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Bitches Ain't Shit But Hoes and Tricks: An Examination of Gender in M.K. Asante's Buck
Throughout this essay, I will be examining how misogynistic language throughout Asante's adolescence, specifically in rap music and inner city street culture, establishes a tense and destructive stage for gender relations ... -
Black-Robe Shamans: The Jesuits and the Guarani Land-Without-Evil
The Jesuits utilized the appropriation of the Tupí-‐Guaraní culture and spiritual practices as a means of quasi-syncretic evangelization in the Southern Cone. However successful, this doctrinally controversial activity ... -
Blight in the Rural South: Proliferation, Remediation, and Ethical Claims
Across rural communities in the Southern United States, the proliferation of dilapidated structures which do not meet code enforcement standards (i.e. blight) has developed into a primary concern for many communities. Using ... -
Borders from Within and Without: Exploring Heterogeneity between National Identity Type and Immigration Attitudes in the U.S. (thesis)
Given the strong theoretical linkages connecting national identity and immigration attitudes, social scientists have granted arguably scant focus to empirically examining this relationship. Furthermore, despite the expansive ... -
Bound by Love: A Close-Examination of Amatory Curse Tablets or Defixiones (thesis)
Curse tablets display a particular prevalence throughout the Greco-Roman world. The earliest known tablets from classical antiquity were written in Greek and discovered in Selinus, Sicily, likely dating from the early 5th ... -
Bound: How Elimination of Forced Labor Will Reduce Poverty
In Part I, this paper will illustrate the presence of forced labor in the U.S. and globally. Part II will introduce current laws and mechanisms in place for fighting forced labor, and examine their efficacy, or lack thereof, ... -
Bounded: Comparative Study of the Italian Roma and the Navajo American Indian
First, I offer a brief history and background of each group, providing the reasons for their boundedness in the first place, a taste of their culture, and their origins as a group as we see them today. Second, I compare ... -
BRAAC Intern Training Manual
Blue Ridge Autism and Achievement Center's mission is to serve children and families who are faced with unique learning challenges, specifically autism and learning disabilities, in and around the Roanoke Valley. . . . ... -
Bread and Circuses: The Cult of Antiquity in the French Revolution
The Roman Juvenal wrote that the best way to quell civic unrest was to give the people what they want: bread and circuses. This thesis will explore Harold T. Parker's Cult of Antiquity in the French Revolution. Parker's ... -
A Break From Reality: Disturbing Dysfunctions & Making Sense of the Senseless Through the Character of Clelia Walgrave in Larry Shue's The Nerd
The Nerd, by Larry Shue, is a nonsensical take on conventions of domestic comedy in theater. This work examines the precursors and the frequently unfortunate aftermath of living life out of balance. Shue's textured precepts ... -
Breastfeeding and Socioeconomic Status An Analysis of Breastfeeding Rates Among Low-SES Mothers
This paper focuses on the implications of the previous data for low-income women and their infants. It provides an overview of the science behind breastfeeding—including the physical and psychological benefits for both ... -
BreezySLAM: A Simple, Efficient, Cross-platform Python Package for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (thesis)
BreezySLAM is a simple, efficient, multiplatform, open-source Python library for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. By using Python C extensions to wrap existing implementations of existing SLAM algorithms, BreezySLAM ... -
Bridging the Gap Between Family and School: After-School Programs for At-Risk Youth
Although the potential benefits of expanded after-school programming should be offered to all children, the focus of this paper will be exclusively on low-income, minority students -- those that face significant structural ... -
A Brighter, Healthier Future for SNAP: How Benefit Restrictions and Administrative Change Can Ensure a more Effective SNAP
SNAP is the largest and most important food program in the Federal Safety Net. Unfortunately, it does not currently meet its dual mandate of reducing food insecurity and improving nutritional outcomes. While it does reduce ... -
Broken Art: The Impact of Nazi Cultural Policy on Art
Every element of the Nazi Third Reich focused on collective strategy and conformity. Hitler reorganized the military, the government, and culture itself to create his new vision of a unified Germanic people. . . . As a ... -
The Broken Trust Doctrine
Most Americans are unaware of the pattern of injustices that the United States government has committed against Native Americans. Native Americans are among some of the poorest in America. The United States Civil Rights ... -
Bugs and Bacteria: A Survey of Water Quality and Ecosystem Health in Rockbridge County (thesis)
The Maury River and its tributaries comprise an understudied system within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed that is affected heavily by human disturbance. Water and sediment nitrate and E. coli concentrations were used in ... -
Building an Ethos of Killing: Comparing and Contrasting the World War II Combat Motivations of German soldiers on the Eastern Front and American Soldiers in the Pacific (thesis)
On the American side, it is traditional to view World War II as a righteous war fought by soldiers inspired by freedom and democracy, as Adams succinctly defines this view in The Best War Ever. However, this conception of ... -
Business Development and the Revitalization of Underdeveloped Local Economies
Predictable historical patterns have allowed poverty and associated social problems to dominate many economically underdeveloped communities. Intervening with prevailing free-market forces can help to reverse the cycle ... -
"...but what to do with the guilt?" Kantian Autonomy, Heideggerian Authenticity, and Human Lacking
Kantian autonomy and Heideggerian authenticity each have a place in a human life. To show this I must show how the two complement each other and how they differ. To show that authenticity does not conflict with autonomy, ...