UCO - Graduate Works and Theses: Recent submissions
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Confessions of a Band Shirt Vigilante.
(2012)The work is divided into six sections, which represent the emotion or motivation behind the speaker's obstacles in society. These obstacles may become reminders of the triumphs and failures of a young man's experience, ... -
Victimization: homeless in the heartland
(2012)This study examines victimization of 21 homeless individuals and noted viewpoints on crimes relating to the homeless from caretakers in Oklahoma City proper. The crimes reported to the police are listed and examined to ... -
Dynamic concept categorization : a systematic approach to improving classroom performance.
(2012)A study technique requiring participants to form unique combination of categories was implemented to explore its impact on test scores. Findings suggest that study aids in general seem to be more beneficial for college ... -
First impressions : the effect of perceived micro-expressions on the attitudes of others.
(2012)Research concerning facial expressions indicates that humans are capable of detecting and interpreting subtle and fleeting expressions, even without conscious effort. In this proposed study, the researchers examined whether ... -
The persistence of the gender wage gap in the 21st century.
(2012)The goal of this research project is to determine whether the gender wage gap still exists, and if so, why it continues to exist. It explores the evolution of federal wage equality legislation, the establishment of the ... -
Ratings agencies and governance.
(2012)As recently as last year, the United States was facing a monumental decision in regards to economic policy: should the debt ceiling be raised? The answer itself, while important, was not the motivation behind this research, ... -
The Brunnolf tradition.
(2012)The Brunnolf Tradition is a novel-length original work that may be categorized as a supernatural mystery for young adults. The plot follows Natalie Irving's quest to discover her maternal family, the Brunnolfs. In the ... -
Passive visual behavior modifiers and consumer psychophysiology online.
(2012)Through an examination of the electroencephalography (EEG) data collected from 27 university students, this study examined the efficacy of three known passive visual behavior modifiers -- color, layout, and motion -- in ... -
A false feminism : the objectification of women in Isabel Allende's The stories of Eva Luna.
(2012)Isabel Allende is often praised for creating heroines that liberate themselves from oppression, often through their freedom of sexuality. In her collection of short stories, The Stories of Eva Luna, the female protagonists ... -
Frank.
(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 ... -
Victims of patriarchy : failed masculinity in nineteenth-century American literature.
(2012)The United States was built upon foundations of patriarchy which called for men to demonstrate their masculinity publicly. In the nineteenth-century, as middle- and upper-class Americans began to populate cities, there ... -
The passing.
(2012)The Passing explores the relationship between man and death in a fictional world called Aetheria. The protagonist, Kane Brennan, goes to war and is forced to decide what he truly believes about the world and himself while ... -
Validation of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for the detection of licit and illicit drugs in human breast milk.
(2012)Human breast milk contains essential nutrients and immunological factors that are critical for the health and development of infants. The benefits of breast-feeding have been studied extensively, and research has shown ... -
The star quilt
(2012)The adopted daughter of a Cherokee woman and a likable country man, Ginny Hefner grew up an only child in the small northeastern Oklahoma town of Wagoner in the decade of the 1930s. In that small town, against the backdrop ... -
Social perception and implicit self-esteem.
(2012)Three experiments investigated whether implicit self-esteem was influenced by various perceptual stimuli. It was predicted that positive comments, performance, and feedback would lead to high implicit self-esteem, whereas ... -
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 ... -
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. -
Macedonian national identity : origins, tensions, and challenges.
(2012)During the Ottoman period Balkan collective identities existed without national content. As the historian Eric Hobsbawm has observed, the 'ethnicity of any people in southeastern Europe is an eternal matter of debate'. ... -
Early care professionals' perspective of sociodramatic play.
(2012)This qualitative study was conducted to deepen the understanding of the Early Care Professional's perspective while implementing sociodramatic play. Data was gathered and categorized from two interviews of each of the five ... -
Effects of situational attributions on mental and physical fatigue
(2012)Strength models of self-regulation assume that depletion of a limited cognitive resource may impair performance on subsequent tasks requiring that resource (Baumeister et al., 1999) but multiple resource models assume that ...