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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1987
"The Best We Could Do Was Hold Them While They Died", John D. Orsborn
Department: History
Determination of the State of Content of Water in Bovine Cornea Tissue As It Relates to Donor Graft Preservation Using Differential Scanning Calorimetry, John Papp Jr
Department: Chemistry
Graphics Engine, Eric Parker
Department: Physics
Joseph Conrad: His Deluded Men, His Realist Women, Stephen W. Peacock
Department: English
Organic Perspective of Social Theory and Change As Presented By Sinclair Lewis, Timothy A. Peeples
Department: English
Why Not Unity? Study of Socioeconomic and Motivational Affects on Attitudes Toward Ecumenism in Three Denominations, Emily J. Perl
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Religious Studies
Application of Ion Chromatography in Determining Urinary Oxalate Levels, David Peterjohn
Department: Chemistry
Military Critique of Civilian Leadership During the Vietnam War, Archibald D. Rodgers
Department: History
Socio-Dynamic Analysis of Psychological Counseling Approaches and Models in Relation to Minority Client Counseling, Karen L. Roemer
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Federal-Republicans and Their Program For National Union, Daniel J. Rozmiarek
Department: History
Creative Inspiration: Novel and Film, Kathleen L. Sabol
Department: English
Cause or Effect? A Study of the Correlation Between Self Esteem and Grade Point Average, Scott B. Sandford
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Sandinista Military Build-Up in Nicaragua: Creating Instability in Central America, Paul T. Savage
La Transposition Du Roman L'Histoire Du Chevalier Des Grieux Et De Manon Lescaut En Livret De L'Opréa Manon, Laura J. Schwartz
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Gingerbread Houses, Tomato Sandwiches, and Chocolate Factories: A Study of Food in Selected Children's Fiction, Courtenay A. Selby
Department: English
Techniques of Social Criticism in Specific Novels by John Steinbeck, Edward James Charles Silverman
Department: English
Title: Censored, Michele L. Smith
Department: History
The Strategic Defense Initiative: A Technical and Political Assessment, Richard K. Stallsmith
The Maintenance of Neutrality Between the East-West Bloc: The Case of Finland, Laura E. Stein
William Kennery's "Albany Cycle", Michael T. Stocks
Department: English
The Effects of Economic Development Planning on Private Real Estate Development: A Case Study of Portland, OR, Carl S. Taggart
Language of Anton Chekhov's Shorter Works, Karla Thomas
Department: English
The Effectiveness of Congressional Oversight on the Implementation of the Home Mortage Disclosure Act, Robert M. Tull
Indian English: the Twice-Born Story, Samrat Upadhyay
Department: English
Towards Christian Unity: The Decree on Ecumenism and its Legacy, Laura B. VanDale
The Critical Analysis of the Relationship Between Abortion Law and the Fourteenth Amendment, Rebecca M. Weimar
Department: History
Freedom As Commitment: Doris Lessing's Inquiry Into the Relation of the Individual to the Collective, John F. Wells
Department: English
The Political Theory of James Madison, Peter D. Westerman
The Journey From St. Petersburg to Leningrad, and Back, Through the Poetic Voice of: Anna Gorenko Akhmatova, Megan V. Wiesen
Department: History
Death as a Literary Device in the Works of Stephen Crane, Rocco J. Zazzaro
Department: English
Emergence of Eleanor Roosevelt, Amy M. Zuberbuhler
Department: History
Edith Wharton's Battle For the Individualization of People in Society Through Her Novels of Manners, Justina C. M. Zubricky
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1986
Recovering the Lost Vision: Dostoevsky's Hope For Russia in the Brothers Karamazov, Clayton F. Allard
Department: History
Sie kennen den Weg des Friedens nicht: Die Schilderung der Zerstörung des Jüdischen Mutter-Kind Verhätnisses Während der Nazizeit in "Die Grössere Hoffnung" von Ilse Aichinger und "Anya" von Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Sigrid Y. H. Andersen
Department: German Studies
Black Colonization: Past, Present and Future, James Arnold
Alienation and Redemption in William Faulkner's South, Michael A. Barnhill
Department: History
Causes of Changing Organizational Goals, External, Internal, and Environmental: A Case Study of UNICO National, Bruce G. Benedict
William Blake and Gulley Jimson: Seeing with Imagination, John A. Bromell
Department: English
Bhakti as the More Complete Path to Liberation within Hinduism: An Examination of the Gaudiya Vaishnava Sect, Lynn M. Brunner
Department: Religious Studies
Forgotten Minority: the Native American in Contemporary Literature 1960-1984, Susan Buckingham
Department: English
Devil in the American Short Stories: From the Mid Nineteenth Through the Mid Twentieth Century, Martha H. Burke
Department: English
"I Learned- at Least- What Home Could Be" Emily Dickinson's Vision For the American Dream, Laurie J. Campbell
Department: English
Jimmy Carter's "Pan-American" Success: the President and the Panama Canal Treaties, Lori J. Charvat
Department: International Relations
Uncle Tom, the Klan and Scarlett: Legacy of a Stereotype, Douglas J. Chilcott
Department: History
Children's Literature Reflecting Images of Afro-Americans: Positive and Negative, Priscilla L. Cooper
From Pre-Adolescence to Maturity in Five Fantasies, Dana Sue DeLon
Department: English
Native Son: Towards a Black Aesthetic, Donald L. Dennis
Department: English
Public Enemies, Public Opinion: Prohibition Chicago, Crystal J. Dodd
Department: History
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