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Julia Sets: An Introduction to Chaos in the Plane
In this paper we introduce the reader to a family of functions which give rise to Julia sets. Making their home in the complex plane, these sets exhibit many interesting properties, including chaotic dynamics . The aesthetic ... -
The Jurisprudence and Impact of Affirmative Action
For decades the debate over affirmative action has been hard fought across the United States. From courtrooms and chatrooms to legislative halls to college halls people have fought over whether race, class, or other ... -
Just Incarceration: A Moral Evaluation of Solitary Confinement
I will start by building an ethical framework for what constitutes just incarceration. Next, I will perform an in-depth analysis of the effects of the conditions of supermax prisons. For this analysis, I will synthesize ... -
Justice and Immortality: Platonic Reflections on Interview With the Vampire
The relationship between human conceptions of justice and morality, encompassing both their similarities and differences, lies at the foundation of political philosophy and political society. The horizon of death constitutes ... -
Justice and Transformation: Examining the Value of Socio-Economic Rights in Transformative Constitutions
This paper sets out to assess the value of socio-economic rights in the transformative constitutions of resource rich, post-trauma nations. In the interest of revealing assumptions and biases at the outset, the question ... -
Justice for Noncitizens: A Case for Reforming the Immigration Legal System
To the surprise of many, the immigration legal system exists as a function of the executive branch rather than the judicial, and many of the Constitutional rights guaranteed in a judicial court do not continue into the ... -
Justice John Marshall Harlan and the "Color-Blind Constitution"
Mr. Justice Harlan was the "Great Dissenter" to the complacent attitudes of The Gilded Age. His opinions ran against the attitudes held by his contemporaries: laissez-fair in economics; imperialism in international ... -
Justice Stanley F. Reed and the American Constitution
This paper is not a eulogy nor a polemic. Its purpose is neither to praise nor condemn the life and work of Justice Stanley Reed. Its aspiration is rather that of a portrait "warts and all" of a man who occupied for nineteen ... -
Justification for a Penny-Per-Ounce Excise Tax on Sugar Sweetened Beverages Under Two Ethical Frameworks
Increasingly obesity is becoming a greater problem in the United States. To curb this trend some policy makers have considered taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) which add unhealthy calories to the human diet. Some ... -
Kathryn Kiana Martire's Photographs from Fiji (photographs)
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Key Expansionist Journey
The purchase by the United States Government from the Republic of Mexico of territory south of Arizona's Gila River, and a narrow strip along the southern most part of present day New Mexico, cannot be viewed as merely an ... -
The Key to the Future: Educational Funding in Alabama
In order to understand fully the effects of poverty on education, a detailed study of the state's taxation system must be undertaken. The regressiveness of Alabama's tax structure guarantees that equal opportunity will not ... -
The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: The Albigensian Crusade and the Subjugation of the Languedoc (thesis)
The conditions, which range from the predictable (stop sheltering and employing those identified by clerics as Jews and heretics) to the seemingly arbitrary (no new taxes or tolls on roads) to the bizarre (no eating more ... -
Kink-Band and Velocity-Boundary Interference (thesis)
The established techniques for constructing and restoring balanced cross sections using flexural slip work well for modeling simple faults and folds, but these methods show weaknesses when applied to more complicated ...