Vol. 6 (2005)

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Editors
Beth Varden
Scott White

Graphic Designer
Michael Dorsey
Christine Giberson

The cover of the 2005 U-M-B-C Review has a light blue background with large lettering that says, u-m-b-c review, the former in white and the latter in dark blue

Table of Contents

Introduction
5

Justine D. Wagner
Minimum Wages in Costa Rica: Structure, Enforcement, and Compliance
8

Maura Smyth
Outer Spaces and Extralinguistic Places: The Poetry of Edwin Morgan
24

Michael S. McLaurin
Show and Prove: The Politics of Hip Hop Authenticity
34

Adrian Yanoshik
Stock Market Reactions to Negative Information and Evidence of Insider Trading: An Event Study of ImClone Systems
54

Elefteria Papavasilis
Keystone Patriots: Women Soldiers in Pennsylvania Regiments During the American Civil War
64

Kevin D. Fisher
A Survey of Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
86

Amy Larson
Validating the Invalid: The Discourse of Sick-room Poetics
110

Emily M. Junod
Lausanne and Baltimore: A Comparative Study of Drug Treatment Services
128

Lie’ Anne Van-Tull
Interactive Effects of Bt-Active Corn on Corn Litter Decay and Detritivore Foraging in and Agricultural Stream Ecosystem
154

Biographies
166