• Jewish American Women's Autobiography: Mary Antin to Golda Meir 

  Zuniga, Carina (2016-08-11)

  Throughout the twentieth century, the United States experienced vast changes such as large-scale immigration, world wars, and civil rights movements. The effects of these changes on minorities, women, and especially ...

• Parable of Holistic Healing 

  Zakhary, Emily (2016-08-11)

  The understanding of the seemingly simple word, “health” has been largely misconstrued within society. Ideally health would be “holistic” and many health care professionals and patients desire to give and receive respectively ...

• Determining the correlation between accessory gene regulator polymorphisms and Staphylococcus aureus sensitivity to 470 nm blue light 

  Yuen, Sarah (2016-08-11)

  Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive pathogen responsible for minor skin infections, deep tissue infections, and even death. Due to the increasing resistance of S. aureus strains to antibiotics, it is important to ...

• Narrative Strategies and Race: Analyzing the Treatment of Indigenous People in Imperial Novels 

  Wolf, Grayson (2016-08-11)

  This thesis posits a hermeneutical principle by which a contemporary reader can understand the function of racism in imperial literature. Rather than ascribe racism to the author without consideration for how it is used ...

• Stressed Out! A Review of the Neurobiological and Cognitive Effects of Stress 

  Winters, Kathleen (2016-08-11)

  While stress is a common experience, high levels of stress can be dangerous to both physical and mental health. Chronic stress is implicated in many psychological disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder, depression, ...

• Intention Interference, Intention Superiority and Commission Errors in Prospective Memory Tasks after Suspended or Finished Instructions 

  Willis, Matthew (2016-08-11)

  Most prospective memory experiments focus on response times and overall task performance. Utilizing MouseTracker software (Freeman & Ambady, 2010), the intention interference effect and intention superiority effect are ...

• The Environmental Impacts and Social Trends of the Recreational Fishing of Sharks on the Texas Coast of the Gulf of Mexico 

  Weatherwax, Justin (2016-08-11)

  As shark populations continue to fall in the Gulf of Mexico and around the world, commercial fisheries receive the majority of the blame, but recreational fishing may also be a notable factor. A primary goal of this study ...

• Setting the Scene in Environmental Fiction: Kenneth Burke and the Frontier Myth 

  Watson, Samuel

  It is difficult to ignore the environmental problems facing the world as a whole. Humanity has always produced stories in response to cultural movements and global problems. Recent pieces of environmental media can give ...

• Characterization of Cell Wall Peptidoglycan in Enterococcus faecalis Biofilm Using Stable Isotope Labeling by Amino Acids in Cell Culture 

  Wallace, Ashley (2016-08-11)

  The formation of bacterial biofilms is a significant concern in healthcare settings. In an effort to expand the current body of knowledge about biofilm and provide information useful for clinical treatment, this study ...

• It Is Good: Theological Reflections on Celibacy and Sexual Life 

  Varnell, Bradley (2016-08-11)

  As western social mores concerning sexual life and order have changed with increased rapidity the church has seemed at a loss as to how to guide Christians to live lives of sexual wholeness and holiness. This has resulted, ...

• Relationship Between Cognitive Functioning and Activities of Daily Living in Homeless Adults 

  Traino, Katherine (2016-08-11)

  It has been established that a homeless population demonstrates impairment in various areas of memory executive functioning, such as decision making and verbal fluency (Davidson, Chrosniak, Wanschura, & Flinn, 2014). ...

• Phronesis: The Missing Virtue 

  Tanner, Elijah

  This thesis examines the intellectual virtue of phronesis, as understood through Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Joseph Dunne’s addition to Aristotle in Back to the Rough Ground. The thesis highlights the importance of ...

• The Relationship Between Executive Functions and Physical Activity in University Students 

  Sweet, Mikaela (2016-08-11)

  Obesity is a major health concern in the United States. Regular participation in physical activity is associated with lower rates of obesity and co-morbid health concerns. While a number of studies have demonstrated a link ...

• A Qualitative Study of Collective Impact: Understanding the Need for Community Engagement 

  Sutton, Trent (2016-08-11)

  Using a qualitative study comprised of five in-depth interviews, this thesis considers the method of collaborative community change known as collective impact, specifically in regards to community engagement. The study ...

• Horrific Beauty 

  Sullivan, Madeleine (2016-08-11)

  The world is full of really horrible evils. Horrific human suffering, meaningless animal deaths, and natural systems based on destruction work together to threaten our sense of meaning in the world as well as our ability ...

• Gathered Storytelling: Death and Disease Among the Luo of the Nyakach Plateau 

  Stull, Dillon (2016-08-11)

  Humans’ particular experiences of sickness and death depend largely upon their respective cultural and religious beliefs. They also depend greatly upon the social practices of their community, which define expectations for ...

• The Legal History and Evolution of the Clean Water Rule: Definition of "Waters of the United States" 

  Stradley, Susan (2016-08-11)

  Since the enactment of the Clean Water Act in 1972, much has changed in both legal precedent and scientific knowledge concerning the ways administrative agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army ...

• Rome: Reverence and Resentment in the Greek East 

  Stover, William (2016-08-11)

  The years between 229 BC and 146 BC saw a massive transformation of the relationship between Rome and her Greek neighbors. From antiquarian curiosity concerning Roman origins to hopeful approval and bitter opposition, the ...

• Censorship and Freedom: American Libraries and the World Wars 

  Stone, Nadine (2016-08-11)

  In the First World War, almost all American libraries embraced censorship in the name of patriotism and paternalism. By the time America entered the Second World War, however, the majority of librarians had notably ...

• "The Impact of Patriarchal Religions on the Creation of Oppressive Cultures of Female Purity and the Contribution to Rape Culture" 

  Stepp, Haley (2016-08-11)

  Patriarchal interpretations of religions have given rise to purity cultures which are selectively oppressive, dangerous, and sexually restrictive to women. Furthermore, patriarchal versions of religions have led to the ...

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