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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1993
Demise of a Federation: A Czechoslovakian Case History, Elizabeth F. Vadasz
Department: Political Science
The Medieval Garden As a Reflection of the Twelfth Century Cistercian Reform Movement's Belief in a Universal Hierarchical System, Robert J. Vosburgh Jr
Department: History
Hemingways Perfect Woman: A Structural Analysis of Four of His Major Novels, Kathi Wallace
Department: English
Institutions of Decontextualization: A Field Study at Museums in Bali, Indonesia, Murray G. Walsh
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Snapshots, Brooke H. Watts
Department: English
The Effects of School Desegregation on Levels of Prejudice Among High School Students, Jonathan W. Weidenhamer
Department: Urban Studies
Factionalism in the Chinese Communist Party's Response to the Student Democracy Demostrations of 1986-1987 and 1989, John R. Weikart
Department: History
Institutions of Decontextualization: A Field Study of Museums in Bali, Indonesia, Murray G. Welsh
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Experiments in Short Narrative Fiction, Donald W. Wheeler
Department: English
External Influences on Third Parties in Presidential Elections, Russell W. Wheeler
Department: Political Science
Kaleidoscope, Kristen F. Whitaker
Department: English
John Marshall Contributions of the Chief Justice to the United States and the Trial of Aaron Burr, Casey J. Wilson
Department: History
Words, Women, and Change, Kathryn E. Wilson
Department: English
Creating a New World: a Study of Anglo-Indian Relations in Virginia, 1607-1677, Amanda H. Winter
Department: History
Nazi Film Propaganda: a Successful Use of This Medium Encouraged An Uncontested, Complete Devotion to Hitler's Rule, Aaron P. Wismar
Department: History
Senior Independent Study Thesis in Sociology/Anthropology, Kathryn Wood
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Evolution of Poetry and Self, Paul M. Yeakel Jr
Department: English
Exposing the Myths: Rethinking the Christian Justification for the Human Domination of the Animal World, Lea K. Zawatski
Department: Religious Studies
From Chattel to Partner to Equal? How Women's Roles and Images Have Changed Over Time a Content Analysis of Three Women's Magazines, Allison J. Zweig
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1992
A Critical Study of Peter Chaadaev's Philosophy, Jennifer Amtmann
Department: Russian Studies
A Marriage Born of Necessity: German-Soviet Relations From 1933-1939, Frank H. Andorka Jr
Department: History
Multi-Cultural Curriculum: Offering a New Perspective, Tami Augustine
Department: History
Circus Twins Within, Jennifer L. Balbo
Department: English
"Commitments" and Other Stories, Dorsey W. Barnett
Department: English
The Women of the Early American Industrial Revolution and the Culture They Wove: An Examination of the Mills Girls of Lowell and Lawrence, Massachusetts, Jill M. Baumeister
Department: History
Divergent Images: a Comparative Study of the British Working Class Condition in Cinema, Alex Benchimol
Department: History; English
The Hometowner, Kristy K. Bender
Department: English
The New Deal and the Creation of a National Urban Policy, Peter L. Berry
Department: History
Portrayal of Gender and Ethnicity in the Works of Selected Chinese-American Women Writers, Julie C. Blosser
Department: English
The Influence of the Jewish Religion on College Age Jewish Women's Decisions on the Abortion Issue, Jacqueline Boulanger
American Recognition Policy Toward the Soviet Union and the Peoples' Republic of China, Walter J. Bozentko
Department: International Relations
A Qualitative Analysis of the Self-Efficacy of Woman on AFDC Participating in the Program, Cleveland Works, Inc., Tammy L. Brooks
Body Politic: Women, the Body, and Oppression in Popular Literature, Katrina L. Brown
Department: English
Recipes for Life: Ritual and Gender in an American Christian Community, Margaret E. Bryant
Creatures and Creators: a Study of the Development of a Feminine Consciousness in the Works of Shelley, Bronte, and Woolf, Christine Chamberlin
Department: English
Law and Literature: An Exploration of Law and Society As Seen Through Literature, Laura A. Charvat
Department: English
Spirituality of Emerson and Thoreau, Amy Adele Churba
Department: English
Poetry of Japanese-American Women: An Analyzation of Contemporary Japanese-American Poetry From a Historical Perspective After the Japanese-American Internment, Sherrie D. Clayborne
Department: English
Acid Rain Issue and U.S.-Canadian Relations: a Study in the Politics of Complex Interdependence, John M. Clouse
Department: International Relations
The Recording and Production of a Compact Disc Release for the Wooster Chorus, Michael Comstock
Department: Music
College Writers and the Prompted Drafting Process: a Study of College Writers' Revision in Response to Written Prompts and Individual Conferences, Carissa S. Conner
Department: English
High School Athletes and Coaches: the Influence of Motivation, Goals and Sex on Desired Coaching Methods, Ellen Paige Curfman Conrad
Modern Conventional War: the Falkland Islands War and the Persian Gulf War, Alexander E. Coyle
Department: History
Portrayal of Deception in the Literary Works of Mark Twain, Todd Cushing
Department: English
Jungian Approach to James Joyce's Ulysses, Zedford D. Dancey
Department: English
Promoting An American Mythical Reality: Public Discourse Justifying War in the Persian Gulf, Sally A. DeCarolis
Department: International Relations
The College of Wooster Confronts the Turbulent Sixties, Lara Michelle deCourtivron
Department: History
Conflicting Visions: Reflections of the American Dream in a Substance Abuse Center, Lisa Defendiefer
Treasures of the Earth, Moon, and Sun: An Archaeological Study of the Items Associated With the Roman Mystery Cults of Cybele, Isis, and Mithras, Gary DeVore
Department: Archaeology
Evaluation of the TLC Separation of Liver Triglycerides, Conya Doss
Department: Chemistry
Mirror of Ourselves: the Impact of the Women's Liberation Movement on American Women's Magazines, Kim N. Douglass
Department: History
Eine Studie Zu Heinrich Von Kleists Novellen: Der Glauben An Das Absolute, Kristen I. Downer
Department: German Studies
A Prescription for the Workplace: The Effects of On-Site Child Care on Job Satisfaction and Productivity, Heather Eppley
Architect of a Dream: Charles Hamilton Houston's Contributions Ot the Civil Rights Movement, Bradley V. Evans
Department: History
Comparative Analysis of Country Music Lyrics Between 1981 and 1991: Looks at Loving, Leaving, and Living, Christy J. Evans
Department: English
Success and Survival: German and Irish Immigrants in Cleveland, Ohio 1818-1880, Jennie L. Fabens
Department: History
Selling the American Dream: Images Present in Mail Order Fashion Catalogues, Peter Falcone
Rhetoric, Strategy and Identity: An Examination of the Discourse of Political Correctness, Margaret Ellen Farrar
Reading As Dialogue: Woman, Life, and Text, Audrey Featherman
Department: English
Images of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Creation For FDR, the Legend, the "Soldier of Freedom", Laura Fielitz
Department: History
An Investigation and Critique of Robert Bellah's and Robert Wuthnow's Contemporary Discourse on American Civil Religion, Heather M. Finck
Department: Religious Studies
Economic Statecraft and U.S. Foreign Policy: Influence Attempts on Egypt, Israel and Syria, Myriam K. Fizazi
Women Politicians: What Difference do they Make? A Case Study of Oberlin, Wooster, and Mt. Vernon, Ohio, JoEllen B. Fowler
Exploration in Modern Literature: Learning to Live By Anne Tyler, Wendy Freeburn
Department: English
Evolution of An American Identity and the Reflection of American Attitudes and Beliefs As Seen Through the Characters in Nineteenth Century American Western Fiction, John Paul Galego
Department: English
Strategy For Third World Agricultural Development Using or Refuting Already Existing Theories of Development and Agricultural Development Plans: a Case Study of Kenya, Alyssa Ganobsik
Department: International Relations
The Effect of Athletic Participation on Academic Performance, David A. George
Have the Democrats Shifted in Political Ideology Over the Period 1960-1988?, Aric Gibson
Applying Lawrence Kohlberg's Six Stages of Moral Judgment to the Decisions Made By the Main Characters in Fantasy Children's Literature, Holly T. Gidez
Department: English
Antenna: Essays and Stories About Beaverstone Bay, Ontario, Christopher D. Glaser
Department: English
Housing, Homosexuality, and Christian Perspectives: The Wooster Fair Housing Debate, Martha E. Graham
Department: Religious Studies
Over the Wall and Out of the Garden: Language, Space and Subversion in Eliot's Middlemarch, Melissa Valiska Gregory
Department: English
The Wooster Daily Record and Its Readers: A Study in Agenda Setting, Jamie C. Harrell
Survey of Trace Metals in the Articular Disc of the Temporomandibular Joint Utilizing Inductively Coupled Plasma Emission Spectroscopy, Charles S. Henry
Department: Chemistry
Investigation Into the Mechanism of Ultraviolet-Induced Damage in Bovine and Porcine Corneal Tissue, Kathleen Heppner
Department: Chemistry
Transubstantiation: a Collection of Poems, Jason W. Hickman
Department: English
Program Effort and Program Success: Convergence in Family Planning Management, Deborah Hirst
Ombudsmen Movement in Creating a New Principle in the American Press, Amy S. Hollander
Department: English
Mark Twain: the Man, His Style, and Its Impact on American Literature, Peter B. Horton
Department: English
Carrion Luggage and Other Cargo: a Collection of Poems, Meghan S. Howes
Department: English
Women, Birth Control and Reproductive Freedom, Erica Immenschuh
On the Line: Struggle and Survival in Writings By Gloria Anzaldua, Hans Johnson
Department: Spanish; English
The Effects of Participation in a Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program on Recidivism Rates for a Sample of Felony Offenders from Indiana and Ohio, Jennie Dunham Johnson
Exploratory Study of Transracial Adoptions and the Process of Adjustment Beginning with the Time of Placement in the Homes, Coretta D. Jones
Life History as a Window on Culture Change and its Impact on Gender in an Immigrant Sikh Family, Raveena Khehar
Historical Investigation of Rolling Stone Magazine Between 1967 and 1970: Its Origins and Reflections of the Counterculture., Douglas S. Kiley
Department: History
The Venus Puzzle: Tectonics and Terrestrial Planets, David H. Kime
Department: Physics
Habitat For Humanity-Building For God's Children In Need-Does That Include The Homeless?, Elizabeth R. Kirkpatrick
Health Care Policy in the United States: Can the U.S. Learn from the Canadian Example, Todd Martin Kleinman
The Korean War: Decisions and Consequences, Kevin Klyberg
Department: History
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Resurgent Conservative Coalition of 1938: the Waning of the New Deal, Francis J. Knott Jr
Department: History
Film Hero For Our Times: Twentieth-Century Visions of Robin Hood, Carol D. Leonard
Department: English
Seeking Peace: the Actuality of the Quest, Eileen N. Leonhardy
Department: International Relations
State Budgets and the Relationship Between the Governor and Legislature: A Case Study, Leigh Ann Leshock
Personality and Guts, JP Lilliston
Department: English
Writer's Approach to the Work, Allen Lincoln
Department: English
Feminist Rhetoric and Abortion Rights: The Politics of Language, Susan Louis
Rolled into many: Toward Cross-Cultural and Feminist Understandings of African-American Women's Experiences in the Novels of Gloria Naylor, Mary Elizabeth Lucal
Rolled into many: Toward Cross-Cultural and Feminist Understandings of African-American Women's Experiences in the Novels of Gloria Naylor, Mary Elizabeth Lucal