Theses - Honors College: Recent submissions
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An Evaluation of the Rise of Online Sexual Exploitation of Children and Technology: How the Past Three Decades Speak to Future
(2021-01-06)This thesis analyzes the impact of technological developments from 1987-early 2020 on the growth of online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC). Over the past several decades, the online sexual exploitation of children ... -
Caddo Artifacts in Central Texas: A Proposed Trade Connection
(2021-01-06)East Texas artifacts, including Caddo pottery, Bonham-Alba arrow points, and Gahagan knives dating to the Early Caddo Period (AD 1000-1300), have been recovered from central Texas archaeological sites in McLennan, Coryell, ... -
Link
(2021-01-06)Link is a full-length play that follows the early career of a young politician with a secret. As Congressman Lincoln Williams navigates his first months in office, he must face the growing conflict between his convictions ... -
The Spirituality of Female Characters in C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia: Female Traits and Interactions with the Divine
(2021-01-06)This thesis examines the personal traits of the female characters in The Chronicles of Narnia series, as well as the female characters’ interactions with the divine. The women in C.S. Lewis’s fiction have nuanced spiritualities, ... -
Religion and Relocation: How the Latin American Christian Church Impacts Migrants in Central America
(2021-01-06)This thesis examines a long history of Christianity in Latin America in conjunction with a more recent phenomenon: the migration crisis in Central America. It builds on a study into the history of religion and social action ... -
Effects of Private and Public Health Insurance on Diagnosis of Heart Disease
(2021-01-06)This study examines the relationship between the presence of private or federal health insurance and the chances of being diagnosed with heart disease. Secondary data from the Meals on Wheels Longitudinal study (n=807) was ... -
Healing Hands: A Bicontinental Study of Medicine
(2021-01-06)A student’s journey to becoming a physician is long and arduous. The process exists to properly train and educate physicians, ensuring their competence before entering the complex world of patient care and healthcare policy. ... -
The Waco Community Health Worker Program: A Qualitative Investigation and Community Focused Restructuring
(2021-01-06)Community health care worker programs have been increasingly used as a novel approach to reintegrating those historically excluded from healthcare, yet their varied characteristics lead to vastly different outcomes. The ... -
An Analysis of the Concerns Regarding the HPV Vaccination
(2021-01-06)The topic of the HPV vaccination has been one of controversy since its introduction. Although many arguments may be made to reject the vaccination, the most common answer given by most noncompliant patients is that the set ... -
Humanizing Where We Heal: An Examination of Healthcare Aesthetics and Evidence-Based Hospital Design
(2021-01-06)This thesis explores how the aesthetics and overall design of a patient’s healing environment affects his/her healthcare experience. The industrialization of the modern hospital and the business of medicine has polluted ... -
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 ...