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Assessing Philosophical Approaches to Combating International Poverty
This paper will examine several philosophical approaches to poverty, and attempt to find the one among them that will be most effective in the fight against international poverty. The four major approaches that will be ... -
Assessing the Crisis: Black Males and Secondary Education
In recent years, Black males have been candidly described as an endangered species. This crisis of the Black male has been attributed to several factors and is visible in literally all aspects of society. They are largely ... -
Assessing the Impact of Soil on Manganese Contamination in Springs and Groundwater in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia (thesis)
A substantial fraction of the Shenandoah Valley, VA population relies on ground and spring water for domestic use. Manganese (Mn) is of particular concern in groundwater, as low-level chronic exposure to aqueous Mn ... -
Assessing the Removal of Jordan's Point Dam: Geomorphic, Ecological, and Recreational Impacts
For many residents of Rockbridge County and the City of Lexington, Jordan's Point dam is regarded as both a historical icon and an important source of recreation on the Maury River. Initially constructed circa 1900 to ... -
Assets and Liberty: Encouraging Healthy Savings Habits for Low-Income Households
Our current welfare system places too much of an emphasis on income and consumption over wealth and assets. The United States has a long history of encouraging asset accumulation for all classes. We also have a long tradition ... -
Assimilation: Removing the Scarlet Letter
This essay analyzes the treacherous road ex-offenders face upon release, the laws helping and hurting their chances, and in-prison and reentry programs designed to reduce recidivism. This paper will also offer reforms in ... -
The Asthma Epidemic: Decreasing Incidence and Increasing Resiliency among Low-Income Children
My sister is an asthmatic. . . . While my sister's illness was a tremendous burden, she was also fortunate. She benefited from supportive parents, excellent health care, limited allergen exposure, and a pollution-free ... -
At the Forefront of Feminism: William Merritt Chase and the American New Woman
Chase married Alice Gerson, whose father managed a large lithography firm, in 1886. She proved to be an inspiration for Chase throughout the rest of his life and frequently appears in his work. While other artists painted ... -
The Atlanta Campaign, 1864
Despite Hood's contention that Atlanta was untenable, the army under Joseph E. Johnston could have held out for a Iong period of time, as Sherman simply did not have sufficient forces to take Atlanta. At Ieast, he did not ... -
Atoms for Peace or Atoms for Destruction: America's Relationship with Nuclear Energy (thesis)
Based on over twenty interviews, we can conclude that public opinion, industries and special interest groups, costs of planning and building a nuclear reactor, and the regulatory framework surrounding nuclear energy each ... -
Authenticity, Faith and Love
"The term 'religion' I am using in its broadest sense, meaning thereby self-realization or knowledge of self." Gandhi's simple view of the word 'religion' reveals an important insight about its meaning: religion in its ... -
The Author Is Legion: Transformative Work and Fan Fiction as a Literary Meta-Genre (thesis)
Transformative work must be understood first and foremost as a style and meta-genre defined by its relationships. The relationship between texts, with changes and variations from one incarnation to the next. The relationship ... -
Automated Cross-section Construction and Forward Modeling of the Northern Terminus of the Sequatchie Valley Anticline
Producing a balanced cross-section is a very time and labor intensive process. Balancing of a section requires boundary conditions for both the deformed and undeformed state. A common boundary condition for the undeformed ... -
An Automated, Customizable Framework for Applying Genetic Algorithm to Generate Test Cases for Web Applications (thesis)
Web application testing is an integral part of the web application development process. Faults within a web application can damage a company's reputation and lead to financial losses. Customers will lose confidence if they ... -
Automation and Family: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility Rates (thesis)
I exploit variation in the job composition of US local labor markets to determine how automation affects familial outcomes from 1980 to 2019 and look at employment, marriage, divorce, and fertility rates as outcomes. ... -
Automobile Hazard in City Streets: The Basic Cause of its Variation, and Indicated Measures for its Reduction
From the date when the automobile first made its appearance on the streets of this country, it has been subjected to legal restriction, in the interest of the safety of the public. . . . For with the rapid increase in ... -
Autumn's Return (thesis)
Ultimately, research for this project consisted of two parts: the theoretical and the practical. Because I devised to compose a long work of fiction, I needed to understand the mechanics of writing extended fiction as well ... -
The Availability of Private Suits to Enforce Environmental Justice: Past, Present and Future
For over twenty years legal and social commentators and advocates have recognized that low income and minority communities bear a disproportionate burden regarding pollution, hazardous waste siting, and other environmental ... -
Axiological Analysis
Axiology or the general theory of value, although becoming a separate philosophic study only recently, has been a prime problem for as long as philosophy, as a field of inquiry, has existed. As soon as the term 'ought' is ... -
Ayn Rand: An Individualist's Paradoxical Involvement with the Collective
Ayn Rand's paradoxical involvement with collective organizations began early in her career during her crusade against communism. Rand developed her anti-communistic ideas as an individual during her youth in Soviet Russia. ...