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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001
Portrayals of Chinese Eurasian Identity in the Autobiographies of Edith and Winnifred Eaton: Identity Politics and Social Protest, Sheri Marker
Department: English
American College Football: the Black Experience, Seth T. Mastrine
Department: History
From Risk to Monopoly: the Implications of Economic Espionage For International Relations Theory, Brian J. McFillen
Department: Political Science
"The Island of Women" and Other Stories: a Fictional Exploration Into Writing From What We Do Not Know, Molly S. McKinney
Department: English
Assessing Foregin Aid: the Effect of Foreign Aid on Economic Development in Emerging and Less Developed Economies: a Case Study Analysis of India and Pakistan, Radhika Mehra
Department: Political Science
We'll Make Heaven a Place on Earth: An Examination of Three Millenarian Societies in Nineteenth Century America, Angela B. Merritt
Department: History
Future Is in the Leaves, But the Present Is in the Pot: Reflections of Political, Economic, and Ideological Changes of the Ming Dynasty in Yixing Teapots, Crystal Miller
Department: Archaeology
Historical Archaeology Analysis of Slave Life on Plantations in Louisiana and Throughout the Southern United States, Amanda Moreland
Department: Archaeology
A Llama Caught In Rain: A Collection of Poems, Caroline Morrell
Department: English
ATPase Activities of Recombinant Rabbit Muscle Creatine Kinase and its N285A, N285D and N285Q Mutants, Guy Mulligan
Department: Chemistry
Globally Friendly Chemistry, Globally, Khadijah Mumtaz
Department: Chemistry
Protein Determination of Maize Inbred Lines by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Jeffrey Munn
Department: Chemistry
Wilder Frau Oder Gelehriges Weib? Eine Analyse Der Undine Legende, Irene Myatt
Department: German Studies
Wilder Frau oder Gelehriges Weib? Eine Analyse der Undine Legende, Irene Mynatt
Department: German Studies
Translating Theran Wall Paintings, Sarah E. Nichols
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Ecofeminism and History: Making Connections, Elizabeth B. Palchak
Department: History
Magpie in June Sun, Brendan Park
Department: English
Turning the Tide: Creating Successful HIV/AIDS Public Health Policies in South Africa?, Everett J. Peachey
Department: History
A Case Study of a High School: Race Relations and Academic Achievement of Black and White Students, Heather L. Penny
Revolution Chicago: A Study and Practice of Hypertext on the World Wide Web, Andrew Phelan
Department: English
Censorship and the Development of the Russian Media, Tara P. Phelps
Department: Russian Studies
Religion, Education, and the Home Schooling Movement, Elise G. Pilorget
Department: Religious Studies
Interactive Campaigning: Will Interactivity on the Internet Lead to Political Success Within the 2000 Elections?, Zachary W. Prichard
Department: Political Science
3 Sheep in Search of a Model: Velina Hasu Houston, Cherrie Moraga and Suzan-Lori Parks in Relation to Liberal, Radical and Materialist Feminism in the United States, Liliona A. Quarmyne
Can You Hear Me: a Comparison of Major and Third-Party Candidate Rhetoric in the 2000 Presidential Election, Katherine M. Randall
Department: Political Science; Communication Studies
Hail the Holy Innocents: May 4, 1970, Justin C. Rath
Department: History
Wiseguys and Good Guys: An Investigation of the Mafia's Infiltration of Legitimate Business and Federal Responses, Michael D. Ray
Department: History
The Use of Solid Phase Microextraction for the Determination of Organochlorine Compounds in Soil Gas from the South Water Well Field of Wooster, Ohio, Eric Resnis
Department: Chemistry
Rewriting Rosa Sandoval: An Exploration of the Education of Latina High School Students, Mary Elizabeth Reynolds
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Rewriting Rosa Sandoval: An Exploration of the Education of Latina High School Students, Mary Elizabeth Reynolds
Expression and Purification of a SeMetHSP18-9, a Selenomethionine-Substituted Small Heat Shock Protein from Zea mays, Karen Robbins
Department: Chemistry
Lebanon and Iran-Contra: Products of Groupthink?, Kelly Roberts
Department: Political Science
Carter: a Success With Human Rights?, Stephanie Roberts
Department: Political Science
Pennsylvania Goes to War: a Study of a State's Participation in the American Civil War, Kyle Rooker
Department: History
Amandala Ngawethu!: Power to the People: the Black Consciousness Movement and Political Mobilization in Apartheid South Africa, Stephanie A. Rucker
Department: Political Science
The Survival of Past Images: The Use of Time, Memory and the Past in Novels by William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Michael Dorris., Katherine M. Rybak
Department: English
The Synthesis of 1-(4-Mercaptophenyl)-1,1-di-(4-hydroxylphenyl) ethane (MDHE) Template Molecule for the Development of a Molecularly Imprinted Sol-Gel-Based Chemical Sensor for the Quantitation of DDT (1,1-Bis(4-chlorophenyl)-2,2,2-trichloroethane), Joshua Schaeffer
Department: Chemistry
Struggle For Peace in Northern Ireland: Can Game Board Theory Explain the Dynamics of the Anglo-Irish Agreement and the Good Friday Agreement?, Elisabeth C. Scheneman
Department: Political Science
Measurement of Testosterone and pH as Biochemical Indicators of Stuttering, Heather Schieda
Department: Chemistry
Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa, Clinton L. Scott
Department: Political Science
Regime Change and Polarization of Political Systems: the Cases of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Peru, Keshara B. Scott
Department: Political Science
Barley Educated, J. Marie Shannon
Department: English
Determination of Bovine and Human Corneal Hydration Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Kristin Silakoski
Department: Chemistry
A Feminist Perspective of Normalizing Pressures: An Exploration of Women's Obsession with Weight, Natalie Christinia Roseann Slangen
The Actualization of Equality: Introduction to the Study of Masculinity, Katherine E. Smanik
Determining the Presence of Petroleum Based Hydrocarbons in the Wooster Water Pollution Control Plant "Vacuator" Effluent, Amanda Lea Smeigh
Department: Chemistry
La Enseñanza De La Cultura En La Clase De Español Usando La Technología, Kristen G. Spitz
Department: Spanish
Using Differential Scanning Calorimetry to Investigate a Possible Role for Arginine 214 of Rabbit Muscle creatine Kinase as a Structural Arginine, Sandra Tecklenburg
Department: Chemistry
The Use of Fluorescence Quenching to Determine the Binidng Affinity of MgADP and MgATP for Native Rabbit Muscle Creatine Kinase and Its R129K and R129A Mutants, David Terrano
Department: Chemistry
"All-Out War:" The Evolution of Violence in Professional Football, Stephen P. Thompson
Department: History
Transition to the Capitalist System and Democracy With a Focus on Poland and Bulgaria, Yohan Vaid
Department: Political Science
Importance of Religion to the Civil War, Ian Vallenga
Department: Religious Studies
The Importance of Religion to the Civil War, Ian Vellenga
The Importance of Religion to the Civil War, Ian Vellenga
Women in Power, Women in Policy: the Impact of Women's Leadership in the United Nations, Soumya A. Vishnu
Department: Political Science
Money Attitudes and their Effect upon Perceived Wealth, Jacob B. Wagner
The Effects of Ginkgo biloba on Wound Healing in Rats, Kathleen A. Walker
About Face: Mass Media's Influence on Perceiving Facial Beauty, through the use of a Computer Program to Generate the Ideal Female Face, Heather Ann Wallat
Las Voces De Los Invisibles- Conversaciones Informales Con Los Braceros Y Sus Familiares En Los Bateyes De La República Dominicana, Nell Weber
Department: Spanish
Understanding the Role of Structural Arginines: Determination of Secondary and Tertiary Structure Changes in R134 Creatine Kinase Mutants by FT-IR Spectroscopy, Adam Wegner
Department: Chemistry
Christianity and the Compassion of Choice: An Examination of the Arguments Supporting the Morality of the Pro-Choice Position and the Pro-Choice Voice With in Mainline Christian Denominations, Julia Wilson
Department: Religious Studies
Traits and Effective Leadership: Two Sides of the Same Coin, John K. Zesiger
Department: German Studies; Political Science
Lord, Be With Us Tonight:' An Examination of Voluntary Prayer Policies at Public School Extracurricular Events, Joseph M. Zombek
Department: Political Science
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000
La Identidad Latina en los Estados Unidos, Andrés Alarcón
Department: Spanish
An Investigation of the Curse of King Tutankhamen, Katie E. Aldrich
Department: History
Theory of State Failure: Dismemberment, Dissolution and Death of the Somali State, Abdi N. Ali
Department: Political Science
Silicon Addiction and Spiritual Starvation: a Forward-Looking Reflection on the History of Christianity and Technology, Peter W. P. Anderson
Department: Religious Studies
Conversations and Answers: Comparing Constructions of Race and Gender in Jack Koruacs the Subterreneans and Hettie Jones' How I Became Hettie Jones, Richard K. Anderson
Department: English
Quantification and Analysis of Protein Contaminants on Contact Lenses Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy, Benjamin Michael Arnold
Department: Chemistry
Transgressions - a Memoir, Julie R. Assmus
Department: English
Did NBC, ABC, and CBS Have Any Impact on the Decision-Making Process of the United States in Somalia and Rwanda?, Sheana G. Balasuriya
Department: Political Science
Bilito's Ghost: How Charles Manson's Cowboy Boots Became the White Star of the West, Matthew M. Barbee
Department: English
The Role of Music in the Lives of the Shona People in Zimbawe, Meghan Paula Belkot
Construction of the Self: Two American Women in the 1950S, Katie L. Bomba
Department: English
Kerri on Her Own: a Fictional Young Adult Novel Intended For the Betterment of Adolescent Girls, Amy R. Brown
Department: English
The Quantitative Analysis of 1,1,1-Trichloroethane, 1,1,2-Trichloroethene, 1,1-Dichloroethane, and cis-1,2-Dichloroethene in Wooster City Groundwater, Denise Brown
Department: Chemistry
Portrayals of Animals in Children's Literature, Darlene Bubel
Department: English
To Join or Not to Join?: Public Opinion and the Decision to Join the European Union, Katherine A. Buckley
Department: Political Science
Identity Mobilization and Its Capacity For Violence: Conflicts of Ethnicity, Religion, and Identity, Matthew M. Burger
Department: Political Science
Medieval Literature As Historical Source: the Le Morte D'Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory and the Fifteenth Century, Jacob O. Burt
Department: History
The Oligomerization and Chaperone Activity of Small heat Shock protein 18-9 from Zea mays, Julie Buss
Department: Chemistry
Sex, Modes, and Liability: How the Supreme Court Determines a School's Liability in Title IX Sexual Harassment Cases, Stacy R. Cameron
Department: Political Science
Black Womens' Sexuality: Voices of the Dark Brought to Light, Rose Carter
Department: English
Economic Policy Versus Human Reality: the Impacts of the International Monetary Fund's Structural Adjustment Policies of Economic Growth and the Quality of Life For Women in Developing Nations, Rebecca A. Clark
Department: Political Science
"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
The Methodology of Feminist Research: Investigating the Feminist Framework of the Focus Group Interview, Talley Burk Clyde
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Los Factores Culturales Y Linguisticos De La Asistencia Médica Para Unas Comunidades Inmigrantes En El Estecentro Y El Centro De Ohio, Christen M. Coyle
Department: Spanish
Manipulation of Newspaper Media, Ryan L. Dansak
Department: English
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
Computer Modeling of Anthroquinone Terminated Core-containing Polyamide Dendrimers, Dita Dobroshi
Department: Chemistry
Determination of Nitrate Concentrations in Selected Surface Water Areas of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, Seth Duerr
Department: Chemistry
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
The Cloning and the Transformation of the ORF Nucleotide Sequence of the 18-1 smHSP cDNA from Zea mays, Nicholas Brandon DuVall
Department: Chemistry
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
The Fabrication of Sol-Gel, Planar Integrated Optical Waveguides for Integrated Optical Waveguide Attenuated Total Reflection (IOW-ATR) Spectrometry, Aladin B. Ferian III
Department: Chemistry
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