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Louis Comfort Tiffany and His Art Nouveau Lamps
This paper will address the life of Louis Comfort Tiffany in the context of two products made at his glass studio on Corona Island, New York, around 1900: the Hanging-head Dragonfly lamp, and the Spider-web lamp. First, a ... -
Louis Marshall, M. D.: His Administration as President of Washington College
Louis Marshall was not a great educator, and probably deserved his obscurity. As an unrepentant individualist he is an interesting study. As a representative of personalized education, which was becoming unfashionable in ... -
Low Income Women and Barriers to Breastfeeding
This paper explores why breastfeeding is such an important issue for disadvantaged women, the actions that should be taken to encourage low-income mothers to breastfeed, and how to support and protect the mothers who do ... -
Low-Cost Techniques for Assessing the Quality of Drinking Water from Biosand Filters (thesis)
Over 4 million people worldwide are estimated to benefit from the biosand filter (BSF), an inexpensive point-of-use (POU) water treatment technology designed to remove turbidity, bacterial contamination, and parasites. The ... -
Low-Income Autistic Children in the Pediatric Hospital: Best Care Practices to Enhance Capabilities
The current research study utilizes a novel approach to disability rights, the Capabilities Approach to Disability, to formulate a moral argument for implementation of best care practices catered toward low-income children ... -
A Machine Learning Approach to Stock Selection using Technical Analysis (thesis)
This thesis introduces a novel machine learning framework for stock selection that only uses technical indicators and chart patterns as inputs. In contrast to other papers, the machine learning model first employs a recursive ... -
A Madwoman for Every Room in the House: Eating Disorders, Schizophrenia and Other Forms of Insanity in Seven Victorian Novels
The subject of insanity, particularly in female characters, in British novels first attracted my attention while studying nineteenth century Gothic novels with my tutor in Oxford last year. I began looking at "sensation" ... -
Maggie Lena Walker: Banker, Entrepreneur, and Social Activist (thesis)
Few women have achieved the stature in the black community of Richmond, and the United States, as Maggie Lena Walker. In 1903 she founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, becoming the first woman, white or black, to found ... -
Mailing List, '52 mock convention
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The Maine Delegation (photographs)
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The Making of a Modern Saint: An Analysis of Grief, Charisma, and Community Identity in Transition (thesis)
In concluding this research, I will briefly recount the analytical progress that has been made. Such concluding remarks reaffirm the theoretical model. Primarily, however, my conclusion will engage with this very idea of ... -
Malaria as a Cause of Poverty: Poverty as a Contributor to Malaria
Malaria remains to be a huge problem in developing countries. We cannot ignore this problem as we try to eradicate global poverty. Malaria causes a downward spiral of poverty without effective interventions. It causes huge ... -
Mangrove Management Strategies for Social and Ecological Integrity
This research seeks to determine if mangrove restoration projects successfully contribute to improved ecological and social well-being in case-studies from three different countries: Colombia, Vietnam, and Kenya. By comparing ...