Url Resource class Title Creator Subject Description Publisher Date Type Identifier Language Rights Abstract Spatial Coverage Issue Volume Department or school name within institution Note History note https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/8514 2021-05-18 (Western Howl) Western Oregon University Student newspapers | Western Howl | Western Oregon University Student newspaper includes campus, local and national news stories and photographs. Western Oregon University 5/18/2021 Text; Image; StillImage studentnewspapers/1055 eng In Copyright. Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 04/04/2022, this item is in copyright, which is held by Western Oregon University. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the editors of WOU’s student newspaper at howlmanagingeditor@mail.wou.edu | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ 27 3 https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/6095 Animals - Light and Shadow Alfred P. Maurice Alfred P. Maurice | Manila (Philippines) | South Pacific | WWII Manila, Philippines - WWII Drawings. Three stylized ink drawings of animals, matted: a boar, kangaroo, and water buffalo. Bold use of light and shadow; stark use of line and space. Maurice.1066 4/28/1905 Image; StillImage 1055 In Copyright: 2017 -- Hamersly Library knows this item to be in copyright, which is held by Alfred P. Maurice. No permission is required from the rights-holder for educational uses. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/ Manila (Philippines) https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5167 Young People Are Always On Their Phones: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Texting Sydney Culpepper sociolinguistics | cell phones 10/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/151 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Since the invention of texting in the 1990s, it has become a vital tool of interaction used by people all over the world. Texting is a unique form of communication because it uses written language to emulate aspects of spoken language through the usage of textisms – emoticons, abbreviations, acronyms, and more. It is these textisms that have been the cause of much hysteria and concern over the future of the English language, and most of the focus has been put on the biggest proponents of texting: young people. This senior thesis reviews the history of standardization in writing and research on texting to investigate the linguistic purpose and function of textisms. I surveyed members of my community to learn patterns in usage of and attitudes toward texting with a focus on demographics and claims against texting, with the goal to assert that texting is an incredibly innovative form of language that enhances, rather than degrades, English. Honors Program Cornelia Paraskevas | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5166 Years In Honors: A Personal Reflection of My Time Spent in the Honors Program and How it Influenced My Life McKenzie Brendle 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/232 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5165 Writing a Novel: The Process and its Implications in Teaching Merry Fuller 5/1/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/37 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ For elementary teachers especially, the writing process is an important element in the classroom. It has multiple parts and is taught throughout the year at every grade level. Thus far, I had very little writing instruction from a teacher's perspective. We took science and geography classes to learn much more than we would ever teach in the classroom. We learned the ins and outs of linguistics and language acquisition, so that we could better understand the process of reading and writing. Due to this knowledge, I am better prepared as a teacher because I can approach education from a vantage point in the subject, rather than learning the material as I teach it. I want to teach writing from that same high vantage point. The purpose of this research is to see writing from the perspective of a writer, not just a student or educator. What factors do writers take into account? How do real writers write, outside of school standards? How does the writing process look when it's used i n an authentic way, not the processed steps it is often taught in? This is what I explored, so that I could teach writing from a more authentic perspective. Honors Program Scott Carter | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5164 Working in Harmony: The Process of Writing Music and Lyrics for a Musical Crystal Hanson 6/1/2011 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/41 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program William Whitley | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5163 Wolfie Round-Up: A Pilot Program to Assist Students with Staying Connected To WOU Raynie A. Ehret 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/261 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ A common goal amongst many different universities is to attain a higher retention rate from their students. This project will particularly focus on trying to achieve this goal at Western Oregon University, making it so more students will continue pursuing their degree at WOU. As a Western Oregon University alum, I have first-hand experience with recognizing the need for a program that Western can offer to students. Due to the common retention goal amongst the collegiate world, there is a plethora of information that discusses the psychology surrounding why students are hard to retain - this dissertation will only cover the information that directly relates to the community, geography, and population that is most similar to Monmouth, Oregon. We will start by discussing current and recent past practices that WOU has proposed to retain students, we will also examine what another university, Eastern Washington University, which is a peer institution to WOU and what their current methods/data on retention techniques are, then we will discuss the data dilemma that may cause lack of true information that could impact how well techniques are doing. At the end of this discussion, you will be able to view a PowerPoint that goes over the details of a newly developed pilot program named, “Wolfie Round-up''. I have composed this pilot program to have a sole focus on achieving a higher retention rate for Western Oregon University in conjunction with other methods that WOU is current by providing Western students with more accessible resources, informational sessions that allow new and current students to have a personal relationship with different members of the WOU community, and 4 specifically identify most aspects that the university has to offer that their students can take advantage of during their time. Honors Program Megan Habermann-Guthrie | M.S. | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5162 William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelites: Artistic Aims, Worldview, and Influence on Nineteenth-Century Culture Anna Olivia Funk 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/94 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This work seeks to study and clarify the aesthetic tenets and goals of Pre-Raphaelitism, one of the most significant artistic movements of the nineteenth century, in its formative years from 1848 to 1853. The Pre-Raphaelites rebelled against established artistic styles and methods, seeking instead to accurately depict nature and create art that conveys profound intellectual and spiritual ideas through its literary and religious themes. This project focuses particularly on William Holman Hunt, one of the founding members of the group, and argues that there exist important connections between his worldview, which is defined and discussed, and his art, of which three paintings are analyzed. The present work also examines the Pre-Raphaelites' influence on nineteenth-century British art by outlining the popular styles of the time and comparing these to the Pre-Raphaelites' work and principles. As evidenced in the work of their contemporaries and later artists, this small group of avant-garde artists transformed the art of their own era and beyond. Honors Program Michael Freeman | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5161 Why College? Making the Decision José R. García 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/21 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ A four year college degree may be one of the largest investments a person can make in their lifetime in terms of the time, effort, and money. Making this personal investment may be life-changing, which is why it is so important that one take the decision making process to attend college seriously. This study sought to investigate how and why students decide to pursue an undergraduate college degree. Undergraduate students were surveyed with a series of questions in hopes of acquiring a better understanding of what factors they take into account in their decision making process. The hypothesis was that students do not engage in a comprehensive college decision making process as they should. Results indicated that most students believe to have dedicated an appropriate amount of time and effort investigating their options and making the decision to pursue a college degree. Implications of this study suggest that most students are satisfied with their decision to attend college; however, a low percentage of the undergraduate students surveyed considered alternatives to attending college right after graduating high school. Further and refined research studies are proposed. Honors Program Dean Braa | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5160 Why Art Matters in an Increasingly Analytical World: Artistic Means of Communicating Scientific Concepts Kayla Baker 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/196 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Historically, through the combined forces of scientists and artists, there have been periods of revolutionary discovery and growth in the sciences. However, in today’s society, science and art are often considered separate disciplines and in some instances are even seen as conflicting areas of study. This review examines the current debate of STEM vs STEAM in primary educational settings and the lack of scientific literacy in the United States today, as well as important research on how art can combat public disinterest in scientific research and policy. It discusses the importance of science based art, and the renewal of artistic and scientific collaboration. The artists statement and explanation will review the process of taking a scientific publication and creating three art pieces: a visual art piece, a written art piece, and a movement art piece, all based on the publication “Jellyfish extract induces apoptotic cell death through the p38 pathway and cell cycle arrest in chronic myelogenous leukemia K562 cells”. Honors Program Karen Haberman | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5159 Whole Foods: Making a case for real nutrition Alexandra Vandenberghe 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/141 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Whole food consumption is a topic that is not significantly discussed in everyday culture. Whole foods have positive impacts to physical and mental health as well as to the environment. This thesis will explore the many benefits of whole foods, support a need for change, and persuade the reader to engage in a whole foods diet. This scholarly article will compile vast information from other researchers to examine the current whole foods situations around the globe, provide scientific confirmations behind the need for change, give recommendations for altering present habits, and will confront any pre-existing contradictions. The outcome of this thesis will be a text that is suitable for a reader with or without knowledge of nutrition to find usable and beneficial in making educated choices regarding nutrient intake. Honors Program Thomas S. Kelly | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5158 Whitewashing of the Stonewall Riots Sam Stageman 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/137 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Roland Emmerich’s film Stonewall was met with criticism for supposedly “whitewashing” the Stonewall riots, a pivotal moment in the LGBTQ+ community’s history. These critics stated that the riots had been begun by transgender women of color and Emmerich’s film made it appear that a white cisgender man started the riots. This papers determines if these criticisms were justified by reviewing historical accounts of the Stonewall Inn and riots, studying notable people associated with the riots, and analyzing the film itself. These findings are then analyzed through a queer theory lens to determine the message of Stonewall. It was ultimately determined that while Stonewall did have a number of inaccuracies, it did not necessarily warrant all the criticism it received. Honors Program CM Hall | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5157 What's the Subjunctive, Again? Preparing English Speakers for Learning Spanish Emmy Lou Pearl Olsen language acquisition 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/13 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Fostering communicative competence goes far beyond throwing students into conversation groups. A communicative approach to language teaching involves using authentic language from the very beginning of instruction, presenting real or at least plausible language tasks, and focusing on use of language not on specific grammatical function. What this tends to mean for a classroom is much less time spent on explicit grammar instruction and more time spent on students “getting their hands dirty” and exploring the language for themselves. For all the shifting away from constant grammar lessons in second language teaching, there is still a time when some of the fine inner workings of grammar must be explained. This type of grammar instruction requires that teachers and students engage in “metalanguage,” the vernacular or language used to talk about language. This is where my project fits into the scheme of second language Spanish instruction. Honors Program David Hargreaves | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5156 What’s in an Essay: A Study of International Student Writing Growth over Two Terms Amber Rynearson 7/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/235 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Academic language is a specific variation of language that is marked by its own grammatical features. It is one register, or specific variation of language characterized by certain types of vocabulary and grammatical structures; others include fiction writing, news writing, spoken language, magazine writing, etc. All of these registers differ both grammatically and lexically. In order to become proficient in a specific type of writing, one must become familiar with using the different rules and guidelines (both spoken and unspoken; the conventions) of that type of writing. For academic writing, which is learned over time, writing growth can be observed in various ways, such as through vocabulary usage, thematic development, use of nominalizations, use of non-finite clauses, use of prepositional phrases, and use of embedded clauses. This growth can be observed over time through a writer increasing in the number of appropriate grammatical choices based on the discipline or style they choose to write in; the more advanced syntax they use, the more they’ve grown in their writing ability. Many of these aspects of writing are difficult for native speakers to grasp, more so for non-native users of English. This is because academic language has to be learned by all- it is no one’s native language. The following project seeks to investigate change and growth in specific areas of academic writing (such as vocabulary, thematic development, lexical density, and reading level) of international students throughout twenty weeks (two terms) and chart their improvement. Further, the study will connect the various aspects of writing growth with self-reported survey data inquiring about the student’s own beliefs on what constitutes good academic writing, and how they feel about their own writing and 5 language growth. This survey allows for connections to be made between the areas in which students produced the most growth and the grammatical features they see as most important. It also allows a glance into their self-confidence when producing their second language, which is a crucial aspect of success in a second language. This project will be based in both quantitative and qualitative data sets and will utilize corpus software and manual analysis. Honors Program Cornelia Paraskevas | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5135 Vietnamese Water Puppetry: The Practical Development of the Structure and Form Amanda Vander Hyde water puppet | Vietnam | water puppetry | puppetry | history 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/155 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ My senior honors project is building a water puppet myself using traditional methods. These methods refer to Vietnam’s history — specifically how and why this form, particularly the structure, was created and has been preserved in such a way. I will need to examine the theatre practice of Water Puppetry in Vietnam, looking at the structure of these puppets and how that structure has been developed from the Vietnamese people’s way of living — whether religious, political, or practical — and use that to inform my design. Honors Program Scott Grim | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5134 Video Game Music and Task Performance: Experiment and Review Whitley Harrel Video games | video game music | n-back test | task performance | cognitive task | memory 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/227 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This study was an examination of the impact video game music may have had on the performance of a difficult cognitive task. Participants listened to music selected from the video game “Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess” while simultaneously playing the 2-back version of the N-back test. Participants were split into four groups, video game player listening to battle music, video game player and town music, non-player and boss music, and non-player and town music. The task was administered on a computer and results were measured by percent correct. Scores were analyzed with a two by two ANOVA with no significant difference found. This leads to the conclusion that video game music does not have an impact on the performance of a mentally difficult task. Honors Program Brent King | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5133 Using Children’s Books to Teach Mathematics Laura White 9/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/147 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ One way for teacher to maximize time in the classroom is to combine language arts and mathematics when teaching, which causes several benefits for both teachers and students. One effective method of this is to use children’s storybooks to expand students’ understanding of each subject. An examination of current examples of storybooks that combine both of these subjects resulted in determining the most effective books which can be used in a classroom setting. This information was used to create a unit for fourth grade students to learn both mathematics and language arts by reading and examining one of the storybooks, then having students their own stories which used their knowledge of fractions. Through this students were able to practice both their language arts skills and their mathematics knowledge at the same time. Honors Program Marie LeJeune | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5132 Unsustainable and Unsupported: Connecting "Islands" of Federal Title IX Guidance, Campus Adjudication, and the Need for Holistic Care and Hope in an Era of Rape Culture Jennifer Romadka 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/211 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Sexual assault is extremely prevalent on college campuses, with an estimated 25% of college women reporting that they have experienced some form of sexual assault (Beaver, 2017). With federal and state policies written around trying to support adjudication regarding sexual assault, independent task forces created, and entire university departments dedicated towards helping assault survivors, it seems that this problem should be alleviated. Critics argue that university departments are biased and not doing their job in order to protect schools, or that policies are written in order to erase so many experiences from receiving help. Academia looks into the psychological effects of trauma on post-secondary students and analyses endless sets of data in order to find trends related to various policies, yet the same problem seems to keep creeping up. As of yet, there hasn’t been a comprehensive look at how these policies and their affected college departments are connected. This thesis dives into the world of Title IX and sexual assault policy from the lense of sexual assault resource and Title IX staff members on Oregon Public University campuses. Through researching federal and state policies and the guidance that the Oregon Sexual Assault Task Force provides to Title IX and sexual assault resource departments on university campuses, I was able to perform interviews with various staff members about how they are able to implement policies. Through latent thematic analysis of these interviews, I found that Title IX and sexual assault resource departments are severely unsupported and working in a way that is unsustainable. My conclusions lead me to suggest that it is unethical to create policies that focus on trauma without using holistic verbiage and providing necessary and adequate resources. Honors Program Dana Schowalter and Aislinn Addington | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5131 Understanding the Syrian Revolution Through Nontraditional Art Julie Wallace 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/142 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In my thesis, I will explore the Syrian Revolution through the nontraditional arts that are being produced. I will be focusing on several different modes of creation, including street art, digital art, comics and cartoons, and installation. Social media is the primary tool for artists working in Syria to distribute their work, so I will also be discussing the importance of social media, both as a means to publish their work and also spread their message. I will answer the following questions: what role does street art and other nontraditional mediums play in the revolution? What are the artists’ purposes and intents when creating such pieces? How is social media relevant to the revolution? The answers to these questions and more will help to legitimize nontraditional arts, not only as examples of art themselves, but also as a means of communication. I hope to shed some light on the Syrian Revolution by looking at the war through the lens of an artist. Honors Program Michael Freeman | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5130 Understanding the Reading Wars: The Incorporation of Phonics in the Elementary Classroom Joshua W. Nelson 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/246 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Education practices over the years have continuously been changed and developed for the better. One area of elementary education that can still be advanced is reading, through the integration of phonics to young readers. Reading has been taught in a whole language approach1, but studies suggest that explicit instruction in phonics, which takes advantage of students' phonological awareness, is a better way to teach reading. Although the science of reading (explicit instruction in phonics) has been shown to be beneficial for students, it is still not the common practice across the country. At best, teachers combine explicit phonics instruction with whole language instruction, which is an approach termed balanced literacy. In the project I will investigate the ways in which the Oregon state-adopted textbooks align with the science of reading but also meet the Common Core State Standards, or CCSS, outcomes for reading. In addition, in order to see how reading instruction is enacted in the classroom, I will observe teachers and, if needed, informally interview elementary principals. The final product will be a guidebook for teachers who are not familiar/comfortable with a sense of reading (explicit phonics instruction): it will include foundational concepts on children's phonological development and reading instruction as well as three lesson plans based on best practices recommended by experts in the field. Honors Program Cornelia Paraskevas | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5129 Understanding Heroin Addiction from the Life Course Perspective Kayli Fisher 7/1/2015 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/36 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Heroin and other opiate dependence is a disease that affects the user, interpersonal relationships, and the surrounding community. Due to societal stigmatization of heroin addiction, it can be difficult to help the wider community see the need for more effective intervention and prevention efforts. The purpose of this study was to better understand risk factors of dependency by examining the life courses of individuals who have been through addiction, treatment, and are currently in recovery. Early childhood experiences, specifically parental abuse and social rejection, combined with substance abuse as a model for coping, were found to be influential in the development of addiction. Social support and self -awareness during and post -treatment were effective components of sustaining recovery. Honors Program Margaret Manoogian | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5128 Twitter as Consciousness-Raising: An Analysis of the 2017 #MeToo Movement Erin Worley 1/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/253 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Sexual assault and harassment have always been a societal taboo. Individuals who have shared their experiences with sexual misconduct in the past have been heavily shamed and ridiculed, which prevented a lot of individuals from sharing their experiences, out of a fear of being labeled a liar, or worse. However, sexual assault and harassment are not uncommon in society, and the #MeToo movement allowed the discourse surrounding these issues to be brought to the forefront of society. This thesis sought to analyze the discourse within and surrounding the 2017 #MeToo movement, ignited on Twitter by actor and activist Alyssa Milano. To do this, I developed a comprehensive background to the movement, including a discussion surrounding the concept of consciousness-raising groups and the historical context of such groups. I analyzed select tweets from both Milano and other prominent Twitter accounts from October 15, 2017, which I separated into four key themes. Also included is a discussion surrounding the lack of intersectionality within the movement, and why that is ultimately harmful to the cause. In addition to the inherent importance of speaking out against the occurrences of sexual assault and sexual harassment, this thesis explores the use of social media as digital consciousness-raising groups, with a specific focus on the social media site Twitter. This thesis has determined that Milano was able to create a Twitter consciousness-raising group, as well as discussing how the #MeToo movement represents social media’s contribution to creating social change. Honors Program Dana Schowalter | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5127 Trend Analysis of Depression and Anxiety in College Students Katarina Smith 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/109 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The purpose of this thesis is to determine what factors are contributing to the growing trend of depression and anxiety on college campus. Each section will explore a questioned topic as it relates to depression and anxiety among college students. The first section focuses on the idea that students are unaware of the trend. Data from a 2014 American College Health Association study will be used to demonstrate this assumption. The next section addresses depression and anxiety and the sub-disorders most associated with college students. Each disorder is explained through clinical descriptions and concrete examples are provided. The final section focuses on concerns related to availability and access of mental health services including funding and resource allocation. I also provided a Western Oregon University specific example to show how accessibility impacts the trend. Through my research, I identified all of these factors as major forces driving the increase in mental health issues among college students. Honors Program Molly Mayhead | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5126 Tobacco Use on College Campuses: Should Smoking Be Banned? Hayley Dickinson 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/12 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Millions of people continue to use tobacco products, despite the well-known adverse health effects that they cause to the human body. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined. The trend in tobacco and smoke-free college campuses is a step towards decreasing the use of these dangerous, habit forming products. Research also shows that there are no safe levels of secondhand smoke, therefore, preventing exposure is a key component to a healthy campus community. Although there are many different reasons for these programs, and many different approaches to implementing these programs, it is important to understand the highlights and the difficulties of these policies on college campuses. This thesis works to explore and explain the positive and negative aspects of college campus tobacco-free policies in the United States while working to highlight and reiterate the dangers of smoking and its effect on the surrounding community via secondhand smoke. Honors Program Siobhan Maty | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5125 To Honor Our Elders: Exploration of Elder Abuse in Long-Term Settings Noelle A. Haury 7/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/279 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Older adults living in long-term care settings seek support as they age. Due to their health concerns, they may be vulnerable to elder abuse and neglect. As older adults continue to live longer and the Baby Boomer generation reaches older adulthood, elder abuse will only continue to increase and adversely affect older adults living in both long-term care and home settings. This thesis explores the causes, instances, and interventions of elder abuse in long term settings. Understanding elder abuse and neglect is paramount towards effectively addressing it and creating innovative interventions and preventative strategies. Those who experience elder abuse have many negative health- related outcomes. An examination of the types of abuse and neglect occurring in long term care settings in addition to the risk factors, training practices of employees, and suggested interventions provide a better understanding as well as a foundation for potential interventions supporting older adults as they age with health needs. This exploratory qualitative research study included interviews with five professionals working in settings that have equipped them with an understanding and expertise of elder abuse and neglect in these settings. Results suggest that agency efforts, workplace culture, and resident risk factors greatly affect the occurrence of elder abuse in long-term care settings. These findings revealed areas of improvement and potential pathways towards tackling elder abuse and neglect. Honors Program Margaret Manoogian | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5124 Tissue Engineering: Proposed Graft for Aortic Aneurysms D-Dré Déani Wright 1/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/209 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The aorta is the main vessel exiting the heart, providing oxygenated blood to the systemic circulatory system. Because of its close proximity to the heart, the aorta must withstand and absorb high pressures. Not surprisingly, one of the most common problems associated with the aorta is due to this high-pressure environment, that being an aortic aneurysm. An aortic aneurysm is a rupture in a portion of the aortic wall that can potentially lead to death. To repair an aortic aneurysm, there are two surgeries, open chest surgery and endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), both of which insert stent grafts into the aorta to exclude the aneurysm. Complications can arise from either of these techniques or the stent graft used for repair. An autologous native vessel would be best in mimicking the native aorta, but given the current and near-future research, a biological stent graft could reduce the complications associated with the current procedures and stent grafts. Honors Program Arlene Courtney and Michael LeMaster | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5123 Through Her Eyes, Into Her Story: A musical album Caitlin Healy 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/217 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Dirk Freymuth | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5122 There’s No Place like Home: Or is there? Study Abroad Reentry Kelsey Gray psychology 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/8 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In 2012, The Institute of International Education (IIE) reported that U.S. student participation in study abroad has more than tripled over the past two decades (IIE, 2012). During the 1990’s, U.S. students studying abroad grew from 50,000 in 1985 to 140,000 in 2000. Despite changes in foreign relations and the American economy, the popularity of study abroad has continued to grow (IIE, 2012). Study abroad has been on the rise for many years because it holds many benefits for students. A semester, year, or any segment of time in a different culture can impact a student’s worldview, cultural understanding, and their scope of experience. As this experience has become more common, study abroad has become a topic of interest in the psychology field. Study abroad includes many complex psychological processes; this research will focus on the activity of reentry into one’s home culture as a focal point to examine several of these processes. Honors Program Victor Savicki | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5121 Therapeutic and Health Benefits of Horse-Human Interactions Chelsea Wiley 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/143 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ With completing this thesis, I hope to achieve an answer that could potentially help numerous people with their recovery from tragic events or progress in their life overall. Horseback riding has been suggested to help special needs children and adults connect better with people and help them communicate their needs and wants, not only with people, but with the horses as well. I would want to further confirm the effects that it has on people since it can potentially help particular individuals, such as individuals with autism. Not only can individuals with disabilities benefit from therapeutic horseback riding, but patients recovering post-traumatic stress disorder and other disorders can benefit from this since it can help with communication, fine motor skills, and muscle memory. This project will include statistics and information on therapeutic horseback riding through the use of many already established therapeutic riding centers to show the effects that this therapy has on its participants. It will also include public opinions and a government bill to show the relevance that this therapy has to the general population. Interviews and literary research will help to formulate a business plan that can allow therapeutic horseback riding to bring the fullest potential to the people that partake in this specific type of therapy. Honors Program Carla Johnson | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5120 Thematic Tension between Trauma and Triumph in Hideaki Anno’s Neon Genesis Evangelion Vanna Dejeu 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/91 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This thesis explores the commentary on humanity that is described throughout Hideaki Anno’s Neon Genesis Evangelion. Close examination of the patterns of behavior, speech, and respective traumas of the main characters in the series was utilized to decipher the regenerative themes presented through each character’s ongoing struggle to overcome their psychological wounds. This thesis introduces ideas about what it means to be human and how one can bear the weight of such an existence. It is my greatest hope that this work influences individuals to reflect on their own experiences in an effort to become more at peace with themselves. By extension, I hope to increase the level of interest in Japanese animation by depicting the degree of intricacy of which this medium is capable. Honors Program Henry Hughes | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5119 Their Farm, Your Table: Sustainability of Small Farms in the Willamette Valley Rachel N. Worley 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/254 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Whether walking down a grocery aisle or strolling through a farmer’s market, everybody eats, which means everybody shops. Oregon’s Willamette Valley is thick with small farms that grow everything from raspberries to rutabaga, but is locally grown produce worth the hype? Despite this rich agricultural area, many people lack knowledge about the importance of local farms, the ways they operate, and how they can be supported. This project explores what it means to farm small, and whether being small is the same as being environmentally friendly and sustainable long-term. Along with research contrasting conventional, organic, and sustainable farming techniques there are editorials on three local farms, and a handful of recipes that can be made using their produce. Honors Program Mike McGlade | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5118 Theatrical Interpreting: An Explanation of the Process Chloe Hansen 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/15 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The curtain is down; you can hear the rustling of the waiting audience in the darkness as the lights slowly dim. With the rise of the curtain, you step into the spotlight, inhale a nervous breath, and proceed to interpret the words expressed by the actors you accompany on stage. Honestly, this picture is something not all people in the field of interpreting have been able to experience, but it is something that the author of this paper has only recently learned to be a life changing experience. This paper will explain the process of theatrical interpreting and what it entails to complete an interpretation of a play. To do this, the author will provide a step-by-step process of interpretation that is required for interpreting play. In addition, the author will reflect on a personal experience of going through the theatrical interpreting process for this thesis. This reflection will include a transcript of the interpreted play with translation, an observation of a professional interpretation of the translated play, an interview with two of the interpreters, and a write up of the overall experience. Honors Program Pamela Cancel | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5117 The Treaty of Versailles and the Rise of Nazism in Germany, 1918-1933 Michaela Yonkman 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/255 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This project explores the way in which the Nazi Party used the Treaty of Versailles, which laid out the Allies’ terms of defeat for Germany after World War I, in their propaganda before 1933. The First World War had disastrous effects on Germany. The volatile conditions of post-war society created many roadblocks to recovery and left millions feeling alienated and disconnected from the newly established democratic government. The Treaty of Versailles was incredibly unpopular and factored into much anti-government propaganda during the interwar years. In my research I analyzed Nazi publications, speeches, and member testimony from 1918-1933 and discuss how the Treaty was politicized by the Party to fit their agenda. I found that the Nazi Party used the Treaty to build their movement by identifying people or groups who had caused Germany’s collapse and to justify the purging of those elements. Through the extreme rhetoric of violence and conflict the Nazi Party also used the animosity toward the Treaty of Versailles to create their own set of cultural values for Germany to rebuild the national community and restore Germany as world power. Honors Program David Doellinger | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5116 The Theories Informing Literature Circle Implementation Hillary Mills 6/1/2010 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/60 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Gavin Keulks | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5095 The Search for Self: Childhood Interiors and Identity in Contemporary Young Adult Literature Paige O'Rourke 6/1/2012 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/64 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In accordance with philosopher Gaston Bachelard's interpretation of literary interiors as the cosmoses one creates through inhabited space, this thesis focuses on a narrow yet thorough investigation of how interiority reflects the transformative journey of characters within contemporary children's literature of the Western world. Such interiors are used to compelling effect within the bildungsromane of contemporary youth fiction, with the sanctuaries and prisons depicted throughout such novels linked to the various stages of the protagonists' journeys toward self-actualization (i.e., one's realization of, and movement toward, his or her potential). In particular, three popular young adult series combine the hero's journey with literary interiority in highly compelling ways: The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956) by C.S. Lewis, the Harry Potter series (1997-2007) by J.K. Rowling, and The Hunger Games trilogy (2008-2010) by Suzanne Collins. The protagonists of these works undergo a transformational journey – the quintessential theme of coming-of-age literature – with the trajectory of their quests definable through the interiors they encounter and the significance of the perceptions regarding both self and community that they gain from their experiences within those interiors. Honors Program Kit Andrews | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5094 The Potential Conflict between Forensic Ancestral Identification and Societal Interpretation in America Jerielle Raibley 6/1/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/67 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Kristin Latham | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5093 The Physical Space of the Classroom and its Impact on Creativity Samantha Gallagher 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/126 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This thesis will address the impact of the classroom environment on the creative thinking of elementary learners. Using extensive research, the following writing will address factors such as physical space, flexibility of the classroom, desk arrangement, resources, curriculum, hierarchy of systems, and range of activity/subjects. For example, the proposal will give strategies as simple as switching the arrangement of the room or where the students sit, but also suggest changes to the system of public education as a whole. In our current education system, there is something about the way children are being taught and what they are being taught that is discouraging originality. As a nation, we understand that creative thinking is often difficult to find. My interest in this topic grew from a concern about the lack of emphasis in our classrooms on creativity and its importance. If we cannot value creativity, then we will lose the potential of new ideas and discoveries as well as the ability to use critical thinking and problem solving. These are all essential skills for our society, and they need to be addressed for our upcoming generations. Honors Program Jennifer Schulze | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5092 The Nuremberg Laws: Creating the Road to the T-4 Program Jennifer Hight 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/99 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ On September 15, 1935 the Nazi party announced a new series of laws codes that legally cemented the principles of Nazi ideology: The Nuremberg Laws. Written by Bernhard Loesener and Wilhelm Stuckart, the Nuremberg Laws were composed of many parts and this paper will focus on two specific sub-articles. One, the “Reich Citizenship Law” revoked the status of Jews as legal citizens and created the framework the Nazis would use to persecute by defining what it meant to be German or Jewish; later the laws were expanded by the Nazis to label minorities as non-German citizens. The “Laws of the Protection of Hereditary Health” stated that anyone the Nazis deemed as carrying inheritable diseases would be forced to undergo sterilization. The “Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor” outlawed marriage between Germans and Jews. These laws established a foundation for a eugenics program that the Nazi doctors performed on inmates in T-4 centers and later in concentration camps from 1939 to 1945. Honors Program John Rector | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5091 The Music Experience: Phenomenology in Music Education Aleisha Douthitt 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/124 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Music is a powerful part of our world. It touches our daily lives and surrounds us more than we even realize. It connects us to others, builds culture, and is appreciated by many. Music has been taught in schools for many years and is a part of many memories of students from elementary school. Music is full of theory. From the note names and sounds, rhythm and beats, time signature…the list of theoretical aspects goes on and on. Although these components are the measurable forms of music, these are not what people remember and what makes music powerful. It is the combination of all of those components created into a musical song that creates power. The way music makes people feel and what they experience is what sets music apart and makes it a staple in culture. Our education system is highly influenced by behavioristic theories. Behaviorism tells us that learning is quantifiable and measurable. We see in our education system music being taught and placed under behaviorism, which is not a place that it fits. Music is not based on theory or logic but on emotion and experience. There has been a great deal of research done on the way that we experience the natural world and the ways that these experiences shape us as people. Honors Program Dana Ulveland | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5090 The Linguistics of Sexual Assault: How the Dissonance of Individuals’ Perpetrator Expectations and The Ordering of Information Effects Perceptions of Sexual Assault Magen Boegli 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/205 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This study was an investigation into the framing of sexual assault cases and how media may sway the opinions of the public through their choice use of language to describe the case. Most commonly we see stories present victims’ irresponsibility along with characteristics of the perpetrator that are inconsistent with societal stereotypes of assaulters. This may influence the public's perceptions of justice and accuracy of the statements made about the crime. The researcher hypothesized that by using paradoxical language around the assaulter and ordering information so victim’s irresponsibility is presented first, there would be lower perceived perpetrator responsibility responses. Participants for this study included seventy undergraduate students at a mid-sized university in the pacific northwest. In Condition A, participants read an article where victims irresponsibility was presented first and included paradoxical language surrounding the perpetrator. In Condition B, the case was presented so that victim testimony and evidence was presented first and lacked any language about the perpetrator’s life outside of the reported assault. After reading one of these framings of the same assault, participants took a short survey designed on a Likert scale to examine perceived perpetrator and victim responsibility along with perceived accuracy and justice of the case. Two of the presented fifteen questions yielded statistical significance. Honors Program Deborah Brannan | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5089 The Influence of High Fructose Corn Syrup on the Diabetes Epidemic Lisa Martini 5/1/2010 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/55 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Over the past 30 years, the amount of high fructose corn syrup consumed in the United States has increased. During the same period the diabetes and obesity epidemic ha s emerged and risen to an all -time high. These epidemics are taking large tolls on the individual and on society. The compelling data showing the same upward trend of high fructose corn syrup, type 2 diabetes and obesity can hardly be ignored as many researchers try to uncover the link. Many have stated that the increase in high fructose corn syrup, especially that from soda pop, has lead to the obesity epidemic and from there led to the diabetes epidemic. However, high fructose corn syrup could be directly leading to the diabetes epidemic or the two diseases could be so intertwined that the sweet syrup is causing both to occur. A large extent of research has been done in the area, but no strong evidence has been uncovered to show how the three are related. Much more research, especially on humans in the long -term, is needed to help find more answers. In the mean time, governmental bodies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the presidential body need to make stronger effort s to reduce the amount of Americans diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or obesity. Honors Program Tom Kelly | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5088 The Imposter Phenomenon and Anxiety among Pre-Service TESOL Teachers Keelie Daquilanto 6/1/2015 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/33 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The purpose of the current study was to evaluate anxiety, preparedness and attitudes of pre -service TESOL teachers participating in a Health Literacy Learning program. More specifically the study analyzed the Imposter Phenomenon (IP) and Teacher Anxiety (TchA). Data were gathered using the NSST Imposter Scale, and the Teacher Anxiety Scale. Participants consisted of 15 pre -service TESOL teachers (12 females, 3 males). Results revealed significant differences in examining the influence of IP on confidence about teaching competence t (13) =2.91, p =.01, and marginally significant results when examining the influence of IP on anxiety about lesson presentation t (13) =1.04 p =.05. No significant results were found in influences of gender on IP or anxiety, or level of experience on anxiety, p =ns. Future research should examine IP and anxiety among teachers in general, as well as gender differences. Additionally differences among TESOL instructors and general K -12 teachers. Honors Program Debi Brannan | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5087 The Importance of Self-Care for ASL/English Interpreters Rachel Gordon 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/129 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ American Sign Language/English Interpreters may experience many different injuries including emotional, mental and physical injuries by interpreting. Without the use of self-care these experiences may lead to more serious conditions that may cause an interpreter to leave the profession. This thesis will name some of the injuries that might happen while interpreting including Emotional, Mental and Physical. It will also list different ways that self-care can help prevent those injuries from occurring as well as look at a few different techniques for self-care that will hopefully help an interpreter prevent or reduce the risk of experiencing these kinds of injuries while working in the profession. Honors Program Erin Trine | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5086 The Importance of Reading with Children Olivia M. Geisler-Wagner 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/243 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This project looks at how many people are actually reading with their children outside of school and deeply assesses the benefits that reading brings to a child’s life that carry into adulthood. Durham’s Partnership for Children (2016) conducted a study that shows only 46% of parents are reading with their child every day at home. More than half of families are not receiving the benefits of reading with their child that include decreases in behavioral outbursts, increases in fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Researchers have done many in depth studies that isolate and look for specific variables that show the benefits of reading, such as brain scans while viewing books or animations, or measuring the amount of words children know by the time they get to kindergarten, or analysing how intervention with good reading and parenting practices helps children thrive in the aforementioned areas. This project synthesized information from multiple sources and research projects into a brochure for parents to gain a more holistic view of the benefits of reading at home with their children. Taking multiple research papers and translating them from scientific language into everyday language helps parents to quickly read and understand the plethora of benefits their child would receive from being read to and with throughout their adolescence. Honors Program Marie LeJeune | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5085 The Impact of World War I on American Women’s Fashion Bethany L. Haight fashion | clothing 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/16 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Learning about influential events, such as World War I, that surround changes in dress can provide the context needed to understand why these changes occurred in the first place. Prior to discussing contemporary influences it is important to consider antecedent factors. While the entire history of clothing and fashion could be discussed, this work will focus on the most relevant years, the decade that preceded World War I. While this is due in part to its immediate association with the time in question this decade also marked the end of a century-long standstill in the Western fashion industry. Consequently, analyzing just this short period in history provides a depiction of fashion standards in the century before as well. Honors Program Sandra Hedgepeth | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5084 The Impact of Artist Fame and Viewer Socioeconomic Status on Art Likeability Christina Ayers Socioeconomic Status | Fame | Visual Art 12/31/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/179 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Previous research on fame and likeability has been focused primarily in the field of advertising with some related research in the music industry, but little has been done in regard to visual art. Socioeconomic status (SES) has been explored in terms of art participation but has not been explored in relation to the reception of art. The purpose of the current study was to explore the effects that artist fame and viewer SES have on the rating given to a piece of visual art. I predicted that high SES participants would give higher ratings to high fame artists than low fame artists or with no artist information. For low SES participants, I predicted they would give lower overall scores than those with high SES, and that their highest scores would be for low fame artists. Participants (N = 90) were randomly assigned to one of the three artist fame conditions and rated the same painting on multiple scales. Results did not show any main effects but a trend for an interaction was found between viewer SES and artist fame, such that high SES participants gave their highest ratings to high fame artists while low SES participants gave higher ratings when given no information and to low fame artists than to high fame artists. This trend supports the conclusion that individual differences impact the way in which creative mediums are perceived. Honors Program Jaime Cloud | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5083 The Future of Fossils: The Evolution of Paleontological Research in the Modern Age Hannah Moshinsky 10/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/256 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Dinosaurs are awesome. They hold a special place in everyone’s childhood, and new discoveries in what they looked like and how they lived and might have behaved are exciting news. It’s more common to come across an article unveiling a new fossil as opposed to novel breakthroughs in understanding the paleobiology of these organisms. Although discoveries in the research field are less widespread than field discoveries and new dig sites, even though the datapool of fossils grows every year, new advances in technology allow for new analytical methods to study these fossils. Researchers are now able to test a wider range of more specific hypotheses. Scientific understanding of dinosaurs and how they lived has not progressed as rapidly as would be expected in the new digital age given the abundance of fossils to study. Paleontology is commonly thought of as digging in the field, piecing bones together in a museum, and analyzing morphological characteristics of bones to describe new species. With the new digital age and the development of many distinctions within helpful fields, such as histology, how people think about paleontology and the ways it’s explored can be expanded from just dig sites to include the laboratory setting where even more discoveries happen. Within the professional world of paleontology, there is a lot of discourse over how the field is changing, integrating new technologies, and adapting to be more efficient to researchers in the future. However, amateurs may not be aware of this discussion. My project is designed to investigate what the modern paleontologist does, articulate obstacles the field currently faces, address the plausible solutions that are being, or can 4 be, integrated into the field, and finally to create an online resource for aspiring paleontologists. Honors Program Drs. Amy Harwell and Gareth Hopkins | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5082 The Evolution of Queer Representation in the Young Adult Genre John Goldsmith 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/96 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Beginning in 1969, the queer young adult fiction genre has attracted an increasing number of readers. Many critics, however, have noted large problems in the genre, fueled by themes of homophobia and fear, which hindered rather than advanced normalized queer representation. Since the late 1990s, a growing number of books have worked to eradicate these stereotypes and offer a greater range of possibilities for diversity and celebration of queer identities. This thesis will examine three novels that made large contributions to the advancement of queer representation across the young adult genre. The works are discussed in historical and critical contexts—particularly queer theory— and through my own experiences as a gay man and student of literature. Although these novels are not perfect, I believe each book has made a significant positive contribution to the portrayal of LGBTQ+ identities across young adult literature. Honors Program Henry Hughes | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5081 The Effects of Social Media Usage on Disordered Eating Behaviors: An Experimental Study Taryn Anne Wilson 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/258 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Social media has become a large part of the entertainment industry. A majority of adolescents report using social media on a daily basis. With such widespread use, it is important to examine the effects of such usage on mental health. Research has shown that there may be a link between social media usage and mental health complications, such as disordered eating behaviors and anxiety. However, past research has its limitations. Most studies analyze the effects of using older platforms, such as Facebook. Instagram is a newer platform and the largest photo sharing application to date. Little research has examined potential links between using Instagram and the user’s body esteem and disordered eating behaviors. In the current study, participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. The first condition, the control, had participants randomly assigned to watch a short three-minute video of someone browsing the internet. The experimental condition had participants watch a three-minute video of someone scrolling through an Instagram feed with public accounts. There were 12 participants, 9 females and 3 males. The majority of participants were white. Immediately following the viewing, participants answered a body esteem questionnaire. An independent t-test was conducted at the conclusion of the study. The participants who viewed the video of an Instagram feed reported higher levels of body esteem issues (M = 3.99, SD = .26) than those who viewed the THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE ON DISORDERED EATING BEHAVIORS 4 video of Internet browsing (M = 3.68, SD = .29). The mean differences between the two conditions failed to be significant, t(10) = 1.94, p < .081, r^2 = .27. Considering the large r value, a large effect size exists, but this study did not detect it due to the small sample size. Honors Program Ethan McMahan | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5080 The Effects of Rhythm Versus Visual Images on Working Memory Recall Sarah Hughes rhythm | working memory | mnemonics 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/203 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In the current study, the researcher aimed to examine the interaction between the independent variable of mnemonic modalities (visual images versus auditory rhythms) and working memory recall. Previous research indicates that information encodes better when presented with rhythm compared to a no-rhythm condition. This suggests that rhythm acts as a mnemonic, or a memory aid. However, across the numerous studies on rhythm and memory, rhythm’s effectiveness on memory retention has not been compared to the effectiveness of more commonly used mnemonics, such as images. The researcher hypothesized that the auditory rhythm condition would produce better working memory recall compared to the visual images condition. Participants for this study included 11 undergraduate students at Western Oregon University. In Learning Condition A, participants learned ten words in Estonian and their associated English meaning, paired with images related to each word shown. In Learning Condition B, participants learned the same list, paired with a rhythm. After a short distraction, participants in both conditions were asked to recall the English meanings. The difference between the two conditions was significant, t(10) = 3.184, p < .05, supporting visuals as the better mnemonic device, leading the researcher to fail to reject the null. Future research should include more participants. Honors Program Melissa Cunningham | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5079 The Effects of Peppermint and Orange Aromas on Mood and Task Performance: A Research Study and Process Narration Reina Morgan 5/1/2015 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/61 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The purpose of this study is to determine if peppermint and orange aromas can improve mood and task performance. The participants for this study were 26 female and 11 male students (Mage = 22.05 years, SD = 5.00). This study utilized a mixed design. Participants complete d practice GRE questions while being exposed to peppermint, orange, or no scent. Pre and post mood were measured using the Quick Mood Scale (Woodruffe -Peacock, Turnbull, Johnson, Elahi, & Preston, 1998) and task performance was measured based on responses to the GRE questions. Exposure to peppermint and orange was not found to improve the cheerfulness component of mood F (2, 34) =.19, p>.05, ?²=.19, or task performance F (2, 34) =.15, p>.05, ?²=.01. Based on the effect size for this study, aromas could potentially be used in the workplace to improve mood but further research with more participants is needed. Honors Program Chehalis Strapp | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5078 The Effects of Multiple Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries and Task Difficulty on Cognitive Function Josephina Losco Cognitive Deficits | Mild Brain Injury | Speed of Processing 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/161 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Previous research regarding mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) indicates that even one mTBI can result in long-term cognitive deficits in memory, speed of processing, and attention. This study further investigated this research with the hypothesis that, after controlling for other influences of cognitive functioning, individuals with 2 or more mTBI would perform more poorly on a battery of cognitive tests than individuals with 0- 1 mTBI. It was further predicted that the effect of task difficulty on speed of processing would be influenced by the number of mTBI participants experienced... Honors Program Jaime Cloud; Joel Alexander | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5077 The Effects of Color Preference on Word List Recall Aubrey Fear Color | recall | color preference | short term memory 5/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/92 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The current study hypothesized that the group allowed to choose a color from a list will recall more words from a word recall list than the group that is assigned the color black. 50 non-colorblind participants (9 male) with a mean age of 22.5 (SD= 6.40) were recruited from a University subject pool, and offered extra credit in a psychology class in exchange for their participation in this study. The word list (20 five-letter words) was gathered from braingle.com, a site with numerous memory lists and activities. The independent variable, color, was manipulated between black and a color selected by the participant. The dependent variable was the number of words from the list that the participant could recall. If a significant positive relationship is found between preferential color and the number of words recalled, it would indicate that using a preferential color for studying may yield better tests scores as compared to those who study in the standard black color. The results calculated with a 2 sex x 2 group factorial design revealed no significant difference between the experiment and control groups. Honors Program Joel Alexander | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5076 The Effect of Labels Related to Hearing Loss on Implicit Attitudes toward Deafness Sarah Lundquist 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/132 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The present study sought to determine whether exposure to various labels about hearing loss has an influence on implicit attitudes about deafness. It was hypothesized that the term “hearing impaired” would elicit a more negative attitude than the terms “deaf”, “hard-of-hearing”, or no label. Thirty Western Oregon University students participated (males=11, females=19; mean age=20.67 years, SD = 2.19). Eleven participants indicated that they had a relationship with someone who is D/deaf or hard-of-hearing, and four students had taken one or more American Sign Language (ASL) courses in the past. Participants read a vignette created by the researcher containing one of the previously mentioned labels associated with deafness, and then completed an Implicit Associations Test to measure implicit bias with regard to deafness (Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998). The results failed to reveal a significant difference between implicit bias of any of the groups, one-way between subjects ANOVA F (3, 26) = .018, p = .997, η² = .002, implying that exposure to deaf-related labels in a vignette likely does not influence implicit attitudes about deafness. Honors Program Chehalis Strapp | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5055 The Dream of a Million Girls: Empowerment, Feminism, and America’s Oldest Pageant Stephanie Magee 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/244 Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The Miss America Program has been an American dream since its initiation in 1921. What began as a Beauty Pageant hosted in Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall quickly formed into the scholarship organization it is now. From burning bikinis to obtaining a bachelors, Miss America has been the target of criticism and hate. Through this thesis I will use the methods and practices of autoethnography to create a specific analysis of how we view Miss America in relation to feminist theory. When a scholar writes in the form of autoethnography… “they retrospectively and selectively write about epiphanies that stem from, or are made possible by, being part of a culture and/or by possessing a particular cultural identity. However, in addition to telling about experiences, auto ethnographers often are required by social science publishing conventions to analyze these experiences” (Ellis, 2011, sec. 2, par. 4). This thesis incorporates the four vital steps of autoethnography to combine my experience with the Miss America organization and academic critique relevant to the themes I identify. These four steps include: (1) purposefully critiquing cultural practices, (2) making a contribution to existing work, (3) embracing vulnerability with the intention of enticing critique, and (4) creating a reciprocal relationship with the audience to evoke response. By using autoethnographic analysis I will discern patterns of cultural experience evident by artifacts and then describe these patterns using facets of storytelling (Ellis, 2011), and I will give voice to my personal experience for the purpose of pursuing sociological understanding (Wall, 2008). Honors Program Dana Schowalter | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5054 The Distribution and Abundance of Aquatic of Macrophytes Between Nearshore and Farshore Transects at the Harriman State Park of Idaho Trumpeter Swan Wintering Ground, 1988-2015 Jessica L. Freeman 12/31/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/182 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Trumpeter Swans, Cygnus buccinator, are native to North America and the largest waterfowl species in the world. This study was designed to determine the abundance and distribution of aquatic macrophytes in one of the most important wintering grounds that serve as a winter food resource of Trumpeter Swans: Harriman State Park of Idaho. Within five sampled river sections, I sampled 20 transects, and approximately 320 point intercept frames. Total percent cover for nearshore transects among all four years was 72.57%, whereas total percent cover for farshore transects among all four years was 74.58 %. The top three species composing this coverage remains the same between both nearshore and farshore transects; Zannichellia palustris, Elodea canadensis, and Potamogeton pectinatus (stuckenia spp.). I found significant differences in species composition and total vegetative cover between nearshore and farshore transects. Species composition differences included bare ground, Potamogeton pectinatus (stuckenia spp.), Rannunculus aquatilis, and Zannichellia palustris. Bare ground was significantly higher within nearshore transects, as was Zannichellia palustris. Contradictorily, I found significantly greater cover in the farshore transects for Potamogeton pectinatus (stuckenia spp.) and Rannunculus aquatilis. Species composition between sections and years differed over time. In 2012, I found greater bare ground coverage in section D compared to 1988, 2011, and 2015. This may be due to increased spring river discharges carrying and depositing greater sediment loads into the section. These results allow for important implications to be made regarding food availability for swans during the winter months when the top layer of the river freezes from the shore to the thalweg. Favored swan foods like Zannichellia palustris may be unavailable when ice-covered, whereas Elodea canadensis, Rannunculus aquatilis and Potamogeton pectinatus (stuckenia spp.) may be available during the early winter, even as reduced river discharges increase river icing across the entire river channel. Honors Program Jeffrey W. Snyder | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5053 The Dancing Classroom Jenny Barnes 6/1/2010 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/24 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The modern classroom often requires alternative teaching methods and modified lesson plans of the core curriculum in order to reach and teach all students. Incorporating creative dance and movement into the classroom may provide students, especially those with Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, an alternative teaching method and a constructive outlet for their often restless energies. This thesis is an exploration of how creative dance and movement can be integrated with elementary - leveled lesson plans in the area of life science organ systems and how that influenced student learning and satisfaction with lessons for all students and, for children with ADD and ADHD, their ability to focus on lesson content. Honors Program Marita Cardinal | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5052 The Complications of Philosophy: Fortune, Happiness, Evil, and Free Will in Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy Allison Glasscock 6/1/2010 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/40 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Ryan Hickerson | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5051 The Challenges and Prospects of Using Forensic Body Farms as a Forensic Science Tool in Oregon Delaney N. Bishop 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/271 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Despite what others may think, people still do have a way of speaking after their death, and often they have a lot to say; it just takes special people with the patience and training to hear them. What are they trying to tell us? That all depends on the environment they are in and how they got there. Even when a human is unable to speak anymore, they can still give information to scientists such as how long they have been dead or what could have caused their death. Just like how different crops grow in different environments, organic material decomposes in different ways in varying environments; in this case, the organic material will be cadavers. Currently, scientists are studying the decomposition process of cadavers that have been generously donated to science in a variety of environments. Scientists who study this type of decomposition do so at locations known as forensic “Body Farms” or Forensic Anthropology facilities. Many different environments can be observed at forensic body farms such as cadavers partially submerged in water, encased in concrete, or fully exposed to the elements. They also have cadavers that have been autopsied and not autopsied in order to explore all variables. The eight locations in the United States are spread out across the Eastern and Central portions of the continent, meaning that there is no location in the Western part of the continent. The closest location to the Western part of the continent is the Forensic 6 Investigation Research Station located in Grand Junction, Colorado. Even then, it is still roughly 1,020 miles away from San Francisco, California (Map Data), 1.050 miles away from Portland, Oregon (Map Data), and 1,110 miles from Seattle, Washington (Map Data). An ideal location for a “Body Farm” would have a diverse climate and be located in a location that is easy enough to access for those that need to access it but also secluded enough to not be interfered with by other people. Oregon has a very diverse climate that would expose the subjects of a forensic body farm to different elements that they would not be exposed to on the Eastern side of the United States. Such as different temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind, other climatic factors and more. My main goal for this project is to explain to readers the opportunities that opening a forensic body farm could become within reach for the scientific, law enforcement, and other communities. If one was to be opened in Oregon, it would be the only forensic body farm located on the West side of the Rocky Mountains. Along with providing general knowledge of what a forensic body farm is, I want to identify the stigma that surrounds “Body Farms” and explain how despite the challenges that can be faced it would be valuable if a location was created in Oregon. To combat the poor picture that comes to mind when the words are brought up, people need to understand that things decompose 7 differently in varied environments and see the facility as a scientific need. The cadavers donated to forensic body farms cannot be seen as people, they need to be seen as scientific tools. I want to address any concerns that may arise from a project such as this and explain ways of handling them constructively to help people understand the uses of “Body Farms.” Decomposition is not something that should be thought of as the “end” for the remains of a human after death, information can still be obtained from said decomposition and be valuable to fields of research that are beneficial for the future. Honors Program Pete Poston | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5050 The Birthing Effect Shantell Guyton 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/97 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In the United States obstetric care is the most common used provider method for prenatal and labor services currently. Often women are not aware of the various options they may have, or that they have an option other than an obstetrician at all. This thesis explores the various options that women have for their prenatal and childbirth care. As the use of midwives becomes more common, the benefits of their care are being explored. This thesis takes an in-depth look at the benefits and risks of four types of pregnancy-related care providers (obstetricians, midwives, doulas and birthing partners) and discusses why women should consider using a midwife for their pregnancy-related care. Honors Program Siobhan Maty | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5049 The Authenticity of Hula in Japan Gianne Shelby Pabustan hula 4/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/148 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The purpose of this thesis project will be to investigate Hawaiian culture’s emergence— through hula specifically—in Japanese culture and how Japanese culture has adapted to it. Specifically, this project will focus on whether hula in Japan remains pure and close to its Hawaiian roots rather than transformed. Hawaii and Japan are both island cultures, but differences have developed in how hula is portrayed, whether it be more for the entertainment aspect or the cultural aspect. In hula, numerous performance elements symbolize aspects of Hawaiian culture: from the formation of the dancers (representing working together in a community) to the dancers’ adornments (representing a goddess, an island, or even the subject of the mele, or song, itself). Research on Hawaiian and Japanese cultural similarities, such as similarities in spiritual mythology, will reveal the factors that contribute to the continued popularity of hula in Japan. Similarities and differences in hula being taught in Hawaii versus being taught in Japan, such as commercializing hula into an industry, will also be evaluated. Insight from well-recognized kumu hula, or hula teacher, Shane Kamakaokalani ‘Maka’ Herrod, who teaches both in Hawaii and Japan, will also be used to have an inside perspective on how hula hālau, or hula schools, in Japan differ from those in Hawaii. Honors Program Darryl Thomas | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5048 The Arctic Avengers: Investigating, Developing, and Implementing Community Engagement Strategies for Polar Bear Conservation Erica Elizabeth Wills 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/114 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Over the period of 1950 to 2010, the observed global average surface temperature increased from 0.6°C to 0.7°C. In their Fifth Assessment Report, released in November 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) determined that more than half of this observed temperature increase was caused by an increase in greenhouse gas concentrations from anthropogenic forcings—the consequences of which are seen incontrovertibly in the Arctic ecosystem. Since satellite observations began in 1979, the rate of decrease in Arctic sea ice extent—which has decreased every season without fail—was in the range of 3.5% to 4.1% per decade; it has most rapidly decreased during the summer, in the range of 9.4% to 13.6% per decade. The apex predator of the Arctic ecosystem, the polar bear (Ursus maritimus), is one of several creatures whose survival depends entirely upon the existence of sea ice. The polar bear has long been used as the captivating poster child of climate change to encourage conservation efforts. However, despite the widely known realities of climate change, there still appear to be significant barriers that prevent individuals from taking sustainable actions on a daily basis. What strategies, then, are needed to foster community engagement efforts that confront and eliminate that disconnect? I address this query through an in-depth examination of scholarly research, a review of survey data from individuals within the field of polar bear-conservation, and the implementation of a grassroots conservation project. My findings lead me to propose a two-pronged approach to successfully tackle those perceived barriers: the provision of (1) evidence of one’s sustainable habits having a positive effect, and (2) simple tools to help maintain one’s sustainable habits. Honors Program Mark Henkels | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5047 Technology and Strategy: The War in Vietnam Isaac Keister 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/100 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ From the Battle for the Ia-Drang Valley in 1965 to the final withdrawal from the American Embassy in Saigon in 1975, the helicopter was an integral part of American forces strategy in the Vietnam War. The focus of this study is to view the helicopter as a tool of military strategy, more than a piece of hardware. My thesis is that the helicopter enabled the search-and-destroy war waged by American forces against the North Vietnamese forces. This is part of the overarching theme which we see developing in American military history during the post-WWII era: an over reliance on technology to wage wars, often to the neglect of strategy. This article details the adoption of the helicopter by the US Army, explores how air-mobility played a role in the Vietnam War, and ultimately offers perspective on the relationship between technology and strategy in the modern era. Honors Program John Rector | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5046 Teaching the Discipline of Western Philosophy According to its Own Values and in Reference to Pedagogical Research Nick Denning 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/262 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This essay begins with two assumptions, and throughout tries to remain honest to them. First, that the Discipline of Western Philosophy, and pedagogy too, have certain intrinsic values. And second, that when a philosophy professor teaches, their teaching should be informed by the values of philosophy and the research that has been done on pedagogy. It would be somewhat strange, after all, if philosophy were taught unphilosophically or unpedagogically. Those are my assumptions. This paper is dedicated toward answering what the values of Western Philosophy are, how current practices break them, and what a philosophy class would look like if it were philosophically and pedagogically inspired. This paper is both critical and constructive: it critiques how philosophy is generally taught, and constructs an alternative. My goal, this essay’s goal, is to convince its reader that the proposed alternative is valuable — an improvement upon how things stand today, both because of its philosophical roots and pedagogical acuity. Honors Program Ryan Hickerson | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5045 Teaching Strategies for the High School Math Classroom Tabitha McAfee 6/1/2012 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/56 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ As technology, social interactions and diverse cultures grow; teachers are faced with the challenge of creating informative, relevant and interesting lesson plans for the current generation. While this thesis started out as a creation of two unique lesson plans, it turned into a journey through different teaching methods and the theories that back those methods. This thesis highlights two teaching strategies: Inquiry-Based Learning and the use of Real World examples. These methods can be applied to most middle school or high school mathematics classrooms. Two lessons are given as examples of these teaching methods. A Cryptology lesson introduces students to c lock arithmetic and relates it to encrypting and decrypting codes. In addition, a Geometry lesson focuses on the relationships between similar and congruent triangles. Both lessons use the Inquiry -Based Learning method and Real World applications to actively engage students in what they are learning and thus, give them the opportunity to create meaningful learning experiences. Honors Program Cheryl Beaver | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5044 Teaching Loving Math Daniel Woolf 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/220 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Laurie Burton | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5043 Teaching Children to Learn, Not to Test Mary Rice 12/1/2015 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/106 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The theory of Experiential Learning states that children develop knowledge and skills through experiences outside of the traditional classroom setting. The knowledge gained from these experiences is more long lasting and more enjoyable to students than the traditional rote memorization approach. The focus of my thesis will be to analyze the theory of Experiential Learning in a first grade classroom during my year in the Education Program at Western Oregon University. I will be designing lessons around principles founded by John Dewey, the father of experiential learning, to teach a Science unit in a first grade classroom. The science unit will focus on the life cycle and structure of insects while implementing hands--‐on learning opportunities at a first grade level in compliance with the state--‐ adopted Next Generation Science Standards for First Grade Science. The lessons will also seek to enhance the personal interest in the subject area. I plan to implement these lessons in a first grade\ classroom in the Dallas School District during my year of student teaching. Honors Program Marcus Wenzel | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5042 Tax Implications of Recreational Marijuana Sofia LeVernois recreational marijuana 12/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/120 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The recent legalization of recreational marijuana in eight states has raised the question on what will occur when tax season arrives. The federal government has figured out ways for distributors of medical marijuana to legally claim the income on their taxes, but what about in states that have legalized recreational marijuana? This thesis project will be focusing on what is being done to prevent distributors in states that have legalized the drug for recreational use from being arrested for selling marijuana. States have put laws into place to hopefully protect their distributors, but even if a state has created protection laws, distributors are not safe against the federal laws. This paper focuses on marijuana’s history and the various uses the drug had before being placed on the Schedule I Drug List. The paper continues to discuss the long standing political platform, known as the War on Drugs, and how it has impacted the usage and distribution of marijuana. Break downs of federal policies show that banks and credit unions can have bank accounts for recreational distributors through the Cole Memo and the FinCEN. These documents can help those states that have legalized the drug recreationally to create a stepping stone in taxation of marijuana sales. With the idea of recreational marijuana being so new, government officials and the public are waiting to see what happens. Honors Program Anna Mahony | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5041 Tales of Ungdar: Prophecy of the Eldests Aaron Dull 6/1/2011 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/34 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Jeremiah Oxford | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5040 Taking Offense: An Exploration of Racist, Misleading, and Problematic Language in Textbooks Hevin N Robertson 12/31/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/181 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This thesis explores perceptions of racist language used in three secondary education social science textbooks. It will look at a textbook from each of the three main publishing companies in the United States. Included in this research is one very controversial textbook that recently came under fire for racist language. The sections in textbooks and their recent adaptations depicting American enslavement will be studied, as it is a topic that is underrepresented in American textbooks. This project will focus on identifying racist, misleading, and problematic language in textbooks and begin to delve into the potential effects of language utilized in secondary education history classrooms. Racism is a topic that is difficult to measure or quantify, therefore experts in the field will be deferred to in order to define perceived racism and other major definitions necessary for this thesis. By analyzing and comparing the language used in these textbooks, attention will be drawn to potentially silent or hidden racism. Also, an intent of this thesis is to inform people that racism is not always hateful or obvious in design. The main aim of this thesis is to draw attention to any racist, misleading, or problematic language found, explain why it may be racist, and discuss the potential impact of the language to people who perceive racism in the textbooks. Honors Program Ken Carano | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5039 Support for Students: Best Practices for Creating a Website with Resources for Western Oregon Students, Current and Future Rylie L. Horrall 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/259 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In this thesis, I will be providing research on the best practices for a website, and the implementation process for a website for Western Oregon University students that compiles both online materials they may use frequently in addition to relevant WOU-related resources. Students can struggle to find resources for writing papers, projects, etc., or could have a difficult time trying to navigate life as a WOU student and staying up-to-date with things going on at the university, so a website that’s easy for students to figure out and access the things they need would be beneficial. This could be things ranging from style guides for writing to social media pages related to clubs and organizations. WOU has a page similar to this called the WOU Portal, which serves as a reference or guideline for the website as mentioned. In addition to research on implementation tactics, graphics and icons displaying the previously mentioned design tactics will be shown, along with a web page mock-up. Honors Program Lucas Cordova | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5038 Super-size to Super-small: McMansions, Tiny Houses, and applied New Materialism Brianne Moodie 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/190 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Every object that humans encounter contains its own unique history—from the location that it was sourced from to the hands that shaped it. There is a branch of philosophy that gives credence to the inanimate, New Materialism. I have taken the principles of this school of thought and applied them to two kinds of residences: the McMansion and the Tiny House. Currently these structures are most often judged on the basis of sustainability, livability, or visual coherence. However, these subjective standards for judgement do not bring a viewer any closer to being able to explain how the residence styles function. New Materialism will provide a consistent toolkit to use when encountering architecture, a practice that honors the space more than subjective judgements have the capacity to. I chose to introduce these structures before applying New Materialism to them; having a grasp on the unique personality of each space will lend strength to the New Materialist argument that all objects shine with potential. This work closes with two short explorations of the quiet ways in which are spaces are alive. By the end of this thesis, I hope to impart an appreciation and awe for the mundane, the under-appreciated, and the over-hyped. Honors Program Lars Söderlund | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5037 Super Fish Quest: A Video Game Melissa Wiener 6/2/2012 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/87 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Video game design isn't just coding and random number generators. It is a complex process involving art, music, writing, programming, and caffeine that should be approached holistically. The entire process can be intimidating to the uninitiated programmer, which is why I've written an all-inclusive guide to game design. With the creation of my own original video game, Super Fish Quest, as a model, I analyze each part of the design process, discuss the technical side of programming, and research how to raise money and publish a game as an independent game developer. Honors Program Scot Morse | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5036 Student Veteran's Perceptions of Campus Support Ashley Heeter veterans | students | student veterans | wellbeing | campus services 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/156 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ College poses many challenges to the average population, however, there are additional challenges for different populations. For example, completion rates of nontraditional students are 33.7% (New, 2014), and for student veterans there are additional barriers to completing their college degree. Despite a variety of obstacles, veterans who were active duty after September 2001 have college completion rates of 51% (Cate, 2014). With this in mind, this exploratory study examined student veterans from Western Oregon University (WOU) overall wellbeing (moods, satisfaction with life, social integration) in association with the campus services and culture. Honors Program Debi Brannan | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5015 Spokesmen for Speechless Sufferers: An Analysis of Trauma and Division in World War I Poetry and Vietnam War Protest Music Nicole Caldwell 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/202 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This project analyzes how trauma and social protest have affected the lives and works of World War I poet, Wilfred Owen, and protest songwriter, Pete Seeger. Both were influential in their time, and their compositions powerfully express the themes of trauma caused by the horrors of war, and they demonstrate the social divide arising out of disillusionment. This thesis also includes my own poetry (see appendix). This allows me to better connect with the artists who have come before, and perhaps inspire other writers to come forth and share their experiences. The project offers close examinations of Owen’s poetry and Seeger’s Vietnam War era protest songs, concerning both the writers’ arguments and connections to their personal and social trauma in the 1910s and 1960s-io0s. This thesis reminds readers of the importance of poetry and music in helping people overcome the worst evils and devastations of war and how Owen and Seeger accomplished this not just during their lives but also after their deaths. These artists left a powerful legacy spanning wars and generations, times of hate and times of love. Honors Program Henry Hughes | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5014 Slaughterhouse Zoo: A Novel Sean Martinez 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/245 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The relationship between animals and humans has always been complicated. Today, society uses zoos as a method of protecting endangered species while also educating people about them. While zoos do a lot of good for preserving animals, there have been instances in the past of some zoos unintentionally, or intentionally, harming them. Therefore, I wrote Slaughterhouse Zoo, a novel that will explore themes in animal rights, acceptance of change, and morality. The novel features protagonist Dylan Alderbridge, a passionate animal lover who is also cynical towards people, as he becomes suspicious of the Nirmala Zoo’s intentions. He aims to get to the bottom of his speculations and take down the corrupt zoo from within by becoming an intern. He later discovers that the zoo has been mistreating and abusing its animals. Through this fictional story, I hope to shine a light on misunderstood animals, as well as show how zoos can be crucial to helping people understand animals better. Honors Program Lars Söderlund | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5013 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Creating the Script for a New Musical Alysse Parker 5/1/2011 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/65 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Ann Bliss | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5012 Signed Language Interpreting in Healthcare Settings: Who is qualified? Patricia Desrosiers 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/123 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 requires medical facilities to provide auxiliary aids, including interpreters, to all patients who need them to ensure that they have the same level of access to effective communication as those without disabilities (National Association of the Deaf [NAD], n.d.). However, without a national certification for signed language interpreters who work in healthcare settings, that law is hardly enforced, which is problematic. Multiple communication breakdowns have resulted from: family members and friends taking on the role of an interpreter; an interpreter not being provided; medical facilities hiring unqualified interpreters; and controversial use of video remote interpreting (VRI). These negative experiences have also led to many Deaf people being less inclined to seek medical care and routine appointments. Ultimately, the lack of access to qualified interpreters has affected the general health of the Deaf community. The goal of this thesis will be to examine the need for a national medical specialization certification for signed language interpreters. The research and findings are presented as a meta-synthesis of the existing literature on the topic. The thesis will also provide suggestions for how that certification could be implemented, and the training programs necessary to equip interpreters for the specialization certification. Honors Program Vicki Darden | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5011 Should Standardized Testing Be Required for College Acceptance? Maddie Little 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/266 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Is standardized testing a valid method to determine the acceptance or denial of a high school student into an educational institution? This thesis is a scholarly essay that examines the unintended consequences of requiring SAT or ACT scores for educational institution admittance. This project explores other methods for colleges and universities to use as a way of determining whether or not a student should be accepted or denied into the institution. Specifically, in my project, I researched the reasonings behind using standardized test scores as a primary method for determining the admittance of a student, the unintended consequences of requiring standardized test scores, and different options educational institutions can use to weigh the acceptance or denial of a student. The goal of this project is to synthesize existing research on this topic for college/university educators and administrators, who have yet to be informed about the drawbacks of requiring standardized test scores for institutional admittance. In order to address these points, I have conducted a meta-analysis of current, published research regarding standardized tests and college admissions. I have discovered that there are multiple unintended consequences of the SAT and ACT such as racism and socioeconomic bias. I have also researched other methods educational institutions can use to determine admittance such as becoming test- optional and interviewing potential students. Honors Program Alicia Wenzel | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5010 Shock and Awe: Surprising Revelations on Cognition Jacob Martin 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/193 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Surprise is a fundamental, yet by definition unpredictable element of life. In the current experiment, the aim is to explore if surprise will have some form of statistically significant effect on cognitive performance. Participants consisted of io students from a northwestern university, the average age of participants was 19.3 (S = .io56). Materials include a Hexbug Fire Ant remote controlled robot, two tests of cognitive ability, a demographics form, a debriefing form, and an informed consent form. Participants first read and signed the informed consent. The robot was kept out of sight of participants. Subjects completed two tests with the pen on the desk. In the experimental group, the robot would suddenly be wheeled out from its hidden location before taking the test. After, subjects completed the demographics form and were debriefed. Participants were scored on the number of questions answered correctly. Participants who did receive a surprise had a slightly higher score (M = 1io.25, SD = .5) than individuals who did not (M = 15.33, SD = 2.52). The mean difference was not significant, t(5) = .186, p > .05, d = 0.511. The results do not support the hypothesis. This suggests that the treatment had no effect on participants. However, this study had multiple limitations. Honors Program Debi Brannan | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5009 Shattered Green: A Novel Kaitlin Weider 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/195 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ My thesis takes the form of a fantasy novel. In it, a girl is teleported to medieval times the night before her eighteenth birthday. I’ve always enjoyed fantasy and medieval stories, and I wanted to write one where a main focus was on the characters and their relationships. While I created an entire world for the majority of the novel to take place in, I also worked to create a variety of primary, secondary, and background characters to make the world feel more authentic. In my novel, the main character has to deal with missing friends and family and what to do when she finds them again. She has to come to terms with her own history and personality and mesh that with her new circumstances. While there are still aspects I need to rework, as I would like to self-publish my novel in the future, I pushed myself to make the manuscript the best it could be. Honors Program Katherine Schmidt | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5008 Sharing Stories: Insights on the Holistic Experiences of Latino ELLs Wendy Bryant 6/1/2012 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/28 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Through interviewing local students, this thesis seeks to understand the experiences of Latino English Language Learners (ELLs) in high school. National research and test results suggest that Latino ELLs are both failing and being underserved in a number of categories, including school completion with “the highest rates of drop out among all students” (Edl, Jones, & Estell, 2008, p. 39). These findings are also substantiated by the testing statistics reported at state and local levels. By interviewing six students who are directly affected by changing policies and testing approaches, this study will discuss and give voice to the academic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal experiences of these students. Furthermore, their accounts will be compared to national research and findings to begin telling part of the story of language learners in the state where I reside: Oregon. These stories are a powerful resource for educators seeking to better understand the needs and experiences of their students. Honors Program Karie Mize | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5007 Sense of Belonging: A Korean American Adoptee’s Return to South Korea Diedra Cates 6/1/2012 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/32 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, over 150,000 South Korean children have been adopted by American and European families. Those in the U.S. are often referred to as KADs or Korean American adoptees. Utilizing participant observation and interviews conducted in South Korea, I examine how Confucian ideology, which stresses consanguineal relations, has directly affected the ways in which the Korean government and society view KADs and adoption and, consequently, shape the expectations placed upon KADs in a Korean context. I argue that KADs experience identity confusion and identity reconfiguration in the search for a sense of belonging in a country that has historically been ashamed of them. Honors Program Isidore Lobnibe | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5006 Selection of a Directional Preference in Drosophila melanogaster Eli Zachary 7/1/2015 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/115 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Diverse organisms, including birds, sea turtles, lobsters, and sharks have been shown to use Earth-strength magnetic fields to navigate. We have examined whether the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has a directional preference and if this preference has genetic underpinnings. In order to answer these questions we designed a Y-maze in which each fly makes 10 sequential choices to go North or South. To breed a population of North-seeking flies, we recorded the distribution of flies exiting the maze and selected the Northern-most 20% to give rise to the next generation. We used a similar protocol to breed a population of South-seeking flies. Our data showed that wild-type Drosophila do not have a distinct innate preference for either North or South. Moreover, after 12 generations we did not produce a population of flies with a distinct directional preference. As a positive control we ran a similar experiment to look at phototaxis. Our data showed that flies exhibit positive phototaxis and after 12 generations of selective breeding we have produced a strain with a decreased phototaxic response. These experiments will be continued for 15 generations. Our findings will contribute to a better understanding of the magnetic orientation behavior of Drosophila. Honors Program Kristin Latham and Michael Baltzley | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5005 Second Language Acquisition: An Exploration of Effective Pedagogies Lisa Rogers 6/2/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/69 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Gianna Martella | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5004 Seasonal Effects on the White Blood Cell Percentages of Lower Invertebrates Michael Petrovich 6/1/2011 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/66 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Irja Galvan | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5003 Science and Values on the High Desert: Dams and Irrigation on the Deschutes River, Oregon Zander E. Albertson 5/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/19 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ More than a century of irrigation water withdrawals, reclamation, and the construction of the Pelton-Round Butte hydroelectric complex have altered the Deschutes River in central Oregon. An examination of these human impacts in the Deschutes Basin finds the geomorphic and hydrologic impacts downstream of the hydroelectric complex to be less substantial than typically expected, while irrigation water withdrawals in the upper basin remain a serious issue. Mitigation and restoration efforts have achieved success in the larger context of the status quo of water rights and water use in the American West, though much work remains before anadromous fish reestablish a presence in the Deschutes Basin. Honors Program Mark M. Van Steeter | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5002 Salem: The City of Fog -- A Novel on Activism and Conformity Cheyan Swan 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/252 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Salem: The City of Fog is a speculative fantasy novel set in the American 1950’s, the plot revolving around the era’s heavy themes of conformity. The story is driven by protagonist Kella Flynn, a young woman trapped in a strict career and limited by a misogynistic society. She clings to safety in the face of a government and culture that would happily set her aflame for any misstep they can blame on “witchcraft,” and she is only to coaxed to act outside her own interests following unusual circumstances. While writing this novel, I set out to engage in critical discussions on activism and the many gray areas within it. When a world undoubtedly needs to change, as one powerful groups thrives off the exploitation of others, the activists within must question what counts as justice. Where do they, and we, draw that moral line? Honors Program Lars Söderlund | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5001 Safe Routes to Monmouth Elementary School Rachel Schneider walkability | built environment | physical activity 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/170 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The present study is an assessment of the built environment--defined by C.H. Williams (2007) as physical or manmade features such as sidewalks, street lights, traffic, and parks that impact physical activity--of the Monmouth Elementary School walk zone and a discussion of its influence on physical activity levels. This study aims to address the following questions: (1) how walkable is the walk zone of Monmouth Elementary School and (2) what areas are most and least suited for walking? Honors Program Marita Cardinal; Gay Timken | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/5000 Running Efficiency Program for the Recreational Runner Brennan Noonan 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/216 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Running. The most natural and physical athletic ability that has been a part of our ancestors’ culture for generations upon generations. The sport of running is a mere pastime that seems to be taken up when there is no other exercising option available or appealing. However, for those that have found great joy in the art of running and racing, there is an abundance of knowledge available to the public on every possible aspect of how to improve running performance. The science behind how the body moves oxygen, stores glucose, burns calories, and biomechanically functions while running is immensely vast. Yet, each person is individually different. No two people are the same when it comes to stride, or better yet, running efficiency. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a resource that could compile all the helpful information out there and crunch it down into a manageable and easily understandable template? Improving overall fitness and avoiding injury is as simple as it gets for running basics, but what does the average recreational runner do to prevent injuries before they happen? How can basic training exercises be incorporated into a running routine to help increase longevity? If injury is already present, what can the athlete do to aid in a quick recovery and proper healing, all while staying motivated? The plethora of knowledge is out there and available, all the information needs now is a well-structured and properly designed template. Honors Program Robert Hautala and W. Jeffrey Armstrong | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4999 Retirement Investing T hrough Target Date Funds: Traveling along the glide path towards prosperity Samuel Thompson 6/3/2010 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/81 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Gavin Keulks | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4998 Research Based Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics and Improving Math Attitudes Anny Hope Sheie 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/108 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Breeann Flesch | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4997 Representation in Children’s Literature: An Analysis of Disability in Picturebooks Rebecca J. Tew 7/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/233 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In my project I will be analyzing how physical disabilities are portrayed in children’s literature. Specifically, I will be doing a content analysis of four picture-books that have won the Schneider Family award, which is given to books that embody the disability experience for child or adult audiences. Using the guided questions from the article “Beyond the Medal: Representations of Disability in Caldecott Winners,” I am going to determine if the characters with disabilities are portrayed in an ableist way. Appropriate representation is important for marginalized people, including people who have disabilities. Providing picturebooks that embrace disability rather than marginalize it has a positive impact on all children in a classroom. The goal of my project is to create an understanding of the importance of non-ableist representation of characters with disabilities in picturebooks. After using the article to analyze the picturebooks, I will use the picturebooks that represent disabilities in an appropriate way as the basis of lesson plans to use in an elementary school classroom. The lesson plans will be centered around the importance of inclusion and lead to a discussion with students about why it is important to learn about people that might be different from them. I hope that my lesson plans will be useful in my own future classrooms, and potentially the classrooms of other educators too. Honors Program Marie LeJeune | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4996 Religious Roots for the Puritan Morality Laws During the Interregnum Carter Craig puritan | morality | law | language | protestant | catholic | christianity | parliament | politics | England | 1650s 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/157 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ During the decade of the 1650s, England had no King or Queen. Instead, an increasingly monarchical parliamentary system of government reigned. This government was controlled by Puritans, a hardline sect of Protestant Christianity. Although they were a religious minority and their laws relating to morality were unpopular, the Puritans pursued this policies with religious zeal linking seemingly innocuous activities, such as cock-fighting or a may-pole celebration with the supposed evils of Catholicism. Legal documents such as “March 1654: An Ordinance for prohibiting Cock-matches” and... Honors Program Elizabeth Swedo | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4975 Rehabilitative Methods and Their Corresponding Recidivism Rates: A Qualitative Analysis across Select U.S. States Claire A. Graves 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/273 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The present study aimed to identify rehabilitative programs at correctional facilities in Alaska and Oregon. This research also sought to identify obstacles and aids in the rehabilitative efforts at these facilities. It was hypothesized that reintegration programs would be perceived as the most effective type of rehabilitative program and that a lack of funding in prisons would be the greatest obstacle to the rehabilitative process. After reaching out to correctional facilities in multiple states, three key stakeholders in Alaska and Oregon were interviewed. Results indicated that no specific type of program was consider more effective over others. Rather, all programs were considered necessary to provide individualized treatment to all adults in custody. Furthermore, the greatest obstacles to rehabilitation at these facilities were difficulties motivating offenders to take advantage of treatments and understaffing. Further research should explore various ways to empower and motivate offenders to utilize rehabilitative programing. Keywords: incarceration, rehabilitation, recidivism, inmates, offenders, adults in custody Honors Program Jaime Cloud | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4974 Rediscovering Roots: the South Africa of literature post-colonization Heidi Wilson cultural identity | literature | South Africa 12/1/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/11 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The focus of this thesis is to examine the effects of colonization on the development of cultural identity within South Africa. My approach is to look at prominent authors who are widely recognized as writers who illustrate the ongoing quest in South African for identity through literary work. The novels contain common themes and portrayals of the interactions between the races as well as the overall growth of the characters and their communities. Honors Program Kit Andrews | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4973 Recognition Algorithms for 2-Tree Probe Interval Graphs David Avery 6/1/2015 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/90 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This thesis focuses on looking at a particular set of graphs and recognizing if a given graph has certain properties that would make it belong in this family, here called 2-tree Probe Interval Graphs. For these graphs, we create an algorithm to run on a coded script that recursively runs criteria through an input graph from its matrix representation to check the 2-path, and will output either a success that our graph is a 2-tree Probe Interval Graph, or failure if it is not. After the creation of this algorithm, a complexity analysis for the algorithm will be developed, as well as the implementation of di_erent search criteria to hopefully reduce the complexity by some polynomial factor. The recognition for our set of graphs follows to the conceptual idea that triangles are built upon each other in a fashion of adding one vertex and two edges to a previous triangle in the graph. Each new triangle is added to an existing triangle and recursively builds the graph where the new vertex neighbors strictly two vertices with an existing triangle, creating a recursively de_ned 2-path. Honors Program Mathew Nanity | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4972 Queer (In)equality: an In-depth Look on Discrimination Towards the LGB Community Trevor Ross 5/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/4 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Table of Contents: A History of Discrimination Against LGB People ; Military Personnel and the LGB Spectrum ; Police Brutality and LGBT Human Rights Violations ; Workplace Discrimination and the LGB Identity ; Homelessness in LGB Adolescents ; Marriage Equality: The Comprehensive Solution; Closing Remarks. Honors Program CM Hall | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4971 Quantification of Aspartame in Diet Sodas Alyssa Adams aspartame 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/89 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Aspartame is an artificial sweetener much like high fructose corn syrup but is synthetically made compared to being derived from a naturally occurring compound. Many diet beverages and foods contain this chemical since it is about 200 times sweeter than regular table sugar and contains very few calories. Some people with a hereditary disease cannot metabolize the phenylalanine resulting from the breakdown of the aspartame. This, and potential health risks, have caused widespread controversy regarding the FDA approval of aspartame. I have used High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) to quantify the amount of aspartame present in Diet Coke and Diet Pepper. I investigated how elevated temperatures can cause aspartame to become unstable and breakdown into potentially toxic chemicals. These findings will promote the labeling of actual amounts present in each drink, similar to how caffeine is labeled. Honors Program Rahim Kazerouni | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4970 Quality of Life Among Jamaican Women: Trends Over the Past Two Decades Amanda Lehman Jamaica | women | quality of life | gender | health 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/154 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ While advancements have been made in Jamaica that allow for growth in multiple social and economic sectors, this does not necessarily extend to society’s treatment of women. Moreover, some aspects of the country’s evolution lag behind, especially in the field of women’s health. This thesis examines several facets of what make up women’s quality of life. These include the history of women in Jamaica, traditional gender specific attitudes pertaining to sex, healthcare practices, and the significant presence of violence in the country. Honors Program Emily Vala-Haynes | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4969 Priority Registration for Student-Athletes at Western Oregon University Antoinette Gowen 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/187 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This thesis attempts to gain understanding of the unique position of student-athletes. Student-athletes across the country are often academically and athletically successful while facing unparalleled challenges. The goal is to inspire institutional change in the form of enacting priority registration for eligible student-athletes. Priority registration can be a way to limit some of the challenges and facilitate student-athlete success. After analyzing academic literature on college studentathlete challenges and options for support, there are clear gaps in literature on the effects of priority registration for student-athletes. WOU student-athletes, faculty, and staff provided feedback regarding their thoughts and opinions on priority registration for student-athletes. A proposal for implementing priority registration for WOU student-athletes before the Faculty Senate resulted in an endorsement from the committee and approval from the university president. Universities can facilitate student-athlete achievement through educating and raising awareness of student-athlete challenges, providing resources, and implementing strategies such as priority registration to help student-athletes. Honors Program Emily Vala-Haynes | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4968 Preparing for the Game, Eating for Life: A Review of the Female Athlete Triad and Nutrition Deficiencies Amongst High Level Athletes Juliana Marlaine Cameron 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/241 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In recent years, nutrition has become a topic of extensive discussion. There are books, blogs, television segments and more; the list goes on and on. Each individual has an opinion, perspective, diet, or goal. We all need to eat to fuel our bodies for everyday activities. This is an important concept for everyone to understand, but essential for athletes. To meet the high physical demands, athletes must feed themselves in a way that best fuels their bodies to perform. As a volleyball athlete, I have experienced firsthand the difficulty of developing sustainable eating habits. Female athletes are not only trying to perform athletically, but many also deal with social pressures and body image. In my own experience as a player and coach, volleyball-specific nutrition information is not easily accessible to anyone, especially young players. Without correct information, girls are more likely to develop unhealthy habits. To better understand the proper eating habits necessary for female athletes, we must investigate the barriers and consequences of inadequate nutrition. Resources must become available for athletes and coaches, to promote and develop eating behaviors that are sustainable, which will result in higher performance and better overall health. By examining proper volleyball nutrition and various barriers to implementation, this paper contributes to the larger discussion of health and sports nutrition. Honors Program Mr. Jacob Roark | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4967 Post-Mortem Opioid Detection: Proposed Solution Kian B. Horton 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/268 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The purpose of this research project is to explore gaps in forensic toxicology techniques and information surrounding post mortem events. Focusing on opioid detection in the human body will further detection limits and identification after death. This research serves to break down the detection, separation, and identification of new designer drugs while combating the common challenges drug analysis faces. This project will explore the naturally occurring chemicals found in our body when living, the breakdown of chemicals in the body post mortem, and the detection of foreign compounds post mortem. It is beneficial to the identification of people, along with reconstruction of the events leading up to death. Relying on previous research, I will build on the gaps in post mortem opioid detection and analysis to suggest ways to improve this research, utilizing my extensive knowledge from chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and introduction to toxicology. The end result will encompass detection techniques and alternative solutions to detecting novel opioids in the human body after death. Honors Program Patricia Flatt | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4966 Possible, but Ethical? A Bioethical Investigation of Medical Manipulation, Emerging Technologies and Moral Consequence Krista Harrington 6/1/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/42 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The scope of medical practice is rapidly advancing due to the technology boom that has occurred over the last twenty years. Procedures that were once thought impossible are now possible, causing ethical debates between multiple disciplines. This study specifically focused on human enhancement technologies (HET's) and how professionals in the medical field evaluate them on an ethical basis. It was hypothesized that participants would be generally in favor of using human enhancement technologies as therapeutic tools but would be against their use as enhancers. In order to determine this, 106 medical and scientific professionals from Oregon and Washington participated in an online survey. Results were subjected to statistical analysis using Microsoft Excel software. It was demonstrated that participants were significantly in favor of HET's when used for therapy but were not in favor of their use as enhancers. Participants also felt that a new ethical code specifically designed for HET's should be implemented. How the attitudes of medical and research professionals are shaped with regard to HET's will undoubtedly influence their future use and acceptance. Honors Program Warren Allen | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4965 Portfolio Optimization: A Modeling Perspective Camarie Campfield 6/1/2015 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/31 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Investing is critical in the business world and is an avenue to make profit for many. Making the decisions of what to invest in involves intricate mathematics in order to reduce risk. We investigate portfolio optimization, which is a branch of economic and financial modeling that typically has the goal of maximizing an investment's expected return. We explore a linear programming approach to a decision model for a first time investor. Our results are compared to our expectation and different outcomes are computed based on adjusting our models used for calculating rates of return and failure rates in order to best capture reality. We then explore how changing our constraint of confidence in our investment affects the distribution of the model. Honors Program Matthew Nabity | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4964 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: Health, the Brain, and the Human Diet Justin Karr 6/1/2010 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/49 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Omega -3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (n -3 PUFA) are essential for human health and development. N -3 PUFA researchers have linked n -3 PUFA deficiency to several leading causes of American deaths ( Kung, Hoyert, Xu, & Murphy, 2008 ), including cardiovascular disease (Oomen et al., 2000), cancer (Ge et al., 2002), cerebrovascular accidents (Iso et al., 2001), diabetes mellitus (Gillen, 2005), and Alzheimer's disease (Morris et al., 2003). Developmentally, r esearchers have reported that infants with higher n -3 PUFA intake s perform significantly better on developmental tests compared to infants with lower n -3 PUFA intakes (Carlson et al., 1992; Daniels, Longnecker, Rowland, & Golding, 2004). Additionally, n -3 PUFA have been observed as efficacious in treat ing and preventi ng mood disorders ( Stoll et al., 1999; Williams et al., 2006 ), attention deficit disorder ( Gadoth, 2008 ), and autism ( Amminger et al., 2007; Bell et al., 2004). In this study, we investigated the cognitive benefits of n -3 PUFA on healthy, college -aged individuals. Participants completed a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) designed to measure n -3 PUFA. Low n -3 PUFA consumers (n=31) and high n -3 PUFA consumers (n=32) completed three cognitive assessments: a digit -span test, a Stroop Test, and a Trail Making Test. A series of t -tests and ANOVA tests indicated that there were no significant differences in the above cognitive measures as a function of self -reported n -3 PUFA intake (i.e., high or low). These results could have derived from participant error in reporting n -3 PUFA intake. As well, the FFQ scoring could have misattributed the n -3 PUFA values of certain foods. Though these results indicate that there were no cognitive benefits associated with high n -3 PUFA consumption, the cognitive benefits of n -3 PUFA require more research across populations of different ages. Honors Program Gavin Keulks | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4963 Polyploidy and Water: Relations Traits in Rubus Tori Crumrine 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/204 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Unlike many other organisms, plants have the ability to survive and even thrive with more than two sets of chromosomes, known as a condition called polyploidy. How this impacts the physiology of those plants is convoluted and needs further study. In my attempt to relate polyploidy to various water relations traits, I completed pressurevolume curves on plants within the blackberry family, Rubus Subgenus Rubus with ploidies ranging from 2-10. As supported by many previous studies, stomatal anatomy characteristics did vary significantly with ploidy. I also found that nighfme, but not daytime, water potential showed significant variation due to ploidy. There was not significant variaioon due to ploidy in any of the pressure-volume measurements studied. Addiioonal collecioon of gas exchange data would provide more insight into these results. These studies will begin to fill a knowledge gap that currently exists in plant physiology. Addiioonally, results from this research could aid current agricultural dilemmas, such as feeding the growing human populaioon in a changing climate. Honors Program Ava Howard | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4962 Playing with Permutations: Examining Mathematics in Children’s Toys Jillian J. Johnson stacking ring tower 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/10 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In John P. Bonomo’s and Carolyn K. Cuff's paper How Do You Stack Up? a mathematical problem was posed. This question was regarding a common children’s toy known as a stacking ring tower. The problem the authors addressed came as a result of a common occurrence: the event that not all of the rings are placed on the tower in the “proper” order. When the rings are placed on the tower in a variation of that “proper” order, some of them will inevitably stick over the top of the tower. The problem the authors decided to tackle was to find the average number of rings that stick over the top of the tower when examining all possible placements of the rings. The authors found a solution and proved their solution to be true within their paper. At the beginning of this project, it was my goal to solve the same problem independently of Bonomo and Cuff, and then to compare my results with theirs. I ended up taking a very different approach, but in the end, my work ended up corresponding with theirs. In my paper, I will explain my thought process and my methods for solving this problem. I will guide the reader through my strategies and explain how they did (or did not) work out for me. We will begin with some basic definitions and explanation of the problem in greater detail, and then commence with my research. Honors Program Cheryl Beaver | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4961 Pick Me, Pick Me: The Theory and Construction Behind the Conference Proposal Heidi Ramp 6/1/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/68 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Margaret Artman | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4960 Physical Activity in The Elementary Classroom Ashley Templeton 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/138 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ It is clear that physical activity affects the body and helps us to become healthy and physically fit, but there is an increasing amount of research being done suggesting that the benefits of physical activity stretch much farther than building and toning muscles. During physical activity, the brain is influenced in ways that have the potential to improve academic success among elementary school students. The purpose of our thesis was to analyze the research that has been done on the effects of physical activity on the brain by creating this literature review that helps determine how physical activity can be utilized in the education system. We then took that information and compared it to our theories so that we could better understand where current issues lay and how they might be addressed as we enter the teaching profession. Based on our research, we developed a pedagogical theory of best practice which we can now put to use in our future teaching careers. To conclude this thesis, we have included ways for teachers to implement our findings through activities such as brain breaks, teaching strategies and school wide fitness programs, so that our research benefits more than just our own classrooms. Our goal is to impact the lives of as many students as we can, in the area of physical education. Honors Program Katherine Farrell | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4959 Persuasion in the Millennial Era: A Case Study of KONY 2012 Lauren Hebing Kony 2012 | persuasion | millennial | viral media | viral marketing | internet | social media | marketing 6/15/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/165 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ On March 5th, 2012, a video titled Kony 2012 was posted to YouTube by the nonprofit charity, Invisible Children Inc. (Invisible Children). Founder and director Jason Russell was the face and voice of the video which focused on indicted war criminal, Joseph Kony, and his rebel army, the LRA. The film quickly rose to stardom, reaching 100 million views in six days (Bopp, 2012). The sudden and intense spotlight led to scrutiny from professionals on the topic who proved the cause was not as legitimate and politically up to date as the video claimed. This pressure led to a very public mental-breakdown for Russell and a steep decline for Invisible Children as a whole... Honors Program Frank Nevius | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4958 Perón: the Ascent and Decline to Power Annelise N. Marshall Argentina | Peron | political ideology 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/17 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Juan Perón was the democratically elected president of Argentina from 1946 until he was deposed by a military coup in 1955. He remained in exile for almost twenty years before being reelected in 1973. At different times the Argentine people considered him a crusader for social justice, a tyrant, or a savior. Today Peronism, the political ideology based on Perón’s principles and policies, still fluctuates in popularity, and this project seeks to communicate a fuller understanding of how political ideologies and politicians themselves cycle in and out of popularity through study of Perón. Honors Program John Rector | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4957 Perception of Mobile Mental Health Apps: Examining the Functionality and Perception of Mental Health Apps Avery M. Lucas 7/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/229 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Awareness of the importance of mental health is growing rapidly in modern society; however, the rates of depression, anxiety, and stress have also grown exponentially. In recent years, there have been tremendous strides in mental health apps on mobile devices; yet, very little research has been done to determine if mobile apps could help the general population decrease mental health issues. Considering new health-related devices, most of the recent developments concern symptoms relating to physical exercise. Devices targeting proper mental health care are not nearly as well known. This honors senior project reviews the findings of recent empirical studies as well as review the user-reviews of specified mental health apps. An experimental study was also conducted on people’s perception of mental health apps being used as a primary form of treatment for people who may suffer from minor mental health issues. This paper (1) collectively evaluates and compares the perception of mental health apps and (2) overviews the effects of using mental health mobile apps as a way to decrease stress, depression and anxiety symptoms to improve mental well being. Honors Program Dan McCarthy | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4956 Perceived Task Difficulty and Procrastination in College Students Max Hebing Procrastination | Task Difficulty | Students | College 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/98 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The present study examined the potential effects of task difficulty on the level of procrastination in college students. I hypothesized that an increase in the perceived difficulty of a task would increase procrastination. Participants were randomly separated into two groups. While both groups took the same “test”, each group received a different description of the test prior to being sent the link through e-mail. One group received a description of an easy task, while the other group received a description of a difficult task. Procrastination was measured as time taken to initiate the test (Time A), time taken to complete the test (Time B), and Total Time. Time A was significantly longer for participants in the “difficult” group, t(41)=-2.286, p=.027, r^2=.1182. Total Time was also significantly higher for this group, t(41)=-3.028, p=.039, r^2=.1903. Honors Program Jaime Cloud | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4935 People of WOU: A study of the perception of diversity at Western Oregon University Nathan Tew diversity | visible attributes | invisible attributes 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/110 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The purpose of my study is to address the perception of diversity on Western Oregon University’s campus. Many publications define the diversity of student populations using only visible attributes including race, age, and gender. With those types of definitions for diversity, Western Oregon University (WOU) could be seen as a predominately young, white and female university, since these groups make up the majority of the student population. However, there are many other ways diversity can be defined, looking at individuals based on invisible attributes, including sexual orientation, geographic origin and socioeconomic class, which cannot be seen on a surface level. Diversity is an essential and beneficial piece for any institution of higher education and provides people with different views that are varied from their own. Just like one cannot judge a book by its cover, it’s hard to truly describe an individual or a group if only specific visible attributes are used. It is important both visible and invisible attributes are used when defining an individual. In order to determine the perception of diversity WOU has to offer, I interviewed 12 students attending Western Oregon University and asked them three questions: How would you describe a typical Western Oregon University student? How would you define diversity? Do you think Western Oregon University is a diverse university? These questions guided my exploration of the perception of the diversity among Western Oregon University’s students. I compared their responses and perceptions to the perception commonly shared by publications, in which diversity is primarily focused on visible attributes such as race, gender, and ethnicity. The student responses could be used to help determine strategies and ways to continue promoting diversity at WOU, which will benefit students in their pursuit of higher education for years to come. Honors Program Marcus Wenzel | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4934 Pedagogy of Teaching History: Comparing the Chronologic and Thematic Approaches Daniel J. Tew 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/14 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a monotone history teacher lectures in a room full of adolescents who show no interest at all in the topic. Unfortunately this is not an isolated instance of teaching history. History teachers are plagued with the stereotype of being dry and boring. While other contents adjust to accommodate students, the majority history tends to be taught in the typical fashion (Laufenberg, 2011, p. 1). A teacher lectures and students absorb information by taking notes. If students are really “lucky” there will be a break from lectures and instead will be able to enjoy a lengthy historical documentary. What can be done to change the ways that history can be taught? Perhaps the approach the teacher takes to teaching can impact the way students respond to the content. Classes typically taught with this lecture style tend to teach history as a timeline (Olson-Raymer, 2011). Teachers start with one event or date and move forward throughout history. An alternative approach further examined in this paper is a thematic approach where a teacher instead selects meaningful themes for students to explore in great detail. While other methods exist outside of these two approaches, the traditional chronological approach is contrasted to the thematic approach to determine if there are ways to alleviate the disinterest students have in history. Advantages, disadvantages and sample lesson plans are used to dissect these approaches to determine their effectiveness for use in the history classroom. Honors Program Ken Carano | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4933 Pay for Performance on Quality of Health Care Justified Transition? Trevor Roush 6/3/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/70 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Todd Strumwasser | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4932 Painting With Data Tristan Knope-Jenkins 5/1/2015 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/51 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ At the bit level there is no difference between a number, and image, a word, or a sound, they are all binary strings. I plan to find the parts that say that "this is a picture or this is a text file" and write a program that gives us the power to change how we experience that data. Dependent on what my research turns up as to the way file types (mp3, jpg, txt) are encoded; I will either change the files at the byte level or create an arbitrary system to translate data into other mediums. Once this program is complete I will open source the project so that it is available for anyone's use. Honors Program Becka Morgan | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4931 Oregon Grey Wolf Reintroduction, Conservation and Management Evaluation Karin Traweek 6/2/2012 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/83 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Karen Haberman | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4930 Oral History, Women, and Institutional Space in Twentieth Century America Brianna Williford 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/144 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Women have lived much of their lives in institutionalized spaces. These spaces, such as capitol buildings and schools, are owned and regulated by the government. To explore women’s access to institutionalized spaces in the mid/late twentieth century, I have analyzed five oral history interviews. These are all with and/or about Maurine Neuberger, Karen Jensen, and Linda Stonecipher. I share pieces of their stories. Oral Histories exhibit a direct and personal recounting of the ways in which American society has regulated women’s access to institutional spaces, and how some attempted to surpass the expectations placed upon them. All these oral histories exhibit some of the ways the women were separated from men, and treated differently than men as students, athletes, and professionals. Because of separation by gender, many sports became uniquely male or female, think football versus field hockey. Neuberger in the 1920s, and Jensen and Stonecipher in the 1970s, all studied Physical Education. Into at least the 1970s, most men’s P.E. programs had separate, newer buildings, and women were taught with completely different educational philosophies. Directly opposing men, women’s athletic and academic programs focused on non-competition and non-commercialization. All three women worked in industries dominated by men (coaches, educators, Jensen was an athletic trainer, and Neuberger a politician). My unique oral histories contribute to the current research by adding more voices and stories to the larger discussion of women in sport and institutional space, both popular scholarly discussions today. Honors Program Kimberly Jensen | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4929 Online Education for K-12, the Growing Job Market: Are Education Majors Ready? Kathryn Kopel 6/1/2015 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/101 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Innovation as well as a desire for more may be seen as twin influences in the field of education today. Out of this dichotomy online education for grades K-12 has emerged. Its many forms include everything from “flipped classrooms” to online classes or homework that supplements conventional classrooms to completely online charter schools (Wolk, 2011). Just four years ago there were already state-wide virtual charter schools in 20 states. These schools were often funded through rulings by state legislatures (Watson, 2008). There is also a growing concern over whether the majority of teacher candidates will need to be ready to use online supplements or even to teach entirely online (Natale, 2011). Future educators may need to be skilled in meeting the needs of students through the online medium, which may or may not be substantially different from the skill set needed for a physical classroom. How does a teacher candidate become qualified to teach online effectively? What are universities doing to prepare undergraduate and graduate students for teaching online? What do administrators and principals of online schools look for in their teachers? What do the teachers themselves have to say about this new facet of the education job market? What about the views of the students themselves in how effective online teachers meet their needs? This study offers an overview of literature on virtual or online schools. Additionally, action research was conducted to interview various contributors to online education, including teachers, administrators, and college professors. The results of surveys and interviews conducted with hiring staff on online schools, online teachers, and university faculty of online education training in Oregon’s public education system are analyzed and reported as well. Honors Program Marie LeJeune | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4928 On the Issue of Reproducibility in Psychology and a Model Replication Study Taylar Boyer Mate Poaching | Friendship | Reproducibility 12/31/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/184 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The purpose of the present study is to replicate as closely as possible the study titled “Friendship as a Relationship Infiltration Tactic during Human Mate Poaching” (Mogilski & Wade, 2013). The purpose of the replication was to further explore the well documented lack of replications within psychology, and to provide a template for how to improve this issue. The authors of the original study sought to determine how friendship affected the success of someone trying to infiltrate a romantic relationship. They hypothesized that a person would be more likely to successfully steal the mate of another if the poacher was friends with their target mate, rather than acquaintances. When the poacher/poached were friends previous to the attempt, it was hypothesized that the poacher would incur fewer costs (e.g., physical retaliation from the poachee). Participants were given one of four vignettes to read then asked to rate the poacher’s likelihood of being successful and incurring future costs. Data was analyzed using a 2(sex) x 2(friendship) Multivariate Analysis of Variance. Overall, the replication study provided supporting evidence for all but one hypothesis. However, only the first (regarding success rate) was replicated successfully in that it was the only statistically significant result that overlapped with the original study. The implication of these conflicting results shows the importance of replication within psychology. Honors Program Jaime Cloud | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4927 Nullification of The CSI Effect Through Exposure at Critical Points in The Trial Process Amanda M. Mooney 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/277 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The present study sought to determine how briefing a jury on the CSI Effect would influence the verdict. It was hypothesized that those briefed on the CSI Effect would find the defendant guilty, while those not briefed would find the defendant innocent. One hundred sixty-three undergraduate students were recruited via SONA and were compensated with course extra credit for their participation. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the three conditions (no briefing, briefing before forensic testimony, and jury instructions briefing). A one-way ANOVA test was run and no significant results were found between the three conditions, (f(162)=0.5954), n.s.. These results suggest that there is no nullification effect to briefing a jury on the CSI Effect; however, due to the many limitations of the study an effect may be present that was not found in the current study. Honors Program Misty Weitzel | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4926 Newton’s Method and Chaotic Behavior Aubrey Manculich 10/1/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/207 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This project will explore why, when using an iterative algorithm, specifically Newton’s Method, to solve nonlinear equations, certain functions can be observed to behave predictably while others behave chaotically. In attempting to answer this query my project will elaborate on what Newton’s Method is and how its used as well as demonstrate that Newton’s Method itself behaves predictably via mathematical proof. In this context, I will examine real-valued functions with solutions then introduce complex-valued functions. Following a proof of Newton’s Method for complex functions, the project will compare the behavior of these complex-valued functions with the previously mentioned real-valued functions. The project will examine the convergence behavior of Newton’s Method when analyzing complex-valued functions and determine if the behavior is chaotic. Upon observing this chaotic 4 behavior, my project will seek to find complex functions that do not exhibit chaotic convergence behavior. Subsequently, I will analyze my discoveries and discuss their implications. As of yet, there has been no comprehensive study of iterative methods in the context of solving complex valued equations. Ultimately, my project will produce an analytic discussion of the behavior of several functions within Newton’s Method along with computational experiments. From this process we might find some distinguishing factor that determines whether behavior will be predictable or chaotic. Honors Program Matthew Nabity | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4925 Necessary or Outdated: Are Post-9/11 Changes to U.S. Police Forces Still Justifiable? Alex Stemm 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/278 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, many changes have been made to the U.S. police forces. These modifications have stirred a lot of controversies among the general public, especially because some groups argue that individual freedoms have been overlooked to give U.S. police more power to prevent crime. Previous research has studied the effect of militarization on the police-community relationship and has determined that the militaristic appearance and tactics of police has, in some studies, resulted in unfavorable public perceptions. The goal of the present thesis project is to evaluate how the police have altered their approach to law enforcement after 9/11 and if those changes are still necessary based on the effectiveness of militarized policing. In doing so, I will have compiled thoughtful analysis on the topic and contribute several recommendations that I believe will aid further research in this area of study. Honors Program Mari Sakiyama | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4924 More to the Story: A Multifaceted View of Vicarious Trauma as Applied to the Profession of Sign Language Interpreting Cheyanne J. Bumgardner 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/275 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Vicarious trauma is a serious issue for signed language interpreters. Education, training, and support related to vicarious trauma are often provided to other practice professionals who engage in trauma work. This paper addresses these practices in relation to the profession of sign language interpreting. Exposure to emotionally-charged and traumatic situations has been shown to result in symptoms of vicarious trauma, and findings of the current literature demonstrate that vicarious trauma significantly impacts interpreters. The author aims to take a closer look at the current literature on vicarious trauma as applied to the interpreting profession, as well as provide an analysis of the current approaches to managing vicarious trauma. The author addresses why vicarious trauma occurs, preventative education and training, and post-traumatic care. The author features some of the risk factors associated with an interpreter’s likelihood of experiencing vicarious trauma, as well as some of the preventative education and training and post-traumatic care techniques currently employed by interpreters. Following, the author emphasizes recommendations from the research for the interpreting profession to utilize in supporting its practitioners as they navigate this issue. These recommendations aim to assist interpreters in their goal of producing work of the highest standard while also reducing their risk of experiencing vicarious trauma while on an assignment. Finally, the author shares personal reflections from her perspective as a student of sign language interpreting. Honors Program Erin Trine | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4923 More than Human: A Critical Evaluation of the Intersection of Character and Theme in Mike Mignola's Hellboy Bonnie Wells 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/18 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ At his core, Hellboy is defined by his choices and his humanity. According to The Hellboy Companion “Hellboy's potency as a character comes from [his] moral foundation, this contrast between his origins and his aspirations” (10). At once, Hellboy exists as a protector of humanity against the monsters of old and as a monster himself. He is biologically both human and demon, born for the purpose of bringing on the start of the apocalypse. Before this can be realized, though, he is adopted and raised by a human parent. His human identity comes to represent choice and free will, while his monstrous heritage represents a predetermined fate and an inescapable nature. This nature versus nurture conflict is played out in several ways in the series, especially in Hellboy's identity as a hero. In this thesis I will show how Hellboy is a heroic character aptly suited to current social and cultural trends through literary analysis of the overarching plot and in the nature versus nurture theme central to his character. Additionally, I will explore how the character of Hellboy influences his world and how he is influenced by his world through the force and will of greater powers. Honors Program Kit Andrews | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4922 Mental Health in Collegiate Student Athletes Post-Injury: Triangulating Services at Western Oregon University Grace V. Knapp 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/221 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Collegiate student athletes are in a vulnerable age group for many mental health concerns, and many athlete-specific stressors such as injury heighten these conditions. In addition to the physical ramifications of injury, student athletes often experience psychological reactions to injury such as depression, anxiety, identity loss, disordered eating, and substance abuse. To support the needs of injured student athletes, the NCAA Mental Health Best Practices guide states that student athletes should have easy access to mental health care providers of multiple disciplines through a cohesive network of coaches, the athletic department, athletic trainers, team doctors, and certified counselors working together for the athlete’s wellbeing. Consequently, my thesis aimed to investigate ways to triangulate these sources at Western Oregon University (WOU) to better support the needs of student athletes following injury. To achieve this goal, I compiled peer-reviewed literature on mental health in collegiate student athletes post-injury, interviewed members of the athletic department, athletic training staff, and counselors at the Student Health and Counseling Center (SHCC), and made recommendations to the University regarding policies and procedures they can implement to better support the needs of injured student athletes at WOU. Honors Program Emily Vala-Haynes | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4921 Mental Health in College Athletics: Healing through Community Allyson Maria Drury 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/242 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Collegiate student-athletes must navigate a combination of athletic and academic demands, which poses unique challenges and stressors that distinguish them from their non-athlete counterparts. Because of these major differences, student-athletes’ needs are not necessarily met by programs designed for the general college student. In this thesis, I review growing research on the distinct mental health needs of student-athletes as well as programs that best support them. I also present results from informational interviews with both athletic staff and student-athletes to gain a more thorough understanding of the specific needs and desires of the Western Oregon University Athletic Department. Results indicate that there are common times of increased stress, shared desires for added support, and influential individuals in student-athletes’ lives. More support is needed to assist student-athletes in coping with the immense stress of these unprecedented times. Considering the combination of findings from recent studies and responses from interviews, the WOU athletic community would benefit from the designation of an athletic representative within campus counseling staff, ongoing mental health education opportunities for coaches and athletes, and more cross-team, community events. Honors Program Emily Vala-Haynes | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4920 Medical Botany in the Treatment of HIV and AIDS Carolee Buck 8/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/20 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Bryan Dutton | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4919 MEAN Web Application Development with Agile Kanban Jared Petersen 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/105 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ I spent one year developing a project management web application in order to gain a better understanding of the software engineering process. The software was built on a technology stack of MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Node.js which is more commonly referred to as the MEAN stack. The experience has exposed me to a new set of tools, software practices, and engineering principles that have left me with a deeper understanding of what it means to be a software engineer and the incredible amount of time and work that is involved in designing and implementing a full-scale software application. Honors Program Scot Morse | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4918 Mass Incarceration: How the War on Drugs Created Today’s System of Social Control Brian Walton 6/1/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/85 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Stephen Gibbons | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4917 Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13): The Imminent Threat Inside Our Borders and Throughout the Continent Mary Kathryn (Katy) Barlean 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/9 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ For the past decade, citizens, governments, and scholars alike have expressed ongoing concerns about the increasing rates of violent crimes committed by drug traffickers, organized criminal groups, and gangs within the United States and Central America. The gang Mara Salvatrucha, familiarly known as MS-13, arguably presents the largest threat to national and regional security. The gang’s relatively recent emergence, growth, and expansion has raised serious concern. The criminal group is responsible for a multitude of crimes that directly threaten the welfare of citizens and state security from the suburbs of Washington D.C. to slums in Central American. This gang’s coast-to-coast presence plagues cities and communities across the United States, claiming territory in at least 42 states. MS-13 now claims 10,000 members in the U.S. and 70,000 Latin American members across the entire American continent (FBI 2008). The U.S. government’s concerns about gangs have heightened with the increasing growth of MS-13, both in membership and sophistication. Congress maintains an interest in crime and gang violence in Central America, as well as the related activities of the U.S. branches of MS-13 within our borders. Central American governments, the media, and some scholars have attributed a significant proportion of violent crime plaguing the region to the recent globalization of U.S. gang culture. This thesis provides a current overview of the threat posed by MS-13, as well its historical origins and evolution as a criminal organization. The first half analyzes the birth of the gang in Los Angeles in the 1980s and the political factors contributing to MS-13’s continental migration south over the past two decades. American criminal deportations play an important role in the transnational nature of MS-13 and will be analyzed. Many blame U.S. deportation policies for the globalization of the gang and fueling the current gang epidemic in Central America. Subsequently, the context in which the gang operates within Central America, specifically in El Salvador is examined. Many scholars and government officials agree that the suppressive policies enacted by Central American states, specifically the Mano Dura (“hard hand”) laws have failed at countering both MS-13 membership and its associated crime and violence. The latter half of this thesis focuses on the evolution of U.S. policy responses, at the international level, enacted to address the security implications posed by MS-13. The concern of this thesis is not whether the U.S. government is responding but rather if its responses are designed and implemented thoughtfully so that the limited funding is allocated effectively. Policy-makers in the U.S. and Central American are struggling to find the right combination of suppressive and preventive policies to combat MS-13. Most analysts agree that a more comprehensive, regional approach to the sophisticated gang is necessary to prevent further escalation of the problems created by the gang’s illicit activity. Honors Program Mark Henkels | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4916 Luminance Ella Young novel | writing | lgbtq+ | genre fiction | fantasy | fiction 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/158 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ For my thesis I decided to go the creative route and write a novel. There is a definite lack of LGBTQ+ genre fiction for young adults being written, and so I wanted to add to this slowly growing literary niche. The plot of my book follows sixteen-year old Ji, a botanist from the snowy planet of Pan Ku, millennia after Earth’s destruction. It covers themes of racism, immigration, rebellion, and acceptance while still being an engaging read. Honors Program Henry Hughes | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4895 Logarithmic Spirals and Insects Kaylee Church 1/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/118 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The logarithmic spiral, also known as the growth spiral, is an interesting form in mathematics that happens to be very applicable to the natural world. We explore the structure of this curve, and how this spiral can be used to model the flight pattern of a moth. Specifically, we investigate assumptions used to construct models for insect flight. Analysis of these underlying assumptions gives insight into possible improvements to and limitations of specific models. Honors Program Matthew Nabity | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4894 Location of Pheromone Production and / or Expression in Red-sided Garter Snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) Molly Geranio 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/95 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Pheromones play a central role in chemical communication. Previous research has examined pheromone production in many insect species, but little is known about pheromone production in vertebrates. Previous pheromone research has occurred using the red-sided garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis, as a model system but it remains unclear where the female sexual attractiveness pheromone, the primary pheromone utilized by this species, is being produced. Snake skin epidermis cells have shown to be important in the production of skin lipids and regulating the permeability of the skin, and thus could play a central role in pheromone production and / or expression. This study measured the thickness of the top three epidermal layers in the skin of female red-sided garter snakes throughout the hibernation period. Of the three layers analyzed, the beta keratin layer was the only layer found to show a significant difference in thickness across the sampling periods. For this layer, I observed a decrease in thickness throughout hibernation, supporting a potential role for this layer in pheromone expression in the epidermis for this species. Honors Program Michael P. LeMaster | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4893 Lived Experiences of Disability: Two Life Stories Madison Adrian disability | pedagogy | self report | lived experience 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/167 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This thesis will focus on the lived experiences of two individuals diagnosed with a specific disability and their families. Both individuals present disabilities in different ways: one has a physical disability (Cerebral Palsy) and the other has both a cognitive and physical disability (Down syndrome). Throughout this case study research, the families of these two individuals will be interviewed on a variety of questions including question stems... Honors Program Maria Peterson-Ahmad | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4892 Literature, A Window to Understanding: Using Children’s Books to Process Loss Kaiana E. Bradley 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/214 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This thesis explores how literature can smooth the process of grief. Specifically, it focuses on the loss of pets through the shape of a children’s book with a target audience of children ages two to six. The book is designed to be used with children as loss occurs in their life to provide them with a new lens to learn about what has happened. The book contains back matter for the adult to review to learn about loss and children, and it will also provide discussion starters to open conversations between the adult and the child. The goal of this book is that as the characters find understanding and hope, the children reading it—or having it read to them—will be able to experience the same sense of calm following what could be a traumatic experience. The second piece to this project is a written reflection following the composition of the children’s book which explores the writing process. There is also an expository section which discusses similar resources and research which guided the choices made in the production of this children’s book. Honors Program Marie LeJeune | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4891 Literacy Support For Children With Autism Angela Haslam 6/1/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/43 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ For many years, children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders were often a mystery to both doctors and researchers. While exact causes are unknown, there are a variety of ways to lead these children down a successful educational path. Starting at a young age, treatments and educational approaches can support healthy and productive lifestyles, and enhance learning in the classroom. While many people who are autistic excel in art and other creative subjects, without proper instructional techniques, becoming a proficient reader can be a great challenge. This study explored the benefits and drawbacks of existing reading techniques and strategies for children with autism spectrum disorders. The researcher implemented the strategies, as well as developed some new ones as a result of the experiences working with Matthew*, an eleven-year-old child with autism. Developed and implemented lesson plans through trial and error in order to discover what worked most effectively. Honors Program Cindy Ryan | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4890 Listening In: The Work We Do Now - A Conversation Analysis of Power Dynamics Between Podcast Hosts Kristin Norman podcast | gender | power | dynamics | linguistics | sociolinguistics 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/164 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This project analyzes conversations between men and women podcasters in a contemporary work setting. I specifically analyze questions, attention getting strategies, interruptions and overlaps, minimal responses, and the use of statements. These fundamental linguistic features are essential to conversation analysis and relevant to understanding the distribution of power within a conversation. The frequency and rate at which these specific linguistic features occur is recorded in each individual podcast and the results are compared. Honors Program Cornelia Paraskevas | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4889 Linear Independence in Function Spaces Ariel Setniker 6/5/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/72 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Scott Beaver | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4888 Light: Emotion in Painting Elaina Glasscock 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/128 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ As viewers, we are often unaware of the lengths that an artist goes to in selecting how they will portray their subject matter. While there is certainly value in appreciating paintings at a very involuntary level (letting yourself respond to a piece without inhibition from a cultivated knowledge base), there is also an argument to be made for understanding why our emotions are affected by a composition and, in the specific case of this thesis, by the sort of light (manifested in terms of color and value) that is used in a composition. This thesis project is an exploration into the nature and influence of lighting in the composition, and subsequently the mood, of paintings. The primary focus of this exploration will be a series of nine paintings (each of which will seek to present its viewer with a strong sense of its mood). In order to support and expand this, I will also be pursuing a short analysis of the series and a discussion of some of the theory and movements of art that have been particularly concerned with light throughout the relatively recent history of painting. The joining of these components is, in essence, a sampling of the use of light in art. The goal of this guide is to introduce its reader to a greater degree of understanding of the relationship between the use of light in painting and the emotions that they take away from it, which can be understood regardless of their previous level of acquaintance to art. Honors Program Michael Freeman | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4887 Legendary: Was King Arthur a Living Hero or a Popular Legend? Emily Walley 6/1/2015 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/84 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Despite being a well -known figure in Western culture, the historical evidence for King Arthur is very small, and scholars have not even been able to identify a specific person as the historical Arthur. New information concerning Arthur on three basic details - the dates of significant events of his life, his ancestry and close family members, and the area of Britain in which he was militarily active - would be extremely useful in identifying the mysterious historical figure that Arthur has become. This paper examines multiple sources related to the existence and identity of Arthur, approaching the topics in a roughly reverse chronological order, evaluating first what is most historically certain before analyzing aspects of Arthur that are more contested. While little information regarding Arthur's lineage and location in Britain was discovered, a combination of several elements of the Arthurian tradition and various textual sources resulted in a new timeframe for Arthur's life, based on the dates of two of Arthur's major battles. Honors Program Elizabeth Swedo | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4886 Learning About Language: A Teacher’s Guide Erin Roan 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/191 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Academic language, while a key component of language arts education and Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, is often poorly understood by educators. Academic language and its norms must be taught explicitly in language arts classrooms in order for students to be proficient writers of academic genres and for testing purposes. This project provides a literature review on academic language instruction and writing instruction at the secondary level. The guidebook for academic language includes several lesson plans to assist educators in teaching academic language and its features. The features of academic language are outlined using authentic Texts that teachers can use in their own classrooms. Honors Program Cornelia Paraskevas | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4885 Knowing Your Student Power: Reclaiming Full Autonomy Over the Student Incidental Fee N. J. Johnson 10/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/281 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Student governments of universities and community colleges were created and recognized in order to uplift student voices and represent the best interests of their student body. Associated student governments are also an integral component to the concept of shared governance, where students, faculty, staff share influence in the decision-making process with administration. Influenced by factors such as the culture and current events of a campus, student bodies and student governments can take on a surprisingly wide range of goals and initiatives. Regardless of what issue the student body has identified as a worthwhile cause, student governments must be aware of and equipped to use a variety of tools to successfully advocate for their vision. This thesis walks student leaders through a real-world case study of a student government who successfully fought for autonomy over the student incidental fee after that had been infringed on by University Administration in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. This case study is written by the student body president who led these efforts and provides strategic commentary and lessons learned throughout the recount of his experience. No matter what your student government is fighting for, this thesis aims to equip leaders with versatile tools and advice that can be applied to any issue of student interest. Honors Program Megan Habermann-Guthrie | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4884 Knitting in 21st Century America: The Culture and Ideology of Knitting Groups in Rural Oregon Robin Roemer 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/136 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Knitting has existed since the Middle Ages, and continues to thrive well into twenty-first century America. Why do people continue to knit, and why do knitters form themselves into social groups? This senior thesis investigates these and related questions in order to understand the culture of knitting and how knitters keep the practice alive. Drawing on participant observation and oral interviews, it further examines the identities knitters construct as members of knitting communities in rural Oregon, the differences in the craft based on the knitting practices employed, the materials and the patterns used, the gender ideologies of learning how to knit, and the role of online interactions. Honors Program Isidore Lobnibe | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4883 Kinesthetic Teaching Strategies for Adults in a Lecture Setting Rowan Cheney 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/121 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Kinesthetic teaching is a beneficial way for adults to learn and retain new information, but is not commonly used by instructors. The purpose of this project was to compile and discuss a list of kinesthetic strategies to help instructors facilitate learners’ ability to engage and focus on the learning material during presentations. The list of strategies was split into three sections: strategies that can be put into place by the learner, strategies used by the presenter without any specific learning outcomes, and strategies that are used by the presenter with specific learning outcomes. Honors Program Robert Hautala | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4882 Keep in Touch: A Comparative Analysis of Visual and ProTactile American Sign Language Alissa McAlpine 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/133 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Human communication is an immensely complex system that varies widely across geographic regions, age groups, and cultural identities. Tactile signed language systems, which have been widely adopted by many members of the DeafBlind community, have been a relatively new introduction to the linguistic study of signed languages. This research examines the current literature on the unique features of ProTactile American Sign Language (PTASL) in terms of its linguistic structure, turn-taking elements, and methods of back channeling in contrast with the same features of Visual American Sign Language (VASL). These linguistic differences have historically led to the description of PTASL as a dialect of VASL (Collins, 2004). However, since the inception of ProTactile in the early 2000s, progressively more unique structures have been adopted in tactile discourse, which have led to the consideration of PTASL as a language distinct from VASL (Edwards, 2014a). In accordance with these claims, I have examined research conducted on casual use of PTASL among native users in a search for connecting patterns and commonalities. In this paper, I explore the unique characteristics of PTASL in relation to progressive language change with a direct focus on the implications thereof for interpreters working within the DeafBlind community. Honors Program Elisa Maroney | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4881 Julius: A Study of Hitchcockian Film Marissa J. Thompson 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/7 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Alfred Hitchcock was a massively influential director in the horror and suspense genres of film, and much of his work is still today considered iconic. His style of directing is easily recognizable by his fans and has often been imitated in other films. I became intrigued by Hitchcock while I was studying abroad in England, where I took film classes that introduced me to some of his work. I watched many of his films on my own, outside of class, and began to recognize similar elements between his different films. In an attempt to create an homage of sorts to Hitchcock and to learn more about filmmaking and screenwriting, I wrote a “Hitchcockian” screenplay adaption of Daphne du Maurier’s 1933 novel, Julius. Hitchcock already adapted three of du Maurier’s works to film: Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, and The Birds. Julius runs much in the same vein as Rebecca, a period piece with a dark mood and constant tension lurking behind every action and line of dialogue. Neither Julius nor Rebecca is much of a thriller, but instead a suspenseful mystery as a secret or truth is slowly revealed. My hope for this project is that it carries on Hitchcock's legacy, as other writers and directors have done, in today's world. I want to remind audiences of a time when fear could be invoked through the subtlety of dialogue and simple images, rather than through gore or loud noises. Overall, I hope to pay tribute to Hitchcock, in a way, by writing a script for a film he might have directed. Honors Program Shaun Huston | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4880 Interpretative Works of the d-Sup Protein within the Tardigrade Genome Jenny N. Rooper 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/248 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are microscopic creatures that happen to have extreme radiotolerancy. Because of this, they are able to withstand the most extreme conditions. This radiotolerancy has been pinpointed to the d-Sup protein and has thus instigated experimentations into the limits and availability to genetically splice this protein and its functions have been tested. Through analysis and critique of these studies, I have created art pieces to express the scientific research and findings. Each piece varies in scientific data, alongside media and size. This results in an assemblage of works that will successfully express scientific research and findings in a visual mode. It is fair to note that the current global pandemic of Covid-19 has halted some of this artistic expression and presented obstacles that were not always overcome. Because of this, there’s limitation on wholly finished pieces—further explained in the body of this project. Honors Program Greg Poulin | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4879 Interactive Whiteboards in the Elementary Classroom: Efficacy and Funding Audrey Hebing 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/131 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ New and changing implementations of technology in educational facilities are providing further opportunities and tools for teachers. However, controversy exists over whether or not there are academic benefits to utilizing these tools, as well as the degree of those potential benefits or detriments. Additionally, not all facilities and educators have access to the same equipment, as not all schools receive the same amount of funding. My thesis topic will focus on a specific educational tool, the interactive whiteboard, in the elementary classroom. I will be working with preexisting research and studies to compare and contrast the current literature on this subject. The purpose will be to not only analyze the efficacy of interactive whiteboards as a teaching tool, but also to look at the disparity that could arise in the quality of education between financially disadvantaged schools and more financially prosperous schools if the interactive whiteboard is indeed truly beneficial in the classroom. Honors Program Marcus Wenzel | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4878 Innate Magnetic Directional Preference in Drosophila melanogaster Natalie Wallace 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/113 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is commonly used to understand genetic and behavioral mechanisms. This study is testing whether Drosophila have an innate directional magnetic preference based on the Earth’s ambient magnetic field. The flies were tested using a sequential Y-maze that was housed within a Faraday cage to block out any radio frequency fields. Half of the trials were oriented so that north was to the left and the other half with north to the right. The results for male and female flies were analyzed separately given that male flies have been shown to show a significantly stronger magnetotactic behavior than the females. The average vial exit point for males (N/R = 4.9 } 0.2; N/L = 4.9 } 0.2) and females (N/R = 5.2 } 0.2; N/L = 4.7 } 0.2) were not significantly different from each other (p > 0.1) or from the expected value (p > 0.9). While this study reveals no innate directional preference in Drosophila, or a significant magnetic orientation behavioral difference between male and female flies, to the Earth’s ambient magnetic field, it opens up many avenues for future research of magnetic orientation behavior in Drosophila. Honors Program Kristin Latham and Michael Baltzley | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4877 Initiating and Improving Business Relations in Serbia: Analysis and Recommendations Natasha Bogdanovic 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/200 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The purpose of this project is to create a model for the effective initiation and improvement of business relations in The Republic of Serbia. Using Serbia as an example, different economic and cultural values will be analyzed to determine the suitability and benefits of doing business in this market. I will discuss what has been trending politically and economically in Serbia, neighboring countries, and the European Union (EU) to help fill an existing information gap. This information will be published in the interest of producing a comprehensive paper that is relevant for domestic operations, foreign investment opportunity, businesses with individual overseas assignments, or interests in expanding operations. This will include recommendations for improvement and demonstrate characteristics of the current environment for businesses that are interested in expanding their global presence to Serbia’s unique market. Honors Program Paul Disney | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4876 Initiating and Improving Business Relations in Serbia: Analysis and Recommendations Natasha R. Bogdanovic 12/31/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/183 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The purpose of this project is to create a model for the effective initiation and improvement of business relations in The Republic of Serbia. Using Serbia as an example, different economic and cultural values will be analyzed to determine the suitability and benefits of doing business in this market. I will discuss what has been trending politically and economically in Serbia, neighboring countries, and the European Union (EU) to help fill an existing information gap. This information will be published in the interest of producing a comprehensive paper that is relevant for domestic operations, foreign investment opportunity, businesses with individual overseas assignments, or interests in expanding operations. This will include recommendations for improvement and demonstrate characteristics of the current environment for businesses that are interested in expanding their global presence to Serbia’s unique market. Honors Program Paul Disney | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4855 Individual Perceptions of Disabilities In the General Education Classroom Chloe P. Furlong 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/274 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The purpose of the present study was to examine individuals’ immediate responses and perceptions when faced with presuming children with disabilities performance levels in a general education classroom. The participants consisted of 96 college students attending Western Oregon University and who were enrolled in at least one college course during the school year. Seventy-six students identified themselves as female, 16 identified as male, and 3 identified as nonbinary, with the average age of participants being 18-22 years, and the standard deviation being σ = 0.66. Forty-eight percent of participants identified themselves as having a White ethnic background, whereas 32.67% identified with having a Hispanic background. The participants were sampled from a website called SONA Systems. Using the Qualtrics survey creation tool, all participants were provided with two short vignettes about children in a general education classroom that they were asked to read. Following each vignette, participants were asked to answer six survey questions, twelve questions in total, regarding the vignette they just read. The results revealed that individuals believe children with disabilities will perform poorly in a general education classroom without the presence and assistance from special education teacher aides, but will perform better with such aides in the general classroom. This research will aid in revealing individuals' 6 perceptions of students with disabilities engaging socially and learning in a general education classroom. Honors Program Cindy Ryan | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4854 Independent Game Development: The Making of Paze David O'Rourke 6/1/2012 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/63 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Gavin Keulks | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4853 Increasing the Power: The Role of the Vice Presidency Before and After Dick Cheney Evan Sorce 5/1/2010 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/75 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The Office of the Vice Presidency has always been a strange position. It is the only position in the U.S. government that is part of two different branches, the executive and the legislative. Traditionally, the Vice President's role has been to do nothing except wait for the President to die. John Adams, who was the nation's first Vice President, once said of the office of the Vice Presidency, "M y country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived". In fact, the office has been so unimportant historically that it has been vacant 15 times (Bauman p.1). Over time, the office of the Vice Presidency has evolved and developed into the position it is today. The Modern Vice President not only serves as an advisor to the President on domestic and foreign policy, but also acts as the presidential liaison to Congress. The Vice President also serves on, and in some instances chairs, many key committees in the U. S. Government. The office has gone through three distinct eras that fundamentally changed the position from the role that the founding fathers envisioned to the modern Vice Presidency. The entity that is the modern Vice Presidency has created a problem that would have been unheard of 100 years ago. Since the Office of the Vice President has gained so much power in the last few decades with Vice Presidents such as Richard Nixon, Walter Mondale, and Dick Cheney, there is now the possibility of actually having executive officers that are so powerful they become a co-president; something that the founders of our country never intended. Honors Program Mark Henkels | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4852 Increasing Adequate Social Interactions Among People With and Without Disabilities Meghan Link 6/1/2015 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/53 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Individuals with disabilities share the same desires as people without disabilities to develop personal independence and experience a rewarding social life. However, people with disabilities often go without the opportunity to satisfy social needs as a result of isolation. The purpose of this conceptual thesis is to address this issue by exploring what research has been done in order to design a study to identify current attitudes towards people with disabilities and satisfaction of life. Results indicate t here is a need for integration program s in order for social skills to allow individuals to comfortably interact with people without disabilities. It is necessary to incorporate people with and without disabilities in order to provide the opportunity for interaction to potentially decrease feelings of isolation through increased social interaction. Honors Program Amber Feist | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4851 Implementing Multiple Learning Styles into Elementary School Classrooms Jenae Nelson 6/1/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/62 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ A young student's experience within their early years of schooling can determine their overall attitude towards education. These experiences can either positively or negatively affect what choices the student makes in their future academic endeavors. More often than not the students who are struggling to understand the material get lost in large class sizes where they don't get the necessary instruction to meet their learning needs. In my thesis I aim to explore the advantages of creating lesson plans for second and fourth graders that incorporate multiple learning styles to better fit the needs of the students, despite growing class sizes. Research in the implementation of Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences and the effects of these styles on improvement and understanding will give every student an equal opportunity to have an intellectually positive school experience. Honors Program Mark Girod | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4850 Identity Issues Seen in Asian-American Adoptees: The Impact of Homeland Tours Lucia F. Breeden 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/267 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ A common issue seen within the adoptee community is their identity. This thesis will explore how international adoptees, specifically Asian-American adoptees, often feel uncertain about their identity when it comes to ethnicity and belonging to a certain group. It will also focus on how this could change or be enhanced when adoptees visit their home country. This project will look at different stories of adoptees who have struggled with identity issues found in different scholarly resources focusing on this issue along with personal interviews and stories from other adoptees that I have met. Some of these people have returned to their home country, some have not. With these stories, identity issues can be analyzed and the idea of identity changing after visiting one’s birth country can be evaluated. In the end, I will write a section telling my own personal story of being an Asian-American adoptee in Oregon, the identity issues I have encountered, and what my trip back to China was like. Honors Program Maureen Dolan | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4849 How to Teach Math More Effectively and Efficiently: Engaging Students In the World of Math Daniel E. Holmberg 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/272 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The United States is struggling with teaching mathematics in school. Students don’t see the connection between math and the real world. Students are viewing math as a rigid set of rules instead of as a creative and exciting subject to explore. A few of the problems that are in traditional classrooms are: students having a fear of being publicly embarrassed, students memorizing methods instead of truly understanding the math , math problems not being relevant to students, and students not being engaged during class. A few methods and teaching strategies that can help solve these problems include: Gradual Release, Open Middle problems, and the 5 Practices of Discussion. By applying these strategies and tools to everyday math classrooms, math can become the intriguing and creative subject that it is meant to be. Honors Program Cheryl Beaver | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4848 How to Create an Accent Without Really Trying Selena Lee Ausmann Moreno 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/219 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This project will explore the creation of a fictitious accent, similar in process and results to Constructed Languages or Conlangs, as they have been termed and the documentation of the process by using methods typically employed by linguists like Nick Farmer and David J. Peterson in creating their Conlangs, such as Belter from the dystopian science fiction show The Expanse and Dothraki from the high fantasy series Game of Thrones. Belter serves as an excellent example of my end goal: while it is its own conlang, it has three different levels with each becoming increasingly affected, with the lightest affectation coming across as an accent that, on television, does not necessitate subtitles for its audience. Nick Farmer built the language by pulling from several languages and their structures and phonologies instead of starting from scratch and creating his own. Following this idea, I will create a sound system that will borrow from existing languages and are able to be “plugged in” and substituted for sounds in the “Standard American Dialect.” From that, I will create a step by step workbook in the style of David Allen Stern’s Acting with an Accent Series to guide other people with a working knowledge in the International Phonetic Alphabet in successfully being able to adopt the accent. My purpose with this project is twofold. The first to produce a fully functioning accent that can be replicated and distinguishable from other real-world accents. The second is to demonstrate how multiple distant cultures can come together into one 4 product. Similar to the Belter Conlang created by Nick Farmer for a fictitious demographic to show their diverse and far flung roots, my accent will act as a possible destination as people and accents become more interconnected and explore the intentional and unintentional effects of blending dialects. Honors Program David Janoviak | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4847 Hispanic Advertising and Higher Education: Using Advertising to Encourage Hispanic Enrollment at WOU Leslie Martinez advertising | Spanish | Hispanic | higher education 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/166 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Advertising is a powerful tool meant to sway a consumer’s decision to use a product or a service. Typically, this is regarded as negative, but I propose using this tool to encourage aspirations of higher education among currently underrepresented youth with the goal of encouraging undergraduate enrollment at WOU. This thesis examines the current state of higher education among this group and the challenges they face. It also looks at how WOU has historically targeted this demographic and dedicated its services to their success. Lastly, it explores advertising theory in the higher education space and in order to create a custom Mock Campaign for Western Oregon University’s potential use. Honors Program David McDonald | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4846 Highly Mobile Students in the Elementary Classroom Bailey Hough 6/1/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/48 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Diane Wood | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4845 Higher Education, Critical Pedagogy, and Nontraditional Students Marina Sikora 6/1/2012 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/74 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Critical pedagogy is a way of teaching and learning that allows people to think critically about society, have an active role in their own learning, and to apply it to the real world. Recent studies suggest that nontraditional students are more likely to accept critical pedagogy in the classroom than traditional students. Interviews with professors and students at a public university also suggest that older students are more likely than younger students to be in favor of critical pedagogy. Students and professors seem to be comfortable with some aspects of critical pedagogy. Honors Program Peter Callero | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4844 Heathens to Christians: Exploring Norse Interactions with Anglo-Saxons and Notions of Medieval Identity Antonia L. Scholerman 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/251 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The Viking Age lasted from approximately the 8th century CE to the 11th century CE, and throughout this period Norse people raided, traded, settled, farmed, and came to political power in the British Isles. Due to Norse culture being predominantly oral rather than written, there is limited documentation of early Norse activities by the Norse themselves. For most of this period, surviving records about Norse activity in Britain come from the Anglo-Saxons. Because a lot of early Norse interactions in the British Isles were raids on Christian monasteries, these Anglo-Saxon accounts painted the Norse as merciless murderers who wanted to punish Christians. However, this perception of Norse intent was inherently distorted and was clouded by misconceptions. As Norse people began to settle in Britain, these interactions fundamentally changed, and emerged from this continued contact was new conceptions of Anglo-Saxon and Norse identity. This research project explores the changes in Anglo- Saxon perceptions of identity as they confronted Norse identity through continued interactions with them. Honors Program Elizabeth Swedo | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4843 Health Risks Involved with Prolonged Sitting: Spreading Awareness to College Students Jordyn Watanabe 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/194 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This thesis is about the health risks involved with prolonged sitting. Our bodies are designed to move, and research has shown that sedentary lifestyles increase health risks. In addition to type 2 diabetes, cancers, and cardiovascular diseases, sedentary lifestyles can lead to premature mortality. Often times a sedentary activity such as prolonged sitting is overlooked, when in fact, sitting for long periods of time has a negative effect on health. The goal of this thesis is to research and spread awareness about the health risks involved with prolonged sitting to the students of Western Oregon University. In order to spread awareness, I have created and displayed posters supported by flyers throughout campus with information from my research on the topic. The posters address sedentary lifestyles as a problem and display what a sedentary lifestyle looks like. The flyers discuss the problem of prolonged sitting and potential solutions. Although there are posters and resources that already exist on the topic of sedentary lifestyles, I have created resources specific to the college student population in order to be more effective in spreading awareness to them. This is a widespread problem with serious consequences, yet simple fixes. This is an attempt to spread awareness to a population that includes individuals at a critical point in life who may not be informed about this issue. Honors Program William J. Armstrong | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4842 Health Effects on Women from Systematic and Organized Violence in the Middle East: How Humanitarian Organizations ca Richelle Nicole McDaniel 9/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/149 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Altruism, service and giving back are emphasized frequently in the United States today. One such way to participate is to donate money, resources or time to humanitarian aid organizations who can effectively utilize those resources to help those in need. However, humanitarian aid organizations and the general public are often only aware of general medical needs of the targeted population without much knowledge on gender specific health problems that arose from pre-existing patriarchal social structures (Mazurana, 2013). Systematic and intimate violence targeting women is one way patriarchal structures are maintained, particularly in the Middle East. These forms of violence often cause many health complications in women that are unaddressed by both healthcare institutions of those countries and by humanitarian aid organizations. The purpose of my thesis project is to bring awareness of these unaddressed health complications women face in the Middle East as well as propose some ideas of how to address them to both humanitarian aid organizations and to the general public, who donate to these organizations. I will accomplish this by composing a scholarly literature review of how violence effects women’s health and what humanitarian aid organizations can do to treat these complications with the resources they have. Honors Program Patricia Flatt | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4841 Grammatical Madness: A Step Away from Formal Instruction Olevia McKay 6/1/2015 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/103 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In the international context of concerns surrounding standards in writing, this Honors Thesis addresses the role of grammar in the teaching of language awareness and writing. It considers both historical and current perspectives on knowledge about language. This thesis argues that there has yet been a critically research link on how language instruction is supported in the common core and the knowledge requirements of teachers. The rationale behind this study lies in exploring the between traditional pedagogical approach to language and the language requirements required by the current education standards, the Common Core. Through research spanning from Australia to the United States, I will explore how this disconnect came to existence and what steps can be taken to close the gap between teacher knowledge of language and their understanding of the required language skills of their students. Currently students are falling short of achieving the stepping blocks established by the state adopted standards largely due to misconceptions about what knowledge of language is required. Honors Program Cornelia Paraskavas | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4840 Glass People: Backwards, A Novel of Discovery Sean R. Tellvik 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/218 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ I chose to write a novel for my project to explore a creative avenue. Many writers have portrayed alternate, magical worlds, but perhaps the most well-known example is Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland. But what happens when the magical world is even less magical than the real world? I wanted to answer that in my novel, Backwards, the first book of the Glass People trilogy. The book centers around Ava, a soul trapped in a mirrored version of the real world called the Noviscope. She stays connected to the living world through her newfound friend, a second grader named Lucy. As Lucy discovers that the Noviscope is a real place, she takes her chances following Ava down the rabbit hole, only to learn it is not a friendly place for a seven-year-old. Through Backwards, I aimed to explore how human relationships adapt and grow out of isolation. At the same time, I experimented with the narrative possibilities of a character who is removed from another character’s life while simultaneously omnipresent in it. In the reflective essay on this project, I discuss many aspects about the novel’s creation and what I discovered in the process of committing it to the page. Honors Program Katherine Schmidt | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4839 Give Me a Break: A Study of the Gap Year Sophia Wellons 6/2/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/86 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The Gap Year is a period of time taken away from formal education to pursue experiential learning and self discovery. The present study sought to investigate and understand how the Gap Year fits in to the American high school and university contexts. High school counselors and university students were interviewed and surveyed in order to understand if the Gap Year is part of the post high school plan discourse. Results indicated that counselors and students had a positive attitude towards the Gap Year; however, academic discussions of it remained limited. Implications of this study suggest that a Gap year may be a worthy post -high school option to discuss, and it is perhaps an indication of a new life stage, Emerging Adulthood. Further research including longitudinal and case study data was proposed. Honors Program Sriram Khe | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4838 Fostering Critical Thinking in the Elementary Classroom Malia Allen 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/239 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In this modern-day world, we have an immense amount of information that we can access right through our technology. The power and speed of technology have created a world where information changes quickly, and new ideas can be distributed and adapted almost instantaneously. It has also resulted in inaccurate and misinformation which has to be sorted through and questioned critically (Murawski, 2014). Today it is so important that students learn critical thinking skills, so they can be both the inventors and the critics of the new information being put out. Yet with this issue arising, change still has not come. Organizations and initiatives that are involved in education reform (National Center on Education and the Economy, the American Diploma Project, the Aspen Institute) have brought attention to the need for students to think and/or reason critically. Content that once had to be drilled into students’ heads is now just a phone swipe away, but the ability to make sense of that information requires thinking critically about it. My thesis aims to address this problem by integrating the development of critical thinking into a Common Core-based literacy unit. I have created a literacy unit that will develop students’ critical thinking while still covering the required 5th grade Oregon Common Core Standards for English Language Arts. The central focus and learning objective in the unit all align with each other and the ELA state standards as well. These lessons use the concept of discrimination to engage students with the content as it is an authentic issue that can affect many of them. The main purpose of my project is to provide an example unit to show that a 6 classroom teacher can align the development of the critical thinking skills with common core standards they must teach. Honors Program Marie LeJeune | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4837 Fostering an Understanding of Childhood Anxiety Through Picturebooks: Children’s Literature as a Tool for Emotional Regulation Elizabeth C. Chapman 10/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/280 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This thesis provides an understanding of pediatric anxiety and provides a tool for students to learn about their emotions and how to regulate them. In early stages of adolescence, the effects of mental illness may have already begun to take effect or are beginning to develop. As a child goes through their early life without learning how to express and handle emotions in a healthy way, these effects can worsen. It has been shown that children greatly benefit from social and emotional learning in school as well as learning about mental illnesses early on to develop tools to monitor and aid in the regulation of emotions. As a child, I suffered from an undiagnosed anxiety disorder, and I would have benefited greatly from learning about emotions and knowing that the way I felt was manageable and not something to be pushed to the side. I created this book with children like me in mind, who think that it is “normal” to be nervous and scared all of the time and have no idea what to do with their overwhelming emotions. In my project, I will navigate the understandings of adolescent mental health and use this understanding to author and illustrate a children’s picture book centered around a little girl learning how to handle her generalized anxiety disorder through discovering tools and language to manage the symptoms she experiences. The completed book functions effectively in and out of a classroom as a tool for children to understand anxiety. This project also includes a reflection on the process of creating this book and the contextualization of this book in the genre of pediatric mental health issues and children’s literature. Honors Program Marie LeJeune | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4836 Food Allergies and Identity Construction in Young Adults Darynn S. Lung food allergy | adult food allergy | identity | self-perception | inequality 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/206 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The role of food allergies in the process of identity construction is understudied in adult populations. Past research has explored the mental/emotional, social, and physical impacts of food allergies in children; however, less is known about adult experiences. Regardless of age, individuals with severe allergies must modify their behaviors to prevent reactions and comfortably navigate life. As evidence suggests a connection between childhood food allergy and self-perception, it is unknown if these attitudes and behaviors contribute to their construction of adult identities. There is much to discover regarding the manifestation and development of allergic practices in adults, as well as the social influences responsible for them. This study aims to examine how self-reported perceptions of allergy-specific experiences relate to identity construction in food-allergic young adults. Honors Program Aislinn Addington and Peter Callero | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4815 Female Director Takes Hollywood by Storm: Is She a Beauty or a Visionary? Courtney Richardson 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/107 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The purpose of this project is to understand how gender affects perceptions of film director Kathryn Bigelow and her work. It is no secret that there are not many female directors in Hollywood and more often than not female directors are associated with romantic comedies and other “women’s” films. What makes Kathryn Bigelow unique among her demographic is that she makes action movies and war films which are typically considered to be men’s genres. As a female lover of film it is interesting to me to look at how Ms. Bigelow and her work are received and how that may differ from how male directors who operate within the same genre are viewed. Award-winning film-director Kathryn Bigelow is unique as a focus for a study on gender affected perceptions because she is a very prominent figurehead in the directorial industry, an industry that is almost entirely male. I have chosen Kathryn Bigelow as the focus for this among the few other successful female directors because she is arguably the most successful female director (being the only won to win both best director and best picture) and because she makes action films unlike the majority of her counterparts. By looking at a few of her films in addition to articles, interviews, reviews, and other media, I hope to find the various ways in which how she is viewed by society is gendered. In my research I will be looking for things such as: industries not accepting her ideas because she is a woman and questions and comments about her appearance rather than her films or ideas. Honors Program Shaun Huston | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4814 Felt with the Heart: A Domestic Student’s Journey with International Students Jethna S. Korecki international students 12/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/150 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ No matter the country of destination, international students are well documented for their extra challenges they face as university students. Over the years both successful students and challenged students have been studied as to why they struggle. This Honors thesis is meant to document the perspective of a domestic student who lived and worked with mostly undergraduate international students for over three years. Honors Program Robert Troyer | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4813 Familiarization Joshua Steen Leisner 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/116 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In this paper, a rational God is defined as being constructed with two components: a mode of reason, and a certain exoteric religion. Firstly, with regard to the former, within the confines of reason or the intellect, there are several intellectual or rational or more broadly speaking plenty of rational modes or ways, including when it comes to familiarizing oneself with God. This involves idea, concept, grasping, state of mind, phenomena, and other modes where the mind consciously and intellectually discerns. This thesis will primarily address God through the rational mode of conception, or concept. Note that this selection amongst modes of reason is completely arbitrary. Secondly, with regard to the latter, within the confines of religious traditions, there is even more diversity than there is regarding modes of reason, again including and this time especially when it comes to familiarizing oneself with God. But for the definition of exoteric itself, it more so has to do with the beliefs and practices, the rituals and the stories—the culture, so to speak—of a certain religion, such that without the specifically religious culture the religion would lack an exoteric component and would not technically be a religion. For the purposes of this thesis, a Judeo-Christian God has been selected as the religious lens through which an examination will be conducted. This selection is not arbitrary at all: such a religious lens when it comes to God has an outstanding prominence in the world. Therefore, with regard to the means of reason, God’s familiarization via a Judeo-Christian concept of God will be addressed. Honors Program Ken Kirby | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4812 Extensions of Cayley-Sudoku Constructions Kady Hossner 6/1/2011 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/47 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Michael Ward | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4811 Exploring the Artistry of Stage Management Joceline Wynn 5/2/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/88 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Scott Grim | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4810 Exploring Interiority in Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice Bailey Thompson 10/1/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/230 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ As an author, Jane Austen has remained hugely popular with audiences worldwide ever since her death over two hundred years ago. Her novels—charming, thought-provoking, and witty—have showcased numerous heroines whose unique personalities recommend them to a wide variety of readers. This exploration, in particular, focuses on the inner lives of Anne Elliot and Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonists from Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice. Through utilizing writing techniques such as free indirect discourse in these novels, Austen was an early pioneer in crafting characters whose innermost thoughts were accessible to her readers. In order to explore the development of these characters’ inner lives, I constructed a framework with which to examine the moments where they display characteristics of interiority. From analyzing instances of characters seeking solitude to them showing regret about past attitudes, items in this framework provide a structure that helps me to examine how these characters’ respective moments of interiority endear them to Austen’s readers. This analysis aims to encourage a broader discussion regarding the portrayal of characters’ interior lives in novels and the impact that such portrayals can have in forming connections with readers. Honors Program Thomas Rand | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4809 Experiential Education: Teaching Elementary Mathematics With a Deweyan Framework Amy Keithley 5/1/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/50 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In the current educational climate in America, standardization is the driving force. Across the United States school districts are facing severe budget cuts which, when paired with legislature such as the No Child Left Behind Act, are creating a learning environment void of creativity and spontaneity. John Dewey, the father of progressive education, believed that learning should not be marked by rote memorization, but rather should aspire to actively engage students in experience and learning that erased boundaries between subject areas and integrated daily life practices. This thesis addresses the question of whether or not it is possible for a typical classroom teacher in the public elementary school setting to implement an experiential education framework into academic curriculum through the administration of a mathematics unit. Using the backdrop of art, music, and cooking, students will develop the necessary skills and knowledge to authentically use fractions. Honors Program Steven Wojcikiewicz | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4808 Examining the History of Forest and Fire Management: A deeper look at how the Milli fire affected the Sisters Oregon community Morgan Williams 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/226 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Forest management is an ever-changing process. With new research and technology, forest management has dramatically changed over the last few decades. In 1995, 16% of the US Forest Service’s budget was devoted to firefighting, in 2015 it was more than 50% of the budget, and estimates say that it could be as much as 70% of the budget by the year 2025 (Struzik, 238). This raise in cost is due in part to the lengthening of wildfire season. Over the last 40 years, the average fire season in the US has gone from 23 days long to an average of 116 days (Davis, p. 92). This compilation will review important literature related to forest management, explore fire management based on differing geological areas, assess how forest fires impact communities using the 2017 Milli Fire as an example, and interview professionals in the field of forest and fire management all in hopes to bring awareness, prevention, and increased social responsibility to readers. Honors Program Mark VanSteeter | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4807 Ethical Standard for Stockbrokers in the United States: An Ethical Analysis of the Suitability and Fiduciary Standards JulieAnne Ohashi-Sides 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/222 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The everyday investor enters the investment world with an inadequate understanding and knowledge of the market. More often than not, these retail investors turn to the expertise of financial intermediaries, such as stockbrokers or investment advisors. This paper will investigate the relationship between principal and agent as it pertains to the financial service industry. More specifically, the current ethical obligations that dictate stockbrokers’ practices will be examined and compared to proposed reforms. In the United States brokers have a legal and ethical requirement to recommend only “suitable” investments to their customers. This standard generates numerous conflicts of interest between brokerage firms and the customers they serve; the products that pay the highest commissions for the broker, may not be the best investment options for the customer. Currently, there are proposals to raise the standard to a fiduciary duty of care, in which recommendations are solely in the best interest of the client. In part one of this thesis, there will be a focus on the analysis of brokerage firms’ revenue streams and apparent conflicts of interest. This section will also look at the historic development of both suitability and fiduciary standard, as well as briefly discuss the current legislative development of ethical standards in the investment industry. In part two of this thesis, focus will be directed to the role of ethics in finance as a whole. Here, an analysis and comparison of various ethical theories and debates will be highlighted; primarily stemming from the neoclassical economic rationale of ethics and variations of agency theory. Honors Program Anna Mahony | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4806 Empathy and Environmental Education: The Role of Zoos in Conservation Ellen M. Moore 7/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/234 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Facilities such as zoos, aquariums, natural history museums, wildlife refuges, and more have been implementing environmental education programs with the intention of educating visitors on topics including conservation, natural history, and being better stewards of the environment. In zoos, programs like these have been implemented as early as the 1950s (Hancocks, 2001). However, research on the effective methods of behavior change for the environment is few and far between, and may not always be taken into account in the development of some zoo education programs. This project will attempt to bridge this gap through an analysis of current research on empathy and pro-environmental behavior change. I will develop an improved day camp curriculum for incoming fifth grade children to not only teach them about animals and the environment, but to inspire pro-environmental behavior change within the children, based upon the research I conduct. I will be focusing on the Oregon Zoo as my model, because I have been involved at the Oregon Zoo for over eight years, and know the grounds extensively. With this background knowledge of the individual animals living in the zoo, I will be able to intertwine classroom activities with grounds tours and other animal experiences. Interpreting living collections is what attracts, inspires, and enables people of all ages to act positively for conservation (Esson & Moss, 2010). The end result of this project will include a literature review, a new curriculum that could be 5 implemented at the Oregon Zoo, along with activity resources for camp, and a bonus activity that could be done by any Oregon Zoo visitor. Honors Program Gareth Hopkins and James Dawson | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4805 Emmanuel Ringelblum's Warsaw Ghetto Archive and the Uprising of 1943 Sara Madden Emmanuel Ringelblum | Warsaw Ghetto | Holocaust | Oneg Shabbat | Uprising | passive resistence | active resistence 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/172 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Emmanuel Ringelblum was a Jewish historian who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. At the start of 1939, Ringelblum came to a realization that the history of the Jewish nation must be recorded. Within the Ghetto, he assigned himself the task of recording as much information about the Holocaust as he could. Along with a group of archivists, Ringelblum created the Oneg Shabbat (O.S.) Archive with the intention of educating future generations about what the Nazis had done. Shortly after the completion of the archive in 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising occurred. This revolt... Honors Program David Doellinger | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4804 Embracing The Quiet Ones: Strategies for Teaching Introverted Students in the Elementary Classroom Madelyn Russell 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/249 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Over the last two centuries, the urbanization of American society and subsequent alterations in patterns of daily life have caused a shift in preference toward qualities associated with extroversion. Referred to as The Extrovert Ideal, the promotion of extroversion has impacted the American K-12 school system as well, creating educational settings ill-suited for introverted students and the way in which they learn. Although statistics surrounding the exact number of introverted individuals in the population remain inconclusive, many studies indicate that one-third, and up to one-half, of the population is introverted; inevitably, an educator will teach introverted students every year. This project seeks to explore ways in which introverted students in the elementary grades can be supported by their teachers. After contextualizing the conversation — providing the history of introversion as a psychological concept, an overview of modern Western perceptions of introversion, and a picture of the typical introverted student—a description and analysis of current educational trends in light of the needs of introverted students will follow, examining Cooperative Learning, Inquiry-Based Learning, Project-Based Learning, Gamification, and Social Emotional Learning. The project concludes with a series of recommendations for differentiating the strategies with introverted students in mind, along with several additional recommendations, and an open letter to educators and parents of introverted students about implementing the topics discussed. Honors Program Cornelia Paraskevas | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4803 Elementary Education in Finland and the United States Julia Grabhorn 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/130 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Education is a part of society that affects everyone; it has to thrive in order for future generations to succeed in taking our place. For this reason, it is often debated how to best construct an education system that will be most effective. Through this debate comes the need for reform to morph education systems to fit the changing times and the fluctuating educational needs produced by the progression of time. By identifying Finland as a leading nation in the education world and as something to strive for, we can compare it to the underperforming education system of the United States to explore where the differences lie and how they impact student success rates as shown on the Programme for International Student Assessment. Before diving into educational variations, we look first at a whole picture view of the two countries to gain an idea of the societal context in which to analyze the dissimilarities in their education systems, as well as a background of the ideological fundamentals that form the foundation of their school structures. After gaining a deeper understanding of the social features and common beliefs surrounding education, the reform movements and current education systems of the two countries will be compared side by side, leading up to the identification of areas of Finnish success that can be modified to meet the needs of the United States. Honors Program Robert Hautala | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4802 Effects of the Asperger Label Cierra Henderson asperger's syndrome 12/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/119 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The current study examined the Asperger label and compared differences in affect, cognition, and behavior towards an individual with Asperger’s when a person knows the individual has Asperger’s and when they are unaware. It was predicted that when the diagnosis is known there will be more negative attitudes towards the individual with Asperger’s. It is also predicted participants will have more positive attitudes if they have experience or knowledge with Asperger’s or autism. There were 39 participants from Western Oregon University. Twenty-six were female and 13 were male (Mage=22.4, SD=6.56). Participants read a short profile that described an individual with Asperger-like behaviors and social encounters. The Multidimensional Attitudes Scale of Attitudes Towards Persons with Disabilities (Findler, Vilchinsky, &Werner, 2007) was used to measure negative affect, cognition, and behavior. Results concluded that when the Asperger label is unknown, there are significantly higher negative effects and significantly more negative behaviors. Negative cognition was higher for those who did not know the label, but the statistic did not reach significance. Regression analyses were ran to examine if experience had an association with affect, cognition, and behavior, but did not reach significance. These results show that knowing a person’s disability may create a better understanding of behaviors and, therefore, less negative attitudes towards the individual. Having experience with Asperger’s or autism does not associate with higher attitudes. Honors Program Ethan McMahan | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4801 Effective Strategies for Preventing Recidivism Among Juveniles Amanda McMasters 6/1/2015 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/58 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This paper will discuss recidivism among juveniles, primarily aged 12 -18 years old, and evaluate which methods best prevent recidivism. I will begin with the multiple nationwide definitions of recidivism and which is most appropriate for this thesis, before moving on to explore the different methods and programs used by juvenile probation officers. This paper will discuss programs such as "Scared Straight" and anger reduction groups and their effect on reducing recidivism rates. Restorative justice will also be examined and whether or not the emphasis should be placed on rehabilitation or punishment in the field of juvenile justice. I will also be examining the effectiveness of practices in the juvenile department such as risk assessments and EPICS, which is Effective Practices in Community Supervision. Ultimately, I hope to produce a research paper that shows rehabilitation, rather than punishment, is more productive in reducing juvenile recidivism than severe punishment. Honors Program Rich Robison | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4800 Effective ESOL Practices: Are ESOL Teaching Strategies Accessible to Non-ESOL Endorsed Teachers? Camille E. Rickis 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/247 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ There is a lot of research and recent knowledge regarding how Emergent Bilinguals (EBs) can best be taught content-based material and the English language in their K-12 schooling; however most of this knowledge is being taught only to ESOL endorsed teachers, bilingual teachers, or other ELD specialists who work with EBs directly. The truth is that every single teacher will have an EB in their class at some point in their career, and for most teachers that will be many more than just one student. I want to explore how the existing strategies that are known to be successful are being used by teachers who do not have training in ESOL and whether they can be made more accessible and seem more possible for these teachers who do not have a background in second language education. To do this, I will first examine what these most current strategies are. Through this examination, I am going to determine where the strategies can be modified to be accessible and realistically implemented by teachers who have less experience with ESOL or bilingual education. With these modified strategies, I will create the Sheltered Strategies Toolkit, a website that will show examples of how these tools can be implemented in the mainstream classroom. The Sheltered Strategies Toolkit will make it clear how the modified instructional methods can be put to use by all teachers, and will give me invaluable experience and knowledge as I gain a deeper understanding of the effective ESOL practices and how they can be used in my own future classrooms. Honors Program Jessica Dougherty | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4799 Eating and Emotions: The Effect of Dark Chocolate and Apples on Mood Levels Clarissa Toplar 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/140 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The current study looked at the short term and long term effects of consumption of dark chocolate versus apples on mood levels. There were 36 participants, 26 female and 10 male with a mean age of M = 20.25 and SD = 2.65 years. Using a 7-point Likert-type scale, participants were asked to rate a series of items that pertained to their current mood scaling from (1) meaning not at all to (7) meaning very strongly (Macht & Dettmer, 2006). For the first day, participants recorded their mood levels after consumption of either chocolate, apples, or water at four intervals: 1, 5, 30, and 60 minutes after eating. For the next two days, participants recorded their mood levels at 30 and 60 minutes only. Using a mixed factorial ANOVA, short term results were not statistically significant, indicating that palatability had no effect. Then, using a second mixed factorial ANOVA, long term results showed a significant result for time (F(1) = 5.713, p < .05, η² = .023). This result shows that moods, regardless of food, decreased over time. There were no significant results for the time by group interaction for long term effects. These results indicate that dark chocolate and apples do not differentially affect mood level over time. However, data trends suggest that with more participants, a significant effect may be seen, but further research is needed. Honors Program Ethan A. MacMahan | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4798 Dropping the Lowest Score: A Mathematical Analysis of a Common Grading Practice Rosie Brown 6/1/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/27 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ A common grading practice among educators has been to drop low test, quiz, or homework scores to help students in their classes. Although there exist simple cases in which it is easy to determine which scores should be kept and which scores should be dropped, there are many more complex cases that require an algorithm to solve. I will be discussing different ideas for how to easily determine the best set of scores to keep, why some methods do not work, and will go into detail about an efficient algorithm. Honors Program Breeann Flesch | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4797 Dressed for Disaster: An Advocacy for Sustainability in a Fast Fashion World Margaret L. Kassebaum 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/264 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ It’s not uncommon to hear that major steps need to be taken by 2030 before the effects of climate change become irreversible. The clothing production industry is a major contributor to these problems. This project focuses on sustainable fashion. After giving a brief background on the climate crisis, it analyzes what fast fashion is doing in terms of the harm it has on the environment, focusing on common negative practices in clothing production. The discussion then turns to the environmental impacts of sustainable fashion, examples of business strategies, various sustainable clothing brands, and methods in clothing production that can sustain the environment. The last topic is the positive aspects of building a sustainable fashion brand. The desire is to continually highlight the positives of making clothing design and production sustainable to encourage companies to follow suit. The end goal is to provide a compelling argument as to why a company should integrate sustainability into its business. In order to make the greatest impact on various fashion companies, they may be sent the end product created in an effort to communicate a way for them to be more environmentally friendly while reducing the research that the companies would have to do as much as possible. The goal of this is to make the incorporation of sustainability easier for companies. Although it is unrealistic to expect to overhaul any company's production methods with this work, the hope is that this research can enact some positive change in the world. Honors Program Emily Plec | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4796 Discrimination and Hate Crimes against the Trans Community Sarah Pettigrew 1/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/117 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The transgender community is a small subculture within the LGBTQ community that has endured a lot of discrimination from a predominantly cisgender society. Cisgender is a term used to describe people who identify with the sex they were assigned at birth, and transgender is a term used to describe people who identify with a gender different from the sex they were assigned at birth. This research will examine the history of the oppression that this community has faced with a focus on the current situation and an outlook for the future. Literature on the topic will be reviewed as well as a discussion of current legal changes affecting trans people. The goal of this paper is to bring to light a community that is not well-understood and to expose the oppression that occurs within it. The ambition of this paper is to raise awareness, with the hope of reducing future oppression and discrimination towards trans and gender non-conforming people. Although many of those in the LGBTQ community share these experiences and feelings, those who are not a part of the transgender community may not be fully aware of the injustices they experience. The purpose of this paper would be to inspire a discussion of the complexities of gender and how living authentically can come with a price. Ultimately, the goal is to bring awareness to this serious issue, and to inspire change in areas of oppression and marginalization in the United States. Honors Program CM Hall | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4775 Devising A Show From the Ground Up: Things We (never) Learned in Sex Ed Lindsay R Spear 7/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/236 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Only 24 U.S. states, plus DC, mandate sex education. That’s less than half of the country. When the members of Portal Theatre, including myself, shared our own personal experiences with sex education, we found one thing in common: we were all unprepared. We were unprepared for sex, queer sex, consent, sexual health like menstration, STI’s, and yeast infections, etc. We all found there was something in our sex education that was lacking. To respond to the poor sex education of the United States, and in various countries around the world, we decided to share our experiences by creating a play. The play explores seven different topics in sex education; periods, first time having sex, sex educators, masturbation, abstinence, consent/assault, and bad sex advice. Using a variety of different theatrical styles, the two actors, Lindsay Spear and Phoebe Thompson explore how their sex education in school failed them in sometimes funny sometimes dramatic ways. This play will inform, entertain, and address the real experiences of people affected by bad sex education, to which the majority of the US is affected by. By analyzing the process of creating this show and touring it across different Fringe Festivals in Canada, I will break down the creative process of devising and building a show from the ground up. I will explain the process of researching, writing with other people, and the hardships of the creative and touring process. Throught this play and reflection, I hope this thesis encourages you to look into the sex education system in your own country, or gives you the courage to create your own show on a topic you are passionate about. Honors Program Kent Neely | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4774 Developing Open Source Alternatives to Proprietary Software Howard Passmore 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/135 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The invention of the smart phone has provided people the ability to share information instantly. One major development in the last decade is the ability to report problems such as potholes, malfunctioning lights, broke street signs, or graffiti in real time with exact GPS coordinates from a smartphone. Many cities and towns have contracted out to companies to build mobile apps that allow their citizens to report problems wherever they are. These applications often come at hefty prices. The focus of my thesis will be to develop an open source version of a reporting app that is being sold by SeeClickFix Inc. This will allow towns, cities, businesses, and colleges to adopt a real-time issue reporting application while minimizing costs. I will also discuss why adopting open source software can be beneficial. Honors Program Mitch Fry | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4773 Developing Female Self-Efficacy For Middle School Mathematics Stephanie Shields 6/1/2010 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/73 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Rachel Harrington | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4772 Demystifying the Performance Authentic: Translation, Preference and the New Aesthetic Christopher McFetridge 6/1/2012 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/57 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Judgments of performance art are often contingent upon a notion of Authenticity. What we mean by authentic, however, is not readily accessible. An exploration of proposed authenticity-theories can help reveal the merits and impediments contained within those theories--and may ultimately suggest an Authentic-metric. However, such an analysis leads, counter intuitively, to the jeopardization of the term. We can suggest, in virtue of our analysis, that formal inconsistencies within the Authentic-metric promote a more elusive aesthetic discourse than otherwise necessary. By endorsing direct aesthetic discourse we can remove the obscured lens of Authenticity and begin encountering works as they are truly presented. Honors Program Mark Perlman | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4771 Delving Into Dance and Gender Nancy Sorensen 6/1/2012 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/76 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Sharon Oberst | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4770 Delaying Dementia Through Mental Stimulation: A Service Learning Project Emily Parker 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/104 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The goal of this project was a simple one: to create a mental stimulation focused activity program with the goal to delay the onset of dementia in the elderly. The incidence rate of new dementia cases in our country is increasing due to the large amount of people nearing the age of retirement. This means that more people are at risk of the disease than ever before. Dementia is becoming a major public health concern due to the intense effect it has on society, the patients, their family, and their friends. The mental health of our seniors is becoming just as important as their physical health. Dementia affects the brain in ways that are not yet fully understood. We do know that mental stimulation plays an important role in slowing the development of cognitive impairment diseases such as dementia, and can have as big of an affect as physical activity, a healthy diet, and genetics.1 Care facilities do their best to address all aspects of health for their residents. Some even go as far as to have specialists on hand to attend to specific needs such as a nutritionist, care physician, or an activities coordinator. Unfortunately not as much attention is given to the cognitive health aspect of health yet. Quality senior care has always been important, but as the average age of our population continues to increase, the need for a dementia prevention program increases as well. This project includes information and statistics on dementia, the effects it has on those afflicted, and on society as a whole. This information was used to create a dementia prevention program in a senior care facility with a collection of mental stimulation based activities such as jewelry making, painting, board games, and card making. By getting seniors involved in craft-based activities, their brain has to work differently in order to complete the task at hand. This type of stimulation is important to maintain mental health by having a positive effect on brain functioning. Honors Program Emily Vala-Haynes | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4769 Deaf Representation in Mainstream Film: How a community should be portrayed McKenzie Wolfe-Webb 10/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/257 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Dana Schowalter | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4768 Dawn: Creating Positive, Affirmative Gaming Experiences Jessica M. Bailey 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/270 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ There are few video game experiences that encourage and reward positive behavior and thinking. With this project, I aim to create a video game that will encourage players to temporarily cease negative thought patterns and engage them in new and positive behavior- building mechanics. This will include personalized messages of self-affirmations, which have been proven to boost mood and improve thinking patterns within the brain. Taking research into account, Dawn will seek to provide a thoughtful and interactive interface reflective of healthy social behavior, becoming a unique experience seen rarely in the online gaming community. While interacting within a virtual environment, players are invited to create their own positive affirmations and have the option of sharing them with the world via an online interface. The goal of this project is to create a virtual space and video game where players may be able to escape negative thoughts and will be given a place where they can think positively, clear their mind, and simply relax. Honors Program Breeann Flesch | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4767 D&D 5E Mass Combat Simulation Aidan Ohnemus 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/185 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition, as well as many tabletop RPGs in general, struggles with very large scale combat encounters. Mechanics are either changed to make it more suited to the increased scale, affecting the game balance in the process, or an entirely different game is used to represent the combat. This paper outlines the process undertaken to create a program that simulates combat encounters in 5th Edition D&D at a scale normally unfeasible without changing the game’s mechanics. I compare my program and its goals with the solutions that come closest to it, including alternate rulesets, virtual tabletops, and a balance testing program. Honors Program Tad Shannon | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4766 Custom Locks: Counting the Combinations Christopher Tasner 6/5/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/79 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Breeann Flesch | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4765 Crime Analysis: The History and Development of a Discipline Michael Stevenson 6/5/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/77 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Terry Gingerich | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4764 Creative Synthesis: Collaborative Cross Disciplinary Studies in the Arts Ermine Todd 6/1/2012 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/82 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Daryl Thomas | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4763 Compassion versus Criminalization: Is Portland Setting an Example of How to Help the Homeless? Olivia DeJanvier homelessness | policy | public policy | compassion | criminalization 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/169 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Across the United States there is a homeless epidemic sweeping the nation. Although there is more and more research being done on how to control homelessness, no one city has been able to accomplish this difficult task. Most cities across the nation have been trying to control homelessness by initiating laws that make it very hard to be a homeless resident in the city. Examples of these anti-homeless laws are sleeping bans, seizing of person property, and citing people for feeding homeless residents. One city in the United States that is taking a different approach is Portland, Oregon. Honors Program Dean Braa | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4762 Cómo Se What: The importance of the reading/writing connection for English Language Learners in the middle school language arts classroom Danielle Buffington-Tebon 6/1/2010 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/29 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Cornelia Paraskevas | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4761 Commuting Pairs in Groups and Associated Probabilities Tyler McAfee 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/102 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ My area of research focuses on a _eld in mathematics called group theory. More speci_cally I will look at commutativity of pairs of elements in particular groups and the probabilities associated with them. My thesis will have both general and speci_c sections. This will allow me to generalize commutativity and more importantly, the probability associated with commuting pairs, before applying those generalizations to speci_c groups. Two groups will be focused on primarily, namely the dihedral groups and the matrix group GL(2; Zp). My hope is that my work will be presented in a manner that allows mathematicians to obtain a better understanding of the theory involved. I will represent the theory with mathematical proof, both adapted from other papers and original ones as well. I enjoyed studying group theory previously and am looking forward to diving deeper into its application. Honors Program Michael Ward | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4760 Community-Based Policing and the Mentally Ill Nicole Miller 1/1/2012 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/59 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Stephen Gibbons | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4759 Common Core Math: A Guide Stephanie J. Eaton 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/5 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The state of Oregon has been realigning, reformatting, essentially re-creating its educational math standards every few years for over a decade. For today’s parents, this not only means that an entirely new system is being used to teach their children math than when they went to school themselves, but that their children are learning a completely new way of looking and dealing with math altogether. The progression of alterations made to standards has led to a more content-oriented curriculum, which aims toward deeper student understanding of the same math concepts taught years ago. Current standards point their focus away from rote memorization of integer operation facts (e.g. times tables), and toward mastery comprehension of the “why” and “how” of mathematical reasoning. Students are being taught to become mathematical thinkers rather than mechanized reiterators. According to the Oregon Department of Education (ODE), academic content standards are “statements of what students are expected to know in particular subjects and be able to do at specified grade levels” (ODE, 2010, p.1). These expectations provide teachers with a general guideline to which they orient their lessons throughout the year, and which they use to assess student learning. Honors Program Breeann Flesch | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4758 Combating Comprehensive School Garden Program Implementation Barriers in High Need Areas BillyAnn Stempel 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/189 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In recent years, school gardens have taken hold in education curriculum across the country. Research has found that though these programs are becoming more popular, they are often implemented in areas of higher socioeconomic class. Low-income school districts struggle to find staff with adequate time to develop school garden programs. This project will help to open the doors for more rural areas to host school garden programs. Through an analysis of current research, compilation of a resource bundle, and creation of a guidebook, this project will provide educators with the tools that are necessary to implement a well-integrated garden. Where higher socioeconomic areas might be able to afford a garden coordinator salary, lower socioeconomic areas will be able to utilize this toolkit to self-start a well-integrated program. I will be focusing on my hometown elementary school, Taft Elementary, as a model school. First, I will be gathering resources on outdoor classroom management, lesson and curricula planning, and a Text set for literacy integration. From there I will be designing guidebook that will contain tips for seasonal care of a garden in the harsh climate of the Oregon Coast, calendars for planting in the garden, and many more sources that teachers can use to implement a school garden program. I will also be analyzing current research on the topic to make well informed decisions about resources to include. Honors Program Adele Schepige | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4757 College Students’ Feelings and Sex Differences When Having Children with Disabilities Austin Gehrett parenting | college | learning disabilities 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/127 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The current study analyzed how college students responded to the idea of having a child under different scenarios. The hypotheses were that females would react more positively than males to having a child and that individuals would react more positively to having a child when thinking about healthy children as opposed to children with learning disabilities. Additionally, an interaction hypothesis was made which stated that female responses would be more negatively affected by thinking about children with learning disabilities than male responses. The experiment was set up for participants to view a video of parents interacting with their children. The children in the videos were either healthy or diagnosed with learning disabilities. Afterwards, participants rated how much they looked forward to parenthood. Data was analyzed with a 2 x 2 Analyses of Variance. No main effect for sex or video viewed was found nor was an interaction effect found. Implications from this study were discussed such as how females and males view parenthood similarly in college and how strongly opinions about parenthood are formed in college students. Honors Program Jaime Cloud | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4756 Coding in the Classroom Sierra J. Fresh 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/212 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The 21st century has been characterized by rapid growth in technology and computer science. With this shift, computer science curricula have not always been introduced in the classroom at a similar pace (Yadav, Hong, & Stephenson, 2016). With the overwhelming amount of curriculum that needs to be taught and lack of resources at the district level, adding non-required curricula such as computer science and coding to the schedule can be difficult. There simply is not enough time in the day to teach it all. This project bridges the gap between computer science curriculum and the classroom, by showing how it overlaps with the Oregon Common Core State Standards. I have created a unit that teaches coding to fifth graders. It includes specific learning objectives aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. These lessons teach coding using a scaffolded approach based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. This project provides teachers with a small unit for their fifth-grade class that will teach coding and that aligns with the standards that are required to be taught, which brings the computer science and elementary mathematics education worlds together. The existing resources to teach coding lack alignment to Oregon Common Core State Standards, so the goal of this project was to add alignment in order to make teaching computer science curriculum accessible for the classroom teacher. Honors Program Rachel Harrington and Breeann Flesch | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4735 Chronic Pain: Physiological Foundations, Psychological Effects, Common Treatments, and New Directions Janel Chandler chronic pain | treatments | effects | psychology | physiology 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/159 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Acute pain is categorized by a length of 3 to 6 months, is directly related to soft tissue damage, and gradually resolves as the injured tissues heal. Chronic pain is defined as any pain lasting longer than 12 weeks. Over 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, and the health care costs and productivity losses approach $635 billion annually (Institute of Medicine Committee on Advancing Pain Research and Education, 2011). The lack of clear quality standards for ethical/legal use of opiates, the presence of individuals abusing the system, and the lack of updated, and involved public policy make finding a doctor willing to treat chronic pain quite difficult... Honors Program Sara Budge | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4734 Chicano English in Children’s Literature Katie Nance 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/134 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Language is an integral part of our day-to-day lives; it is the way we express ourselves, the way we relate to others, and the way we meet our basic needs. However, for speakers of nonstandard dialects of English in America, language can be complicated. Many American students who fall into this category are taught, explicitly or implicitly, from a very young age, that the way they speak is different, wrong, and should be changed. With the growing number of Hispanic Americans currently in the United States, there is a nonstandard dialect which is becoming increasingly relevant: Chicano English. However, there seems to be a gap between the number of speakers of Chicano English in America, and the frequency with which this dialect is represented in literature, specifically within children’s literature. Following the recommendations of several online sources and academic experts, more than 50 children’s books that reportedly contained representations of nonstandard dialects were selected as a representative sample for initial screening. This preliminary analysis revealed that only twelve of the books actually contained representations of nonstandard dialects. Subsequent detailed analysis determined which nonstandard dialects including Chicano English were represented in this sample of children’s literature as well as the frequency with which these dialects were present. The results showed that no representations of Chicano English were found in the children’s books that were studied; however, the dialect was present in some young adult literature which was added to the analysis for comparison. The implication is that the Chicano English dialect may be considered less established and/or less prestigious than other nonstandard dialects of American English. The research and analysis, outlined below, show evidence of this, as well as potential explanations for this gap between the number of speakers of this dialect, and the lack of its representation in children’s literature. Honors Program Robert A. Troyer | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4733 Characterization of the Female Attractiveness Pheromone in the Red-spotted Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis concinnus Rachel Hermanson 6/1/2011 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/45 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Pheromones are chemical cues used to communicate between individuals within a single species. Previous work with reproductive pheromones in lower vertebrates has focused on the red -sided garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis. Studies have shown that this species has a female attractiveness pheromone that elicits courtship behavior in males. Chemical analysis of this pheromone suggests that the composition of the female attractiveness pheromone varies among garter snake species. This study conducted trailing experiments to investigate whether methyl ketones contained in the skin lipids of red -spotted garter snakes, Thamnophis sirtalis concinnus, are responsible for eliciting male trailing behavior ; hypothesizing that these cues, as observed with the red -sided garter snake, serve as the sexual attractiveness pheromone for this species. Males snake were tested on a y-maze with four different treatments: 1) a blank maze, 2) trails laid down by male red -spotted garter snakes, 3) trails laid down by female red -spotted garter snakes, and 4) trails composed of methyl ketone extracts from female red -spotted garter snakes. Males were found to actively trail both female trails and methyl ketone extract trials, supporting the role of methyl ketones as the sexual attractiveness pheromone for this species. Honors Program Michael LeMaster | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4732 Changes in the Willamette Valley: The Creation of a Preliminary GIS of Oregon's River Water Quality Aaron Orr Willamette Valley | GIS | Oregon | River | Water | Water Quality 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/152 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The current system for rating river quality by the Department of Environmental Quality is the Oregon Water Quality Index (OWQI), which condenses key issues down to a number for simple review and analysis. This breakdown provides an easily identifiable and comparable rating for any observed river. However, in oversimplifying the health of streams, this index score falls short in the task of capturing hydrologic systems as dynamic systems in terms of river health. With GIS, all of the components that go into the OWQI can be displayed, both validating the index scores each river is given and providing a map that allows users to actively track the state of each river on an annual temporal scale. Honors Program Melinda Shimizu | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4731 Celebrating a Centennial: The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Multi-Media Public Interest Campaign Tayleranne Gillespie 6/1/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/39 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Molly Mayhead | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4730 Caught in the Web: The Importance of Ethical Computing Illustrated via an Exploration of the Online Recruitment of Women and Girls into Sex Trafficking Ruby Tidwell 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/111 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ As people around the world increasingly migrate online to open communication, share information, and exchange money, goods, and services, the extensive power and possibilities offered by the Internet have never been more apparent. While enriching many lives in unprecedented ways, the Internet has also introduced new opportunities for harmful practices such as seen within the realm of modern slavery, and particularly within the sex trafficking industry. The goals of this thesis are to understand the ways in which traffickers utilize the Internet to recruit women and girls for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and to explore the vital role of technologists in creating safer online spaces. Social media platforms, employment opportunity pages, and the deep Web are areas of vital importance in these considerations, and they will be given particular attention here. The Internet has played a role in entrapping many of the tens of millions of people currently enslaved around the globe, but it is also providing the framework to recover victims as well as identify responsible parties. This thesis will analyze the online recruitment of women and girls into the sex trafficking industry to allow for a clearer understanding of the dangers and possibilities that technology has introduced, with the hopes of contributing to the larger humanitarian goals of combatting human trafficking and creating safer and more mindful software products and systems. Honors Program Sriram Khé | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4729 Cancer Research: A Quest for a Cure Alyssa Palmer 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/22 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Kristin Latham | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4728 Bullfighting: At What Cost should Culture be Preserved? Olivia Larene Read 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/23 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Patricia Giménez-Eguíbar | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4727 Building a Cast of Clones: Examining Stanislavski’s Theories in the Context of Maslany’s Performances in Orphan Black Sarah Cotter 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/122 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This thesis examines the theories explicated in Stanislavski’s second acting text, Building a Character, as they are utilized in the creation and continued manifestation of Tatiana Maslany’s seven different clone characters in the first season BBC America’s drama, Orphan Black. The paper begins by exploring the historical contexts of both Stanislavski’s System and Orphan Black before narrowing in focus to discuss the ‘outward-in’ approach of external character creation, its importance and relevance in the field of acting, and its application in Maslany’s performances. Stanislavski’s basic concepts of external characterization as realized through an actor’s stylistic, physical, vocal, and tempo-rhythmic choices are discussed, with examples of practical application drawn from specific scenes of Maslany’s work in Orphan Black. Intentional aberrations and breaks from Stanislavski’s theories are discussed, as are a number of curious manipulations of these theories based on the inherent medium, premise, and circumstances of the given drama. The essay concludes by examining the prevalence of these theories in Maslany’s work, arguing that these often-undervalued avenues of external character exploration are more important to character manifestation than the inner psycho-technique for which Stanislavski is often remembered. Mastery and manipulation of these theories are what enable masterful, distinct, specific, honest, and living performances, like those given by Maslany in Orphan Black. Honors Program deChatelet | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4726 Bridging Generation Y: A Commentary on the Financial Development of Young Adults in the New Millennium Sheridan R. Bailey 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/6 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In this thesis, I will explore beneficial financial literacy standards that should be applied to Generation Y students and will attempt to explain why all of them are truly vital for financial survival or overall well-being in this new Millennium. Through this commentary, I will develop a pyramid containing six fundamental rules that will assist with one’s financial future. Thirdly, I will create a basic website that will act as a technological module to help with the overall education of the site’s viewers; on it, there will be the six rules formatted as a pyramid and a compilation of resources to help the viewer out with basic finance. Through all of these parts, it is my hope that I help facilitate and create the desire within an individual to learn all that they can in order to help their future and prevent minor financial mishaps. Honors Program Tom Burrell | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4725 Blood of the Iron Woods: A Graphic Novel Exploration of the Modern Gothic Horror Experience Lauren Sundvall 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/198 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ “Blood of the Iron Woods” is a creative thesis in which I explore not only my own fascination with the horror genre, but to also address the difficulties of familial relationships, and how characters evolve in situations where there is no right choice. While this project initially began as a fantasy novel, I quickly changed over to horror, where I felt as though I would be able to contribute to the overall academic discussion on the genre. A lot of time, hard work, frustration, excitement, and lessons learnt went in to this project, and I am proud of what I have been able to accomplish despite the difficulties I have faced in these past two years. This project addresses the concept of visual communication within the Gothic horror genre as well as the deeper genre conventions and themes that make Gothic horror what it is. This research has resulted in a complete analysis of my creative inspirations, and full review of the current literature on this topic, a full narrative outline, and a partial storyboarding of the graphic novel over a two-year period. “Blood of the Iron Woods” is the tale of three sisters who travel into the woods to escape for a while after their father’s death. This thesis will address all the core components of the horror genre, how we experience and enjoy horror, and why Gothic horror is so relevant to today’s youth. Honors Program Lars Söderlund | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4724 Blindfolded for Science: An Integration of Dance as Therapy for Visually Impaired or Blind Individuals Karisa Merrill therapy | dance | blind | visually impaired 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/163 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Sight is used by our brain as a connecting bridge between other sensory input and stimuli from the world. Since humans are visual creatures, we heavily rely on vision to interact with our environments. Because of this role, impaired vision can diminish a person's confidence in movement, introducing an increased fear of falling ultimately impacting posture. Previous research suggests that these limitations can be overcome through the use of Dance/Movement Therapy, a current form of psychological therapy. Although beneficial to the mental health of participants in the American Dance Therapy Association, the physical effects... Honors Program Karen Haberman | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4723 Blasphemy: A Romantic Comic about the Devil Himself Jessica N. Brenner 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/215 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The tendency for societies to organize themselves around contours of sameness and difference leads naturally to social constructions of "us versus them." Individuals are primed to identify with the groups to which they belong, and thus intellectually classify those unlike themselves as "the other." Our social inclination toward "othering" is intractable and ubiquitous across cultures. It breeds conditions of chronic inequality and marginality, reinforcing the ethos of xenophobia that perpetuates and undergirds human atrocities such as war, slavery, and genocide. Through a creative project — a webcomic entitled Blasphemy — I address and illustrate how othering behavior can manifest in the world. Armed with the knowledge that powerful lessons can be gleaned from the arts, the goal is to raise awareness of othering and its deleterious impacts on individuals, and the wider society. Blasphemy co-mingles narrative and visual image in a long-form, serialized webcomic leveraging my study of art and psychology and engaging my own yearning to lessen the suffering of those who find themselves marginalized or targets of discrimination. As is common practice in webcomic production, each update will advance the story until the full story arc reaches its satisfying conclusion. Given the length and nature of Blasphemy as a complete narrative published in series, the full execution of the project logically spans beyond the time scope of this thesis. Honors Program Gregory Poulin | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4722 Black, Red, and Gold Amanda Clarke novel | Germany | world war ii | wwii | Oregon 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/153 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ My thesis takes the form of a creative historical/contemporary novel that gives a new perspective on a time often thought of simply as “Nazi Germany,” as well as the culture of Germany in a more modern setting. There are two plotlines that run throughout this work. The first plotline follows Sydney Baumann, a seventeen year old girl from Pendleton, Oregon, and her struggles with culture shock, the struggles of learning a new language, and the changes she makes as a person. The second plotline focuses on the character Audrey Baumann, between the years of 1938 and 1941, as she attempts to escape the NSDAP governed Germany at the start of World War II. Honors Program Katherine Schmidt | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4721 Bilingual Physical Education Macy Bothman 6/1/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/26 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In lieu of obesity rates rising and the increase of native Spanish speaking people in the United States the importance of learning a second language and maintaining a physical active lifestyle cannot be undermined. The population of Spanish - speakers is increasing every year and it has become a coveted privilege to learn a second language at an early age. People of all ages fluent in more than one language are considered better prepared and qualified for living in this globalized society. In addition, obesity rates have been rising as young adults and children are not receiving the physic al education and activity they need to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The hours spent in school are short for providing a quality education inclusive of a wide - range of information. Many schools have begun to combine subject areas, using an interdisciplinary approach, in order to cover all of the content expected. An interdisciplinary approach to teaching is when “two or more subjects are integrated with the goal of fostering enhanced learning in each subject area” (Barton et al. , 2000 , p. 20 ) . Physical Education class is an excellent time to acquire knowledge from other content areas, as neurogenesis , the development of new cells, is happening and the whole body is engaged in learning, especially for second language acquisition. This project combines Spanish and physical education by providing a framework for a horizontal curriculum that integrates Spanish immersion and physical education in order to create a dynamic environment for the learning and application of both second language and fundamental motor skills. Honors Program Maria Dantas-Whitney | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4720 Beowulf the RPG David Hawes 6/1/2010 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/44 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ As the recent 3D movie rendition of Beowulf proves, the Anglo -Saxon epic is still in the minds of storytellers even over a thousand years after the first scops recited it. Recently in human history, video games have appeared as a form of storytelling. In particular, the role-playing game genre particularly suits epic stories, and thus would be an ideal carrier for the themes and adventures which have made Beowulf stand the test of time. Thus, this thesis seeks to create a faithful adaption of Beowulf. Honors Program Henry Hughes | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4719 Benefits of Foreign Language Instruction Angelica Strickland 6/1/2011 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/78 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ There are many benefits to teaching a foreign language, for example Spanish, to elementary school students in the United States. There are forty five million Hispanics who speak Spanish as a first or second language and there are six million Spanish students and there is an increasing need for United States citizens to be bilingual. Teaching students a second language will also he lp to increase the influence of the United States politically and economically. This paper will look at how foreign languages are typically taught to students i n the United States, and how the English language is taught to students in Europe. It will also explore the cognitive benefits to teaching foreign languages to younger students through research from educational journals and texts concerning bilingual education. The many benefits of teaching elementary school students a foreign language in public schools should persuade school districts to incorporate mandatory foreign language classes. Honors Program Carmen Caceda | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4718 Becoming Stardust Susannah M. Doepken 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/210 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ David Bowie is easily one of the most famous musicians who created a lasting impact with a musical career spanning over five decades. Born on January 8th, 1947 as David Robert Jones, his climb to fame was not easy, nor was his fight for stardom and his struggle with sanity through addiction. Key moments in his life had a profound impact on the music he created at the time, and his life and music cannot be easily separated from each other. Through this two-act play, I will take the audience through an array of pivotal moments in David Bowie’s life, examining just how much those moments influence the music created at that same time. It examines the messy and intricate relationships he held with people, influencing themes and personas that he created which became monumental in music history. This play will span from moments as a young adult who is searching for fame, a successful star with strained relationships and addiction problems, and a retired musician looking to create for no one but himself. Honors Program Lars Soderlund | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4717 Application of the Dynamic Systems Theory to the Elder Population Arden Murakami 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/188 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ For this project, the Dynamic Systems theory (DST) of motor performance was applied specifically to the elder population, and set of exercise plans for walking and finger utensil usage were researched and manipulated. The most common individual, environmental, and task constraints seen in elders were designed to create a recommended set of movement plans to help maintain motor performance for each skill. With the average age constantly increasing in the United States, more people are living longer, meaning that people must be able to maintain their motor performance for longer periods of time, to ensure continued mobility. The set of movement plans was separated into three categories based on the individual, environmental, and task constraints seen in the majority of situations. There are recommendations of how each constraint can be manipulated, so the constraints that apply most to an individual can be used to produce the most efficient movement. This can be beneficial for many elderly people because it can act as their personal mobility plan to improve and enhance motor performance. It can also help benefit younger people as it can be used as a proactive way to transition into a new stage of life. It is hoped that creating these movement plans will give elders more options to enhance their motor performance to maintain mobility. Additionally, by basing the movement plans on the DST, awareness can be raised about its effectiveness, so that more people can understand and apply it to various aspects of their lives. Honors Program Robert Hautala | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4716 Anything is Pawsable: The Connection Between Breed and People's Perception of Service Dogs Francesca Holborn service dog | Pitbull | disability 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/208 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Compared to other animals, dogs appear to have the most excellent ability to understand humans’ nonverbal communication and social cues (Lucidi, Bernabo, Panunz, Villa, & Mattiolo, 2005). Service dogs provide a variety of different services and emotional support to their handlers. Additionally, specific breeds of service dogs must have distinct qualities, be particular sizes, and have specific temperaments to do their jobs adequately. Service dogs are defined in the ADA as any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability. To most of the population, basic knowledge about service dogs is not well known, and few researchers have focused on service dogs regarding the knowledge individuals have and the specific types of service dogs used by people with disabilities. Without this basic knowledge, people are unsure of the proper ways to interact with service dogs. My goal was to survey a sample of the population to examine their prior knowledge about service dogs, and then ask them to rate three different breeds of dogs (Yorkshire Terrier, Golden Retriever, and Pitbull) on their ability to be a service dog. With the hope to bridge the gap between the increasing number of service dogs being used and the knowledge that comes along with interactions between individuals with and without service dogs. There were significant differences between each dog breeds. Honors Program Deborah Brannan | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4695 Anyone Can Lead: A Workshop for Individualized Leadership Discovery Rachel Bayly 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/224 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The traditional leadership paradigm recognizes a narrow group of people as possessing the capability to be leaders. Specifically, educated white heterosexual males are overrepresented in leadership positions, and characteristics traditionally expected of leaders come more naturally to that demographic. This narrow paradigm is problematic, because it creates barriers to leadership for individuals who do not identify as educated, white, heterosexual, or male. Moreover, it does not acknowledge leadership as diverse and malleable. Individuals who do not identify with the characteristics acknowledged as leaderly by the tradition paradigm, but who have potential to be strong leaders tend not to seek leadership roles. Undergraduate college students who seek to create altruistic change, but lack the identities associated with the traditional leadership paradigm have much to gain from a paradigm shift toward a more inclusive idea of leadership. This thesis seeks to address this issue and opportunity through developing a leadership workshop focused on instilling the belief that leadership should be fit to the individual, not the other way around. The Anyone Can Lead workshop, developed through this project, creates a space for diverse undergraduate students to reconceptualize leadership. The workshop is built on the values of servant leadership and guides participants in discovering the unique version of leadership that will allow them to create positive change. Honors Program Aislinn Addington | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4694 Antibiotics: A Vital Aspect of Medicine Turned Public Health Concern Stephanie Torrez 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/112 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Since their discovery, antibiotics have been a critical asset to medicine. They are responsible for saving lives and treating infections that could have been damaging or life-threatening in their absence. In short, we have become dependent on antibiotics. Now, however, antibiotic resistance in microbial infections has caused antibiotics, our “miracle drugs”, to diminish in their effectiveness. This, in turn, has the potential to greatly impact the health of the entire human population. Aspiring to become a doctor concerned with both the health of the general public and myself, I seek to understand this issue in its entirety and aim to produce a resource so that others can do the same. Through the use of scientific articles and other scholarly materials, I will examine, analyze, and compile research to determine what has caused antibiotic resistance, and what can be done to prevent it from worsening. It is crucial that we understand the seriousness of this issue and the role it plays in our lives. By creating a resource that thoroughly explains the different aspects of antibiotic resistance, ranging from its origins and current antibiotic resistant infections to strategies that may help stop it, I hope to provide an opportunity for the general public to become aware and well-informed about this issue. Honors Program Bryan Dutton | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4693 Answering the Question Why: The Theoretical Foundations to Instructional Choices in a Middle School Mathematics Class Alyssa Schmidt 6/4/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/71 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In all public middle schools in Oregon, students are required to complete a yearlong mathematics course. And while middle school marks a time of transition and development for many students, it also marks an important transition in mathematics. Every student in the district will transition from general mathematics courses into domain -specific courses, and it is critical that both teachers and students ask the question, "Why?" in order to facilitate meaningful learning. As a teacher, the answers to this question should inform every aspect of one's practice. These answers should not only be defined by a personal philosophy of teaching, but they should also be informed by and evident of theories of learning in their application. In order to defend my own teaching practices, this thesis is a presentation of my personal philosophy of teaching, as informed by learning theories, followed by a detailed analysis of how my teaching practice was evident of these theories in application. Specifically, this analysis examines a sixth grade mathematics unit that I planned and taught to 28 students within the Salem -Keizer School District. Honors Program Rachel Harrington | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4692 An Examination of Sex-Differences in Emotion Identification as Influenced by BDSM Negotiations Kaylee DeBolt BDSM | emotion-identification | emotional intelligence 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/197 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Abstinence-only sexual education curriculums are dominant in the USA, which leads the younger generation to seek sexual health knowledge from the next most readily available source—the media (Leistner & Mark, 2016); mass media portrayal of bondage-discipline/dominant-submissive/sadist-masochist (BDSM) relationships borders on the pathological. The present study sought to destigmatize BDSM practitioners through the use of empirical data. Participants of this study read a half page vignette of a conversation (to be imagined between them and a sexual partner) pertaining to either a sexual history overview, an adrenaline producing activity, or a BDSM-scene negotiation. Immediately following, participants viewed a self-progressed slide show of the seven culturally universal emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, fear, contempt and surprise) at a rate of .1 seconds each, and judged which emotion they saw in which face. It was predicted that participants having read and imagined the BDSM-scene negotiation would have better emotion detection scores than participants in either the sexual history or adrenaline activity discussion and that women would be better able to accurately identify emotions, as compared to men. Predictions failed to receive support from the data analysis. Honors Program Jaime Cloud | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4691 Altruism and Well-Being Leah Fechter 6/1/2016 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/93 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Gavin Keulks | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4690 Alexa, is my home network safe? Schaefer Jones 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/213 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This thesis was created to research the usability and ease of understanding of home network hardware, specifically routers. After the usability is researched, it will highlight the issues and insufficiency with informational documents from a layman’s understanding and the issues that arise when home networks are not properly secured. Most technical manuals that accompany networking hardware are not built for ease of understanding for someone with little technical knowledge in the field and should prioritize securing the hardware and user awareness. Additionally, this thesis aims to bring to light the concerning situation of responsibility post-breach in home networks, business networks, or data-holding providers. In most cases, whichever business has the breach should be held liable for compensation to those affected and initiate better security standards in the future. Honors Program Breeann Flesch | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4689 Aggressing and Backpedaling: A Journalistic Examination of the Proud Boys Joshua Pautler 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/269 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The Proud Boys are a right-wing political organization set in opposition to immigration, political correctness, multiculturalism, and feminism. The group has been active in public right-wing demonstrations and counter-protests, and were present at both the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville as well as the January 6th Insurrection. After public acknowledgement from their symbolic figurehead, former president Donald Trump, the group saw an increase in both membership and media attention. This research paper seeks to compile various pieces of data concerning the Proud Boys to create an accurate and well-rounded picture of the organization. This data consists of political science research, news articles, and material created by members of the Proud Boys in order to investigate the claim that the group is a danger to both public safety and discourse. The group’s reputation for violence is earned. Their members have been brought up on assault charges in numerous cases, thanks in part to the aggressive rhetoric and goals of prominent Proud Boys. Additionally, two conditions for full group membership involve acts of violence– both enduring and perpetrating it. The Proud Boys are also a political danger. Their tenets are largely crypto-facistic in nature. While they allow non-whites into the group, the Proud Boys provide an effective starting point for their members to branch out into more overtly-racist vi organizations and hate groups. As such, this paper argues that the Proud Boys are an insidious threat that, despite their public image, supports political violence and fascist ideologies. Honors Program Henry Hughes | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4688 Advocacy Work for Low-Income Older Adults: Analysis of services for low-income older adults in Oregon Maya Herb 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/265 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Older adults with low socioeconomic status who age in their communities can be invisible. These people have unique needs and while there are systems in place to provide services, there is always room for improvement. Programs are available to older Oregonians who are financially vulnerable to address their basic needs. This work investigates the current challenges to addressing these basic needs and areas where advocacy work could be applied for this population. Financially vulnerable older adults, especially those at or below the federal poverty line, face issues of food insecurity, problems finding adequate but affordable housing, the costs and accessibility of caregivers and medical care, and more. These realities have repercussions on health and quality of life for lower income older adults. These factors, additionally correlate in different ways with higher likelihood of negative health outcomes and greater likelihood of disability and death. Interviews with five professionals working to provide governmental assistance to this population reveal both what is being done and areas of improvement for these services. Honors Program Margaret Manoogian | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4687 ADHD Study Utopia Morgan Montoya 7/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/228 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This thesis describes how educators and students alike can physically alter a learning environment to increase attention of students with ADHD. Attention deficit hyperactive disorder is a brain disorder in which there is a pattern of inattention and or hyperactivity and impulsivity that interferes with functioning. These symptoms frequently present themselves in childhood and continue into adulthood. Despite ADHD often being a lifelong disorder, the majority of research done to understand and support those with ADHD is focused on elementary-aged children. By focusing on such a young group, research has neglected students in high school and college who would be in greater need of learning strategies, symptom regulation, as well as environment and time management. Additionally, few studies are directed for adults with ADHD to manage their own behavior and symptoms. The goal of this thesis is to provide practical environment interventions to create a functional study environment that promotes attention. To accomplish this, various research has been compiled on environment factors that affect attention, productivity, and physical health. The research addressed symptoms of ADHD, how those symptoms affect school performance, and how teenagers and adults with ADHD are in need of solutions/ interventions to increase attention. To spread awareness of issues faced and solutions, compiled research was applied to create a utopian study environment for college students with ADHD. Honors Program Dan McCarthy | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4686 Addressing Emergency Response and Recovery from a Critical Social Justice Lens Melina L. Mullin 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/263 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This thesis examines how the institutional practices put forth by the emergency management community have impacted the health equity of marginalized groups of people, such as the Black community of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and how that has in turn, impacted community equity and development following the event. Specifically, this thesis analyzes the impact Hurricane Katrina and its emergency response had on the marginalized community’s health equity. Following the events of Hurricane Katrina, I will analyze two similar events that followed Hurricane Katrina -- Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Maria -- in order to observe the changes made within emergency management when it comes to decision-making in response methods that disproportionately impact marginalized communities that face discrimination due to race. Finally, after contextualizing the changes within emergency management that have occurred over time, I will create an outline for an awareness training program for emergency management personnel that will focus on remedying and changing past institutional-based emergency management practices that have negatively impacted marginalized communities in their journey towards emergency situation recovery. The overarching goal of this thesis is to create response awareness within the emergency management community and mitigate future institutional discriminatory practices such as racism within emergency response and recovery. While this thesis is a critique of emergency response and recovery, it is meant to be a means of showing necessary areas of improvement within emergency management in order to better meet the needs of communities. Honors Program Dana Schowalter | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4685 Acquisition of the English Language: An Examination of Deaf Students and Literacy Kristin Mahoney 5/1/2013 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/54 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Robert Troyer | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4684 Achieving Immersive Gameplay: Interpreters and Video Game Accessibility Rebekah Cheeley deaf | video games | accessibility | ASL | sign language 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/171 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ASL/English interpreters (ASLEI) are exploring their influence and how they impact the communities they work with. Sensitive to oppression and marginalization of the needs of the d/Deaf community, interpreters and interpreting students are looking at how they can best support greater accessibility for people with who identify as d/Deaf or hard of hearing. Video games are one such area where accessibility is lacking. Problems include reliance on sound cues for crucial survival information... Honors Program Erin Trine | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4683 A Visual Mover: Dance and Movement Therapy for Autism Spectrum Mikaela Gabrielle C. Mendoza dance | movement | therapy | autism 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/168 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The intent of this thesis is to explore dance and movement therapy as a form of treatment in order to accomplish higher overall functioning, well being, and communication for those diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Through the study of various forms of research including books, articles, interviews, videos, I will integrate the most effective, according to my resources, dance and movement therapy techniques and theories, and autism teaching methodologies, and create a teaching unit of lesson plans for a ten-week ballet-focused dance workshop. Honors Program Sharon Oberst | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4682 A Truly Special Education: an analysis of developments in social skills education, and synthesis of best practices in supporting students with diverse needs Channing T. Bushman 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/240 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Education has changed greatly over the last hundred years, as shown in an extensive literature review showing attitudes towards social skills education and the hidden curriculum. Doing so provides a clear picture of what has worked in the past and what needs to be further improved upon. By analyzing what has been done, case studies that have been successful, and discussing current practices, it is recommended that the current education system be reformed. A shift towards person-centered thinking in education would prioritize meeting students’ needs as they arise instead of chasing diagnoses that may be vague anyway. This is specifically relevant for those with or pending autism spectrum disorder diagnoses, that look different for each person and therefore require individualized supports anyway. With that in mind, classroom culture should be addressed collaboratively by the teacher and all of the students, to better support all students, those with disabilities and those without. Honors Program Shari Hopkins | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4681 A Tenacious Tiger in the World: Saving all that Remains (a novel) Erika Fitzpatrick 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/125 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The nature of my project is creative; I wrote a paranormal fantasy novel, centered on a girl and the wild world of tigers, that contributes to the large pool of book options available to those who seek to entertain themselves by reading. As an endangered species, tigers are powerful, curious creatures that demand extensive research to be fully understood, but they also need raised awareness so that they might be saved from extinction. The plot of the book includes focuses on a girl who transforms into a tiger and moves to live among the wild tigers of India. It expresses themes of fear, acceptance, authority, and love among a diverse cast of characters. My book is available in paperback, indie published under my own imprint publishing company, Fire Feather Press. This required me to format and design the cover and interior of my novel in an enticing, yet professional way in order to compete with the many other novels out there. With the writing of my book, I planned to entertain my readers with a fantasy adventure tale by bringing them face-to-face with tigers in the wild world, while also serving to raise awareness in order to help tigers prosper once more. Honors Program Katherine Schmidt | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4680 A Tale of Two American Cities: a Look at Lifestyles Jaclyn Thompson 6/2/2010 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/80 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Daryl Thomas | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4679 A Study of Talc-Containing Cosmetics and Their Potential Asbestos Contamination Jessica Donahue talc | asbestos | cosmetics | contamination | mineral 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/160 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Talc, a versatile mineral found in many products, is a common ingredient found in cosmetics. This metamorphic mineral is found in the fault lines along with the minerals that make up asbestos. Given their close proximity, it is possible that the talc used in cosmetic products can be contaminated with asbestos. This study tested six cosmetic samples from various price points, which include the brand names Covergirl, L.A. Colors, Wet n Wild, Kat Von D, Nars, and Urban Decay. An FEI Phenom Desktop Scanning Electron Microscope was used... in cosmetics. This metamorphic mineral is found in the fault lines along with the minerals that make up asbestos. Given their close proximity, it is possible that the talc used in cosmetic products can be contaminated with asbestos. This study tested six cosmetic samples from various price points, which include the brand names Covergirl, L.A. Colors, Wet n Wild, Kat Von D, Nars, and Urban Decay. An FEI Phenom Desktop Scanning Electron Microscope was used to determine that three of the six talccontaining products have the potential of being contaminated with asbestos. The outcome of this study brings into question the purification methods as well as the regulations regarding talc in cosmetics. Honors Program Arlene Courtney | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4678 A Qualitative Analysis of Student Motivations, Intentions and Participation in a Breast Cancer Advocacy Internship Tasha Burlison-Trump 6/1/2010 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/30 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Objectives. This study aimed to gain insights into perceptions of student interns who participated in a professional advocacy training conference and to describe the training impact s on their educational experience, personal growth, and professional development. Methods. Study participants included 20 Western Oregon University student interns. Each student completed a motivations survey prior to training, five open -ended journal entries during training, and an intentions survey upon completion of the advocacy training. Qualitative data w ere transcribed and analyzed using content analysis techniques and quantitative data were analyzed with SPSS statistical software. Results. Top motivations for participation in the training internship were to learn outside of the classroom and to learn how to become an advocate. The four themes that emerged from the journal entries were (1) connecting with breast cancer survivors and advocates; (2) empowerment; (3) learning; and, (4) action through advocacy. Perceived benefits included enrichment of the college learning experience and personal growth. Post -internship, students had intentions to be lifelong advocates and believe d that the political system works only when we participate and advocate. Conclusion. Student perceptions were that the advocacy experience enhanced their personal growth and professional development. Since advocacy is one of the seven responsibilities of a health educator, it is essential that academic programs recognize the value of advocacy development among students. Honors Program Jessica Henderson | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4677 A Polynomial in A of the Diagonalizable and Nilpotent Parts of A Kathryn Wilson 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/145 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Any square matrix A can be decomposed into a sum of the diagonal (DA) and nilpotent (NA) parts as A = DA + NA. The components DA and NA commute with each other and with A. For many matrices A; B, if B commutes with A, then B is a polynomial in A; this holds for DA and NA. Following a Herbert A. Medina preprint, this paper shows how to construct the polynomials p(A) = NA and q(A) = DA. Further, the Jordan canonical form J is a conjugate QAQ^-1 of A; this paper demonstrates that the conjugation relating J and A also relates NA and NJ and DA and DJ, respectively. Honors Program Scott Beaver | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4676 A Path to Graduation: An Evaluation of Degree Planning Resources at Western Oregon University Natalie R. Legras 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/223 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Evidence suggests that additional registration tools may improve graduation and retention rates in higher education institutions like Western Oregon University (WOU). The tools that WOU currently employs to support students and advisors could be enhanced to benefit students, advisors, departments, and consequently, the university as a whole. With the guidance of the Student Success and Advising Office and the Office of the Registrar, I conducted research in order to better understand the degree pathway planning needs of students and advisors. Using formal software implementation techniques to elicit software requirements, I evaluated the potential benefits and challenges of available degree pathway planning tools to students, advisors, and administrators. I hope that information generated from this project may be of use to the Office of the Registrar in the process of implementing new systems throughout the continuous improvement of the registration process at WOU. Furthermore, I hope that the recommendations from this research will be a valuable contribution to the university’s mission and its strategic planning initiative, Forward Together. I hope that this project will inspire and inform a successful software implementation and be an asset to the university in its plan to promote student success. Honors Program Niki Weight and Amy Clark | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4655 A Modern Construction of a Corset and a Short Look at Historical and Social Aspects Sierra Durfee 5/1/2011 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/35 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In this thesis I endeavor to create an historical corset using a new subset of skills I learned throughout my education at Western Oregon University. I create the corset using skills from classes I have taken in the course of acquiring my degree, through the help of my advisor, and with new skills learned from the research of this project. It is my wish that I understand and am able to replicate in the future, the steps needed in order to create a corset. This includes pattern making and altering, cutting, stitching and fitting. I also wish to impart that knowledge unto others. I also impart historical knowledge about the history of the corset through a brief survey of its creation, use and popularity throughout time. Its use as a foundation garment, the different popular materials of the time, popular opinion and social impact of the corset as well. The historical basis of the corset relays its importance in fashion history. This thesis tracks the steps of this journey through pictures and comments and enables the reader to see how a corset it made through its various steps. The use of pictures enables the work to be seen first -hand instead of merely imagined. This thesis also allows record of what not to do for future projects, or a forewarning f or others embarking on the same journey. This thesis allows the reader to not only see my work, but possibly see how interesting the construction of a corset or a garment can be. Perhaps this might inspire projects for the future among those who read this. Honors Program Sandra Hedgepeth | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4654 A Mathematical Approach To Inventory Management At Client-Choice Food Pantries Josh Salsbury 4/1/2021 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/250 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Traditional food pantry models give customers pre-arranged boxes of food that offer no or limited choice of the items received. Recent research indicates that the client-choice model, in which customers get to choose items in a grocery store-like setting, is a much less wasteful and more dignifying method of running a food pantry. However, there has not been scholarly research into the best practices for organizing and restocking items at client-choice pantries, which can significantly affect the quality and amount of food a customer has the opportunity to shop for. This research outlines a method of using common probability and statistics techniques to quantify the expected equity and risk of products expiring to find an optimal restocking method. Honors Program Leanne Merrill | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4653 A Mathematical Analysis of American-style Crossword Puzzles with 90○ Symmetry Brandilan Moring 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/276 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This paper explores one avenue that will contribute to the known information on crossword puzzles. In order to do this, we consider only crossword puzzles with 90° symmetry. In this paper, we provide lists of 5x5, 7x7, and 9x9 crossword puzzles, and prove these lists are complete. Finally, using those results, we determine the maximum number of voids, or black squares, in an 11x11 puzzle. ii Honors Program Leanne Merrill | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4652 A Knight of Fashion: Costuming an Amateur Musical Maria Hommes 5/1/2011 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/46 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Diane Tarter | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4651 A Guidebook to a Bilingual Education System from a Firsthand Perspective Grace Livengood 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/192 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Bilingual instruction has swept the educational system in the last few decades, and gained a lot of attention even though the idea has been present for a very long time in our country. I had the opportunity to be a part of a bilingual educational system in my public school experience and was one of the first cohorts to complete this kind of program in my hometown of Salem, Oregon. This first-hand look has given me insight into how certain aspects of the program are excellent and how others may need to be improved. In this guidebook, academic research as well as my own personal thoughts based on my experiences will give a thorough view on the various parts of the bilingual education programs in the Salem Keizer School District. My goal in this project is to look into different components of an educational immersion program that will benefit all types of learning but are mainly targeted at those that are being taught in two languages. Teaching a second language should not vary so much from our typical English instruction, though I concede some things may differ. If we are truly wanting to make our children bilingual, some of the components of the second language education should coincide with that of the mainstream education, because that aids in a deeper understanding of both languages and illustrates how both languages are shown as equally important to the families participating in immersion programs. This handbook looks to open a larger discussion on bilingual education so that improvements could be discussed in order to create programs that benefit people of diverse backgrounds, learning styles and those seeking to truly become bilingual. Honors Program Jaime Marroquin | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4650 A Film Analysis of Makoto Shinkai’s Garden of Words, 5cm per Second, and Your Name AJ Holmberg 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/186 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Makoto Shinkai’s Garden of Words, 5cm per Second, and Your Name have all been acclaimed as powerful films both in Japan and around the world. This project analyzes some of the filming techniques that Shinkai uses to make these films successful. The analysis centers on the themes of isolation, passage of time, and missed connections that occur throughout all three of the films. This project uses shots from the films to demonstrate how Shinkai uses certain filming strategies to accentuate these themes with the aid of the narrative and storyline. Initial analysis shows that Shinkai favors repetition of shots, montages, and long shots in these films. Further analysis could study the entirety of his works for similar themes and establish even more styles that remain consistent through his work. Honors Program Shaun Huston | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4649 A Figure of Thought: Conceptual Metaphor in Children’s Preschool Narrative Picture Books Rebekah Beyer 6/1/2011 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/25 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ In the long tradition of literary studies, metaphor has continually resurfaced as the trademark of poets and rhetoricians, an indicator of sophisticated and complex language. In contrast to the traditional wisdom of metaphor, contemporary linguists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that metaphor is more than just a figure of speech or a rhetorical tool. According to Lakoff and Johnson, humans have a conceptual system that is largely – and fundamentally – structured by metaphor. Lakoff and Johnson refer to these metaphors as conceptual metaphors, and they are a fundamental part of common, everyday language. This thesis will endeavor to explore the conceptual metaphors expressed in children’s literature using Lakoff and Johnson’s theoretical framework. I will begin with a detailed discussion of what conceptual metaphors are, how to identify them, and the important points of distinction between Lakoff and Johnson’s theory and the tradition of literary metaphor. I will also review the established findings that facilitate metaphor comprehension in children and offer justification for my chosen medium. I will conclude with an analysis of my selected literature and discussion of the results. Honors Program David Hargreaves | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4648 A Dancer’s View: Analysis and Prevention of Common Dance Injuries Eva Zhou Ying Batenhorst 4/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/225 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The overwhelming majority of dancers’ face injuries throughout their careers. The effects of injuries can range from resting for two weeks to career ending. Many dancers, especially at the college level, lack accessible education on how to prevent their injuries. This research is being targeted at WOU dancers, hoping to give them easy access to injury prevention materials and exercises, while helping to minimize the financial burden of seeking professional help. Through detailed analyses of five major regions of the body, information on common dance injuries becomes clearer and easier to analyze. The analyses will include classification of major joints, ranges of motion, types of motion, and major contributing muscles. The major regions of the body will be classified as ankle/foot, leg/knee, hip/pelvis, spine, and shoulder/scapula. After examining the anatomical background, exercises to increase strength, flexibility and stability of the major contributing muscles will be developed. Given the vast number of possible injuries, the study has been delimited to include a sampling of common dance injuries that will allow this research to be applicable for many college-age dancers. A series of pictures and images will be created and distributed compiling all the researched exercises to provide accessible education and injury prevention resources to dancers. Honors Program Marita Cardinal | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4647 A Dance of Life and Death: How cancer works and why it makes a great source of choreographic inspiration Elizabeth Dunn 1/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/238 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Cancer is a problem that has plagued humans our entire existence, and with that, has come the quest for a cure. Over many years of research we have discovered that the cure wasn’t easy to find and that cancer was a far more complicated disease than originally expected. Cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth, that begins with genetic mutations. With advances in science we came to understand our genetics and then we found some potential causes for cancer, in our genes. It is hoped that if we can reverse the faulty genetic mutations that cause cancer, we may be able to cure it. The mutations occur in two groups of genes, oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, and the latter is the focus of this paper. Tumor suppressor genes stop the cell cycle and can cause the cell to go into apoptosis, also known as programmed cell death. As the name suggests, these genes help prevent tumors and cancer from forming. When mutated they lose their function and thus their ability to prevent tumors, which can help give rise to cancers. Without active tumor suppressor genes, cells can grow out of control, which can lead to more mutations being gained and a tumor being formed. The genes I looked at are TP53, INK4, and PTEN-they have been chosen as they represent the range of functions tumor suppressor genes have and have been seen in cancers across the body. I looked at where the mutations are 5 occurring within the genes and examined potential differences between reproductive and nonreproductive organ-based cancers. Through the data I collected and the results of my analysis, I planned to create a dance to be performed in the Spring Dance Concert in 2020. This dance will be inspired by American and German theatrical Modern dance and will be an abstract representation of how tumor suppressors work and how they act when mutated. For my thesis, I blended art and science through the analysis of data and the creation of a dance. I explored how cancers and patients are affected by tumor suppressor genes in reproductive organ-based versus non-reproductive organ-based cancers. The reason behind this comparison lies in the difference in how the different organ system’s cells grow in terms of rate. It is hoped that a difference will be found and that may help understanding how cancer works. And then that can be explored through a dance and shared. Honors Program Drs. Karen Haberman & Kristin Latham-Scott | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4646 A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Phrasal Verbs: A Teacher's Guide Daniel Thom 6/1/2017 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/139 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Although ubiquitous in the English language, phrasal verbs are one of the most difficult constructions for English language learners to learn, as their meanings have traditionally been regarded as arbitrary and chaotic. However, recent developments in cognitive linguistics have shed light onto schematic motivations of phrasal verb meanings and thus present a number of pedagogical applications. The purpose of this thesis is to provide English language teachers with a foundation in the theory and pedagogical approaches to teaching phrasal verbs, using a cognitive linguistic framework. Honors Program Robert A. Troyer | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4645 A Brief Disquisition on the Ethics Philosophy of Ayn Rand: The Objectivist Theory of Morality — A Discourse on Value, Reality, the Virtue of Egoism, the Immorality of Sacrifice, and the Failure of Subjectivist Ethics J J Kobzeff 6/1/2011 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/52 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Honors Program Ken Kirby | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4644 2A Delivery Julian Garcia 6/1/2015 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/38 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ For students who want or need to learn how to count in binary and hexadecimal, the 2A Delivery Android application is a teaching tool that will help students learn by playing a game. This game will simulate a career with a fictional delivery company and will encourage the dedication of the student with pay raises, bonuses for great work, upgrades to vehicles, and map expansions. Unlike the current educational games available on the market, our product will use a storyline that will boost learning and stimulate the mind by teaching how to convert between multiple number bases. Honors Program Becka Morgan | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4643 “There is No Law Here”: Vigilantism, Militarism, and Metropolitanism in Coos County, Oregon 1912-1913 Zachary W. Jones 6/1/2014 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/3 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Using a three-tiered system of analysis, the lenses of vigilantism, militarism, metropolitanism provide a way to analyze the deportations within Coos Bay. At the base, vigilance committees policed community morals, ideas, and actions. Community policing spurred a process of militarization that needed an "other" or subaltern menace to marginalize. Metropolitanism became the end product: a recasting of the community norms and the use of elitist boosterism (a rhetoric of community aggrandizement) as a way to move closer to the metropole ideal. However, this was not simply a Coos Bay phenomenon; it was a process of metropolitanization that was happening across the nation. It is with this context that this paper argues that the 1913 deportations of Wobblies and Socialists in Coos County were part of a national crusade of vigilante violence that used extralegal force as a mechanism for implementing a program of social militarization that combatted the perceived threats of socialism, anarchism, and communism embodied in “the radical other.” The First World War saw the creation of government programs such as the American Protective League (APL) that emphasized “100 percent Americanism” and counteracted these perceived threats by shaping the nation into a cohesive and homogenous whole. Honors Program David Doellinger | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4642 “The Ties That Bind Us”: The Creation of a Dance Film Jade M. Mong 1/1/2020 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/237 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This project centers around the creation of a dance film about my sister and I. Though this piece was originally intended for the stage, the pandemic changed my plans and forced me to adapt it into a dance film. This thesis describes my process as I attempted to adapt my original piece into a dance film, as well as examining the influences which made this work possible. In this thesis, I examined the artistic influences which brought me to who I am as a choreographer today, paying homage to the pioneers of modern dance who inspired generations of dancers like myself. In addition, I included a brief history of the relationship between dance and film, and the benefits and challenges which come with putting dance on film. All of this research and background information lays the groundwork for my summary of my creative process, and my reflections on the work and process. Ultimately, this project is about my personal creative process and journey. Through writing this thesis, I was able to analyze my work and my process thoroughly, and learned more about the process of creating a dance film and how to improve when I create my next work. Honors Program Cynthia Gutierrez-Garner | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4641 “The Show Must Go On!” But Where?: The Use of American Sign Language Interpretation in the Theater Nicole Bolstad American Sign Language | Interpretation | Deaf | Theatre | Theatrical Interpretation 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/201 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting for theatre has three main placements of interpreters: platform interpreting, zone interpreting, and shadow interpreting. Each of these placements has its own positive and negative aspects, depending on the type of play and the scenic design. This will be addressed through a survey, literature review of articles, journals, and blogs. The final result will be the creation of an educational guidebook for directors and theatre companies about the various forms of interpretation. The intent is to provide a way to easily compare and contrast the placements according to different theatrical production demands. Other demands addressed will include the effects each placement has on audience members, the production team, and the theatre company. Some other aspects include the demands on the interpreters themselves with respect to prep-work, time spent in rehearsals, and production needs. Although this thesis will not be able to address every decision that goes into providing access for interpreted performances, it can be used to initiate the discussion by being a conversation starter for directors and theatre companies about the placement of interpreters, and the best match for their production. If successful, the findings can be applied to different theatres, productions, and even concerts. To improve both the Deaf consumer’s and the hearing consumer experiences. Honors Program Sarah Hewlett | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4640 “Shit Show” or Everyone That Needs to go to the Bathroom Should Go Now: Personal Experiences No One Thinks They Need to Know Meghan Doerfler 6/30/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/199 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Through a comic one-woman show, I will involve the audience in an exploration of my own personal stories and experiences with menstruation and feces. I purpose to break down some of the stigma that is associated with bodily functions by talking about them with open and blunt language and dialogue throughout the performance. One person shows have arguably been around ever since the first storytellers. While this show would be different in the nature of the stories being told, it would follow a very similar theatrical tradition by having one person narrate a story in a way that made the audience feel as if they were present within the room where it was happening. My primary focus in these stories will be on how we view periods and feces as a society and the unnatural feelings of shame that are associated with these two functions. Although I will mention other bodily functions briefly, I will spearhead this show behind those two functions in order to give the performance a definite shape and focus. This performance will include my own personal stories that I will retell by using present-tense language in order to fully engage the audience with what is happening on stage and to drive the action and plot of each story forward. At the end of this process I will have created a fully formed one-woman show that was performed June 9th, 2019 at 5:15pm in the Rice Auditorium Black Box. I aim to have the show’s run time be approximately 30-45 minutes. Honors Program Kent Neely | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4639 “Everybody’s Someone Else’s N****r”: Marilyn Manson as a Social Provocateur Ray Barton 6/1/2022 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/260 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ When asked what he would say to the survivors of the Columbine shooting, Marilyn Manson, shock rocker of the ‘90s, responded with, “I wouldn't say a single word to them. I would listen to what they have to say, and that's what no one did” (Moore, 2002). He did this in addition to continuing to create art in spite of being treated as a scapegoat by mainstream media for such an incredibly traumatic event. One of the most universal experiences a human can have is the unspeakable: events in one’s life that they are unable to put into words due to these being “certain violations of [the] social compact [that] are too terrible to utter aloud” (Herman, 2015). When one is unable to put words to unspeakable, traumatic events, they are faced with the one aspect of life they have control over which is choice. This choice is the path of creation or destruction. In a triptych of illuminated poetry, I will be exploring the dichotomous relationship between life, death, creation, and destruction inspired by the triptych Manson was able to complete following the events of Columbine. This project heavily plays into the common fears and assumptions that are conditioned into American society as a commentary on where people fall short as a result of unspeakable events. While Manson chose discussion over demolition, 4 this project, too (during an ongoing cycle of destruction), is intended to stimulate discussion through intense provocation in order to promote growth and life. Honors Program Michael Freeman | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4638 [ working title ]: A Screenplay Mindy A. Mawhirter 10/1/2019 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/231 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Toni Morrison said, “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it” (Morrison). That has always been my philosophy when it comes to writing. I don’t want to write the same story I’ve read, I want to write what I wish I had been able to read. This means I write a lot of abused gay women, and maybe one day someone will look at a collection of all my writings and comment on the fact that I wrote a lot of abused gay women, and I’m really very much okay with that, because I will have filled the niche I so desperately missed when I was a young gay kid, and later when I was an abused gay adult. The film begins with a woman coming home to make dinner. She pours herself a glass of wine and gets everything she needs to make fajitas. It’s mundane and honestly a little boring, with intention. I wanted to establish the reality quickly and help the audience suspend any disbelief early so that when it starts to pick up, they are swept along with her, and not jolted out of the moment, because when it gets going it goes by quickly. The entire story happens over 29 minutes. With this story, I not only wanted to share my experience with the audience, but communicate the mundanity of my experience. To do that, I drew on experimental practices, naturalism, found space theatre, and the theatre of the oppressed. I used what I saw and what I studied at Western, and then I wrote. And then I threw that entire script out the window because it honestly wasn’t that good. Then, I sat down, and in 3 hours, I wrote, [ working title ]. Honors Program Kent Neely | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4637 "Well, Watson, what do you make of it?": An In-Depth Look at Sherlock Holmes as a Hero Kalli Ramsey The Hound of Baskerville | Arthur Conan Doyle | Sherlock Holmes | hero | archetype 6/1/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/162 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This project analyzes the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. In doing so, the goal was to discover whether or not the character of Sherlock Holmes could be considered a heroic figure or not. So what is a hero exactly? There are many heroic archetypes and many ideas that society as a whole agrees upon for what a hero should look like. Each individual even has a set of requirements based on their previous experience with heroic figures in movies and books. Analyzing the Conan Doyle novel allows the audience to better see how Sherlock Holmes could (or could not) fit into these ideals that have been created. Honors Program Kit Andrews | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/4636 "Face Your Fears?" Exploring the Complexities of the Human Mind through Visual Storytelling Elissa Sorenson 12/31/2018 Text | Honors Thesis honors_theses/180 eng Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/01/2023, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ My creation of the game “Face Your Fears?” has been a deeply personal exercise in storytelling, which uses different mediums to find the best way to convey an ultimate message of balance. This project demonstrates the necessary artistic and design elements that are required in video game creation, as well as showing my own process in the making of this story. “Face Your Fears?” comprised of a framework that possesses the possibility for a unique experience with every new user. Though it is a personal connection to my own thoughts and experiences, thematically it stretches to broad meaning and questions how we as people choose to approach that which scares us. The elements I have created exist as the foundation for what this game could be, and express mechanics, functionality, and theme that would be present in the fully rendered game. With the creation of these game elements, I analyze the success of the project and detail the work involved and its accompanying meaning. Honors Program Jen Bracy | Gavin Keulks https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/3267 Early 1980's Athletic Invitation Wolf Drawing Undetermined Athletics | Basketball | Sports | Wolf | Wolves Illustration of a wolf used in the early 1980's as an athletic invitation from Richard Meyers to attend the basketball games with words that read 'The Wolves Want You!' Waldo is drawn with a fierce expression and is pointing in the same fashion as the Uncle Sam posters from WWI Army recruiting posters. Old ACC.RG.2012.885, Clubs - Wolfpack Athletic Club. | Digital .jpg (300 dpi, pixel dimensions- width: 1055, height:1500) 198u Image; StillImage omeka/913 Copyright Not Evaluated: As of 04/27/2020, the copyright for this item has not been investigated by Hamersly Library. | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ United States--Oregon--Polk County--Monmouth