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 1999

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Drama of Her Own: J.M. Synge and the Quest For National Identity in Ireland, 1903-1909, Brooke Bulkeley
Department: English

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Creating and Implementing an Effective Elementary Reading Program: A Discussion of a Whole Language, Literature Based Reading Program, Laura J. Chazan
Department: English

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Spice: The Making of a Magazine, Amy M. Chidiac
Department: English

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Writing From the Belly of a Paradow: Thomas Merton and the Recovery of the Christian Experience Through Zen, David J. Cooper
Department: Religious Studies; English

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Color at the Final Curtain: The Creation of Mood Through Color in Europides Medea and Dassin's Dream of Passion and How the Ancient and Modern Audiences Responded, Danielle M. Coppola
Department: Classical Studies; English

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Transcendentalism of Gatsby's Dream: Illusions of Time and the Material, Jonathan N. Crawford
Department: English

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Film Adaptation As Autoethnography: Three Cinematic Offspring of Oliver Twist, Dan Darling
Department: English

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Ya-Ya Mamas and Women Warriors, Kristen Demaline

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Under the Rim: a Sportswriter's Season With the 1998-99 Scot Men's Basketball Team, Neil Domer-Shank
Department: English

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Pleasure Unto Death, Colleen V. Dunn
Department: English

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Modern Christian Fiction: Bridging the Gap Between the Believer and the Unbeliever, Rachel E. Evans
Department: English

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Dirty Tricks and Dirty Dresses: Newspapers and White House Scandal, Sarah C. Fenske
Department: English; Political Science

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Photography and Text: a Meaningful Conversation, Micheal L. Hahn
Department: English

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Irony in Selected Short Stories of O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: 1890-1910, Andrea J. Hiner
Department: English

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Dula: An Acoustical, Lucien G. Holmes
Department: English

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Rise of Legal Fiction, Elizabeth B. Howard
Department: English

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"Yes, There Are Homeless People in Wooster": Memoirs of Invisible Women, Kathryn A. Klonowski
Department: English

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Serial: Fixations...Ratings...Objects, Hope E. Miller
Department: English

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Examination of Animals in Literature: What They Are Saying About Us and Why, Yael Moore
Department: English

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Digging Up the Streets and Other Stories, Lorraina Raccuia
Department: English

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Creation of a New Genre: Fusing the Elements of the Gothic and Grotesque Elements to Examine the Works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Conneor, Karen J. Rafferty
Department: English

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Dinosaurs and Memory Wars: A Dialogical Interpretation of Historical Experience in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Graham Swift's Waterland, and Bradley Me. Rank's Untitled, Bradley M. Rank
Department: English; History

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Multiculturalism in the Classroom: a Look at Creation Stories and English Literature, Heather N. Reynolds
Department: English

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Hummingbird of the Dead, Kirsten Rich
Department: English

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B6560, Shayna N. Sharpe
Department: English

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Exploring Wilderness (And Returning Home), Caitlin F. Shipps
Department: English

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Talking About the Body: a Collection of Poems, Kristen Silver
Department: English

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Reimagining Beauty: Challeging Societal Images of Black Women in Two Novels of the Harlem Rennaisance:; Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun and Wallace Thurman's Blacker the Berry, Catriona A. Ward
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998

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Terminal Bliss: the Wrath of Mortality on Ernest Hemingway and the Garden of Eden, Brooke S. Abernethy
Department: English

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Why Boobz, Wende Bitler
Department: English

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Mulingi's Belt, David Bryant
Department: English

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Winnie-The-Pooh For Adults, Jessica Buell
Department: English

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Examining the Affects of Sexual Motifs on Mother-Daughter Relationships in Three East-Asian American Novels: Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club," Lan Cao's "Monkey Bridge," and Nora O. Keller's "Comfort Woman.", Lasaly Changkachith
Department: English

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Matriarchy, Maternity, Monogamy, and Black Women's Empowerment in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Emily M. Coleman
Department: English

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This Slower Death: a Collection of Poems, Nicole Donnelly
Department: English

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Inbetween Spaces Le Cas De La Littérature Postcoloniale de l'Afrique Occidentale, Helen Aine Flewelling
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies

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We Must Use What We Have to Invent What We Desire: Poetics and Politics in the Later Poems of Adrienne Rich, 1978-1995, Heidi R. Haverkamp
Department: English

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"No Madder Than the Queen of England": Representations of the Nineteenth-Centruy Madwoman in Twentieth-Century Literature and Popular Journals, Kristin E. Hundertmark
Department: English

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Read Me, Read Me, Read Me!: An Analysis of the Persuasive Functions and Powers of Language in Advertising and Marketing, Megan Kreider
Department: English

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"Better to Leave Your Audience Wailing in the Dark": A Study of the Reader-Text Relationship and the Readers Struggle With Indeterminacy in Tim O'Brien's "In the Lake of the Woods", Holly L. Kyle
Department: English

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Lights, Hellman Rolling, Action, Gregory B. Licht
Department: English; Theatre and Dance

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Pacifying Vidalia, Jennifer Nadar
Department: English

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Hayden Carruth, Rose Marie, and This World's Love, Eduardo Nunes
Department: English

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Eyeblink of Rokeness, Matt R. Pietz
Department: English

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With Love From the Man in the Bush, Rachel Pope
Department: English

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Computer: Enemy of the Humanities?, Christopher D. Pugh
Department: English

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Kindred Parables: An Examination of Octavia Butler's "Kindred" and "Parable of the Sower", Kathryn E. Rhoads
Department: English

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Boxed In, Andrea K. Shreve
Department: English

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In Here It Is I Must Kill the Priest and the King: the Deconstruction of Cultural Hegemony in James Joyce's Ulysses, Hilary A. Teynor
Department: English

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World's Best I.S., Sally Thelen
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1997

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22 Is Catching, Jill Bartholomew
Department: English; Theatre and Dance

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Wooster By Night: a Study in Chaos, Dana Benson
Department: English

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Irish-American Search For Identity As Exhibited Through the Literature of the Famine Generation, Stephanie H. Blake
Department: English

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Voices Behind the Curtain, Margaret E. Conti
Department: English

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Persona Non Grata, Ian P. Cook
Department: English

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Issue of Reader Response: a Personal Investigation, Lesley A. Crossley
Department: English

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Anyways, Sarah K. DeBacher
Department: English

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Brutal Black or Bad Black Man? Assessing the Affect of Culture on Interpretation and Identity in 'The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger', Ebony M. Green
Department: English

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Fragile Jericho: a Novella, Aaron D. Hemry
Department: English

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Regulars of Blanding, Ohio, Daniel B. Herr
Department: English

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714: Family Legends and Other Myths of Baseball, Christopher R. Hertz
Department: English

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Abdominous Tales, Patrick E. Hogan
Department: English

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In Other Words..., Liam P. Kelly
Department: English; Art and Art History

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Pray Love, Remember: a Novella, Antonia Mandry
Department: English; History

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Advertisements By Myself, Mark Melnick
Department: English

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Locusts in Bronze, Nathaniel J. Missildine
Department: English

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Hourglass No One Has to Turn: a Collection of Poems, Neil Moore
Department: English; Spanish

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Trials and Triumphs: Images of Womanhood, Caroline W. Muchekehu
Department: English

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Common Women: An Examination of Writings By White Women and Women-Of-Color in the Construction of Community, Julia D. Oliverio
Department: English

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Conventions, Controversy, and the Environment: a Study of Newspaper Articles Mentioning Environmental Issues Pertaining to the 1988 and 1992 Presidential Campaigns, Robin Oswald
Department: English; Chemistry

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It Isn't a Book About Cops: Ed Mcbain's 87th Precinct Novels - a Study of Social Commentary Within Genre Fiction, Allehandro J. Parker
Department: English

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Modern Madwoman: Insights From Twentieth Century Novels By Women, Heather A. Schuckman
Department: English

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Influence of the Classics on Henry David Thoreau, Aaron V. Skrypski
Department: English; Classical Studies

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Concepts of Mother: Motherhood, Mother Tongue, and Motherland in the Novels of Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker, Amanda J. Smith
Department: English

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Music For the Accordion: a Collection of Poetry, Susannah C. Sprong
Department: English

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Chair That Sits at the End of the Hallway, Katherine E. Steger
Department: English

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On the Stoop: a Collection of Short and Short-Short Stories, Mary Tartir
Department: English

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Ruby Fire: a Romance, Jacqueline Tolonese
Department: English

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Feminist Speculative Fiction: Reshaping the Archetypal Patterns of Motherhood Rooted in Myth, Margaret A. Toth
Department: Classical Studies; English

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Carnival Fish, Audra M. Variakojis
Department: English

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Air Underneath My Wings, Mariama K. Whyte
Department: English

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Jennifer Willis Actually Turns in Independent Study, Jennifer Willis
Department: English

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Sneaky Monks and Other Fuzzy Stories, Brad A. Winter
Department: English

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Serving Up the Soul: a Multi-Genre Examination of the American Diner, Susan Wittstock
Department: English

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One Unsatisfied Customer, Derek J. Young
Department: English

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Tent Worms and Other Stories, Kathryn A. Youther
Department: English

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Great Writers of the People: a Fictional Journey Through the Writings of Fyodor Dostoevdky, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, and Douglas Coupland, Joseph J. Zenir
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1996

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Perspectives on Censorship in Adolescent Literature, Erin Martha J. Balsat
Department: English

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Toni Morrison: the Advantage of Post Colonial Writing, Heather S. Bond
Department: English

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Restructuring of the American Canon in the Twentieth Century, Maureen Bowles
Department: English

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Jacob's New Kite: a Study of Self-Esteem in Children's Picture Books, Amy Boyden
Department: English

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Teaching Banned Books: the Case of Little Black Sambo, Elizabeth C. Conrad
Department: English

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Fly on the Wall, Beth Cooperman
Department: English

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The No-Win Situation: Shedding Light on the Indian Woman's Romantic Heterosexual Relations, Meher D'Mello
Department: English; History

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World War One and Its Effects on American Literature: Romantic Vision to Disillusion, Meghan H. Doughtery
Department: English

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Makin' Freedom Languages: a Cyclical Journey in Conversation With Writings By Toni Morrison & Nitozake Shange, Erin I. Dreistadt
Department: English

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Influences on Shakespeare's Fairy Mythology in a Midsummer Night's Dream, Heather Ford
Department: English

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Angel, Whore, Bitch: An Analysis of Mothers, The Cultural Implications and Assessment of Motherhood in Portnoy's Complaint, Life is Elsewhere, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Heidi M. Georgi
Department: English

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Oppression Through Experience: the Effects of the Industrial Revolution on Children As Seen in Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, Anthony M. Humbert
Department: English

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Images of Women in Advertising 1960-Present, Jesmon Idriss
Department: English