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Protestants and the Poor: How Religiosity Affects Support for Social Welfare Policy
This article first examines the question: Does degree of religiosity affect support for social welfare policy among Protestants and Catholics, and does this effect change over time? I first review various theoretical ... -
Prussian Liberalism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Conservatism in Prussia was r etained and liberalism defeated. What caused this defeat? What were the weaknesses of liberalism which doomed it in Bismarck's empire? To me the most important factor was that the dichotomy ... -
PRWORA 115: The Devastating Impact of a Little-Known Provision
Six years ago, Congress enacted the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 and dismantled a sixty-year old social welfare program. Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was replaced with Temporary ... -
PRWORA and Social Work: Changes in the Social Worker/Client Relationship
The 1996 welfare reform law, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), alters the nature of welfare and in turn, the nature of service provision. The general attitude of service provision ... -
Public Involvement and the Formation of Public Policy: The Case of European Monetary Union
European Monetary Union (EMU) represents a complex and technical issue which has been surrounded by controversy since its beginnings. Thus, disagreement on this issue has been widespread. This study examines the disagreement ... -
Public Roads: Their Construction and Maintenance, Also, the Effect of Automobile Traffic on Them
Perhaps never before has there been such concerted and well directed action by the people of our country in the interests od better roads than there has been within the past year or two . The advent of tlie motor car may ... -
The Publicity of Female Sexuality in the Early Modern Period: An Analysis of Reproductive Intervention Techniques (thesis)
This thesis is an attempt to define the ways in which actions such as infanticide, child abandonment, abortion, and contraceptive use existed as methods by which women could take control of their sexuality in early modern ... -
'Pure Dew' on the Garden of Nations: Unearthing Johann Gottfried Herder's Religious Vision of German Nationalism (thesis)
This paper seeks to investigate and provide renewed clarity to the ways Johann Gottfried Herder's (1744-1803) theory of nationalism is contested by using more modern theories of 'nation' and 'religion.' Using Benedict ... -
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Wealth Inequality Undermines Core American Values
Throughout the course of American history, the right to the pursuit of happiness provided the foundation for ideas such as the American Dream which preaches that Americans can "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" and ... -
Quantifying Love: Shakespeare's Comedies and Modern Adult Attachment Theory
By looking at Shakespeare's comedies within the framework of modem adult attachment theory, I hope to validate the practice of both psychological and psychoanalytic readings of his works; to provide a new way of doing so; ... -
Quaternary Erosional History of the St. Marys River, Western Virginia
The landscape between Vesuvius and Greenville Virginia records the history of competition between the Shenandoah-Potomac and Maury-James basins. The St. Marys River is the latest in a series of stream captures that appear ... -
Quaternary Glaciation of Middle Roaring Creek Valley Spar City Quadrangle, Colorado
Major morphological features associated with Quaternary glaciation of Middle Roaring Creek Valley, Spar City Quadrangle, Colorado divide the valley into three regions of varying topography. Analysis of weathering rind ... -
Que terra sem homens? : The Brazilian Government's Failed Policies in Amazonia (poster)
The positivist, developmentist, and nationalist top-down policies implemented by the Brazilian Government during the Old Republic, Estado Novo, and military regime periods failed to incorporate Amazonia into the rest of ... -
Queer(y)ing Colonialism: Decolonization and Queer Interventions in the Novels of Caribbean Women (thesis)
What follows, then, is the analysis of queer positionalities and decolonized yearning in the novels of three Caribbean women: Maryse Condé, Jamaica Kincaid, and Shani Mootoo. . . . The conclusion, "Embracing the Strange" ... -
Quelling Whirlwinds: A Collection of Approaches to the Book of Job (thesis)
In this piece I wrestle with the historical context and literary trends of the ANE in analyzing The Book of Job. Using three different approaches to areas of the book, I attempt to address the piecemeal writing with a ... -
Quest for Expression: The Ekphrastic Poetry and Artistic Creation of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) is widely praised for her mastery of poetic form and language. Recently, Plath scholars have uncovered another dimension to this already complex literary figure. In addition to poetry, Plath also ... -
The Question of Success in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Propaganda
When beginning my research on the two seventeenth-century battle paintings by Velazquez and Maino, Surrender of Breda and Recapture of Bahia, I frequently encountered information concerning the declining state of the Spanish ... -
Quine and the Enigma of Analyticity, or, What it is Like to Think Like a Quinean
Quine's attack on what he considers to be two defunct dogmas of empiricism -- the notions of analyticity and reductionism -- is based on a misconception of the nature of language. Quine's fascination with the workings of ...