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Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Bowen Family Systems Theory in the Life and Works of Ernest Hemingway, Allison Brooke Morgan
Freedom through Education: The Sunflower County Freedom Project, Susan Rebecca Morrison
Caesar the Leader, William Johnston Oppenheimer
A Study on Bruce, Mississippi, Susan Nicola Penman
Mexico's Cult of Death: An Analysis of the Days of the Dead and its Literary and Artistic Counterparts, Samantha Kay Pettit
A Comparative Analysis of Institutions, Policies, and Vehicle Emissions between the United States and the European Union, William Lee Ramsey III
Rage, Remembrance, Redemption: The Poetic Response to AIDS, Samuel Douglas Ray
Motivating Genocide: Indirect Colonial Rule as a Motivator of Genocidal Ideology and Policy, Trevor Bruce Rockstad
Surviving Hurricane Katrina: A Family Chronicle, Matthew Samuel Sharpe
Human Rights and United States Foreign Policy: Morality vs. Self-Interest, Christopher Franklin Tatum
The Revenge of the Past: Ethnic Nationalism, Soviet Nationalities Policies, and the Collapse of the USSR, Steven Montgomery Wheat
Targeted Gene Expression as a Means of Killing Specific Glial Cells in Drosophila Embryos, Ryan Anthony Yates
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
The Effects of a Pre-Operative Education Program on Anxiety and Cortisol Levels Prior to and Following Surgery, Lou Ann Balducci
Beyond the Binary: Rorty Rushdie, Zachary Mori Bonner
Flannery O'Connor's Depiction of Baptism, The Eucharist, and Marriage: The Convergence of the Orthodox with the Unorthodox, Karen Elizabeth Brickey
Questioning the Banana Republic: A Comparative Case Study of the Implications for Local Workers of the United Fruit Companies' Operations in Ecuador and Colombia, Ryan Kenneth Bullock
Etruscan Fiesole, Kathryn Virginia Cannada
Putting the Pieces Together: The mystery surrounding an Attic Pyxis from the University of Mississippi Robinson Collection, Heather Ryanne Carrillo
Rearranging the Bricks: Poems, Ryan Landry Clark
"The Sad (or Angry) Lament:" An Exposition of African American Struggles with Issues of Gender in Relationships Depicted Through Works of Literature., Bethany Joy Conner
The French Non: The Socialist Party, Relocations, Economic Concerns, Christine Erin Day
The 'Parisian Prowler': The Effects of Modernity on Flanerie and Poetry of Charles Baudelaire, Caroline Turner Dye
Advice’s Effect: The Role of Western Advisors on Russian Privatization Policy, Nicholas James Greene
Sigma Receptor Modulation of Intracellular Calcium in Smooth Muscle, Katy Anna Grisham
The Cost of Wealth: The Saudi Struggle for Sustainable Development., Benjamin Laird Hammond
Winston Churchill and Social Reform, Patrick Winston Kelso
An Examination of the Gender Relations and Causes of Gender Inequality in the Latin American Workforce., Kimberly Lane Kilpatrick
The Effects of Heart Rate Variability, Measures of Impulsivity, and Activity Level in College Students, Laura Katie Laird
A Risk Analysis of Ambrosia Furniture Company, Jared Foster Martin
Fragmentation Within the Modern Basque Nationalist Movement and Its Implications for Basque Cultural Identity, Kathryn Zoe Merrell
The Truth Shall Set You Free: Journalists' Addiction to Truth in the Face of Danger, Margaret O'Brien Middleton
What's Behind Genocide?: The Social Construction of Ethnicity and Mass Killing, Brianna Marie Phillips
China's Growing Unemployment Problems: Past, Present, and Future, Andrew Piletz
Playing The Game Our Own Way: A Social Perspective on Jazz and Blues in Southern Literature, Landon Christian Pollard
Media & Literature: American Cinema and C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Laura B. Rigby
Ils en ont parle, Mary Elizabeth Roe
Studies of Pyrene Fluorescence in Pressed Zeolite Discs, Keith Perry Russell
Myths, Stereotypes and Truths: A Critical Look at the Relationship Between Africans and African-Americans., Jennifer Olufemi Salu
Fraud as an Incentive for Change in Corporate America., Sharon Abimbola Salu
Ecocritism and the Renaissance: A Study in Shakespeare and More, Melissa Levert Smith
Spears for Hire: The Utilization and Motivations of Greek Mercenaries in the Archaic and Classical Ages., Stephen Kyle Tadlock
Cotton and Compromise: Charles Pinckney and the Political Unification of South Carolina 1788-1808, Hunter Glenn Upchurch
The Effect of Carrageenan-Induced Inflammatory Nociception on Distress Vocalizations and the Anxiolytic Efficacy of Drugs in the Chick Separation Stress Paradigm, Ralph Brooks Vance Jr.
The Whole Shebang: A Directorial Analysis of the Production of Rich Orloff's One Act Produced at the University of Mississippi The 8th and 9th of March 2006, Jennifer Theresa Webre
The Treatment of Medicine in Literature, Nicholas Shawn Whipple
Women in Informal Work: An Examination of the Position of Workers in the Latin American Informal Sector, Caroline Elizabeth Wicker
Pharmacological Dissociation of Anxiety Model in the Chick Separation Stress Paradigm, Robert Thomas Wicks
Country is…The Portrayal of Southern Culture in Country Music, Allison Ann Worley
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Size Exclusion Chromatography: Estimation of Protein Shape, Gregg Oyemachi Anazia
Spectacle of Self in Medieval Romance: Pagentry, Performance, and Clothing, Crady Yerger Bobo
The Value of an Arts Rich Education: Why Every School Should Teach the Arts, Holly Louise Buntin
Correlates of Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome in African-American Adolescents, TaSheitha Vontre Butler
A Study of the Effects of the 2004 Tsunami on Coral Reefs and Fisheries of the Indian Ocean, Joseph Lane Campbell
Corticosterone Response in a Learned Helplessness Model of Depression, Courtney M. Cartwright
H-1B Worker Visas: Past, Present, and Future, Keith Gaines Drago
Synthesis and Characterization of Nickel(II) Coordination Complexes with Hydrotrispyrazolylborato and Dithiobenzoato Ligands, Brian Matthew Enggano
Collegiate Athletics Recruiting: Marketing a New Game Plan, Emily Douglas Evans
Sines, Cosines, and Conjugates, Caleb John Hallauer
An Examination of Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, and Information Retrieval Systems and Their Applications, Jeffrey Allen Holloway
Colored Red: A Memoir and Memoriam, Jordan Charles Hooper
Religion and Support of Democracy: Protestantism, Catholicism, and the Support for Democracy in Mexico, Sara Jolly
An Early Evaluation of the Impact of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the Reports Issued by Public Accounting Firms, Austin Thomas Jones
Baseball in The Big Easy: An Analysis of Professional Baseball in New Orleans, Louisiana, Christopher Emile Kieffer
Ginger: The Making of a Redhead Magazine, Carlie Jean Kollath
Congress, Religion, and the Cold War Consensus from 1952-1956, Alexandra Clark Layfield
Engineering Genetic Networks to Measure Real Time Repression by λ Cro in vivo, Zachary Louis LeBlanc
Differences in Convention: Serious vs. Comic in Turn-of-the-Century British Literature (1885-1915), Christopher Michael Mossing
Spectroscopic Studies of Site 3 Mutants of Calmodulin, Shakirat Omolara Oyetunji
The Effects of Physiological Arousal on Measures of Upper Extremity Position Sense in Healthy Young Adults, Melissa Angelique Parker
The Relationship between Religion/Spirituality and Healing as Demonstrated by Falun Gong and Christian Science, Maribeth Porter
The Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on the Auditing Profession, Samantha Marie Rayburn
Six Middle Americans Respond to Thomas Frank's Question, 'What's the Matter With Kansas?' An Analytical Commentary on Populism and American Political Life, Rebecca Ruth Reyenga
Picric Acid Degradation in Sterilized Sediments from the Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant, Minden, Louisiana, Stephanie Kimberly Rice
Ecotourism in Costa Rica: A Study of the Viabilities and Impacts of Three Ecotourism Models, Corey Harmon Rogers
Civil War Medicine: Crisis and Heroism in the Medical Profession, 1861 - 1865, Diana Frances Semmes
Perfect Order: A Collection of Short Stories, Virginia Lyons Shields
Freedom of the Press in a Post-September 11 World: A Global Perspective, Melissa Erin Sindelar
News Media Consumption and Perceptions of Poverty Within a Sample at the University of Mississippi, Erin M. Smith
Divination: A Collection of Poetry, Elizabeth Davenport Stephenson
Mixing the Old with the New: Magazines in the 21st Century, Brandie D. Thomas
Self-Discovery by Self-Destruction, Raney-Mills Turner
New Methods of Marketing and Manufacturing for a Startup Optical Internet Retailer, William Sharp Whitaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Comparative Population Dynamics of Freshwater Dinoflagellates of the Genera Peridinium and Peridiniopsis, Andy Canion
A Psychometric Investigation of Measures of Meaning, Gratitude, and Psychological Health, Natalie Lynn Cathcart
The Daughter’s Struggle for Definition both with and Against the Mother in Achieving Selfhood in Five Contemporary American Novels, Camille Leigh Comer
The Effects of a Distractor on Reaction Time Tasks in Rats: Mode vs. Distribution Skew, Karen Melissa Damico
Development of Common Law in Civil Law Socieites, Chasity Shea Davis
The Role of the Declining Status and Increasing Pluralism of the Catholic Church in the Formation of Religious Generation Gaps in Spain, 1936-1990, Allison Rene Ellzey
The Use of DNA Microarrays to Compare the Gene Expression Profiles of Paclitaxel and Acetic Acid 2,2'-thiobis, bis [[(2-hydroxyphynyl) methylene]hydrazid] in A549 Cells: Part 1, Jennifer Diane Ellzey
Ignorance and Want in the Works of Charles Dickens, Emily Katherine Ferris
European Lingua Franca? Germany's Relationship with English in the late Twentieth Century, Anna Elise Fleming
Personality Effects on Perception of Emotion from Audible Cues, Megan Diane French
Faulkner's Wake: The Emergence of Literary Oxford, John Louis Fuller
Networking Is not Everything: The Factors that Led to the Eventual Decline of the Brigate Rosse, Courtney Janos Geraci
The Emergence of a Middle Class among Turks in Germany: A Move toward Cultural Pluralism, Eden Blythe Hegwood
Magic Hour's Niche in the Marketplace: The Process of Launching a Photography Magazine, Summer Anne Hill
The Role of Women in Gothic Literature, Madeline Jean Holbert
A Number Theoretical Approach to Public Key Cryptography, Nathan Morley Holt
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: A Comprehensive Understanding, Needs Assessment, and Development of Intervention, Jacquelyn Jean Lee
Effect of Country of Origin Awareness on Attitudes Toward Foreign Made Products, Natalia Lentino