Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Title
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"These kids just can't write!"... or can they? : faculty perceptions of student writing.
(2014)The idea that student writing has declined in quality over time has been repeated so many times that few people question it, despite the fact that serious analytical research on this topic is difficult to come by. The main ... -
Third world revolutionaries : the activism of the Third World Women's Alliance and Alliance Against Women's Oppression, 1970s-1980s
(2021)The Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA) emerged from the Black Power politics of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and two black women's caucuses, the Black Women's Liberation Committee and the Black Women's ... -
"This is Not an Exit": Neoliberalism and the Nineties
(2020)Francis Fukuyama’s 1989 essay “The End of History” argues that at the turn of the millennium, the Western neoliberal ideals of economic liberty, free market capitalism, and individual reason have triumphed over all other ... -
“The Thought of Being a Part of What You Could Not Become”: Colonial Education and the Resistance of Young Minds
(2021)This project engages with the colonizer’s use of the colonial education system to penetrate the colonized people’s pre-colonial cultural systems and the way it leads to the destruction of any already-formed understandings ... -
Three women of Tennessee Williams.
(2010)The life and works of the playwright, Tennessee Williams will impact the lives of readers for centuries to come. His life affected the style in which he wrote, and the characters that he wrote were closely based on some ... -
Through the frozen mountains : the 45th Infantry Division in the Vosges Campaign, 20 September 1944- 23 January 1945.
(2015)The purpose of this study is to examine the Vosges Mountain Campaign of World War II to better the fighting in southern France between the Wehrmacht and the Allies in particular the 45th Infantry Division. Keith Bonn, in ... -
The ticking time bomb : H-Block, the connection between nationalism and violence
(2021)This thesis argues that due to the intractable nature of the questions of national (imperial) identity and belonging, actors on both sides of "the Troubles" turned to violence to broadcast their voices. Lacking legitimate ... -
Ticks and tick-borne pathogens of residential and non-residential parks in Edmond, Oklahoma.
(2018)The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) provides annual summaries of infectious diseases that occur in individuals treated in a medical facility. The summaries include five bacterial tick-borne diseases. Over the ... -
Time-dependent perturbation theory approach to the quantum motion of a particle in a Paul trap.
(2013)The main objective of this study is to investigate the quantum mechanical lifetime of a trapped ion in a Paul trap. The motivation for this research is that there are several applications of trapped ion devices such as ... -
Tracking trends in illustration : what they are and why they matter.
(2018)Navigating a career in illustration can be very difficult, due to a lack of structure and traditional academic writing in the field. This is especially true for visual trends. While a plethora of histories are available, ... -
Transitional democracy : the difficulties for countries to become democratized.
(2012)The goal of this research project is intended to demonstrate the benefits that democracy can bring to countries. In doing so, it will explore several countries that are going through the transitioning phase in the Middle ... -
Triangulating power in the writing class.
(2010)Michel Foucault described the power relationship as having three elements, namely knowledge, the individual, and power, and discussed at length how they function. While many scholars have applied Foucault in a myriad of ... -
Unabashedly imperfect.
(2013)As a child, I have no distinct memories of feeling too fat, too large, or unlovable. Though I grew up in a poor, single-parent family, my mother devoted her life to keeping me from knowing we were poor, teaching me to make ... -
Under erasure
(2014)This thesis is a collection of eleven short, unrelated stories. These stories range in length from thirty-three to two pages. They are organized according to how I sensed they should be when I drew up the table of contents. ... -
Undergraduate students' attitudes toward older adults after an intergenerational service-learning project.
(2014)In the United States, adults are living longer, and working longer and negative attitudes toward older adults still exist. Attitudes of college students from various colleges and disciplines have been studied to assess ... -
Understanding family experiences as a means for developing relevant curriculum for children in a pre-kindergarten classroom.
(2008)This study examined the households of three preschool students and their families. The study consisted of three main areas of study. One area of investigation was the personal interviews relating to family histories, ... -
Understanding outcomes of traumatic experiences : roles of neuroticism and coping.
(2009)This study was to better understand how coping and neuroticism influence the negative and enduring potential of a traumatic experience. Traumatic experience has been shown to change individuals' cognitive processes. The ... -
Understanding teachers' beliefs of young children's play in naturalized learning environments.
(2010)Recent research in the field of early childhood education has increasingly focused on children's connections with natural environments. However, there has yet to be a study that investigates teachers' perceptions of teaching ... -
Universal health care : a luck egalitarian approach.
(2012)A comparative study of health systems in the U.K., U.S., Canada, and Germany from a luck egalitarian perspective.