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A Search for Authenticity : Understanding Zadie Smith's White Teeth Using Judith Butler's Performativity and Jane Austen's Satire
(East Carolina University, 2009)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the search for authentic self in Zadie Smith's White Teeth. Using Judith Butler's theory of performance and performativity, a close reading of White Teeth provides concrete literary ... -
A Conditional Reasoning Measure of Goal Orientation : Preliminary Development
(East Carolina University, 2009)Self-report measures of goal orientation are susceptible to response distortion, which leads to inaccurate assessments of an individual's goal setting and task choice motivations. Conditional reasoning measures provide an ... -
The Effectiveness of a Group Intervention to Improve Coping Skills for Emotion Regulation in Preadolescent and Adolescent Males with Attachment Difficulties
(East Carolina University, 2009)This study was designed to assess the effectiveness of a six session cognitive-behavioral group intervention to improve coping skills for emotional regulation in male preadolescents and adolescents with attachment difficulties. ... -
MALLEABLE VIEW OF INTELLIGENCE AS INTERVENTION FOR STEREOTYPE THREAT : OVERCOMING MATH UNDERPERFORMANCE IN WOMEN
(East Carolina University, 2009)When challenging math tests are described as diagnostic measures of ability or when gender differences are salient, stereotype threat causes women to underperform compared to men. In her theory of achievement motivation, ... -
An Analysis of Sex Differences in Empathy and Forgiveness
(East Carolina University, 2009)The relationships among sex, empathy, and forgiveness were examined. A sample of 108 undergraduates, aged 18 to 35 years, participated in interviews and completed a series of instruments to assess both state and trait ... -
Interaction cross sections needed for simulation of secondary electron emission spectra from thin metal foils after fast proton impact
(East Carolina University, 2009)Monte Carlo simulations of secondary electron emission from thin metal foils after fast proton impact require reliable interaction cross sections with the target under consideration. Total and energy differential inelastic ... -
Comparative Analysis of Cask Material from Late Sixteenth Through Early Nineteenth Century Shipwrecks
(East Carolina University, 2009)This thesis examined cask material, including cask staves, heads, hoops, bungs and other components that casks consist of, recovered from 13 eighteenth century, three nineteenth century, one seventeenth, and two sixteenth ... -
NAGPRA's Impact on North Carolina and the Southeast : Research on the Research
(East Carolina University, 2010)This thesis researches the impact of the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) on academic bioarchaeological research in the southeastern United States and North Carolina. Scholarly journals, ... -
Inner Change : The Artist and Self-Actualization
(East Carolina University, 2010)This report is written in support of the thesis exhibition entitled "Inner Change", which investigates the idea of self-actualization through the use of self-portraits juxtaposed with personal imagery to represent my ... -
Roxie, Mr. Bingo, Kewl and The Gate : Street Gangs in Kinston: Participating in One City's Game of Chance to Save Itself
(East Carolina University, 2010)This project in pursuit of social and aesthetic experience involved the Kinston Community Council for the Arts, the Kinston Department of Public Safety and The Gate of Kinston (Gang Awareness Training and Education; a ... -
Relationship Between Test Performance of Students with Learning Disabilities and the Poverty Levels of Their Schools
(East Carolina University, 2010)The purpose of this causal-comparative study was to explore the relationship between the achievement of students with learning disabilities (LD) and the socioeconomic make-up of their schools. The research was guided by ... -
Repair of Clustered DNA Lesions in Double Strand Break Repair Deficient Human Tumor Cells
(East Carolina University, 2010)DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) is a holoenzyme of three subunits, Ku70, Ku80, and the DNA-Pk catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs). DNA-PK serves a role in non-homologous end joining to repair double stranded breaks, and ... -
The Borderlands in Puerto Rico : Creating New Identities
(East Carolina University, 2010)Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera is one of the most influential books on border theory, but because her theories are rooted in her experiences in the Rio Grande Valley between Texas and Mexico, they cannot be ... -
The "Bohemian Girl" Project : A Steam Launch Study
(East Carolina University, 2010)The objective of this thesis is to research Lake Waccamaw's maritime activity from 1880 to 1910. Similar research projects concerning remote lakes, like Lake Waccamaw, were conducted in areas only accessible after the ... -
Breathing Rate, Pattern, and Heart Rate During Baseline Recording and Painful Electrodermal Stimulation-Induced Anxiety
(East Carolina University, 2010)Background: One common treatment for anxiety is breathing retraining (BRT), but evidence of its efficacy and effectiveness is mixed, and the mechanisms are not well-understood. To date, no study has examined breathing ... -
Effects of Alternative Seating on the Academic Engagement of Children With Autism
(East Carolina University, 2010)Students with sensory integration deficits may display a hyper or hyposensitivity to sensory information and lack the ability to modulate that input in socially appropriate ways. Therapy balls as a sensory integration ... -
FOOD OPTION WITH A MORE NUTRIENT FAVORABLE PROFILE IN GROCERY STORES : BUYING HEALTHIER FOODS WITHOUT PAYING MORE.
(East Carolina University, 2010)Obesity is more prevalent in people of lower-socioeconomic status. Since over half of meals consumed are prepared in the home, grocery store purchases may be playing an important role in the obesity epidemic. The objective ... -
'Because You Got to Have Heat' : Energy Poverty and Weatherization in Eastern North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2010)Energy poverty is the condition in which a household is unable to maintain its indoor temperature at a level that allows for a healthy or comfortable lifestyle. Much energy poverty literature has examined the problem ... -
LOCATIONAL ASPECTS OF ADAPTIVE REUSE : THE CASE OF NORTH CAROLINA`S TEXTILE MILLS
(East Carolina University, 2010)This thesis examines the adaptive reuse of historic textile mills in North Carolina. The decline of the textile industry, which employed over 300,000 North Carolinians at its peak, has left scores of mills abandoned on the ... -
Incorporation and silence : A comparative study of the reception of Latino immigrants in two southeast U.S. cities
(East Carolina University, 2010)We know a great deal about Latino immigration to the United States and the movement of Latinos within the country, but it is useful to study the specific circumstances of local communities in order to get beyond broad-brushed ...