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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999
What Were Animals Like When You Were Little?, Nathan P. Renkes
Department: History
Multiculturalism in the Classroom: a Look at Creation Stories and English Literature, Heather N. Reynolds
Department: English
Playing Chicken in Amish Country: Globalization, Latino Migrant Workers, and the Poultry Industry of Millersburg, Ohio, Kathleen A. Reynolds
Department: Political Science; Spanish
Hummingbird of the Dead, Kirsten Rich
Department: English
The Americanization of Golf, Matthew M. Riva
Department: History
Use of Attenuated Total Reflectance Infrared Spectroscopy in the Analysis of Polymeric Degredation, Brenten D. Robson
Department: Chemistry
The Study of the Individual and the Chat Room as a Community, Jessica Rene Roe
It's All God: the Religiousness and Spirituality of Generation X, Heather K. Schario
Coalition Policy Making and International Bargaining: the Logic of Two-Level Games Revised in the European Union, Zachary P. Schwing
Department: Political Science
The Role of Air Power in Operation Desert Storm, Todd Seney
Department: History
B6560, Shayna N. Sharpe
Department: English
Exploring Wilderness (And Returning Home), Caitlin F. Shipps
Department: English
Talking About the Body: a Collection of Poems, Kristen Silver
Department: English
Preservation of American Heritage, Carrie Simmons
Department: Archaeology
You Say You Want a Revolution? The Impact of the Professionalization of Movement Building on Low Income Political Activity: A Theoretical Development of Determining Efficacy, Marsha Simpson
Department: Political Science
Chicks in 007 Flicks: the Relationship between Women, Film, and Society, Sara-Rebecca Smith
Education As Transformation: Connecting the Head and Heart Through a Pedagogy of Spirituality, Dana Sommers
Department: Religious Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Velvet and Blood the Breakups of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, Joshua F. Stubbins
Department: Political Science
Economic Growth and Economic Development in the Third World: a Quantitative Approach to An Analysis of the Chasm, Divya R. Thadani
Department: International Relations; Mathematics
Frau Mutter Mädchen Kind Bürgerin Die Frauen Der Nationalsozialistischen Spielfilmen 1933-1945, Julie A. Theisen
Department: German Studies
Corinth and Saint Paul: a Study of Cultural and Economic Influences, Heather A. Turnbull
Department: Classical Studies
Does Policy Stringency Equal Success?, Heather Van Almen
Department: Political Science
Nazi Germany on Trial: a Historical and Philosophical Analysis of the Nuremberg Trial, Aaron Veith
Department: History; Philosophy
La Política Racial En Cuatro Obras Cubanas, Lindsey Walsh
Department: Spanish
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
Cooperation and Relative Gains: the Puzzle of Britain and European Cooperation, Patrick M. Watts
Department: Political Science
Holy Spirit: a Means of Empowerment and Relationship in The
Pentecostal Movement, Allen L. Weaver
Department: Religious Studies
Couples Only: Reasons For the Two-Party System in the United States, in Comparison to Canada and the United Kingdom, Stephen L. Wirzylo
Department: Political Science
Oh Mother, What Shall I be-a Gibson Girl or a Grind? Or, Two Generations of Winsome Wooster Women, Julia B. Woodward
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998
Terminal Bliss: the Wrath of Mortality on Ernest Hemingway and the Garden of Eden, Brooke S. Abernethy
Department: English
"Die Helden Aus Dem Untergrund." Deutsche Rockmusik Der 60er Und 70er Jahre, Ryan M. Banach
Department: German Studies
Testing the Waters: Bill Clinton and Environmental Policy, Nathaniel D. Barr
Department: Political Science
Misuses of Statistics in the Social Sciences: A Quantitative Approach to the Manipulation of Numbers, Christopher J. Becker
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Busted: the Story of Campaign Finance Reform, Rebecca K. Bender
Department: Political Science
Why Boobz, Wende Bitler
Department: English
Practical Politics is Rubbish: Examining Nationalism in Scotland and Quebec, Jonathan Blume
Department: Political Science
The Role of U.S. Foreign Policy Concerning the Drug Flow Across Borders Including Mexico and Colombia and the Outcomes of Such Policy, James A. Boxall III
Department: Political Science
An Exploration of Television's Impact on Burnham's Theory of Critical Elections, Frederick P. Brodie Jr.
Department: Political Science
La Casa En Mango Street: Traducción Y Anáiisis De the House on Mango Street, Novela De Sandra Cisneros, Rachel L. Brown
Department: Spanish
Mulingi's Belt, David Bryant
Department: English
Winnie-The-Pooh For Adults, Jessica Buell
Department: English
A Study of Han Shan Poems: Songs of Cold Mountain in the Context of Chinese Religious Thought and Practice, Edward A. Burger
Department: Religious Studies
Women Sleuths: Identifying a New and Empowering Female Protagonist, Dawn Michelle Carpenter
People and Poverty: A Study of the Relationship Between Population Growth and Economic Development, Ryan L. Catteau
Department: Political Science
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
Marxism, Patriarchy, and "Bourgeois Feminism": the Position of Women in Soviet Russia, Beth Ciha
Department: Russian Studies
Military Influence on Political Decision-Making in Argentina and Brazil, Mark A. Coates
Department: Political Science
Matriarchy, Maternity, Monogamy, and Black Women's Empowerment in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Emily M. Coleman
Department: English
A Study of the U.S. Army Special Forces From 1952 to the Present, Adam D. Cornett
Department: History
Examination of Astronomical Alignments As Related to Public and Religious Structures in the Maya Region, Rebecca Crane
Department: Archaeology
Job Satisfaction, Alienation and Anomie in the Nursing Profession, Jeremy J. Dadzie
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
This Slower Death: a Collection of Poems, Nicole Donnelly
Department: English
Democracy? the Roma in the Czech Republic, Kalima J. Drga
Department: Political Science
Voyage à Travers La Modernité, Jan M. English
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Inbetween Spaces Le Cas De La Littérature Postcoloniale de l'Afrique Occidentale, Helen Aine Flewelling
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies
"Why Vodka?: Understanding the Russian's Obsession With Alcohol", Heather Foster
Department: Russian Studies
A Critical Examination of the Role of Art in the Lives of Australian Aborigines, Jesse M. Fowler
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Viking Women: An Exploration of Female Roles and Activities in Late Iron Age Scandinavian Society, Ann-Catherine Frederick
Department: History; Archaeology
"Entartete" Kunst im Dritten Reich: Eine Studie über das Schicksal Monderner Kunst und ihrer Künstler in Nationalsozialistichen Deutschland, Victoria J. Ganz
Department: German Studies
Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: The Forgotten Victims of Prostitution and Rape during World War II and the Vietnam War, Eliza M. Gerlach
A Critical Exploration of African Oppression and Subsequent Means of Liberation, Tobey Esther Goldfarb
A Critical Exploration of African Oppressions and Subsequent Means of Liberations, Tobey Esther Goldfarb
Sur Le Chemîn De La Révolution Tranquille: Bonheur D'Occasion Et Au Pied De La Pente Douce, Julie A. Good
Department: French and Francophone Studies
A Historical Investigation of American Society During the Establishment of the Consitution From a European Perspective, Brian M. Grindall
Department: History
Beyond the Horse-Race: A Study of the Media and the Presidential Nomination Process, David L. Halpin
Department: Political Science
Faith-Based Community Development Organizations: a Study in Social Production and Social Capital, Elizabeth D. Hansburg
Department: Urban Studies
The Power of the Presidential Team, Brian J. Hansen
Department: Political Science
Ordination of Women, Benjamin E. Harpster
Department: Religious Studies
Role of Hegemonically Based Racial Constructs in the Social, Political and Economic Interactions of Developing Countries: Hispanola a Case Study, Jana T. Harris
Department: Africana Studies; Spanish
Phoenician-Punic Tophet: An Analysis of the Evidence Concerning Child Sacrifice, Sarah Harris
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Gender Biases of the Middle Ages Indicated By the Narrative Cycles of Two Thirteenth Century Italian Hagiographical Altarpieces Depicting Saint Francis and Saint Clare, Melanie Hartman
Department: Religious Studies
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
"Finally", Charles W. Hayes II
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
School Vandalism: Strain, Control, and Differential Association, Dan Howard
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
"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
Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods: Observations and Analysis of a Musical and Its Music, Deborah Jacobson
Department: Music
Cultural Representation of the !Kung San in Film and Ethnography: Implications of Our Perceptions About the Cultural "Other", Nikoo R. Kasmai
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Diffusion of Power in the Post-Cold War Era, Angad Katyal
Department: Political Science
Mexica (Aztec) and the Maya Religious Beliefs and Their Role in the Practice of Human Sacrifice, Ian V. Kopf
Department: History
A Cost, Benefit, and Effectiveness Study of Three Ohio Americorps Programs, William G. Kopka
Department: Urban Studies
Read Me, Read Me, Read Me!: An Analysis of the Persuasive Functions and Powers of Language in Advertising and Marketing, Megan Kreider
Department: English
In One Ear and Out the Other?: How Talk Radio Influences Political Attitudes, Patrick A. Kreider
Department: Political Science
Dating and Arranged Marriage: A Study of South Asian Dating Patterns at the College of Wooster, Marjorie Krieg
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
"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
Television Baggage: A Study Examining the Progression of Successful Television Strategies Among Incumbent Republican Campaigns, Christopher W. Lee
Department: Political Science
McGaw Chapel: A Wooster Revolution, Rowell A. Levy
Department: Religious Studies
Lights, Hellman Rolling, Action, Gregory B. Licht
Department: English; Theatre and Dance
Linking Dollars and Freedom: An Analysis of Human Rights and Foreign Aid Distribution in the United States, Canada, and Sweden, 1977-1990, Jeff Lowry
Department: Political Science
"The Two of Us, Working Together At Full Capacity, Could Do the Job of One Normal Man": The Construction of Masculinity on Seinfeld, Matt Mariola
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
A Critical Study of Hip-Hop and the Messages That Hip-Hop's Music Express, Bernard L. McGinley III
Department: History
Revising the Mother Metaphor: Male and Female Nurses as Healers, Kelly C. McLarnan
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
How Native American Artifacts and Mounds Have Influenced the Development of the Adena and Hopewell Identities, and the Ethical Considerations Involved During Archaeological Excavations and Examinations, Daniel C. Mecredy
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Matters of Life and ? Correlates of Public Opinion on Abortion and The Death Penalty, Malcolm T. Meyer
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Legal Subversion of the Supreme Court Decision in Brown V. Board of Education: The Failure of School Desegregation Policy, William J. Miklandric Jr.
Department: Political Science
Community Design, Past, Present, and Future: a Case Study of Wooster, Ohio, Dorian Mobley
Department: Urban Studies
Humanitarian Action Against Forced "Disappearances:" a Comparative Case Study of the External Initiatives Combating "Disappearances" in Iran and the Philippines, Leah C. Montesano
Department: International Relations
Pacifying Vidalia, Jennifer Nadar
Department: English
Independent Study in Sociology, Chiaki Nakamura
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
A Piece of the Pie: The Influence of Ethnicity on Political Development in Kenya, Esther W. Ndichu
Department: Political Science
Effects of German Corroprations Dual-Listing on the New York Stock Exchange, Travis R. Nieman
Department: Economics; German Studies