Theses - Honors College: Recent submissions
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Weak Rule of Law as the Primary Cause of Lower-Quality Latin American Democracies
(2020-09-02)Drawing on a deep tradition of rule of law literature, spanning from Aristotle to O’Donnell, this thesis argues that the main problem in modern Latin America is a weak rule of law evidenced by ineffective judicial systems ... -
Impressionism: A Comparison of the Stylistic Characteristics of the Movement in Music and the Visual Arts
(2020-09-02)Impressionism is a well-known term when it comes to the visual arts, and a very important movement in the music world. Compositional techniques used during the Impressionist movement had revolutionary, lasting impacts on ... -
The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program at University High School in Waco, Texas: A Win-Win Project for Baylor and Waco
(2020-09-02)This thesis will describe the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program on a national level and explain the history and background of the program. It will then focus on explaining the particular history and success ... -
My Transformative Summer of Running: Replication of Four Studies Relating to Running Outside of a Laboratory Setting
(2020-09-02)The objective of this project is to ascertain whether a person could improve their running performance by replicating a set of four scientific studies on running back-to- back over a six-week period outside of a laboratory ... -
A Review of Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis and Proposal of A Symptom Mitigation Tool
(2020-09-02)Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis (HyperPP) is a disease caused by a mutation of the SCN4A gene (Weber et al., 1993). This gene codes for the alpha-subunit of the voltage-gated Nav1.4 sodium channels found in skeletal muscle ... -
Fantasy and the Scriptural Imagination
(2020-09-02)Christians are surrounded by a surplus of imaginative stimuli, yet the majority are unaware of the rich theological tradition of the imagination in Christian scholarship. Many Christians who earnestly desire to glorify God ... -
An Evaluation of Group Prenatal Care for High-Risk Obstetric Patients: A Matched Cohort Comparison
(2020-09-02)This study analyzes group prenatal care, branded as CenteringPregnancy specifically, as an effective model of treatment capable of 1) improving health outcomes, and 2) decreasing expenditures. Previous studies largely have ... -
Synthesis of Chiral Tetramic Acids: Preparation of (S)-5-Benzylpyrrolidine-2,4-dione from L-Phenylalanine Methyl Ester Hydrochlorides and Synthetic Efforts Towards Dracocephalone A
(2020-09-02)The pyrrolidine-2,4-dione moiety, colloquially known as tetramic acid, is a highly versatile molecular scaffold underpinning many biologically active natural products. That is to say, natural products containing these ... -
A Translation of Two Synchronic Russian Linguistic Articles: A Commentary on Their Functions
(2020-06-05)Within current morphosyntactic theory, the ability for a rule or taxonomy to be universal is crucial. By translating two linguistic articles, I present findings relevant to current linguistic theory within modern Russian. ... -
In The Shadow of The Mountain: Stories from Soliders at Nui Ba Den
(2020-06-01)Having developed a deep passion for the Vietnam War, this project was born with the hope of telling a narrative of the men of a single military company in Vietnam between 1969 and 1970. Oral history interviews were conducted ... -
Howling: Hecuba in Ovid’s Metamorphoses XIII and Beyond
(2020-06-01)Hecuba, the ill-fated Queen of Troy, appears in significant literature from Homer’s Iliad to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. While the Hecuba of Euripidean tragedy has warranted much attention, Ovid's rendering of her in epic poetry ... -
Purpose Marketing: A Genuine Way for Companies to Advocate for Change or a Deceitful Sales Tactic?
(2020-06-01)This thesis explores the implementation of purpose marketing in modern day advertising. Studies have shown that consumers are willing to switch to brands that support causes they believe in, and brands have started to ... -
"Who is the Other?": The Intersection of Anthropological and Theological Discourse On U.S. Relations with Latin American Refugees
(2020-06-01)The existence of oneself logically necessitates the existence of another, for being able to define what one is requires that one differentiates from what one is not. This is referred to as the self-other dichotomy. The ... -
Existentialism and Modern Music
(2020-06-01)Existentialism and Modern Music comments on both philosophy and music by drawing parallels between the two. Existentialism helps explain the trends in musical development, shows the direct correlation of composer life-views ... -
Girls Gone Wild: Female Authorship in Augustan Rome
(2020-06-01)It is no surprise that, based on the records that we have today, the literary field of Ancient Rome consisted almost solely of men. However, one female author survives, hidden within the Tibullan corpus. In six short ... -
The Importance of Proper Status Assignment on Medicare Observation Patients
(2020-06-01)Observation Units are ultimately intended to give hospitals greater time to more accurately diagnose patients admitted through the Emergency Department (ED), both freeing up ED beds and avoiding unnecessary admissions. ... -
Inside the War Room: Strategies for Effective Policy Briefs from American Think Tanks
(2020-06-01)This thesis will attempt to demonstrate what constitutes an effective policy brief. First, I will look at historical attempts to measure influence, using those as a guide to define an ‘effective’ policy brief. Next, this ... -
The New Advocate: A History of Early Female Lawyers in the United States from 1860 to 1920
(2020-05-29)This thesis will explore the history of the first female lawyers in the United States. I will detail the struggles and successes of those women who, from 1860 to 1920, formed a sense of professional identity for American ... -
Belief and Credence: A Defense of the Vague Reduction
(2020-05-29)An epistemological issue garnering increasingly more interest is the relation between the doxastic taxonomies of traditional and formal epistemology, and especially the relation between rational, outright belief and credence. ... -
Roman Catholic Church Teaching and Abortion: A Historical View from the Early Church to Modern Day
(2020-05-29)The Catholic Church is known today to be staunchly opposed to any practice that violates the dignity of human life, including abortion. While the Catechism refers to this teaching as constant and unchanging since the first ...