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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2003

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Cultural Differences in American Baseball and Japanese Besuboro, Nickolas R. Hajjar
Department: History

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"But I Don't Have Any Boot Straps" Fashion, Gender, and Social Mobility in Eighteenth Century Britain, Anne C. Medlock
Department: History; Theatre and Dance

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The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association: How History Is Remembered, Beth Moore
Department: History

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A Way, the Truth, and the Life: Sojourner Truth An the Search For Community, Crystal R. Moore
Department: History

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Girls Girls Girls: Girlhood and Its Construction in the 1950s, Molly Moreland
Department: History

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Pink Celluloid: An Examination of the Views and Experiences of Ex-Communist Film Directors Elia Kazan and the Edward Dmytryk With the House Committee of Un-American Activities Expressed Through a Selection of Their Motion Pictures, John Daniel Oswalt
Department: History

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The Business of the National Pastime: the Commercialization of Baseball, Daniel A. Pursel
Department: History

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The Study of Japanese Atrocities During the Pacific War: Rape of Nanjing and Unit 731, Yi Ming M. Roberts
Department: History

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Technological Evolution of the Law: Law.Com, Nicholas Robinson
Department: History

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Razing the Dead: the Issues of Cemetery Preservation in Wayne County, Carolyn L. Speros
Department: History

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Born to Be Wild: the Image of the Outlaw Motorcyclist, Brian P. Thomay
Department: History

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Thomas De Quincey and Irvine Welsh As Mirrors of Subculture: Continuity in the Discussion of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drug Discourses, Matthew D. Trent
Department: History

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"Primitive, Uncivilized, and Backward:" the Influence of the Media on Negative Stereotyping of Hispanics and Latin Americans, Pilar F. Velasquez
Department: History

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Animating Japanese History: Indelible Truths and Malleable Fictions, Matthew Wagner
Department: History

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National Collegiate Athletic Association (N.C.A.A.): Its Inception As a Benefactor to Student-Athletes and the Vicissitudes of Its Business Control From 1968-1979 and Its Evolution Through Today., Nathan A. Weakland
Department: History

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As Lived By Me: An Innovative Yet Academic Look at Late Twentieth Century Grrrlhood, Trish L. Whittington
Department: History

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Woman Warriors: a Contemporary Examination of the History, Contributions, and Areas of Controversy of the American Servicewoman From World War I to Present Day, Lindsay M. Zella
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2002

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Clash of the Titans: a Study of the Commercial Airlines in a Deregulated Environment, Douglas A. Birkey
Department: History

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Ouch!: the Emergence of Men in the Field of Midwifery, Elisabeth L. Boyce
Department: History

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Muhammad Ali: a Controversial American Hero, Christopher R. Cabot
Department: History

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"We Live For Dying". The HIV/AIDS Epidemic's Effect on Commercial Sex Workers in Thailand and South Africa, Women's Struggle to Protect Themselves Against Infection, Katherine R. Dunne
Department: History

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Entactment of and Implications of Sex Offender Laws in the United States, Catherine M. Dwyer
Department: History

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The Aggression of Chinese Communism Towards the Tibetan State and Its Religion From the 1950s to the Present, Eric R. Ferguson
Department: History

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To See the Sky in Blood: Poetry As Witness to Stalinism, Schuyler M. Gilmore
Department: History

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Striking a Balance in the War on Terrorism: An Analysis of the Bush Administration's Anti-Terror Policies and American's Civil Liberties in the Post-9/11 Era, Alexander H. Hastie
Department: History

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A Silent Pen Is Wakened: Reviving the Voices of Women Humanists of Late Quattrocento Italy, Helen C. Henderson
Department: History

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Lorain, Ohio's Neighborhood House: a 'Small Town' Example of How Female Empowerment Hanged Patriarchal America's Settlement Movement and City Spaces, Dawn M. Hirth
Department: History

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As the Baseball Team Goes, So Goes the City: the Revitalization of the Cleveland Indians, John J. Kelly
Department: History

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The Mysterious Maya Revealed, Paul Brendan Kingston
Department: History

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Primary Steps of Evolution of the Submarine and the End of Traditional Naval Warfare, Chad D. Kraus
Department: History

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The Sreaming Eagle and the Hidden Dragon: Analyzing the Future of Sino-American Relationship Through Historical, Economic, and Political Patterns and Trends, Nicholas P. Kuhns
Department: History

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Women's Sexuality in America, 1890-1920: An Investigation of Working-Class Women in Cities, Elizabeth Lawrence
Department: History

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"Strange" Relationship Between the United States and Spain: 1936-1975, Katherine A. McCoy
Department: History

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The Fraternity Question: the Prohibition of National Greek Letter Societies at the University of Wooster, Brian R. H. Mitchell
Department: History

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Nineteenth Century Abortion and Bourgeois Normalcy: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Reproduction, R. David Mowry
Department: History

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International Terrorism and the Affects on the United States, Timothy G. Pellman
Department: History

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British Participation in the Spanish Civil War, Jacob Charles Ruttinger
Department: History

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Domestic Servants in Nineteenth Century New York, Pamela Scherphorn
Department: History

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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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A Nation on Fire: the United States Response to the Vietnamese Buddhist Protest Movement, 1963, Daniel F. Shortridge
Department: History

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Kpanlogo: Ghana's Inspirational Movement, Marion A. Smith
Department: History

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The Wrong Man Out: a Look at the Life and Career of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and the 1919 World Series, Brandon J. Thomas
Department: History

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Failure at Los Alamos: An Alternate Conclusion to World War II, Kevin West
Department: History

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Attica Prison Riot and the Effect on Prison Reform in the United States, Emily M. White
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001

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Return of the Black Hundreds: Antisemitic Social and Political Trends in Russia, 1988-1999, Daniel B. Borsody
Department: History; Russian Studies

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Luso-Brazilian Studies: An Exercise in Curriculum Design, Antonia E. Cassarino
Department: History

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Evolving Relationship Between American Society and American Football: Focusing on the Victorious Struggle of African Americans in Professional Football, Felix H. Catheline
Department: History

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Modernizing China's Medical Elite: the Medical Missionary Movement in China From 1834-1951, David Chidester
Department: History

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Origins of Gambling in American Society, Sean E. Conway
Department: History

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Brown V Board of Education An Investigation of the Progress of African-American Education Since 1954, Katherine A. Daly
Department: History

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Revisionist History of Pearl Harbor, Nathan Gaubatz
Department: History

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The Hunted: Francis Marion and Partisan Warfare in Occupied South Carolina During the American Revolution, Brian W. Gulotta
Department: History

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Reasons to Riot: a Closer Look at the Rodney King Incident and the Los Angeles Riots in 1992, Douglas R. Harper
Department: History

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The Journey to the American Dream: The Patterns and the Developments of Chinese Immigrants into the United States From the 1850's to the Present, Yukha A. Lam
Department: History

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American College Football: the Black Experience, Seth T. Mastrine
Department: History

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We'll Make Heaven a Place on Earth: An Examination of Three Millenarian Societies in Nineteenth Century America, Angela B. Merritt
Department: History

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Ecofeminism and History: Making Connections, Elizabeth B. Palchak
Department: History

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Turning the Tide: Creating Successful HIV/AIDS Public Health Policies in South Africa?, Everett J. Peachey
Department: History

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Hail the Holy Innocents: May 4, 1970, Justin C. Rath
Department: History

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Wiseguys and Good Guys: An Investigation of the Mafia's Infiltration of Legitimate Business and Federal Responses, Michael D. Ray
Department: History

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Pennsylvania Goes to War: a Study of a State's Participation in the American Civil War, Kyle Rooker
Department: History

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"All-Out War:" The Evolution of Violence in Professional Football, Stephen P. Thompson
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000

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An Investigation of the Curse of King Tutankhamen, Katie E. Aldrich
Department: History

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Medieval Literature As Historical Source: the Le Morte D'Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory and the Fifteenth Century, Jacob O. Burt
Department: History

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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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Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Great Society", Frank Galati
Department: History

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Who Cared? The Role of the Chinese Off-Shore Islands of Quemoy and Matsu in the Presidential Debates of 1960, Elizabeth K. Gill
Department: History

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Major League Baseball Integration Focusing on the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cleveland Indians, Jennifer L. Green
Department: History

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Irish Republican Prisoner's Effects on Irish Nationalism, Timothy Robert Harrison

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Prescriptions For An Integrated Medical System: The Value of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sarah P. Hibler
Department: History

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Pearl Harbor: What Is the Truth and Who Is Responsible, Daniel J. Maurer
Department: History

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Off the Top Rope Reflections of Society in Accordance With Professional Wrestling, Chad Peterman
Department: History

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Fastballs Overseas: A Historical Analysis of Baseball in Japan, Nicholas P. Sanyk
Department: History

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The Battle of Lake Erie: What We Don't Know, Bryan J. Solomon
Department: History

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How Tuscarawas County, Ohio Contribution to World War I and II, Brian Watkins
Department: History

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The British Ruling Elite and Hong Kong: A Perspective of Chinse Foreign Relations, Max Alec Wilson
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999

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A Man Among Men: A Critical Analysis of the Life and Teachings of Marting Luther King, Jr., Daniel W. Broehl
Department: History

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Slave Rebellions in the American South, Carl Crumbaker
Department: History

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A Detailed Analysis of a Hastily Called Presidential Investigation into the Reasons for the Pearl Harbor Disaster: the Roberts Commission of 1941-1942, Todd K. Grubich
Department: History

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The Militia Movement in America, Nicholas Lacy
Department: History

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World Wide Web War: An Examination of Information Warfare, Samuel Howe Lincoln
Department: History

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"Ange Ou Demon, Qu'Importe?" Napoleon Bonaparte vu a Travers Six Hommes De Lettres Français de XIXe Siecle, John R. Lytle
Department: French and Francophone Studies; History

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In the Beginning There Was the Word?, Christopher T. Mace
Department: History

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The Evolution of the Jazz Guitarist, William F. Marcell II
Department: History

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The Evolution of the Jazz Guitarist, William F. Marcell II

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Lacrosse: the Fastest Growing Game on Two Feet, Jared R. McKee
Department: History

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An Examination of Vaclav Harvel's Synthesis of Theater and Politics, David J. Moore
Department: History

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A Patchwork of Quilt Stories: Using Cherokee Histories As Cultural Narratives, Margaret F. Odle
Department: History

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Identity Through Communalism: Politics and Religion Among Indian Muslims in the Century Before Partition, Dawn M. Packer
Department: Religious Studies; History

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Authority and Opposition in Austrian Politics, 1933-1945, Matthew Sondre Peterson
Department: History

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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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What Were Animals Like When You Were Little?, Nathan P. Renkes
Department: History

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The Americanization of Golf, Matthew M. Riva
Department: History

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The Role of Air Power in Operation Desert Storm, Todd Seney
Department: History

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Nazi Germany on Trial: a Historical and Philosophical Analysis of the Nuremberg Trial, Aaron Veith
Department: History; Philosophy

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998

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A Study of the U.S. Army Special Forces From 1952 to the Present, Adam D. Cornett
Department: History

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Viking Women: An Exploration of Female Roles and Activities in Late Iron Age Scandinavian Society, Ann-Catherine Frederick
Department: History; Archaeology

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Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: The Forgotten Victims of Prostitution and Rape during World War II and the Vietnam War, Eliza M. Gerlach

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A Historical Investigation of American Society During the Establishment of the Consitution From a European Perspective, Brian M. Grindall
Department: History

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Mexica (Aztec) and the Maya Religious Beliefs and Their Role in the Practice of Human Sacrifice, Ian V. Kopf
Department: History