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An application of the Satisfaction Paradox to Tracking & Attempts at Detracking in American Schools
Though official policies on tracking in America have been disbanded, underlying cultural and societal barriers unofficially maintain tracking habits. Scholars have credited these barriers as the underlying forces explaining ... -
Approaches to Engagement: American Catholicism in the Public Sphere (thesis)
Using history and contemporary sociology, this paper seeks to understand the relationship of the Catholic Church and the public square in the present-day United States of America, critically examining the ways by which ... -
Approaches to Environmental Justice: Best Practices in Community Organizing and Collaboration
This paper examines specific cases, conducted on three documented instances of environmental injustice to explore the ways in which communities organized to promote environmental equity. The first case deals with environmental ... -
Approximating Meteoric (10)Be Using the Concentration of Acid-Extractable Grain Coatings: A Case Study Tracing Erosion Depth on Dominica, Lesser Antilles (thesis)
Surface process studies on Dominica have emphasized landslide research in order to improve hazard mitigation, but a deficit exists in understanding the general geomorphic processes. The goal of this study is to characterize ... -
Aptian/Albian Sediment Volume and Accumulation Rates, Alaska North Slope and Beaufort Shelf, from Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation and Modeling (thesis)
We present a regional sequence-stratigraphic interpretation of the Torok-Nanushuk clinothem in the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska (NPRA), Alaskan state lands and Beaufort shelf using 2-D seismic reflection data, ... -
ArchivesSpace at W&L: Why We Didn’t Wait.
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Are Board Gender Quotas Effective in the United States? Evidence from the California Senate Bill 826 (thesis)
This paper uses difference in difference and triple difference models to assess the relationship between gender quota mandates and firm performance. I use data from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), which provides ... -
Are Tourists Willing to Pay Additional Fees to Protect Corals in Mexico?
Coral reefs have been referred to as the rainforests of the sea, maintaining the most diverse forms of life on earth. The framework built by corals and algae provides the foundation for ecosystems that support an unsurpassed ... -
An Argument for Federally Funded Universal Preschool
Public education is the strongest way to address our country's poverty as an institution grounded in both political and moral reasoning. However, our current school system is flawed with inequality. I find that inequalities ... -
Aristotle's Theory of Just Exchange (thesis)
In this paper, I provide an explanation of marginal and equilibrium analysis, analytic techniques from modern economics, and then defend an interpretation of the passage as meaning that an exchange is just when the value ... -
Arithmetic Progressions in Permutations (thesis)
In this thesis we will examine progressions in permutations. We will analyze regular and circular permutations with progressions either modular or regular with rise one or two. We will calculate the number of permutations ... -
Arsenic and Old Lace: Thesis Paper (thesis)
At this time last year, I embarked upon my thesis project, directing Arsenic and Old Lace. At the time that I began, I do not think that I knew about all of the challenges and the rewards that lay ahead of me, but looking ...