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Sentencing Disparities of White Collar Crime and Non-White Collar Crime
97% of criminal prosecutions end in a plea deal. Thus, the sentence recorded by the United States Sentencing Commission is most likely a sentence negotiated during a pre-trial agreement. This paper will show that a disparity ... -
Sequence Stratigraphic and Structural Interpretation, Modeling and Restoration in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) (thesis)
This thesis examines Mesozoic progradational clinoform sequences, as well as deformation associated with the Brooks Range orogeny in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA). Brookian, Beaufortian and upper Ellesmerian ... -
Serpulids as Indicators of Mid-late Holocene Climate: Timing and Paleoclimate Significance of Large Worm Tube Aggregates, Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic
Large aggregates of calcareous serpulid worm tubes recorded paleoclimate conditions as they colonized the mid to late Holocene Enriquillo embayment, Dominican Republic. Serpulid worms flourished in the embayment following ... -
Setting the Precedent: NYC Education Reforms 2002-2007
This paper examines the process of reform in NYC, over the past five years, to determine whether the reforms have adequately addressed the problems within the NYC school system. The paper begins by examining the conditions ... -
Seven Novels of Angel Maria de Lera: Their Technique and Style, Their Characters, Their Meaning
The following paper is an analysis of seven novels of the contemporary Spanish writer Angel Maria de Lera. The intention is to evidence the maturation of Lera as a writer during the ten years that the seven novels cover ... -
"Sex explains it all": Gender in the Literature of Ernest Hemingway and Robert Frost
Gender is merely an attribute, rather than the single determining factor of one's identity, yet Hemingway and Frost both devised their own distinctly masculine personality -- a public image which became progressively more ... -
Sex For Survival: Prostitution, Poverty, and Inequality
For this topic, there has been a significant amount of work directly on prostitution and the accompanying theoretical or moral arguments. My aim is to analyze the different arguments on prostitution policy and select the ... -
Sex, Guns, and Theorems; The Legacy of Evariste Galois
Only ignorance of history can allow one to see mathematicians as those who lead boring, uneventful lives, and a brief look at the career of the French mathematician Evariste Galois (1811 - 1832) will put any skeptic to ... -
Sex, Sonnets, and Sermons: The Erotic Theology of John Donne
I intend to use the epithalamia or marriage songs, enhanced by analysis of Donne's sermons, as conceptual bridges to understand the persistence of sexual and physical language from Donne's.secular love poetry to his religious ... -
Sexuality and System in Thomas Hardy: The Affirmation of Experiential Over Moral Truth
This project is a psychological study of Thomas Hardy's developing attitude towards sexuality; specifically whether it could be brought into a constructive moral system, or whether the experience was fulfilling in its own ... -
Shakespeare and Succession Crisis: Shakespeare's Reimagining of Elizabeth I's Legacy in Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, and King Lear (thesis)
If Shakespeare's works can tell us anything, it is that the Elizabethan time was one filled with as much uncertainty as our own. There was no surety that we would all remember Elizabeth as the greatest queen in English ... -
Shakespeare's Folly: A Methodology of Fooling (thesis)
In Feste, Touchstone, and Lear's fool, we see the care Shakespeare bestowed on these characters. While neither particularly romantic nor overly dramatic figures, their role significantly aids the dramatic progression of ... -
Shattered Pasts and Uncertain Futures: Refugee Protection in the 21st Century
The plight of refugees is a significant international concern for many reasons. The sheer number of displaced persons represents disorder and societal disintegration, but more importantly, our responses to this plight ... -
She Closes Her Eyes to Herself: Nietzsche, Feminism, and Christianity
This paper works to examine the lives and arguments of early Christian female ascetics and modern feminist Christians through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche. The arguments against orthodox Christianity presented in Nietzsche ... -
She Closes Her Eyes to Herself: Nietzsche, Feminism, and Christianity (thesis)
This paper works to examine the lives and arguments of early Christian female ascetics and modern feminist Christians through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche. The arguments against orthodox Christianity presented in Nietzsche ... -
The Shellability of Simplices
Shelling can be looked at as a way of piecing together a surface ( or taking it apart), almost as if using legos. The pieces we are using are points, edges, triangles, tetrahedra, and larger n-dimensional cells. You can ... -
Sheltered: Images From a Life Among Shelter Pets and Their People
I hope to provide a glimpse into the shelter system that will leave my readers understanding that animal shelters are about so much more than euthanasia and adoptions. My goal is to prove that shelters are not limited to ... -
Shifting Borders: Language and Identity along the U.S-Mexico Border
Aimed at drawing to light the dynamic relationships between identity, language, and borders, this investigation first delves into a consideration of language as a tool to combat existential doubt in “Existence to Expression”. ... -
Should Americans Take Steps to Make Higher Education More Affordable for Poor Americans?
The cost of higher education in America has been constantly rising. The high cost is making it very difficult for low-income Americans to pursue a bachelor's degree. The inability for low-income Americans to obtain a degree ... -
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Recommendations for Short-Term Missions and Volunteering Abroad
This paper will begin with an analysis of the case against short-term service trips abroad . . . Part 1 will break down the case against these trips by dividing it into four distinct claims: a) Short-term term service ...