Building on the castaway narratives in both Gary Snyder‘s and Derek Walcott‘s poetry, I use Yann Martel‘s novel Life of Pi as a contemporary analogue for reading Snyder‘s Pacific journeys, in Regarding Wave and Turtle Island,...
Keyword:
Bioregion, Castaway, Derek Walcott, Ecocriticism, Gary Snyder, and Yann Martel
Subject:
Snyder, Gary, 1930- -- Criticism and interpretation, Walcott, Derek -- Criticism and interpretation, and Setting (Literature)
The body of work—works on paper, photographic paper, plastic, wood, canvas (plus curated audio)—created for this thesis explores technology, using both analog and digital tools and a conceptual process of deconstruction to...
Keyword:
analog, deconstruction, digital, Plato's Cave, time, and tools
Subject:
Deconstruction, Time in art, and Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Mrs. Dalloway
In a special edition of the Knoxville Gazette, commemorating the memory of Tennessee’s first governor, a state historian stated that although John Sevier had faults, we should find them insignificant to his heroism. Since his...
Keyword:
Honor, John Sevier, King's Mountain, Masculinity, State of Franklin, and Tennessee
Subject:
Sevier, John, -- 1745-1815, Governors -- Tennessee -- Biography, Masculinity -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Historiography, and Masculinity -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography
The purpose of this study was to investigate male and female perceptions of variables related to popularity in females. In this study, 120 college female and male freshmen were given a questionnaire asking them to rate highly...
Subject:
Popularity, Interpersonal relations in adolescence, Success in adolescence, Adolescent psychology, and Teenage girls -- Psychology
Metal additive manufacturing has transformed the conventional design process. With the assistance of additive manufacturing, complex and novel geometries that were previously unfeasible to construct using convention methods,...
Keyword:
ANSYS, Crank Arm, Design for Metal Additive Manufacturing, Metal Additive Manufacturing, Optimization, and Topology Optimization
Subject:
Three-dimensional printing, Bicycles -- Parts, and Manufacturing processes
Implicit racial bias has a measurable impact on the judgments and evaluations of Black individuals by Whites, as well as communication between these two groups. The purpose of this study was to develop an efficient,...
Keyword:
Aversive Racism, Cultural Responsiveness, Education, Impact Awareness, Implicit Bias, and Race
Subject:
Student teachers -- Attitudes and Racism in education -- United States -- Prevention
Theory-of-mind (ToM) describes the ability to understand other's perspectives, thoughts, emotions, and beliefs that may differ from one’s own (Pavarini et al., 2013). A child’s ToM development may be influenced by parenting...
Subject:
Parenting, Emotions in children, Preschool children, Philosophy of mind, and Parent and child
Pediatric summer camping is a comparatively recent development within the camping industry. These camps are designed to give chronically ill children, who are unlikely to be able to participate in a more traditional camping...
Keyword:
Camp and Pediatric
Subject:
Camp counselors -- Psychology, Camp counselors -- Recruiting, Camps for children with disabilities, and Big Five model
The relationship between anxiety and working memory capacity (WMC) andperformance is a widely researched topic in the field of psychology. Typically, anxiety has anegative effect on working memory performance (Coy, O’Brien,...
Keyword:
anxiety, personality, and working memory
Subject:
Short-term memory -- Psychological aspects and Anxiety -- Psychological aspects
The purpose of this study was to examine induction programs in North Carolina during the 2010-2011 school year to determine beginning teachers received the support as recommended by State Board of Education policy. Participants...
Keyword:
Beginning Teachers, Engagement, Induction, Mentoring, and Student Achievement
Subject:
Teacher orientation -- North Carolina, First year teachers -- In-service training -- North Carolina, and High school teachers -- In-service training -- North Carolina
