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Religion and Resistance: An Analysis on the Influence of Christianity on the White Rose Resistance Movement Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)Because religion often leads people to do seemingly irrational things, understanding a person’s religion is essential to understand his/her actions. This was especially true in Nazi Germany when religious conviction led ... -
Respect Undergraduate
(2017-04)Shortly after starting my graduate studies in the fall of 2015 at OU in Regional and City Planning, I came across the opportunity to study abroad in Uganda during the summer of 2016. This would be my first trip out of the ... -
Reworking Westoxification: Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s Original Conception of Westoxification and its Post-Revolutionary Reinvention Undergraduate
(2019-03)On October 19th, 2016, the Islamic Republic of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, posted an image on Instagram that depicts Uncle Sam standing in front of what appears to be a club-like entrance blocked off by red ... -
Ritual Impurity and the Decline of the Safavid Dynasty Undergraduate
(2018)The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the rise of the Safavid dynasty and the establishment of Iran as a stronghold of Shi'a Islam. The body of research on these two centuries of Persian history provides us with a ... -
The Role and Impact of Jewish Evangelism in the Nineteenth Century Great Britian: The London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews Undergraduate
(2014-04-01)Maggie McKee-Huey’s “The Role and Impact of Jewish Evangelism in Nineteenth Century Great Britain: The London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews,” provides insight to causes of the movement of Christian ... -
Russian-Syrian Relations: Past and Present Undergraduate
(2016)Drawing heavily on Andrej Kreutz’s Russia in the Middle East and Robert Freedman’s “Russia and the Arab Spring: A Preliminary Appraisal” along with numerous news sources, this essay serves a twofold purpose of sketching ... -
A Satisfying Death: Eighteenth Century Creek Spiritual Traditions Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)A Satisfying Death, Eighteenth Century Creek Spiritual Traditions, by Margaretta Gabriela Báez, is above all a fascinating story. I found this paper compelling in part because I am a history major focusing on American and ... -
Sephardi Identity in Greater Syria in the Late Ottoman Period Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)Identity is fluid for any individual or group of people, and depends on changing cultural, political, social, and economic environments as well as histories. Tensions between Sephardim and the Ottoman Empire, Ashkenazim, ... -
Sino-Korean Relations and the Ming-Qing Transition Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)China and Korea have long had a close relationship. However, during the early Qing dynasty, the relations between China and Korea were not as warm as usual. Following the Chinese Ming dynasty, one of the more intimate ... -
So That Others May Live: The Struggle of Jewish Doctors to Preserve Life in the Holocaust Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)The Holocaust is at once a frequent subject of collegiate study and an infinitely multi-layered moment in history. In this paper, Nicholas Eckenrode succeeds in analyzing an element of Holocaust history whose obscurity has ... -
Southern Ladies Rebellion: The Failure of Women's Sufferage in Mississippi Undergraduate
(2016-04-01)Thanks to an intense and justified focus in the scholarly community on the enslavement and oppression of African-Americans, little attention has been paid towards the efforts of women in the South striving for rights of ... -
Space and the Psychology of Personality Types: How Personality Influences Reactions to Architectural Space Undergraduate
(2016)Researchers in both architecture and psychology agree that open office plans can have significant negative consequences for employees. This, though, is where universal agreement ends: researchers in both fields have ... -
Spontaneous Generation and Kuhn's Model of Scientific Revolution Undergraduate
(2012)Thomas S. Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" describes the cyclical process by which science develops. This process, far from one of slow, gradual accumulation, is a process of revolution in which one framework ... -
Stolen Victories, Evaluating the War Cult in Soviet Russia Undergraduate
(2012-10-01)Meghan Riley is the inaugural winner of the Griswold Prize. Although the competition for this prize was fierce, the editorial board concurred that Ms. Riley’s essay embodied most clearly the standards of exceptional ... -
Strangers in Their Own Land: How Moorish Occupation Conditioned Spanish Views of the New World Undergraduate
(2014-04-01)The Spaniards watched with bated breath. The dust, having been kicked up by hundreds of natives who had just arrived, had yet to settle making visibility difficult. The cause of all this commotion was the arrival of the ... -
Student Starts: How the Media Covered 1960's Student Protest Leaders Undergraduate
(2016-04-01)John Sulkowski’s Student Stars: How the Media Covered 1960’s Student Protest Leaders, demonstrates the continuing importance of analyzing the role our media plays in influencing our perception of history. -Sarah Miles -
A Study of Female Representation in American Popular Music Festival Culture Undergraduate
(2015)When music festivals featuring both popular artists and more underground genres first appeared in the United States in the mid-twentieth century, they provided individuals with an opportunity to escape from reality and ... -
Stumbling in the Dark: How America Fumbled its Energy Future Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)Throughout recent history, American energy policy has been a misguided “clusterfrack” biased toward fossil fuel interests and dismissive of long-term security. Rather than creating a proactive, sustainable plan for fueling ... -
The Alternating Allegiances of the Ulama: Clerical Participation in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11 Undergraduate
(2019-09)In the summer of 1906, a group of theology students and other constitutionalists gathered in Tehran for what was expected to be a peaceful protest in favor of government reforms, a continuation of the nascent Constitutional ...