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CATASTROPHIC DISASTER IN THE MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD : CHASING THE GREAT STORM OF 1913
(East Carolina University, 2015)
The Great Lakes host thousands of shipwrecks. The Lakes are positioned to receive the blunt force of two polar fronts during the winter season, this can result in cataclysmic storm activity. In 1913, the two fronts combined ...
The Joni Wreck : An Archaeological Study of Late Roman Trade Patterns in the Adriatic Sea
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Current data sets for analyzing Late Roman maritime trade and economic patterns have many gaps in them regarding the Adriatic Sea. While there have been many studies of terrestrial sites and their significance, maritime ...
The migration of the sharpie : economic, environmental, and archaeological aspects
(East Carolina University, 2015)
In the late nineteenth century, the United States saw the development of a crucial working vessel type, the sharpie. This thesis will demonstrate that as the sharpie migrated south down the east coast of the United States, ...
Imagining the Homeland : Myth, Movement, and Migration in Three Novels by Women from the African Diaspora
(East Carolina University, 2015)
For immigrant authors of African descent, the impact of postnationalism and the continued subjugation of their native cultures through neocolonialism focuses the writers' pens on subjects of dispersal, either forced or ...
The Journal
(East Carolina University, 2015)
The Journal is the first of a two-part feature length screenplay about best friends, Raven and Isaac, and their journey to discover and understand their magical heritage while fighting to save the world from an ancient ...
The Things We Hear in the Nighttime & Other Stories
(East Carolina University, 2015)
THE THINGS WE HEAR IN THE NIGHTTIME & OTHER STORIES is a collection of five short stories and five pieces of flash fiction. The writing in the collection focuses on the ever-changing American identity of the 20th and 21st ...
PREDICTING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) SYMPTOM SEVERITY FROM ACCESS TO SERVICES
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Children who suffer from Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) present with varying severity of core deficits in communication, social skills, and the presence of stereotypic and restrictive behaviors (American Psychiatric ...
RESTAURANT AND BAR OWNERS AND MANAGERS RESPOND TO NORTH CAROLINA'S SMOKE-FREE LAW, ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE USE INSIDE THEIR BUSINESSES, AND SMOKE-FREE OUTDOOR SEATING AREAS
(East Carolina University, 2015)
This descriptive, cross-sectional study was used to collect and analyze data provided from a pencil and paper survey mailed to a randomly selected group of North Carolina restaurants and bars. The topic of the study was ...
Workaholism and Workplace Incivility : the Role of Stress and Psychological Capital
(East Carolina University, 2015)
The current study aimed to fill a gap in the research on incivility in the workplace by investigating who is more prone to engage in uncivil work behaviors. The connection between workaholism, incivility, stress, and ...
"The Tonic of Wildness" : Thoreau's Critique of Industrial Capitalism
(East Carolina University, 2015)
This thesis is a critical intervention in contemporary Thoreau scholarship. It argues against Ashton Nichols's application of his concept of "urbanature" to the writings and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau's ...