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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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"Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
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Author
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Strong, Kellan
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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"I Received an Inward Showing of Truth"
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Author
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Mesibov, Sally
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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History--Religious aspects, Religion, Literature, Medieval
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Description
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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...
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"I was shot in the left arm by a friend": Transgression and the possibility of communication
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Author
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Humphries, Matthew
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, History--Religious aspects
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Description
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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...
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"Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
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Author
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Ervin, Michael
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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"Showing up every day": A grounded theory of military veterans' resolution of trauma
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Author
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Riffle, Olivia
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Medical sciences, Clinical psychology
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Description
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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. ...
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"Si IGBT and SiC MOSFET” Hybrid Switch for Voltage Source Converters
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Author
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Liu, Haichen
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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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...
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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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'Practice' for Enhancing the Performance of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent
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Author
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Kancharla, Venkata Sai Santosh Ravi Teja
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Artificial intelligence
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Description
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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...
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2019 evaluation of the Freedom School partners in Charlotte, NC
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Author
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Lambert, Richard, Bottoms, Bryndle, Taylor, Bruce
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood)
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Description
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This report outlines the results of an evaluation of the Freedom School Partners’ Children Defense Fund Freedom Schools© program in Charlotte, NC that took place during the summer of 2019. The evaluation was a collaboration between the Center for ...
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2022 evaluation of Freedom School partners in Charlotte, North Carolina
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Author
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Bottoms, Bryndle, Luce, Hannah, Villanueva, Kristin, Herrera, Leonardo
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood), Early childhood education
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Description
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Freedom School Partners is a six-week, literacy-rich, summer program that has served the Charlotte area since 2004. What began as a group of 100 scholars in one site, is now more than 400 scholars and includes twelve sites (www.freedomschoolpartne...