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Effects of Facial Tattoos on Perceptions of Facial Trustworthiness

Creator:: Landrus, Bryn E.
Abstract:: Background: Individuals rapidly infer character traits and behaviors through the process of facial perception. Perceptions of trustworthiness, accurate or not, completed by authorities in the criminal justice system may have implications for individuals suspected of crimes, including harsher or longer sentencing decisions. Objective: The present study concerned how the presence...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: _____________________________________________________________________ Kathleen Bogart, Committee Member, representing Department of Psychology

Words of Well-Being : The Relation of an Individual's Word Choice to their Social Well-Being

Creator:: Krieger, Katy
Abstract:: The present research sought to investigate the relationship between an individual's word choice and their social well-being. In the present investigation, social well-being is a person's social health in relation to their social environment, social network, and ability to interact with others in a social context. This thesis was based...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Paxton : a cartography

Creator:: Hogg, Charlotte
Abstract:: This thesis is a collection of essays about Paxton, a small town in western Nebraska, and an exploration of the contradictions and complexities found there. It is also a reflection on the layers of history and connections that exist not only among families that have lived in these towns for...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Nebraska to that of other authors who have written on the Great Plains, such as Kathleen Norris and

Finding Fantasy : Three Newspapers Tell the Story of Kip Kinkel and Thurston High School

Creator:: Wood, Josie MaryAnne Soules
Abstract:: On May 21, 1998 Kip Kinkel drove to Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon. Kinkel killed two students and wounded another twenty-two students. He killed his parents the day before. The shootings at Thurston High School came on the heels of a number of prominent school shootings and Kip Kinkel...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: School, Ernest G. Bormann's fantasy theme analysis is Redacted for Privacy used as a critical model

'That life of commonplace sacrifices' : representations of womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners

Creator:: McGrory, Suzette L.
Abstract:: Traditional interpretations of James Joyce's Dubliners have often focused on the pervasive "paralysis" of the city, covered in the stories' range of "childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life." However, these approaches have limited their focus on the women in the stories, often spotlighting the male characters--and the author--through a Freudian...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Queer Materiality: Freaks, Ghosts, and Madness in Victorian Culture and the Novels of Charlotte Brontë

Creator:: Kennedy, Tallon R.
Abstract:: This thesis offers a theory of queer materiality as a way of understanding the interconnectedness of freaks, ghosts, and madness in Victorian culture, and how these elements coalesce in Victorian literature to destabilize the knowable materiality of normative social structures and forms of embodiment, leading to the production of queer...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

Creator:: Pajak, Zachary E.
Abstract:: My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Interpreting Britomart's Encounters with Art: The Cyclic Nature of Ekphrasis in Spenser's Faerie Queene III," and "Picture This, Imagine That: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Disciplines." The purpose of my first article is to argue that Edmund Spenser uses ekphrasis in his...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: short, to live. 5 For instance, Benjamin G. Lockerd, Jr. asserts that “the image [of Arthegall] in

"Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

Creator:: Surface, Samara
Abstract:: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a multimodal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released from 2012-2013. As a media event, the show proved how effective transmedia storytelling can be, eventually winning an Emmy for Original Interactive Program. In creating an intensely immediate narrative world, the series adapted more than Jane Austen’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: convention, and the final 15 are in the den. Kathleen Fitzpatrick draws on the gendered assumptions

Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

Creator:: Faris, Michael J.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of her 2004 CCCC keynote address, Kathleen Blake Yancey notes that while “[f]aculty see blogs — if

Failure as a Rhetorical Force in First-Year Composition

Creator:: Du Bose, Hannah L.
Abstract:: Recognized as a site of risk, innovation, and inspiration, failure is a growing area of multidisciplinary inquiry. My thesis draws attention specifically to the way composition studies approaches failure in order to ask: how can we implement failure pedagogies safely, and how do rhetorics of failure move toward social justice...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Effects of Facial Tattoos on Perceptions of Facial Trustworthiness

Words of Well-Being : The Relation of an Individual's Word Choice to their Social Well-Being

Paxton : a cartography

Finding Fantasy : Three Newspapers Tell the Story of Kip Kinkel and Thurston High School

'That life of commonplace sacrifices' : representations of womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners

Queer Materiality: Freaks, Ghosts, and Madness in Victorian Culture and the Novels of Charlotte Brontë

Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

"Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

Failure as a Rhetorical Force in First-Year Composition

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