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Felony Disenfranchisement
In this paper I will take an in-depth look at the impact of felony disenfranchisement on the poor and more specifically on the African American community. The paper will focus on the current felony disenfranchisement law, ... -
Female Power in Submission: Deciphering Ban Zhao's Admonitions for Women and Men's Manupulation of Women's Writings (thesis)
This thesis revisits Ban Zhao's Admonitions for Women and seeks to provide a fresh, more complete perspective into Ban Zhao's work in relation to the edited version by Wang Xiang in Four Books for Women. Particularly, I ... -
Feraoun and the Algerian Revolution: The Identities of the Algerian Revolution and the Ways in which an Algerian Writer Interprets These Identities (thesis)
The Algerian revolution was a war fought not only for the independence of Algeria but for the preservation of Arab identity as well. The French had spent over one hundred years attempting to change Algerian identity; they ... -
Filtering Software: Can Technology Provide a Viable Alternative to Internet Regulation?
Existing research demonstrates that filters are not the cure-all for child online protection that software companies and even the Supreme Court suggest. Filtering packages have several noteworthy pitfalls, as noted in ... -
Financial Education as a Means of Reducing Poverty
Low-income families face many barriers to financial well-being. It is necessary that these barriers be addressed, or they will continue to prevent financial stability. There are many issues that plague low-income families, ... -
Financial Exclusion and Banking Participation of America's Working Poor
The highly developed financial system of the U.S. continues to exclude and fail millions of American households -- many of whom are disproportionately low-income and are in need of inclusive banking services the most. This ... -
Finding Cycles In The Kth Power Diagraphs Over Integers Modulo A Prime And Over Gaussian Integers Modulo a Gaussian Prime (thesis)
Given Zp where p is an integer prime, let's de ne G(k) p to be the digraph whose set of vertices is Zp such that there is a directed edge from a vertex a to a vertex b if ak b mod p. First, we nd our own way to decide ... -
Finding the Female Detective: How Interwar Female Authors Created & Sustained the Golden Age of Detective Fiction (thesis)
The novel, apart from telling a story, has many responsibilities. One of these responsibilities, and the one most relevant to this project, is that of conveying a particular worldview. Regardless of whether the worldview ... -
"The First Fruits of a Re-United People": The Loyalty, Motivation, and Allegiance of the Men of the Second United States Volunteer Infantry Regiment (thesis)
We were discussing the issues facing President Abraham Lincoln's Administration during the war when he mentioned that in 1864 it had to deal with the uprising of the Plains Indians in Minnesota. To address this threat, the ... -
Flaubert et la Francaise au XIXe Siecle: l'idiot(e) de la Famille
Le 29 janvier 1857, Gustave Flaubert et son oeuvre Madame Bovary etaient mis en jugement pour l'outrage a la morale publique et religieuse et aux bonnes moeurs. Cependant, les raisons pour lesquelles on a poursuivi l'auteur ... -
Flood Control and Poverty: Phillips County, AR and Guyana
Each year global estimates of homelessness, deaths, economic loss and other effects can be analyzed. Throughout these analyses, it is clear that the most vulnerable populations are the world's poorest communities. Structurally ... -
Florence + The Machine: A Computational Approach to Florentine Liturgical Manuscript Illuminations from the Late Trecento (thesis)
This thesis investigates early methods to use artificial intelligence to sort images of medieval Italian manuscript illuminations by workshop from 1360 to 1400. Sorted images were passed through a 2-dimensional convolutional ... -
Fluoremetry: H-ion, Influnce of pH and Certain Neutral Salts upon the Fluorescence of Sulfonic Acids
The method for the quantitative deternination of substances in solution by comparative fluorescence, as suggested by L. J. Desha. # Journal of American Chemical Society, Vol. XVII Number 7, July, 1920, seems to warrant a ... -
Fold Simplification and Fault Estimation for Inverse Modeling of Fault-Bend Folding
It has been long recognized that many folds observed in the field and in seismic reflection data are created as stratigraphic layers are displaced over nonplanar fault surfaces. As material is moved over a bend in a fault, ... -
Folk Psychology, Parallel Processing, the Intentional Stance, Supervenience, Multiple Realizability, and Some Hard Problems: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Brain
The objective of this paper is to suggest that folk psychology is the most deeply entrenched myth in the history of the human race. Yet, it appears that -- considered as a theory of how the mind works -- we have ample ... -
Following Through: America, Britain, and the Rhetorical Drive from Welfare to Work
Sharing a similar cultural, sociological, and legal background, the United States and the United Kingdom provide one another with an opportunity for comparison and reflection. In the specific arena of public assistance, ... -
Food Freedom: Combatting Paternalism in SNAP
The purpose of this paper was to state the case that we ought not to restrict sugar-sweetened beverages from SNAP because it would be ineffective, stigmatizing, paternalistic, and would violate human capabilities. Moving ... -
Fools for Christ's Sake: The Intent to Edify found in the Writing of Leontius and Flannery O'Connor (thesis)
The Life of Symeon is classified as Christian hagiography, capturing a saint's journey of practicing ascetism in both the desert and city. Leontius of Neapolis wrote this text with the main intent to edify his audience. ... -
For What (?) Frida Kahlo's Worth
A queer, disabled, communist female has become a celebrity of pop culture, although not celebrated for the intersectionality of those things. Rather, she is honored as a woman but stripped by a capitalist society that ... -
Foreign Policy and the Fourth Estate: Vietnam and the Creation of the "Liberal" Media, 1954-2003 (thesis)
The term "Vietnam syndrome" emerged in the aftermath of the war, used to describe the American people's reluctance to support any potentially open-ended or prolonged military engagement. Post-Vietnam presidents argued that ...