UCO - Graduate Works and Theses: Recent submissions
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The precocious mind : the intellectual development of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
(2010)Charlotte Perkins Gilman embodied the innovative spirit of her age and country. She was not content to accept the roles that society had imposed upon her sex. As a true American revolutionary, Gilman defied expectations ... -
Exploring leadership behaviors as a deterrent or promotional means of perceived team cohesion among fastpitch softball players.
(2010)Research suggests that a leader's effectiveness in sport is contingent upon varying characteristics of athletes and the present situation. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between leadership behaviors ... -
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 ... -
Communion concepts : confession, conversion, and redemption in The sun also rises, The grapes of wrath, and The poisonwood Bible.
(2010)The elements and themes of Protestant communion are evident in The Sun Also Rises (1926), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and The Poisonwood Bible (1998). The elements of wine and bread are ubiquitous in these novels and ... -
Indiana Jones and the displaced daddy : Spielberg's quest for the good father, adulthood, and God.
(2010)"The Indiana Jones films define adventure as perpetual adolescence: idealized yet stifling emotional maturation. The series consequently resonates with the search for a good father and a confirmation for modernist man that ... -
Disconnected.
(2010)Abstract excerpt: Contains eight short stories exploring themes of displacement, isolation, emotional stagnation, and personal transformation. Primarily set in the American South and narrated by first-person male narrators, ... -
Ethos as street credibility: defining the street artist as a hero persona in the hip-hop lyrics of Nas
(2010)Hip-hop authenticity can simply be measured by an artist who is labeled as "real" or as a "sell out." Using Michael Dyson's concept of authenticity in hip-hop and Byron Hurt, Nelson George, and Mickev Hess's examination ... -
Soul on fire : a musical.
(2010)Abstract excerpt: This musical follows Kisha, a young girl who was raped by a prominent member of her community, as she tries to prove that her story is true. It explores the aftermath of rape and abuse and its effect on ... -
Varieties of religious perception : a Q methodological approach to the study of relgious [i.e religious] beliefs.
(2010)Religion is at the heart of all cultures. Three of the most widely known religions are Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. To determine if differences exist, a Q-methodology study of religious beliefs was conducted. The ... -
A pre/post analysis of death anxiety as it relates to death education, Christian fundamentalism, anomie, recent death of a loved one, sex, age, and college classification.
(2009)This research focuses on the topic of death anxiety among college students in a large, metropolitan university. Specifically, it purports to measure the relationship between death anxiety before and after a death education ... -
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 ... -
Perceived status value regarding elderly individuals : assessing cultural influence.
(2009)Western societies often view elderly individuals in a more negative view than other cultures around the world. This negative view is commonly referred to as ageism. The importance of understanding this demographic has ... -
Ariadne's threads of identity : foreshadowing of social and individual identity theories in John Dos Passos' U.S.A.
(2009)The eminent biologist E.O. Wilson theorizes a unity of knowledge for all fields of study. Claiming that all knowledge springs from a basis in physics and continues to chemistry, biology, social sciences, and into humanities ... -
Morphology and demography of Sonoran mud turtles (Kinosternon sonoriense) along an aquatic habitat permanence gradient.
(2009)Aquatic habitats exist along a permanence gradient and are characterized by the degree of interactions between abiotic (desiccation) and biotic (predation) factors, which are identified as characteristics that regulate ... -
Assessing the interior design of storm shelters on a university campus
(2009)The purpose of this study is to assess whether the current design and space plan of a primary storm shelter in an educational building located on a large mid-western university campus in “Tornado Alley” is safe according ... -
Determining population boundaries and densities of red-eared slider turtles (Trachemys scripta) : an empirical field test.
(2009)Source-sink metapopulations consist of large source subpopulations surrounded by smaller sink subpopulations where predictable migrations correlate with habitat favorability. From 1996-2003, Trachemys scripta were trapped ... -
Warning signs : avoiding consumer debt : can a system of visual signs be developed to persuade consumers to become wary of their debt?.
(2009)The lack of warning regarding consumer debt, brought about the development of a visual system of warning signs, based on characteristics found in other effective warning signs. The created warning sign has the potential ... -
Early English religious literature : the development of the genres of poetry, narrative, and homily.
(2009)This thesis contends that during the medieval period, as Anglo-Saxon literature developed under, at first, the influence of Germanic oral traditions and later, the authority of continental (and particularly Latin) literary ... -
The effects of replicative senescence and telomerase on contraction and motility of fibroblasts.
(2009)Fibroblasts are important in wound healing as they can create tension, migrate into a wound, and differentiate into myofibroblasts that produce a contractile force to close the wound. Replicative senescence, or the limit ... -
Judicial activism : a study of the Warren through Rehnquist courts.
(2009)Despite the dismissive attitude toward the concept of judicial activism among some members of the academic community, it nevertheless continues to be a relevant theme in politics. Conservatives tend to use this phrase as ...