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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: A chosen challenge: Growth following short-term cross-cultural travel
Author: Gilbert, Valerie
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Using the Posttraumatic Growth model (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996) as a framework, the current investigation aims to determine whether growth following short-term cross-cultural travel is achieved through the same cognitive pathway as trauma; that is...

Title: AN ARGUMENT FOR THE USE OF COMPUTER SIMULATED MODELS IN PHILOSOPHY
Author: Rines, Jason
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Philosophy, Science--Philosophy
Description: This thesis will attempt to show how computer simulated models can act as a tool for philosophers. To accomplish this goal, this thesis will be broken down into six sections. The first three sections will go into more detail regarding the nature o...

Title: ASSESSMENT OF COGNITIVE TRAINING IN PEOPLE WITH MILD TO MODERATE DEMENTIA
Author: Rouse, Hillary
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Research, Cognitive psychology, Gerontology
Description: The main goal is to see how computer game play experiences can affect cognitive, social, behavioral, and psychological functioning in a population of older adults with mild-to-moderate dementia. Participants engaged in various cognitive games from...

Title: BASEBALL FROM BELOW: HOW AMERICA’S PASTIME BECAME A HEMISPHERIC CULTURAL PHENOMENON
Author: Gallemore, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, History
Description: The game of baseball has rarely changed since its beginnings, and its resultant ascent to the United States national pastime has done little to change the fundamentals of the sport. However, there have been significant shifts in the demographics o...

Title: BOHEMIAN NATIONALISM AND THE IMPACT OF CZECH AND SLOVAK NATIONALS ABROAD ON THE EMERGENCE OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Author: Stouse, Eugene
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This thesis examines the emergence of Czechoslovakia in Central Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It analyzes the nationalist views of the expatriates who immigrated to the U.S. from Bohemia, Moravia, Austrian Silesi...

Title: Bastion of the Dispossessed: The Free People of Color's Fluid Identities Across the Haitian Revolution
Author: Hill, Andrew
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, Area studies
Description: Take a step back in time to the western half of the island named Saint Domingue in the 1780s, a place we now call Haiti. In 1785, the island produced more sugar and coffee than any other colony in the western hemisphere. French colonial administra...

Title: Battle of the Press: The Nullification Crisis in South Carolina, 1828-1833
Author: Pack, Andrew
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This study focuses on the role of the press during the Nullification Crisis in SouthCarolina. It examines how the Charleston Mercury and the Charleston Courier usedideas centered around economics, states’ rights and honor to convince South Carolin...

Title: Coming of Age: The Narrative of Adolescence in David Almond's Kit's Wilderness and Nick Lake's In Darkness
Author: Blaylock, Brook
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: The influence of ancient cultural narratives on contemporary reality, and the construction of literature reflecting the tradition of the past while representing modern cultural realities, remains a common feature of literary expression. However, a...

Title: Context Matters: Pragmatics and Political Discourse Analysis of the Presidential Speeches of Michelle Bachelet, Barack Obama and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Author: Furnish, Patricia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics, Language and languages
Description: ABSTRACTPATRICIA LEE FURNISH. Context matters: Pragmatics and political discourseanalysis of the presidential speeches of Michelle Bachelet, Barack Obama andJosé Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. (Under the direction of DR. CONCEPCIÓN GODEV)This is a compa...

Title: Does the Configurable Approach to Personality Testing Impact Measurement Characteristics? A Measurement Equivalence/Invariance Analysis
Author: Shumaker, Anne-Marie
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Psychology--Statistical methods
Description: Computerized personality testing has allowed organizations using scores from personality tests within hiring systems to configure their tests to deliver only items that are directly related to the job. Although configurable personality testing may...

Title: Examining the factor structure of two subscales of the Independent Living Scales (ILS) in a clinical sample and a college sample.
Author: Johnson, Ashley
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Clinical psychology
Description: This study examined the factor structure of the Independent Living Scales in two subscales of the measure, Managing Money (MM) and Health and Safety (HS), that have been recommended as most valid for predicting competency adjudications (Quickel & ...

Title: FORMULATING A REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY, 1776-1788: THE INFLUENCE OF MILITARY EXPERIENCE ON THE RATIFICATION DEBATES
Author: Gann, Gregory
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: ABSTRACTGREGORY CHARLES GANN JR. Formulating a revolutionary ideology, 1776-1788: the influence of military experience on the ratification debates. (Under the direction of DR. DANIEL DUPRE)Throughout the War of Independence, nationalist forces tra...

Title: High-Status Job Characteristics, Gender, and Overwork: The Buffering Effect of Free Time
Author: Speights, Sabrina
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: The social ordering of time within a changing workplace is a serious concern for scholars, employers, and employees alike. This study contends that the use and evaluation of free time will reduce feelings of overwork brought on by the characterist...

Title: Iconography of Transformation: The Question of Hallucinogenic Remnants in Ritual Artifacts at Chavin de Huantar
Author: Nooe, Ryan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: In a mountain valley of the South American country of Perú rests a site at the core of an ancient and influential culture. That site is known as Chavín de Huántar, a relatively small area which boasts monumental architecture and carved images of s...

Title: Latino Narratives of Educational Experience in the Greater Charlotte Area
Author: Gray, Michelle
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics
Description: In analyzing interviews with ten Latino participants who have attended or are attending public school in the Greater Charlotte area using narrative discourse analysis, I found significant connections between identifying as self-motivated with rega...

Title: Looking at the Positive: The Stress-Buffering Role of Cognitive Reappraisal Ability on Risk Factors for Disease
Author: Sagui, Sara
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Stress contributes to poor health outcomes; importantly, a stress reaction begins with the negative appraisal of a situation. The ability to use cognitive reappraisal, an emotion regulation strategy that involves reinterpreting an initial appraisa...

Title: Macklemore, Iggy Azalea, and Contested Authenticity within the Hip-Hop Discourse Community
Author: Rines, Olivia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics
Description: Authenticity within the hip-hop community has been a topic of conversation amongst researchers for a number of years. The hip-hop movement started in the 1970’s and has steadily grown over the years into a worldwide phenomenon. Although the succes...

Title: Mara's Inferno
Author: Massachi, Dina
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing
Description: Mara Weiss lives in her own private hell. Her father’s suicide left her alone with an unhinged mother. High school offers Mara no escape, and outside of school, Mara unsuccessfully clings to her first love. Feeling engulfed by rejection, Mara and ...

Title: Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
Author: Taylor, Emily
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Centering on the concept of dual identity, my thesis examines how the larger black community in the South adjusted to modernity through acts of masking. More specifically, this work analyzes minstrelsy and jubilee spirituals in an effort to explai...