Well Wishers and Donut Worshipers (open access)

Well Wishers and Donut Worshipers

Short story written by a student in the UNT Honors College that features Merlin the wizard and other magical occurrences in modern day America.
Date: July 1994
Creator: Robinson, Jennifer
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reflections on the Bottom of a Coffee Cup (open access)

Reflections on the Bottom of a Coffee Cup

Short stories written by a student in the UNT Honors College that deal with working class characters (primarily women) dealing with things beyond their understanding.
Date: 19XX
Creator: Herpeche, Charlsie
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Short Stories Based on the Poetry of E. E. Cummings (open access)

Short Stories Based on the Poetry of E. E. Cummings

Short stories written by a student in the UNT Honors College that are based upon poems written by E. E. Cummings that deal with love, loss, sex, and death.
Date: Spring 1997
Creator: Radcliff, Stephen M.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Literary Illusion (open access)

Literary Illusion

Thesis in short fiction written by a student in the UNT Honors College about a young writer living with a wealthy couple.
Date: Summer 1991
Creator: Midkiff, Brandi Leigh
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dysphoric Pauses: A Collection of Short Fiction (open access)

Dysphoric Pauses: A Collection of Short Fiction

Short stories written by a student in the UNT Honors College that concern ordinary people in states of despair.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Duncan, Samantha
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fragments of Familiar Ground (open access)

Fragments of Familiar Ground

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the process of writing a book length collection of poems. Includes a selection of the author's poems.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: Heffner, Christopher Daniel
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
We Were Once All Gentle Creatures: Modular Stories (open access)

We Were Once All Gentle Creatures: Modular Stories

Undergraduate thesis that is a collection of short stories preceded by critical preface. The preface, which is divided into two sections, contextualizes the function and presence of the modular narrative. The first section explores the criticism of the form and the second section provides contextual examples of contemporary stories which more or less exhibit elements of the modular. This collection entitled "We Were Once All Gentle Creatures" employs the many conventions and elements of the modular story as means to show how the modular replicates the atemporal qualities of human experience.
Date: 2013
Creator: Dash, Jessica
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Day in the Life of Thomas McKean (open access)

A Day in the Life of Thomas McKean

Honors thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College. The thesis is crafted in two parts, with the first part being a discussion of the craft of writing the short story contained in the second part.
Date: Autumn 1999
Creator: Chaney, Matt
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drama in the Science Classroom: Teaching Science in the New Millenium (open access)

Drama in the Science Classroom: Teaching Science in the New Millenium

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the use of drama as an educational tool in grade school science classes.
Date: Spring 1999
Creator: Curlett, Rebecca L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Survey of Contemporary Horror Fiction (open access)

Survey of Contemporary Horror Fiction

Honors thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the history of horror fiction and its sub-genres.
Date: Spring 2006
Creator: Clark, Kendyll
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Writing, Domesticity, and Suicide: A Biographical Comparison of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath (open access)

Writing, Domesticity, and Suicide: A Biographical Comparison of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath

Undergraduate thesis biographically examining the lives, deaths, and works of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, including their roles as daughters, wives, mothers, and female writers. This thesis has implications for the relevancy and pertinence of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to literary, gender, and even political studies today as evident in their being namesakes of their crafts, hallmarks of the literary periods in which they wrote, and some of the most recognized and referenced literary names in popular culture.
Date: 2013
Creator: Peebles, Emily
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Touch of the Goddess (open access)

Touch of the Goddess

Novella written by a student in the UNT Honors College about a midwife accused of witchcraft in 13th century Ireland.
Date: Spring 1996
Creator: Dziorny, Mary A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Eighteenth Century Worker: Goya's Tapestry Cartoons and the Influence of the Enlightenment

This paper discusses research on Francisco de Goya's Tapestry Cartoons and the influence of the enlightenment.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Thompson, Shana; Hopkins, Caitlin; England, Erin & Donahue-Wallace, Kelly, 1968-
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trains and Transformations (open access)

Trains and Transformations

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing five of the author's experimental short stories.
Date: November 1993
Creator: Hadder, R. Neill
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Euston Station and The Master's Chair (open access)

Euston Station and The Master's Chair

Thesis in short fiction written by a student in the UNT Honors College. Two short stories are included after a short introduction. The first, "Euston Station," deals with a man disappointed with his visit to England. The second, "The Master's Chair," features a priest falling in love with a woman and trying to impress her son.
Date: 19XX
Creator: Wright, J. Mark
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
At Quem Non Ceno, Barbarus Ille Mihi Est: Roman and Jewish Dietary Traditions in Antiquity (open access)

At Quem Non Ceno, Barbarus Ille Mihi Est: Roman and Jewish Dietary Traditions in Antiquity

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing how ancient Roman and Jewish dietary traditions confirmed group identity, expressed piety through ritual, and were otherwise a matter of social significance.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Self, Amanda Grace
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mental Illness in Literature: Case Studies of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (open access)

Mental Illness in Literature: Case Studies of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This study examines mental illness in literature, with a focus on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar', the primary texts of the research, and develops similarities and personal connections between the authors and their mentally unstable main characters.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Dyer, Darby & Flowers, Theresa
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potpourri (open access)

Potpourri

Colloquium written by a student in the UNT Honors College that presents a concept for a woman's magazine that touches on politics, health, fashion, and other aspects the independent woman's life.
Date: Spring 1995
Creator: Rankin, Jennifer
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Between Identity and Commodity: Female Urban Experience in Vicki Baum's 'Menschen im Hotel'

This paper discusses research on the urban experience of German women in the late Weimar Republic as portrayed in the character Flämmchen in Vicki Baum's 1929 novel 'Menschen im Hotel'.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Jones, Carina & Weber, Christoph
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Between Identity and Commodity: Female Urban Experience in Vicki Baum's Menschen im Hotel (open access)

Between Identity and Commodity: Female Urban Experience in Vicki Baum's Menschen im Hotel

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the urban experiences of German women in the late Weimar Republic as portrayed in the character Flammchen in Vicki Baum's 1929 Novel Menschen im Hotel.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Jones, Carina
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Camelot's Mystique (open access)

Camelot's Mystique

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing John F. Kennedy's rise through American politics, his death, and the conspiracy theories that surround his assassination.
Date: Spring 1999
Creator: Stephens, LynDee
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Social Documentaries: Perspectives on Hoop Dreams, Harlan County, USA, American Dream, and 28 Up (open access)

Selected Social Documentaries: Perspectives on Hoop Dreams, Harlan County, USA, American Dream, and 28 Up

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing various documentaries and the race, class, and education issues they present.
Date: Autumn 1995
Creator: Oglesby, Sarah
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Aging (open access)

Social Aging

Book chapter discussing social issues in aging such as structural lag theory, race and ethnic differences in aging, different social roles associated with older adults, and how the role of retirement has changed in recent years.
Date: 2001
Creator: Eve, Susan Brown; Prentice, Sharon; Pruitt, Charlie D. & Torrez, Diana
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Educational Corporate Social Responsibility in Mexico (open access)

Educational Corporate Social Responsibility in Mexico

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing Mexico's educational system and corporate social responsibility programs and whether these actually respond to the needs of Mexican schools.
Date: Spring 2002
Creator: Cunningham, Kenda
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library