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We Warred Over Art: Pandemonium at Le Sacre du Printemps (thesis)
Diaghilev continued this process of bringing Russian art to France under the auspices of the Ballets Russes. With this company, Diaghilev assembled dozens of innovative artists, choreographers, and composers with the common ... -
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 ... -
[Welfare Reform Impacts Adolescents]
By signing the welfare reform bill, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996, President Clinton changed welfare as we know it. . . . Although the main concern with the bill was ... -
What Do We Really Mean by "White Savior?": A Little Due Diligence is the Minimum Requirement
In this paper, I will engage in a comprehensive discussion of the meanings of "white savior" and provide a critical response to the ways in which it is misused. First, I will provide a genealogical trace of the term, "white ... -
What Happens to a Dream Deferred: The School Desegregation Crisis in Cleveland, Ohio and the Rise of Carl Stokes
School desegregation in the North was not as successful as the effort in the South. Civil rights activists in cities like Cleveland, Ohio, attempted to integrate the schools by applying the tactics of the Southern civil ... -
What is the Promise in the Promise Neighborhoods?
This paper addresses two issues. One concerns the holistic program of the Promise Neighborhood with its comprehensive “cradle-to-college” strategy that seeks to help break the cycle of generational and neighborhood poverty. ... -
What the Wizard Wrought: Hjalmar Schacht, Monetary Alchemy, and the Nazi Economic Marvel 1933-1938 (thesis)
Mainstream historiography has largely missed the substance of the Nazi economic revival. Many historians accepted at face value the claim that the regime's program of public works (particularly the construction of the ... -
What Tiresias Has Missed: Prophecy in James Joyce's Ulysses (thesis)
I started the project by attempting to compare and contrast Ulysses and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. The topic that interests me the most is both works in relation to prophecy and Tiresias in Greek mythology. But after a ... -
What's Passed is Prologue: The Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA), passed on March 23, 2010, is the most comprehensive U.S. healthcare reform legislature enacted since the passage of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965. The overarching ... -
"Where Only Machine-Gun Fire Brings Us Together": Exploring Camaraderie and Human Connection in War Poetry (thesis)
Camaraderie helps redeem and blunt the horrors of war for some soldiers in some wars. While noting the value of camaraderie, this thesis examines in which wars camaraderie and connection characterize the war experience and ... -
Which Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Models Most Effectively Enable Firms to Increase Profits Ethically?
. . . I have consolidated a wide range of previously published research. From studying academic journals to case studies, I focused on four CSR models: the shared value initiative, the win-win model, delegated philanthropy, ... -
Which Will Survive? An Investigation into the Modeling of Complex Ecosystems
When modeling the population of a species, the logistic equation is the first that is invoked; however, this model has some shortcomings when predicting actual population change. This has led to the search of a model that ... -
Who Gets Hurt: Sexual Exploitation Among Women During Episodes of Homelessness
While the issue of homelessness has been heavily researched, the relationship between sexual assault among women experiencing homelessness remains an underacknowledged subject. Moreover, although both sexual assault and ... -
Who Is Poor? Poverty in the United States Re-examined from a Multidimensional Perspective
Poverty is a long-established economic outcome worthy of scholarly and political concern. The issue of addressing poverty deals primarily with identification: who is poor? This paper constructs a Multidimensional Poverty ...