Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Author "Spencer, Susan"

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    • Cher ami. 

      Homen, Cheryl (2015)
      Cher Ami is based on a real pigeon that flew in WWI and saved the Lost Battalion, an American outfit led by Captain Whittlesey. Gaining a popular following immediately after the war, Cher Ami is displayed in the Smithsonian, ...

    • Fly on the wall : odd scenes from seemingly normal people. 

      Castilla, Nicole Petra (2017)
      Watching individuals react to each other and communicate is fascinating and usually humorous to some extent. Fly on the Wall: Odd Scenes from Seemingly Normal People showcases those little scenes, those reactionary moments ...

    • Frank. 

      Fipps, Holly K. (2012)
      Frank is a graphic novel script written in the official D.C. Comic format. The setting starts in Shawnee, Oklahoma. There a teenage girl named Emily is kidnapped by Lilith (the first vampire ever created) and Frank (the ...

    • Memories of a redneck-hillbilly family. 

      Click, Amy (2018)
      Memories of a Redneck-Hillbilly Family' is a memoir, but it functions more like an autoethnography rather than a strict memoir. Jeannette Walls' memoir the Glass Castle reveals a few painful family truths as mine does; ...

    • Policing in 18th century England : the rise and fall of the thief-taker, 1680-1730. 

      Hartshorn, Scott R. (2016)
      Examines why England and subsequently other English speaking countries were reluctant to adopt a governmental police force to reduce crime, hypothesizing that the establishment of Thief-takers as a governmentally backed ...

    • Something of himself : textual and historical revision in Rudyard Kipling's Kim. 

      Stuckey, Lexi (2008)
      This thesis asks whether 'Kim', as a fin de siècle novel, helped to bridge the Victorian and modern periods in British literature, and whether the novel, published at the midpoint of Kipling's career, stands as a marker ...

    • The inherent influence of travel on an emerging feminist icon : Florence Nightingale abroad. 

      Riepl, Lauren M. (2017)
      The primary intent of this research is to evaluate and deduce events leading up to, during, and after the travels of Florence Nightingale abroad in Europe and the near East. This work examines the perception of how enforced ...

    • "The invisible spirit alone" : the romance of reform in Grace Aguilar's theological writings. 

      Dearinger, Lindsay (2011)
      The Anglo-Jewish author Grace Aguilar lived in the early nineteenth century when England was experiencing revolutions and reforms in philosophy, politics, and religion. The daughter of Sephardic immigrants, Aguilar authored ...

    • Triangulating power in the writing class. 

      Gee, Ammon Spencer (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 ...