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UMKC's College of Arts and Sciences strives to be a model urban liberal arts and sciences college reputed for both traditional and cutting-edge undergraduate and graduate academic programs; a highly diverse and dynamic faculty, staff, and student body; an active engagement with its city and region; and a strong commitment to excellence in teaching and research. The College is organized into 18 departments that offer instruction in specific academic disciplines across the arts, sciences, and humanities.
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Threads Bared
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This thesis is part response part exploration into the world of those fighting and losing the battle over addiction. It is meant to follow the progression of addiction, from the root causes beginning in early childhood ... -
Ozark Superstitions: A Collection
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This collection of linked short stories explores the storytelling traditions of a family that continues to deal with the results of a past trauma in their day-to-day lives. The three members of the Taile family struggle ... -
Positron interactions with oriented polymers and with chiral quartz crystals
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Positron annihilation in various materials has been applied to characterize microstructure for decades. In this work, PALS was used to study material nanostructure, with a focus on the size and density of free volume ... -
Conformational Behavior and Structural Parameters of Some Cyclic and Chain Molecules
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)The physicochemical properties of a molecule derive from its molecular structure, and that structure often involves the orientation of one part of the molecule about a particular bond with respect to the rest of the ... -
When Cultures Collide: How Primitive Masculinity and Class Conflict Derailed the Patrick J. Hurley Diplomatic Mission to China, 1944-1945
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)Historians often criticize Patrick J. Hurley for the failure of his diplomatic mission to China in 1944-1945. Instead of acting as an impartial mediator during the negotiations between the Guomindang (GMD) and Chinese ... -
Crawford Ralston: Structures of Time
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)Ralston Crawford is an American artist best known for his Precisionist aesthetic style that celebrates the edifices of modern America such as bridges, silos, and grain elevators. Crawford utilized a highly controlled ... -
Synthesis and Electrocatalytic Properties of Structure Engineered First-Row Transition Metal Derivatives
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)Hydrogen is a green energy carrier, producing only water when combusted, and a hydrogen economy has been considered the ideal green economy for human society. Water electrolysis can produce high-purity hydrogen on a ... -
Urban Riparian Areas: Ecological And Streamside-Ordinance Assessments
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)Streamside protection ordinances have been established in many urbanizing areas; however, there has been a paucity of assessments of the effectiveness of such ordinances. A quantitative assessment of the ecological ... -
Three Paths To Religious Integration In Ernest Hemingway’s War Fiction
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)My dissertation studies religiosity in Ernest Hemingway’s war fiction in terms of how his soldier characters connect to the divine. The means to understanding this connection is in refining how the characters express ... -
A Theory of Consumer Fraud in Market Economies
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)Of the many forms of human behavior, perhaps none more than those of force and fraud have caused so much harm in both social and ecological environments. In spite of this, neither shows signs of weakening given their ... -
A Narrative Inquiry into Experiences of Teaching Reading
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)In recent years, educators have been paying attention to reading instruction and reading strategies in English classes at the high school level for several reasons. One of those reasons is the adoption of Common Core ... -
Praire Madness
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Prairie Madness is a collection of fiction and non-fiction that examines the impact and power of loneliness, both lifelong and momentary. In some of this work, loneliness fuels acts of courage; in others it triggers denial ... -
Sublime Underdogs
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)It is my hope that this collection of stories, Sublime Underdogs, uncovers the beauty and the pain in unique aspects of the human experience: a lonely young woman who is terrified of getting cancer, for instance, or a ... -
American Anxiety: Stories
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This collection of stories largely deals with anxiety felt by people in small-town, rural America in the twenty-first century. Ranging from an old woman afraid of change to a veteran returning home to a people’s militia ... -
Mississippi People
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Mississippi people is a collection of short stories and essays written during the course of my three years at UMKC. The characters within, even the one's that aren't from Mississippi themselves, all have a bit of ... -
Value, Money, and Accounting for Pax Ecologica: Contouring a Price-Coordination System for Ecological-Economic Provisioning
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)The objective of this dissertation is to conceptualize and contour an alternative provisioning system (“Pax Ecologica,” “ecocentric provisioning”) to address, account for, and coordinate humankind’s scientific-technological ... -
Red Things
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Comprised of a collection of short stories and a full-length screenplay, this thesis is a demonstration of the author's progress as a writer. The stories are literary realism set in St. Louis, Missouri, particularly ... -
Modeling the Effects of Drugs of Abuse on HIV Infections with Two Viral Species
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Injection drug use is one of the greatest risk factors associated with contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and drug abusers infected with HIV suffer from a higher viral load and rapid pathogenesis. Replication ... -
From Pop Culture to Nuclear Debate: The Impact of The Day After in Lawrence and Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This thesis examines the creation and response in America to the 1983 nuclear disaster film The Day After. Fueled by renewed nuclear buildup of the 1980s Cold War, the release of the movie became a worldwide sensation, ... -
Building Bridges: An Anthology of the War on Prostitution and the Greater Women’s Movement in Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This research looks at Kansas City’s War on Prostitution in 1977 and the larger women’s movement of second-wave feminism throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The War on Prostitution makes the women’s movement in Kansas City ...