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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000
Gun Control Policies: How Affective Are They?, Chanda N. Dawson
Department: Political Science
Judicial Decision Making in the United States Supreme Court: the Attitudinal Model and Commerical Speech, Holly N. Deeds
Department: Political Science
"It Might Be Redneck, But It Works!"-or Does It?: The Contradictions of Vocational Schooling in Appalachia, Megan L. Dishong
Le Pygmalion De Cinema: Le Feminisme Et L'Image De La Femme Dans Les Films D'Agnes Varda, Jessica E. DuPlaga
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Deciding to Die: An Exploration of Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Netherlands and the United States and the Movements to Legalize These Practices, Amy E. Farley
Department: Religious Studies
Fairy Tale Scripts or Happily-Ever-After is all He Wrote, Cheryl R. Farney
It Was An Honor Just to Be Nominated: the Effects of Self-Financing on Presidential Selection and Democratic Theory, Adrienne M. Ferraro
Department: Political Science
Duality and Deception: a Novella, David J. Francis
Department: English
Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Great Society", Frank Galati
Department: History
Dynamic Windows: a Political Opportunity Analysis of Chinese Democratic Protests, Rebecca V. Gardner
Department: Political Science
Holocaust, Horror, Incest, and Prostitution: Reading Between the Lines for a New Vision of Lesbians in Film, Jana Lynn Genzen
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
Laying the Foundations of Democracy: The Role of International Non-Governmental Organizations (Ngos) For Promoting the Growth of Civil Society in China, Wendy C. Graham
Department: International Relations
Tax Theory and Tax Policy: Are Politicians Acting Responsibly?, Jacquelyn M. Gray
Department: Political Science; Economics
Major League Baseball Integration Focusing on the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cleveland Indians, Jennifer L. Green
Department: History
With Woman: a Consideration of Childbirth and the Work of Four Ohio Midwives, Lindsay Leyburn Gross
It's Not that Easy Being Green: Sustainable Development Campaigns Derived from a Community Based Initiative, Kristen E. Hall
Department: Urban Studies
Irish Republican Prisoner's Effects on Irish Nationalism, Timothy Robert Harrison
Why I Don't Like Shakespeare, Marijke S. Hartzler
Department: English
Prescriptions For An Integrated Medical System: The Value of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sarah P. Hibler
Department: History
Entwurfe Zur Mannlichkeit Der Mann Bei Max Frisch, Norman D. Hirschy
Department: German Studies
Wild Things Protection Act: Taking a Second Look at the Works of Shel Silverstein and Maurice Sendak, Kathryn M. Hoffman
Department: English
Meat, Carmen J. Hotvedt
Department: Religious Studies
Frère Jacques et Jack et Jill Prennent Les Chemins Différents Pour Monter La Meme Colline: L'Enfance En France Comparasion a L'Enfance Aux États-Unis, Erica L. House
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Multigenre Research Paper: An Alternative to Standard Research, Stacy K. Ingraham
Department: English
If This House Stands, Angel M. Jernigan
Department: English
Eyes Wide Shut, Andrew J. Jones
Department: English
Caught in the Middle: The Effects of Globalization and Immigration on Mexican Women, Angela J. Joyce
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Spanish
Pintas: An Evaluation of Political Graffiti in Nicaragua 1974-Present, Molly Keefe
Department: Political Science
International Monetary Fund and Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis of IMF Conditionality and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, Grace M. Kegeri
Department: Political Science
Echoes of Experience: One Writers Attempt to Create the Various Life Situations of Today's Woman, Elizabeth A. King
Department: English
Slowness and Perception, Matthew R. King
Department: English
Africa in the News, Chemeli T. Kipkorir
Department: English
Murder Will Out, Timothy G. Kiscoe
Department: English
It's Not the Size of the Road; It's What You Do With It: A Study on the Effects of Transportation Routes and Trade on the Romanization of Gaul, Michael P. Krackenberger
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Gifted Children: Perceptions of Intelligence and Social Interaction, Abigail M. Lear
Cold-Blooded Killers and Misguided Youths: Defining the Gang Issue in Public Policy and Its Effects on Agenda Status and Alternative Specification, Tonda V. Lee
Department: Urban Studies
Reorientation From Answer to Question: A Comprehensive Study of the Internalization of God in the Context of War., Nellika Little
Department: Religious Studies
Crystalballs and Mindreading: the Relationship Between the Public and the Media in the Evolution of Presidential Press Coverage, Jamie L. Mapes
Department: English
Contemporary Appalachian Serpent Handling: A Sociological Perspective of Rural Holiness Churches That Handle Poisonous Snakes, T. J. Marchio
Department: Religious Studies
The Influence of Culturally Relevant Curricula on Academic Outcomes of Black Students: A Qualitative Study, Whitney B. Marsh
Pearl Harbor: What Is the Truth and Who Is Responsible, Daniel J. Maurer
Department: History
From Children's Rights to Human Rights: The Importance of Educating America's Future, Nicole Miller
Department: Religious Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Prose Poetry: Transcendent Literature, Erica C. Molliver
Department: English
"Literature As Guns:" The Role of Poetry in Revolution, Lara Y. Nafziger
Department: International Relations
What It Means to Be Human: Artificial Humans in Fiction and Science Fiction, Sarah M. Nagelbush
Department: English
Fear in Power: Repression and State Terrorism in Latin American Military Regimes, Ingrid V. Paredes
Department: Political Science
What Lies in the Tunnel: A Memoir, Bryan J. Partridge
Department: English
Explanatory Power of Realism in Interpreting American and German Foreign Policy Decision Making in the Bosnian and Kosovo Conflicts, Matthew S. Patsch
Department: Political Science
Off the Top Rope Reflections of Society in Accordance With Professional Wrestling, Chad Peterman
Department: History
Rap, Race, and Reaganomics: Political Dynamism in Hip-Hop Culture, Caitlin A. Pine
Department: Africana Studies; Political Science
Structural Study of Children's Literature By Matt Christopher, Edward L. Priesand
Department: English
Singing for Freedom: Selected Songs of the Civil Rights Movement and Their Historical Origins, Kathryn G. Quimby
Department: Music
Chechnya: A Literary Legacy Chechens in Russian Literature and History, Sara Rance
Department: Russian Studies
Kitchen Table Tales, Elizabeth C. Reiter
Department: English
Under the Lunar Neon: A Collection of Poems, Paul T. Richlovsky
Department: English
Are You Talking to Me? Literature As a Form of Dialogue Between Black and White Women, Marie Salupo
Department: English
Impact of Economic Liberalization on Economic Growth: Do Sequencing and Timing Issues Matter?, Mrinalini Sanyal
Department: Political Science
Fastballs Overseas: A Historical Analysis of Baseball in Japan, Nicholas P. Sanyk
Department: History
Feeling-Knowing-Being: Reconstructing Dominant Systems of Knowledge in Jeanette Winterson's "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", Nicole Scott
Department: English
Deserving of My Attention: An Experential Reading of Tillie Olsen's Short Fiction, Scott Sheets
Department: English
Debate Between External & Domestic: How Are Nuclear Policies Determined?, Amee G. Sinha
Department: Political Science
Women in the United States Armed Forces: Soldiers of Convenience, Katherine A. H. Smith
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
The Battle of Lake Erie: What We Don't Know, Bryan J. Solomon
Department: History
Enjoy the Silence: Exploring the Poetic Significance of European Pop-Music, Ben Spieldenner
Department: English
El Baseball Y El Béisbol: La Influencia De Las Ligas Grandes En El Deporte Y El Idoma De América Latina, Heather Stauffer
Department: Spanish
In Pursuit of Prospectives: The Private, Liberal Arts College, Marketing, and the View Book, Christina P. Stern
Department: Communication Studies; English
Escaping Sweet Valley: A Feminist Approach to Beauty, Sexuality, and Gender in Young Adult Literature, Megan A. Tarrant
Department: English
What Affects International Cooperation? An Examination of the International Pressure and Domestic Politics That Affected the Ratification of the Treaty on European Union, 1992, Sonia Vaidya
Department: Political Science
Lithics and Prehistoric Economy in Knox County, Ohio: A Lithic Debitage Analysis From the Acton Site (33Kn395), Jonathan Vanderplough
Department: Archaeology
Gantenbein Goes to the Movies: Intertexuality in Films of Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, and Jean-Luc Godard, Ken Walczak
Department: Comparative Literature
Ideological Chaos Sprinkled With Literary Ambiguity: a Critical Analysis of Second Amendment Interpretation, Brock A. Wanless
Department: Political Science
How Tuscarawas County, Ohio Contribution to World War I and II, Brian Watkins
Department: History
Collective Revolution: An Examination of Intentional Communities, Emily E. Welty
Department: Religious Studies
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
One Woman Reading: A Personal Inquiry in Transactional Reading, Carrie L. Wiles
Department: English
America's Biographers: The Personal and Political Poetry of Robert Lowell and John Berryman, Nathan Wilkinson
Department: English
The British Ruling Elite and Hong Kong: A Perspective of Chinse Foreign Relations, Max Alec Wilson
Department: History
About God... Talk!: Feminist Thological God-Talk Within the Abrahamic Religions, Alexia C. Zdral
Department: Religious Studies
Intermonastic Buddhist-Christian Dialogue: A Vehicle in Which to Explore the History, Models, Themes and Theories of Interreligious Dialogue, Timothy R. Ziegler
Department: Religious Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999
Vision of the Child in the Nineteenth Century British Fiction, Christina K. Alberto
Department: English
Person Is a Person, No Matter How Small Breaking the Communication Barrier Between Adults and Children Through Literature, Jayme Armistead
Department: English
Public Opinion Towards Race-Targeted Interventions as Evidence of Support or Oppression of the Ku Klux Klan, Zakiyyah N. Ashshaheed
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Visions of France and the French: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Robert Doisneau, and Brassai, Amanda M. Atkinson
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Comparing and Contrasting Human Evolution Exhibits in Natural History Museums, Anne-Maria Baas
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Billman Family As a Case Study of German-American Farming Families in the Archaeological Record, Laura Baird
Department: Archaeology
Wise Use Perspective: Values of the Grassroots Land Use Movement, Eric M. Bakken
Department: Political Science
Transforming the Traditional Christian Definition of Divine Power: Calling Christians to Accountability and Justice, Rebecca J. Barnes
Department: Religious Studies
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An Analysis of the Prevelance of Body Image Among Preadolescents, Danielle Baughman
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An Analysis of the Prevelance of Body Image Among Preadolescents, Danielle Baughman
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Political Instability and Currency Depreciation: A Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship Between Politics and the Exchange Rate, Amrita Bhandari
Department: International Relations
Presidential Success: Structurally-Constrained or Presidency-Centered?, Holly K. Bockbrader
Department: Political Science
Legitimacy and Nicaragua: The Case of Governmental Obligations and Popular Resistance, Gregory A. Boettner
Department: Political Science
Religious Voices in a Sixth Graders Life: An Examination of How Attending a Religious School Affects Students Views of Religion, Caroline Bohn
Department: Religious Studies
Settlement Patterns Along the Vermillion and Black Rivers in Lorain County, Ohio and Subsistence Patterns Seen Through Microwear Analysis, Steven Brandes
Department: Archaeology
Balancing Work and Family Responsibilities, Alyssa N. Brodsky
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
A Man Among Men: A Critical Analysis of the Life and Teachings of Marting Luther King, Jr., Daniel W. Broehl
Department: History
Creation at the Intersection of Media, Francis Browne
Department: English