Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects
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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Walton Way: A Tradition of Excellence, Jana Hoffman
Place and the ESOL Student in the Middle School Environment, Michael Lee Irving
A Strong-Minded Southern Woman: Sarah Joe Alston Claiborne, Catharine M. Johnson
Gaining Admission to the Medical Discourse Community: The Importance of Method Within Homeopathic Research, Katharina Jorgensen
From Homer to Hip-Hop: Using Popular Music to Teach Composition, Rebecca Kraegel
Multi-Family Businesses — An Exploratory Study of Trust and Intergroup Relations, Jerry Kudlats
Antecedents and Outcomes of the Investment in Internal Auditing and the Moderating Role of Family Business Culture, Debra J. Lasher
Case Study of Participants in a Site-Based Secondary Mathematics Methods Course and Internship: Three Teachers in Transition, Alyson Elizabeth Lischka
Poverty Reduction in Burundi: A Case Study of the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid, Josiane Mapango
Sunflower Seeds & Quarter Waters, Imani Marshall
Two Essays on the Degree of Globalization of a Firm: Measurement, Antecedents, and Consequences, Victor B. Marshall
A Case Study of How Elementary Special Educators' Perspectives Influence Learning Opportunities Afforded to Students with Intellectual Disabilities, Shari Kay McCrary
From the Margins to the Middle: Making Room for Visual Rhetoric in the Composition Classroom, Montyne H. Morris
Stone Cold Secrets, Victoria L. Mujahid
The Drivers of Future Generosity Behavioral Intentions of College Service-Learning Experience Participants, Jeananne Nicholls
Mother is Supreme: A Memoir, Nneka M. Okona
The Effects of Work Schedule Flexibility on Job Satisfaction of Telephone Advice Nurses, Angela D. O'Neal
Extended Stakeholder Orientation: Influence on Innovation Orientation and Firm Performance, Vijay K. Patel
Institutional Theory and Cross-National Differences in International Market Selection for Direct Selling, Charles B. Ragland
Family Matters, Jennifer L. Rau
A Taxonomy of Regulations: The Effect of Regulation on Selling Activities, John F. Riggs
Digital Rhetoric: Doing Things with Words Online, Lisa M. Russell
Mind Warp, Dina Schwartz
Writing Portfolio, Stephanie Sidney
Relationship of a Healthy Work Environment to Retention of Direct Care Nurses in a Hospital Setting, Ashlee P. Thomas
Clandestine Partnerships?: The Link between Human Trafficking and Organized Crime in Metropolitan Atlanta, Tara M. Tripp
Two Papers on "How Perceptions of Fairness and Influences of Social Capital and Source Credibility Matter to Compensation Committees And Investors", Anne M. Wilkins
Pay-for-Performance System in the Department of Defense: A Case Study of the National Security Personnel System, Kenneth P. Woods
Interactive Learning Modules for the Reproductive Health Assessment Toolkit for Conflict-Affected Women, Erin S. Wright
Planning and Implementing Online Instruction: Faculty Perceptions of One University, James M. Wright
Posthuman: The Great Beyond, Jason L. Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Soul's Enslavers, Brenna L. Aldrich
A Critical Examination of the Relationship between Student Performances on Assessments of English Language Proficiency and Academic Achievement, Margaret E. D. Baker
Religious Control Within Georgia's Women's Prisons and How It Influences Sexual Identities, Gwendelyn L. Ballew
Volunteerism and Charitable Giving among the Millennial Generation: How to Attract and Retain Millennials, Eniko Eva Baranyi
Life, Love, Sex, and Everything In Between, Patti Beckett
Traumatic Family Narratives in a Cosmopolitan World: Identity in American Third Generation Holocaust Survivors, Karen L. Burton
Tapping My Way Through World War II, Janice G. Carter
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Family Perspectives on Home-School Connections and Family Engagement: A Case Study of Four Middle Class Latin American Families, Janet Elizabeth Pierce Clark
Designing Our Tribe with Online Learning in an Elementary Classroom, Timothy Neal Clark
The Gamer, Heather Cook
Artists Connect, Barbara Ann Cramer
Find Me Here, Kristi DeMeester
When the Crisis Communications Plan is the Crisis, Kim Dimson
An Analysis of Teachers’ Discourse and Their Perceptions Concerning the Use of Questioning and Feedback during Reading Instruction in Third-Grade Classrooms, Jennifer C. Farist
Preserving Roswell: The Voices of Historic Preservation in Roswell, Georgia, Emily Suzanne Fox
The Effects of Peer Coaching for Technology Integration on Teachers’ Comfort, Practice, and Student Technology Literacy, Tricia Cauffiel Frazier
A Comparative Analysis of Effective School Board Leadership: The Case of Gwinnett County and Atlanta City Public Schools, Joshua Allen Garner
The Comparative Effects of Two Types of Photographic Visual Supports on the Acquisition of Independent Performance of Multi-Step Tasks by Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Cindy Denise Golden