This Honors Theses collection contains abstracts for all CSB/SJU honors theses, 1992-2015. The full text is included if student authors have given permission for their work to be made publicly available online. Theses completed from 2016-2019 are included in the All College Thesis Program collection. For theses completed after 2019, visit the CSBSJU Distinguished Thesis collection.

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Submissions from 2001

(Thesis) The Tragedy of Kosovo: A Contemporary analysis of the factors leading up to the widespread ethnic violence in the Kosovo Province of Yugoslavia, Mark Mudrinich

(Thesis) Human Virtue and Education: An application of the Insight of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Liberal Arts Education, Justin Piggush

(Thesis) Morgan, Brian Smith

(Thesis) On Values, Joseph Tinguely

(Thesis) Selling More Than a Chevy Tahoe: An Analysis of the Use of Guilt Appeal Within the Chevy Tahoe Green Marketing Campaign, Brianna Turnquist

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(Thesis) Native American Voter Turnout in the 2000 Election Cycle and the Effectiveness of the Efforts by the Montana Democratic Party to Increase the Native Vote, Barb Wagner

(Thesis) The Cost of War: A Focus on Nicaragua's Civil War and Some Reflections on Guatemala, David Weber

(Thesis) America's Politically Convenient Ideology: The Relationship Between the American Dream and Attitudes Toward the Poor, Mark Whipple

Submissions from 2000

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(Thesis) The Cherokee Phoenix and the Nation It Represents: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Role of Minority Press, Michele M. Brezinski

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(Thesis) The Media Mirror: The Coverage of the NATO Bombing of the Chinese Embassy in the China Daily and USA Today, Kevin Thomas Clancy

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(Thesis) A Joining: A Collection of Poems, Brenda R. Dukerschein

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(Thesis) Exploring the Creative Process: A Study in Playwriting, Alexander Evanson

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(Thesis) Exploring the Creative Process: A Study in Playwriting, Alexander L. Evenson

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(Thesis) Applying Machine Learning Algorithms to Othello, Kristopher Glesener

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(Thesis) Narratives of those who were labeled mentally ill due to sexual orientation, Michelle Gricus

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(Thesis) The Jean Donovan House: Filling a Need and Leading by Example, Patricia D. Larson

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(Thesis) Unspeakable: My Father's Suicide and a Childhood Memoir, Dierdre C. McCarrell

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(Thesis) Aeromycological Spore Loads at a Newly Activated Compost Facility, Steven R. McGreevy

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(Thesis) Romantic Relationships: Beliefs Reflected, Reinforced, and Created in Popular Song Lyrics and Musical Content, Heather J. Meierhofer

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(Thesis) Freaking Out, Fitting In, And Finding My Way: Looking Back on Four Months in China, Kathryn M. Neunsinger

(Thesis) 'No hallowed skein of stars': The Terror of the Void, the Allure of Solipsism, and the Search for Meaning in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Matthew Peckosh

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(Thesis) Evaluation of fish population estimation by removal sampling in King's Creek, Kansas, Hope Phillips

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(Thesis) Writing a Novella, Keri A. Phillips

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(Thesis) Sustainable Development and the State: Analyzing Costa Rica and Nicaragua's Experiences, Rebecca Reibestein

(Thesis) Rethinking Consciousness, Objectivity, and the Potential for Artificial Intelligence, Courtney Nicole Remes

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(Thesis) The Use and Manipulation of Che Guevara's Image an Ideas by Fidel Castro and the Cuban Government, Erich P. Rice

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(Thesis) A Traveler's Path: An Original Play, Deborah Saad

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(Thesis) Competitive, Cooperative, and Individualistic Group Environments: Effects on Job Satisfaction and Performance, Erin Marie Steinbach Welters

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(Thesis) Putting Objectivity to the Test: A Study of How the Kurdish/Turkish Issue is Represented in the News, Jennifer L. Valorose

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(Thesis) A Critique of Functionalist and Rhetorical Social Movement Theory: A Case Study of China's 1989 Democracy Movement, Lia M. Veenendaal

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(Thesis) Identity and Desire in Wuthering Heights, Anne L. Wells

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(Thesis) Nuevo México, Escuintla: A Critical Analysis of the Guatemalan Refugee Resettlement Process, Martin J. Wera

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(Thesis) La persecución de los judíos durante la Inquisición española y el proyecto imperial de unificación religiosa (The Jewish Persecution during the Spanish Inquisition and the imperial endeavor of religious unification), Melissa Westerberg

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(Thesis) The Benefits of Teaching a Foreign Language to Students in the Primary Grades, Suzanne G. Wetzel

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(Thesis) Jesus the Jew: Contributions of Geza Vermes to the Modern Jesus Debate, Robert A. Zelada

(Thesis) Design and Creation of a Dynamic Homework System, Cody J. Zilverberg

Submissions from 1999

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(Thesis) In Pursuit of Perfection: The Economic Dynamic of Japan As Seen Through the Eyes of Contemporary Confucianism After World War II, Gabriel Allen Ipolani Alisna

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(Thesis) Inner Darkness: Images of the unconscious in Virgil's Aeneid, Frank Peter Bendewald

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(Thesis) Gendered Ideas in Women's Publications: West German Women, 1945-1950, Heather Ann Butkowski

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(Thesis) The Merging of Two Fine Arts: Sound Design for Anton Chekhov's Play The Seagull, Chad Alan Clasemann

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(Thesis) The Development of ELISA Methods for the Measurement of Oxidized LDLs and Autoantibodies Against Oxidized LDLs in Human Serum, Katherine Ann Garvey

(Thesis) Heat Acclimation to Heat Stress in the House Finch, Jacob W. Hausauer

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(Thesis) The Use of the DNA Comet Assay to Detect Genetic Damage in Rana pipiens Taken from Affected Versus Non-Affected Sites, Lisa Marie Hood

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(Thesis) Metaphor and Understanding: The Work of Lakoff and Johnson and Natural Language Processing, Karen M. Jakubowsky

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(Thesis) An Endophytic Fungus as a Source of New Antifungal Compounds, Lisa Marie Jungbauer

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(Thesis) Working for A Living: A Comparison of the Public Assistance and Employment and Training Programs of Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Brendan Conor Kelly

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(Thesis) Effects of Psychological and Physiological Stressors on Interleukin-1ß Levels and Behavioral Measures in Mice, Ann Marie Knapp

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(Thesis) Intergenerational Effects of Conflict in Intimate Relationships, Rebecca Lee Matlock

(Thesis) Themistokles as Herodotus Osysseus: The Trickster Hero in the History, Carl Simon Meyer

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(Thesis) From Poems to Poets: The Life and Work of Eavan Boland, Maggie Mae Miller

(Thesis) .alabastard, Heath Garrick Pochucha

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(Thesis) A Post-Hoc Analysis of the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal: Application of Psychological Theories of Attitude to Elucidate the Responses of the Public, Media, and Political Parties, Sara Ann Rademacher

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(Thesis) Enhanced DNA Repair of Serratia marcescens, S. typhimurium, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Evening Primrose (Oenothera spp.) Oil, Amanda Lynn Rahe

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(Thesis) From Novel to Film: The Remains of the Day and the Art of Adaptation, Shirley S. Richardson

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(Thesis) Brazil and 12 Monkeys: Terry Gilliams' Foucauldian-Baudrillardian Dystopias, Brenden Patrick Riley

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(Thesis) The Poetic Vision of Arthur Rimbaud as a Creative Force, Luke Anthony Schwankl

(Thesis) Labor of Love: A Memoir, John J. Steingraeber

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(Thesis) Comparisons of Plant Species Richness, Relative Abundance, and Diversity in Two Prairie Restorations and Two Remnant Prairie Preserves in Stearns County, Minnesota, Christopher J. Thompson

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(Thesis) Living With The Tension: American Benedictine Women in Roman Catholic Church Structures, Tara Lynn Tollefson

(Thesis) Concerning the Electromagnetic Field of a Laser Beam, Eric Richard Zenk

Submissions from 1998

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(Thesis) Race and Baseball in North Dakota in the 1930's, Reynaldo A. Aligada

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(Thesis) Denying Limitations: Women's Seizure of Education in Revolutionary France, Angela C. Anderson

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(Thesis) The Synthesis and characterization of monometallic and bimetallic Pd-PNP complexes, Lorinda Asmus

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(Thesis) The Components of Feeeding Behavior in the Rotifer Asplanchna herricki: Attack, Capture, Consumption, Selectivity, and Trophi Morphology, Tony Baumert

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(Thesis) The Reggio Emilia Approach to Education, Anna E. Benoit

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(Thesis) Counting Cards: Combinatorics, Group Theory, and Probability in War, Angela J. Chappell

(Thesis) The Use of Bioassay-Guided Fractionation in the Isolation and Characterization of Novel Antifungal Drugs from Fungal Sources, Stephanie J. Eckerman

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(Thesis) The Correlation Between the Dietary Intake of the Fat-soluble, Antioxidant Vitamins Alphatocopherol and Retinol and Their Fasting Plasma Concentrations in Postmenopausal Women, Michelle C. Ethun

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(Thesis) A Study of the Increasing Use of Temporary Workers During the Late 1980's and the 1990's, Robert R. Euteneuer

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(Thesis) The New Plastic in Sculpture, Timothy M. Gallant

(Thesis) Human Rights in U.S.-China Relations, Elaine A. Garbe

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(Thesis) Corporate Leadership, Sarah M. Gravelle

(Thesis) Generating Two-Transitive Equidistance Spaces, Catherine R. Isaac

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(Thesis) 1996 Welfare Reform: Effects on Single-Parent Families in Rural Minnesota, Philip M. Kern

(Thesis) Effect of Sugar Concentration on Escherichia coli and Zymomonas mobilis, Sean L. Knowles

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(Article) The Gender Gap in the 1996 Presidential Election:An Examination of Gender Gaps in Public Opinion and Political Communication, Nicole Kroetsch

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(Thesis) Data Mining in Electronic Media Usage Statistics: A Case Study of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Peter J. Lindquist

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(Thesis) The effects of pesticides on the common leopard frog, Rana pipiens: A hematological study, Jennifer L. Loos

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(Thesis) Ella Fitzgerald: The Music, The Woman, The Voice of America!, Eleanor C. Mamer

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(Thesis) Validating a Health Questionnaire for Predicting Neuropathy in Patients with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus, Matthew J. Maurer

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(Thesis) Heraldry and Programming Languages: the Complexity of Natural Languages Examined through the Parsing of the Heraldic Blazon, Hans A. Mersinger

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(Thesis) The Existence of the Covenant before and after Christ in Galatians 3.15-18: A Conversation with James D.G. Dunn and J. Louis Martyn, Danielle K. Nussberger

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(Thesis) Bumblebee Pollination Ecology in a Restored Prairie Ecosystem: Foraging Rates, Pollen Sources, and Resource Partitioning, Mary Margaret Price

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(Thesis) Circadian rhythms of body temperature and metabolic rate in the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus), Pericles P. Regas

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(Thesis) Pains and Contradictions in The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey, B. Daniel Rösch

(Thesis) Acting Methods for Solo Performance, John M. Sandahl

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(Thesis) Synthesis and Characterization of a Trypsin Inhibitor, Eric L. Schneider

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(Thesis) Personality Characteristics Which Predispose Potentially Self-Destructive Behaviors, Ann F. Schumacher

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(Thesis) The Impact of Technology on Special Education Students, Nathaniel T. Schutta

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(Thesis) An Eastern Mind Attached to a Western Brain: The Influence of Zen Buddhism on Jack Kerouac, Yuko Taniguchi

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(Thesis) The Effect of Temperature on Post Feeding Metabolism in House Finches (Carpodacus mexicanus), Shana L. Vifian

(Thesis) Ecrire, c'est Devenir: Une Etude de Deux Romans Epistolaires, Une si longue lettre et Lettres d'une Péruvienne or Writing is Becoming: A Study of Two Epistolary Novels, Une si longue lettre and Lettres d'une Péruvienne, Susan N. Wall

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(Thesis) Dickens' 'Bad Men': Representations of Elder Women in Dombey and Son and in Victorian Reality, Jennifer M. White

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(Thesis) A Study of Morphological Character Displacement in the Social Wasp, Polistes fuscatus, Noah K. Whiteman

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(Thesis) The Foundation of John Muir's World View: A study of the Tlingit Kinship, Mary Zender

Submissions from 1997

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(Thesis) Language Speaks: Heidegger's Understanding of Language, Jason Barrett

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(Thesis) The Effects of Network Latency on Multimedia Applications, James Beach

(Thesis) Fortunately Gone, Tim Beckmann

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(Thesis) The Poetic Development of Panamanian Nationalism, Curtis Brown

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(Thesis) The Boy's Heart Rose in a Long Pang for His Father: The Son's Search for the Father in Homer's Odyssey and James Joyce's Ulysses, Andrew Carlson