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The Effects of the Windfall Profits Tax on American Crude Oil Production
The windfall profits tax itself is of some value in the fight against wasteful petroleum production, but it must be considered a third-line choice at best. It is of no use in encouraging investment in unrestrained petroleum ... -
Efficacy of Aid in Africa: Why it has Failed and How it can be Fixed
Amani Children's Village serves as an example of the flaws in the charitable aid system in which money flows directly to an organization through donations in the classic NGO format. The difficulties seen in terms of Amani, ... -
The Efficacy of Peer-led Sexual Assault Preventative Education at Washington and Lee University: Variation in Explicit and Implicit Attitudes (thesis)
This research examines the relative efficacy of peer-led sexual assault awareness training. Efficacy in this case is established by the measurement of a change in attitudes among the first-year students who attended the ... -
Efforts Toward an African Dignity: A Study of Negritude, African Personality, and African Socialism
It is with mixed emotions of indignation and anger that thoughtful, knowledgeable Africans have witnessed and experienced the injustices , frustrations , and degradation heaped upon the African masses and traditional ... -
"Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris...": Sacred and Profane Violence in Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick presents intriguing patterns of violence that I believe to be in need of further exploration. . . . The publication of Sir James Frazer's The Colden Bough in 1890 produced a new form of cultural anthropology ... -
Elements of the Supernatural in Three Romances of Chrétien de Troyes (thesis)
In Erec, Yvain, and Perceval, Chrétien blends fantasy and realism in a seamless conjointure, exploiting well known supernatural motifs from various ancient sources to highlight themes relevant to contemporary life. Tropes ... -
Elisabeth: a Contemporary Austrian Fairy-Tale Musical (thesis)
This is a translation from the German of 80 pages of text and over 300 pages of music. [From Aknowledgements (sic.)] -
The Elizabethan Succession Crisis 1558-1600: Dynastic Conflict and Parliamentary Power
It is not generally known that a crisis surrounding the succession to the English throne occurred during Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603). The overwhelming majority of historians of the Elizabethan period, in fact, do not ...