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Puritan Planters : A Community Of Congregationalists In The Colonial South, 1695-1800, Jeffrey Paul Fuller

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A Comparison Of Soil Types And Their Relation To Mississippian And Historic Period Site Selection, Lainie Shanks Luse

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Fiscal Decentralization And County Finance In Five Chinese Provinces, Qiang Fei

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Humility, Chastity , And The Worth Of Honest Fame In Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy Of Mariam The Fair Queen Of Jewry, Anna Kidd Clark

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Memory And Manhood : The Citadel And The Civil War Centennial, 1961, Robin M. Morris

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Decision-Making In China's Telecommunications Sector-Centralized Or Decentralized Control? / By Jin Zeng, Jin Zeng

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How Come Hee Haw? : An Exploration Into The How's And Why's Of Hee Haw's Success / By Sally Hodo Walburn, Sally Hodo Walburn

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Computing Efficient Routes In Communication Networks Having Multiple-Constrained Link Costs, Rajesh Bajracharya

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Patriots, Propaganda And Prisoners : The Revolutionary Pow Narratives Of Philip Freneau And Thomas Dring, Louann Cunningham

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Vale Of Paradise : Stories, Matthew Macrobert Duffus

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Development Of A Scale To Assess Hwa-Byung On The Korean Mmpi-2 / By Michael E. Roberts, Michael E. Roberts

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The Evolution Of Hoodoo In Mississippi And Contemporary Black Health / By Phoenix Marie Savage, Phoenix Marie Savage

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Creating The Counterpart In Search Of Perfection, Cindy Gayle Hendrix

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Freshman Academic Performance And Retention (Fapr) Study : An Analysis Of Absences, Grades, And Telephone Intervention / By Sarah Desiree Richie, Sarah Desiree Richie

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Gerow : Southern Son, Roman Catholicism In Mississippi During The Great Depression, Lance T. Alexis

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You Don't Love Because : You Love Despite : William Faulkner's Statement On The Ravaged Wilderness And Remissive Yoknapatawpha Hearts / By Angela D. Elder Quinn, Angela D. Elder Quinn

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Examining Images Of Cotton, Cynthia Ray

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Theme As Necessity In Old English Elegiac Poetry, Jason W. Johnson

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He Saith Among The Trumpets, Ha, Ha And He Smelleth The Battle Afar Off / By Christopher Coulter Stead, Christopher Coulter Stead

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Works Of Men, Paul N. Akin, Jr.

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. It is the discipline of Epiphany. — G. K. Chesterton

Each of these stories has something to do with the idea of epiphany, as I mean it, the appearance or manifestation of something that wasn’t present before. The characters in the five stories all have something they are active about, which they are doing in the hopes of some measure of contentment. My interest was to pay attention …

An Exegesis Of The Sign-Act Narrative Of Zechariah 11:4-17 And Its Theological And Pastoral Implications, Robert Foster

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This thesis is a study of the narrative sign-act in Zechariah 11 :4-17. Historical ­critical methods are employed to determine the date, setting and speaker of this narrative. Form, narrative and historical criticism are used to perform an exegesis of this passage. In the end, what may be loosely termed a "biblical theology" approach is undertaken to address the theological and pastoral implications of this passage.

If Only I Knew: The Stranger In The Twentieth-Century Short Story., Ryan S. Otto

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This study is divided into two major parts. The first explores the variations of the stranger genre in the American twentieth-century short story by examining the short works of Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and David James Duncan. The second provides five original works of fiction that represent my understanding of the genre. Observations in the first section fall into three basic categories: "The Mysterious Stranger: Character," "The Tough Guy: Conflict," and "The Nature of Knowing: Theme." "The Character in Transition" chapter relates my observations in the critical study to the structure …

Policy And Practice Concerning Essay-Grading Criteria In Developmental English And College-Level English Programs In Tennessee Community Colleges., Walter Paul Wolford

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The criteria used to grade college essays have been the subject of research for over three decades. Using quantatative data, this study investigated the differences in essay-grading criteria and essay-grading policy among full-time faculty members who teach English composition in Tennessee's community colleges.

This study revealed beliefs about the importance of essay-grading criteria and beliefs about written and unwritten essay-grading policies among those who teach developmental English, college-level English, and those who teach both levels of English. This study hypothesized that there were no differences among the English composition teacher's beliefs about the importance of the twenty essay-grading criteria nor …

Assessing The Racial Awareness Of Majority Group Member Students At East Tennessee State University And The Factors Related To Racial Awareness, Lavern Terrell

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The purpose of this study was to determine the racial awareness of majority group member students at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) and factors related to racial awareness. Seven research questions and five hypotheses were examined. The Oklahoma Racial Attitudes Survey-Preliminary Form (ORAS-P) was used to identify the racial awareness of White students enrolled at ETSU during the fall of 1999. Forty-six classes were surveyed obtaining a sample totaling 395 students. In addition to completing the ORAS-P, students in the sample were asked the following demographic questions: gender, age, city and state of birth, name and location of high school …

Rural Nonfarm Scott County, Tennessee Women And Their Pathways To Baccalaureate Degrees, Jo A. Lobertini

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The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand why women from Scott County, Tennessee, left home to attain the baccalaureate degree and returned home to live and/or work. More specifically, understanding (1) the educational aspirations, motivations, and discouragements prior to attending college; (2) the educational persistence, motivations, and discouragements while attending college; (3) and the reasons for returning to Scott County after attaining the baccalaureate degree. The population of this study included all females over the age of 25 who had a bachelor's degree, attended grades 1–12 in Scott County, Tennessee, and returned there to live. The primary form …

The Fables Of Superintendent Don Paolo: Object Lessons On Community Upheaval, Community Efficacy, Heritage Knowledge, And Education, Orlando Villella

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In order to understand the economically, and academically distressed community, we must understand it on its own terms. This study used the narrative form as the source of inquiry using the fabulistic form as methodology. The novelist Calvino has served as a guide to this narrative method. Narrative is employed to gain knowledge of the community and this study examines how the community expresses shared values through fabulistic narratives. The problem examined in this study is discovery of narratives and fables of past and present successes. The research examines how the community views itself, its role in the educational process, …

When Things Started Pickin' Up : World War Ii, Out-Migration, And Modernization In Cleveland County, Arkansas / By Kara D. Tooke, Kara D. Tooke

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The Loathly Hag And Sovereignty : Cultural Markers, Carolyn J. Cruce

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Changes In Individualism And Collectivism As A Function Of Acculturation : A Study Of International Students, Layton Seth Curl

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Rock Of My Soul : Slave Culture And The Meaning Of Jesus, Gregg L. Newby

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