Honors Theses Collection
1990-
MS 29

Creator
Oglethorpe University, Honors Program

Title
Honors Theses Collection

Dates
1990-

Abstract
The collection consists of Honors program theses written by Oglethorpe University students. The collection is open-ended and added to yearly.

Quantity
1.7 linear feet

Administrative History
All students at Oglethorpe are encouraged to attain academic and personal excellence through active engagement with and initiative in their education. The University offers an Honors program for those students who demonstrate the potential and desire to further challenge themselves intellectually, both within and beyond the classroom setting. The honors program allows students the opportunity to work closely with peers and faculty from various disciplines, while developing their own interests and initiative. Students who complete the Honors program will develop their own independent project, while learning how their interests relate to relevant disciplinary discourse, other academic disciplines and the world beyond academia. Completing an honors thesis and successfully defending it at our annual Liberal Arts and Science Symposium is the culmination the program.

Arrangement
The collection is arranged chronologically by year thesis completed then alphabetically by author.

Description
The collection consists of Honors Program theses written by Oglethorpe University students.

Restrictions
None on access but any use must be approved in writing by the Director of the Library and the author of the thesis.

Subject Headings

Administrative Information
Permission to publish from this collection must be approved in writing by the Director of the Library, Oglethorpe University, and the author of the thesis. Please cite the individual thesis writer, title of thesis, MS 29, Archives, Philip Weltner Library, Oglethorpe University Atlanta, Georgia.

Inventory

Box 1

Folder 1: 1990. Grant, Robert. Charles De Gaulle and the Struggle for French Armored Corps, 1920-1940.

Folder 2: 1991. DeGroff, Troy. Striking the Stone.

Folder 3: 1994. Jordan, Jonathan, Physical Artifice and the Spiritual Ideal: English Decadent Poetry.

Folder 4: 1996. Miller, Robert, Theories of War and the State: Comparing the Ideologies of Sun Tzu and Clausewitz.

Folder 5: 1998. Brown, Timothy. The One Dimensional Harmonic Oscillator: A Comparison of Classical and Quantum Mechanics

Folder 6: 1999. Leighty, Deborah, Protest: The Missing Link to German Identity?

Folder 7: 2003. George, Anne. The Fungistatic Activity of Methyl Salicylate.

Folder 8: 2003. Harrington, Michelle. A Posthuman Future: Projections of the Biotech Revolution.

Folder 9: 2003. Lohfert, Robin. Artificial Intelligence in Game Playing Software.

Folder 10: 2006. Barrett, Kathryn Lea. Santeria and Religious Influence on the Works of Ana Mendieta.

Folder 11: 2006. Crooks, Ariel. Seeing and Believing: Philosophical Implications of Expressionist Art.

Folder 12: 2008. Oredeko, Anne, Through My Brother’s Eyes: Black Manhood Seen through the Literary Works of Ralph Ellison, Chihua Achebe, and Manuel Zapata Olivella.

Folder 13: 2009. Goldman, Nathaniel. Accounting Principles: From Generally Accepted to Mandated – and Back Again?

Folder 14: 2009. Walsh, Andrea, Phenomenology and the Problem of the Other Minds: Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas.

Folder 15: 2010. Benoit, Jennifer. Biochemical Basis for Photoresponses.

Folder 16: 2010. Edwards, Chloe. Rats in the Storehouse: Bureaucracy and Autocracy in Sima Qian’s Shiji.

Folder 17: 2010. Evans, Melissa. Construction of a Bacterial Plasmid Containing a Prolyl tRNA Synthetase Gene and Tests of the Incorporation of Proline Analogs into an Elastin Protein Produced in Escherichia Coli.

Box 2

Folder 1: 2010. Gault, Sarah. Death Investigation Systems and the Search for the Ideal System in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Folder 2: 2010. Kendig, Chelsey. Once upon Our Time: Adapting the Fairy Tale to the Contemporary Children’s Novel.

Folder 3: 2010. Park, Chong, Political Economy of Corruption in Nigeria: Implications and Analysis.

Folder 4: 2010. Rocamora, Catherine Olivia, Havana’s Canaries: A Biography and Autobiography.

Folder 5: 2010. Rowell, Amanda, Fading Ink: An Analysis of the Current Status of Online Alternatives for Print Media.

Folder 6: 2010. Russ, Amy, Household Production: An Analysis of the Role of Women in Gross Domestic Product.

Folder 7: 2010. Suddes, Daniel, A Comparative Study of Spending in the United States and Great Britain: The Ability to Control and Decrease Government Spending.

Folder 8: 2011. Bryant, Alexandra, The Changing News Media Scene and Consequential Effects on Societal Values of the “Other.”

Folder 9: 2011. Clark, Alex, Globalization’s Effect on Censorship and Social Taboos.

Folder 10: 2011. Gourdine, Ramika. Coming Out: Building Communities by Contesting Constructions of Binary Gender Identity.

Folder 11: 2011. Hendrix, Christopher, Economics and Revolution: The Dutch Revolt and the Baltic Trade.

Folder 12: Taylor, Erica, Idealistic Realism: How Generation Y Views the World.

Folder 13: 2012. Balaban, Livia, Executive Functioning, Vocabulary, Phonological Awareness, & Reading Skills in Adolescents with Traumatic Brain Injury Compared to Typically Developing Adolescents.

Folder 14: 2012. Brumley, William, The Evolving Literature & Branding of the Sanford Meisner Technique.

Folder 15: 2012. Carter, Clair, Southern Discomfort: Anti-Mormon Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century.

Folder 16: 2012. Daly, Whitney, El Pajaro Rebelle: Cultural Confusion in Bizet’s Carmen.

Folder 17: 2012. Hendrix, Cassandra, Mediators of Social Skill Deficits in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorders.

Folder 18: 2012. McFadden, Jacquelyn, The Evolution of Fairies in Literature: From Oral Folk Tales to Peter Pan & More Modern Stories.

Folder 19: 2012. Mynatt, Robert, Graffiti Explosions: The Local Ecology of Atlanta’s Creative Graffiti Scene.

Box 3

Folder 1: 2012. Peerboom, Melinda, Islam en France vs. Islam de France: The Impact of Islam & Immigration.

Folder 2: 2012. Weiner, Brittany, Repeated Exposure to Admired Gay Men: A Case for Modulating Automatic Attitudes & Changing Behavior.

Folder 3: 2013. Manuel, Marisa, Horror-Comedy: The Chaotic Spectrum & Cinematic Synthesis.

Folder 4: 2013. Mitchell, Lindsey, Shadows in Time: A Study of Temporal Metaphysics through Hard Science Fiction & Its Restrictions on the Past & Future.

Folder 5: 2013. Palframan, Jef, Lifting the Veil on Violence: The October Crisis, 1970.

Folder 6: 2014. Boyd, Charles. Justice Not Long Delayed: Historical Perspectives and the Twenty-First Century Fight for Gay Rights.

Folder 7: 2014. Glaeser, Kirsten. Till Death Us Do Part: The Evolution of Monogamy.

Folder 8: 2014. Yalen, Christopher. The Immersive Medium: Art, Flow, and Video Games.

Folder 9: 2015. Gallagher, Nicole. The Art of Interpretation in Dialogue: The Emergence of Meaning in Everyday Life.

Folder 10: 2015. Mantica, Antonio. Models of Time Travel and Their Consequences.

Folder 11: 2015. Romman, Ruwa. One State: An Illusion or Solution?

Folder 12: 2016. Hafen, MaryAnne. Forging the Mormon Myth.

Folder 13: 2016. Powell, Kierra. Thou and It: Personhood Actualized through Water Rights.

Folder 14: 2016. Sneed, Dakota. The Significance of Economic Significance.

Folder 15: 2016. Warden, Don. The Extent of Indigenous-Norse Contact and Trade Prior to Columbus.

Folder 16: 2016. Wolter, Derek. Tantric Alchemy of the Soul: A Philosophical Analysis and Synthesis of Jung and Kashmir Shaivism.

Folder 17: 2017. Bowar, Stephanie. Selective Tactile Attention Under Auditory Perceptual Load.

Folder 18: 2017. Castro, Elias. “Mom, I got it”: Identifying Zygotic Roles for SPR-5 and MET-2 in C. elegans Development.

Folder 19: 2017. Evans, Miranda. The Role of Attachment Styles and Personality in Predicting Coping Methods.

Box 4

Folder 1: 2017. Jacobson, Kelly. The Presence of the Past: An Argument for Reconsidering Three Boston Historians.

Folder 2: 2017. Wampler, Sarah. Piracy and Religion: Navigating their Connections During the Golden Age.

Folder 3: 2018. Goldin, Robert. Characterizing a Role for CoREST (SPR-1) in Regulating the Function of LSD1 (SPR-5).

Folder 4: 2018. Lindbergh, Victoria. #parlezvousfemme – A Show about Women in the 21st century, as Told by five Famous Women.

Folder 5: 2018. McSwain, Jared. A Self-Propelling-Wheel: Prefigured Recurrence in Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy.

Folder 6: 2018. Rodgers, Sarah. Hamilton and the American Promise.

Folder 7: 2020. Battaglia, Erin. Perception of Child Abuse by Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Marital Status.

Folder 8: 2020. Brockett, Jovan. Characterization via transcriptomic analysis of a potential gene interaction between spr-5, met-2, and mep-1 in determining germline versus soma in C. elegans.

Folder 9: 2021. Boumahd, Fatima. Female Candidates and Voter Turnout: An Empirical Study on the Effects of Nontraditional Candidate Spending on Voter Behavior.

Folder 10: 2021. Curl, Alison. Worse Singers or Harder Songs? Pop Music Melodies from the 1970s through the 2010s.

Folder 11: 2021. Dowdy, Nyree. Bridging the Gap: Updating Representations of Slavery in Museums in the Southern United States.

Folder 12: 2021. Furst, Addison. The Syrian Civil War: Why Did it Get So Bad?

Folder 13: 2021. Goodwin, Reagan. Intraflagellar Transport is Not Required for Flagellar-associated Protein 93 (FAP93) Assembly in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cilia.

Folder 14: 2021. Lopez, Nina. The Collective Memory and Collective Amnesia: Japan’s Occupation in the Korean Peninsula.

Folder 15: 2022. Stonham, Hayleigh. Post-Impressionism in Great Britain: Woman Artists from 1880-1930.

Folder 16: 2023. Gordon, Sarah. Assembly of FAP93 is dependent upon total ciliary length and ODA10. (Abstract Only)

Folder 17: 2023. Hassan, Ashrakat. Diagnosing De-stabilization: An Analysis of Sudan’s 2019 and 2021 Coup d’Etat. (Abstract Only)

Folder 18: 2023. Kezh, Andi. Cleft Curse: Cultural Connotations of Cleft Lip and Palate in México City, México. (Abstract Only)

Folder 19: 2023. Tringali, Alexa. Investigating the Effect of Two Mood Induction Procedures and Arousal on False Memory. (Abstract Only)

Folder 20: 2024. Bulger, Jack, Purgatory is Humid; A Screenplay of a First-Time Screenwriter.

Folder 21: 2024. Coles, Maria, Unveiling the Past: The Crypt of Civilization as a Public Monument.

Folder 22: 2024. Farmer, Sarah, Playing with Perceptions: Gender, Aggression, and Competence in Video Game Environments.

Folder 23: 2024. Forster, Isabel, History of the Israeli-Palestinian Educational Systems and Curriculums: Prevailing Impact on Israel-Palestine. (Abstract Only)

Folder 24: 2024. Jones, Shelby. The Case of Italy: Perpetrators and Perplexities of a Stagnant State.

Folder 25: 2024. Kunnath, Bhavana. Who Let the Ghosts Out?: Gender and Abjection in the South Indian Horror Comedies Chandramukhi and Kanchana.

Folder 26: 2024. Liddle, Haley. The Tragedy of the Mother’s Agency.

Folder 27: 2024. Poindexter, Jaden. From Plantation to Incarceration Nation: Analyzing Reproductive Oppression Against the Black Female Body Through Slavery, Eugenics, and Incarceration.

Folder 28: 2024. Slocum, Casandra. Investigating the Function of FAP93 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

Folder 29: 2024. Williams, Jariyah. The AlJayRhythm: A One-Woman Show.