Browsing by Author "Kinder, John"
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Collegiate sign language interpreters: A case study
Woodall-Greene, Taylor (2021-05)Research about the sign language interpreting field has noted that burnout and attrition of interpreters is a serious issue of the profession. There is also a lack of research about interpreters who work in medical, legal, ... -
First to fight, second to none: An examination of the doctrinal and tactical approaches of the American Expeditionary Force in World War One
Jeffries, John A. (2023-05)When the U.S. entered World War One it was faced with major dilemmas. The U.S. Military had no modern army, its doctrine was antiquated by European standards, and it was technologically behind their European counterparts. ... -
For unlawful carnal knowledge: The Satanic Panic in the United States, 1968-2000
Hanna, Joshua (2021-05)This thesis examines the use of new and emerging media by the religious right during the 1970s to spread the ideology and discourse of the Satanic Panic and the anti-rock movement. While other scholars have discussed such ... -
From Bates To Bush: The New Slasher Film
Cooper, James Fenimore (Oklahoma State University, 2011-07-01)This essay suggests that recent film criticism and genre scholarship neglects the historical and theoretical connection between so-called "Torture Porn" and the 1980s slasher film. The creation of this altogether new generic ... -
Green means green, not asphalt gray: State parks and development of the Raleigh metropolitan area, 1936-2016
Powell, Gregory L. (2017-05)State parks are a ubiquitous presence on the American landscape with thousands of units in all fifty states that attract far more visitors than the U.S. National Park System. While the sheer diversity and number of state ... -
Herland Sister Resources: A lesbian feminist collective's changes to Oklahoma herstory
Hinesley, B (2022-07)Herland Sister Resources, a feminist and primarily lesbian collective, comprised a strong component of the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma queer community since 1982. Began as a feminist bookstore, first known as La Salle des ... -
Is It All Quiet on the Western Front?: The Creation of World War I Memorials, Their Impact on the Memory of the War, and Their Place in the World Today
Seale, Alexandra (2017-05-01)The Memory Boom of the last several decades has increased the creation of and the interest in public memory spaces. Memorials and monuments create physical places for the public to interact with history, but this is not a ... -
Narrative triage: Veterans, disability, race, and the popular fiction of the Cold War
Young, Jared (2022-07)This dissertation argues that there are a series of disability narratives embedded James Jones, Norman Mailer, and John Oliver Killens’ novels that undermine the cultural myths revolving around soldiers’ bodies. Following ... -
President in the gray flannel suit: Dwight D. Eisenhower and postwar American manhood
Nadeau, Peter Mark (2016-05)In recent years presidential historians and men studies specialists have combined their fields of study to examine how conceptions of male identity have informed, shaped, and altered the American presidency. Dwight Eisenhower ... -
Remembering the Forgotten Legions: The Veteranization of British War Horses, 1850-1950
Medlock, Chelsea Autumn (2015-12)My dissertation, entitled, "Remembering the Forgotten Legions: The Veteranization of British War Horses, 1850-1950," looks at the changing perceptions of war horses in the British military and society from nationalized ... -
Show and prove: The cinematic aesthetics of hip-hop
Gilley, David Shane (2019-12)One of the most important and far-reaching artistic movements of the 20th century, hip-hop transformed many areas of popular culture, from cartoons to fashion, visual arts to music composition. Its influence upon film and ... -
Strange Fruit on the Southern Plains: Racial Violence, Lynching, and African Americans in Oklahoma, 1830-1930
Woodson, Evan (Oklahoma State University, 2015-05-01)To varying degrees, African-descended people in Oklahoma encountered racial violence in every era of history between 1830 and 1930. The first African-descended people to set foot in Oklahoma were those slaves who endured ... -
Sylvia Plaths the Bell Jar as Disability Narrative
Maple, Jeni (Oklahoma State University, 2009-12-01)The purpose of this study was to explore the implications of disability theory for Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, a novel which has traditionally been read from a feminist perspective. Drawing on the work of many scholars ... -
Time-geographic approach to investigating gender difference in accessing employment opportunities in a metropolitan area
Pan, Qinyue (2021-05)Gender inequality in employment remains an ongoing social issue in the United States. Although women's participation in the labor market has improved in the recent decades, the issue now is often manifested as occupational ... -
Underground press: Its influence on American sociopolitical movements of the 1960s and 1970s
Rogers, Katie (2021-07)This thesis examines the underground press in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Through close analysis of the more popular underground newspapers from this time period and from different geographical ...