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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1992
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
Reactivity of Group VI Transition Metal Carbonyl Hydride Dimers with In Situ prepared Organic Alkoxides, Percefoni Doufu
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 Identification of Modified Carboxyl Groups in Yeast Enolase, Mustafa S. Garbadawala
Department: Chemistry
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
Molecular Mechanics Investigation of the Steric Energies of Substituted Cyclobutanes for Conformational Analysis, Calculation of Axial-Equatorial Conformational Ratios and the Determination of Normal Modes of Vibration, Thomas Hayes
Department: Chemistry
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
The Characterization and Identification of Group A Serotype 6 Bovine Rotavirus, Using an Enzyme-limked Immunosorbernt Assay, Maithri M. K. Jayasekera
Department: Chemistry
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
Hermann Hesse: Seine Auffassung Und Seine Modelle Der Entwicklung in Drei Bildungsroman, Cris B. Lyon
Department: German Studies
Notion of the Other Expressed in Literature and Classical History, T.J. Mallory
Department: History
Denial of Power: Fatalism and Female Passivity, Constance L. Mathews
Department: English
Poems 1989-1992, John McCrory
Department: English
Confronting Individual Fears and Public Repercussions: a Journal in Response to AIDS, Holly L. McCullough
Department: History
Götter in Weiß: Die Deutschen Mediziner Yom Kaiserreich Bis Zum Nationalsozialismus Und Die Darstellung Der Medizin Und Der Mediziner in Spielfilmen Des Dritten Reiches, Colleen Dianne McFarland
Department: German Studies; History
Social Change In Country Music, Lori L. McNeely
Architectural Design: A Determinant for Neighborhood Success?, Bryan L. McPhail
George Mackay Brown: Technology of Tribes?, Margaret A. Meeker
Department: English
Not As a Hero: An Exploration of the Female Villain in Selected Text, Lisa A. Meurer
Department: English
Making Choices: Working Mothers-Working Daughters, Kathleen N. Millican
The Adjustment of Black College Students at a Predominantly White Institution, Travis Moyer
Southern Belle or Wench: Paradoxes in Tennessee Williams' Life As Reflected By His Women Characters, Shannon Leigh Murray
Department: English
Lessons Learned from the Edge: The White, U.S. Middle Class as an Agent of Recognition and Resistance within the Christian Context, Jessamyn A. Neuhaus
Department: Religious Studies
The Triggered Community, Jennifer Tyann O'Keefe
F. Scott Fitzgerald: a Study of Characterization and Style, Andrew D. Page
Department: English
Teaching the 'Heathen:' the Origins and Development of Black Education Before the Civil War, 1619-1860, Robin M. Parker
Department: History
The Effects of Family Structure on Adolescent Gender Role Attitudes, Jennifer E. Pildner
The Invisible Minority, Timothy James Powers
Sonia Delaunay-Terk Et Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Femmes Artistes Dans L'Ombre De L'Oeuvre De Leur Mari?, Susan K. Richmond
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Gender Participation: How The Role of Women as Mothers Contributes to Political Interests, Melissa G. Riedl
Les Intérêts Politiques Français dans la construction de la Communauté Européenne, Megan Robert
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform (DRIFT) Spectroscopy As a Means For Quantitatively Analyzing the Absorption of 1-Propanol and 1,2-Propanediol Into the Bovine and Procine Corneas, Andrew L. Robertson
Department: Chemistry
Soviet Environmental Issues: Their Effect on the Livelihood of Their Regional Populations, Shane Robson
Department: Russian Studies
(Not) Just Another Love Story: Lesbian Sexuality in Mainstream and Experimental Cinema, Kathryn V.A. Roumel
Trials By Media: a Necessary Evil? the Sam Sheppard Example, David M. Royse
Department: History
Writing About the Good War: Genre and the World War II Novel, Christian L. Ruch
Department: English
"Chinks" and "Injins": the Evolution of Stereotypes Through the Ethnic-American Detectives of Earl Derr Biggers and Tony Hillerman, Katharine A. Salzmann
Department: English
Teaching Ancient Egyptian Civilization in An Elementary School Classroom With An Interdisciplinary Emphasis, Katherine Sanderson
Department: History
Haven of Delight: the World of the Child-Detective, Mousumi Sarkar
Department: English
Short Stories and Identity Themes, Kevin A. Schechterle
Department: English