Northern Michigan University Master's Theses
This is an electronic repository of the intellectual output of Northern Michigan University Master's graduates and provides an organized way to preserve theses in a digital format .
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For your convenience, the NMU Theses collection has also been organized into departmental collections. You may browse these sub-collections by clicking the links below:
Theses from 2012
Cry, the Beloved Contradiction: Paton’s Colonial Legacy, Cameron Mahoney
In Mirrors and Through Windows, Laura Mead
The Anthem of Eddie Fortune, Jordan R. Meyers
Gravity Tender, Darrin Moir
In the Middle: North of 45, Susan A. Morgan
CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE 18TH CENTURY: A COMPARISON OF THE NOSOLOGIES OF CARL LINNAEUS, FRANCOIS BOSSIER DE SAUVAGES, RUDOLPHO VOGEL AND WILLIAM CULLEN, Heather Ann Munsche
A RELATIONSIHP BETWEEN AN ATHLETE’S LEVEL OF COMPETITION AND THEIR ABILITY TO TOLERATE PAIN, Cora Rose Ohnstad
METAFICTION AND B. S. JOHNSON’S ALBERT ANGELO, Olivia Maureen Olson
EFFECTS OF 1α,25-DIHYDROXYVITAMIN D3 (CALCITRIOL) ON CULTURED GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME CELLS, Justine M. Pinskey
EFFECTS OF VARYING LEVELS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS’ SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE RETENTION, Christy L. Provost
MICHIGAN PRISONER REENTRY INITIATIVE AND SEX OFFENDERS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF A SEX OFFENDER TRANSITION PROGRAM, Lynda Rayburn-James
USE OF THE PHRASE “THAT’S SO GAY” AS A HETERONORMATIVE MICROAGGRESSION, Mary K. Ross
A SEARCH FOR AN ENDEMIC POPULATION OF IXODES SCAPULARIS IN SELECT AREAS OF PICTURED ROCKS NATIONAL LAKESHORE, Steven J. Schaar
WORKING TOWARD A PEDAGOGY OF AWARENESS: MULTIMODALITY AND UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING IN THE FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION CLASSROOM, Virginia M. Schminke-Yaussy
THE BRONTЁS AND THE BEASTS: NEWLY AWAKENED SYMPATHIES AND SHIFTING REPRESENTATIONS OF OTHER-THAN-HUMAN ANIMALS IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE, Teresa Sherman-Jones
INHIBITION OF MIR26A MICRORNA RESTORES SENSITIVITY TO TEMOZOLOMIDE, Angela G. Stewart
Falls, Luke Anthony Thominet
EFFECTS OF PD149163 ON WORKING MEMORY IN A DELAYED NON-MATCH TO POSITION TASK, Jennifer L. Thornton
WILLIAM BLAKE’S VISIONS FOR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND BEYOND, Lauren Vander Lind
The Lakeland Fires, Andrea E. Wuorenmaa
Theses from 2011
Crime and Education: College Students and Their Relationship with the Clery Act, Matthew Robert Bush
Mothering in Prison: Maintaining Relationships through Prison Programs, Shawna Bussone
Can the Headsprout Early Reading Program Improve Reading Skills in a Head Start Preschool Classroom?, Tracy Newton Cadeau
The Effect of Birth Order Perceptions on the Evaluation of Personality, Emily E. Case
EFFECTS OF PD149163 ON SPATIAL WORKING AND REFERENCE MEMORY IN RATS PERFORMING A RADIAL ARM MAZE TASK, Maureen Suzanne Donegan
‘HELPLESSLY CULPABLE’: THE OTHER AND THE ETHICAL RELATIONSHIP IN IAN MCEWAN’S SATURDAY, Elizabeth M. Faucett
Wise Woman Mandala, Mary Angela Formolo
NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: A CASE STUDY OF THE PERCEPTIONS OF FACULTY SEEKING A BALANCE OF TEACHING, SCHOLARSHIP AND SERVICE, Erica L. Goff Ms.
American Limbo, Cassidy Lachmann Hart
THE EFFECTS OF THE NEUROTENSIN-1 RECEPTOR AGONIST PD149163 ON VISUAL SIGNAL DETECTION TASK PERFORMANCE IN RATS, Todd M. Hillhouse
Love in the Time of Cyberspace, Joseph L. Janca
Under a Rock: Essays of Events Unearthed, Overlooked, and Pushed Aside, Timothy B. Johnston
PREVENTING RECIDIVISM IN MARQUETTE COUNTY, MICHIGAN: WHAT WORKS, Katherine Frances Kubont
METHYLATION AND PATTERNS OF EVOLUTION IN IMPRINTED GENES IN THE MOUSE, Tori A. LaFleur
MIGRATION OF MURINE SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE ISOLATED NEUROSPHERES, Danny C. LeBert
EFFECTS OF PATCH SIZE, ISOLATION, AND HABITAT CHARACTERISTICS ON SMALL MAMMAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN THE GRAND SABLE DUNES OF PICTURED ROCKS NATIONAL LAKESHORE, Sarah Lou Malick
Floating Away from the Moon, Krista Mann
Choir Practice, Terri L. Martin
Buoys, Erica Marais Mead
Fallout: Part One, Meredith A, Neuman
COGNITIVE DEFICITS IN MENTAL ROTATION IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE, Debra L. Nyman
A TWO-YEAR TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL INVESTIGATION OF QUESTING TICKS IN MARQUETTE COUNTY, MICHIGAN, Tiffany J. Opalka
COMPARISON OF COUNTERMOVEMENT JUMP AND LANDING KNEE ANGLE: 2D VIDEO VS ELECTROGONIOMETRY, Erich J. Petushek
Long Walk on a Strange Road, Thomas E. Rich
AMERICAN BEAVER FORAGING ECOLOGY: PREDATION AVOIDANCE, DIET, AND FORAGE AVAILABILITY, William J. Severud
THE COLLECTED LETTERS AND UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS OF KARIN PANKREEZ, NOVELIST ASPIRANT, Jason Shrontz
Acts of Nature, Rebecca Tavernini
PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO DOUBLE-POLE ERGOMETRY: STANDING VS. SITTING, Jodi Lynn Tervo
METHODS TO INCREASE TEMOZOLOMIDE SENSITIVITY IN GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME: MANIPULATING PARP-1 AND MGMT, Vanessa Loraine Thibado
Theses from 2010
Effects of Gender and Role Selection in Cooperative Learning Groups on Science Inquiry Achievement, Maria Geralyn Affhalter
Spiritual and Material Crosses in the Works of John Donne, Angela Aliff
Junk City, Issac J. Coleman
Grizzly Heaven, Robert R. Cole
The Crown of Prayer and Praise: Worship in Donne's LA Corona, Erin E. Colgrove
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE R&R CONSENSUS REGION USING IN SILICO MOLECULAR MODELING, Nethaniah Dorh
Balore: The Jewel of the Mountain, Jeffrey C. Evans
Shades of Clear, Daniel A. Gocella
HEADBANGING BY PIGEONS: A SYSTEMATIC REPLICATION AND EXTENSION OF AN ANIMAL MODEL OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, Allison H. Hahn
INVESTIGATING THE KOLB LEARNING STYLE INVENTORY’S IPSATIVE SCORES USING SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL AND LIKERT SCALING, Grace Eleanor Jamieson
A Study Examining the Relationship Between High School Dropouts and Criminality at the Ojibway Correctional Facility, Scott Jette
THE POST-FREUDIAN CASEBOOK NEURONOVEL, Krysthol Kauffman
EFFECTS OF PD149163 ON MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTICAL DOPAMINE RELEASE IN RATS, Amber L. LaCrosse
HAMSTRING MUSCLE ACTIVATION DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GENDER WHILE PERFORMING SINGLE LEG LANDINGS, Matthew Lewis
Presidents & Assholes, Heather Luebke
EFFECTS OF MOOD AND EMPATHY ON THE PERCEPTION OF EMOTION IN PHOTOGRAPHIC FACES, Justin P. Madigan
Factors Affecting Predation on Wood Turtle (Glyptemys Insculpta) Nests in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Jenny Lynn Rutherford
A MULTI-SCALED HABITAT ANALYSIS OF LICHEN COMMUNITIES ON GRANITE ROCK IN THE HURON MOUNTAINS, MARQUETTE COUNTY, MICHIGAN, Ryne Douglas Rutherford
Tiger God, Aubrey Ryan
DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS PROPERTIES OF PD149163, Candice J. Schuck
COGNITIVE DEFICITS AND BLOOD SUGAR CONTROL IN PERSONS WITH DIABETES, Peder Henrik Seglund
NON-INVASIVE GENETIC SAMPLING IN THE ANALYSIS OF WHITE-TAILED DEER POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS, Grant Montgomery Slusher
INFLUENCE OF LEARNING STYLES, GENDER, SELF-RATED COMPUTER EXPERIENCE, AND AGE ON PREFERENCE FOR COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING VERSUS TRADITIONAL LEARNING, Sherrry A. Smith-LaBrash
RURAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF CHALLENGES, ASSISTANCE REQUIRED, AND SUPPORT FOR POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, Joseph R. Zerbst
Theses from 2009
Venus Spinning, Tara Acton
Cease to Exit, Eric Edwin-Joseph Benac
On Superior's Southern Shore: Land and Identity in Selected Works of Louise Erdrich and Jim Harrison, Kyle A. Bladow
Phantom Pains, Cynthia Anne Brandon
The Price of Water, Ajani Sebastian Burrell
Effects of Collaborative Action Research and Biology Journaling Notebooks on High School Student Achievement, Elsa Joan Clark Clement
Myth as Redemption in Three Canadian Novels, Elizabeth A. Crachiolo
INTENSE ACOUSTIC STIMULATION DOES NOT AFFECT SUBSEQUENT VERTICAL JUMP PERFORMANCE IN HUMANS, Benjamin A. Crockett
Surviving the Reservation, Rochelle Lynn Dale
A Thicker Kind of Water, Chad R. Dobson
Mother Tongue, Amanda Love Giracca
FURTHEST FROM I, Anthony S. Gurriero
EFFECT OF ANTIGENIC SITE MUTATIONS ON THE BINDING SPECIFICITY OF AN ANTI-HEMAGGLUTININ ANTIBODY TO H3N2 INFLUENZA VIRUS ISOLATES, Juliana Liambaya Hagembe
ELECTRONIC PEER REVIEW IN FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION, Samantha A. Hilton
EFFECTS OF TEACHER-DIRECTED AND STUDENT-CENTERED INSTRUCTION ON SCIENCE COMPREHENSION OF EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS, Christopher Jackson
ROLE OF 5-HT1A RECEPTORS IN THE ABILITY OF IDAZOXAN AND RACLOPRIDE TO BLOCK CONDITIONED AVOIDANCE RESPONDING, Sarah M. Jacobson
The Spiral Unwinding, Lynne M. Johnson
WHY CAN’T THEY WRITE RIGHT? TEACHING GRAMMAR IN THE COMPOSITION CLASSROOM, Sarah J. Johnson
Sacrificial Luann, Michelle Kimball
Belial's Daughter, Roseanna M. Larrin
Pigeon Solo, Thomas Russell Laverty II
Not Lost in Translation, Sharon Madjar
Distant Family, Luke A. Marsy
RICHARD WRIGHT‟S REVISION OF THE JIM CROW MYTHOLOGY IN UNCLE TOM’S CHILDREN, Michael Denny Martin
Sexual Attitudes and Perceptions of Gendered Sexual Roles from the Perspective of Urban South African Women, Duduzile Phindile Mashinini