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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005
Collected Poems of Lawrence Raysor and the Lyrics of the Son of Sin, Lawrence Raysor
Department: English
What Business Ethics Should Not Overlook: a Re-Examination of the Scope of Business Ethics, Jameson David Rehm
Department: Philosophy
Buddhist Paradox of No-Self: Can It Be Resolved in Today's Terms?, Bethany Lynne Reiner
Department: Philosophy
Creating Pathways: a Comprehensive Study of Children's Literature in Amish Parochial Schools, Hannah Richardson
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Do Low-Income and Minority Households Have Less Accessibility to Housing Credit? An Empirical Study of Possible Disparities in the Mortgage Lending Market of Cuyahoga County, Jennifer Riegelmayer
Department: Economics
Natural Occurrences: a Ceramic Exploration of Nature's Characteristics Through Organic Form, Mary Risley
Department: Art and Art History
Fictional Invitations Into Ojibwa Worlds: a Reader-Response and Cultural Study of Louise Erdrich's the Antelope Wife and Love Medicine, Emily E. Ritter
Department: English
Mathematics Anxiety: the Links Between the Education System and Students Attitudes About Mathematics, Cassie Ritzmann
Department: Mathematics
Voice For the Future? the Lasting Effects of the 1968 Student Movement on Contemporary German Foreign Policy, Jessica L. Riviere
Department: German Studies; Political Science
Fall of the House of Rubber: Wooster and Rubbermaid, 1808-2004, Dane Ralph Robbins
Department: History
Reconstruction of Self Through Narrative: An Exploration of Who I Was, Who I Am, and Who I Will Be?, Elizabeth Ann Roesch
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
No More Mister Nice Guy: Masculinity in Comic Books and the Role of the Antihero, Scott Roger
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Turning the Now Into Always: a Look at Persuasion, Group Identity, Ritual, and the Evolution of Epideictic Rhetoric in the Funeral Orations of Pericles, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan, Amanda Lynn Rollins
Department: Classical Studies; Communication Studies
Broken Landscapes, Divided Classes: a Portrait of Agrarian Reform and Its Effects on Rural Class Structure, Sarah Elizabeth Romorini
Department: International Relations; Political Science
Reconstruction of Self Through Narrative; An Exploration of Who I Was, Who I Am, and Who I Will Be?, Elizabeth Ann Rosech
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
"Living With the People": An Ethnographic Study of Worldview and Belief of An Aboriginal Community on the Dampier Peninsula, in Western Australia, S. Clark Rubino
Department: Religious Studies
"I Am in Hell!": the Bounty Mutiny and the Memory of William Bligh, Michael James Ruttinger
Department: History
More Than Just Busy Hands, Emily Ryan
Department: Art and Art History
Filtering History: The Story of the Burbages and the Birth of the Globe Theater, Meghan E. Sackett
Department: English
Can a Woman Deliver a Sports Report As Well As a Man? Differences in Male and Female Viewers' Perceptions of the Credibility of Sports Reporters, Benjamin A. Schafir
Department: Psychology
Queen of Mathematics: Topics in Number Theory Including the Prime Number Theorem and Its Proof, Matthew Schlingman
Department: Mathematics
Cuentos de una Cumbiambera, Christina Elena Schmitzler
Department: English; Spanish
"Excellence in Body, Mind, and Spirit:" Health Beliefs and Practices of Health Food Users in Wooster, Ohio, Katherine G. Schneider
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Do I See That Treat at All? Well...Maybe?": An Examination of the Concept of Theory of Mind and Dominance Competition in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Apella) Through Their Ability to Use a Mirror to Locate Hidden Food Rewards, Courtney M. Segovis
Department: Psychology
Idle Witness, Joel Servillo
Department: English
Comfort in Serenity: a Photographic Depiction of Nostalgia, Adrianne Michelle Sharrock
Department: Art and Art History
Models Among Friends, Emma Shaw
Department: Religious Studies
Friendly Masks Made of Plastic Smiles: An Examination of Subordination and Emotional Labor in the Service Industry, Lauren Sherry
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Steiner Trees, Christopher M. Sirois
Department: Mathematics; Computer Science
"He Lives in a Pineapple Under the Sea," But Can Spongebob Be Influencing Children's Body Image Development?: a Cross-Sectional Analysis of "Spongebob, Squarepants" and Other Popular Television Programming on a Child's Development of Body Build Stereotypes, Bethany B. Skelton
Department: Psychology
Testing Aquatic and Terrestrial Habitat Variables in the Decline of Blanchard's Cricket Frogs in Ohio, Allen Skinner
Department: Biology
Progress Toward the Synthesis of a Model Electroluminescent Polymer, Daniel Skully
Department: Chemistry
Effect of Live Versus Videotaped Testimony on Juror Perceptions of Recall, Confidence, and Nonverbal Cues of An Adult Female Eyewitness, Meghan Grant Slipka
Department: Psychology
Testing the Efficacy of 2,13 and 3,13 Octadecadiel-1-OL Acetate and Commercially Available Lures As Sex Attractant Pheromones For Pennisetia Marginata (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae), Justin Sloan
Department: Biology
Tartuffe: An Analysis of Design Strategies; Devices of Theatricality and Alienation through an Adaptation of Selected Semiotic Principles and Vocabulary, Ada Elizabeth Sharwell Smith
Department: Theatre and Dance
Making the Tour: Effectively Implementing Navigation, Realism, and Information Dissemination Using Principles of Human-Computer Interaction in a 3D Environment Created in the X3D Format, Jesse Smith
Department: Mathematics; Computer Science
Menace of Lemming Heights, Julia Smith
Department: English
Un Estudiante De ISL Sin Pragrama: El Caso De Raúl (Parte II), David Snell
Department: Spanish
Eat Your Weedies: the Effects of Artificially Induced Herbivory on Five Biotypes of the Invasive Weed, Nicandra physalodes (L.) Gaertn. (Solanaceae: nicandreae) With Lema trilineata (Olivier) (Coleoptera: chrysomelidae) As a Proposed Biological Control Agent, Allison Stark
Department: Biology
Leaning in the Balance: a Collection of Poems, Jenifer A. Stockdale
Department: English
Discerning Marlowe's Doctor Faustus: the Teaching of Morality, Amy N. Stotler
Department: English
Investigating the Siloxymethylation Reaction and Mechanism: Progress Towards the Synthesis of C-Linked Retinoyl-β-Glucuronide, Maria A. Streng
Department: Chemistry
I Got What You Want: An Analysis on the Profitability of Marketing Oriented Firms, Jamin Suber
Department: Business Economics
Use of Nicotine For Treatment of Schizophrenic Behavior: An Examination of Calcineurim Knockout Mice, Lakshman Swamy
Department: Psychology
Holy Lamb: An Examination of the Hapsburg Monarchy and Its Symbols, Jeremy Swart
Department: Art and Art History
Misere Chez Hugo, Lara Tellis
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Lifestyle and Mobility Through the Archaeological Record Analysis of Site MD-1, a Late Prehistoric Period Site in the Lower Nueces River Valley, South Texas, Sarah E. Thomas
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Human Landscape, Julie Tifft
Department: Art and Art History
Strange Bedfellows: the Influencing Effect of U.S. Economic Incentives Upon Level of Cooperation in the 'War on Terror', Lindsay Bronwen Tingley
Department: Political Science
African Art in Western Museums: An Exploration of the Yoruba Veranda Post, Angela Toich
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
85, Will Torres
Department: English
Thermodynamic Changes Accompanying the Binding of MgADP in a Composite, Quaternary Transition-state Analogue Complex by Creatine Kinase, Jason Tout
Department: Chemistry
Lindera benzoin (Spicebush): a Study of Dispersal and Distribution, David Treleven
Department: Biology
I Feel a Sin Coming On: the Effects of the Pill on Women and Society in the 1960s, Allison L. Urbanek
Department: History
Searching For and Authentic Moral Attitude Toward the Environment: An Investigation Into the Development of Human Morality and the Resulting Implications on the Role of Humans in the Environment, Christine Ellen VanderWyden
Department: Philosophy
Dennis Cantwell Wetzel: Memories of a Lost Uncle, Charles Alexander Van Gombos
Department: English
Invisible Bonds: the Remarkable Ability the Amish Have to Enduring Modern Intrusions of the Outside World, Hester Van Hooven Ward
Department: History
Whores and Madonnas- When Religion Meets Reality: Examining the Effect of Religious Narratives on Non-Governmental Organizations Aiding in the Sex Industry in Thailand, Laura VanVoorhees
Department: Religious Studies; Political Science
Resorting to Violence: Lessons From the History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Julie Mansfield Vavricheck
Department: History
New Tensions in American Politics: Bioethics and Philosophies of the Moral Individual, Kristen Kirby Veblen
Department: Political Science
Exploring the Cellular Localization of a Novel Arginine Kinase in Caenorhabditis Elegans By Fluorescence Microscopy, Lauren M. Wagner
Department: Chemistry
Digital Logic: An Exploration of Field Programmable Gate Arrays, James Lawrence Wallace
Department: Mathematics; Computer Science
Bending of Twigs: a Collection of Poems, Katherine Walsh
Department: English
Onward Christian Soldiers: a Look Into Religious Terrorism, Jonathan F. Webster
Department: Political Science
Translating the Silence: the Chinese Woman in Transition, Brittany M. Wellner
Department: Art and Art History
Diaphanous: a Collection of Short Stories, Tiffany Anne White
Department: English
Sister Stories: Negotiating the Landscape of Relationality in Women's Memoir, Emily Joy Whitsett
Department: English
Economic Impacts of Newell-Rubbermaid's Branch Plant Closure on Employment and Labor Income in Wayne County and Possible Growth Industries, Elizabeth A. Whittam
Department: Economics
History of Moundsville Knows No Bars: Constructing the West Virginia Penitentiary, 1866-1995, From the Memories of Community Members, Who Know the Structure As Both a Living History Museum, and Running Facility, Elissa Wilk
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Balancing Threats in the Taiwan Straits: Neorealist Theory and U.S.-Taiwan-China Relations in the 1990s, Ian Willey
Department: Political Science
Independent Study Is So Gay, Michael Wilson
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Why Are You, or Why Are You Not a Member of the Communist Party?: Towards the Toleration of Deviance in Political Theory, Robert M. Wilson
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Reinterpretation of the Zohar Formation of Maktech Qatan (Callovian, Middle Jurassic): Parting the Geology of the Holy Land, Kevin R. Wolfe
Department: Geology
Fabrication of Microfluidic Systems For Capillary Electrophoresis on Glass Slides, Allyson Wright
Department: Chemistry
Internet, Online Traders and Noise: Their Influence on Stock Prices, Jeffrey Alan Wright
Department: Business Economics
Opening the Door to Violence: An Analysis of Religious Violence in Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, Joshua M. Young
Department: Religious Studies
Trying to Pull Oneself Up By Bootstraps: a Statistical Challenge, Rebecca S. Young
Department: Mathematics
Hope Is Not a Strategy: The Impact of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition on the Peace Process of Northern Ireland, Elizabeth Ivana Yuko
Department: Political Science
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2004
Conditions and Characteristics of Successful Intervention Into Intrastate Conflicts: A Matter of Who and How, Malek E. Abboud
Department: Political Science
How and Why Comic Book Superheroes Are the Greatest of All Religious Saviors, Bradley D.T. Adamczyk
Department: History
There's No Place Like Home: Global Nomads and Cultural Identity, Mabel Amma Addo
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Racially Divisive? The Racial Campaign Strategies of the Republican Party For Presidential Campaigns 1988, 1992, and 1996, Justin M. Alaburda
Department: Political Science
Vigor Mortis: the Metamorphoses of Classical Studies at the College of Wooster 1870-2004, Geoffrey T. Allerton
Department: Classical Studies
Who's Hungary For Turkey? An Analysis of European Union Expansion, Samuel F. Almy
Department: Political Science
Unlocking the Door: Using United States Foreign Economic Policy For Bilateral Trade Relations As a New Multi-Case Study Approach to the Question of Trade and Conflict, Aaron S. Applebaum
Department: Political Science
Hesiod's ΟI΅ΚOΣ: a Realistic Farm Compared, Daniel Bandstra
Department: Classical Studies
Standing at the Gateway and Hoping to See the Light If You Want to Rule This City You're Gonna Have to Fight!, Brian F. Barnes
Department: Urban Studies
Soul Sistas: An Analysis of Black Women Writers, Angela Nichole Barone
Boys Are Sweet, Girls Are Sour: A Study of Taboos and Childbirth Practices in Turkey, Yasameen Behdad
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Converging and Diverging: the Mystical Journey of Jalaluddin Rumi and Saint Augustine, Jessica T. Bell
Department: Religious Studies
Three Easy Steps- How to Handle a Sex Scandal: A Study of Crisis Rhetoric as a Method for Navigating a Political Sex Scandal, Stephanie A. Berning
Department: Political Science
Youth Have Left the Building: How to Make Church More Youth-Friendly, Sarah J. Blue
Department: Religious Studies
Qualitative Analysis Into the Investigation of Foreign Direct Investment Flows to Developing Countries in Particular Asia, Africa, and Latin America and to Determind If Regime Type Plays An Important Role in Direct Investment Flows, Kojo Boateng
Department: Political Science
A 'Troubled' History of Northern Ireland: Communities Making Peace in Times of War, Colleen E. Call
Department: History
Tipping the Scales: An Examination of the Growing Rates of Obesity Among American Children and the Role That Parents Play in Determining the Weights of Children, Whitney L. Cawley
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Putting Down That Rubber: A History of the Rubber Industry and the Goodyear Rubber Tire and the Rubber Company During World War II, Scott A. Chouinard
Department: History
Ten Thousand Words: From Lao Tzu to Landscape Poetry, Laura A. Clarke
Department: English
Escapable Violence?: An Investigation Into the Tragedy at Waco, Teresa A. Clark
Department: Religious Studies
News, Schools, and Polls, Rachel W. Cole
Department: Political Science
Sanctioning Murder and Engaging Authority: Affecting Change in the Human Rights Practices of Authoritarian Regimes Through Sanctions and Constructive Engagement, Nathan S. Collins
Department: International Relations