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e Moviemento
Anthropologic movements within Brazil have traditionally been due to economic imbalances between regions, boom and bust cycles of natural commodities, frontier settlement, industrialization, and climate patterns. Oftentimes, ... -
Early Childhood Homelessness: The Experience and an Ethical Response
Early childhood homelessness is an experience that 2.5 million children are facing in America. To most Americans, the thought of a homeless child arouses empathy and frustration, yet society still has not implemented sound ... -
Early New Deal Relief Efforts in Rockbridge County: An Examination of the FERA in a Local Environment
I have limited my work to a consideration of one relief agency of the New Deal: The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). I will attempt to follow the history of the FERA during its activity in Rockbridge County ... -
An Eccentric Orthodoxy: The Contours of Flannery O'Connor's Literary Catholicism
Some of O'Connor's characters come right out and ask traditional theological questions about the suffering of the innocent or the difficulties inherent in the doctrine of bodily resurrection. Other characters, meanwhile, ... -
Economic and Equity Issues in a Comparison of the Personal Income Tax and the Value-Added Tax
The four previous chapters have tried to systematically compare the United States' personal income tax and a European-style consumption value-added tax. The superiority of one tax over the other, in some cases is clear-cut, ... -
The Economic Necessity of Social Capital: A Case Study in Phillips County, Arkansas
While much of the debate surrounding poverty issues in the United States focuses on individual initiative and responsibility, the community in which individuals reside also plays an important role in the empowerment of ... -
Edith Wharton's Evolutionary Monster; Undine Spragg of The Custom of the Country
In Wharton's own words she describes her intent for the book, "I argued that in The Custom of the Country I was chronicling the career of a particular young woman, and that to whatever hemisphere her fortunes carried her, ... -
The Effect of After-School Programs on Low-Income Students
This paper argues for the benefits of educational after-school programs in the lives of low-income students. By providing tutoring, assistance with homework, and recreational activities, these programs can help to improve ... -
The Effect of Amazon and Orinoco Rivers on the Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity Cycles off Barbados: A Record from Montastrea sp. and Siderastrea sp. Corals (thesis)
Four Mantastrea sp. coral cores and four Siderastrea sp. coral cores were collected from the west coast of Barbados in June-July 2009. Samples were cut [at] Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia and x-rayed ... -
The Effect of Community Trauma on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing (thesis)
This paper evaluates the hypothesis that the Boston Marathon bombing was such a traumatic experience for youth living in Massachusetts that it harmed their math standardized test scores and that this effect was larger the ... -
The Effect of ESG on Stock Market Returns Following Financial Restatement (thesis)
(2023)This paper examines the effects of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) scores and their component parts on cumulative abnormal stock returns for 63 publicly traded firms. Using an event study I find a statistically ... -
Effect of Language on Perceptions of People with Disabilities and People Experiencing Poverty
Background: Language is powerful. We must be intentional about how we label others, as language can either perpetuate or combat power dynamics. There is no current consensus on exactly what language best upholds the dignity ... -
The Effect of Lithium on Motivation and Learning in the Rat
Recent research has suggested that lithium (Li) may increase cholinergic activity with a resulting increase in cholinergically mediated behavior. Li toxicity, however, poses serious methodolgical problems for researchers ... -
The Effect of Malaria on Pregnant Women and Children
Some say, "where countries prosper least, malaria thrives most," -- and given the data on the global distribution of malaria, it is true. Malaria thrives most in tropical and hence wet areas, which consist mostly of ... -
The Effect of NSLP Participation on Health Outcomes
In this paper, I argue for the moral obligation of instituting a school lunch program with high nutritional standards using a bioethical framework, and I evaluate the new NSLP's [National School Lunch Program's] effectiveness ... -
The Effect of Preference for Sons over Daughters on Women's Agency and Empowerment Within a Household (thesis)
While studies have shown how son preference negatively affects life outcomes of both born and unborn daughters, there is limited research examining how it, in turn, affects women who do not give birth to the desired number ... -
The Effect of Social Support on Prenatal Smoking in Romania (thesis)
Smoking is one of few controllable risk factors for pregnancy and it is associated with poor health outcomes for mothers and children. While prenatal smoking is now low in many places, Eastern European countries continue ... -
The Effectiveness of Early Intervention Programs
Early education programs are the most promising measure to invest in America's schools. It is a method by which the cycle of poverty can be stopped before the detrimental educational, mental, and social effects of living ... -
Effectiveness of Genetic Algorithms in Finding Steinhaus Graphs with Maximal Clique Size
The goal of this research was to study the effectiveness of genetic algorithms (GA) in finding Steinhaus graphs of a given size whose maximal cliques were as large as possible. This investigation was based on the results ... -
Effects of 1996 on Immigration and Immigrant Policy Reforms on Legal Permanent Residents
Essentially, PRWORA [Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act] promised to decrease welfare spending by $55 billion over five years, limit welfare receipt to two years after which time recipients ...