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Captain Joseph Deverell and the 108th NYV Infantry
(2013-04-20)This presentation examines the unpublished documents of Captain Joseph Deverell, 108th New York Volunteer Infantry, as a case study of the Northern experience during the Civil War. Specifically, Captain Deverell’s records ... -
Challenging the Cognitive and Physical Reserve of Aging Adults Through the Development of a Central New York Aging Readiness Plan
(2013-04-20)This presentation investigates the unprecedented number of older adults, namely the Baby Boomer generation, who are entering retirement. The need for aging ready communities is omnipresent. Seniors' desire to age in place ... -
Relationship Between Self-determination Factors and Korean International Students' Lives and Mental Health
(2013-04-20)This study aims to understand the intersection of the Korean culture and the life of Korean international students in the United States. International students are generally considered voluntary immigrants who chose to ... -
Water as Death and Life: Traces of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Funerary and Baptismal Rites
(2013-04-20)The cultural practices of birth and death are part of the basic fabric of a society. There is no discussion of death and the afterlife without a complementary discussion of life and birth, both physical and spiritual. These ... -
The Importance of a Positive Teacher-Student Relationship and Its Impact on Student
(2013-04-20)A strong, meaningful teacher-student relationship plays an important role not only in the academic success and achievement of students, but also in the shaping of the students’ overall lives. Studies have been conducted ... -
The Economic Value of Early Childhood Education
(2013-04-20)Research shows that we have invested in the wrong capital; we need to invest in human capital. Human capital is education. The most effective education begins before birth, but formal education only starts at age five. ... -
The Impact of Economic Performance on College Enrollment
(2013-04-20)The purpose of this research is to examine the potential impact of the most recent recession on enrollment in higher education institutions. This paper theorizes that there has been an increase in university attendance ... -
Reading Intervention as Recommended for Parents and Guardians by Literacy Specialists in Rural Schools
(2013-04-20)This presentation will give elementary education teachers, literacy specialists, and school administrators insight into the methods and materials that are most effective in supporting students with reading vulnerabilities. ... -
Strategy Analysis: Football’s Response to Public Concussion Criticism
(2013-04-20)Heads-Up Football is a campaign recently implemented by USA Football in partnership with the National Football League to promote concussion awareness in youth football organizations. Beginning in August, of 2012 the program ... -
Cuba Dances: an Ethnographic Journey Across Borders
(2013-04-20)Arriving into the island where isolation has preserved generations of embodied traditions, time stood still yet fluidly dialoguing with the Revolution of 1959. The line between history and present is blurred in the city ... -
Incorporating Young Adult Literature Into School Curriculum
(2013-04-20)With the shift towards non-fiction in the Common Core State Standards, educators are left with the dilemma of why and how to incorporate Young Adult Literature into school curriculum while still adhering to student learning ... -
The Effects of In-Prison Literacy Education on Prisoner Rehabilitation and Recidivism
(2013-04-20)This session demonstrates the impact of Literacy Education within incarceration facilities on prisoners' reentry into society. It reveals the difference in recidivism rates by those inmates who take part in the programs ... -
Deconstructing Nationalism: Steven Spielberg’s World War II Trilogy
(2013-04-20)This essay discusses the formal and thematic unity of Steven Spielberg’s World War Two films--Empire of the Sun (1987), Schindler’s List (1993), and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Contrary to critics who characterize Spielberg ... -
The Circular Theory in Chinese Classical Dance and American Modern Dance
(2013-04-20)Every dance exists in a complex network of relationship to other dances. The similarities could be found more or less if one look deeply into the origins and cultural backgrounds of different types of dance. This study ... -
Combining Static and Dynamic Permission Analysis for Android
(2013-04-20)As the world becomes increasingly reliant on mobile technologies, so has the importance of research in the area of mobile security in order to protect users and their data. My research is focused on the Android permissions-based ... -
“Motherland of Marxism is Germany; Motherland of Leninism is Russia; Motherland of Marxism-Leninism in Our Era is Korea”: The Black Panther Party’s Fascination with North Korea
(2013-04-20)The Black Panther Party (BPP) while focused on the domestic problems in the United States also sought relationships with other “nations” oppressed by American Imperialism. Thus, the BPP established relationships with the ... -
"For Liberty and Constitution": William Smith of New York's Alternative to the American Revolution
(2013-04-20)My current research interests include the intellectual and political history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, focusing primarily on issues of loyalism during the era of the American Revolution. With a considerable ... -
Intercolonial Migration: The Coming of the Revolution in New Hampshire and Massachusetts
(2013-04-20)This presentation explores the origins of the American Revolution in New Hampshire. Specifically, it seeks to explain how a colony that had calmly weathered the 1760s, when the first rounds of British taxation had inflamed ... -
"Some Unnatural Monster?": The Crime of Infanticide in Antebellum New York City, a Case Study
(2013-04-20)“‘Some Unnatural Monster?’: The Crime of Infanticide in Antebellum New York City, a Case Study,” is a micro-history of the case of Barbara Weidemeyer, a widowed mother indicted and prosecuted for the crime of infanticide ... -
A Woman's Place is in Her Union: Gender, Race, and the Creation of the UAW's Women's Bureau
(2013-04-20)This paper investigates the intersection of race and gender among labor union leadership near the end of World War II. Other historians have thoroughly demonstrated that most unions were concerned exclusively with the ...
