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Place and Displacement. LACS396 Capstone, 2013
Place has become a powerful metaphor to convey a sense of personal belonging, though the notion of place goes far beyond physical or geographical location. Environment, conservation, politics, religion, myth, personal and ... -
Plagiarism
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Plagiarism and the News Media
Practically, we, as journalists, are bound to tell the truth. We are in the business of making the truth known to the public. If we lie, not only are we breaking our moral obligation as civilized human beings, as characterized ... -
Plasma Sulfate Analysis: I. benzidine Method
The quantitative determination of micro and ultra micro amounts of sulfate has historically been a problem to analytical chemists. The determination is further complicated if the analysis is to be performed on a complex ... -
Playing the Dam Game: How a Proposed Hydroelectric Dam Could Trigger Central Asia's First Water War (thesis)
In 2012, President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan threatened to use military action against Kyrgyzstan if the Kyrgyz government went ahead with plans to build a large hydroelectric dam called Kambarata-1 and entrap a large ... -
Please Vote Responsibly: An Argument for Why We Have an Ethical Responsibility to Inform Ourselves Before Voting (thesis)
. . . Given the fact that citizens living in a free and democratic state have the right to vote, this entails a civic responsibility to sufficiently inform themselves before voting or before engaging in other politically ... -
Pleasure and Pain: The Connection Between Opioid Prescriptions and Social Security Disability Insurance in the U.S.
I examine the connection between prescription opioid use and Social Security Disability Insurance in the United States. Previous research has found that a correlation exists between opioids and disability rates, but little ... -
Plessy v. Ferguson: The Culmination of a Judicial Avalanche
The Plessy decision represented the final capitulation of the Union to racism. Beginning with the Slaughterhouse decision in 1873, the Supreme Court gradually whittled away the rights of blacks in a series of decisions ... -
Pocketbook or rosary? economic and identity: voting in 2000-2001 elections
(Final published version of article copyrighted by University of Aberdeen, 2003)Ever since the birth of democracy, Polish electoral politics have been confusing observers, domestic as much as foreign. The majority tend to link the seemingly erratic behaviour of Polish voters with the vicissitudes ... -
Policy Reform Proposal: China's Hukou System
Hukou is a household registration system that categorizes every citizen as “agricultural (rural)” or “non-agricultural (urban)” and bans the movement into different regions (Meng, 2012). Although its restriction on migration ... -
Political Campaign Contributions and the Appointment of Ambassadors in the Nixon Administration
Since the disclosure of Watergate events of 1972, the critical eye of Congress has been cast upon a multiplicity of unethical and illegal practices of the Nixon administration. This paper explores one of these practices, ... -
The Political Career of Henry St. George Tucker, 1889-1932
The purpose of this paper is to examine the political career of Harry St. George Tucker of Virginia, 1888-1932. Tucker's career was distinguished primarily by its length. It began as Reconstructicn faded and concluded as ... -
Political Liberalism in Crisis: The Deep Conflict Between Sex Equality and Religious Freedom in Rawls's Political Liberalism
In "Political Liberalism, Justice, and Gender," Susan Moller Okin criticizes the account of the family presented in John Rawls's Political Liberalism. As I see it, Okin levels two distinct charges against Rawls. [1] First, ... -
The Political Philosophy and Congressional Career of John Randolph Tucker, 1823-1897
Thc career of John Randolph Tucker was indeed unparalleled by anyone of his era. His contributions have had lasting effects on Washington and Lee University, the state of Virginia and our nation. As a professor at Washington ...