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Thesis Chapter 6: Prelude To Matewan

The Paint Creek and Cabin Creek strikes resulted in the use of martial law in a manner that had never drawn so much public, political and media attention before or after its occurrence. The offenders were denied the writ of habeas corpus while the military courts functioned above the civil

Thesis Chapter 5: Kanawha Responsibilities

In Lukes’s three-dimensional view of power, the concept of power is built up in layers. In the first dimensional view of power, understanding power “involves a focus of behavior in the making of decisions on issues over which there is an observable conflict of (subjective) interests, seen as express

Thesis Chapter 4: The Unionization of Kanawha

The events of the three southern West Virginia coal mine wars are most often presented as if the coal miners are the victims. The coal operators are the individuals whom the miners had their contentions with, but such feelings were not easy to direct at the operators. In the historical

Thesis Chapter 3: Transition To the Coal Fields

There is no evidence of mass movements of people occurring in West Virginia after the settlements of the 1850s through the 1880s as the state was slowly industrializing. From 1880 and through the next two decades, a huge influx of outsiders occurred for the purposes of land development for timber

Thesis Endnotes

i - Despite President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, Union states did not have to oblige. During the West Virginia Constitutional Convention that concluded in 1863, an emancipation clause was included to gradually free all of the slaves in the state. On February 3, 1865, all

Thesis References

Ambler, C.H. (1951). A history of education in West Virginia: From early colonial times to 1949. Morgantown, WV: Standard Printing & Publishing Company. Bowman, J.R. (1989). Capitalist collective action: Competition, cooperation and conflict in the coal industry. United Kingdom: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge. Callahan, J.

Thesis Chapter 2: Leftover Influences and New Commanders

When West Virginia became a state in 1863, strong socio-economic class divisions existed. These divisions widened as immigrants flooded the state with their hopes to become independently successful farmers or to make a living as skilled wage earners. Absentees continued to seek fortunes from West Virginia’s vast wealth of

Land Restoration

My Capstone on Landfill Covers is located here: An Assessment on the Effectiveness of the Environmental Protection Agency Regulations on Landfill Covers (June 2021)Thesis Abstract Landfill covers are constructed under Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to prevent leachate from infiltrating the groundwater. Landfills are areas that become Superfund sites,

Thesis Chapter 1: The Origin of the Power Struggle

Chapter 1: The Origin of the Power Struggle The southern West Virginia coal mine wars demonstrate a socio-economic and political class struggle between the coal miners and the coal mine owners and coal operators. This discussion shows no propensity to specifically justify either side’s actions, but presents the historical

Thesis Introduction

A hillbilly. A peculiar individual. That is what mainstream Americans think in today’s society when they hear any mention of Appalachian dwellers. The typical stereotype is of an uneducated, backwoods, mountain-dwelling, live-off-of-the-land sort of individual. Such a preconception toward a particular group of people may have prevailed amongst the

Building My Education Across Multiple Degrees

Restorative Blueprinting™ emerged from my educational background and passion for understanding the big picture mechanics of group behavior. I didn’t follow a linear academic path—I built a strategic, interdisciplinary framework from the ground up. Each degree I earned was chosen to serve a specific function in understanding people,

Restorative Blueprinting™ - Mission Statement

Restorative Blueprinting™ provides educational and consulting services in governance, social, and ecological systems, offering classes, workshops, and tools to design, repair, and sustain interconnected human and environmental systems. Focus areas include sociology, environmental science, public policy, and law, with programs that also support emotional healing in a non-clinical, educational context,