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Let’s Start a Riot: The Effects of Protest Characteristics on Democratic Progress (open access)

Let’s Start a Riot: The Effects of Protest Characteristics on Democratic Progress

Paper explores how the violence, size, location, and duration of protests affects democratic progress.
Date: 2013
Creator: Counselman, Joshua T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Man Delights Not Me”: Hierarchy and Homosocial Tension in Hamlet (open access)

“Man Delights Not Me”: Hierarchy and Homosocial Tension in Hamlet

Paper discusses the ways in which the play Hamlet frames homosocial relationships, arguing that the homosocial relationship of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern serves as a counterpoint to the Neo-Platonic friendship represented by Horatio.
Date: 2013
Creator: Vera, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mississippi and the Meander—Two Rivers, Two Worlds, Meandering Through Time (open access)

The Mississippi and the Meander—Two Rivers, Two Worlds, Meandering Through Time

Paper examines and contrasts the cultural legacy of the Mississippi and Meander rivers.
Date: 2013
Creator: Cain, Julie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
More than Pleasure: The Pornographic Novel in Eighteenth-Century France (open access)

More than Pleasure: The Pornographic Novel in Eighteenth-Century France

Paper examines the development of pornography and the literary characteristics of pornographic novels in eighteenth-century France, as well as the publication, sales, and censorship thereof.
Date: 2013
Creator: Watkins, Taylor
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nanoparticles & Cancer Cells (open access)

Nanoparticles & Cancer Cells

Undergraduate research thesis studying nanoparticles as a therapeutic approach in cancer-targeting drugs and their effects on mammals. The author hypothesizes that nanoparticles can make cancer-targeting drugs more effective. This thesis also includes the PowerPoint slides presented at UNT Scholar's Day.
Date: 2013~/2014~
Creator: deCarvalho, Roceli
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Outliving the Past: The Effect of Colonial Legacy on Mass Killings (open access)

Outliving the Past: The Effect of Colonial Legacy on Mass Killings

Paper investigates the effect of colonial legacy on brutality seen during post-colonial civil wars.
Date: 2013
Creator: Wood, Colin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parallel Narratives: The Role of the Zimbabwean Writer during the Lost Decade (2000-2009) (open access)

Parallel Narratives: The Role of the Zimbabwean Writer during the Lost Decade (2000-2009)

Undergraduate thesis exploring how the economic collapse of Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2009 has been expressed in literature by Zimbabwean writers. It seeks to establish a connection between the strong-government controls of information in the media and the politicized nature of fiction during this period. It examines the nationalist narrative created by the Zimbabwean government and shows how the works of fiction of writers like Brian Chikwava and Petina Gappah have undermined this narrative by revealing parallel narratives that reveal the spin the government has put on society.
Date: 2013~
Creator: Muchemwa, Chido
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parity or Peace: Varying Intensities Caused by Third Party Interventions in Civil War (open access)

Parity or Peace: Varying Intensities Caused by Third Party Interventions in Civil War

Paper explores the effects of third-party interventions in modern civil wars, and analyzes the varying effects of strong verses weak interventions.
Date: 2013
Creator: Craig-Morse, Inanna
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pics or It Didn’t Happen: Sexist Hyperskepticism in the Modern Skeptical Movement (open access)

Pics or It Didn’t Happen: Sexist Hyperskepticism in the Modern Skeptical Movement

Paper discusses issues of sexism and anti-feminist sentiment in the modern organized skepticism movement.
Date: 2013
Creator: Forester, Jennifer
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to The Eagle Feather 2013 (open access)

Preface to The Eagle Feather 2013

Introduction to the 2013 edition of The Eagle Feather, written by editor-in-chief Gloria Cox and editor Susan Eve.
Date: 2013
Creator: Cox, Gloria C. & Eve, Susan Brown
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to the Joint Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates and the American Political Science Association Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (open access)

Preface to the Joint Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates and the American Political Science Association Undergraduate Research Fellows Program

Introduction to the special section featuring the joint proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates and the American Political Science Association Undergraduate Research Fellows Program in the 2013 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2013
Creator: Ishiyama, John T. & Greig, J. Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Religious commitment, trait forgivingness, and revenge-seeking behavior (open access)

Religious commitment, trait forgivingness, and revenge-seeking behavior

Undergraduate thesis examining the relationship between religious beliefs and an antisocial behavior outcome (revenge-seeking behaviors). The researchers hypothesized that those who are religiously committed would be less likely to act in an antisocial manner by declining the opportunity to take revenge against an ostensible offender.
Date: 2013
Creator: Martinez, Kayla S.
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
Servant Leadership: A Model for Mentoring Undergraduate Student Scholars (open access)

Servant Leadership: A Model for Mentoring Undergraduate Student Scholars

Paper discusses servant leadership in the context of serving students who exhibited interest in publishing in The Eagle Feather journal.
Date: 2013
Creator: Tunks, Jeanne L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Size Matters: Strength of Force in Peace Building Missions (open access)

Size Matters: Strength of Force in Peace Building Missions

Paper analyzes the correlation between the size of a peacekeeping force and the likelihood of peacekeeping failures.
Date: 2013
Creator: Fink, Frances Reka
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Structuring the Imagination (open access)

Structuring the Imagination

Paper discusses research questioning if explicit instruction on sensory imagery, synonyms and antonyms, and onomatopoeia would increase imaginative creating writing in a third grade class.
Date: 2013
Creator: Small, Coeli M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Student Debt: The Growing Epidemic Without a Proactive Cure (open access)

Student Debt: The Growing Epidemic Without a Proactive Cure

Undergraduate thesis studying student debt decision-making skills. The lack of general knowledge among the student demographic is displayed considering several factors such as: confidence of making short and long-term financial decisions, attitude towards debt, categorical socioeconomics, attitude towards money, political self-efficacy, and political ideology. These nine factors are used to understand the metaphysics of debt using PLS and A priori power Data Analysis.
Date: 2013~/2014~
Creator: Olusanya, Suliat
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology Support for Student Behavioral Development (open access)

Technology Support for Student Behavioral Development

Paper analyzes the effectiveness of ClassDoJo in assisting third grade teachers with behavioral management.
Date: 2013
Creator: Pound, Kaitlyn
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trust in the Affirmative: Examining Relationships of Social Trust, Race, and Affirmative Action in Brazil (open access)

Trust in the Affirmative: Examining Relationships of Social Trust, Race, and Affirmative Action in Brazil

Paper discusses the relationship between racism and social trust in Brazil.
Date: 2013
Creator: Francis, Aerik
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Diplomatic Negotiations Under the Articles of Confederation (open access)

United States Diplomatic Negotiations Under the Articles of Confederation

Paper examines how and why the United States had difficulty accomplishing diplomatic goals under the Articles of Confederation.
Date: 2013
Creator: Clark, Joshua
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
The Value of Open Access to Undergraduate Research (open access)

The Value of Open Access to Undergraduate Research

Paper discussing Open Access and it's benefits for undergraduate researchers.
Date: 2013
Creator: Waugh, Laura & Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
We Didn’t Start the Fire: The Effect of Foreign Sponsorship on Peace Duration (open access)

We Didn’t Start the Fire: The Effect of Foreign Sponsorship on Peace Duration

Paper explores the effect of foreign sponsorship on the likelihood of civil war reoccurance.
Date: 2013
Creator: Roberts, Jordan
Object Type: Article
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