[Paper on the Desegregation of Texarkana College] (open access)

[Paper on the Desegregation of Texarkana College]

Paper exploring the desegregation of schools in Texarkana, Texas, including Texarkana College and the Texarkana Independent School District, and it explores how related events are represented in the media.
Date: April 12, 2023
Creator: Graham, Lia
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sherman Massacre of 1930 (open access)

Sherman Massacre of 1930

Paper exploring the lynching of George Hughes in Sherman, Texas in 1930, the ensuing race massacre, and how this event impacted the Black community in the city for decades to come.
Date: March 31, 2023
Creator: Elder, Aidan
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uncovering and Analyzing Patterns of Inequality (open access)

Uncovering and Analyzing Patterns of Inequality

Paper exploring persisting inequality in schools in Mansfield, Texas as a result segregation laws.
Date: March 15, 2023
Creator: Overton, Jayce
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legacies of Power: The Cultural Heritage of Theological White Supremacy, A Case Study of Ku Klux Konfederatism in Denton County Texas, 1850-1930 (open access)

Legacies of Power: The Cultural Heritage of Theological White Supremacy, A Case Study of Ku Klux Konfederatism in Denton County Texas, 1850-1930

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 theo-mythologies embedded at the core of the nation's foundational fabric that have been and continue to be largely unaccounted for in corrective racial discourse through a case study of Denton, Texas. By employing localized interdisciplinary methodological approaches aimed at unveiling the theo-myth which underscores the modern American racial ontology, this study examines how theological white supremacy was homogenized into popular culture in Denton County Texas following the Civil War via neo-Confederate Ku Klux Klan movement, which the author calls Ku Klux Konfederatism, that continues its influence today through localized theo-political institutions, sociocultural systems and cultural 'norms.'
Date: April 20, 2020
Creator: Luther Rummel, Jessica Rae
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
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
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
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
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
Object Type: Article
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
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
Investigation of Mosquito Ecology and West Nile Vertical Transmission in Denton Texas (open access)

Investigation of Mosquito Ecology and West Nile Vertical Transmission in Denton Texas

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 number of mosquitos test positive for West Nile Virus (WNv) throughout the summer and fall, and thus estimate the rate of vertical transmission of the virus in wild mosquitos.
Date: Autumn 2013
Creator: Caughlin, Morgan
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Growing local foods movements: Farmers' markets as nodes for products and community in Dallas/Fort Worth (open access)

Growing local foods movements: Farmers' markets as nodes for products and community in Dallas/Fort Worth

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 'marketsheds' that demarcate the consumer-draw area for farmers' markets. Specifically, the research analyzes the spatial distribution of local food communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW) in Texas and links the foodshed concept to elements of community and sense of place. Two questions guide this study: 1) What are the characteristics of the DFW local foods movement? 2) How do local food producers create and conceptualize community and place?
Date: 2013~/2014~
Creator: Aucoin, Martin
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attitudes and Internalized Stigma in Gay and Lesbian College Students (open access)

Attitudes and Internalized Stigma in Gay and Lesbian College Students

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the influence and predictive qualities of homonegative attitudes on internalized homophobia among gay, lesbian, and bisexual college students, and the moderating effects of self esteem on these variables.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: White, Mickey
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deterrence: American Naval Policy In The Western Pacific, Realistic Or Subject To Change (open access)

Deterrence: American Naval Policy In The Western Pacific, Realistic Or Subject To Change

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the future of United States naval deterrence and its viability.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Wicks, Harrison
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Related Corruption (open access)

Drug Related Corruption

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the relationship between the global drug trade and the corruption of government officials. Included is a history of international drug prohibition, cases of corruption by country, United States policies implemented to prevent corruption, and an analysis of the potential for success in curtailing drug related corruption in the U. S.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Adams, Mark
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impressions Capital Jurors Form of Attorneys During Voir Dire (open access)

Impressions Capital Jurors Form of Attorneys During Voir Dire

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the nature of capital trials in the United States, specifically the death qualification process during jury selection which is thought to prejudice juries towards guilty verdicts.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Azzami, Najua
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Learned Helplessness and Metabolic Control in Type 1 Diabetes (open access)

Learned Helplessness and Metabolic Control in Type 1 Diabetes

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing how difficulties in managing type 1 diabetes can have psychological impacts upon people with the disease, such as eroding the feeling of having control over their bodies.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Trube, Richelle
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shutters Shut and Open (open access)

Shutters Shut and Open

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing Gertrude Stein's use of written portraiture, her relationship with avant-garde photographers, and art theory.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Parkinson, Laure
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
"That One Congenial Friend:" Hawthorne's Search for a Careful Reader (open access)

"That One Congenial Friend:" Hawthorne's Search for a Careful Reader

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing author Nathaniel Hawthorne's hidden warnings of hypocrisies and civil violations that would occur despite constitutional protections. The author argues that Hawthorne hid his warnings in allegory.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Garrido, Alejandro
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library