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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1986
Sylvia Plath's Electra Complex, Terry Dontis
Department: English
History or Myth: An Analysis of Rudolph Bultmann's Perspective on the Resurrection, Lisa Dordal
Department: Religious Studies
The Ineffectiveness of the Allied Air Offensive Against Nazi Germany in World War II, Park W. Espenschade
Department: History
New Realism: A Brief Blooming of Literature in China 1979-1980, Mary A. Feist
Department: History
Petroleum Legislation in Ohio: Its Geologic and Legal Significance to the Petroleum Industry, Julie M. Ferguson
Korea and the Limits of War, Robert Geist
Department: History
Marx, Lenin, and the Soviet Union: An Analysis of the Communist Party, Kate Gibson
Sankhya-Yoga and Teresa of Avila: A Meeting of East and West, Teresa M. Grant
Department: Religious Studies
The Domed Stadium: a Case Study in Cleveland, Ohio, E. Douglas Grosel
Homosexuality and Christianity: The Emergence of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches as a Protestant Denomination, Elizabeth H. Guonjian
Department: History; Religious Studies
On Becoming Edith Wharton, Denise H. Haller
Department: English
An Analysis of CIA Involvement in the Vietnam War, Eric M. Hartman
Department: History
Who Owns the Moon? An American View, John A. Heiman
Norman Holland: Responding to the Psychoanalytical Meaning of Literature, Whitney D. Hinds
Department: English
Linguistic Politics in India: Every Two Miles the Water doth Change and Every Four the Dialect, Gretchen P. How
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: Novels of the Civil War 1969-1984, Joanne Irene James
Department: English
Development and Ensuing Popularity of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Christopher L. Janson
Department: English
Themes in Chinese Foreign Policy, Jonathan J. Johnson
Department: History; International Relations
Religion of the Spirit: S. Radhakrishnan's Concept of Universal Religion, Ann E. Keeler
Department: Religious Studies
Sir Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Universal Significance of the Nineteenth-Century Romance, Jeffrey B. Keiper
Department: English
Unforeseen Intruders: How Unrelated Issues Rallied Traditional Sentiments Against the Equal Rights Amendment, Todd D. Kilpatrick
Dutchman: The Play, the Criticisms and the Experience, Sara Lake
Department: History; Theatre and Dance
Athens at War: a Comic Perspective, Nora Jean Land
Department: Classical Studies
Mortgage Loan Distribution Patterns Among Neighborhoods in the Akron, Ohio SMSA, Tony Love
Re-Vision and Reconstruction: the Evolution of Feminist Consciousness in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich, Maia B. Lueders
Department: English
Exploration and Discovery in the Novels of Sir H. Rider Haggard, Sandra E. Marcy
Department: English
Contending Theories of the United States' Relations with Latin America, Thomas L. Mason
The Iranian Hostage Crisis: A U.S. Response to International Terrorism, Erin May
Department: History
Workplace Democracy: Employee Buyouts A Descriptive Study, Heidi A. McCormick
Striving For Glory: An Analysis of Literary Subject and Social Meaning in the Works of Ernest Hemingway, Madeleine A. Mitchell
Department: English
American-Soviet Rivalry in the Middle East: Prospects for an International Peace Conference, Kimberly A. Neeb
Murray Leinster: The Second Dimension Pulps, Catherine A. Neumiller
Department: English
We Want to Be Your Partners: The Request of American Catholic Sisters, Marcia L. Obermiller
Department: History
Simplicity As An Alternative Lifestyle in America, Marjorie J. Olivet
Department: History
John Cheever: The Road Home, Thomas Hammond Peth
Department: English
Testing the Pervasiveness of an Ideology: Is there an Antifeminist Movement in the United States?, Scott R. Piepho
The Failure of Implementation of Federal Educational Policy - 1945-1985: Implications for Achievement in the Black Community, Pamela Pinder
Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority: Will his Reign as the Religious Right Leader Last?, Daphne Planck
Department: Religious Studies
Illustrated Imperialism: Punch and the Evolution of the Pictorial Section of the Fourth Estate, Lydia S. Porter
Department: History
The Amish: Attitudes Towards and Practice of Health Care, Trisha S. Rhodes
Department: Chemistry; German Studies
Evolution of the American Gothic Tradition From 1798 to the Present, David A. Romick
Department: English
Study of Magnesium and Strontium Levels in the Enamel and Dentin Layers of Impacted and Erupted Human Teeth and Their Relation to Dental Caries, Charles Ryan
Department: Chemistry
Stories of Louise Fitzhugh and the Work of Growing Up, Lynne E. Safford
Department: English
The Homeless: Belief Change/ Persuasion in the '80s. An analysis of Media Influence Utilizing Urban Studies, Social-Psychological, and Mass Communications Techniques, Kimberly B. Shefferman
Does Management Make a Difference?, David Simboli
Department: International Relations
Die Liebe als Abenteuer in den Erzählungen Arthur Schnitzlers, Susan G. Simmons
Department: German Studies
Late Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction: a Literary and Historical Study, Patricia A. Skidmore
Department: History
L'Homme Comme Forte, Le Poete Comme Critique, La Critique Comme Philosophie, et La Philosophie Des Inspirations, Anne E. Statton
Department: French and Francophone Studies
New Towns and Unplanned Cities: Is there a Difference?, Scott Stewart IV
The Bible as a Legitimate Foundation for Liberation Theology in Latin America, Priscilla M. Stults
Department: Religious Studies
The American Conscientious Objector in World War II: Conflict Between Conscience and the State, Andrew T. Thorp
Department: History
Improving Net Social Benefits for Transit and the Highways: Which Policy Option is Best?, Betty Lynn Title
U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America: Intervention Based on National Security as Opposed to "Dollar Diplomacy", Bradley P. Toman
Loren Eiseley: Ambiguous, Inconsistent and Contradictory Scientist, Stylist and Religious Speaker, Thomas B. Ward
Department: English
The Strategic Doctrine of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, Patrick A. Warny
La Representation Des Femmes Dan L'Art Du XIXe Siecle, Janis Warschauer
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Progressive Movement Toward Ernest Hemingway's Flawless Gem "The Old Man and the Sea", Rosalind N. Waskow
Department: English
Chemical Modification of Human Antithrombin 3 with 2,4,6-Trinitrobenzenesulfonate, Kevin Weeks
Department: Chemistry
The Relationship between Governments and Visual Art: A Case Study of the Concentration Camp Art in Nazi Germany, Julie Denise Weiser
A Critic of Contemporary Civil War Scholarship, David S. Weiss
Department: History
A Time to Laugh: The Spirit of Humor, Religion, and Human Issues, Doris J. Welker
Department: Religious Studies
Shaka/oo-Sha-Ga/: The Zulu King Revisited, Andrew G. Wert
Department: History
From Playwright to Genius: The Evolution That Resulted From Changing Motivations in Eugene O'Neill's Drama, Amy S. Wierman
Department: English
The Homecoming of the Vietnam Veterans: A Societal Based Problem, Jennifer A. Wilkie
Une Etude De Langage Dans La Cantatrice Chauve Et La Leçon d' Eugène Ionesco, Susan Williams
Department: French and Francophone Studies
The Process and Realization of Divine Forgiveness in the Book of Psalms, Leslie Winter
Department: Religious Studies
Brave New Tanzania: a Critique of the State Craft of Julius K. Nyerere, Uschy L. Wozak
Department: International Relations
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1985
Western Cultures South of the Sahara and How Western Influence Altered Traditional Life; Rites of Passage!, Sharon Abreu
Department: History
Free Enterprise vs. Communism: The Guatemalan Coup of 1954, Lawrence P. Allen
Department: International Relations
The Hybridization of Zionism, Practical and Political, As Utilized By Baron Edmond De Rothschild, Christopher Altier
Department: History
Sexy Guilt or Guilty Sex?, Timothy J. Anderson
Department: Religious Studies
Slavophilism: a Search For National Self-Identity, Lorraine Aten
Department: History
L'Art Graffiti Et Le Nouvel-Expressionisme: Une Comparaison, Clarice L. Barbato
Department: French and Francophone Studies
The Changing Roles of Masculine Behavior as an Intimate Being, Husband, and Father, Jennifer Ellen Barton
U.S.-Yugoslav Foreign Policy: Has the U.S. Given More Than It Has Gained? - a Study Since 1948, David A. Berrien
Department: International Relations
1927 The Wuham Period: the Failure of the Chinese Communist Party in the First United Front, Matthew E. Bieniek
Department: History
Jack London: An Analysis of His Central Klondike Works, Andrew S. Black
Department: English
Two Parodies of Popular Detective Fiction, Cynthia L. Boyd
Department: English
Presidential Power: a Comparative Study of the Presidencies of Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson, David A. Bracken
Department: History
The Ushering in of the Indian Protestant Church in North India: A Story of its Formation and Converts-- The Mass Movement 1900-1930, Melissa A. Brown
Department: Religious Studies
Theme of Initiation As Displayed in Twentieth Century American Fiction, Ellen Buchanan
Department: English
Self-Knowledge: A Social Responsibility in Jane Austen's Emma, Jane P. Budd
Department: English
Critics As Readers: Re-Reading the World According to Garp, Mary Clare Campbell
Department: English
Yugoslav State-Building and the National Question, Mary R. Cermelj
The Dependence of Early Childhood Spirituality Upon Mental, Emotional, and Moral Factors: Implications for Christian Conversion and Family Life, John B. Childs
Department: Religious Studies
Douglas Macarthur in Asia: a Study in Civil-Military Conflict, Pek L. Choo
Department: History
Navajo Education and the Evolution of Government Involvement in Native American Education, Julia K. Church
Department: History
A Woman's Place is in the Home? a Study on Discrimination Against Single Women with Children in the Rental Housing Market, Peter Constantine
The Way of the Cross: Towards a Praxis of Following Jesus, Karin A. Craven
Department: Religious Studies
Investment in China's Special Economic Zones, Thomas E. Crissman
Department: History
Wallace Stevens: The Relations Between Poetry and Painting, Barbara A. Curran
Department: English
The Goan Identity, Coralie V. da Costa
Department: International Relations
The Role of Women in Missions in the Nineteenth Century, Nancy Davidian
Department: Religious Studies
A Study of Working-Class Women in Victorian Literature: Thomas Hardy, George Eliot and Charles Dickens, Lisa Davies
Department: English
Alternative Feminist Theories for Political Change: Betty Friedan and Angela Davis, Laura L. Davis
The Relationship Between Artists and the State During the Reign of Napoleon III, Jonathan Deenik
Department: History
Black Theology: Discovering the Gospel Message Through the Eyes of the Oppressed, Betsy J. Deeter
Department: Religious Studies
Incentives for Volunteer Political Activism in Presidential Campaigns, Tamula C. Drumm
Etiquette Books and Women's Magazines: "Conscious Virtue and Self Control" 1860-1920, Patricia L. Dunn
Department: History
Afro-American Education: A Struggle For Civil Rights, Sharon A. Echols
Department: History