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- 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
- Messages from the Heart: Agent Orange and Narrative Conflict in Contemporary Vietnam
- Author
- Blattenberger, Philip
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Social sciences--Research, Museums--Study and teaching, History
- Description
- For six months in 2014 the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam hosted a temporary exhibition on Agent Orange. Entitled "Agent Orange: A Message from the Heart," the exhibit’s politically benign narrative tone featured reconciliatory r...
- Title
- POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH AND BIOMARKERS OF CHRONIC STRESS AMONG COMBAT VETERANS OF OPERATIONS ENDURING AND IRAQI FREEDOM
- Author
- Blevins, Cara
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are a significant public health problem, representing the leading cause of death in U.S. military combat Veterans. Following deployment, combat Veterans are at an increased risk for CVD due to chronic in-theater expos...
- 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
- Calcutta and J.Z. Holwell, a man on the periphery
- Author
- Branch, William
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- WILLIAM ARMSTRONG BRANCH. J. Z. Holwell, a peripheral man. (Under the direction of Dr. David Johnson) In the middle of the eighteenth century the trading city of Calcutta flourished by exporting three categories of goods; textiles, opium, and salt...
- Title
- Apocalyptic Mother: Revelations of a World Turned Upside Down in The Book of Margery Kempe
- Author
- Bruce, Julie
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History--Religious aspects
- Description
- The Book of Margery Kempe is a fifteenth-century memoir that recounts the transformation of an English prophet or mystic from a "sinful wretch" to a vessel for the "Holy Ghost." She interprets this change in her life as one from abundance and fert...
- Title
- PUNISHMENTS, PRISONERS, & PRAGS: A NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF MALE PRISONER RAPE ON HBO’S OZ
- Author
- Burns, Myasia
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication
- Description
- This analysis examines the symbolic rape narratives of Oz and the cultural contexts in which they exist. It confronts visual images of male rape within the show to uncover considerations of masculinity, sexuality, and gender identification in a pr...
- Title
- LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX: YOUNG ADULT DATING RELATIONSHIPS AND DEPRESSION AS RELATED TO PARENTAL RELATIONAL FACTORS
- Author
- Camp, Courtney
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Recent research has shown that adolescents who engage in sexual intercourse exhibit more depressive symptoms, including suicidal ideation and intent, than do adolescents who do not engage in sexual intercourse. Research has also shown that individ...
- 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
- 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
- Duke and Reynolds: Urban and Regional Development Through Business, Politics, and Philanthropy
- Author
- Dancy, Brianna
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- The Industrial Revolution witnessed an increase in wealthy entrepreneurs who were also philanthropists. During this era, James Buchanan (Buck) Duke and Richard Joshua (R.J.) Reynolds led the tobacco production industry in North Carolina. These ind...
- Title
- Needles and Dust
- Author
- Douglas, Charles
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Literature, Creative writing, Area studies
- Description
- Needles and Dust comprises the first part, approximately 20,000 words of a novel in progress. In the summer of 1988, Thao Dena, a twelve-year-old girl in the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, befriends the picaresque Vang Neng, who enchants Dena...
- Title
- Creating a Market for Salvation: Neoliberalism and Pastoral Power
- Author
- Eyrich, Timothy
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Philosophy
- Description
- This thesis examines the megachurch phenomenon in the United States since the 1950s as a way of explaining the transformation of pastorship in Christianity with the onset of American neoliberalism. This examination relies on Michel Foucault’s anal...
- Title
- RACE, RESEGREGATION AND THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPLELINE IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY
- Author
- Graham, Joseph
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- This thesis explores the relationship between out of school suspensions and court-involvement for youth in Mecklenburg County. Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the concept of implicit bias serve to inform this examination, interpretation, and analys...
- Title
- "Sorry, but I Suck at Writing": A Study of Writing Self-efficacy in First-Year College Students
- Author
- Greene, Mary-Elizabeth
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Adult education, Social sciences--Research
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- INFLUENCE OF TEAM VERSUS INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE RECOGNITION ON PRODUCTIVITY, ENTITATIVITY, AND SATISFACTION
- Author
- Gur, Shahar
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Psychology
- Description
- The goal of this experimental study is to examine the influence of performance recognitions that target either the team or the individual on subsequent productivity, entitativity, and team and task satisfaction. Participants worked on an informati...
- Title
- A Focus On The Style Of Bone Harpoons In The Early Holocene: An Analysis Of Bone Harpoons From Koobi Fora, Kenya.
- Author
- Hovis, Ashley
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Archaeology
- Description
- While undergoing archaeological fieldwork in Ileret, Kenya, two Early Holocene (10,000-6,000 BP) sites are found containing bone harpoons. The purpose of this study is to examine the style of Early Holocene bone harpoons to see if people of East L...
- 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
- A comparative analysis of pro-anorexia versus pro-recovery Instagram images through the lenses of objectified body consciousness and positive body image conceptual frameworks
- Author
- Jafari, Nadia
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Mental health, Clinical psychology
- Description
- Instagram (IG) is a social media application that allows users to upload personal images in a public forum by including a searchable link (e.g. hashtag) along with a posted image. An IG community devoted to a pro-recovery (i.e., #anarecovery) pers...