Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Title
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Religion and politics in the career of William Cecil : an evaluation of Elizabeth I's chief minister.
(2010)While most historians argue William Cecil's ultimate aim was either to build a Protestant England or a powerful government, my thesis concludes that a stable country, both religiously and politically, was his primary ... -
Religiosity and depression in the United States older adult population : an analysis of the influence of type of religiosity, race, and gender
(2012)The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between the two types of religiosity (organizational and nonorganizational) and depression in the United States older adult population. This study is rooted in ... -
Religious influences on premarital education : access and attitudes.
(2018)Premarital education has been strongly tied to religious organizations but minimal research exists on the relationship between premarital education and religion. Literature overwhelmingly supports the benefits of premarital ... -
Relocation of remains : scavenger patterns in north central Oklahoma.
(2014)The processes by which clandestine remains are scattered and destroyed by vertebrate necrophagus scavenging behaviors are significant to forensic death investigations, in terms of focusing search techniques, improving ... -
Repairing a strategic partnership : Congress and US foreign policy with Turkey.
(2012)The United States and Turkey have shared an important strategic partnership since Turkey was admitted to NATO in 1952. This relationship began to decline following Turkey's denial of Washington's request to position US ... -
Resisting change : toxic masculinity in the post modern United States Armed Forces, (1980s-Present).
(2019)This thesis examines the changes regarding women and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) serving and toxic masculinity in the United States Armed Forces from the end of Operation Just Cause to the War ... -
Resources, radicals, and reactionaries : the first red scare in Oklahoma.
(2012)The purpose of this study is to identify and explore the major events of the First Red Scare in Oklahoma, and how the distinct resources contained in the state, namely coal and oil, defined its Red Scare experience. This ... -
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia in posttraumatic growth and PTSD.
(2017)Most the human population will experience a traumatic event during their lifespan and will then cope with such trauma in a wide variety of ways. It is well documented that traumatic events are associated with both short ... -
Resting on weedy laurels : Lorine Niedecker's poetics of perseverance.
(2012)Lorine Niedecker began writing poems in the late 1920s from her home by the waters of Blackhawk Island, Wisconsin. This study examines her first associations with and empowerment through the Objectivists' new poetic ... -
Revising impressions with the authority moral foundation
(2021)Past research argues that judgments of morality supersede warmth or competence when forming impressions, and that some people will revise an impression based on highly diagnostic moral information. Moral Foundations Theory ... -
Revolution, imperialism, and the Hawaiian monarchy : reconsidering American-Hawaiian affairs during the late nineteenth century.
(2014)After 100 years, the Hawaiian kingdom's collapse continues to garner not only academic debate, but also long-standing hostilities rooted in deep-seated sentiments of Pacific Nativism and American Nationalism. From this ... -
Rid of me
(2023)In the novella Rid of Me, Ridley Royko is a smart, 15-year-old teenager with a parent problem. His mother and father do not trust him and tear him down constantly about his grades and his behavior. When he hears them ... -
The Rise of Indian Nationalism
(2020)This thesis will focus on the Amritsar Massacre 1919, that happened in Amritsar, Punjab,India (part of which lies in present-day Pakistan after the 1947 Separation) and its importance in India's rise of nationalism. This ... -
The role of composition and literature in the secondary education classroom : revisiting the pedagogy
(2021)Currently, high school ELA teachers are expected to use literature and composition together during instruction and planning. This expectation is completely different from first-year college English courses, as literature ... -
Roots of colonialism in Old English poetry
(2024)The white nationalist ideologies that drove many colonialist efforts are often built off of a so-called Anglo-Saxon ideal, which involves appealing to Old English epics such as Beowulf as part of the foundation of national ... -
Sad eyewitnesses and jurors' perceptions of their believability
(2023)Eyewitness testimony is heavily relied on in court, and there is a large amount of research on how an eyewitness's and defendant's behavior and emotion can influence a jury's verdict decision. The emotional victim effect ... -
Saturn's sphere : astrology, mythology, and the contemplatives in Dante's Paradiso 21-22
(2023)In the arrangement of souls in Dante's Paradiso, the poet places the most blessed category of souls, the contemplatives, in the sphere of Saturn, a planet generally considered to be "The Greater Infortune" in medieval ... -
Second Law Analysis of a Passive Micromixer with Flow Obstacles
(2020)Passive micromixers focus on variations in the channel geometry and the presence of flow obstacles as a means of improving mixing efficiency. An analysis of these geometries can provide useful information for further mixer ... -
Secrets of a Pepto Bismol casa.
(2014)Secrets of a Pepto Bismal Casa explores the journey of a young, Mexican American girl named Martha in Laredo, Texas, in 1990. The novel is set in first person point-of-view and is split into two threads--what occurs in ...