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Instigating Victorian Morality: The Clapham Sect And The Reformation of Manners Campaign (thesis)
In the reformation of manners campaign the Clapham sect attempted to apply universal moral principles to the different classes of British society in different ways. Bifurcated methods of engagement with the upper and lower ... -
Institutional Influences on the Supreme Court's Interstate Commerce Clause Jurisprudence (thesis)
To address these questions regarding the impact of institutional factors on the Supreme Court in NFIB v. Sebelius, this thesis will first examine two competing academic theories on how judges decide cases: the attitudinal ... -
International Aid Responses to Crimes Against Humanity verses Natural Disasters: The Case of Rwanda, Darfur and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
Regardless of the cause of mass loss of life, it is the responsibility of all to recognize need, acknowledge cause and provide aid in times of disaster. It is the responsibility of nations to educate their citizens to ... -
International Commodity Agreements: Key to Development?
This paper has attempted to bring the methods and purposes of international commodity agreements into focus and to thus discover whether they are worth the energy which the poor countries might exert to form them. I have ... -
The International Law on Climate Change and Its Effect on the World's Poor
This paper first reviews the problem of climate change. Secondly, it surveys current and proposed international law in this area. Third, it examines the contextual situation and the difference that have arisen between ... -
International Measurements of Womens Poverty and Capability Approach
This paper attempts to evaluate international poverty measurements using the capability approach developed by Nobel Prize winning economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. Capabilities measurements of poverty are better suited ... -
International Moral Obligation Towards Sierra Leone in Light of Conflict Diamonds
So, what does a case such as Sierra Leone imply in regards to moral obligations that ought to be considered by more affluent nations around the globe? There are a few steps that have to be taken in order to accomplish the ... -
An Interpretation of Sri Ramakrishna's Approach to Religious Truth and the Situation of Religious Plurality
To be sure, the differences in the various religious ??? Which are to be faced by any individual concerned with understanding the situation of religious pluralism are multifaceted. These differences become manifest in the ... -
The Intersection of Poverty and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Study of Institutional and Individual Disparities in Healthcare for Autism
This paper explores several published articles that report on the intersections between poverty and autism spectrum disorder. Several authors state that access to care for this mental health issue is limited for disadvantaged ... -
An Intersectional Approach to Immigrants in Public Education: The Mediating Effect of Income for Immigrant Students in the U.S. Public Education System
While literature has defined barriers for educational success experienced both by foreign-born and low-income students, there is little exploration of the way in which these disadvantages are compounded by each other and ... -
Intervention to Change Environmental and Information Communication Technology (ICT) Identities (thesis)
Two roles that have become increasingly relevant in education are one's place in the technological and natural worlds. The first role, labeled information communication identity (ICT), is how much one includes hardware ... -
The Interwoven Fabric Of Humanity: A Merleau-Pontian Ethics (thesis)
Given this phenomenological approach to metaphysics, we return to the overriding question of this paper: Based on Merleau-Ponty's account of humanity, how are human beings obligated to act towards one another? I will ... -
An Introduction to Stochastic Self-Assembly: Theory, Simulation and Experimental Applications (thesis)
We introduce three stochastic cooperative models for particle deposition and evaporation relevant to ionic self-assembly of nanoparticles with applications in surface fabrication and nanomedicine. We present a method for ... -
An Introduction to the Epistemology of Immanuel Kant: With Special Consideration of Transcendental Aesthetic
In the Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant attempts to resolve the problem of how it is possible for men to make synthetic a priori judgments. This was a problem which had been developing in his thinking for many years. ... -
Inversion and the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
Whatever the reason, lesbianism was often seen as vampiric, monstrous, and even predatory. Bishop alludes to some of these socially deviant qualities in her work, creating characters that often possess traces of such ... -
Investigating Group Threat's Role in the Relationship Between Attitudes Towards Black People and State-Level Punitiveness (thesis)
This thesis is about understanding the relationship between group threat and punitiveness at the state level. In Chapter 1, I begin by giving an account of the history of racialized mass incarceration and how it's been ... -
Investigating the Role of Implicit Class Bias in the Clinical Encounter: A Call to Eliminate Health Disparities
Despite their explicit commitment to providing equal care, studies suggest that implicit prejudice and stereotyping can impact the judgment and behavior of healthcare providers when they interact with stigmatized patients. ... -
An Investigation into the Fear of Death
Our thesis shall be to investigate the fear of death and the belief that death is an evil. By clarifying our notions about death as a harm to the individual I hope to show how many of our fears about death may be unwarranted ... -
An Investigation of Intersubunit Bridges Important for Ribosome Stability in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
The ribosome, a large ribonucleoprotein complex responsible for protein biosynthesis, is composed of two unequal subunits that must correctly associate for 1 proper function. X-ray crystallographic and cryo-EM studies have ...