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Bryerpointe Kennel: A Business Plan and Exploration of Financing Options

Reynolds, Erin (2001)

There are not enough kennels in the Metro-Detroit area to support the growing demand for boarding, grooming, training and breeding dogs and cats. Pet owners are fanatic about their beloved pets, and they will not entrust ...

Buddhist Influence on Modern Therapy

Arnold, Ashley M. (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2009)

Empirical clinical psychology research turned from broad to specific topics in the 1950’s and 1960’s (Hayes, 2002). Third Wave Therapies emerged Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Dialectical Behavior Therapy ...

The Buddhist-Christian Interfaith Dialogue: From Roots to New Heights

Wheeler, Ryan (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2004)

The goal of this paper is to document the movement of the interfaith dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity. First, I will look at a history of the dialogue, including reasons why it has taken place, where it has taken ...

Buganda and Closer Union

Chalmers, Mary E. (1964)

The author asseses the relationship between the government of the state of Buganda and the government of colonial Uganda between the signing of the 1900 Agreement and the adjournment of the Joint Select Committe in 1931.

Building a Better Biofuel: Discovering Physiological Differences Between Switchgrass Varieties

Lindquist, Jacob; Stahlheber, Karen (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2016)

Panicum virgatum L., or switchgrass, is a perennial C4 grass that is native to North America that consists of two ecotypes, lowland and upland. This perennial grass has been shown to be an ideal and likely candidate for ...

Building a Better Biofuel: Discovering Physiological Differences Between Switchgrass Varieties

Lindquist, Jacob (Kalamazoo College, 2016)

As demand increases due to the non-renewable nature of the energy sources we use, fuel and energy are becoming ever more important to society in the USA. Renewable forms have risen in recent years such as ethanol made from ...

Building a Church Choir

Zudweg, David L. (1977)

A practical manual outlining the roles of choir officers, the testing and training of choir members, and practice and performance rules and etiquette for choir members.

Building a Community in the Classroom: Social Studies Education through Class Meetings

Burgardt, Amy (2001)

Building a Foundation for Change: How a Small Organization in Tumbaco, Ecuador is Working to Improve the State of Health for Rural Ecuadorians

Mitchell, Jennifer N. (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1994)

In Tumbaco, Ecuador, there is a small organization funded partly by UNICEF that works to improve the lifestyles of rural communities. The name of this organization is Asociaci6n Vi vir, and its founder is Doctor Mariana ...

Building a News-scraping Application and Exploring the Potentials and Limitations of Web Scraping

Niyongabire, Lionel (2019)

News articles are very important in our lives because of the role they play in educating us, informing us, entertaining us, and strengthening democracies. The lack of news articles can be a disaster for both the economy ...

Building an App in Eighty Days

Wieland, Raphael (2018)

Just like in finance, the purpose of tracking your weightlifting 'gains' and 'losses' is so that you can see how they compound over time under different circumstances and in response to different factors. Historically, ...

Building an Aspirational Brand in an Established Luxury Market : A Strategic Marketing Plan for Revel Custom Wine Cellars

Cash, Marissa (2016)

This paper presents a marketing plan for Revel Custom Wine Cellars, recently founded by an entrepreneur who seeks to transform his hobby into a luxury wine cellar business. This marketing plan has the objective of making ...

Building and Testing of a MUHEG Capped Quantum Dot Lead Biosensor Specific Against Mercury Quenching

Gerlach, Gary F., II (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2008)

Biosensors utilize biological and physicochemical detector component to detect an analyte. A metalloprotein backbone reporter element was elicited as the biological component to the biosensor. The lead binding ...

Building and Testing of a MUHEG Capped Quantum Dot Lead Biosensor Specific Against Mercury Quenching

Gerlach, Gary F., II (Kalamazoo College, 2008)

Lead the believed oldest known metal presents many problems when introduced into the body. The toxicity of lead arises from its ability to mimic other biologically important metals. Despite the prevalence of lead toxicity ...

Building Bridges: Character Research and Acting Internship in Vampyr: The blood is the Life

Deshpande, Anjalee (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1994)

My initial challenge was to connect with a character I found very foreign and outside of myself. As an actor, one is asked to play many roles that are opposing to one's personality or nature, yet there are a few special ...

BUILDING CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS: WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN IT ALL AND WHY THE BEST TEAM IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RARELY WINS THE WORLD SERIES

Orr, Ryan (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)

In sports, it isn’t the best team of the season that gets remembered, it’s the team that wins a championship. More often than not, it seems that the best team should be the one that ends up winning it all. However, in the ...