Vol. 8 (2007)

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Editors
Sarah Lichtner
Matthew Poland
Zach Kaufmann
Tiffany March
UMBC Review
Designer
Jasmine Youssef
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 6 David Chapman
Real Time Rendering of Elevation on a Spherical Model of the Earth
152
Asynith Palmer
Faulkner’s Sanctuary/Malraux’s Sanctuarie
10 DeLeon L. Gray
The Role of Social Relationships in the Academic Motivation and Educational Aspirations of Adolescent Mothers
164
Kate Laskowski
Parasitoid Host Choice Does Not Optimize Offspring Success
30 Wambui Kamiru
The Importance of Role Model Influence on Goal Achievement among Kenyan Women

186
Durell Callier
Analyzing Predictors of Academic Success among African American Adolescents within an Urban Charter School
48 Mark Allshuouse
Individual Differences in Endogenous Pain Control: The Effects of Adrenocortical Function and Catastrophizing
204
Emily Hauver
A Portrait of Jaromir Stephany: Photographer, Educator, Historian
64 Caitlin Wychgram
The Old Japanese Case Marking Particle I
218
Lindsay Laupp
Advertising a Cure: The Abundance of Popular Medicine in Eighteenth-Century London Newspapers
82 Biographies 232
Lucas Hanyok
Zuzana Licko
102