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"Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlisting in the 18th Century British Army
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Author
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Kane, Nicholas
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Military history
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Description
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NICHOLAS KANE. "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlistment in the 18th Century British Army. (Under the direction of Drs. DAVID JOHNSON and JOHN SMAIL) In the eighteenth century, the British military boomed in size with the various wars that ...
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"Sorry, but I Suck at Writing": A Study of Writing Self-efficacy in First-Year College Students
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Author
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Greene, Mary-Elizabeth
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Higher, Adult education, Social sciences--Research
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Description
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In this study, current research on writing self-efficacy—"confidence that one can perform successfully in a particular domain" (Bruning 25)—and data from a local survey of first-year college students, or freshmen, is used to examine dispositions t...
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A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
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Author
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Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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African American males are underrepresented in university Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) programs as STEM majors in the United States. I will be investigating why this phenomenon is so prevalent in America’s collegiate STEM program...
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A Case Study of Diversity in North Carolina Architecture Programs
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Author
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Roberts, Isaiah
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Architecture, Educational evaluation, Education
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Description
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The enrollment rate of black students in architecture has remained stagnant for the last decade and decreased over the past two and a half decades. In 2020, of the 26,977 total students enrolled in accredited structural architecture programs, only...
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A Dark Enlightenment: Julius Evola and the Temptation of Esoteric Fascism
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Author
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Johnson, Caleb
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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From 1926 until 1974, the Italian scholar and spiritualist Julius Evola produced books, articles, and essays on the source of the decline of the modern world. These works showed a devotion to a long-passed Golden age, when power was absolute, hier...
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A Dream of Burning
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Author
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DeMeglio, Austin
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing
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Description
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A Dream of Burning takes place in a not-so-distant future of an alternate Earth. The story focuses on a young woman by the name of Iris Ode and her found family. The story starts three years after a great storm caused tragedy. After the storm, Iri...
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A META-ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENERAL COGNITIVE ABILITY AND FERTILITY
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Author
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Heeney, Michael
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Psychology
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Description
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Empirical studies of the relationship between general cognitive ability and fertility span nearly a century. Reported effects generated through previous studies vary widely, and are believed to reflect differences in: 1) sample characteristics (e....
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A META-ANALYTIC REVIEW OF DISCRETE EMOTIONS AND WORK BEHAVIORS IN ORGANIZATIONS
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Author
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Williams, Courtney
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior
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Description
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The study of affect in the workplace is a flourishing domain of research in the organizational sciences since the affective revolution started in the 1980s (Barsade, Brief, & Spataro, 2003). Following calls for more research specifically with disc...