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- Title
- A Cold Pot Does Not Boil: A Case Study Of The Virginia Beach City Municipal Center Shooting To Understand Disgruntled Employee Violence
- Author
- Bynum, Karly
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational sociology
- Description
- The phenomenon of the violent disgruntled employee is a symptom of increasing mass violence in the U.S. Previous literature on mass violence in the workplace is mostly based on the individual psychologization of attackers. This case study is a rea...
- Title
- A Pilot Study of Gastro-Intestinal Parasites in Two U.S. Captive Free-Ranging Lemur Populations
- Author
- Corbett II, Philip
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Physical anthropology, Zoology, Parasitology
- Description
- A comparative gastrointestinal parasite study was conducted looking at different lemur species and their parasite prevalence and diversity at two Association of Zoo & Aquarium accredited facilities, the Duke Lemur Center and Lemur Conservation Fou...
- Title
- And the Categories Are: Sexual “Realness”, Individualism, and the Paradox of Categories in Ball Culture
- Author
- Grey, Gabrielle
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Sex, History
- Description
- Ball culture has been a Black/Latinx gay subculture overlooked by historians. Ball culture served as a safe space for young gay Black/Latinx men and trans-people to express themselves. The competition categories held an equally significant role in...
- Title
- Audiovisual Translation of Fictional Languages: Dubbing Klingon into Spanish in Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Author
- Perez-Padilla, Rita
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Linguistics, Translations, Motion pictures
- Description
- This thesis investigates the audiovisual translation of fictional languages in multilingual film franchises using Spanish dubbing of the invented Klingon language in Star Trek: The Next Generation as a case study. This invented language appears th...
- Title
- Black Doulas and The Quest For Empowerment in the Black Woman's Birthing Experience
- Author
- Mattison, Sydney
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Obstetrics, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Doula care has proven to be an effective approach to reducing adverse birthing outcomes among women. However, less is known about doula care and birthing outcomes concerning specifically Black women. This qualitative study focused on the narrative...
- Title
- Black Lives Matter and Black Power
- Author
- Fraser, Daviana
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication, Rhetoric, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Today, Black Americans face the same foes as in previous efforts to secure civil rights. Over the last decade, names like Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Keith Lamont Scott, Philando Castile, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor join those ...
- Title
- Canvas of a Community: The Visual Rhetoric of Black Liberation in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Author
- Manning Jr., Mark
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Rhetoric
- Description
- Public art, such as graffiti, street art and murals are powerful vessels of ontological expression that allow nuanced and contextual ideas to be communicated to and about the communities that they exist within. Charlotte (NC) has emerged as a wort...
- Title
- Christian Sun Worship and Theurgy in Late Antique Rome
- Author
- Sells, Justin
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- History--Religious aspects
- Description
- In Late Antique Rome the worship of the sun penetrated into Christian belief and practice. This is usually explained in terms of a type of syncretism, where the sun god in Roman religion during this time (often seen as being at the apex of the pan...
- Title
- Cognitive, affective, and personality predictors of confirmatory political information seeking
- Author
- Brunswick, Michael
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Cognitive psychology
- Description
- Confirmation bias is the phenomenon where an individual seeks, navigates, and processes information in ways to reinforce previously held beliefs or attitudes. Contentious political climates exacerbate effects of confirmatory information seeking, w...
- Title
- Cranial Capacity Variation of Pleistocene Homo and Possible Speciation Events
- Author
- Hudock, Autumn
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Biology, Paleontology, Evolutionary developmental biology
- Description
- The field of paleoanthropology is tasked with studying the morphology of extinct hominins using fossilized remains. To study the evolution of the human brain, researchers use endocast data derived from fossil skulls, in order to assess when and ho...
- Title
- Creative Energy: Exploring Jail Arts Programs and Cultural Capital
- Author
- Miller, Lindsey
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- This study explores the beliefs, goals, and motivations of arts-based prison initiatives based on acase study of a jail arts program provided by an art museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. This case study includes in-depth interviews with individu...
- Title
- Crossing The Pond: How General Winfield Scott Imported the British Model of Military Occupation for use in the United States Army in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Author
- Berdusis, John
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Military history, Law, History
- Description
- General Winfield Scott’s occupation of Mexican territory during the Mexican American War from 1846-48 is credited as the progenitor of US Army military occupation doctrine, yet historians have not investigated where and how Scott developed these p...
- Title
- Dancing with Ink
- Author
- Duemmler, Kristina
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- English literature, Linguistics, Creative writing
- Description
- The following creative thesis contains the first 100 pages of the historical fiction novel on the life of Lady Mary Wroth, the first woman in the Early Modern Era to publish a prose poetry novel. The thesis begins and ends in the year 1651. It is ...
- Title
- Dietary Identity At Salango: Stable Light Isotope Analysis Of Guangala Period Burials (100 BCE – 800 CE)
- Author
- Cobb, Emilie
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Biochemistry, Archaeology
- Description
- Salango is an archaeological site on the coast of Ecuador that has been inhabited for thousands of years by multiple different cultures, including the Guangala (100 BCE- 400 CE). While research about mortuary treatment and socio-cultural character...
- Title
- Doula Care in California during COVID-19: The Impacts of Social Distancing on a High-Touch Helping Profession.
- Author
- Lisenbee, Jodie
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Birth doula care was uniquely impacted by hospital visitor restriction policies enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Doulas were classified as "non-essential" personnel and thus generally excluded from providing in-hospital childbirth sup...
- Title
- Dr. Madge Baker Gaskin: The Making of a Woman Physician in the 1920s
- Author
- Gaskin, Rachael
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, History
- Description
- During the 1920s, women who aspired to be doctors often found the South unwelcoming. Women interested in the medical profession, encountered multiple roadblocks when they applied to medical school programs because of sexist stereotypes and cultura...
- Title
- Examining the Relationship between School Security Measures, Sense of Safety and Academic Achievement using an Intersectional Framework: A Moderated-Mediation Model
- Author
- Siegal, Rachel
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education and state
- Description
- School security measures (SSMs), which include school resource officers (SROs), security cameras, and metal detectors, are used in elementary, middle, and high schools across the United States (Musu-Gillette et al., 2019) and can cost school syste...
- Title
- Following in the Footsteps of Homer, Plato, Caesar and Augustus: French-British Competition to Re-Claim Ancient Egypt After the Napoleonic Wars
- Author
- Mitchell , Jillian
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Museums--Study and teaching
- Description
- Napoleon’s disastrous campaign in Egypt was a military and political failure; however, it opened up Egypt to European attention and competition. The campaign's aftermath yielded two significant developments, the Capitulation of Alexandria and the ...
- Title
- Friendship Through Fantasy: Amity in the Novels of Tamora Pierce
- Author
- Johnson, Charlotte
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Literature
- Description
- Friendship is a strangely absent topic in the criticism of children’s and young adult (YA) literature. While ancient philosophers have tried to define this unique relationship, a more contemporary analysis that can account for changes in culture a...
- Title
- Historical Consciousness and Collective Identity Formation in the Kings Mountain Historical Museum
- Author
- Mileski, Julia
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Museums--Study and teaching
- Description
- Many studies have been completed on historical consciousness in museum visitors of all ages, however, the topic of collective historical consciousness as compared to the potential of a collective current identity in small, rural history museums la...