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What my Mother Never Told Me about Birth
Sylvia Plath utilizes confessional poetry to subvert traditional gender roles and provide commentary on the expectations of those positions in both the domestic and social spheres. I argue that Plath uses the mother-figure ... -
What Really Works in Teacher Preparation Programs: Teachers' Self-Efficacy and Perceived Successful Methods After Participation in Mississippi's Career And Technical Education Alternate Route Program
The debate over the effective preparation of pre-service teachers is not new. Often this debate concerns what might be considered successful methods for all pre-service teachers. However, preparation for career and technical ... -
What the farm woman can do to improve the economic status of her family
(Mississippi Agricultural Experiment StationMississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, 1940-07-0) -
When Brand Extensions Backfire: Exploring the Reciprocal Effect of Negative Information of Brand Extensions on Parent Brand
Brand equity has been highlighted as one of the most valuable assets one company possesses. However, negative information related with brand extension, such as brand extension failures, can lead to negative perceptions, ... -
Where Things Thrive
Some of the main literary influences of my thesis include the works of Barry Hannah, Richard Ford, Flannery O?Connor, and Walker Percy. Barry Hannah, who not only focuses on the past but also manages to merge it with the ... -
White clover production in Mississippi
(Crop Science and Engineering Research Laboratory AR, SEA USDA in cooperation with Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment StationMississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, 1978-12) -
White Trash Girl
With his collected works, titled What About This, recently released, Frank Stanford has been resurrected in searing splendor. My thesis introduction will focus on Stanford’s first published collection, The Singing Knives. ... -
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) population dynamics in a multi-predator landscape
Indices of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) abundance in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan suggested the population declined 40% from the previous 5 year mean following 2 consecutive severe winters in the ... -
Whitehead (Alan) collection
MSS. 395. 1891-1909. 0.16 cubic feet. Letter (1891) from Stephen D. Lee, Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, to L.S. Sexton; carte de visite (undated) of Lee; pamphlet (1909) concerning the dedication of the ... -
Whitfield (Governor) photograph
MSS. 299. 1924. 0.01 cubic feet: 1 item. Photograph of Governor Henry L. Whitfield and staff, Jackson, Mississippi on inauguration day, January 22, 1924. -
Who Speaks for the Enslaved? Authorship and Reclamation in Octavia Butler's Kindred
Octavia Butler’s Kindred is often looked at as a historical science fiction novel. While there are critics who have discussed the slave narrative aspects of the novel, the way Butler tackles authorship and what it means ... -
Wholesale Beef Futures Contract
A wholesale beef futures contract has been suggested as a possible solution to recent problems in live cattle futures. However, it is uncertain whether the new futures contract will outperform the existing contract. In ... -
Why Can't a Woman Fly?: Nasa and the Cult of Masculinity, 1958-1972
This is an investigation into the history of masculinity in spaceflight during some of the tensest years of the Cold War era. This dissertation asks why the U.S. did not counter the Soviet launch of the first woman into ... -
"Why do we laugh when we should cry?...Is it only here in this sad island?": Gender, affect, and empire in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Johnston's Fool's Sanctuary
(Mississippi State UniversityJudy and Bobby Shackouls Honors CollegeDepartment of EnglishJudy and Bobby Shackouls Honors CollegeCollege of Arts and SciencesHonors Office of Undergraduate Research, 2016)British colonial literature has produced no shortage of the silent woman: she has surfaced in a variety of disguises as the domestic wife, the colonial woman, and the mysterious, exoticized other. For contemporary women ... -
Why Test Seed?
(Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment StationMississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, 1950)