American Indian Cultural Identity: A Narrative Analysis of Identity in the...
Paper explores how American Indians navigate life and connect to their heritage within the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
View ArticleJudicial Independence and Peace Duration: An Assessment of Political...
Paper assesses the role that an independent judiciary serves in the post-conflict environment.
View ArticleAvalokiteśvara: Bodhisattvas and Signs of Change
Paper examines the evolution and transformation of Buddhism in different cultures by focusing on the example of Avalokiteśvara, a Bodhisattva traditionally depicted as a man who was eventually depicted...
View ArticleEnvironmental Disasters and Subnational Conflict: A Study on the Effects of...
Paper examines the effect of migration precipitated by environmental disasters on the likelihood of conflict in host communities.
View ArticleTowards a Theory of Electronic Communication and Protest
Paper seeks to explore the impact of electronic communication on social protest movements and how individuals petition for redress of grievances against the government.
View ArticleRegional Security Organizations: Factors Behind Peacekeeping Participation
Paper discusses which factors drive nations to contribute to regional peacekeeping operations.
View ArticleJudicial Independence and Human Rights in Africa
Paper examines the relationship between independent judiciaries and human rights records in African nations.
View ArticlePerforming in the Public Sphere: Flash Mobs and Their Participants
Paper explores how the motivations of participants shape the meaning and significance of flash mobs.
View ArticleCandy Jernigan’s Rejectamenta: Collage, Photography, and (Discarded) Body Memory
Paper discusses how Candy Jernigan Blood of a Vagrant uses the mixture of text, photography, and collage to explore remembrance of a subject that could otherwise remain anonymous.
View ArticleBreast Cancer in Texas Counties 1980-1998
Paper examines effects of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, genes and environment on breast cancer morbidity in Texas counties from 1980-1998.
View ArticleIntroduction to Special Section in Art History: The Significance of Place:...
Introduction to the special section on art history featured in the 2012 edition of The Eagle Feather.
View ArticleLethal Negotiation: The Effect of Violence on the Likelihood of...
Paper explores the relationship between violence caused by an organization and the likelihood of negotiation with a state.
View ArticleCultural Competency in the Learning Environment: Promoting the Development of...
Paper looks at the effects of anti-gay bias and a lack of diversity training related to LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer/Questioning) issues on pre-service educators, and in turn...
View ArticleTechnology and Our Emotional Selves
Paper discusses studio practice exploring the relationship between technology and the emotional self, and the central role technology can take in our definition of intimacy.
View ArticleEnvironmental Values of Texas Farmers and Ranchers Engaged in Agritourism
Papers explores the ways in which Texas agritourism operators value their land and construct their relationships with the natural environment.
View ArticleEthnicity, Civil War and International Disputes
Paper explores the role played by ethnicity in civil war in terms of sparking international disputes.
View ArticleMigration and Healing in a Latino/a Context
Paper examines the history and belief systems of Latin American folk healers in the United States.
View ArticleNegative Attitudes Toward “Molly” Subculture in Eighteenth Century London: An...
Paper explores how text and diction used in eighteenth-century British print culture, specifically street ballads and court cases, acted as active agents of negative attitudes towards homosexuals, or...
View ArticlePerception, Loss, and Rivalry Termination
Paper examines the impact of the perception of losses and gains on the length of rivalry and conflict between rival states.
View ArticleMindfulness and Cardiovascular Risk in College Students
Paper describes the results of a study on the relationship between mindfulness and cardiovascular health in college students.
View ArticleThe Relationship between Central Banking Independence and the Onset of Civil...
Paper examines the relationship between central banking independence in a state and the costs and benefits of igniting a civil conflict.
View ArticleGender Equality and Post-Conflict Peace
Paper explores relationship between gender equality and the duration of peace in post civil war societies.
View ArticleDo You Get Me? Exploring Cross-Cultural Communication Between Refugees and...
Paper discusses recurring themes in cross-cultural communication between medical practitioners and refugees, specifically Vietnamese refugees who have lived in the United States for more than 20 years,...
View ArticleAn Unheard Voice: The American Muslim Struggle for Political Inclusion
Paper explores the effect of discrimination against American Muslims on their political participation.
View ArticlePlay and the Subculture of Larping: Gender, Motivations, and Self
Paper analyzes perceptions of gender, motivations, and self of people who participate in the subculture of Live Action Role-Playing, or LARPing, to better understand the importance of play for adults.
View ArticleExploratory User Research for Computational Resource for South Asian Languages
Report for the project, Exploratory User Research for CoRSAL, which was an exploratory ethnographic study to generate a foundational understanding of how different user groups might use a planned...
View Article3D-printed and injection molded polymer matrix composites with 2D layered...
This article reports on a study where 2D TMDs (MoS₂ and WS₂) and the 3D allotrope of carbon and graphite were incorporated into acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and polyethylene terephthalate...
View ArticleLegacies of Power: The Cultural Heritage of Theological White Supremacy, A...
Undergraduate thesis exploring modern American racism as the result of the nation's legacy of theological white supremacy and its deep-rooted racial issues that remain unresolved because of the...
View ArticleDieting and Intuitive Eating among Early Adolescents
Undergraduate thesis exploring intuitive eating. Dietary restraint can cause problems for all age groups, but may be particularly difficult for children and early adolescents because of pressure and...
View ArticleConciousness and the Computational Theory of Mind
Undergraduate thesis arguing that the computational theory of mind is incorrect because it seems there are certain components of consciousness that cannot be reduced to physical processes.
View ArticleAdult Attachment Styles and Psychological Symptoms: The Moderating Role of...
Undergraduate thesis examining the moderating role of religious coping on the associations between romantic attachment and psychological symptoms among 86 heterosexual, married couples with children...
View ArticleEffects of Sulfur on Fuel Nitrogen Conversion in Combustion
Undergraduate thesis on the emission of atmospheric pollutants. The pollutants focused on are NO and NO₂. The author discusses the influence of sulfur on NO emission using computational chemistry.
View ArticleCriticisms of Patriarchy in Women's Captivity Narratives: A Close Look at...
Undergraduate thesis exploring criticisms of patriarchy in women's captivity narratives by examining Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1862) and Sarah Wakefield's Six Weeks in the...
View ArticleForward Genetic Screen to Isolate Hypoxia-Sensitive Mutants in Caenorhabditis...
Undergraduate thesis studying hypoxia by utilizing the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans to test for the possibility of other cellular components in the genetic response to hypoxia survival....
View ArticleFrom Radian Waves to Data Streams: Media Environments in DeLillo and Shteyngart
Undergraduate thesis examining representations of media and technology in two contemporary American novels, "White Noise" by Don DeLillo (1985) and "Super Sad True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart...
View ArticleGrowing local foods movements: Farmers' markets as nodes for products and...
Undergraduate thesis building on Feagan's (2007) analysis of ideas of community and place, and Kloppenburg et al.'s (1996) concept of foodsheds, and a modified form of drive-time polygons, termed...
View ArticleHybrid Nanocomposites for Bolometer Applications
Undergraduate thesis studying the properties of amorphous silicon (⍺-Si) and crystalline silicon nanowires (c-Si NWs), focusing on the requirements placed on thin films by bolometers.
View ArticleImpacts of Parental Health on the Psychosocial Functioning of University...
Undergraduate thesis exploring the effects of growing up with parental chronic illness on emerging adults. The current study utilizes self-reported questionnaire data on the psychosocial functioning of...
View ArticleInitial Validation of the Attention Network Test (ANT) Through a Comparison...
Undergraduate thesis with the initial attempt to validate the Attention Network Test (ANT) by comparing it to a thoroughly validated measure, the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metric (ANAM)...
View ArticleInvestigation of Mosquito Ecology and West Nile Vertical Transmission in...
Undergraduate thesis investigating the rate of vertical transmission that takes place in wild Culex quinquefasciatus populations by testing samples of emergent Culex quinquefasciatus adults to see what...
View ArticleLessons from the Past: Possible Courses of Action for the Conflict in Syria
Undergraduate thesis examining the Syrian conflict and the international community's struggle to find an appropriate response. This thesis reviews the conflicts that occurred in Bosnia and Rwanda, the...
View ArticleMy Spent Life's Breath: A Psychoanalytic Study of Don Carlo Gesualdo
Undergraduate thesis psychoanalyzing the composer Don Carlo Gesualdo. It focuses on the relationship between the composer and mastery of the musical task. The author examines the life and work of Don...
View ArticleNational Identity and Anxiety in the Captivity Narratives of Mary Rowlandson...
Undergraduate thesis expanding exploring the 1836 captivity narrative "An Authentic Narrative of the Seminole War; and the Miraculous Escape of Mrs. Mary Godfrey, and Her Four Female Children." Unlike...
View ArticleParallel Narratives: The Role of the Zimbabwean Writer during the Lost Decade...
Undergraduate thesis exploring how the economic collapse of Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2009 has been expressed in literature by Zimbabwean writers. It seeks to establish a connection between the...
View ArticlePersonification of Grief in Dostoevsky's The Idiot
Undergraduate thesis exploring Fyodor Dostoevsky's portrayal of grief in his work, "The Idiot". When examining a work of art, it is crucial to look at the context surrounding the composition. "The...
View ArticleProviding for Juvenile Delinquents during Disasters: Unraveling the...
Undergraduate thesis studying preparedness policies and mechanisms in place for the special population of juvenile delinquents housed in facilities during disasters. The author examines day-to-day...
View ArticleNanoparticles & Cancer Cells
Undergraduate research thesis studying nanoparticles as a therapeutic approach in cancer-targeting drugs and their effects on mammals. The author hypothesizes that nanoparticles can make...
View ArticleReligious commitment, trait forgivingness, and revenge-seeking behavior
Undergraduate thesis examining the relationship between religious beliefs and an antisocial behavior outcome (revenge-seeking behaviors). The researchers hypothesized that those who are religiously...
View ArticleSocial Support and Type II Diabetes in Older Married Hispanic Americans
Undergraduate thesis exploring psychosocial factors of type II diabetes in older married adults of the Hispanic American population. It is proposed that social support mitigates the effect of...
View ArticleStudent Debt: The Growing Epidemic Without a Proactive Cure
Undergraduate thesis studying student debt decision-making skills. The lack of general knowledge among the student demographic is displayed considering several factors such as: confidence of making...
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