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 1989

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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

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Depending on the Kindness of Strangers and Readers: An Exploration of Values in the Characters of a Streetcar Named Desire, Mary Winifred Cox
Department: English

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Divided Selves of Audre Lorde: a Quest For Autonomy and Self Definition, Dawn L. Crownover
Department: English

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Reading Comprehension and Preferences of Seventh Grade Students: An Analysis of the Fry Readability Formula and Children's Literature, Rebecca L. DeNelsky
Department: English; Psychology

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Noah Webster and the Early Development of American English, Julie M. DeRitis
Department: English

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Emerging From the Ghetto Without Getting Lost in the Shuffle: Jane Martin's Talking With in the Context of Women's Drama, Caroline T. DeWalt
Department: English; Theatre and Dance

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Exploring Relational Impossibilities: Women's Lives in Margaret Atwood's Novels, Karen M. Dietz
Department: English

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South African Dilemma: Apartheid As Seen Through Fiction, Jennifer Ells
Department: English

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It Was Mystery, They Wrote, Garidith K. Enold
Department: English

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Breaking Silences: Literature As Political Tool For Cultural Change, Christina Evans
Department: English

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Reflections in the Mirror, Michael F. Finnie
Department: English

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Retrogression, Harald Magnus Hasiba
Department: English

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Rhetorical Analysis of Language Used in Advertising, Susan O. Hollingshead
Department: English

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A Slice of Life, David R. Hood
Department: English

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Ultimate Utopia: a New Ideal, Wesley Alton Johnston
Department: English

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Expression and Reflection of Their Time: The Lyrics of the Beatles, Thomas C. Keenan
Department: English

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Pastoral Influence on Shakespeare's Plays, Daniel Kenzie
Department: English

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Wordsworth and Shelley: An Examination of Their Poetic Processes, Thomas W. Kincaid
Department: English

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Analysis of the Emergence of Self in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Sarah Louise Kotchen
Department: English

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Various Issues in Children's and Young Adult's Literature, Ann K. Kroeger
Department: English

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Humor in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: From Black Humor to Slapstick, Gregory A. Kunkel
Department: English

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Supportive Role of Musical Expression in Musical Theatre Applications, Barbara A. Lockley
Department: English

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Judging a Book By Its Reader: Responses to Literary Criticism, Gordon Lubold
Department: English

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Broken Stereotypes in Early Twentieth Century Society, Katrine Maier
Department: English

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Reading Instruction: An Alternative Approach, Sarah E. Masters
Department: English

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Connection Between Past and Present in Four of Sir Walter Scott's Historical Novels, Carrie Lee McGraw
Department: English

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No More Heros: A Study of Vietnam Fiction, William J. Porter
Department: English

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Margaret Atwood: Gothic Romances and Anti-Gothic Feminist Novels, Sara Wells Potier
Department: English

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Lost Diamonds: A Literary Search of the Meaning of Life For the American Jew, Tiffany Michelle Reichert
Department: English

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An Empty Room, Suzanne Jacqueline Spoor
Department: English

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Language and the Presidency, Gregory John Thomas
Department: English

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Rembrandt Meets Kandinsky: Conservative Ideology and the Avante-Garde, James A. Van Dyke
Department: English; Art and Art History

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Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bronte: Two Different Outlooks, Michele A. Voigt
Department: English

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Quiet Riot: Cultural Nationalism in Poems By Gwendolyn Brooks and Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Lucia Walsh
Department: English

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A Study of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Timothy J. White
Department: English

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Heir of Dreams, Cassandra Whittington
Department: English

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Storyteller at Work: Life, Process and Product, Elizabeth A. Winans
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1987

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Wordsworth and the Philosophy of Nature, Hesham Salem Abdeen
Department: English

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Poetry and Prose, Carrie Allison
Department: English

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Mothers and Sons in D.H. Lawrence and Tennessee Williams: Assertions of the Self Through Creation, Elisabeth A. Carman
Department: English

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Tennessee Williams: Voices of Despair, Patricia A. Cary
Department: English

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Thematic Study of Edwin Muir's Poetry, Susan J. Cunliffe
Department: English

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Cultural Contexts of the Oxford English Dictionary, Jane Martha Curran
Department: English

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Female Friendships: Community For Self in Novels By Women, Kate Dailey
Department: English

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D.H. Lawrence and His Portrait of Women: The Changing Art of a Changing Mind, Ruth I. Durkee
Department: English

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Shades of Grey: Relationships Between White Women and Black Men in Twentieth-Century Fiction, Jennifer Lee Fowler
Department: English

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Art Theme and Creative Imagination: Patterns of Narrative Structure in the Works of Vladimir Nabokov, Robin Kathleen Germ
Department: English

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Hiker Looks For Limestone: Poems and Stories by Warren Hedges, Warren Hedges
Department: English

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On Editing a Medieval Manuscript: The Text of The Second Shepherd's Play, Alexander C. Helander
Department: English

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The Struggle to Gain Identity Knowledge and Love: How Women Have Difficulty Achieving These Characteristics As Revealed Through Love Relationships in Literature, Cynthia Ann Herr
Department: English

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A Prospectus For A Novel, Pamela Patrice Hodges
Department: English

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Jane Austen: Ironic Humor in Three Major Novels, Lisa R. Hunyadi
Department: English

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Jack London's Contradictory Synthesis of Individualism and Socialism, Andrew Kennedy Kelly
Department: English

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Triangular Structure of Relationships in Selected Dramas of Tennessee Williams, Lisa M. Klasny
Department: English

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Adolescent Romance Novels: Wish-Fulfillment of Realism, Leslie Renee Lancaster
Department: English

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Out of Focus: A Work in Progress, Andrew Mayer
Department: English

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Jonathan Swift and the Misanthropy of Irish Patriotism, Matthew P. O'Farrell
Department: English

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Joseph Conrad: His Deluded Men, His Realist Women, Stephen W. Peacock
Department: English

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Organic Perspective of Social Theory and Change As Presented By Sinclair Lewis, Timothy A. Peeples
Department: English

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Creative Inspiration: Novel and Film, Kathleen L. Sabol
Department: English

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Gingerbread Houses, Tomato Sandwiches, and Chocolate Factories: A Study of Food in Selected Children's Fiction, Courtenay A. Selby
Department: English

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Techniques of Social Criticism in Specific Novels by John Steinbeck, Edward James Charles Silverman
Department: English

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William Kennery's "Albany Cycle", Michael T. Stocks
Department: English

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Language of Anton Chekhov's Shorter Works, Karla Thomas
Department: English

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Indian English: the Twice-Born Story, Samrat Upadhyay
Department: English

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Freedom As Commitment: Doris Lessing's Inquiry Into the Relation of the Individual to the Collective, John F. Wells
Department: English

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Death as a Literary Device in the Works of Stephen Crane, Rocco J. Zazzaro
Department: English

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Edith Wharton's Battle For the Individualization of People in Society Through Her Novels of Manners, Justina C. M. Zubricky
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1986

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William Blake and Gulley Jimson: Seeing with Imagination, John A. Bromell
Department: English

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Forgotten Minority: the Native American in Contemporary Literature 1960-1984, Susan Buckingham
Department: English

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Devil in the American Short Stories: From the Mid Nineteenth Through the Mid Twentieth Century, Martha H. Burke
Department: English

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"I Learned- at Least- What Home Could Be" Emily Dickinson's Vision For the American Dream, Laurie J. Campbell
Department: English

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From Pre-Adolescence to Maturity in Five Fantasies, Dana Sue DeLon
Department: English

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Native Son: Towards a Black Aesthetic, Donald L. Dennis
Department: English

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Sylvia Plath's Electra Complex, Terry Dontis
Department: English

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On Becoming Edith Wharton, Denise H. Haller
Department: English

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Norman Holland: Responding to the Psychoanalytical Meaning of Literature, Whitney D. Hinds
Department: English

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Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: Novels of the Civil War 1969-1984, Joanne Irene James
Department: English

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Development and Ensuing Popularity of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Christopher L. Janson
Department: English

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Sir Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Universal Significance of the Nineteenth-Century Romance, Jeffrey B. Keiper
Department: English