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Racial and Religious Reconciliation: A Grounded Theory Study on African American Latter-day Saints
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-01)Race relations between Black and White Americans continue to be tense. For African Americans, this is rooted in mistreatment by White Americans that has led to negative health outcomes. For many African Americans, religion ... -
RACIAL CONTEXT: IMPACT ON STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF RACE, BIAS, AND TALKING WITH YOUNG CHILDREN ABOUT RACE
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-02)The present study explored the impacts of Racial Context (RC) of students from two universities in the U.S. Secondary data was used from a previous study that analyzed the impacts of an anti-bias curriculum on early childhood ... -
Racial Differences in Cardiorespiratory Fitness between Blacks and Whites: A Meta-Analysis
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)PURPOSE: Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), all-cause mortality and CVD mortality. Some researchers have speculated that Blacks have lower levels of CRF when compared ... -
Raising Exceptional Children: Assessment of Stress and Coping in Adoptive Parents
(East Carolina University, 1/13/16)An exceptional child is defined as a child who has learning and/or behavior difficulty, physical disabilities, or sensory impairments. This mixed method study investigated levels of stress, adaptation of adoptive parents, ... -
RAISING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT USING A MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF SUPPORTS: A PROBLEM-BASED ORGANIZATIONAL STUDY
(East Carolina University, 2017-04-19)Three elementary schools were chosen for this study based on discrepancies in state summative assessment composite scores between schools in similar geographic regions and with similar rates of students receiving free or ... -
Random Walks on Finite Fields and Heisenberg Groups
(East Carolina University, 2011)Let H be a finite group and [mu] a probability measure on H. This data determines an invariant random walk on H beginning from the identity element. The probability distribution for the state of the random walk after n ... -
A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CASUAL VIDEO GAMES IN REDUCING SYMPTOMS OF ANXIETY
(East Carolina University, 2011)Anxiety is a natural reaction to stress. However, when anxiety becomes excessive it can develop into a debilitating disorder. Interventions are needed to ameliorate and prevent the development of anxiety related health ... -
"RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER" BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE : A VISUAL INTERPRETATION
(East Carolina University, 2010)This document is in support of my thesis work, a series of illustrative images. By allowing readers a closer look into my creative as well as technical processes, I hope to provide a guide to my visual artwork. I will ... -
A Rationale for the African American Man's Destruction in Alice Walker's Third Life of Grange Copeland and The Color Purple and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
(East Carolina University, 2012)The African American man is destroyed physically or psychologically in many literary works because he is disliked and/or because of choices he makes. What is intriguing is that African American women writers Zora Neale ... -
Re-evaluation of coastal cultural heritage resources : case study of North Carolina southeastern coastal region
(East Carolina University, 2016-12-15)Humans have had a long history of interconnectedness with the sea and ocean due to the use of natural resources available in the coastal areas. These interactions have influenced the natural landscape and played a crucial ... -
RE-IMAGINING PRINCIPAL SUPPORT: A PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT TO ENGAGE PRINCIPALS IN AN EQUITY-CENTERED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-12)The aim of the PAR project was to engage principals in meaningful professional learning opportunities that supported their growth and development as school and community leaders by participating in an Equity Centered ... -
Reactions to a Sexual Assault Disclosure: Evaluation of an Alternative Scoring Method for the Social Reactions Questionnaire
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-10)Survivors of sexual assault receive a wide range of social reactions when they disclose their sexual assault experience to informal support sources (e.g. family and friends). The way in which the survivors perceive these ... -
Reading Between the Iron Lines: An Analysis of Cannon Arrangement on Caribbean Shipwrecks.
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-10)The aim of this study was to explore patterns of cannon distribution on shipwreck sites using primary historical sources and archaeological case studies. This archaeological data set comprised ten shipwreck sites with ... -
Reading the Writing of the Wall: The Israeli Security Fence/Palestinian Apartheid Wall as Semiotic Text
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-04)Using theoretical perspectives drawn from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and visual rhetoric, this study examines how the symbolic meaning of two structures, Bethlehem Checkpoint 300 and the Israeli Anti-Terrorism ... -
Reading Through Madness: A Narrative Comparison of Plath and Hornbacher
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-06)This thesis will compare the private journals of Sylvia Plath to the memoirs of Marya Hornbacher, tracing the similarities in rhetorical language between the two narratives. The similarities between the two authors show ... -
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 ... -
REALITY TELEVISION VIEWING INFLUENCED BY EMERGING ADULTS’ DIFFERENTIATION
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)The purpose of this study is to examine direct and indirect effects of differentiation on viewers’ television involvement and Gottman’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse behaviors through the amount of reality television ... -
Reanimating the Graveyard : Heritage Tourism Development of North Carolina Shipwrecks
(East Carolina University, 2009)The shipwrecks of the Graveyard of the Atlantic are a prime subject for heritage tourism development in North Carolina. Education about these irreplaceable cultural resources, and effective interpretation of them, is ... -
REASSESSING THE CAPE HATTERAS MINEFIELD: AN EXAMINATION OF NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL DEFENSES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)In response to the German U-boat attacks on Allied Atlantic merchant shipping during the Second World War, Ernest King, the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, approved construction of a defensive wall of naval mines ... -
Reawakening
(East Carolina University, 2014)Artists continually, create art celebrating Western Society and Civilization as the epitome of human culture. Art is created that memorializes our environment, landscape and culture in ways that are inconsistent with the ...