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[The Press and Media Coverage of Poverty]
This paper aims out to examine the coverage of poverty by three mid-sized, daily newspapers across the country – The St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, The Memphis (TN) Commercial Appeal, and The Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal. ... -
Price Dispersion and the Effectiveness of Integration Efforts
Using a specifically developed measure I find evidence that NAFT A, MERCOSUR, and EU membership are significantly correlated with decreased price dispersion. This suggests that these agreements have increased market ... -
Primary Care's Code Blue: Can Basic Patient Care Be Revitalized?
Part One of this paper will identify what it means exactly to access primary care in the ER, the people who access such care, and why they access primary care in the ER. I argue that those who access primary/ambulatory ... -
The Privatization of Social Service Programs
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PWRORA) represented a major shift in the national welfare system. It allows states the option of providing welfare-related services to the ... -
The Problem of Arbitrariness in American Jurisprudence
The debate over how to interpret the United States Constitution continues to be the most controversial one in the area of constitutional law. In recent years, with the rise of the New Right and its so-called original intent ... -
The Problem of Hell for Christians
At one point or another, almost every human being has considered and questioned the possibility of the existence of some sort of higher being and of an afterlife. The Christian faith teaches that there exists such a being, ... -
The Problem with PrEP: Intersectional Stigma and Modern HIV Prevention in the United States
Even though the literature published on PrEP [Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis] is still relatively new, there has already been a lack of coherence between studies to understand which social mechanisms and individual factors ... -
Problems of International Broadcasting by the American Government
The purpose of this paper is to present an objective evaluation of the work of the Voice of America. Much has been written from a biased standpoint -- little that is objective. Indeed, it was an editorial bitterly attacking ... -
Problems with Education Educational Reform in the Dominican Republic
An in-depth look at the issues plaguing the educational system within the Dominican Republic. The paper focuses on primary and secondary education with an emphasis in both the problems and reforms of currently in place. -
Procedural Generation of Metroidvania Style Levels (thesis)
Video game maps can become dull with repeated play-throughs and handcrafting a variety of maps can be a tedious and time consuming process. This is especially true for games of the Metroidvania genre, games which focus on ... -
Production Control
Production control is that technique employed in manufacturing whereby the production facilities of a plant are coordinated through the advanced planning, routing, scheduling, dispatching, and follow-up of each individual ... -
A Project for the Development of the Woods Creek Ravine, Washington and Lee University Campus, Lexington, Virginia
The plan under consideration of the authors is one to investigate and show the feasibility of developing a natural resource, of the oampus. Advantages presented by such a development are distinctly three-fold in nature: ... -
The "Projective" Unconscious: Charles Olson and Carl Jung
Charles Olson ( 1910-1970), writing the bulk of his most influential works in the late forties through mid sixties, is an American poet who gained fame as a teacher in the Black Mountain College, a successor of Ezra Pound, ... -
The Proletarian Novel in America, 1900-1940
In this thesis I have tried to give what I think is an accurate picture of the proletarian novel. I have tried to trace the origins, motives and developments of this form in the years from 1900 to 1940. It has been necessary ... -
The Prosperity Gospel and the Plight of the Poor: Considering increased financial accountability for tax exempt churches
This paper seeks to examine the tax exempt status of churches, their lack of accountability, and the potential for abuse that exists as a consequence. It seeks to answer whether, on the basis of the public policy goals ... -
Protecting Essential Human Capabilities of Elders in Institutional Care
The world has moved past the traditional definition of health, while institutional care in America has not. The Word Health Organization (WHO) defines health as a state of complete well-being, and not just the absence of ... -
Protecting Women on the Rolls: Emphasizing Consistency and Empowerment in TANF’s Family Violence Option
Domestic violence is an experience that threatens the health and well-being of all victims, but perhaps none more so than women who depend on government aid. Studies suggest that a culture of empowerment lessens instances ... -
Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and the Third Reich, 1933-1939
There have been many who have claimed that the paganism of the Third Reich was the final blow at the ineffeotive Protestant Church in Germany, but such a view is narrow and negleots one very important aspect of the problem ...