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Paradise Lost: Effects of Tourism on Poor Populations of Small, Developing Tropical Nations
By some measures tourism is the largest industry in the world, and many small developing nations are economically dependent upon revenue generated by international tourism. Literature on tourism is varied and extensive, ... -
The Paradox of Virtue: Milton's Satan and the Anti-Hero Tradition (thesis)
In the classical sphere, Milton scholars have placed due emphasis on the associations between Paradise Lost and the epic tradition, particularly as expressed through Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil's Aeneid at the ... -
Parallel Lives: Adams and Cicero, Hamilton and Caesar, and the Quasi-War with France, 1797-1800
The framers of the Constitution looked to the Roman and Greek states for guidance. To be educated was to know Latin and Greek, and to have read the ancient historians and philosophers. But among the many talented men who ... -
Partiality as Justice: a Critique of Thomas Pogge's World Poverty and Human Rights
. . . I find the priority and emphasis Pogge gives to negative obligations in formulating our moral obligation to alleviate poverty to be troubling. In Pogge's work, positive obligations based on justice can only arise ... -
A Partially Changing God: In Defense of Free Will and Foreknowledge
In this thesis I will begin with a libertarian view of human free will, one in which we are able to be active agents in freely choosing our own actions. At the same time, I will assume that there is a God, and that He is ... -
"Passing Like Cherry Blossoms:" Silence in Chinese-American Literature (thesis)
This thesis was born out of the desire to see myself, a Chinese-American person, represented in contemporary American fiction. In the publishing industry today, books written by and about people of minority racial or ethnic ... -
The Past and Present Nutritional Trends in South America and the Interaction with the Western World
The folk wisdom of the native Indians remarkably proceeded thousands of years of scientific research. Their knowledge is a testament to understanding one's body and one's surrounding. However, due to globalization, these ... -
Paterson via the Passaic
Paterson does and says many different things but its most central concern is man and his relationship to the world. Williams adamantly believes that a sustained, immediate interpenetration between the individual and his ... -
A Path to Depression: The Stigmatization of Poor Single Mothers
Although there are certainly other contributing factors that predispose poor women to depression, the way in which false classist assumptions contribute to depression in poor single mothers has been largely neglected in ... -
Patterns of Ritual in the Works of James Joyce
Any critical study of the works of James Joyce is from the outset impiously reductive. Two alternatives immediately confront the Joycean who embarks on such a study. He can follow the narrative structures of the individual ... -
The Pediatric Medical Home Model: A Policy Recommendation to Increase Healthcare Quality for Children in Poverty
The pediatric medical home is a family-centered approach to providing comprehensive primary care. In a medical home, healthcare professionals work with patients and their families to ensure all medical and non-medical ... -
Pendleton Scott Clark: Life and Works
Pendleton Scott Clark was an active architect in Lynchburg, Virginia and surrounding areas from 1920 until his death in 1975. The firm Clark started in the 1950's; Clark, Nexen, and Owen; is still practicing in Lynchburg ... -
Performance Practice of Thomas Tallis: An Educational Perspective (thesis)
A choral student's formative music education is often provided by a high school choir. For many student's, this is where they will receive the bulk of their music education. Consequently, it is extremely important for high ... -
Periodicals as Handbooks for Doing Gender and Doing Difference: Racialized Womanhood in Cosmopolitan and Essence Magazines from 1978-2000 (thesis)
. . . This means that, simultaneously, black women in America and white women in America were receiving very different messages from popular and political culture, as both the (black) welfare queen and the (white) feminist ... -
Periods of Linearly Recurring Sequences (thesis)
In this thesis, we investigate sequences defined by linear recurrence relations. These are sequences whose subsequent terms are generated using some linear combination of the previous terms. We call the equation that ... -
Permutation Formula (thesis)
Runs in permutations and similar topics have been studied by various authors under different names. Hegarty examined permutations of finite abelian groups which avoid what he called progressions. Riordan studied 3-runs ... -
The Persistent Problem of Gender Inequality in the Twenty-First Century: Why Sweden's Care and Leave Policies Are Not the Panacea (thesis)
This study focuses on the effects of leave and care policies in Germany, Spain, the UK, and Sweden. Leave and care policies are distinguished as two of the most important social policies affecting women's and men's work-care ...