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The University and the Living Wage: How Higher Education Institutions Can Meet the Needs of Its Employees
In her paper "Universities and a Living Wage: Much More than a Minimum Wage," Joan Oguntimein sought to define and discuss the resources that constitute a living wage, and discuss how Harvard University, University of ... -
An Unlikely Opposition: Examining Political Threats to the American Welfare State
. . . the paper opens with a consideration of the harms of a political trend hostile to government social spending. Based on evidence from the current U.S. model as well as European welfare states, I assume that government ... -
Unofficial Dollarization and Market Integration: The Case of Latin America
This study examines the relationship between unofficial dollarization and goods market integration in the context of dollarizing Latin American nations and the United States. While a breadth of research focuses on the ... -
Unofficial Dollarization and Market Integration: The Case of Latin America (thesis)
This study examines the relationship between unofficial dollarization and goods market integration in the context of dollarizing Latin American nations and the United States. While a breadth of research focuses on the ... -
The Unrealized Promise of Goldberg v. Kelly
Goldberg v. Kelly was an important case for welfare rights lawyers. It unquestionably gave them something to cheer about because it ensured that people like John Kelly could not lose their welfare benefits because of a ... -
Unspeakable Visions: The Innovative Poetry and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Jack Kerouac
Throughout the experiences and poetry and prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Jack Kerouac, the careful reader will see that both of the writers strove to extend the limits of their chosen art form. They worked carefully ... -
Until the Breaking of Day: Stories from Penuel County, Georgia (thesis)
The most important thing to me in this collection is the presence of religion. I came up with the name of the setting of my short stories long before I had even decided that I wanted to write a senior thesis. In a “Bible ... -
Up-growing On-line Linear Discrepancy of Triple-optimal Partially Ordered Sets (thesis)
Whether we acknowledge it as a poset or not, posets arise in many natural contexts, and many also seem to warrant linear extensions (or rankings) of the poset. In some sense, the linear discrepancy of a linear extension L ... -
Urban Renewal and Effects on Poverty
Urban renewal policies since the New Deal era have had complicated effects on the outcomes of the American poor. Using Amartya Sen's capability framework, this paper identifies housing as a key resource necessary for ... -
US and Norwegian Healthcare Systems
Healthcare is a subject of profound importance and fierce debate in the United States. It is clear that the system is far from perfect. The United States spends a higher percentage of its GDP on healthcare than any other ... -
The Use of Potassium Hydrazidooxalate in the Resolution of Racemic Ketones
Results to date look very favorable for the use of potassium hydrazidooxalate in the resolution of racemic ketones. Condensates have been made with several carbonyls, including optically active 3-methylcyclohexanone, and ... -
Vanishing into Society: The Harsh Reality of Living without an ID
There are millions of Americans like Tony Simmons that become trapped in poverty as they struggle to function in society without an ID. Not having an ID makes it exponentially harder for one to find employment or access ... -
Variation of Coal in the Seam
My problem was to find the variation of composition of the coal throughout the seam. To do this I got samples at certain intervals from top to bottom of the seam and analyzed them. The analyses included moisture, volatile ... -
Verdi in Politics
Guiseppe Verdi, one of Italy's famous historical figures, was ironically born a Frenchman. At the time of his birth on October 9 or 10, 1813, Napoleon's administration controlled much of what we now call Italy. Napoleon ... -
Virginia Community Colleges: The Expanding Role and Low-Income Virginians
The community college system in Virginia has experienced a generation of change. Recently, with the implementation of a statewide guaranteed admission policy, community college has expanded upon the base demographic from ... -
The Virginia State Convention of 1829-30
The Convention ended its work January 14, 1830, with the adoption of the Constitution by a vote of fifty-five to forty.[1] On the negative side were all the delegates from the Trans-Alleghany , one of the Valley representatives ... -
Virginia Whigs, Virginia Rebels, Virginia Patriots: The James D. Davidson Family and the War Between the States
History, in the final analysis, is not only stories of governments and churches and wars and movements and institutions. It is rather the story of men, and men's action, and men's ideas fitting together into a collage of ... -
Virtue in Practice and Theory: An Exploration of MacIntyre's Ethics
Through this examination we can see why Maclntyre's theory works well today. Were the fundamental rules and principles of the Enlightenment project to be understood as its necessary foundation, Maclntyre's moral theory ...