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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
- "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
- Author
- Strong, Kellan
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...
- 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
- "Everyone Wants Their Bifröst": Analyzing Heathen Practice and Radicalization Risks for the U.S. Military
- Author
- Konzen, Riley
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Criminology, Military art and science, Religion
- Description
- The Capitol riot of January 6, 2021 functioned as a national watershed moment, generatingfar-reaching aftershocks across American society. While hypotheses abound proposing various catalysts, it has spurred a robust conversation regarding domestic...
- Title
- "I Received an Inward Showing of Truth"
- Author
- Mesibov, Sally
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- History--Religious aspects, Religion, Literature, Medieval
- Description
- SALLY JO MESIBOV. "I Received an Inward Showing of Truth." (Under the direction of DR. WILLIAM SHERMAN) This paper analyzes the changes in language between two texts, written by Julian of Norwich, that reportedly describe the same religious vision...
- 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
- "I was shot in the left arm by a friend": Transgression and the possibility of communication
- Author
- Humphries, Matthew
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Literature, History--Religious aspects
- Description
- For my paper I will look at contemporary communities built on violence, looking specifically at how the philosophy of Georges Bataille may allow for these groups to be interpreted in the context of sacrifice. Though I will look at some issues rela...
- 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
- "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
- "Showing up every day": A grounded theory of military veterans' resolution of trauma
- Author
- Riffle, Olivia
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Medical sciences, Clinical psychology
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to conduct an explication of the construct of resolution in the context of posttraumatic growth, or positive psychological and life changes resulting from the struggle with a highly stressful or traumatic experience. ...
- Title
- "Si IGBT and SiC MOSFET” Hybrid Switch for Voltage Source Converters
- Author
- Liu, Haichen
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- The SiC devices have been a strong competitor than the conventional Si devices due to the superior characteristics of high operating voltage, low forward voltage, fast switching speed, and high operating temperature. However, the maturity of SiC 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
- #RatchetQueerTeacher: Social, Emotional Well-being and Liberation Through Mindfulness and Hip Hop Thearapy
- Author
- Wheatley, Torie
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Queer studies
- Description
- There is a growing mental health concern among Black Ratchet queer womxn in educational and criminal justice realms and the Covid-19 pandemic has left the educational climate in a state of high stress and anxiety. Consequently, Black Womxn in educ...
- 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
- 'Practice' for Enhancing the Performance of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent
- Author
- Kancharla, Venkata Sai Santosh Ravi Teja
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Artificial intelligence
- Description
- Deep reinforcement learning has demonstrated its capability to solve a diverse array of challenging problems, which were not able to solve previously. It has been able to achieve human-level performance in Atari 2600 games and it has shown great p...
- 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
- (RE)-AUTHORING THE STUDENT: AN EXPLORATION INTO FIGURED WORLDS, IDENTITY FORMATION, GENRE, PUBLICS, AND HOW POWER RELATIONS IMPACT CHILDREN'S WRITING
- Author
- Iannone, Anthony
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Elementary, Curriculum planning, Language arts
- Description
- As digital media makes its way into elementary school classrooms, urban school culture moves slowly to join in. The move to integrate new technologies into schools is both enabled and constrained by factors such as the need for students and teache...