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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 ... -
Foreign Trade and Ecuadorian Regional Development: Cuenca's "Panama" Hats, 1900-1970
I believe that this thesis will present a significant summation of the economic, social, cultural, and to a limited extent the political realities as they relate to the dominant industry of the Austro region of Ecuador ... -
Foster Care Youth and Education
In my research paper I will focus on education for youth in the foster care system. First, I will discuss the history of the foster care system and outline the protocol of the child welfare system and how a child moves ... -
Four Great Elegies of the English Language: The Book of the Duchess, Lycidas, In Memoriam, and Adonais; A Comparison and Study
. . . Having thus considered the general nature and something of the background of the elegy, let us enter upon I a more direct consideration of the four particular examples which we have taken as representing the ... -
The Fox Spirit: The Japanese Trickster?
The trickster spirit plays a role in cultures that span the globe. These spirits have a variety of natures: impish, malevolent, or even good-?spirited (according to their ways). In tales tricksters serve as a warning to ... -
Fragmented Families in Poverty: Looking Back and Stepping Forward
This paper begins with a theoretical overview of the history, scope, causes, and effects of nonresident fatherhood. We will then explore three roles a father plays in a family: economic, social, and psychological. ... -
Franciscan Art as Propaganda: The Conventuals and the Chapel of Saint Martin in San Francesco at Assisi
The Chapel of Saint Martin is noteworthy not only because of its subject matter, but also because of the relatively little information known about its commission and patron. This paper will not address all these issues, ... -
Freedom and Moral Responsibility in a Deterministic Universe: Perspectives from Buddhism and Clinical Psychology (thesis)
I will be arguing that the concept of an ultimately free agent who takes final responsibility for his actions and desires is inherently incompatible with the dominant western paradigm of materialism and universal causation. ... -
Freedom and the Necessity of Political Courage (thesis)
Drawing a distinction between ancient and modern freedom, I advocate for a reconstituted and updated ancient conception of freedom, highlighting the important role of political courage within that conception, in order to ... -
Frenemies: Churchill and The Soviet Union
A study of Churchill will uncover a careful balance between realism and liberalism in his views on international relations, and his internal conflict between the two. While he understood the struggle for power, every hope ... -
Friendship at Any Cost? Russian Influence on Anglo-Germans Relations, 1890-1914 (thesis)
Despite the well-researched and argued debates that continue to rage regarding the nature of Anglo-German relations, further research into several lingering questions is required. The question of the degree to which Grey ... -
From Apartheid to Democracy: A Study of Religion and the Law in a Changing South Africa
This paper seeks to examine how religion and religious freedom will fare in the new democratic South Africa. This is not an easy task, for the democracy is young and religious freedom is not a burning issues at the present ... -
From Ashes Reborn: The Fascist Repression of Female Prisoners in Francoist Spain and Nazi Germany (thesis)
First, the central question that this paper examines is whether the Francoist regime in Spain can be considered a fascist regime as opposed to an authoritarian one. While Franco's dictatorship was undeniably brutal and ... -
From Brown to Green: School Desegregation in Roanoke, Virginia (thesis)
This thesis examines the trajectory of desegregation between 1952 and 1970. The first chapter looks at the early years: the establishment of black schools in the city from the late nineteenth century through the years ...