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Murder/rapture
(2008)Lenny and Ira discover that they are good at and that they enjoy murder when Ira accidentally kills a stranger. They begin killing people by the scores until Lenny falls in love with a young, vibrant charity worker. -
Sexual and non-sexual offenders: a secondary data analysis.
(2008)In this thesis, the researcher explored the differences between sex offenders and non-sex offenders. Data was gathered from a previous study of 295 convicted inmates, grouped into in-treatment sex offenders, never treated ... -
Recent interior design graduates from two types of programs and the potential employers of interior designers: a descriptive study of opinions regarding online education
(2008)This study examined the perceptions held by recent interior design graduates from both online and traditional degree programs as well as the perceptions of potential employers about an online interior design education. -
Teen mothers' experiences in the New Beginnings Parent Education Program.
(2008)This study was conducted to gain the personal accounts of teen mothers' experiences as students attending the New Beginnings Parent Education Program. Using a phenomenological perspective, the researcher sought to gain a ... -
Jesse James in public memory : the Robin Hood myth, museum interpretation and newspaper analysis of Missouri's famous outlaw.
(2008)This study focuses on the importance of understanding myths and interpretive material to gauge memory of historical criminals. Each chapter represents an aspect of popular culture that supplements the traditional historical ... -
Design related television : influence on the interior design profession.
(2008)Interior design is commonly thought to be in the domain of the home, interior design business, or architectural firm. With the emergence of the lifestyle programming genre on television since the early 1990's, interior ... -
Church interior aesthetics : the effects of interior aesthetics, within a worship environment, on the attendance of an 18 to 25 age population.
(2008)Protestant churches are experiencing a decline in attendance in young adults aged 18 to 25, showing little interest in attending services yet the spiritual interests among them are high. Historically, cultural shifts have ... -
The turtle
(2008)The entire novel is offset as a 'frame' story, a convention of American gothic stories and novels. The book contains a fictitious Editor's Note explaining the origin of The Turtle as being physically delivered to the world's ... -
Hatch
(2008)Hatch is a novel which examines the struggles of urbanization, drug additiction, alienation from community, and shame which threaten a rural Oklahoma family. The Metzers live on a farm in Hatch, a town formed in the 1890s ... -
The relationship between body mass index and subjective well-being in females during early young adulthood.
(2008)This study investigated the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and subjective well-being (SWB) in females during early young adulthood. Seventy-three Caucasian females 18-25 years of age participated in the study. ... -
Talk vs. actions : using a Q-sort to study an evolutionary view of same sex friendships.
(2008)This study sought to find out whether there are differences between male and female same-sex friendships based on evolutionary theory. The researcher took a self-referent measure known as the Q-Sort. The Q-Sort was ... -
Death-primed memory suppression
(2008)Participants (17 males, 37 females) performed a computer-based, five-phase, study recall-suppress-test-recognize task. Participants significantly suppressed more nonword target items compared to death-related prime-target ... -
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, ... -
Paranoid politics : a comparison of the use of fear during the Cold War and the Global War on Terror using the paranoid style of American politics.
(2008)Two of the most frightening time periods in modern America have occurred in close proximity to each other. The Cold War pitted the United States against a fierce ideological competitor that pointed its weapons of mass ... -
The terror within
(2008)Illustrates the degree to which people from all walks of life learn how to cope and survive at all costs. The internal struggle for balance in troubled lives is seen in the external circumstances of everyday living. This ... -
Music heard deeply : song and ethnic interaction in the Cherokee Ozarks.
(2008)Musical practices provide important insights into the interests, opinions, and beliefs of a study population. While demonstrating the role of music in historical analysis, this work also tells a narrative of the varied ... -
Reducing alcohol-related harm through utilizing a harm prevention curriculum at the University of Central Oklahoma.
(2008)The college student population, ages 18-24, represent a population at high risk for alcohol related harm. Although there has been a lot of investigation of methods to prevent this population from using alcohol, there is a ... -
It must be the money : family structure, child well-being, and public policy.
(2008)This study proposed to examine the interactions between income, family structure, race and child well-being. Educational achievement was used as a proxy for child well-being. -
Effects of abiotic factors and cattle grazing on gypsum outcrop plant communities in the Cimarron Gypsum Hills, northwestern Oklahoma.
(2008)Patterns of vascular plant species composition in relationship to abiotic factors and grazing history were quantified for gypsum outcrop communities of the Cimarron Gypsum Hills of northwestern Oklahoma. -
A comparison of completion times between a 1.5-mile run on an indoor track and treadmill in physically active individuals.
(2008)The purpose of this study was to compare the 1.5-mile run test performed on an indoor track to the 1.5-mile run test performed on a treadmill in a group of physically active adults 19 to 30 years of age. The study compared ...