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Dairy Farming in Wisconsin During the Depression: The Milk Strikes of 1933
(2018-12-19)This paper will discuss the Wisconsin Milk Strikes of 1933. To understand what happened during the Milk Strikes, this paper will go over a general history of farming in the state up to the Depression in 1933. Upon ... -
Hasenfus: Iran-Contra and the Man Who Broke the Scandal
(2018-12-19)While Ronald Reagan and Oliver North became the faces of the Iran-Contra affair, one man transitioned from a position on the front page of every newspaper in America to an afterthought of a government scandal. Eugene ... -
Hmong Acculturation in West-Central Wisconsin A Comparison of Oral Histories
(2017-12-21)When the United States pulled out of Southeast Asia following the Vietnam War, they left behind an ethnic group that would soon be targeted for extermination. The Hmong of Laos assisted the United States during the war, ... -
Constructing and Deconstructing the Home Front: The Badger Army Ammunition Plant and Rural Wisconsin, 1941-1998
(2017-12-21)The Badger Ordnance Works was once the largest ammunition plant in the world, producing thousands of tons of propellants, explosives, and acids over the course of three wars. By March of 1942, the farmers who had fought ... -
Metamorphic Petrography and Geochemistry of a Garnetiferous Gneiss in the Tobacco Root Mountains, Southwestern Montana
(2018-05)Both our sample and the Australian garnet gneiss are made primarily of banded iron/manganese garnets, quartz, with lesser magnetite, and trace monzite, ilmenite, grunerite, and biotite. Our sample, the Australian gneiss, ... -
Numerical Modeling of Bipolarons in Organic Magnetoconductance
(2018-05)Carbon-based, or organic semiconductors have several advantages over their conventional silicon-based counterparts. Notably, organic semiconductors can be used in the construction of flexible LED displays and thin-film ... -
A Review of the Literature Pertaining to Noncompliance
(2018-05)A lot of research exists to address noncompliance for children and adults. Several reviews of the literature pertaining to noncompliance exist; however, none of the reviews have investigated the functions of noncompliance ... -
Holocaust Memory and Public History: Examining Holocaust Museums from 1947-2001
(2018-12-19)Holocaust museums and memorials are central features to Holocaust memory and education. The phrase “Never Again” continues to be a theme in Holocaust memory, which has led to the support for Holocaust education. The ... -
History of Displacement and Oppression: US Refugee Policy and its Effects on Hmong Resettlement
(2018-12-19)This paper discusses the US refugee policies that played a key role in refugee and immigration policy in the United States, especially on the Hmong who were resettled here after the Vietnam War. Additionally, this paper ... -
Improving reading in Chinese elementary school students
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Single Rotor, Dual Stator Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Motor Design, Analysis and Test
(2019)The Axial Flux Permanent Magnet (AFPM) motor is a unique machine topology which possesses advantages over Radial Field Permanent Magnet (RFPM) machines. Over the last several decades this uniqueness has garnered interest, ... -
Teaching phonics to elementary school students in china
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Drunk driving: existing programs fail to stop the problem
(2019-05-13)