This thesis is a bottom-up narrative about the black tobacco workers of the Campbell Tobacco Company in Louisville Kentucky between 1915 and 1930. It focuses on the lived experiences and working conditions for these workers, specifically in the year 1920. This thesis addresses t…
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This project concentrates on the concept of mentoring and developing young men who are aspiring to enter full-time ministry through Porter Memorial Baptist Church. Chapter 1 describes the ministry context of the church. The description is focused on the history of the church, an…
We investigated the relationship between river hydrology and least tern (Sterna antillarum athalassos) reproductive success on the Lower Mississippi River between Cairo, Illinois and Caruthersville, Missouri from 1986 through 1992. We also investigated least tern foraging behavi…
Although the Lower Mississippi River has been intensively studied, few studies have investigated meandering processes in the river when the channel was considered to be relatively free of major human disturbance. This research is significant in that it provides a detailed examin…
Field experiments were conducted in Kentucky and Louisiana in 2008 and 2009 (split-plot in a randomized complete block design with four replications) to investigate it is possible to simulate with manual defoliation the effect of soybean rust (SBR) (Phakopsora pachyrhizi Syd. an…
The Serviceman's Readjustment Act, informally known as the G.I. Bill, has long been regarded as one of the most influential pieces of legislation that has ever been passed by Congress. According to Suzanne Mettler's groundbreaking book, Soldiers to Citizens, 80% of the men who w…
The main objectives of this research focus on the testing of selected model for the development of resource frontier regions; to point out the principal implications of the different development strategies on the socio-economic conditions in the subject areas; and to propose a m…
This is an examination of an early twentieth century adult literacy movement in Kentucky and its founder, Cora Wilson Stewart. The study is attentive to the rhetoric of literacy in the context of both the reform environment in which it took hold and Stewart's biography. The stud…
This study evaluated secondary traumatic stress (STS) levels in 89 employees from Kentucky’s 15 regional domestic crisis programs to determine whether certain demographic variables predicted STS levels (as measured by the Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale©) and whether employee p…
For many species, life history events are cyclical and often correspond to specific environmental conditions. As a result of environmental variability, the optimal conditions that regulate the range and activity of highly regulated cyclical organisms, like cicadas, are subject t…
This thesis considers the potential of grief and mourning to foster meaningful engagement with global ecological crises. I explore this potential through my own studio practice, positioning artworks and creative processes as vehicles for articulating collective experiences of lo…