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Her Majesty, Maxine Demlow Dec 2014

Her Majesty, Maxine Demlow

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Zooming through the ever-changing, lofty clouds, a Lockheed Lightning Interceptor came into view, her wings outspread as a huge eagle. Queen of the airways, she seemed propelled by some forceful, hidden power, concealed from the human eye. The sun reflecting the drab olive green wings as the P-38 made a gliding left bank was startlingly blinding.

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Kitchen Kingdom, June Ann Goodrich Dec 2014

Kitchen Kingdom, June Ann Goodrich

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During the summer, the kitchen was the coolest and most cheerful place to find refuge from the summer heat. In the winter, it served as a sewing room, study and game room, as its old, iron stove was in great demand after the first frost.

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Retrogression, Caroline Pressel Dec 2014

Retrogression, Caroline Pressel

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Suppose that you were suddenly to find yourself twenty-five miles from the nearest town in a cabin on Bay Talaunch in the Alabama forests. How would you manage in this modern day if you were that far from civilization? After having all of the conveniences of modern life as a part of one's heritage, it is a real art to be able to live happily and comfortably in such an environment.

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The Lighthouse, Max Owens Dec 2014

The Lighthouse, Max Owens

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Oh, the weak feeling I had in the pit of my stomach that first Sunday as my car came to a stop in front of Blue Lodge, a place I had rented for the purpose of a community church. Most of the dwellings in this section were given some sort of name; this one suggested the owner's name.

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Winter Fairyland, Patty Moores Dec 2014

Winter Fairyland, Patty Moores

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No Military Autumn, Mary Cory Dec 2014

No Military Autumn, Mary Cory

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Rains Fall, Mary Cory Dec 2014

Rains Fall, Mary Cory

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To Be Or Not To Be, Betty Hawkins Dec 2014

To Be Or Not To Be, Betty Hawkins

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Personality-analysis tests fascinate me. T spend hours brooding over magazine pages entitled How Well do You Know Yourself? ... So You Think You're Smart? ... Do You Have a Sense of Humour? ... Are You Kind to Animals and Morons?

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Revelation In Discovery, Kitty Denbo Dec 2014

Revelation In Discovery, Kitty Denbo

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The green and amber patches of grass stretch from the sedate black enameled fence which envelopes the front yard to the sturdy, but well-loved back yard fence. This wrought iron guardian is fancifully decorated with sprigs of greenery and a few red berries which impart to it just a touch of dignified color and give the passerby an impression of loftiness. For it is the sentinel which stands guard against all intruders who might trespass into the private domain of liquid green velvet expanse.

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A Point Of View, Jean Pittenger Dec 2014

A Point Of View, Jean Pittenger

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For many years I had the distorted idea that a large back yard was a luxury to be desired since ours was comparatively small. I had gazed with envy at spacious, green lawns, edged with even, neatly trimmed hedges, with perhaps a row of rustling popular trees at one end, and carefully tended rock gardens at the other, rendering it a scene of symetry and color; yards with rose-covered trellises or graceful bird baths.

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Epitome Of New York, Alan Markum Dec 2014

Epitome Of New York, Alan Markum

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Rushing, surging, tough - roaring, overfed, rough. Hard as steel. The cultural and financial seat of the world; the leading port of America; Noisy, moving, ever-changing. The greatest melting pot of the globe; the home of the common man. That's New York!

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Poems, Joan Fuller Dec 2014

Poems, Joan Fuller

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Shadow Of A Cube, Janet Jarrett Dec 2014

Shadow Of A Cube, Janet Jarrett

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Geometry Of The Greek, Janet Jarrett Dec 2014

Geometry Of The Greek, Janet Jarrett

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Saturday Night Date, Mary Chappell Dec 2014

Saturday Night Date, Mary Chappell

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She adjusted her hat and stuck in the pin which held it securely to the back of her head. He would arrive any minute now, and, she thought philosophically, whatever else she was, she was punctual. She admired herself in the mirror - a nicely proportioned figure in her little suit, good legs, and dark red hair that hung loosely beneath her black hat. Under her short veil her face was peach-colored and smiling. She whirled about playfully in front of the mirror. No wonder he was proud of her! It amused her to see him try not to smile …

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D.M. Greer, Sportsman, Lucy Kaufman Dec 2014

D.M. Greer, Sportsman, Lucy Kaufman

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David McCawley Greer extended a tanned and exquisitely proportioned hand to the gleaming silver cigarette box and withdrew a cigarette with the casual facility for which he was so admired. Then to complete this remarkably adroit gesture he smiled a particularly disarming smile, with only the barest trace of a sneer in it, at Mrs. Celia Haven Morsell, who after countless endeavors had at last succeeded in engaging David in conversation and whom he intensely despised. The fortunate dowager, ecstatic at being so favored by such an enviable and esteemed young man, reciprocated with an expression which might also have …

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Yearning, Ione Colligan Dec 2014

Yearning, Ione Colligan

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Concerning Mr. Mundy, Janet Jarrett Dec 2014

Concerning Mr. Mundy, Janet Jarrett

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Mr. Mundy lived on Seventh street. Seventh street lay between Sixth street and Eighth street which was the only way Mr. Mundy could tell that it was his street. Otherwise the three streets were exactly alike; they had the same houses and the same trees and the same square green lawns. There was no way you could tell them apart except that Seventh street lay between Sixth and Eighth.

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To The Margin, Joy Higdon Dec 2014

To The Margin, Joy Higdon

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The castle was a huge gray mass of stone, high on the hill. Once it had been the splendor and austerity of Tintagel, castle of King Arthur. Now, a bleak gray ruin, the splendor and awe-inspiring quality persisted.

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The Chord, Joan Fuller Dec 2014

The Chord, Joan Fuller

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The train moved into the reflection of the dawn. Paul opened his eyes and looked out at the grey-black silhouettes of telephone poles stalking by, and the slowly rounding land. For a moment in the dawn, they looked like half-remembered poles and fields moving in a dream. But then he was awake and knew he was awake and California was ahead.

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Front Matter Dec 2014

Front Matter

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Contains table of contents.

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Radiaxial-Fibrous And Fascicular-Optic Mg-Calcitic Cave Cements: A Characterization Using Electron Backscattered Diffraction (Ebsd), Detlev K. Richter, Adrian Immenhauser, Rolf Dieter Neuser, Augusto Mangini Dec 2014

Radiaxial-Fibrous And Fascicular-Optic Mg-Calcitic Cave Cements: A Characterization Using Electron Backscattered Diffraction (Ebsd), Detlev K. Richter, Adrian Immenhauser, Rolf Dieter Neuser, Augusto Mangini

International Journal of Speleology

Electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) applied to crystal fabric research in speleothems aids in our understanding of the origin of those fabrics. A significant advantage of this approach is the three dimensional data set of crystal c-axes. Here, we show a rare case of both convergent (radiaxial-fibrous) and divergent (fascicular-optic) orientations of the c-axes in pool calcites. The seemingly defective structure of the calcite lattice resulting in radiaxial-fibrous crystal orientations is probably caused by differential incorporation of Mg during crystal growth. The observation that radiaxial-fibrous and fascicular-optic fabrics co-exist in the same pool environment is remarkable and documents the complexity of …

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Social Media And The News, Jacob A. Blair Dec 2014

Social Media And The News, Jacob A. Blair

University Presentation Showcase Event

The way news is received by the general public has changed. If you want news fast, isn't the best way to receive information based on the use of social media?

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Meta-Analysis Of Close Relationships And Goal Attainment, Amanda Brady, Jennifer Wilson, Nichole Davis Dec 2014

Meta-Analysis Of Close Relationships And Goal Attainment, Amanda Brady, Jennifer Wilson, Nichole Davis

University Presentation Showcase Event

Everyone has goals that they desire to achieve in their lives. These goals span across many areas: relationships, education, career, health, etc. There are many factors that motivate people to achieve those goals. We were specifically interested in examining how goal attainment was different if people were personally motivated or if they were motivated by a significant other in their lives. Our research question was: "Do close relationships have an effect on goal attainment?" We located studies that compared personally-autonomous reasons (PAR) in children and adults to relationally-autonomous reasons (RAR) in children and adults. We compared 18 studies that analyzed …

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Quality Internships For Part-Time Graduate Students: An Exploratory Study Of A University/Agency Partnership, Irene S. Mcclatchey, Alan Kirk Dec 2014

Quality Internships For Part-Time Graduate Students: An Exploratory Study Of A University/Agency Partnership, Irene S. Mcclatchey, Alan Kirk

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

The university student population is changing and more students choose to complete graduate programs while working full-time and going to school part-time. Part-time graduate students, who are working towards a professional degree in the human services domain often struggle finding quality internship placements that are available during non-regular office hours. At the same time, non-profit organizations, especially those who are small and lesser known, struggle to recruit, train, and retain high quality volunteers. This is especially problematic since the number of non-profits is increasing and the number of volunteers decreasing. To look for answers both university part-time programs and non-profits …

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An Innovative Partnership Between National And Regional Partnerships: Stars Meets Mcpie, Karen Bean, Kim K. Buch Dr., Teresa Dahlberg Dr., Tiffany Barnes Dr., Audrey Rorrer, Linda Cagley Dec 2014

An Innovative Partnership Between National And Regional Partnerships: Stars Meets Mcpie, Karen Bean, Kim K. Buch Dr., Teresa Dahlberg Dr., Tiffany Barnes Dr., Audrey Rorrer, Linda Cagley

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

The Students & Technology in Academia, Research, and Service (STARS) Computing Corps is a nationally-connected system of regional partnerships among higher education, K-12 schools, industry and the community, with a mission to broaden the participation of women, under-represented minorities and persons with disabilities in computing (BPC). With support from National Science Foundation funding, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte founded the STARS Alliance (now the STARS Computing Corps) which includes 44 universities, each with its own “constellation” of local and regional partnerships. McClintock Partners in Education (McPIE) is a partnership between a middle school, a church, and their surrounding …

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Learning From Struggling Readers: The Impact Of A Community-Based Service Learning Project On Teacher Preparation, Jean Rattigan-Rohr, Ye He, Mary Beth Murphy Dec 2014

Learning From Struggling Readers: The Impact Of A Community-Based Service Learning Project On Teacher Preparation, Jean Rattigan-Rohr, Ye He, Mary Beth Murphy

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

With the growing number of diverse struggling readers in K-12 settings in the United States, it is critical to provide opportunities for students to enhance reading skills beyond classroom settings, for families to be involved in reading education, and for teachers to be better prepared to work with both students and their families. In this study, we described a community-based service learning project, the Village Project, that highlights the collaboration among the university, schools, and local community partners. Through reciprocal learning process, not only did struggling readers and families benefited from the program, preservice teacher candidates involved in the project …

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A Privileged Pedagogy For Privileged Students? A Preliminary Mixed-Methods Analysis Comparing First-Generation And Non-First-Generation College Students On Post-Evaluations Of Service-Learning Courses, Stephanie A. Wilsey, Jessica Friedrichs, Chrys Gabrich, Ting-Ting Chung Dec 2014

A Privileged Pedagogy For Privileged Students? A Preliminary Mixed-Methods Analysis Comparing First-Generation And Non-First-Generation College Students On Post-Evaluations Of Service-Learning Courses, Stephanie A. Wilsey, Jessica Friedrichs, Chrys Gabrich, Ting-Ting Chung

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

Service-learning is frequently described as a high-impact teaching activity that benefits students in numerous ways. However, fewer studies explore how underserved students respond to service-learning courses, and fewer still look specifically at first-generation college students. First generation college students face numerous documented obstacles to persisting and achieving in college, and a need exists for more systematic study of whether service-learning pedagogy supports or challenges first generation students as they face and overcome those obstacles. This study compared 260 undergraduate students, approximately half of whom were first-generation college students, and their self-reported gains in three student learning outcomes: academic enhancement, personal …

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Improving Legal Writing: A Life-Long Learning Process And Continuing Professional Challenge, Kathleen Elliott Vinson Dec 2014

Improving Legal Writing: A Life-Long Learning Process And Continuing Professional Challenge, Kathleen Elliott Vinson

Touro Law Review

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You've Got Rhythm: Curriculum Planning And Teaching Rhythm At Work In The Legal Writing Classroom, Debra Moss Curtis Dec 2014

You've Got Rhythm: Curriculum Planning And Teaching Rhythm At Work In The Legal Writing Classroom, Debra Moss Curtis

Touro Law Review

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