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The Biomedical Burden: Sociological Analysis of the Opioid Crisis in Rural America
The current opioid epidemic is a highly complex issue, and as such, claims of direct causation seem nearly impossible. Yet another challenge arises in attempting to determine which components of the overall epidemic more ...
Aldo Leopold's Unique Elegy: Consolation and Agency in "Marshland Elegy" and A Sand County Almanac
This essay explores “Marshland Elegy” by first outlining the historical evolution of elegies to provide a foundational understanding of the literary form, and then analyzing the utility in considering “Marshland Elegy’s” ...
America's Favorite Punching Bag: The Role of Ideological Intensity in Attitudes Toward Congress
Congressional scholars have increasingly turned their focus toward studying what factors influence congressional approval ratings and feelings toward the institution. While understanding the public's views toward Congress ...
Silent Culprits: Immigrant Detention Centers
Many gaps exist within the law that allow it to be interpreted differently for immigrants. Although the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 is the foundational law for immigration, it has not served all equally. The ...
The Weakest Power: A Theory of Strategic Unilateral Executive Authority (thesis)
Aside from executive orders, this paper was exploring executive power as a whole using executive orders only as a proxy. Even by just looking at executive orders, the picture of American politics we see today is so much ...
Reclaiming Responsibility: Theological Resources for Criminal Justice Reform (thesis)
The United States incarcerates more individuals than any other country in the world. The anthropological viewpoint that allows these injustices to persist sees incarcerated individuals as existentially different than ...
Summer Soldier, Sunshine Patriot: Liberalism and the Crisis of Military Service in the United States (thesis)
This paper is not about politics or military strategy. It is not about international relations or just war theory. This is a paper about America on the sidelines. This is a paper about a nation at the mall, even as a tiny ...
Prohibido Olvidar
Writing creatively about identity construction through political displacement
Hispanic K-12 Students in the United States Public School System: Why are they Disproportionately Underachieving in School?
Hispanic students account for 22% of all people enrolled in school in the United States and, on average, these students are significantly educationally underachieving compared to their white peers in every academic measure. ...
The Persistent Problem of Gender Inequality in the Twenty-First Century: Why Sweden's Care and Leave Policies Are Not the Panacea (thesis)
This study focuses on the effects of leave and care policies in Germany, Spain, the UK, and Sweden. Leave and care policies are distinguished as two of the most important social policies affecting women's and men's work-care ...