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Parents and Pamphlets: Unraveling the Mysteries of Parent Responses to Pediatric Handouts
(2014-12)Written handouts are usually provided to parents at routine pediatric visits, but little is known about how parents use this written medical information. To explore this topic, handouts provided by the American Academy ... -
Plato, the Other, and the Freedom to Love
(2010-12)Plato's Symposium is divided into several speeches; two, by Aristophanes and Socrates, are considered here. These classic views on love extend into the modern era by way of philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Bertrand ... -
Post-Event Urban Flood Mapping by Amateur Aerial Photography and Assessment of Potential Damage: Case of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
(2011-12)Several communities are so focused on the positive benefits of a rising economy that they ignore the negative effects of the urbanization process, such as the exacerbation of flooding by increasing impermeable surfaces. ... -
Poverty Rates and Spending on Public Education at the K-12 Level: Is There a Correlation?
(2007-12-14)Many academics and policymakers argue that increases in spending on public education will reduce poverty. The goal of this paper is to evaluate whether increases in current spending on public education at the K-12 level ... -
The Power Complex: The WSU System's Response to Dissent in the Late 1960s
(2009-11)In the late 1960s, liberal and radical students enrolled in the Wisconsin State University (WSU) System coalesced into organizations to challenge the policies of the System's administration. One of these liberal-left ... -
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican and Caribbean Ballgames: An Example of Cultural Diffusion
(2012-12)Upon examining the archaeological record and the historical accounts of pre-Columbian cultures in Mesoamerica and in the islands of the Caribbean Sea, one sees evidence of similar ballgames played in both regions. The ... -
Premeditated Causes of the 2002 Gujarat Pogrom: A Comprehensive Analysis of Contributing Factors that Led to the Manifestation of the Riots
(2012-12)In the last 30 years, the nature of communalism in India has changed significantly. This increase in violence is commonly attributed to the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); however, there are other factors that ... -
Preservation and Immortatlity: The Transition From Oral to Written Culture in Iceland.
(2007-12-18)The following article comes from Dr. Barbara Crass’s Anthropology 300: The Viking World class during the Spring 2006 semester at UW Oshkosh. It is intended to provide insight on the transition from an oral to a written ... -
Prolonging the War for a Permanent Peace: Wisconsin Soldiers and the 1864 Election.
(2008-06-11)The main focus of this essay was to find out what the motivations were for Civil War soldiers from Wisconsin in their choice for president in the 1864 election. The decision was a difficult one: they could either stay ... -
The Pursuit of True Freedom: School Desegregation in Racine, Wisconsin
(2011-12)Throughout its existence, the United States had been inundated by racial conflict. Following the 1954 Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, school segregation became one of the most controversial ... -
Reds and Patriots: The Alliance of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party
(University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Office of Student Research and Creative Activity, 2017-12)During the apartheid era in South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) was allied with the South African Communist Party (SACP), presenting a united opposition to the white minority government. After apartheid was ... -
Rieske Iron-Sulfur Isoforms in a Unicellular Cyanobacterium
(2007-12-18)Rieske iron-sulfur proteins (ISPs) are integrally involved in photosynthetic electron transport chains and thus closely linked to energy production and its regulation in cyanobacteria and plant chloroplasts. The cyanobacterium ... -
Robert Venturi and His Contributions to Postmodern Architecture.
(2008-06-11)This paper examines the major contributions of architect Robert Venturi to the field of Postmodern architecture during the 1970s. Many of Venturi’s buildings were small in stature, designed for a specific location and ... -
Self-Similarity of the 11-Regular Partition Function
(University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Office of Student Research and Creative Activity, 2017-12)The partition function counts the number of ways a positive integer can be written as the sum of a non-increasing sequence of positive integers. These sums are known as partitions. The famous mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan ... -
The Significance of Community Capital in Generating and Upholding a Local Food Movement
(2017-05-12)This study uses a qualitative approach to investigate factors motivating restaurant owners in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to source their menu items locally and, secondly, farmers around Oshkosh to provide them with products. I ... -
Single-Sex Education in Wisconsin
(2012-12)Single-sex classes in America's K-12 public educational system have been on the rise in the past decade in an effort to close academic gaps between male and female achievement. Studies of single-sex classes in several ... -
Stand Up and Speak Up: Effectiveness of Web-Based Bystander Intervention on a College Campus
(2017-05-12)The goal of bystander intervention is to provide college students with the necessary means to recognize an assaultive situation and gain the confidence to step in. The current study examined the effectiveness of a web-based ... -
Studying Complex Star-Forming Fields: Rosette Nebula and Monoceros Loop
(2010-12)An investigation that presents a new analysis of the structure of the Northern Monoceros field was recently completed at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UW Oshkosh. Northern Monoceros is arguably the most complex ... -
Synthesis of Pterocarpan Cabenegrin A-II.
(2007-12-18)Cabenegrin A-II is a molecule found in small quantities in the South American plant commonly called Portuguese Snake Herb, and is useful as a snake and spider anti-venom. Cabenegrin A-II occurs in these plants as a mixture ... -
Theology, Psychology, and Politics: The Holy Trinity in Morrison's Beloved
(2011-12)This essay dissects the previously unstudied allusion to the Catholic Holy Trinity in Toni Morrison's Beloved and explains how her purpose in using this allusion, like the Trinity itself, is threefold. Excerpts from the ...