Browsing UCO - Graduate Theses by Title
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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 ... -
Social-envenomation : a ritual of snake-handling churches.
(2018)This study focused on the deaths that had taken place within the Pentecostal church sects that handled venomous snakes during their religious services. This was accomplished by gathering statistics of 105 cases that were ... -
Socioeconomic status and physical activity levels in obese and non-obese African Americans
(2022)A lack of physical activity has become a major problem in the United States with no signs of relief coming anytime soon. More specifically, the African American community continues to remain among the most inactive. While ... -
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(2015)A creative thesis of lyric poetry. A collection exploring the struggles and beauty of childhood, relationships and desire as they play out in front of a Western Oklahoma backdrop. -
Something of himself : textual and historical revision in Rudyard Kipling's Kim.
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Spandex cinema : three approaches to comic book film adaptation.
(2009)Adapting graphic novels requires new approaches in the theoretical models currently available to film theorists. Comic book films must be dissected beyond references to character, setting, plot, or story; analysis must ... -
Spirituality, sexual orientation, and mental health among college students.
(2017)The purpose of this study was to determine whether sexual orientation and spiritual practice affect depression and anxiety symptoms among non-heterosexual college students. Participants (n=11) were non-heterosexual college ... -
Stability of synthetic cannabinoids in biological specimens : analysis through liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry.
(2014)Synthetic cannabinoids, known as spice or K2 among others, create an ever-changing challenge for the forensic chemist or toxicologist. The spectrum of compounds is constantly growing and evolving. Understanding the stability ... -
A Streetcar Named Envy and Aggression
(2021)Envy is a well-known unpleasant emotion that is often characterized by inferiority and resentment and appears when individuals compare themselves to others (Parrott, 1991). Jealousy occurs when individuals fear losing ... -
Subliminally primed social exclusion's effect on reaffiliation behaviors.
(2013)The need to belong is as innate as our need for food or water (Maslow, 1943). When that need is threatened, people strive to reaffiliate with desired ingroups. They may act in uncharacteristic ways, or purchase items they ... -
Submersion as rhetorical tactic for women of color at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
(2021)The 1893 Columbian Exposition of the Chicago World’s Fair was a moment meant to showcase the best of the American experience, and many women of color saw this event as an opportunity to voice their message of suffrage for ... -
Sulphur and lilacs.
(2011)Set in a late-1930's mining town in West Virginia and in the broader theater of World War II, Sulphur and Lilacs is about Calvin Fisher, a young Marine whose experiences teach him about honor, duty, family, and love. As a ... -
Summer of excess.
(2013)On graduation day in May 2013, Olivia "Liv" Grigsby and her three friends have a rowdy night that endangers Liv's pot operation. The friends help to keep one another in good spirits as they encounter unexpected opportunities ... -
Supernatural bodies : the intersection of Nigerian feminism and body autonomy.
(2019)Many Nigerian women are depicted in literature as possessing little to no personal agency. Due to socio political issues, these women are often relegated to the margins of discourse surrounding Nigerian literature. Because ... -
Surgeons of the severed limb: Confederate military medicine in Arkansas, 1863-1865
(2014)By bridging two frequently overlooked subjects in Civil War historiography, medicine and the conflict in the West, this work provides a novel and important perspective on the war in the Trans-Mississippi by examining the ... -
Surrenstrada : for honor.
(2018)The genre of my novel is Fantasy. The subgenre is Weird West. This novel showcases monsters and creatures set in a western world. This book is heavily influenced by high fantasy novels with shades of steampunk. Even though ... -
Surveillance of molluscan (gastropod) intermediate hosts for the emerging infectious disease Angiostrongyliasis (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) in Oklahoma.
(2018)Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, is the etiologic agent of an emerging infectious zoonosis, angiostrongyliasis. To date there is relatively little known about this parasite from a public health perspective. ... -
T.S. Eliot : a bibliography of T.S. Eliot criticism, 1987-2013
(2015)This bibliography of scholarship related to the writer T.S. Eliot is arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically within each year. This bibliography contains 1624 entries. Select entries have been annotated. Where ...