BEARdocs at Baylor University: Recent submissions
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Breathed Through Silver: Four Modern Writers and Their Approaches to Christian Fiction
(2019-09-13)In this thesis, I address the use and appeal of fiction as a medium for exploring Christian ideas by analyzing and comparing how four influential writers from the last hundred years particularly approached exploring ... -
Microcredit Groups and Support: An Examination of Group Member Characteristics and Individual Outcomes
(2019-09-13)While the microcredit group has existed since its introduction by Mohammed Yunus in 1976, very few studies address a key feature – the individual and collective characteristics of the group members themselves. Group members ... -
The global war on terror memorial and the rhetoric of commemoration.
(2019-04-30)This paper will discuss the rhetoric surrounding the plan to construct a national memorial for the Global War on Terror. It looks at three distinct areas of discourse relating to the project: the congressional debates over ... -
Communio a meditation on the theological transformation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Harlem.
(2019-04-30)The following is a thesis outlining the creative influences, research, methodology, and resulting production of a short documentary entitled Communio about Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theological transformation in Harlem. -
Representations of disability in contemporary film : the afterlife of the freak show.
(2019-04-24)This project is an excavation of the ways in which cinema has relied on a one-dimensional approach to its representations of disability. I argue that the way disability is represented becomes a modern instantiation of the ... -
Articulating a decolonial materialist rhetoric.
(2019-04-24)This thesis is preoccupied with challenging the way current rhetoricians approach criticism of Native discourse, that which is produced within and by Native communities. Beginning with Ronald Greene’s “A Materialist ... -
Quantitative evaluation of the HTC Vive virtual reality system in controlled movement.
(2019-04-24)Modern virtual reality systems enable users to be immersed in a virtual world. Validation of the HTC Vive will assure users and developers that games and applications made for the system are accurate representations of the ... -
Lex vincit? The Chicago Legal News and the changing status of household dependents from 1868-1873.
(2019-04-24)This thesis uses Myra Bradwell and the Chicago Legal News (CLN) to explore the changing legal status of household dependents (wives and children) during the middle years of Radical Reconstruction, 1868-1873. Emancipation ... -
An investigation into the electrical, optical, and microstructural effects of aluminum-doping amorphous indium zinc oxide via ultra-high vacuum co-sputter deposition.
(2019-04-24)Indium Zinc Oxide (IZO) has emerged as a high-potential material candidate for electronic applications involving novel flexible and transparent devices. IZO’s rapid growth can be attributed to its high carrier mobility ... -
Philosophical inheritances: Nietzsche and the twentieth century American novel.
(2019-04-23)In this dissertation, I argue for the influence of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy on four significant writers of twentieth century American literature: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Richard ... -
Student experiences with wonder through higher education.
(2019-04-23)The purpose of this study is to understand the process by which students engage with wonder through experiences in higher education. Wonder as an emotion and practice has been studied extensively from a theoretical, ... -
Diversity in students’ personal networks : an egocentric network analysis of diversity’s role in student thriving.
(2019-04-23)Racial and ethnic diversity has previously been linked with a multitude of positive benefits in business, K-12 education, higher education, and in communities. Additionally, The Thriving Quotient is a mechanism for better ... -
Positive, negative, and ambivalent attitudes toward one's spouse : longitudinal associations with health and well-being.
(2019-04-23)Incompatible feelings are inevitable in social relationships, and individuals can simultaneously hold both positive and negative attitudes toward others. This finding has led to the emergence of research on the causes and ... -
Understanding the effects of high altitude electromagnetic pulse on the US power grid by creating a power grid model and analyzing transformer susceptibility.
(2019-04-23)The purpose of this thesis is to address two topics in understanding the effects of high altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) E3 by determining the latitude and longitude of loadflow buses, and analyzing transformers as ... -
Musical techniques in the compositions of Der wilde Alexander and Rumelant von Sachsen in the Jenaer Liederhandschrift.
(2019-04-23)The Jenaer Liederhandschrift is a large fourteenth-century manuscript that serves as the primary source for melodies of German medieval vernacular song. Although scholarship focusing on the poetic texts has enjoyed activity ... -
The quantification and characterization of soil carbon pools in biofuel agriculture.
(2019-04-18)The shift toward renewable energy resources through agricultural biofuel production provides an opportunity to study and implement sustainable land management practices that improve soil health and a deeper understanding ... -
Scientific racism, mass collecting, and NAGPRA : a study of the transformation of relationships between museums, anthropology, and the public from the late 19th century to the 21st century.
(2019-04-18)Humankind has collected materials and remains for centuries as a way to depict social status, educate, and fascinate. The relationships between anthropologists and museums in the late 19th and early 20th century set the ... -
Religion, anti-immigrant sentiment, and attitudes toward democracy : an evaluation of a changing Europe.
(2019-04-22)Currently, Europe struggles to negotiate the challenges of a changing society and its historical commitment to liberal values. Nativist backlashes against mostly Muslim immigrants challenge the European project’s dedication ... -
The effects of including aerobic exercise in the treatment protocol of concussions : a systemic review and meta-analysis.
(2019-04-18)More research studies are being completed advocating for the use of exercise as an intervention and form of treatment for concussions. However, exercise can include many forms of physical activity, intensities, and durations. ... -
Climate and landscape reconstruction of the Arroyo Chijuillita Member of the Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico : providing environmental context to early Paleocene mammal evolution.
(2019-04-18)Sedimentologic, stratigraphic, and paleopedologic attributes of an outcrop of the lower Paleocene Arroyo Chijuillita Member (Nacimiento Formation) in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area (San Juan Basin, New Mexico) are ...