Browsing Master's Theses by Title
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Borrowing ecological principles: Influence of reef placement and habitat complexity on free-living and parasite diversity
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-25)Environmental factors often shape and regulate the distribution of community assemblages throughout an ecosystem. For example, in the rocky intertidal zones, marine ecologists have identified abiotic forces and biotic ... -
Brackish Water : Stories
(East Carolina University, 2011)Each of the five short stories in this collection depicts the struggle of a Belizean character and takes place in a locale that recalls the history or culture of a specific region of Belize. There are both male and female ... -
BRACTEATES AS INDICATORS OF NORTHERN PAGAN RELIGIOSITY IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
(East Carolina University, 2012)This thesis investigates the religiosity of some Germanic peoples of the Migration period (approximately AD 300-800) and seeks to overcome some difficulties in the related source material. The written sources which describe ... -
Breaking Barriers in Provider-Patient Relationships : An Analysis of Perceived Intercultural Communication Competence among Nursing Students
(East Carolina University, 2014)Communication can be particularly challenging for community college nursing students during their labor and delivery clinicals as there is an influx of Latino patients at the local medical facilities due to Migrant and ... -
Breaking Down Borderland Stereotypes: The Borderland Mindset and Double Consciousness
(East Carolina University, 1/13/16)This thesis examines three different texts, using borderland theories as a framework, to demonstrate that borderlands are not about physical locations but psychological states of mind. By studying three distinct texts, ... -
Breaking the chains of colonial Christianity : origins and purposes of weaponized Chrisitianity in postcolonial literature
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-20)In this thesis, I examine how weaponized colonial Christianity was the most effective means of Black subordination, and I assert that weaponized colonial Christianity gave license to Europeans to chronologically invade ... -
BREAKING THE CHAINS OF COLONIAL CHRISTIANITY: ORIGINS AND PURPOSES OF WEAPONIZED CHRISITIANITY IN POSTCOLONIAL
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-20)In this thesis, I examine how weaponized colonial Christianity was the most effective means of Black subordination, and I assert that weaponized colonial Christianity gave license to Europeans to chronologically invade ... -
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 ... -
British Eugenics and Birth Control Before World War Two
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-06)Eugenics is the science of breeding well, or rather, the science of improving the inborn qualities of the population. This science was founded by Francis Galton in the late nineteenth century and continued by his acolytes ... -
Bronze Age Aegean Ritual Watercraft Imagery: An Iconographic Analysis
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-28)The importance of watercraft to the Bronze Age Aegeans is undeniable, especially in terms of subsistence and maritime exchange. A relatively understudied aspect, however, is their importance relating to religious rituals. ... -
Brunswick Town: Research Design
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-28)In the six decades of the post-South era at Brunswick Town, interest in the site has been sustained through studies, symposiums, historical publications, textbooks and the evolution of methodology developed there. Archaeology ... -
BRUNSWICK’S BAKERS: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESIGATION OF A DWELLING AND BAKE OVEN AT LOT 35 IN BRUNSWICK TOWN STATE HISTORIC SITE
(East Carolina University, 2017-06-22)During the summer of 2016, students led by Dr. Charles Ewen excavated the proposed Edward Moseley Ruin (now the bake oven at Lot 35) at Brunswick Town State Historic Site. Instead of finding the house and associated buildings ... -
Building Cultural Competence Through Multicultural Fiction
(East Carolina University, 2010)Cultural competence is a set of skills which is gaining recent attention as a tool for navigating a diverse American society. This study examines the purposeful instruction of select multicultural literature which can aid ...