Capstone Projects – Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Radical Change in the Genre of the Detective Novel: Raymond Chandley and Paul Auster – Devon Allen
A Life at War and the Heroic Illusions Created to Cope with War: A Study of Stephen Crane and Tim O’Brien – Gaye Allen
Religion, Myth, Magic, And Folklore in Rabbit, Run And Song Of Solomon – Rachel Bogatin
The Disneyland of the Jersey Shore: The Legacy of William C. Hunt – Erin Leswig
Heminingway: For Whom the Bell Rarely Tolls in College Curricula – Michael Mullaney
Biculturalism: A Search for Self Through Life Experiences and the Interaction of the People that Influence it – Allene Patterson
Immigration Atrocities in the “Land of Opportunity”: The Path to Social Justice – Amir Seliman
Evidence From Near-Death Experience for the Existence of Conciousness Outside the Brain – Marianne Sheehan
First Corinthians Spiritual Gifts Chapters 12-14 and Pentecostal of Today – Sandra Taliafero

January 2011

Housing First/Harm Reduction Model: The Philadelphia Project – John J. Lambert
Vatican II and the Liturgy: Revisiting Lost Traditions – Mary L. Zimmerman
The Disparities of Obesity and African American Women – Kiyia M. Harris

October 2010

Do Murals Really Leave an Impression? – Julia Meluso

May 2010

Can You Dig It? The Ethics and Politics of Cultural Property – Jeanne DeColle
Welfare, As American As Baseball – Jenna McKinney
James Joyce’s Ulysses and the German Language – Jon Parker
Educational Philosophy: What’s Relevant in Contemporary Times? – Corissa Swinton

January 2010

The Modernization of the Gothic Heroine: From Anne Radcliffe to Stephenie Meyer, a Feminist Perspective – Jamie T. Corson
The Internet and MySpace in Connection with Music: The Various Promotional Tools of the Music Industry – Priscilla M. Pujols

May 2009

Religious Activism and the Civil Rights Movement – Dana M. Forde
Observations of the Hip Hop Music Culture – Michael A. Green
Modern American Counterinsurgency Doctrine and the Roots Behind It: An Examination of How Western Nations Fight Insurgencies – Omar J. Vazquez

May 2008

Poems of the New Archetypes: Madonna, Venus, Eve, and the Witch – Roseann Brownell
In Spite of Themselves: A.O. Neville, William Henry Pratt, and the Assimilation of the Aborigine and the Native American – Seth Friedlander
The Impact of Camden’s Religious Institutions on Neighborhood Revitalization – Frank Fulbrook
Countering the Secularization of the Discourse on Evil: An Augustinian Theological Perspective – Lynda Hitchman
Ambivalence Toward Converts in Judaism – Arthur Johnston
Inconvenient Women: In Search of History’s Warrior Women – Particia Meeder
1898: From Isolationism to Imperialism: How the United States Gained the Title of Empire – Karen O’Neil
The Problems of Shame and Guilt in Sartre’s The Flies – Noelle Panichella
No to Children, Yes to Childfreedom: Pronatalism and the Perspectives and Experiences of Childfree Women – Patricia Vesper

May 2007

Michelangelo’s Complex Relationship with Classical Antiquity – Rachel Crescenzo
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Gentle Boy” Bourgeois Perspectives with Puritan Foundations – Danielle Polimeni

May 2006

Post-Feminism and Women’s Return to Relgion – Peggy Gorman
Travel Writing and Social Theory – Bruce Soboleski
The Evolution of Shinto – Steve Berman
Lillian Matilde Genth: An American Painter – Christine Rendell
Homeless Families – Regina Sillitti
Hogarth, Defoe, Fielding, and Richardson Parallels in 18th Century English Art & Literature – Bianca Nagy
Family under the Institution of Slavery – Radwa Elhadidy
An Argument for the Inclusion of Ecological Literacy in the High School English Curriculum in the State of New Jersey – Elizabeth Everette

May 2005

Understanding the Deterioration of Naum Gabo’s Construction in Space: Two Cones – Beth Price
The Dual Condition of Womanhood in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening – Kerry Meehan
The Division of Labor at Home – Jauna Dawson
State of the Union: Social Rape and the Childhood Dilemma – Kevin Cummines
Rights after 911 – Baba Jallow
Menacing Strangers, Ineffectual husbands, Vacations from Hell: Lifetime TV as the New American Domestic Gothic – Vibiana Bowman
Doing Environmental History…in the Highschools – Stephen F. Fortis
Course Curriculum Development Tolerance in a Multicultural Society – Lori Ayers
If I Speak in the Tongues of Men and Angels: A case study analysis of the psychosocial impetus for adolescent Pentecostal glossolalia – Christopher Carpenter
Abbott Cases and New Jersey’s Educational System – Thomas Noel
“Gnostic” Mary Magdalene – Barbara Menna

May 2004

Will the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Get Left Behind? – Ivan R. Cartagena
The Art of Manipulation in Literature – Elaine Winder
Recognizing Though Reform in Cult Groups – Janice Viola
Jihad in Early Islam – Ruth Parker-Bey
From Whitman to Wilde: A cultural Perspective on Individualism at the Fin-de-Siecle – Keith Carson
Deconstruction Aunt Jemima: A Black Feminist Approach – Rosemary Banks
Behold The “Burning” Bush: Manipulation, Lies, and Doublespeak – David Nastasi
A Solution to Managed Care Issues in Pediatrics – Tina Cressman

May 2003

The Rise and Fall of Willow Grove Park: 1896-1976 – Thomas Stranc
Revolution and Realism: The French Revolution and the American Civil War – Janet Hoerst
Police Brutality and African Americans: A historical perspective of the socioeconomic relationships between blacks and whites, and the concept of the race, in relation toits assault on Black America. – Stephanie Hightowers
King Richard III – Caluated Killer of Courageous King? A Journey Shakespeare and Modern-Day Historians – JoAnn Mower
Body Image and The Workplace – Caroline Towsend
Between Two Fires: The Role of Native America in the French-Indian War – Adam Smith

May 2002

Yemenite Jews in Israel – Megan Fitzgerald
The Wounded Earth: Milton’s Deconstruction of Christianity – Ken Hiltner
Educational Reform: Charter Schools – Ector Quiles
Pearl (a short story) – Timothy Hassell
Hardy as an Anti-Arnoldian: Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Eun-Young Koh
An Examination of Heroism in the American Private Detective – Kitty Hoover

May 2001

The Rebirth of Main Street America: Revitalizing the Old Downtown – Natasha Tursi
Rationality and the Supreme Court: The Capital Punishment Controversy – Jennifer Pantano
Creating a High School Curriculum Introducing Students to Women’s Studies – Lisa Anne Cooper
Cathedrals: Microcosms of the Universe – Catherine Spraque
Black Theology and its Role In the African American Community – Alecia Caldwell
May 2000
The Thought of American Individualist William Graham Sumner – Gregg Walkes
The Reception of the Deputy: A continuing Controversy – Aileen Gergely
The Rational of Serial Killers – Melissa Mclaughlin
The Last Taboo-Perspectives on Voluntary childlessness – Patricia Armitage
Sword of Justice: The Story of Judith – Peggy Russell
Spirit Possession in the Shaker and Baptist Traditions – Nia Abuwi
Recovered Memories V. False Memories – Jayne Ulmer
Examining the American Dream in Literature – Michele De Fulvio
A Visual Approach tot he Architecture of Sacred Buildings – Theresa Giandomenico
Three-Quarter Time – Gerald Williams
Sampling Along The Continuum of Feminist Thought: Enlightenment to the 20th Century – Elizabeth E. Johnson

May 1999

Walt Whitman’s Poetry through Music – Loretta Wood
The Theater District of London Gives Rise to A Childhood Fairy Tale – Sandra Wilson
Melodies and Mayhem: A Social History of Music and War – Jayne Vautour
Children’s amd Adolescents’ Behavior at Funerals: An Observational Account – James Ridge
Charles M. Schwab – Angelo Iossa
Attention Disorders: from Cause to Treatment – Tamara Angelino
Allopathic, Ethnocentric and Alternative Medicine Use Among Pediatric Patients in an Urban Emergency – Barbara Duffy
Grounding Affirmative Action – Christopher Harty

May 1998

The Black Church: Purpose and Function – Wade Stevens
Science and Nonsense: The Genesis of Darwinisticism – Dennis McGrath
Resurrecting the Great Mother: The Quest for the Modern Madonna – Carole Diamond
Faerielore: A Comparison of Faerieland Representation Between Poetry and Music – Annette Holba
Christa Wolf on Depressions, Death and Dying in Society – Blanca Figueroa
Addiction: Its Possible Causes, Symptoms and Recovery From – James Gordon

Jan 1997

Metamorphosis: The Journey of Initiation – Jackie Morfesis