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Waco Crime Trends, 1930 – 2013: A Comparative Study of Violent, Property, and Index Crime Rates
This thesis examines long-term trends of violent, property, and index crimes in Waco between 1930 and 2013. Data were drawn from the Uniform Crime Reports for the crime rates of Waco, the United States, Texas, three major ... -
The Waco lynching of 1916 : perspective and analysis.
(, 2018-01-22)Many lynchings have occurred in the United States. It is the purpose of this study to isolate one incident and compare its characteristics to other lynchings in Waco and to lynchings across the country. Though all lynchings ... -
Wages of Mexican American women : beyond human capital.
(2009-06-02)Labor force participation of Mexican American women, like the labor force participation of all women, has been increasing in recent years. Due to the increase in the labor force participation of Mexican American women, ... -
Walker Percy and the Catholic sacraments.
(2008-04-15)A noticeable void in Walker Percy studies is the absence of a full-length theological analysis of his treatment of the Catholic sacraments, an unfortunate omission considering the place they occupy in his work. This project ... -
Walker Percy's Comic Vision: Reconciling Grace in a Racially Riven Culture
(2018-05-21)Walker Percy—at once an heir of Southern Stoicism and also a Christian convert who rejected it—stands in a uniquely well-suited place to comment satirically and constructively upon the shortcomings of Southern culture. ... -
Walls Can Talk
(2019-05-24)Upon learning that a large factory in small-town Ohio is closing, tension between employees develops into violence. Though corporate greed is ultimately to blame, racial and social tensions result in a rage-fueled murder ... -
A War of Freedoms: Addressing Modern American Rights Talk
(2015)Modern American rights claims spring from a wide array of historical, legal, and metaphysical sources, but these different sources often lead to radically different ideas about which rights are most important. This confusion ... -
The War on Terror and the Question of Justice
This thesis project uses the Just War Tradition to consider if the War on Terror qualifies as an ethical war. The question is difficult because the War on Terror differs so markedly from traditional wars that have been ... -
Watching Them, Watching Him: A Novella
(2017-05-23)Watching Them, Watching Him is a short novella featuring an infectious disease doctor by the name of Ari Nadim thrust into an epidemic. He is a doctor fresh out of residency with a hero complex that is quickly destroyed ... -
Water, Power, and Gender: Interrogating Development in the Slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh
(2015-05)Urban migratory trends represent one of the most significant challenges for modern international development. For, in the context of weak state capacity, urban migrants often funnel directly into slums—densely populated ... -
"The waters return": myth and mystery in Graham Swift's Waterland.
(2008-10-14)The following chapter will engage Waterland in isolation from Swift’s other novels and collection of short stories, not because these texts do not mutually illuminate one another, but because Waterland deserves a treatment ... -
Waveform and circuit optimizations to provide spectral compliance for cognitive radar.
(, 2014-06-11)Spectrum requirements on radar systems are becoming stricter due to the increasing number of wireless devices inhabiting the frequency spectrum. Future radar systems that are cognitive and flexible will be able to operate ... -
We believe in the Communion of Saints: a proposed Protestant reclamation of the doctrine.
(2006-10-26)The corrective theology of the Reformation broke the historic union, at least in Europe, among all members of the kingdom of God. Perhaps the most serious Protestant loss—one still not satisfactorily recovered—is the ... -
"We never met a foe in open field we did not drive, nor did we ever meet a foe who could drive us" : the 9th Texas Infantry.
(2009-08-25)The 9th Texas Infantry was formed at the start of the Civil War from companies recruited from North Texas. They fought with the Army of Tennessee until the end of the war. The men joined because of a variety of reasons ... -
'We Shall Not Fail Freedom': Oveta Culp Hobby's role in the formation and implementation of the Women's Army Corps.
(2007-12-03)Oveta Culp Hobby remains unknown to the average American, despite the fact that she was the first director of the Women’s Army Corp and was the second woman to hold a presidential cabinet position as the first Secretary ... -
Weakening the “illusion of memory knowledge” : a potential method for improving jurors' evaluation of eyewitness evidence.
(2019-05-31)Many efforts have been made to educate jurors about factors that influence the reliability of eyewitness memory. However, most of them fail to improve jurors’ sensitivity to the quality of a particular memory and instead ... -
Weaver of Tales: Interconnected Imagery in the House of the Citharist
(2014-06-02)Traditional approaches to Roman wall paintings in ancient Pompeii tend to focus on stylistic categories or consider the content of a single painting. In their original setting, however, these paintings existed in a greater ... -
Weaving the Labyrinth: Paradoxes and Parallels in Catullus 64
This thesis examines poem 64, the longest poem written by Catullus, and analyzes its internal structure as well as the allusions made to Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica and Euripides’ Medea. While Catullus is perhaps more ... -
Weibull mixture model for grouped data and pattern identification in spatial and spatial-temporal data.
(2018-06-22)Motived by problems in geology, civil engineering, and material science, we develop statistical models and apply statistical tools for characterizing patterns that exist in different types of data. In the first project, ... -
Welcoming the Religious Stranger: Social Sources of Attitudes Towards Syrian Refugees
(2018-12-18)Due to the human rights violations occurring in Syria, many Syrians fled their homeland and are now refugees. Their refugee status and potential admission to the United States is a hotly contested issue because many Americans ...