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Justice Stanley F. Reed and the American Constitution
This paper is not a eulogy nor a polemic. Its purpose is neither to praise nor condemn the life and work of Justice Stanley Reed. Its aspiration is rather that of a portrait "warts and all" of a man who occupied for nineteen ... -
Justification for a Penny-Per-Ounce Excise Tax on Sugar Sweetened Beverages Under Two Ethical Frameworks
Increasingly obesity is becoming a greater problem in the United States. To curb this trend some policy makers have considered taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) which add unhealthy calories to the human diet. Some ... -
Key Expansionist Journey
The purchase by the United States Government from the Republic of Mexico of territory south of Arizona's Gila River, and a narrow strip along the southern most part of present day New Mexico, cannot be viewed as merely an ... -
The Key to the Future: Educational Funding in Alabama
In order to understand fully the effects of poverty on education, a detailed study of the state's taxation system must be undertaken. The regressiveness of Alabama's tax structure guarantees that equal opportunity will not ... -
The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: The Albigensian Crusade and the Subjugation of the Languedoc (thesis)
The conditions, which range from the predictable (stop sheltering and employing those identified by clerics as Jews and heretics) to the seemingly arbitrary (no new taxes or tolls on roads) to the bizarre (no eating more ... -
Kink-Band and Velocity-Boundary Interference (thesis)
The established techniques for constructing and restoring balanced cross sections using flexural slip work well for modeling simple faults and folds, but these methods show weaknesses when applied to more complicated ... -
Knowledge is Power: School-Based Nutrition Education and Childhood Obesity
The obesity epidemic is a growing problem. Adolescent and childhood obesity is compounding the already high obesity rates in the United States. If something is not done, almost all adults in the U.S. could be overweight ... -
Knowledge Through Participation: The Epistemic Status of Religious Belief
Critical philosophy has severely restricted the role of philosophy of religion. A hallmark of the critical approach is an acceptance of Locke's epistemological ethics: belief ought not to go beyond what explicit data or ... -
Knowledge Through Participation: The Epistemic Status of Religious Belief (thesis)
Critical philosophy has severely restricted the role of philosophy of religion. A hallmark of the critical approach is an acceptance of Locke's epistemological ethics: belief ought not to go beyond what explicit data or ... -
Koizora: A Mirroring of Keitai Shōsetsu in a "Novel" Approach to Modern Literature (thesis)
This thesis will explore the role of the cellular phone within the keitai shōsetsu literary phenomenon with focus on the development of an "intimate stranger" through keitai communication. I will discuss the historical ... -
La Pobreza Peninsular: Institucion, Individuo, Imaginacion (thesis)
Presento una manera diferente de ver la presentación de la pobreza española desde el principio de su inclusión en la esfera literaria ficticia. La literatura ficcional nunca olvida el alma del ser humano. El hecho de que ... -
La Reformulación de Civilización y Barbarie en la Literatura Que Habla Sobre el Peronismo (thesis)
En el presente trabajo, primero voy a definir el contexto histórico y el proyecto político de Sarmiento durante la publicación de Facundo. Después, voy a analizar el esquema polarizado de Sarmiento y lo que él entiende por ... -
The Lambda Property and Isometries for Higher Order Schreier Spaces (thesis)
For each n in N, let Sn be the Schreier set of order n and XSn be the corresponding Schreier space of order n. In their 1989 paper "The lambda-property in Schreier space S and the Lorentz space d(a, 1)," Th. Shura and D. ... -
The Land of the Stars: The Origin of Cy Twombly's Aesthetic (thesis)
My thesis focuses on a little-known backdrop Twombly painted for a children's Christmas program in 1953. The backdrop was first brought to my attention after The News-Gazette, the local Lexington newspaper, ran an archival ... -
Land, Women, and Power: The Bayeux Tapestry and the Secular Epic Tradition
As an artifact and representation of the Anglo-Norman period of English history, the Bayeux Tapestry stands unparalleled. The only surviving work of its kind, the Bayeux Tapestry provides information for scholars with ... -
Language and Representation in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
The self-aware form of Tristram Shandy thus separates it from novels of its own century and from those of the century that followed it. It is less evident how the novel significantly differs from more recent texts, which ...