Browsing Master's Theses by Title
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Fracture: Representing Identity
(East Carolina University, 2018-04-27)This document provides written support for the thesis exhibition, Fracture: Representing Identity. The body of work presented in the exhibition seeks to provide more accurate images of people, counter to the limiting ... -
Fragile: Handle with Care
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)Memory has always been dearly held in my family, and easily lost. I watched as my loved ones surrounded themselves with objects that acted as physical anchors to the full lives they had lived, the places they had been, and ... -
FRAMEWORK FOR BLOCKCHAIN BASED DECENTRALIZED ECOMMERCE APPLICATION USING SMART CONTRACTS
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)There is a lot of excitement around Blockchain technology and its ability to disrupt many traditional industries and business practices. First invented as a part of Bitcoin’s underlying infrastructure, Blockchain technology ... -
Framing exercise : the impacts on self-efficacy, other-efficacy, and anticipated affect
(East Carolina University, 2021-06-11)Physical inactivity is a national issue with over 75% of Americans being insufficiently active (Leavitt, 2008). To promote exercise, different framing techniques have been utilized (Chen, 2012), with some evidence indicating ... -
Frequency/Magnitude Analysis of Wave Events at Duck, North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2010)There is a great need for predicting shoreline and beach change due to storms. Firstly, shoreline erosion rates along the East Coast are as high as 70%. And more importantly, people live along the coast. Between 1980-2003 ... -
Fresh Tracks
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-25)Fresh Tracks is inspired by my life and my upbringing as a hunter. I am creating this body of work for the same reasons I hunt: for the connection to my environment and my food, because I have a vested interested in the ... -
Friends in the Meetinghouse and Masters in the Fields: Seventeenth Century Quakers in the Slave Society of Barbados
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-26)The Religious Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers, are well known for their antislavery philosophy in the United States prior to the Civil War. During the 17th century, however, many Quakers owned plantations in ... -
From Exclusion to Inclusion : -- A Shift in the Perception of Native and Asian Americans through Graphic Stories: A Comparison of Political Cartoons from the 1800s to Trickster, American Born Chinese, and Level Up
(East Carolina University, 2015)By comparing political cartoons from the late 1800s to graphic novels published in the 21st century, one can trace the changes in social acceptance of Native and Asian Americans and examine the role tricksters hold in ... -
From Luxury Liners to Aircraft Carriers: USS Wolverine and USS Sable
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)This thesis details the complex conversions of two Great Lakes passenger ships into flattop aircraft carriers in 1942 and 1943, and the subsequent training of thousands of pilots aboard the carriers. The entire US naval ... -
FROM NEW BERN TO BENNETT PLACE WITH "COOKE'S FOOT" CAVALRY: A HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS, 1861-1865
(2007-09-01)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the history of the Twenty-Seventh North Carolina regiment and the actions of its officers and men during the American Civil War. This regiment was often in the forefront of Confederate ... -
From One Woman to Another: The Role of Spanish Women in the Catholic Education of Indigenous Girls in Sixteenth Century New Spain
(East Carolina University, 2018-04-24)The endeavors of the colonial enterprise of the Spanish empire are often attributed to men while women are given secondary importance; yet women were greatly involved in the religious education and conversion of indigenous ... -
"From Quiet Woods to Tide Kissed Shore" : Searching for the Colonial Port of Sunbury, Georgia
(East Carolina University, 2012)This thesis chronicles efforts to examine a unique colonial waterfront complex in Sunbury, Georgia comprised of four distinct colonial wharf sites. To carry out an explanation of these features and Sunbury's overall ... -
From Steaming Hearths : The Transition from English Colonial Fare to African Foodways in the Coastal Regions of the American Upper South
(East Carolina University, 2014)Traditional southeastern American food evolved from a complex series of regional food elements emerging from cultural exchange between Native Americans, European settlers, and African slaves. A study of the regional ... -
From test to testimony: Resiliency after TBI diagnosis
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-06)Autoethnography research is a relatively new and innovative means of gathering data on oneself to connect to research and theory while advocating for change within a policy, law, and/ or environment. When doing my ... -
From USS Stars and Stripes to Metropolis (1861-present): Modeling the Life, Loss, and Archaeological Site Formation of a Currituck Beach Shipwreck (Corolla, North Carolina)
(East Carolina University, 2023-05-04)The steamship Metropolis went aground off Currituck Beach, North Carolina, on 31 January 1878. The disaster led to loss of life and subsequent reformation of the United States Life-Saving Service. In the years since, there ...