The full text of Senior Independent Study Theses submitted during and after 2012 are available to download only by College of Wooster users. Unless listed as an exemplar, all other theses are restricted.

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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1991

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Cultivating Creativity, Alise Hodnick
Department: English

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Memories of Woo, Katie V. Jones
Department: English

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Faces of Terror: a Survey of Contemporary Horror Literature, Christine J. Keim
Department: English

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Phenomenological Approach to the Interpretation of Literary and Nonliterary Texts: Language, Law, Literature, and the Nonfictive Metaphor, James Edwin Keim
Department: English

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Singles From the Album, Paul Koreman
Department: English

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Comparative Study of the Conflict Between Individualism and Community in the Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson and Bobbie Ann Mason, Gretchen A. Kribbs
Department: English

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Letters to the Men and Other Stories, Anne Greybill Longsworth
Department: English

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The Bus and Other Stories, Brian N. McCauley
Department: English

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American Dream, Samantha Mishne
Department: English; Art and Art History

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Importance of Whole Language in the Elementary Classroom, Christine P. Monk
Department: English

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Concept of Marriage in American Fiction Between 1800 and 1945, Mark Allen Morris
Department: English

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Catholicism in the Irish Short Story: a Study of James Joyce, Sean O'Faolain and Frank O'Connor, Patrrick J. Murphy
Department: English

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Thinking About Life and Laughing, Jodi Obuchowski
Department: English

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Analysis of Bruce Springsteen's Life and Lyrics, Robert S. Peterson
Department: English

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Traumaturgy and Other Plays, Eric R. Pfeffinger
Department: English

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Real Life, Real Issues: A Reader-Response Approach to Adolescent Literature, Gina M. Radio
Department: English

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Season's End, F. Kenneth Robinson
Department: English

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Women and Love Relationships in Shakespeare and Dickens, Kinta Lynn Sippy
Department: English

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Character Development in Children's Literature: An Exploration of Selected Writings By Dr. Seuss, Katherine Taillon
Department: English

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"Reality Will Take a Wolfish Turn": Social Issues in Dickens' Oliver Twist and Hard Times, Megan Kate Traphagan
Department: English

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Dear Jack, John L. White
Department: English

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The Cyntr of §§§§§, Katharine Shade Whitesel
Department: English

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Cultural Evolution of Cinderella, Sarah Webb Whitney
Department: English

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Male Authors' Perspectives: A Study of the Prince of Tides and the Lost Language of Cranes, Brian R. Yocum
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1990

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Literacy: A Study of Language and Power, Karen Ann Balogh
Department: English

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Perception of Women and the Resulting Reflections in Literature For the Adolescent From the Victorian Era to the Present, Suan C. Beavins
Department: English

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From Wright to Brown: An Interpretation of Law and Literature, Tracy A. Beckett
Department: English

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Parallel Lines, Shireen L. Behzadi
Department: English

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Only the United Beat of Sex and Heart Together Can Create Ecstay: A Study of Pornography and Erotica With Gloria Steinem, Susan Griffin, and Anais Nin, Christina G. Boyd
Department: English

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Words Forgotten Upon Utterance, Richard Brown
Department: English

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Grandma's Gutbucket and the Kazoo Band: An Analysis, Amy E. Burgess
Department: English

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Surrendering: A Collection of Short Stories, Matthew Mason Byars
Department: English

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Painting Cows: A Collection of Stories, Caitlin Cary
Department: English

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In Absence of Harmony, David Coogan
Department: English

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Winter Interlude, Candice Davis
Department: English

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Critical Analysis of Children's Literature: Gender Representation, Amy S. Geckeler
Department: English

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The Fountainhead, Native Son, and Othello: a Study of the Fascination With the Unacceptable, Andrea V. Gomez
Department: English

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Reappraisals of the Custer Myth, Paul H. Jacobus
Department: English

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Singing the Songs of Tradition An Exploration of Gary Snyder's World-View, Jeffrey H. Kear
Department: English

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Northway Narratives, Stacy A. Kelly
Department: English

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Time Zones and Other Stories, Bruce J. Kim
Department: English

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Women Who Write: Motivations, Fears, and Achievement, Samantha Elise Langley

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Developing a Children's Literacy Canon, Kimberly A. LaVinn
Department: English

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Reflections on Dickens, Peter J. Mack
Department: English

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Family Patterns in Contemporary Novels Written By Women, Elise C. Merrell
Department: English

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Stopover, Stephen N. Ndegwa
Department: English

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Superheroes and Six-Shooters: Conventional Heroes in Cinema, Geoffrey O'brien
Department: English

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The Mystery of the Garden of Eden, Gregory W. Peacock
Department: English

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Explanation of Black Studies Curriculum Development in the High School, Karl J. Penn
Department: English

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"The Relationship Between Children and Fairy Tales", Julie D. Rivinus
Department: English

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A Selection of Poems, Douglas Q. Sachtleben
Department: English

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Titan of the Keys: Hemingway in Key West, Christopher R. Sharp
Department: English

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Gardens and Dreams: Scenes From a Novel, Margaret L. Singleton
Department: English

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An American Vision or Just a Fairy Tale: A Study of the Rhetoric of the 1988 Presidential Campaign, Stephanie Maria Stapleton

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Collection of Really Short Stories, Margaret Stumpff
Department: English

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Religious Metaphorical Types in Twentieth Century Literature, Preston S. true
Department: English

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Feministopias: Linguistic Revolution as the Key to Social Change, William Van Cleave
Department: English

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Juice of Life:Ten Films By Robert Altman, Paul Wilkinson
Department: English

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Floating Man, Patrick N. Ziselberger
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1989

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Humpty Dumpty Was Right: the Negative Effects of Canon Perpetuation on Interpretative Freedom, Alicia Collin Aebersold
Department: English

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For a Bronze Coin: a Collection of Poems, Amy L. Biddle
Department: English

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Cruel Circus, Elise J. Bonza
Department: English

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Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking: a Hypertext Approach, Donald S. Buchanan
Department: English

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Literature in the High School English Curriculum: Its Purpose and Effect on the Selection of Poetry, Michael S. Cammarata
Department: English

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How to Be a Human Woman: Three in Accord, A Study of the Portrayals of Twentieth Century Women in the Novels of Margaret Atwood, Margaret Drabble, and Lee Smith, Anita Beth Carl
Department: English

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A Look at Holocaust Literature: the Efffectiveness and Expansion of Holocaust Literature As a Learning Tool, Kimberly G. Chase
Department: History; English

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Out of the Riln: a Creative Project in the Fantasy Genre, Kathy S. Davis
Department: English

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Vision of Hypertext, David Douglas Dunlap
Department: English

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Magical Realism As a Tool For Empowerment: Magical Realism in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Isabel Allende's the House of the Spirits, Lisa C. Fetterman
Department: English

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Erma Bombeck and Ellen Goodman: Voices For Troubled Times, Emily L. Fortnum
Department: English

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Existential Themes in French and American Authors, Meskerem Gebrekidan
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies

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Apples and Oranges: Adaptions of Novels to Films and the Effect of Their Genre on the Result, Holly E. Hardenbergh
Department: English

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To Bear Its Weight Aloft, Jennifer A. Hillmer
Department: English

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Re-Reading Jane Austen and the Process of Claiming Self Identity, Jennifer Joan Jameson
Department: English

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Contributions of Howard Lowry to Literary Scholarship, Robert William Ladd
Department: English

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Reader-Response to the Novel Beloved Written By Toni Morrison, Suzanne W. Leibfried
Department: English

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Characterizations of Evil and Moral Shift in Faulkner's Novel, David J. Lewellen
Department: English

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Crossing Boundaries: A Study of Isak Dinesen, Laura B. McGraw
Department: English

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Analysis of Prison Literature: Prisoners in the Prison Community and in Mainstream Society, Jill A. McLaughlin
Department: English

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Searching For Long-Term Relationships: An Examination of Character Types in Woody Allen's Films, Andrew William Abbott Melissions
Department: English

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Beginnings, Shelley Lynn Pearsall
Department: English

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Examining Themes of Racial Oppression and Economic Exploitation In: If He Hollers Let Him Go and Lonely Crusade By Chester Himes; in Cane By Jean Toomer, Margaret Pierman
Department: English

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Darkness in the Corner: A Creative Project, John Pierson
Department: English

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Surface Tension and Other Stories, Paul R. Potts
Department: English

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Populist or Repressive Regime? The Dictatorship of Greece, 1967-1974, Dorothea Pousoulides
Department: English

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Collecting Names a Novella, Kirsten Leigh Scheer
Department: English

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Progressions: The Origin and Evolution of a One-Woman Show, Julie A. Shargel
Department: English

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Dare to Be Tandy, Christine Sines
Department: English

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Special Language Observed: Slang and Its College Context, Scott M. Spangler
Department: English

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H.G. Wells: Prophesy and Premonition in the Scientific Romances, Alison Stenta
Department: English

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Graham Greene Properties of His Fiction in Different Media, Charles E. Thorne
Department: English

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Connecting: Biocentrism and Communalism in Three Novels By African-American Women, Katherine R. Wolfe
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1988

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Perspective on Racism in the United States: Historical Overview and Analysis of Selected Contemporary Literature, Carol L. Anderson
Department: English

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A Few Significant Things, Kathryn A. Baldwin
Department: English

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Influence and the Contemporary American Poet, Jonathan C. Barclay
Department: English

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Folk Tradition of Guthrie, Dylan, and Springsteen, Peter T. Burrus
Department: English

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Society As An Influencing Force: Female Friendships in Four of Jane Austen's Novels, Catherine Jean Campbell
Department: English

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Poetic Roles: The Response of Four Poets to the First World War, Debra A. Celinski
Department: English

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Stowe, Twain, and Styron: Separating Reality From Fiction, Dale Thomas Cochran II
Department: English

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"What It Is?", David Cook
Department: English