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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1981

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Kaleidoscope of Faces, Sharon Skowron
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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1980

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Dorothy Thompson: Her Value As a Journalist, Annette Bennett
Department: English

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Adrienne Rich: a Woman's Voice Singing Old Songs in a New Way, Elizabeth S. Binhammer
Department: English

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World of Doctor Dolittle: A Journey Into Darkness, Sherrey L. Carter
Department: English

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Ways We Sing: Women Writing in America, Tracey Dils
Department: English

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A Comparative Analysis of Characterization in Madame Bovary and the Portrait of a Lady: Emma Bovary and Isabel Archer, Martha M. Dixon
Department: English

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Therapeutic Poetry: A Source of Psychological and Critical Insight, Amy M. Havener
Department: English

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Perverts, and Other Stories, Sabrina E. Johnson
Department: English

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Ibsen: A Progression of the Author's Thought Through Realism and Tragedy, Susan I. Kalajian
Department: English

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Poetic Expression of Meaning Through Language and Being, Michael McCormack
Department: English

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Textual Study of Ulysses: the Evolution of the Character of Bloom Through Available "Circle" Texts, Lori McGrew
Department: English

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Earthenware: a Series of Poems, Amy McMahon
Department: English

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Rural Reflections: a Guide to Holmes County, Deborah T. Miller
Department: English

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Six Perspectives of Women in American Fiction (1794-1925), Christine C. Pelley
Department: English

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Understanding of Religious Belief in Selected Works By T.S. Eliot, Cathy Personius
Department: English

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Literature and the High School: the Students, the Teachers, the Approaches, John M. Romano
Department: English

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William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor: Regional Heritage and the Southern Short Story, Gwen M. Schillinger
Department: English

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Ernest Hemingway's Personal Religion, Mary K. Seaman
Department: English

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Three Victorian Novelists and Their Concern For the Development of the Female Independent Mind, Jennifer L. Watson
Department: English

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Christy, and Other Short Stories, John White
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1979

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Night Vision, Debra Allbery
Department: English

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Clear Pictures of Reality: Eudora Welty's Focus on Individual Perception, Linda J. Buda
Department: English

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Exercise in the Study and Writing of Fiction, Gary Chwazik
Department: English

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Dickens's 'Grotesque Tragi-Comic Conception': Comedy and Humor in Great Expectations, R. Dennis Cullen
Department: English

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C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy As An Expression of His World View, Douglas L. Dill
Department: English

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Investigative Journalism: Exposing the Warts, Barbara J. Emling
Department: English

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SAT Score Decline with Emphasis on the Verbal Component and its Effects on Education, Sharon L. Farmer
Department: English

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The Great Gatsby: the Major Accomplishment of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nancy B. High
Department: English

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From Where I Am Now and Other Stories, Daniel Hunter
Department: English

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Theory of Language in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, Martha E. Jameson
Department: English

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Study of the Culture and Entertainment in the City of Wooster and the University of Wooster in the 1890S, Brenda E. Luger
Department: English

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Critical Reception of William Faulkner: the First Decade 1926-1936, John C. MacDonald
Department: English

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With and Without Marlow: the Characters of Joseph Conrad, Melissa A. Mentzer
Department: English

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Ownership Concentration and the Press: Bridging the Gap Between Freedom and Responsibility, Douglas G. Pinkham
Department: English

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Growth of a Scholar: the Intellectual Development of Howard F. Lowry: Based on His Unpublished Correspondence with Waldo H. Dunn, 1924-1935, Debra L. Sanborn
Department: English

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Study of Henry David Thoreau's Intellectual Development From the Journal of 1845 to Walden, Elizabeth Udris
Department: English

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The Daughters: a Novel, Peg Weissbrod
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1978

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Water Imagery in Spenser's the Faerie Queene, Carol L. Bogard
Department: English

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Double Play: a Novel, Raymond T. Bules
Department: English

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Creative Writing Project, Mark Dickson
Department: English

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Family Story in the 1970's: Essays on American Adolescent Fiction, Amy L. Gebhardt
Department: English

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Tales of Edgar Allan Poe As An Extension of His Aesthetic Theory, David M. Hagelin
Department: English

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Lament, Complaint, and Satire in English Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Richard H. Harrison
Department: English

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Lawrence and Hardy: Broken Fragments of One Whole, A Comparison of Male-Female Relationships in Four Novels, Leslie Jordan
Department: English

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Images in Popular Fiction 1912 to 1952, Samuel Marks Kinney III
Department: English

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Supporting the Basics: a Comparative Study of the Developmental Learning Program at the College of Wooster, Marcia B. Kleinert
Department: English

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N.E.H. and the Liberal Arts College: History, Relationship, and Evolution, Mark R. Klemens
Department: English

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Journalism: Mark Twain's Writing Workshop, David A. Koppenhaver
Department: English

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Darley's Maturation in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, Timothy Lammers
Department: English

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Shaw's Fabian Philosophies Concerning the Role of Women As Reflected By Four of His Characters, Karen E. McCabe
Department: English

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Development of Twain's Comic Vision, Kenneth P. Moore
Department: English

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Analysis of the Fiction Continuum, Christopher Pittman
Department: English

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Charles Dickens: the Plight of the Children in Victorian England As Portrayed in Five of His Novels, Kathy Rohrabaugh
Department: English

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Destiny and the Social Significance of the Individual Quest in King Horn and Havelok the Dane, Anne E. Rowland
Department: English

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Study of the Imagery in Theodore Roethke's Praise to the End Sequence, Nanette Secor
Department: English

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Reading of in Memoriam, Shirley E. Stokes
Department: English

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H.G. Wells and the Dystopian Tradition, Kent Wagner
Department: English

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The Wooster Forum (Creative Project), Joesph T. Williams
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1977

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Saeta, Lorraine Baumgardner
Department: English

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Effects of Language Distortion on Advertising, David C. Brown
Department: English

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Progress of Vision in Blake's Milton, Susan Haringa Brown
Department: English

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Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams: a Comparative Study of Two Author-Physicians, Susan Ann Crandall
Department: English

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The Folk Ballad: A Study of Its Development and The Appraisal of the Views of Its Critics, Emily Jane Dollinger
Department: English

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Four Series About Families in the Realm of Children's Literature: a Comparison in Content, Margaret A. Finney
Department: English

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Yesternight, the Son Went Hence, Deborah Glaefke
Department: English

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Blanche Dubois: Stung By the Gadfly of Need, Heather L. Reeder
Department: English

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Maturing Female in Children's Literature: a Critical Study, Corinne A. Rudman
Department: English

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A Concept of the Irish and Ireland, As Viewed By William Butler Yeats 1889-1939, Gretchen L. Schwenker
Department: English

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Conditions of Being Black and a Woman: a Critical Study, Phyllis R. Smith
Department: English

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Four Stories, David Stockdale
Department: English

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Book of Original Poems, Ronald C. Tompkins
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1976

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Volume of Short Stories, Daniel Amari
Department: English

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Rhetorical Analysis: Concerning Some of the Works of Frederick Douglass, James P. Bressi
Department: English

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Idea of Tragedy in William Faulkner, Matthew Castell
Department: English

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Poems Etc.: A Collection of Sonnets and Verse, Graham J. Dickson
Department: English

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James Thurber: The Women in His Life and Literature, Martha Erickson
Department: English

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World War I and the Lost Generation, Donald R. Frederico
Department: English

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Damn Everything But the Circus, a Story, Stuart A. Gilmore
Department: English

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Opening: Poems From 1975, John Hamlin
Department: English

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Charles Dickens' Portrayal of Social Conditions in Dombey and Son and Hard Times, Jayne A. Hart
Department: English

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Dickens' Character and the Industrial Question, Bruce J. Koppert
Department: English

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Fernando Arrabal: Development and Change, Anne Liske
Department: English

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Collection of Short Stories and Animal Fables, Gregory J. Marvin
Department: English

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"Voices Lost" and Other Stories, Amy McKinley
Department: English

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Four Essays on Andrew Lang, Rob Roy
Department: English

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Language Arts in the Open Classroom, Susan E. Tew
Department: English

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Pastoral in the Poetry of A. E. Housman, Paula Wilhelm
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1975

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Last of Life 1958-1972: A Brief Study of Some Changes in the Declining Years, Jeffrey R. Adair
Department: English

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Line Broke, the Monkey Got Choked, David Batchelor
Department: English

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Thematic and Character Development in Three Historical Novels Written For Children, Margaret A. Baxstrom
Department: English

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Creation of Reality Through Language, Margaret L. Castiglia
Department: English

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Incongruence: A Collection of Stories, Charles R. Earl
Department: English

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Comparative Study: The Odyssey and Fairy Tales, Lisa Gebhardt
Department: English

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Reading in America: Current Trends, Causes, and Solutions Aimed Toward the Average or Gifted High School Student, Cynthia A. Geier
Department: English

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Time to Laugh, a Time to Wonder: The Contributions of Dr. Seuss to Children's Literature of Fantasy, Carol L. Jackson
Department: English

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Satire of Jane Austen, Ruth Kerley
Department: English

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Bernard Malamud: Redemption Through Suffering in Five Novels, Anne M. Loveland
Department: English

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Comedy in the Novels of George Meredith, Barbara A. Lutz
Department: English

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De Britannicis Religiosis Carminibus Tertii Decimi Et Quarti Decimi Saeculorum, James McCarthy
Department: English

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"My I.S.": A Collection of Short Stories, Chris Moore
Department: English