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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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"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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"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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A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
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Author
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Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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A Case Study of Diversity in North Carolina Architecture Programs
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Author
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Roberts, Isaiah
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Architecture, Educational evaluation, Education
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Description
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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...
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A Dream of Burning
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Author
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DeMeglio, Austin
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing
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Description
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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...
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A META-ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENERAL COGNITIVE ABILITY AND FERTILITY
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Author
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Heeney, Michael
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Psychology
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Description
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Empirical studies of the relationship between general cognitive ability and fertility span nearly a century. Reported effects generated through previous studies vary widely, and are believed to reflect differences in: 1) sample characteristics (e....
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A META-ANALYTIC REVIEW OF DISCRETE EMOTIONS AND WORK BEHAVIORS IN ORGANIZATIONS
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Author
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Williams, Courtney
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior
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Description
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The study of affect in the workplace is a flourishing domain of research in the organizational sciences since the affective revolution started in the 1980s (Barsade, Brief, & Spataro, 2003). Following calls for more research specifically with disc...
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A Qualitative Investigation of Factors Contributing to Women Majoring in Computer Science
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Author
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Wong, Alexandria
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Computer science
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Description
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This study investigates factors that influence young women’s decision to major in computer science (CS). While there is a rapid increase of scientific advances being made in the United States and the importance of scientific fields for societal, e...
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A RELATIONAL EXAMINATION OF RESOURCE ACQUISITION IN ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORKS
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Author
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Medaugh, Melissa
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Entrepreneurship
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Description
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Social networks provide entrepreneurs with a cost-effective way to acquire resources from people they know personally. In the current research, I develop and test a relational model of resource acquisition, which demonstrates the predictive role o...
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A Thick Cloud of Forgetting: The Functions of Unknowing in the Cloud of Unknowing
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Author
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Staton, Jonathan
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Religion, Literature, Medieval, Philosophy
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Description
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The exercise of mystical unknowing is central to the contemplative process prescribed in The Cloud of Unknowing. This thesis argues three distinct but interrelated claims about how unknowing works and what unknowing does in The Cloud of Unknowing....
