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
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
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
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
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
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
An Unheard Voice: The American Muslim Struggle for Political Inclusion (open access)

An Unheard Voice: The American Muslim Struggle for Political Inclusion

Paper explores the effect of discrimination against American Muslims on their political participation.
Date: 2012
Creator: Dean, Tahirah
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Do You Get Me? Exploring Cross-Cultural Communication Between Refugees and Health Practitioners (open access)

Do You Get Me? Exploring Cross-Cultural Communication Between Refugees and Health Practitioners

Paper discusses recurring themes in cross-cultural communication between medical practitioners and refugees, specifically Vietnamese refugees who have lived in the United States for more than 20 years, at the Dallas County Health Services Refugee Clinic, including substitution, omission, editorialization with the use of an interpreter, and nonverbal communication expressed by both populations.
Date: 2010
Creator: Haynes, Kayla Marie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Values of Texas Farmers and Ranchers Engaged in Agritourism (open access)

Environmental Values of Texas Farmers and Ranchers Engaged in Agritourism

Papers explores the ways in which Texas agritourism operators value their land and construct their relationships with the natural environment.
Date: 2011
Creator: Bonham, Mēgan S. Albaugh
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breast Cancer in Texas Counties 1980-1998 (open access)

Breast Cancer in Texas Counties 1980-1998

Paper examines effects of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, genes and environment on breast cancer morbidity in Texas counties from 1980-1998.
Date: 2011
Creator: Barry, Djenabou
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
American Indian Cultural Identity: A Narrative Analysis of Identity in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (open access)

American Indian Cultural Identity: A Narrative Analysis of Identity in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Paper explores how American Indians navigate life and connect to their heritage within the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
Date: 2010
Creator: Cevaal-Moore, Yolonda L.
Object Type: Article
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
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
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
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
Secrets Between Selves and The Exchange of Desires: Mirror-Stage Politics and Self-Reflecting Wishes within Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" and Under Western Eyes (open access)

Secrets Between Selves and The Exchange of Desires: Mirror-Stage Politics and Self-Reflecting Wishes within Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" and Under Western Eyes

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing author Joseph Conrad's work in relation to self-realization, self-awareness, and the loss of self. Includes psychoanalytic theories, especially those of Jacques Lacan.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Savage, Jon
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
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
The Sounds of Identity: A Case Study on Mexican American College Students in Texas (open access)

The Sounds of Identity: A Case Study on Mexican American College Students in Texas

Paper discusses how language use reflects the identity of Mexican-American college students in Texas.
Date: 2011
Creator: Grady, Khalia Nicole
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
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
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