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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"pettus"”.
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A Call to Arms: A Comparative Study of Mississippi and Kentucky Citizens During the Secession Crisis, 1859-1861
… study utilizes the governors’ papers of John J. Pettus and Beriah Magoffin, the Jefferson Davis papers, and Mississippi and Kentucky newspapers to compare the views of citizens from two economically and politically similar states that responded differently to secession. This thesis argues that …
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Representations of blackface and minstrelsy in twenty-first century popular culture
… the ‘Bloody Sunday’ confrontation on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and the proposal of post-racialism following the election of Barack Obama as United States President in 2008.
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The Invisible Epidemic: Educating Social Work Students towards Holistic Practice in a Period of Mass Incarceration
… 1949; Reamer, 2004; Roberts, 1997; Scheyett, Pettus-Davis, McCarter & Brigham, 2012; Wormer, Roberts, Springer & Brownell, 2008). Through a thorough examination of the history of the U.S. criminal justice system and an analysis of both the historical and contemporary relationship of criminal …
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A study of the relationship between student attitude toward science and use of the chemistry help room and the physics activities center
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Identifying Factors Contributing to Post-discharge Appointment Attendance for Patients with Heart Failure: A Quality Improvement Project
Problem: Heart failure (HF) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. As a quality measure to reduce readmissions and improve HF management, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) recommend patients hospitalized with HF have a …
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Undergraduate African American women's narratives on persistence in science majors at a PWI
… (Gilmartin, Li, & Aschbacher, 2006; Hill, Pettus, & Hedin, 1990; Jordan, 2006). However, these ongoing problems in the previous literature serve as explanations for the underrepresentation of African American women in hard science majors at PWIs. This multiple case research study addresses …
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Emily Dickinson: New England Metaphysical Poet
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A Resource-Based Perspective of Growth Through Strategic Change: A Longitudinal View
The study demonstrates that a firm must build a resource path that can be altered based upon the direction of environmental variation. The path direction is theoretically linked to the concept of a resource based life cycle. It is interesting to conjecture if this resource-based life cycle path …
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Age and Sex Differences in the Use of Causal Attributions and Their Relationship to Persistence
Three studies were done on children's use of causal attributions. In Study 1, sex and age differences in the use of ability, effort, luck and task difficulty attributions were examined. Tasks specifically designed to elicit each of the four ascriptions were presented to four age groups: 4 1/2 to 6, …
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If Selma Were Heaven: Economic Transformation and Black Freedom Struggles in the Alabama Black Belt, 1901 - 2000
… marchers by white state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge that March catapulted the city and black demands for the ballot into the national spotlight. When the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed five months later, it cemented Selma as a symbol of voting rights. Since then, Selma has become …