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"Where Only Machine-Gun Fire Brings Us Together": Exploring Camaraderie and Human Connection in War Poetry (thesis)
Camaraderie helps redeem and blunt the horrors of war for some soldiers in some wars. While noting the value of camaraderie, this thesis examines in which wars camaraderie and connection characterize the war experience and ... -
Which Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Models Most Effectively Enable Firms to Increase Profits Ethically?
. . . I have consolidated a wide range of previously published research. From studying academic journals to case studies, I focused on four CSR models: the shared value initiative, the win-win model, delegated philanthropy, ... -
Which Will Survive? An Investigation into the Modeling of Complex Ecosystems
When modeling the population of a species, the logistic equation is the first that is invoked; however, this model has some shortcomings when predicting actual population change. This has led to the search of a model that ... -
Who Gets Hurt: Sexual Exploitation Among Women During Episodes of Homelessness
While the issue of homelessness has been heavily researched, the relationship between sexual assault among women experiencing homelessness remains an underacknowledged subject. Moreover, although both sexual assault and ... -
Who Is Poor? Poverty in the United States Re-examined from a Multidimensional Perspective
Poverty is a long-established economic outcome worthy of scholarly and political concern. The issue of addressing poverty deals primarily with identification: who is poor? This paper constructs a Multidimensional Poverty ... -
Why Doesn't She Leave? Civil Protection Orders for Low-Income Women Facing Economic Abuse
Economic abuse is a serious form of domestic violence that is devastating to women of low socioeconomic status. Victims of this abuse should be given the opportunity to tailor a civil protection order to meet their needs ... -
Why Openness Matters: Evidence from the Developing World
In this paper I present a realistic scenario about the open-economy framework. I acknowledge the unfair practices imposed by the industrialized nations lead to structural adjustments in the domestic economy. However, I ... -
Why Should America Support the Earned Income Tax Credit?
The purpose of this paper is first and foremost to bring more attention to the Earned Income Tax Credit and to respond to growing arguments against it. First, I will explain the arguments and attacks. Then, I will explain ... -
A Will Independent of Society: Publius, Woodrow Wilson, and the Crisis of Confidence Caused by the Administrative State (thesis)
The phrase the "Administrative State" offers perhaps the best description of the strange, distinctly American amalgamation of republican, constitutional principles and monarchical administrative practices. More than the ... -
William Halsey: Abstract Expressionist in the South
Unfortunately, artists like William Halsey often do not have extensive records, biographical data, or written texts. Information rests in family members' memories, scrapbooks, disorganized archives, and the art itself. ... -
Wittgenstein on the Groundlessness of Our Fundamental Empirical and Religious Beliefs
This paper first examines Wittgenstein's treatment in On Certainty of the groundlessness of our fundamental beliefs. It then examines some 'groundless' aspects of religious (specifically Christian) beliefs, looking for ... -
Women's Involvement in Music History (thesis)
Throughout history, women have made a lasting impact on the progress of music. Women's impact was initially limited because of traditional social norms, lack of extra time, little availability for music education, and need ... -
Women's Reproductive Health in Rockbridge County: A Community-Based Research Project
In Lexington, women's reproductive health issues have reached prominence of late, especially those of obstetric and prenatal care, because of the birthing center at Stonewall Jackson Carilion Hospital in April 2010. When ... -
Women's Reproductive Healthcare in Kenya
In an effort to shed light on the health related barriers that women in Kenya are exposed to on a regular basis, this paper aims to promote a new sense of fairness and understanding for how to reform Kenya's reproductive ... -
Women's Suffrage in Britain: From Chartist Exclusion to Pankhurst Radicalism (thesis)
Although the language has changed somewhat, there remains a constancy in the way "moral principles" ultimately stifle opportunities available to women, keeping them on unequal grounds with men. Upper- and middle-class women ... -
Won't Pay, or Can't Pay: An Analysis of Contempt as a Remedy for Child Support Arrearages owed by Low-Income Obligors
This paper investigates contempt as a remedy for child support arrearages. The thrust of the author's argument is this: while contempt is a perfectly acceptable remedy when the contemnor has the ability to pay, it cannot ... -
Wordsworth's Philosophy of Nature and Mind
Although not designedly schematic Wardsworth's poems composed between 1798 and 1807 reveal certain principles and ideas which, when taken together, may be said to constitute a definite philosophy concerning nature and the ... -
Work for the Disabled: Federal and Local Initiatives
The goal of this paper is to examine federal policies towards disabled citizens and specifically the incentives provided to push disabled Americans towards work. This examination will include several case studies and a ...