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- Title
- "And the North Carolina MORONS LIVED | HAPPILY EVER AFTER": The Human Betterment League of North Carolina, 1947-1988
- Author
- Wilds, Sarah
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Area studies
- Description
- Following World War II, eugenics became associated with Nazis abuses, leading many States to end their eugenics programs. North Carolina was a rare exception to this trend. Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina sterilized over 7,600 people, the ma...
- Title
- "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlisting in the 18th Century British Army
- Author
- Kane, Nicholas
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Military history
- Description
- 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 ...
- Title
- "Downright Roguish Practices of Ignorant and Unworthy Men": The North Carolina Regulator Rebellion, 1768-1771
- Author
- Croot, Mitchell
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- From 1768 to 1771 in North Carolina, backcountry farmers in Orange, Rowan, and Anson Counties stood defiant against their local officials and the colonial government. Calling themselves Regulators for their desire to regulate the government’s auth...
- Title
- "I can, but I can't": Kindergarten teacher perceptions of self-efficacy and agency in their use of formative assessment in the current high-stakes accountability climate
- Author
- Ferrara, Angela
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Early childhood education, Education and state, Ethnology
- Description
- Early childhood formative assessment (FA) is a process by which teachers gather data about their students’ knowledge and skills across the five domains of early childhood development in order to scaffold and support their students’ unique learning...
- Title
- "In His Country's Service:" Irish Catholic Military Participation in the First World War
- Author
- Glynn, Hannah
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- This thesis examines how Irish Catholic and nationalist military participation in the Great War reflected colonial tensions between Ireland and Great Britain in the early twentieth century. Whereas prior scholars have tended to examine Irish Catho...
- Title
- "No.. like you don't get it": The functionality of conflict speech and the construction of the young adult feminist identity on Tumblr
- Author
- Cosper, Caitlin
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Linguistics
- Description
- As social media grew in popularity, online discourse became a more frequent focus of study because it represented an entirely new form of communication. While technological innovations led to easier and more accessible communication on a global sc...
- Title
- "Plucking Roses from a Cabbage Patch": Class Dynamics in Progressive Era Louisville as understood through the Contested Relationship of Mary Bass and Alice Hegan Rice
- Author
- Hardman, James
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- American literature, History
- Description
- In 1901, Alice Hegan Rice, a wealthy socialite reformer, published the novel Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch which dealt her experiences working with the poor. By the end of 1902 her novel had become a national phenomenon and finished the decade a...
- Title
- "Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
- Author
- Ervin, Michael
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- In July 1960, Charlotte’s Park and Recreation Commission enacted an official policy of desegregation in the city’s parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and recreation centers. This development, which resulted in the first integrated municipal swimm...
- Title
- "Sorry, but I Suck at Writing": A Study of Writing Self-efficacy in First-Year College Students
- Author
- Greene, Mary-Elizabeth
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Adult education, Social sciences--Research
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- "The Burthen Now Upon Our Hands": The Treatment of British Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1781
- Author
- Grover, Thomas
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Military history, History
- Description
- Casualties represent the human element destroyed by war. As such, historians use their numbers to describe the scale or aftermath of a given conflict in terms of dead and wounded. Yet, there exists a third group of casualties often not included in...
- Title
- "¡Dios no Muere!": The Cristo Rey Monument and Church-State Relations in Revolutionary Guanajuato, 1914- 1950.
- Author
- Catton, John
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History, History--Religious aspects
- Description
- This thesis examines the role of the Catholic ideology of Cristo Rey during the Cristero Conflict, which lasted from 1926 to 1929. This conflict was an armed rebellion led by militant Catholics who opposed the Mexican government's enforcement of a...
- Title
- 'A Mother Specific Disorder For a Mother Specific Crime': Alienists, Infanticide and Puerperal Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Author
- Burgess, Laura
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- From the early nineteenth century, the British medical community worked to redefine and reassert their professional space within society. During this process, medical men developed specific areas of focus and began to develop these into specialize...
- Title
- 'The Court Devoured Him': The History of the North Carolina Juvenile Court Statute of 1919
- Author
- Brown, Savannah
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- For over a century, North Carolina has continued to treat sixteen year olds as adults in the criminal justice system. The Juvenile Court Statute of 1919 mandated sixteen as the upper age of criminality, cementing that age for all juvenile offender...
- Title
- 1948 and the Bounding of Thought: Zionist Discourse, The New Historians, and American Jewish Public Intellectuals, 1950-2020
- Author
- Mefferd, Zebulon
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Political science, History
- Description
- The following thesis analyzes American Jewish public intellectuals and their use of the Zionist narrative, the New Historian scholarship, or a mixture of the two in their writing. The political leanings of the public intellectuals, authors, schola...
- Title
- A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
- Author
- Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- A Case Study of Diversity in North Carolina Architecture Programs
- Author
- Roberts, Isaiah
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Architecture, Educational evaluation, Education
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- A Cold Pot Does Not Boil: A Case Study Of The Virginia Beach City Municipal Center Shooting To Understand Disgruntled Employee Violence
- Author
- Bynum, Karly
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational sociology
- Description
- The phenomenon of the violent disgruntled employee is a symptom of increasing mass violence in the U.S. Previous literature on mass violence in the workplace is mostly based on the individual psychologization of attackers. This case study is a rea...
- Title
- A Comparative Analysis of Canaanite Temples At Bronze Age Pella and Tell el-Hayyat, Jordan
- Author
- Hines, Mikayla
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Archaeology
- Description
- ABSTRACTMIKAYLA HINES. Comparative Analysis of Canaanite Temples At Bronze Age Pella and Tell el-Hayyat, Jordan(Under the Direction of Dr. Steven Falconer) The aim of this thesis is to uncover the social relationship between two Canaanite societie...
- Title
- A Dark Enlightenment: Julius Evola and the Temptation of Esoteric Fascism
- Author
- Johnson, Caleb
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- A Dream of Burning
- Author
- DeMeglio, Austin
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Creative writing
- Description
- 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...