Welcome to the SUNY Cortland Master's Theses @ Digital Commons. You will find here electronic versions of Master's Theses from the Departments of English, History, Kinesiology, Physical Education, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies and Sport Management.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
"Persephone's contemporary dilemma: consent, sexuality, and "female empowerment." [2015], Cassandra Elizabeth CerJanic
The beast inside: trauma theory and William Golding's Lord of the Flies 2015, Emily Paccia
The effects of a four-week whole-body high-intensity training program on female athletes 2015, Lindsey Taylor
The impacts of youth conservation corps on participants: a multi-method examination 2015, Nicholas Justin Prechel
The integration of kinesthetic learning through the math & movement program: pilot study 2015, Benjamin Ferder
The relationship between motivation and volunteer satisfaction in conservation programs 2015., Raena Blumenthal
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
"Can’t touch this": empowering children with severe food allergy in the residential camp setting 2014, Alexsandra Dubin
Chivalric schism : the man who occupies the masculine and the feminine 2014, Timothy C. Morris
Effectiveness of a football over helmet padding system in reducing peak acceleration of the head and severity index 2014, Nicole Cuccurullo
Factors affecting the coefficient of friction of soccer goalie gloves 2014, Candice Hofmann
Gender and self-representation in Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 2014, Jay-Nel Steitz
Minor characters with major impacts : examining Giovanelli’s role in Henry James’ Daisy Miller 2014, Zachary Lang
Narcissism and Stephen Crane’s the monster : a psychoanalytical reading of Dr. Trescott 2014, Amy DeChellis
Physical activity and nutritional behavior of overweight college students trying to lose weight 2014, Santino Vallejos M.S.
The acceptance of community and sexuality in Quicksand and Their Eyes Were Watching God 2014, Amanda Haessler
The queer and the bodily: explorations of power in women's visionary writing in the Book of Margery Kempe 2014, Jayne Emerson Stacconi
Zora Neale Hurston's and Richard Wright's feminist empowerment in constructions of southern African-American femininity 2014., James F. Reardon
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
African American domestic crisis in the early twentieth century: the aftermath of the clash between ideals and realities of The Great Migration 2013, Sofia N. Rittenhouse
Along the verge : the issue of essentialism versus social constructionism within the domain of contemporary masculinity studies 2013, Charles Hollenbeck
An investigation of preferred versus imposed exercise, personality traits, and motivation on an exercise dependent college aged sample 2013, Chelsea M. Norton
Musical theatre performers, absorption, and personality 2013, Nancy Kane, Ph.D.
Organized camp and character development 2013, Veronica Ripp
Resistance training behaviors in college-aged women 2013, Melanie Kornblatt
The effect of skeletal muscle mass on basal metabolic rate in college-age males 2013, Chase Vaughn