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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 ... -
Ellen Anka Wiencek's Photographs from England (photographs)
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Emblems from the 2012 Mock Convention (photographs)
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The Embryonic Artist and the Nightmare of History: In Search of a Father-Guide in James Joyce's Ulysses
As readers of Ulysses, our only guide to Stephen's future comes from looking back, searching the novel for clues to Joyce's providential design. When in search of a father-guide for Stephen, one must look to "Scylla and ... -
Emergency Department Utilization Among the Poor: The Need to Improve Access to Quality Primary Care
Inappropriate use of emergency departments and inadequate access to high-quality primary care are two interrelated issues that characterize health care for America's poor. A thorough rectification of this issue must not ... -
Emergent Behaviors in Artificial Life with Genetic Algorithms
Artificial life is concerned with the understanding of various aspects of biological systems by artificially recreating them. An emergent property of any system is a simple or complex behavior that is beyond the original ... -
Empathetic Hardy: bounded, ambassadorial, and broadcast strategies of narrative empathy
(Final published version of article copyrighted by Duke University Press, 2011)Pursuing my earlier theory of strategic narrative empathy, this essay shows Thomas Hardy's bounded strategic empathy for his fictional creations, Wessex countrymen and women; his ambassadorial strategic empathy for animals ... -
An Empathy Based Account of Rational Sentimentalism (thesis)
This project is an attempt to argue two things: first, that the Social Intuitionist Model can be used to advance forward a rational sentimentalist framework, and second, that empathy is necessary for both the existence and ... -
An Empirical Attack on the Traditional A Priori
Does this mean we should discard the entire methodology of a priori philosophy? If a priori examination requires a propositional conception of knowledge, then I would argue yes. Conceptual analysis is not a completely ... -
Empirically Evaluating Genetic Algorithms For Generating Test Suites For Web Applications (thesis)
As web applications increase in popularity, the need for extensively testing the web applications has become greater than ever. Developers are increasingly pressed to ensure that the number of faults in a web application ... -
Employment Barriers Facing Women of Color Upon Re-Entry from Incarceration
This paper will explore the plight of low-income women of color reentering society from incarceration and the barriers that they face. By looking at the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act ... -
Employment Capability for Individuals with Barriers to Labor Market Entry: The Case of Work-Integration Social Enterprises
In this paper, I will begin by defining social entrepreneurship and giving a brief overview of the rise of the field, both for the sake of clarity and for the relative novelty of the concept. The following section will ... -
Empowerment and Apartheid's Lingering Legacy: Evaluating the Effectiveness of B-BBEE Policy
This paper evaluates state intervention through South African government policy by assessing the implementation of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Act. First introduced in 2003, this Act has played a ... -
Ending Zero-Tolerace: How High Poverty Schools can Repair and Restore School Discipline
The prevailing school discipline paradigm in the United States is actively racist and systemically robs the fair equality of opportunity from students across the nation. In the past few decades, the highly punitive ... -
Energy Boom to Doom: The Impact of Fracking on Deaths of Despair (thesis)
Since 1999, 'deaths of despair' -- deaths from drug overdoses, alcoholic liver disease, liver cirrhosis, and suicide -- have driven increases in mortality for middle-age white Americans (Case and Deaton 2017). While the ... -
[English Language Learners]
In the 1974 landmark case Lau v. Nichols, the Supreme Court ruled that the government has an additional responsibility to assist English-learning students above and beyond expectations for traditional students. For the ...