Browsing University of Central Oklahoma by Title
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Cyber activism : the information revolution, political actors and the potential for regime transition.
(2010)"This thesis addresses the role of information communication technologies and the internet in explaining modern revolutions. While previous scholarship has analyzed the significance of social movements and the potential ... -
The cyber-economy and the nation-state
(1996)The cyber-economy which is developing via the Internet represents a serious challenge to the ability of nation-states to exercise sovereignty over their economies. Nation-states stand to lose the ability to control their ... -
Dante Poeticus/ Dante Mystics : Dante's Mysticism from his time through the sixteenth century.
(2016)The relationship of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) to mysticism has been investigated in a surprisingly lopsided manner by scholars. That Dante was influenced by mystics who lived before him is not seriously in question, and ... -
DARE to Say NO
(2022-07-14)Using the Acronym DARE we'll look specifically at reclassing the offensive and dated terminology of call numbers for materials classified with N and O Cutter numbers for "Negro" and "Oriental." DARE is short for Decide ... -
Darnell : a report to the nation.
(1942?) -
Daytime & Evening Capes, Coats, Furs, Jackets, Shawls & Stoles
(2019-09)Catalog depicts outerwear from the 1800s to the 1970s designed by Alexandrine, Bardley, Ben Zuckerman, Birger Christensen, Bonnie Cashin, Calvin Klein, Carlye, Castillo of Spain, Count Romi Ltd., Cuddle-Coat, Davidow, ... -
De(con)structive time : visual style and temporal simultaneity in the works of Gaspar Noe?ü.
(2013)Despite the popularity of director Gaspar Noe?ü's films, little critical attention has been give to the overall style or common themes within his work as a whole, which also includes short films and music videos. Instead ... -
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 ... -
Decolonizing the histories of Helen Hunt Jackson and Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
(2013)What is decolonization and how does it work? The concept of decolonization surfaced during "the global Indigenous activism in the 1970s." Although the idea is not new, it has been given little attention by mainstream ... -
Deconstructing the domestic sphere : the American sentimental novel as feminist metafiction.
(2018)Since the late twentieth century, sentimental literature has seen a resurgence in literary study, with many nineteenth-century American women writers receiving critical attention for the first time. However, this attention ... -
Defending the Freedom to Read: Policies, Procedures & Civic Engagement
(2023-11-10)Author of On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US (Fulcrum, 2023), LaRue has dealt with over 1,200 challenges in his career as a public library director and former Executive Director of ALA’s ... -
Defensive reactions to masculinity threat.
(2012)Compensatory behavior are defined as behaviors that are intended to make up for a perceived lack of competency in a particular area. The present studies investigated how men compensate for perceived masculinity threats. ... -
Degrees of oblivion.
(2010)"These poems are chiefly concerned with self-awareness and the degree to which each poem's individual speaker is, either voluntarily or involuntarily, oblivious to his or her particular circumstance within the poem. This ... -
Democracy in South Sudan : prospects and pitfalls.
(2012)Democracy in one among many other things in the nation building package that the South Sudan government is looking to achieve. Where or what are the hopes? what is it that will work this rime around?. Almost all African ... -
Democratization and gender inequality in Egypt.
(2012)This thesis offers a qualitative analysis of the condition of women's social and political roles in Egyptian society prior to and during their current transition to a legitimate democracy. It argues that without mitigation ... -
Democratization and Islam : the Senegalese exception
(2015)This thesis analyzes the factors conducive to secularism in Senegal. It shows that Islam is in fact compatible with democracy and freedom. Indeed, despite the persistence of authoritarianism in many Islamic societies, ... -
Democratization in Burma/Myanmar.
(2011)Burma/Myanmar held its first elections in 2010, twenty years after the last controversial elections in 1990. Democratic political institutions were absent since 1962 when the parliamentary government was dissolved as a ... -
Demonstrating the efficacy of learning ecology in an outdoor science education program on 5th grade science Oklahoma core curriculum test scores.
(2014)Science education is in need of reform in order to better meet the learning needs of the students. The goal of this research was to determine if the implementation of an outdoor education program has a significant impact ... -
Department of "Corrections" : the human caging of men and women, and reproductive justice
(2019)This thesis examines the prison system in the United States starting in the early 19th century and discusses punishments that were considered inhumane, resulting in the introduction of prisons. This research explores some ... -
Depew : a report to the nation.
(1942?)