from the words “compliant” and “accommodating.” This documentary relays the accounts and concerns of five students living with disabilities and acts as a mediator between these students and the university officials in position to effect change.

Taxes have always been viewed as a necessary evil. In the dictionary, the word has two definitions. The first definition, which is a brief description of its purposes, states that a tax is “a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.” The second definition can be used to portray how people feel about taxes. It states that a tax is “a burdensome charge, obligation, duty, or demand (Tax).”

This research explores an area of study less acknowledged by many scholars-the importance of community within Mexican farmworkers in the High Country. This thesis examines the importance of social capital within the context of sustainable development, considering how different aspects of freedom impact quality of life. Twenty male Mexican farmworkers were interviewed about what they perceive to be community, and why it is important, or not important, to them. The interviews were analyzed considering common themes between the responses of all the farmworkers.