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 2002

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Birthright: a Collection of Short Stories, Greta N. Dishong
Department: English

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Aesthetics of Naming and Making: An Esemplification of Frank O'Hara's Poetics Within a Study of the Influenceof Painting on Modern Poetry, Adam T. Dupaski
Department: English

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From the Page to La Peau: Tearing Women's Identities Out of the Advertisements in Elle and Vogue, Elizabeth Farina
Department: French and Francophone Studies; English

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Day Soweto Burned, Claire B.G. Frese
Department: English

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Resisting the Gender Binary: Women Novelists Negotiate Their Social and Cultural Contexts, Pieta C. Horvath
Department: English

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Wonderland, Slone Isselhard
Department: English

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He, Arlyn E. Keith
Department: English; Philosophy

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Homemade Voyeur: a Collection of Poems, Robyn M. Kocher
Department: English

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Finding My Voice: Exploring Identity Through Literature, Elizabeth M. Kriynovich
Department: English

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"Am I the Only Weirdo in the World?": a Study of the Misfit in Children's Literature, Jennifer Kunkler
Department: English

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Grandma's Intestinal Fortitude, Lori A. Lehr
Department: English

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Two Trees Deep: a Summer of Love and Learning, Elizabeth H. Martin
Department: English

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Cycling: a Local Bike Magazine For Everyone, Nicholas E. Mason
Department: English

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According to Me: the Stories of My Mother, Melissa Marie Melvin
Department: English

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Historical Fact or Fiction? a Study of the Historical and Literary Components of Louis De Bernieres's "Corelli's Mandolin," Evelyn Waugh's "The End of the Battle," and William Craig's "Enemy at the Gates: the Battle For Stalingrad", Maren L. Miller
Department: English

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Self Concealed: a Memoir, Melissa Myers
Department: English

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She Might Be Giant, Mary J. Nienaber
Department: English

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Hidden: Suburban Legends at the College of Wooster, Daniel F. O'Connor
Department: English

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Powered By PR: An Analysis and Overview of Public Relations Campaigns For Country Kitchen and Habitat For Humanity, Kathryn E. Orwin
Department: English

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Infestation of American Public Schools: Challenges to Literature in the American Educational System, Miranda H. Pfahl
Department: English

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California Dreams, California Nightmares: Celebrity Culture and Female Identity in Three Texts, Alicia H. Reed
Department: English

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"Vieux Carre, Nouveau Vie" and Other Stories, David D. Reeves
Department: English

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Bearing: a Nontraditional Memoir, Allison Roger
Department: English

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An Imitation of a Film a Filmed Screenplay, Victor Rortvedt
Department: English

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People and the Stones, Jen Schade
Department: English

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Tension Decreased, Interaction Achieved: the Eruption of Spontaneous Community in Postwar America, Hallie Shapiro
Department: English; History

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Monkey See, Monkey Do: a Project Demonstrating Ceative and Practical Applications of Race, Gendern and Disability in Children's Literature, Diana M. Smith
Department: English; Communication Studies

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"Cause I'm a Twenty-First Century Digital Boy:" Looking Back From the Future in William Gibson's Cyberpunk, Andrew J. Stimson
Department: English

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"Is It Just Me?" - the Development and Writing of An Original Situation Comedy and An Analysis of the Writing Process, Jennifer Telischak
Department: English

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Growing Up in a Contradicting Nation: a Critical and Creative Analysis of American Identity in Fiction, Emily Van Oeveren
Department: English

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Transcending the Roadblocks: Northern Irish Writers and the Troubles, Meghan E. Wills
Department: English

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Catch Me When You Can, Jaime L. Wolfe
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001

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I'm a Man: A Look at Masculinity in Highway 61 Revisited, What's Going on, Born to Run, and Me Against the World, Bryan C. Appel
Department: English

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What Is Becoming of Me: Personal Agency As National Possibility in the Post-Apartheid Narrative, Karen Auble
Department: English

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Une Exploration De Théâtre De L'Absurde Une Autre Vue De Fin De Partie, Elise M. Becchetti
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies

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Letters From Home: a Novel, Siddhartha Bose
Department: English

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Voice 'In-Between': Oral Dialogues Within Written Texts, Ashley C. Brister
Department: English

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Translating Between Cultures in Novels by Bhara Ti Mukherjee and Chitra Div Akaruni, Elizabeth A. Byrer
Department: English

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The Ghost Story: It's Not Just For Kids, Michelle Cady
Department: English

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NV: The Making of a Fashion Magazine, Sarah C. Chazan
Department: English

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Seeking Slam, Erika Joy Chouinard
Department: English

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George Eliot's Realism and George Sand's Idealism: a Comparative Study, Marjorie D. Cooper
Department: French and Francophone Studies; English

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The Same Thing Every Night: A Collection of Poems, Tim E. Drouhard
Department: English

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Tales of Disjunction: a Collection of Short Stories, Craig E. Duff
Department: English

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Verbatim: a Behind the Scenes Look, Matthew H. Frank
Department: English

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Simple Procedure, Kate Kutina Gessler
Department: English

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A Quantitative Model and Test of Journalistic Writing Quality, Jeffrey R. Guciardo
Department: English

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Transgressing Limitations, Timothy B. Hagen
Department: Art and Art History; English

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Splendor: A Magazine - Concerning Politics of Women's Magazines in American Culture, Stephanie A. Hoffman
Department: English

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Journalism Ethics and the Outing of Oliver Sipple A Discussion About the Importance of Incorporating Feminine Ethics into the Practice of Journalism, Amelia Kays
Department: English; Philosophy

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I Never Knew It Had a Name: Experiences of Trichotillomania, Erin R. Kollar
Department: English

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Walls Broken: Poetry and an Interview with Authors of the Former East Germany, Naomi R. Kresge
Department: English; German Studies

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"My Task Which I Am Trying to Achieve Is, By Power of the Written Word,... to Make You See": Apocalypse Now, a Clockwork Orange, and Lord of the Flies As Adaptations of Three Modern Novels, Lauren E. Kulchawik
Department: English

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MyMarx.com: What's Your Revolution? - Signs of Modernity in Literary Fiction at the 20th Century's End, Johathan G. Lindsay
Department: English

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Portrayals of Chinese Eurasian Identity in the Autobiographies of Edith and Winnifred Eaton: Identity Politics and Social Protest, Sheri Marker
Department: English

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"The Island of Women" and Other Stories: a Fictional Exploration Into Writing From What We Do Not Know, Molly S. McKinney
Department: English

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A Llama Caught In Rain: A Collection of Poems, Caroline Morrell
Department: English

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Magpie in June Sun, Brendan Park
Department: English

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Revolution Chicago: A Study and Practice of Hypertext on the World Wide Web, Andrew Phelan
Department: English

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The Survival of Past Images: The Use of Time, Memory and the Past in Novels by William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Michael Dorris., Katherine M. Rybak
Department: English

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Barley Educated, J. Marie Shannon
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000

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Conversations and Answers: Comparing Constructions of Race and Gender in Jack Koruacs the Subterreneans and Hettie Jones' How I Became Hettie Jones, Richard K. Anderson
Department: English

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Transgressions - a Memoir, Julie R. Assmus
Department: English

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Bilito's Ghost: How Charles Manson's Cowboy Boots Became the White Star of the West, Matthew M. Barbee
Department: English

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Construction of the Self: Two American Women in the 1950S, Katie L. Bomba
Department: English

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Kerri on Her Own: a Fictional Young Adult Novel Intended For the Betterment of Adolescent Girls, Amy R. Brown
Department: English

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Portrayals of Animals in Children's Literature, Darlene Bubel
Department: English

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Black Womens' Sexuality: Voices of the Dark Brought to Light, Rose Carter
Department: English

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"Dear Father:" How Gender Construction Among Emigrants to Liberia in the Nineteenth Century Compared to Gender Constructions in the Antebellum South, As Revealed Through Letters Written By Freed Slaves to Their Former Owners, Marjorie J. Clayman
Department: English; History

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Manipulation of Newspaper Media, Ryan L. Dansak
Department: English

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Duality and Deception: a Novella, David J. Francis
Department: English

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Why I Don't Like Shakespeare, Marijke S. Hartzler
Department: English

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Wild Things Protection Act: Taking a Second Look at the Works of Shel Silverstein and Maurice Sendak, Kathryn M. Hoffman
Department: English

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Multigenre Research Paper: An Alternative to Standard Research, Stacy K. Ingraham
Department: English

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If This House Stands, Angel M. Jernigan
Department: English

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Eyes Wide Shut, Andrew J. Jones
Department: English

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Echoes of Experience: One Writers Attempt to Create the Various Life Situations of Today's Woman, Elizabeth A. King
Department: English

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Slowness and Perception, Matthew R. King
Department: English

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Africa in the News, Chemeli T. Kipkorir
Department: English

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Murder Will Out, Timothy G. Kiscoe
Department: English

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Crystalballs and Mindreading: the Relationship Between the Public and the Media in the Evolution of Presidential Press Coverage, Jamie L. Mapes
Department: English

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Prose Poetry: Transcendent Literature, Erica C. Molliver
Department: English

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What It Means to Be Human: Artificial Humans in Fiction and Science Fiction, Sarah M. Nagelbush
Department: English

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What Lies in the Tunnel: A Memoir, Bryan J. Partridge
Department: English

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Structural Study of Children's Literature By Matt Christopher, Edward L. Priesand
Department: English

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Kitchen Table Tales, Elizabeth C. Reiter
Department: English

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Under the Lunar Neon: A Collection of Poems, Paul T. Richlovsky
Department: English

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Are You Talking to Me? Literature As a Form of Dialogue Between Black and White Women, Marie Salupo
Department: English

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Feeling-Knowing-Being: Reconstructing Dominant Systems of Knowledge in Jeanette Winterson's "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", Nicole Scott
Department: English

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Deserving of My Attention: An Experential Reading of Tillie Olsen's Short Fiction, Scott Sheets
Department: English

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Who Am I and How Do I Fit In?: An Examination of the Adolescent Maturation Process Into Adulthood With Representations From Fifties and Contemporary Literature, Sarah E. Smith
Department: English

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Enjoy the Silence: Exploring the Poetic Significance of European Pop-Music, Ben Spieldenner
Department: English

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In Pursuit of Prospectives: The Private, Liberal Arts College, Marketing, and the View Book, Christina P. Stern
Department: Communication Studies; English

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Escaping Sweet Valley: A Feminist Approach to Beauty, Sexuality, and Gender in Young Adult Literature, Megan A. Tarrant
Department: English

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Capricious By Nature: The Mutable Role of Pan in a Selection of Classical, Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth Century Texts, Megan W. Whinery
Department: Classical Studies; English

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One Woman Reading: A Personal Inquiry in Transactional Reading, Carrie L. Wiles
Department: English

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America's Biographers: The Personal and Political Poetry of Robert Lowell and John Berryman, Nathan Wilkinson
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999

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Vision of the Child in the Nineteenth Century British Fiction, Christina K. Alberto
Department: English

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Person Is a Person, No Matter How Small Breaking the Communication Barrier Between Adults and Children Through Literature, Jayme Armistead
Department: English

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Creation at the Intersection of Media, Francis Browne
Department: English