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The Visit, Like Sisters, Storjka
(East Carolina University, 2013)
This master's thesis is comprised of three short film scripts: The Visit, Like Sisters, and Storjka. The Visit, a Depression-era dramatic short film, is filled the realities of hard living in the dust bowl of America's ...
VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND TAPHONOMY OF THE LATE CRETACEOUS (CAMPANIAN) BLADEN FORMATION, BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
(East Carolina University, 2011)
A site recently discovered near Elizabethtown, North Carolina, has produced a wealth of late Cretaceous (Campanian) age vertebrate fossil material revealing a variety of new taxonomic, paleoecologic, and biogeographic ...
REAL PEOPLE WITH HOLLYWOOD STORIES : A COLLECTION OF CREATIVE NONFICTION
(East Carolina University, 2012)
"Real People With Hollywood Stories" is a collection of creative journalism stories I've written to fulfill the requirements of the M.A. in English with a concentration in creative nonfiction. These are stories I discovered ...
A Comparison of Artifacts and Activities among Mound Area Contexts at Town Creek, A Mississippian Site in Piedmont North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2012)
Mississippian chiefdoms of the southeastern United States have commonly been characterized by the presence of large towns, a dependence upon maize-agriculture, and the presence of large platform mounds. Research regarding ...
Impact of Hurricane Katrina (2005) on deltaic evolution and shelf organic carbon cycling
(2010)
Sediment cores from the continental shelf adjacent to the Mississippi River delta immediately after the passage of Hurricane Katrina were used to examine the magnitude, and implications for the carbon budget, of sediment ...
Identification, Characterization, and Abiotic Stress Analysis of microRNAs in Nicotiana tabacum
(East Carolina University, 2010)
microRNAs (miRNAs) are non-coding RNAs with short sequences that negatively regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional levels by either binding to mRNAs for degradation, or by inhibiting protein translation. ...
Multiculturalism as an Alternative to Nihilism in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother and Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners
(East Carolina University, 2013)
This thesis analyzes how internal oppression, or nihilism, has emerged amongst many of the Caricom community. It focuses on the history of colonialism and the psychological destruction it has left across the Caribbean. ...
SHOxABILITY : Ability and avoidance of daily activity behaviors in ICD patients
(East Carolina University, 2012)
Background: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) shocks terminate potentially life-threatening arrhythmias. ICD shock may alter patient behavior via patients attempting to avoid daily activities or increasing heart ...
Historical Ecology of Striped Bass Stocking in the Southeastern United States
(East Carolina University, 2012)
Striped bass (Morone saxatilis) is the most recreationally and commercially important non-salmonid fish species in the continental United States. As such, it has been exploited to the point of collapse at various points ...
The Declaration of Independence : A New Genre in Political Discourse or Mixed Genres in an Unlikely Medium?
(East Carolina University, 2011)
The dissertation shows how mismatched content/medium relationships can supersede the responses of traditional pairings when the medium dominates the discursive power of the discourse. The dissertation, in part, looks at a ...