College of Arts and Sciences Theses
This collection includes Cleveland State University College of Arts and Sciences theses dating from December 2007 to the present which are also included in the OhioLINK Electronic Theses & Dissertation Center.
Theses published before 2014 can be found in the Cleveland State University Archives or the Northeast Regional Library Depository through OhioLINK.
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Young Ghosts, Michael Aeneas Crifasi
On the Brink of the Waters of Life and Truth, We are Miserably Dying: Ralph Waldo Emerson as a Predecessor to Deconstruction and Postmodernism, Michael A. Deery
The Examination of Threat and Affiliative Tendencies Through Pronoun Usage in Relation to Consumer Evaluations, Sarah M. Digioia
Dependent Personality Inventory-Revised (DPI-R): Incorporating a Dimensional Model in the Assessment of Dependent Personality Disorder, Laura A. Gluszik
The Impact of a Mindful State on Ego-Salience and Self-Control, Robert J. Goodman
The Soldier's Perspective in A Rumor Of War, Kyla Haime
Multicultural Music Education: Second-Grade Students' Responses to Unfamiliar Musics, Lisa M. Heinrich
Innovativeness and Online Shopping Adoption, Blake Edward Hodges
Final Fantasy X and Video Game Narrative: Re-Imagining the Quest Story, Mark Ivan Host
Factors Affecting Student Motivation Related to Enrollment and Retention in Music And Performing Ensembles Outside of The School Environment, Craig T. Klonowski
Combined Pharmacotherapy for the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Recovery of Function Following Prefrontal Cortex Controlled Cortical Impact in Rats, Abby Nicole Kyser
Does Optimal Distinctiveness Contribute to Group Polarization?, Joo Hwan Lee
Seeing Through The Glass: Psychoanalysis and J.D. Salinger, Noelle Marie Madore
Developing New Indices for the Identification of Poor Effort, Scott A. Magnuson
Examining the Role of Talker-Specific Details in the Perception of Words Spoken by Famous Talkers, Alisa M. Maibauer
The Effect of Priming a Thin Ideal on the Subsequent Perception of Conceptually Related Body Image Words, Teresa A. Markis
Preliminary Study of the Narcissistic Personality Questionnaire, Ethan H. Motter
Reading Masculinity in Virginia Woolf's The Waves, David Michael Mraz
Plasma Biomarkers for Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Jiaqian Ni
Chanus Return: The Reclamation of Bengali Identity, Mamta Roy
Rare Bird and Other Stories, Lisa J. Sharon
Myf5 Does not Induce Apoptosis in Skeletal Myoblasts but is Regulated by Oncogenic Ras Expression, Alexander Phillip Talarico
Genre and Gender in Charles Bukowski'S Notes of a Dirty Old Man, Kallisto J. Vimr
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Building in the Styles of Their Time: Fugman, Cramer and Uhlrich, Rebecca L. Barrett
Examining the Social and Emotional Impact of Substance Use on the Users' Family Members, Steven Phillip Beyer
Of Earth and Sky: Lev Tolstoy as Poet and Prophet, Alan Cliffe
Prion Protein as an Infectious Agent of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, Wioleta Cyranek
The Influence of Humor on Approach and Avoidance Motivation, Stuart Jenkins Daman
The Effect of Priming Death Anxiety on Future Time Orientation and Procrastination, Elizabeth A. Deyling
Validation of the PNS-Q-SELF and the PNS-Q-INFORMANT for the Assessment of Insight in Schizophrenia, Jaime Lauren Deyling
Sarah Kane's Cruelty: Subversive Performance and Gender, Rebecca L. Dluback
Destruction in Search of Hope: Baudrillard, Simulation, and Chuck Palahniuk's Choke, Kurt D. Fawver
The Role of Acceptance and Pain Intensity in Chronic Pain Disability and Physical Functioning, Lisa Lukwinski Ferguson
The Effects of Opiod and Benzodiazepine Weaning on Cognitive Ability in the Context of a Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program, Daniel M. Fishman
The Effect of Wetland Size and Surrounding Land Use on Wetland Quality Along an Urbanization Gradient in the Rocky River Watershed, Marilyn S. Gunsch
A Contextual Examination of St. Anselm's Ontological Argument, Amanda C. Hammill
Sex, Gender, and Androgyny in Virginia Woolf's Mock-Biographies "Friendships Gallery" and Orlando, Sarah Hastings
An Analysis of "the Real," as Reflected in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Beverly Rose Joyce
An Insight into GAIT Complex Mediated Translational Silencing, Purvi Kapasi
Visit Versus Purchase, Comparing Internet Shopper Clusters, Farahnaz L. Khan
The Influence of Customer Relationship Management to Customer Satisfaction and Retention in Propery and Casualty Insurance, Brooke Ellen Lyttle
The Impact of the American Community Band on Music Education, Rodney L. Miller
Minority Student Perceptions of the Veterinary Profession: Factors Influencing Choices of Health Careers, Evan M. Morse
Optimization of the Conditions Necessary to Show Binding of the Plasmodium Yoelii Rhop-3 Rhoptry Protein to Mouse Erythrocytes, Latoya T. Myrie
Subverting Blackface and the Epistemology of American Identity in John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs, Amy Rosby
World War I Posters and the Female Form, Laura M. Rother
A Diatom Phosphorus Inference Model for 30 Freshwater Lakes in NE Ohio and NW Pennsylvania, Kyle C. Scotese
Old Beginnings: the Re-Inscription of Masculine Domination at the New Millennium in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Lacie M. Semenovich
Simulation in Dave Eggers's Memoir, Judit Slager
Pop-Culture Artifacts, Ellyn M. Stepanek
Relationship Between Believed Causes of Depression and Social Distance, Samantha Jean Tomsick
Study of 3'-Untranslated Region of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase and Identification of Other Targets of GAITpathway, Sirisha Vadlamani
Employing Strategy in Measures of Executive Functioning, Amanda A. Yocum
Religiosity and Successful Aging, Jessica L. York
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Characterizatin of a Type II Metallothionein from Helianthus Annuus Using Recombinant DNA Techniques, Sridhar Bhogavalli
Characterization of a Type II Metallothionein from Helianthus Annuus Using Recombinant DNA Techniques, Sridhar Bhogavalli
The Diversified Online Shopper: Website Feature Preferences and Individual Characteristics, Shohag Dey
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales and Rescue in Sandra Cisneros's the House on Mango Street, Christina Marie Frank
Dependent Personality Inventory (DPI): a Scale to Assess Dependent Personality Subtypes Based on DSM-IV-TR Criteria, Nicole M. Huber
The Effect of DBS Settings on Neuropsychological Functioning in Patients with Parkinson's Disease, Kathleen M. Mash
Characterization of Polymorphic and Blended Drugs by Physical-Analytical Properties, Rajgopal Munigeti
Candida: Shaw's Presentation of the Roman Catholic "Other", Kenneth Rademaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
The Universality of the Conceptual Understanding of Leadership, Lisa P. Gaynier
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Violence and Vigilantism in Modern Irish Literature, Janet Carmichael
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
The Euclid Heights Allotment: a Palimpsest of the Nineteenth Century Search for Real Estate Value in Cleveland's East End, William C. Barrow
