RSS 1.0Honors Scholars Theses - Unrestricted Open Access (UMKC)
The items in this collection are the senior honors theses produced by the students of the Honors College at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Access to this collection is open to the entire global research community.
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Comparisons of Support Among K-12 Music Teachers in Missouri and Kansas
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)The purpose of this study is to examine correlations between various personal and situational factors and music teachers’ perceptions of support received from administration, colleagues, and students’ parents. We developed ... -
The U.S. Death Penalty and the Transition of Constitutional Authority
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)This paper seeks to explore the philosophical influences that shaped American political thought surrounding the death penalty. Its purpose is to trace the dynamics of U.S. penological evolution to better understand the ... -
A “Strange Woman Lying in a Pond”: The Lady of the Lake’s Authority over the Male Arthurian World in the Prose Lancelot
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)This study examines the character of the Lady of the Lake in the Old French Prose Lancelot and argues that the Lady of the Lake gains power and authority through the use of her knowledge (both traditional learning and ... -
Impacts of Medicaid Expansion in Two Early Expansion States and the Case for Medicaid Expansion in Missouri
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)Medicaid is a health insurance program funded jointly by federal and state governments. Each state sets its own terms on eligibility, benefits, and particularities. In general, Medicaid provides health coverage for nonelderly ... -
Volunteerism: The Perpetual Cycle of Unsustainable Growth
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Performance Between Universes: Type-Informed Optimisation for Structural Abstraction and Environment-Specific Data
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)We propose an implementation process for type systems to permit subdivision of types into distinct universes based on individual type theories each presenting their own unique properties. Multi-universe systems can ... -
Human Resources: Ensuring Future Success
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)Human Resource Management (HRM) is essential to every organization, profit inducing or not. Talent Acquisition within HRM focus on the strategic process that is recruiting and hiring talent to the business. Each area ... -
Failing the Fight: The Historical Context of U.S Environmental Conservation and How Endangered Species are Mismanaged in the Current Legislature
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)The Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 established a baseline for the ethical treatment of threatened or endangered species and acted, in a pivotal time for environmental legislature, as the first large-scale species ... -
Oral Disease Bacterium Linked to Alzheimer’s disease
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)This review proposes an association between the bacteria found in periodontal disease and the development of neural plaque contributing to Alzheimer’s disease. Periodontitis is a chronic gum disease that destroys gingiva ... -
Smp1 and Meiosis Activation within Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
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Day of the Week Twitter Phishing Impact
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Phishing has become ever more prevalent in everyday life with new attacks and attempts being made every hour of every day. Twitter has been a major social media player for many years now and continues to deal with phishing ... -
The Philosophy of the Freedom of Expression: Speech and Press Examined Philosophically and Implemented Legally
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The First Amendment to the Constitution explicitly protects the rights to five things: speech, press, religion, petition, and assembly. Of those five, two of these, the freedoms of speech and press, have been hotly contested ... -
I Can; Analyzing Self- Reflection Statements of French Language Learners
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)This paper investigates the nature of student open-ended reflectional responses on French foreign language exams. We hypothesized that these types of responses may indicate how students change over the first four ... -
The Private Company Discount… or Premium?
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The main purpose of this study was to update and measure the private company discount. We chose to use the valuation multiples transaction method to compare 1,759 private company transaction multiples from the database ... -
Analyzing Value Propositions to Understand Consumer Motivation: Increasing Attendance at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Marketing research was conducted to learn how to increase the number of people who visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM). Specifically, this research was completed to learn how to motivate more local Kansas Citians ... -
Accents and Second Language Acquisition: Comprehension and Intelligibility of Accented French
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)The following study assesses the correlation between accent and perceived comprehension and intelligibility. Native speakers of French performed two judgment tasks and a transcription task on non-native French learners’ ... -
Attentional and Psychophysiological Correlates of Future Time Perspective Manipulation: An Eye-Tracking Study
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)Socioemotional Selectivity Theory posits that as person progresses through the life cycle, he or she makes concerted steps to maximize social and emotional wellbeing through selective patterns of emotional processing ... -
Protection against PTSD: Is Guilt the Key?
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)Emerging research on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) examines factors that may protect one from developing symptoms of PTSD (PTSS) instead of factors that place one at risk. However, little is known about said protective ... -
BeeHouse
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)BeeHouse is a collaborative workspace for fashion designers and sewing enthusiasts in Kansas City. Many designers do not have access to necessary equipment for success in their careers. In addition, workspace can be ... -
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t:” Madness as Duality and Loss of Self in the Plays of William Shakespeare
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)This essay is an analysis on the way in which William Shakespeare interacts with madness, as it was understood in Elizabethan England, in a select few of his works. In briefly examining the history of Madness in the sixteenth ...