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Excessive Individualism and the Rhetoric of Poverty: How Personal Responsibility and Dependency Do Not Teach a Man to Fish
We live in a world where institutions can't be trusted, individualism is one of the highest shared values, and we miss a sense of community. How does this atmosphere and outlook on life affect our discussion of poverty? ... -
Exclusionary Zoning and Justice: Concentrated Disadvantage, Intergenerational Poverty, Persistent Legality
Zoning laws—laws that govern what can and cannot be done with land in America—are found in nearly every major US city. First adopted in 1916 by New York City, they were a way for cities to regulate the exposure of their ... -
Execution Workers Mental Health Policy Recommendation
Conversations around the Death Penalty often focus on its morality and concepts such as retribution and deterrence. This paper considers the people who perform executions and how their work impacts them. Execution workers ... -
Expanding Immigrant Access to Welfare: A Moral Obligation
Immigrants who arrive in the United States illegally have no access to federal benefits at all, relying mostly on charity and emergency health care services. The proposed reform, however, would move many of these illegal ... -
Expanding the Effects of "The Great Equalizer": Schools as Health Centers in Low-Access Rural Communities
Poor children in rural communities face numerous barriers to health care access. School-based health centers (SBHCs) are a potential solution to health care access disparities and may have larger effects on health outcomes ... -
The Expansion of Tayssir CCT Program: Increasing Girls' Secondary Educational Attainment in Rural Morocco
This paper examines ways in which the conditional cash transfer program Tayssir can help increase girls' secondary school attainment in rural areas of Morocco. Currently, the Tayssir program only targets children at the ... -
An Experimental Determination of the Incorporation of Trace Metals into Calcite (thesis)
A new experimental method to synthesize calcite crystals via aqueous slow diffusion was used to examine the level of incorporation of six different trace metal (Co, Mn, Pb, Hg, As, Se) contaminants in calcite. The aqueous ... -
An Experimental Study of Selected Remedial Reading Techniques
Throughout the past two decades a great deal or attention has been focused upon the correction of poor reading habits. Reliable clinical procedures aimed at correcting defective reading habits have been brought into use ... -
The Exploitation of Legal, Temporary Workers in the United States
The population of legal temporary workers has fluctuated at different points in U.S. history, but their work conditions have remained almost universally abysmal. Historical patterns of employer behavior and political policy ... -
Exploring Challenges to Nonprofit Engagement in Advocacy
Existing literature on nonprofit advocacy focuses on which environmental or organizational factors influence whether nonprofits engage in advocacy, as well as whether their advocacy influences change. This paper explores ... -
Exploring Community Trends in Juvenile Justice
This study examines the need and effectiveness of alternative rehabilitative services for juvenile delinquents in the Rockbridge County school system and juvenile justice system. We believe that juvenile delinquency has ... -
Exploring Extreme Points and Related Properties of Tsirelson Space (thesis)
Tsirelson space was constructed in 1974 as the first example of a Banach space without an embedded c0 or lp space. In 1989, Casazza and Shura wrote a book Tsirelson's Space devoted to Tsirelson space and its many properties. ... -
Exploring Obesity In Rockbridge County
Obesity as an illness is misunderstood. The common misconception is that obesity is an individual's problem and that obesity stems only from irresponsible nutrition. Evidence reveals that the reality of obesity as a disease ... -
Exploring Text-Based Analysis of Test-Case Dependencies of Web Applications
Web applications must be reliable as the number and popularity of web applications increases. Web applications are difficult to test because of the large input space and frequent changes. Thus their characteristics demand ... -
Exploring Text-Based Analysis of Test-Case Dependencies of Web Applications (thesis)
Web applications must be reliable as the number and popularity of web applications increases. Web applications are difficult to test because of the large input space and frequent changes. Thus, their characteristics demand ... -
Exploring the Implications of the Informal Sector: Drawing on Personal Experiences in Ghana and Research on Peru
Ultimately, the informal sector refers to the individuals and organizations that operate outside the scope of the legal system. Because the informal sector does not have strict entry barriers, essentially anyone can ... -
Exporting U.S. Goods and Services in a Down Economy: Not Just Tilting at Windmills
It is time to recognize that there is a great deal of Latin American influence in the United States and as such, the business practices and needs of both regions overlap. By analyzing Latin American economies and cultures, ... -
Extension and Improvements of Washington and Lee University Campus, Lexington, Virginia
The extensions and developnents of Washington and Lee Campus discussed in this thesis are considered by the authors as necessary and important to properly open and prepare the way for the future University. The University ...