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The Wizarding Words Of J. K. Rowling: Literary Merit In The Harry Potter Series, Brenna Sherrill

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Since hitting bookshelves in 1997, the Harry Potter series has taken the popular culture world by storm in an unprecedented way, breaking sales records for both books and films, and dramatically increasing readership among young readers. Despite its immense and unique success, this series, like many other examples of pop culture, doesn’t often receive the credit it deserves with respect to its literary merits. However, it is undeniable that the Potter books reflect many of the traits found in all great works of literature, including complex character development and abundant literary devices that elevate the intellectual level of the series. …

Herbal And Holistic Medicine In Latin America, William H. Lyle

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

A variety of herbal and holistic remedies were used in pre-Columbian cultures, especially in Aztec and Incan cultures. Many different herbs were used to provide medical attention to patients directly, while other herbs were used to supplement shaman^[1] medicine, which was particularly common in Inca culture. While there is little scientific basis for shamanism, as a viable healing option in modern culture, most herbal remedies had active chemical ingredients that could be or are used today to treat similar symptoms, and, in some cases, are being applied in different scenarios as well. The methods of usage, active chemicals, and …

Better Emergency Care For The Deaf Population Through Improved Communication, Noelle Anderson

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This piece outlines the elements that were involved in my project designed to improve communication between the Deaf population of Bowling Green, KY and the Fire Department, Police Department, and Medical Center. This was done by placing the burden of facilitating communication on the emergency response teams through creating training for them in essential American Sign Language (ASL) signs as specified by the Deaf community. These ASL signs were collected from the Deaf Community through standardized interviews and then utilized to create a training video, poster charts, and brochures.

White Space: An Overlooked Element Of Design, Samantha Coates

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

There are many different elements used to enhance visual appeal in Advertising and Graphic design. While all elements of design are important, arranging all of these components effectively, affects the overall visual appeal to viewers. The use of space may be thought of as the single, most important element of design. How things are arranged contributes to how effective an advertisement is to its audience. While space is important, it is also vastly taken for granted, specifically in the form of “white space.” Whitespace is important to visual appeal in many ways. This includes readability, viewer perception of brand image, …

Hispanic Health Initiative: Creating A Sustainable Health Fair For An Immigrant Community, Chaz Arnold

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Previous demographic and social interest research conducted in Bowling Green, Kentucky has prompted concern for access to quality healthcare for immigrant populations, specifically for the Hispanic community. The missions of the preliminary investigation and subsequent implementation of a sustainable health fair for the Spanish-speaking community were to assess the primary health concerns that many Hispanics face and offer long-term solutions to collectively resolve these health issues. Preliminary investigation involved researching population-specific health statistics in order to quantify prevalence of certain conditions which were, in turn, prioritized in terms of necessity to address. Further research reflected personal concern from the target …

Visual Tension In Graphic Design, Raven Heinstein

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

My thesis explores the use of visual tension in various graphic design areas and works. It delves into the purposes of creating visual tension and in which instances it can be most effective, as well as most ineffective. It discusses the use and creation of visual tension with design hierarchy, rhythm and dynamics, symmetry and asymmetry, negative and positive space, color relationships, and typographical design. I will define visual tension, discuss its relevance and significance, and show informative examples. I'm using mainly secondary research in the form of textbooks and examples by other designers, but I have also included a …

For The Love Of Things: An Exploration In The Art Of Storytelling, Georgina Kleinhelter

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This project challenges the perception that are for younger audiences, as well as the belief that illustration is an extension of literary work, rather than a formula for convening a distinct story at once related to, and separate from, literary companion pieces. The project is comprised of six sections. The first half is made up of: an artist statement explaining the intention and influences behind the print series, an essay exploring my fine art influences, and an essay focusing on my literary influences. The second section is the series of prints, the collection of short stories, and the conclusion. The …

Les Villes Jumelées: Finding Bowling Green A Francophone Sister City, Sarah Kinnicutt

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The Villes Jumelées Project seeks to encourage the study of French language and culture in Bowling Green by creating a relationship with a francophone country. To do this, we have paired with a French-speaking high school in Porrentruy, Switzerland. WKU students of French are participating in virtual exchanges via a class webpage. Eventually, a cultural exchange of regional products and perhaps historical documents will take place. Ultimately, this project could serve as the groundwork for a new sister city relationship between Bowling Green and Porrentruy. As Western Kentucky University strives to become a university with international reach, it is important …

Fearless Girl: A M-M-Memoir, Rachel Hoge

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This is a coming-of-age memoir about stuttering, and the temptation to misuse alcohol to achieve fluent speech. This is also about relationships, impactful ones—ones that have influenced my stutter, for better or for worse.

The Emergence Of Believer's Baptism As A Political Event, Jamey Yadon

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

During the Protestant Reformation, the most well-known reformers left the classical church-state relationship largely unchanged. The early Anabaptists, who called for much faster changes than the Reformation’s leaders were attempting, argued for a separation of the church from the wider culture. The radical reformers were also the first to argue for the practice of believer’s baptism—that the church should only baptize those who had made a personal commitment to Christianity. Studied as a part of the historical narrative, the emergence of believer’s baptism is charged with political meaning. This project is an exploration of that significance: namely, that believer’s baptism’s …

It's A Long Story: A Collection Of Short Stories, Anna Beth Gillon

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

According to editor Alan Rinzler, “Short story collections are big business. Thousands of anthologies are in print with many more published each year. A quick look at Amazon shows 29,000 story collections listed.” Rinzler estimates that 3,500 of these are single-author collections. (Rinzler, 2009)[1]. With all of those short stories in print, it is no wonder that short story writing remains the focus of many university-level creative writing courses. Short stories are relatively quick and easy to read, and many are filled with insight, meaning, and some thrilling twists. Over the course of my college career, I have …

Sons Of The American Revolution - Charles Duncan Chapter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection MSS 540. Administrative papers, a detailed history (1967-1986), minutes and agendas for meetings, correspondence, newsletters, financial records, and photographs for the Charles Duncan chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Lawrence (Laurence) Family (Sc 2838), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2838. Genealogy chart on rolled paper that was cut into sections for the Lawrence (Laurence) family and allied families of Virginia and Kentucky. The chart begins with Edward Laurence (d. 1786) of Fauquier County, Virginia. A portion of this family moved to southeastern Warren County, Kentucky in the nineteenth century.

Richey, Nancy Carol, B. 1959 - Collector (Sc 2837), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2837. “Freedom, Kentucky Story,” a narrative of John Robert Miller primarily concerning his grandmother’s family and life in Black Walnut Barren County, Kentucky. Miller explains that the geography of the area offered hiding places for escaped slaves on their way to the North; as a consequence, the community was renamed Freedom in 1866.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 89, No. 54, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Crumbie, Trey. Almost There – Downing University Center
• Williams, Joanna. Campus Undergoes Culture Shift with Downing University Center Renovation
• Harrison, Taylor. Challenges Loom with Student Health Services Privatization
• Prochazka, Tyler. Kentucky Retains Majority of Gatton Academy of Mathematics & Science Graduates Due to Financial Barriers
• Conniff, Ben. Spiderman Swings & Misses in New Sequel – Movies
• Pait, Ryan. 10 TV Episodes to Help You Not Do Anything – Television
• Allen, Whitney. Shave to Save Hosted in Honor of Greek Brother – Farmhouse Fraternity, Chris Hancock, Charity
• Rogers, Shelby. Circus …

Ua12/2/1 2014 Graduation Special Section, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special graduation edition of the College Heights Herald.

• Keyana Boka - Student Government Association
• Joanna Williams - College Heights Herald
• Paige Freeman - Spirit Masters
• Katie Honadle - Talisman
• Gary Ransdell
• Yulizza Henao Barragan – Latin American Students
• Then & Now - 2010, 2014

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 89, No. 53, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Burton, Kristina. WKU Costume Shop Brings Theatre to Life – Theatre & Dance
• Burton, Kristina. Center Stage – Theatre & Dance
• Lawson, Anna. Blind Student Finds Comfort on the Hill – Sam Moore
• Prochazka, Tyler. U.S. Department of Agriculture Grant Funds Agriculture Department Research on Food Safety
• Marsupial Awards
• Hunton, Ryan. Spiritual Health Means Finding Your Purpose
• Boyd, Kayla. Film Festival Returns to WKU – Journalism & Broadcasting
• Corum, John. Vice President Assistant to Retire – Judith Wimpee – Facilities & Campus Services
• Clark, Mike. Learning from the Best …

Neither (Fully) Here Nor There: Negotiation Narratives Of Nashville's Kurdish Youth, Stephen Ross Goddard

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Nashville, Tennessee, is home to nearly fifteen thousand ethnic Kurds. They have come in four distinct groups over the course of two decades to escape the hardship and horror of brutal central government policies, some directed toward their extinction. Many of that number are young people who were infants or toddlers when they were whisked away to the safety of temporary way stations prior to their arrival in the United States. What that means is that these youth have spent the majority of their formative years within the context of the American culture. This thesis is a study of how …

Vanguard Of The Right: The Department Of Education Battle, 1978-1979, Logan Michael Scisco

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Satisfying a campaign pledge to the National Education Association (NEA), President Jimmy Carter pushed for a federal Department of Education in 1978 and 1979. In the ensuing legislative battle, Carter confronted opposition from states’ rights, social, and religious conservatives that were beginning to form the nucleus of the New Right in the Republican Party. Using divisive racial and religious issues, these conservatives tried, and failed, to thwart the Department of Education project. Congressional testimony, the Carter administration’s internal documents, and newspaper editorials illustrate that the Department of Education battle foreshadowed the Reagan Revolution of 1980.

The Ancient Art Of Smile-Making, Elizabeth Ann Garrett

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

If I am anything, I am a Kentuckian, which means I appreciate a good storyteller. In my writing, I hope to bring back some dignity to the “lost cause” of the good values from a broken culture. While I am not quite “southern” enough to qualify as a writer of Southern Gothic fiction, I can relate to this brand of identity crisis in which someone wants to maintain an archaic mindset in a culture charging towards “progress.” As technology and corporate success take precedence over a genteel and pastoral soul, our collective competitiveness has crippled a quaint future of back …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 89, No. 52, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Rogers, Shelby. Gary Ransdell to Push for 4.8% Tuition Increase
• Phillips, Jonah. Bill Powell Survives Rough Waters to Carry on Legacy – Swimming
• Parker, Jacob & Jackson French. Student Pulls Gun by Bates-Runner Hall, Arrested on Campus – Michael Dearborn
• Conniff, Ben. Five Films to Induce Finals Procrastination – Movies
• Pait, Ryan. HBO’s Veep Continues to Find Its Identity Amid Stand-Out Writing – Television
• Holloway, Kae. Mean Girls Celebrates A Fetch Tenth Anniversary – Fashion
• French, Jackson. Crimes Remain Steady on Campus – WKU Police
• Mathews, Mackenzie. Professors Discuss …

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Broad, Toiling Masses In All The Continents: Anticolonial Activists And The Atlantic Charter, Mark Reeves

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The 1941 Atlantic Charter’s references to self-determination galvanized anticolonial nationalists during the Second World War. These activists used the principles enumerated in the Atlantic Charter to frame their demands. This thesis examines three cases in the broader global context during the war, from vastly different colonial and wartime situations: British-ruled India, French-ruled Syria, and the U.S.- ruled Philippines. Across these different situations, anticolonial nationalists used the Atlantic Charter in an attempt to legitimate their own projects. This thesis shows that the elite nationalist movements examined here used a common rhetoric from the Charter, but in variable ways. Each case study …

Shinto: An Experience Of Being At Home In The World With Nature And With Others, Marcus Evans

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study discloses Shinto’s experiential and existential significance and aims to articulate Shinto’s sacred objective. It shows that Shinto, by way of experience, communicates being in the world with nature and with others as a sacred objective. This suggests that Shinto, in communicating its objective, appeals to the emotions more so than to the intellect; and that Shinto’s sacred objective does not transcend the natural world of both nature and everyday affairs. This study pursues this goal by showing the experiential and existential dimensions of the three primary features of Shinto: it shows how kami (or kami-ness) is thought of …

Richey, Ish Harden, 1905-1985 (Sc 1485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1485. Book manuscript titled "Some Philosophical Aspects of Christianity, History, Literature and Education." The material was published by Richey in 1979.

Kentucky Sales Company - Lexington, Kentucky (Sc 2839), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2839. Form letter, 7 December 1906, of The Kentucky Sales Company, Lexington, Kentucky, advertising a forthcoming sale of horses and soliciting further contributions to its catalog.

Ua12/2/1 Best Of The Hill 2014, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special awards edition of the College Heights Herald.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 89, No. 51, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Harrison, Taylor. Email Scams Giving Students, WKU Headaches – Information Technology
• Holloway, Kae. Energy Fuels Annual Fashion Show – Black Student Alliance
• Holloway, Kae. Rocking the Runway – Black Student Alliance
• Rogers, Shelby. WKU Closing Gap Between Male, Female Salaries – Budget
• Mathews, Mackenzie. Morehead State University to Open Second Kentucky Dual-Credit Academy – Craft Academy for Excellence in Science & Mathematics
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon Moral Compass Replaces Religion
• When It Comes to Morals, No Religion Required
• Hunton, Ryan. A Time to Remember the Health of the Earth …

Burris, Donald A. - Collector (Sc 2836), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2836. Printed list, with explanatory note, of African American deaths or burials in Warren County, Kentucky. Information includes name, death date, and death certificate number where known. The list is stated to cover 1911 “to present.” Also includes a short list of African American cemeteries in south central Kentucky prepared by Leonetta Strange.

Stovall, Bartholomew W., 1759-1841 - Estate Of (Sc 2835), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2835. Holographic transcript of a Tennessee Supreme Court case, Logan D. Key vs. William Stovall, et al., related to the settlement of Bartholomew W. Stovall’s estate.