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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 ... -
Enlightened Anthropocentrism and its Environmental Policy Implications (thesis)
. . . I will now provide a quick roadmap of my thesis. In the first section, I will begin by explaining the notion of anthropocentrism and noting why environmentalists have felt the need to respond by proposing increasingly ... -
Environmental Impacts on Psychological Well-Being for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
This paper will briefly review certain aspects of the lived space for individuals experiencing homelessness. Specifically, the purpose of this review is to understand the multitudinous consequences of environmental stressors ... -
Equal Access to Services: Investigating Access to Food among the Rockbridge Area's Latino Population
This paper compares and contrasts qualitative data and quantitative data regarding residents of Rockbridge County, Lexington (city), and Buena Vista (city), Virginia, which constitutes the Rockbridge area. The qualitative ... -
Equal Opportunity and the Elderly
America currently fails to provide total health to its elderly population. America provides the elderly with vital, albeit modest financial, assistance through Social Security and Medicare, but makes little provision for ... -
Equity & The Discount Rate in Climate Change Economics
The focus of this research seeks to determine the best practices in determining climate change mitigation policies, and will focus on the role of the discount rate. A robust debate surrounding the practice of discounting ...