Effects of Revitalizing the Trinity River on Social Environments: The Fluidity of Migrations in Dallas, Texas (open access)

Effects of Revitalizing the Trinity River on Social Environments: The Fluidity of Migrations in Dallas, Texas

Paper explores the effects of the The Trinity River Corridor Project in Dallas on the Latino community in Oak Cliff.
Date: 2013
Creator: Gomez, Corina
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sex Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates in the United States: A Study of California Public Schools (open access)

Sex Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates in the United States: A Study of California Public Schools

Paper examines teen pregnancy rates across states in the United States and proposes a study that correlates the types of sex education utilized in individual counties or independent school districts and teen pregnancy rates across a sufficiently diverse state, such as California.
Date: 2015
Creator: Horton, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fiesta Math Night: The Parent Perspective (open access)

Fiesta Math Night: The Parent Perspective

Paper discusses Hispanic parental involvement in Fiesta Math Night (Noche de Matemáticas), a school event that takes place in Denton area schools each year in the fall.
Date: 2013
Creator: Ortez, Enid
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roles of the White House Chief of Staff (open access)

Roles of the White House Chief of Staff

Paper analyzes the roles that the White House Chief of Staff plays and how effective they are in said roles.
Date: 2013
Creator: McAlister, Lisa
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Insecurity and Related Health Problems Among Children in Denton, Texas (open access)

Food Insecurity and Related Health Problems Among Children in Denton, Texas

Paper examines the geography and consequences of food insecurity in Denton, TX.
Date: 2013
Creator: Kouchade, Bissilola
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing a Central Intake for Collaborating Nonprofits (open access)

Developing a Central Intake for Collaborating Nonprofits

Paper discusses the feasibility of a centralized intake process for Serve Denton, a nonprofit organization that seeks to co-locate several nonprofit service providers in Denton, Texas.
Date: 2013
Creator: Quinn, Heather
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introducing Change of Early Implementation of Learning Spanish as a Foreign Language in the Texas Education System (open access)

Introducing Change of Early Implementation of Learning Spanish as a Foreign Language in the Texas Education System

Paper explores why the United States, and in particular Texas, does not begin requiring foreign language education until high school.
Date: 2017
Creator: White, Krystin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Awareness: A Survey of UNT Students’ Knowledge and Opinions (open access)

Environmental Awareness: A Survey of UNT Students’ Knowledge and Opinions

Paper discusses study examining awareness and opinions of environmental issues among students at the University of North Texas.
Date: 2014
Creator: McClinchie, Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research Projects in ANTH 4010 “Language and Culture”: The Case for a Student Research Institutional Review Board Process (open access)

Research Projects in ANTH 4010 “Language and Culture”: The Case for a Student Research Institutional Review Board Process

Paper proposes changes to the IRB process at UNT to improve undergraduate research.
Date: 2004
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Ko, Megan & Miner, Joshua
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Nor Cruel and Unusual Punishments Inflicted”: A Look at the Eighth Amendment and the Evolving Standards of Decency (open access)

“Nor Cruel and Unusual Punishments Inflicted”: A Look at the Eighth Amendment and the Evolving Standards of Decency

Paper discusses constitutional interpretation and focuses on the evolving interpretation of the Eighth Amendment through Supreme Court cases.
Date: 2009
Creator: Redding, Kory
System: The UNT Digital Library
The “Real” New Orleans: Perceptions of Katrina Survivors (open access)

The “Real” New Orleans: Perceptions of Katrina Survivors

Paper describes a project seeking to provide photos that better reflect the lives of residents directly affected by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans after the hurricane.
Date: 2008
Creator: Bolds, Vadal A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hurricane Katrina: Survivors’ Perceptions of a Social Disaster (open access)

Hurricane Katrina: Survivors’ Perceptions of a Social Disaster

Paper discusses research attempting to identify communication gaps between survivors and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Date: 2009
Creator: Gregory, Sarah
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Professor Mom: Surviving the World of Academia and Motherhood (open access)

Professor Mom: Surviving the World of Academia and Motherhood

Paper explores the challenges faced by women faculty members with children who work at colleges and universities in North Texas.
Date: 2007
Creator: Lewis, Stephanie
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of the Appropriation and Commodification of “Art” on the Cultural Identification of American Indians in the States of Texas and New York (open access)

The Impact of the Appropriation and Commodification of “Art” on the Cultural Identification of American Indians in the States of Texas and New York

Paper examines American Indian artists’ self-identities and the factors that affect the way they identify, focusing on two artists that live in Texas and New York.
Date: 2007
Creator: Kuizon, Jaclyn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Understanding the Health Care Needs of the Medically Indigent of Grayson County (open access)

Understanding the Health Care Needs of the Medically Indigent of Grayson County

Paper examines the issues faced by residents of Grayson county who lack medical insurance.
Date: 2005
Creator: Rahman, Rumana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Inequality in Tarrant County: An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Waste (open access)

Environmental Inequality in Tarrant County: An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Waste

Paper examines the distribution of Superfund and municipal solid waste sites within neighborhoods differing on social, demographic, and economic characteristics of the inhabitants in Tarrant County, Texas.
Date: 2007
Creator: Pohlmeyer, Remington
System: The UNT Digital Library
On Your Knees or at the Bar: A Study on Religiosity and Alcohol Use among College Students (open access)

On Your Knees or at the Bar: A Study on Religiosity and Alcohol Use among College Students

Paper examines relationships among religiosity, spirituality, and alcohol use by 186 18- to 25-year-old students at the University of North Texas.
Date: 2007
Creator: Chase, Rebekah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Indian Immigrants’ Experiences with Health Care (open access)

Indian Immigrants’ Experiences with Health Care

Paper examines the perspectives of Indian immigrants on health care.
Date: 2008
Creator: LaBrake, Aleina
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education, Feminism, and Spanish: The Definition of a Library Cuban (open access)

Education, Feminism, and Spanish: The Definition of a Library Cuban

Paper discusses Latina professors at the University of North Texas and aims to give insight into their lives by focusing on how race, gender, and language interact in their everyday lives.
Date: 2006
Creator: Sibley, Candace
System: The UNT Digital Library