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The Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference Case
On January 29, 1963 the Consolidated Edison Company of New York (hereafter referred to as Con Ed) [1] filed an application before the Federal Power Commission for a license to construct a pumped-storage hydroelectric ... -
Schleiermacher and Barth: The Knowledge of God
I will examine the theological work of two writers, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Karl Barth. Friedrich Schleiermacher has been called the "father of liberal Protestant theology" because his thought started theology on a ... -
The Search for Meaning in Contemporary Life: A Study of a Central Theme in the Works of James Joyce and T. S. Eliot
In this paper I shall discuss the search for meaning in contemporary life, a central theme that appears in the works of both T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. I shall begin my discussion by suggesting how the just-born individual's ... -
A Search for Tragedy in American Drama
Eric Bentley says: "Observers from every point of view would agree that the theater at the moment is in a more than usually uncertain and disordered state." [3] Mr. Bentley is not one known for compromise. He does not ... -
Searching for Justice for Juveniles in America: Are There Lessons to be Learned from the United Kingdom?
This paper suggests that if the U.S. continues its existing detention-heavy approach to juvenile justice, it will fall short of its social and criminal justice goals. Instead of deterring youth offenders, adult imprisonment ... -
Searching for Truth and Water: Deconstructing Cochabamba's "Water War"
The water inadequacies of Cochabamba are not unlike the reality of much of the developing world. . . . The key is finding the best way to maximize the right to clean water: making access affordable, environmentally ... -
Sectoral Workforce Development
Even after the recent recession, and despite a high unemployment rate, there are labor markets in which employers struggle to fill positions (Coffey 2011). In 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projected that “nearly one ... -
Sedimentology and Depositional Setting of the Miocene Marnoso-Arenacea Flysch, Marche region, Italy
The Coldigioco-Castellaro basin is the Easternmost basin in a series of basins and adjacent topographic highs formed during the Early Miocene epoch by compression that produced the Italian Northern Apennines. Part of the ... -
Seeking Asylum in the United States: The Process Confronting Those Fleeing From Violence in the Northern Triangle
The purpose of this document is to describe the preliminary portion of the often complex process for seeking defensive asylum in the United States. This document considers “the preliminary portion” of the defensive asylum ... -
Selected U.S. Tax Expenditures: Historical Trends in Regressivity
U.S. tax expenditures represent $1.2 trillion dollars of lost federal tax revenues in 2013 due to exclusions, deductions, deferrals, and credits allowed by the tax code. Without tax expenditures, the US government would ... -
Self-Assembled Antireflective Coatings Using Silica and Titania Nanoparticles (thesis)
Antiretlective coatings have a wide range of applications, from eyeglass and camera lenses to solar panels, and from microscope lenses and optoelectronic devices to skyscraper windows. It is well known that an uncoated ... -
Selling Souls From A Distance: Market Revolution Transformations in the United States Domestic Slave Trade and Slave Traders (thesis)
Chapter One of this project explores the dual stereotype of the trader created in the antebellum South. Northerners and Southerners criticized the ignorant, lowly itinerant trader but not the large-scale, wealthy trader ... -
Sensing Fluid Pressure During Plucking Events in a Natural Bedrock Channel: Cowpasture River, VA (thesis)
Bedrock river erosion by plucking -- the wholesale removal of bedrock blocks -- is likely the dominant non-glacial driver of incision into topography over both short- and long-term timescales. Engineering and physical/numerical ... -
Sentencing Disparities of White Collar Crime and Non-White Collar Crime
97% of criminal prosecutions end in a plea deal. Thus, the sentence recorded by the United States Sentencing Commission is most likely a sentence negotiated during a pre-trial agreement. This paper will show that a disparity ... -
Sequence Stratigraphic and Structural Interpretation, Modeling and Restoration in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) (thesis)
This thesis examines Mesozoic progradational clinoform sequences, as well as deformation associated with the Brooks Range orogeny in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA). Brookian, Beaufortian and upper Ellesmerian ... -
Serpulids as Indicators of Mid-late Holocene Climate: Timing and Paleoclimate Significance of Large Worm Tube Aggregates, Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic
Large aggregates of calcareous serpulid worm tubes recorded paleoclimate conditions as they colonized the mid to late Holocene Enriquillo embayment, Dominican Republic. Serpulid worms flourished in the embayment following ... -
Setting the Precedent: NYC Education Reforms 2002-2007
This paper examines the process of reform in NYC, over the past five years, to determine whether the reforms have adequately addressed the problems within the NYC school system. The paper begins by examining the conditions ... -
Seven Novels of Angel Maria de Lera: Their Technique and Style, Their Characters, Their Meaning
The following paper is an analysis of seven novels of the contemporary Spanish writer Angel Maria de Lera. The intention is to evidence the maturation of Lera as a writer during the ten years that the seven novels cover ... -
"Sex explains it all": Gender in the Literature of Ernest Hemingway and Robert Frost
Gender is merely an attribute, rather than the single determining factor of one's identity, yet Hemingway and Frost both devised their own distinctly masculine personality -- a public image which became progressively more ... -
Sex For Survival: Prostitution, Poverty, and Inequality
For this topic, there has been a significant amount of work directly on prostitution and the accompanying theoretical or moral arguments. My aim is to analyze the different arguments on prostitution policy and select the ...