States

Dallas Freedman’s Town: One Community’s Preservation Within a Gentrified Environment (open access)

Dallas Freedman’s Town: One Community’s Preservation Within a Gentrified Environment

Paper discusses the effects of gentrification on communities by focusing on Dallas Freedman’s Town/North Dallas—established by freed slaves in the 1860’s—and the Saint Paul United Methodist Church congregation.
Date: 2010
Creator: Velin, Gabriel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pioneers for the Future: Reform Women in Dallas (open access)

Pioneers for the Future: Reform Women in Dallas

Paper discusses archival research into women in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex who changed society.
Date: 2007
Creator: Blackburn, Renée
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
When Will People Learn? Democracy Just Doesn’t Work (open access)

When Will People Learn? Democracy Just Doesn’t Work

Paper explores questions about the efficacy of democracy in America.
Date: 2014
Creator: Wood, Justin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dissolved Lithium Concentrations, Gender, Race, and the Geography of Texas Suicide Mortality Rates 1980-1998: A Correlation Study (open access)

Dissolved Lithium Concentrations, Gender, Race, and the Geography of Texas Suicide Mortality Rates 1980-1998: A Correlation Study

This paper discusses dissolved lithium concentrations and the spatial distribution of suicide mortality rates in Texas counties from 1980 to 1998.
Date: March 30, 2006
Creator: Flanagan, William M. & Oppong, Joseph R.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biological Factors Contributing to the Development of Homosexuality: A Systematic Review of the Literature (open access)

Biological Factors Contributing to the Development of Homosexuality: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Paper explores theories about the possible biological causes of homosexuality in people.
Date: 2017
Creator: Maciel, Idalia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drugs and Peace Duration (open access)

Drugs and Peace Duration

Paper explores the impact that the production and/or transit of drugs have on the durability of peace following civil war.
Date: 2011
Creator: Adams, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identifying and Analyzing the Poetic Qualities of The Beatles’ Lyrics from 1965-1970 (open access)

Identifying and Analyzing the Poetic Qualities of The Beatles’ Lyrics from 1965-1970

Paper analyzes song lyrics written by The Beetles from 1965 to 1970 as poetry.
Date: 2006
Creator: Murphy, Stephanie M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Honey, Ain’t You Glad We’re Texan: The Mythic Narrative of Texas in the Texas Centennial (open access)

Honey, Ain’t You Glad We’re Texan: The Mythic Narrative of Texas in the Texas Centennial

Paper explores how the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936 was used to build the mythology of a unified Texas identity and history.
Date: 2016
Creator: Wilson, Hannah Joan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Drug Related Corruption

This paper explores the relationship between the global drug trade and the corruption of government officials.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Adams, Mark & Sahliyeh, Emile F.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Coping on the Physical and Mental Health of Abused Women (open access)

The Effect of Coping on the Physical and Mental Health of Abused Women

Paper describes the results of a study examining the effects of coping mechanisms on the mental health symptoms of women in abusive relationships.
Date: 2004
Creator: Chase, Amanda L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface 2004 (open access)

Preface 2004

Introduction to the 2004 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: Cox, Gloria C. & Eve, Susan Brown
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Universities: Safekeepers and Breeding Grounds (open access)

Universities: Safekeepers and Breeding Grounds

Keynote address by the Honors College Dean Gloria Cox, encouraging university students to value their opportunities and continue in the pursuit of their goals.
Date: 2013
Creator: Cox, Gloria C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship of Purpose in Life and Autonomy on Depression in College Students (open access)

Relationship of Purpose in Life and Autonomy on Depression in College Students

Paper explores the relationship between purpose of life, autonomy, and depression among college students.
Date: 2014
Creator: Anderson, Sarah
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gastric Cancers in Texas: Are Nitrates the Problem? (open access)

Gastric Cancers in Texas: Are Nitrates the Problem?

This paper discusses research on gastric cancers in Texas. The study shows that in Texas, the relationship between nitrates and gastric cancer may not be as significant a factor as reported elsewhere.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Mlinarich, Steve & Oppong, Joseph R.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Do As the Romans: Greco-Roman Iconography in Eleanor Antin’s Last Days of Pompeii (open access)

Do As the Romans: Greco-Roman Iconography in Eleanor Antin’s Last Days of Pompeii

Paper analyzes the commentary on the use of history in art in Eleanor Antin’s Last Days of Pompeii.
Date: 2012
Creator: Parkinson, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Refugee Representations: 1950s Non-Western/WWII Refugees in American Media with Smaller Circulation (open access)

Refugee Representations: 1950s Non-Western/WWII Refugees in American Media with Smaller Circulation

Paper explores refugee representations in the 1950s of non-western/World War II in American media, specifically “smaller circulation” media - local newspapers, academic studies, and governmental documents.
Date: 2017
Creator: Anderson, Tova
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sustainable & Subsistence Providing Spaces Regulated by Public Characters: An Anthropological Study of South Dallas Street Vendors (open access)

Sustainable & Subsistence Providing Spaces Regulated by Public Characters: An Anthropological Study of South Dallas Street Vendors

Paper examines the ways in which “public characters” in South Dallas regulated the space in their regular gathering area, with a focus on the need for life-sustaining informal spaces.
Date: 2009
Creator: Oliver, Elisha
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Production of Cultural Boundaries: The Influence of Participatory Journalism on the Immigration Debate in Texas (open access)

The Production of Cultural Boundaries: The Influence of Participatory Journalism on the Immigration Debate in Texas

Paper uses a content analysis of the editorial section in a major Dallas-area newspaper to demonstrate a shift within American public discourse toward moral and cultural arguments against illegal immigration, and argues that this is due to the inclusion of participatory journalism in newspaper editorial pages.
Date: 2008
Creator: Williams, Alexander T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects Of Trauma Intensity On Posttraumatic Growth: Depression, Social Support, Coping, And Gender (open access)

Effects Of Trauma Intensity On Posttraumatic Growth: Depression, Social Support, Coping, And Gender

This paper discusses research on the effects of trauma intensity on posttraumatic growth. The study also examines the effect trauma intensity has on the relationship between PTG and the variables of depression, social support, coping, and gender.
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: Steward, Jennifer & Boals, Adriel
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Palestinian Perspective on Peace with Israel (open access)

Palestinian Perspective on Peace with Israel

This paper discusses research on Palestinian perspectives on peace with Israel.
Date: March 30, 2006
Creator: Wright, Kelly & Sahliyeh, Emile F.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Historical Discord: The Question of Greek Women (open access)

Historical Discord: The Question of Greek Women

Paper seeks to rectify the inaccuracies in previous historians’ analyses of Greek women by investigating the social, political, and economic power held by various women within the Greek world, as demonstrated in art, religion, and literature.
Date: 2017
Creator: Coil, Caitlyn
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Women’s Rights, Education, and the Uncollected Letters of William Ellery Channing in the Christian Inquirer (open access)

Women’s Rights, Education, and the Uncollected Letters of William Ellery Channing in the Christian Inquirer

Paper discusses the content and implications of three previously uncollected letters written by minister William Ellery Channing, a progressive nineteenth century thinker.
Date: 2016
Creator: Riddell, Molly
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measuring Student Success: The Effectiveness of Scholastic Reading Counts! (open access)

Measuring Student Success: The Effectiveness of Scholastic Reading Counts!

This study examines the Matthew Effect in children's reading ability development through an analysis of reading progress measured in a fifth grade classroom using the Scholastic Reading Counts! program.
Date: 2015
Creator: Krastin, Ashleigh
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contemporary Family Structures and Sexual Victimization (open access)

Contemporary Family Structures and Sexual Victimization

Paper examines the link between contemporary family structures and verbal and forced sexual victimization.
Date: 2014
Creator: Beach, Katie & Jackson, Madison
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library