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Title: “THAT MUCH-MALIGNED MONSTER – NEW MATH:” AN EXAMINATION OF TEACHER PREPAREDNESS AND TRAINING IN THE ERA OF NEW MATH, 1950 TO 1975
Author: Howell, Randi
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, History
Description: Education reform is a continuous cycle. The cyclical nature of American mathematics education reform began in the 1950s, during the height of the Cold War. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the American government felt education, specifical...

Title: you ain't from around here, are you? a biographical study of harry golden and history of his quest for tolerance and justice in the state of north carolina
Author: Sullivan, Michael
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: In the summer of 1941, a thirty-nine year old ex-convict from New York City, that just months earlier changed his name from Harry Goldhurst to Harry Golden, stepped off a bus at the main terminal in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. Although he ...

Title: Working Memory and Emotion Processing Contributions to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Author: Cook, Mary
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by a "persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development," according to the DSM-5, and i...

Title: Visualizing #BostonStrong: Commemorative Implications for a Rhetorical Epithet of Civic Identity
Author: Crawford, Emily
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Rhetoric
Description: Following a tragic event such as a mass shooting, terrorist attack or natural disaster in the United States, it has become a ritual for audiences to establish particular hashtags pertaining to these events. Subsequent to the Boston Marathon bombin...

Title: Variation in Patterns of Allocare In Captive Hamadryas Baboons (Papio hamadryas): The Potential Effects of Environment and Kinship in the Development of Novel Behavior
Author: Carter, Amanda
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Physical anthropology, Zoology
Description: The goal of the this research was to examine the social dynamics among extended matrilines of Hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) housed at the North Carolina Zoo (NCZ) in Asheboro, North Carolina, including the putative existence of allocare, def...

Title: Unnecessary Roughness: Viral Video, Circulation, and Proof in the Ray Rice Case
Author: Booker, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Mass media
Description: The National Football League (NFL) is no stranger to criticism regarding their players and violence against women. One of the more publicized cases transpired following surveillance videos that surfaced 7 months apart from each other; the first de...

Title: USING PRE-KINDERGARTEN DATA TO PREDICT STUDENTS’ KINDERGARTEN PERFORMANCE
Author: Tynan, Jacqueline
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Psychology
Description: As support mounts for the use of pre-kindergarten (pre-k) to promote academic achievement, there is increased need to understand the nature of pre-k’s effects and the key elements of effective pre-k programming. The present study used a short-term...

Title: UNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS OF UNDOCUMENTED MINORS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA COMING TO THE U.S.A: A Case Study in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Author: Yao-Kouame, Koffi Possone
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Area studies
Description: Children migrating from Latin America to the U.S. have always been part of migration fluxes. But, roughly since the early 2010s, the number of unaccompanied minors began to dramatically and historically surge. It is reaching such levels that the U...

Title: Two days and seventy years: sites of memories and silences from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the United States
Author: Hawks, Julie
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: My primary goal for this thesis was to investigate current American and Japanese practices of remembrance about the atomic bombings and to trace cross-cultural influences on the commemorations and narratives. On the surface, these narratives and p...

Title: The South Carolina Black Code and Its Legacy
Author: McIntyre, Larry
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: In December 1865 the South Carolina State Legislature ratified a series of laws designed to control the social and economic futures of the freedpeople. Informally known as the Black Code, South Carolina’s white leadership claimed these laws protec...

Title: The Role of Overvaluation of Shape and Weight in Latinas with Binge Eating Disorder
Author: Palmer, Brooke
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Binge eating disorder (BED) is characterized by episodes of eating unusually large amounts of food while experiencing a sense of loss of control. Binge eating behavior occurs in all ethnic/racial groups, yet the majority of research has focused on...

Title: The Playful Elements in Emily Gravett's and David Wiesner's Postmodern Picturebooks
Author: Warnsing, Abbey
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: Emily Gravett and David Wiesner play with existing texts, narrative structures, visual elements and connectivity in their picturebooks using a variety of metafictive devices that also play with the story, characters, and readers. Both authors crea...

Title: The Impact of Socialization on Collaborative Group Work: A Ritual Perspective
Author: Maximov, Noah
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Ethnology
Description: In this thesis, I explore how classroom processes in the active learning classrooms at UNC Charlotte impact group collaboration. Using an analysis that draws on ideas from Robbie Davis-Floyd, Richard Quantz and Peter Magolda, I argue that the proc...

Title: The Greatest Enemy? Smallpox, Elimination, and Politics in Mexico, 1942-1970
Author: Nichols, Marissa
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History, Public health
Description: In the 1940s, the Secretaría de Salubridad y Asistencia (SSA- Secretariat of Health and Welfare) hoped to unify Mexico to eliminate smallpox from within its borders. In 1952, Mexico had achieved that goal, but the year marked a significant shift i...

Title: The Catholic Church and the Free Womb Law in Recife, PE, Brazil: An Analysis of Its Social Development, 1870-1878
Author: Andrade Diniz de Araujo, Maria Paula
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History, Area studies
Description: This research examines the role of the Catholic Church in the Brazilian Northeastern city of Recife with the advent of the Free Womb Law, in 1871. It delves into the complex dynamics of the Church and the children the law affected. That way, this ...

Title: Teaching Literature of War From Multiple Perspectives Within The North Carolina Standard Course of Study
Author: Landers, Michael
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Literature, Education, Secondary
Description: This thesis offers a rationale for a set of teaching strategies and lesson plans for teaching the literature and film of war to North Carolina high school students within the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. The purposes and challenges of ...

Title: THE SURVIVOR’S HUNT FOR NAZI FUGITIVES IN BRAZIL: THE CASES OF FRANZ STANGL AND GUSTAV WAGNER IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
Author: McLain, Kyle
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Military history, History
Description: On April 23, 1978, Brazilian authorities arrested Gustav Wagner, a former Nazi internationally wanted for his crimes committed during the Holocaust. Despite a confirming witness and petitions from West Germany, Israel, Poland and Austria, the Braz...

Title: Strange Business for a Lady: Single Women’s Work in Mecklenburg County, NC, 1774-1860
Author: Moore, Kate
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, History
Description: An anonymous author in 1837 lamented that "if the world were just" the term Old Maid, instead of a pejorative, would "be a synonyme(sp) of useful virtue." While scholars have examined the domestic and beneficent contributions of single women, this...

Title: Sexual Orientation, Occupations, and Earnings Among Men
Author: Smith, Joseph
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: Despite an apparent sea change in public attitudes regarding sexual orientation, contemporary qualitative research demonstrates stereotypes persist towards gay men, in turn affecting their labor market outcomes and earnings. This research tests th...

Title: Selling Souls: The Economic Supporters of the "Dirty War"
Author: Nelson, Haley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History, Economics
Description: From 1976 to 1983 Argentina faced one of the darkest times in the countries history when a military regime took power and waged an infamous campaign against suspected left-wing political opponents during the so-called "Dirty War". This is a time w...