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Sex, Guns, and Theorems; The Legacy of Evariste Galois
Only ignorance of history can allow one to see mathematicians as those who lead boring, uneventful lives, and a brief look at the career of the French mathematician Evariste Galois (1811 - 1832) will put any skeptic to ... -
Sex, Sonnets, and Sermons: The Erotic Theology of John Donne
I intend to use the epithalamia or marriage songs, enhanced by analysis of Donne's sermons, as conceptual bridges to understand the persistence of sexual and physical language from Donne's.secular love poetry to his religious ... -
Sexuality and System in Thomas Hardy: The Affirmation of Experiential Over Moral Truth
This project is a psychological study of Thomas Hardy's developing attitude towards sexuality; specifically whether it could be brought into a constructive moral system, or whether the experience was fulfilling in its own ... -
Shakespeare and Succession Crisis: Shakespeare's Reimagining of Elizabeth I's Legacy in Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, and King Lear (thesis)
If Shakespeare's works can tell us anything, it is that the Elizabethan time was one filled with as much uncertainty as our own. There was no surety that we would all remember Elizabeth as the greatest queen in English ... -
Shakespeare's Folly: A Methodology of Fooling (thesis)
In Feste, Touchstone, and Lear's fool, we see the care Shakespeare bestowed on these characters. While neither particularly romantic nor overly dramatic figures, their role significantly aids the dramatic progression of ... -
Shattered Pasts and Uncertain Futures: Refugee Protection in the 21st Century
The plight of refugees is a significant international concern for many reasons. The sheer number of displaced persons represents disorder and societal disintegration, but more importantly, our responses to this plight ... -
She Closes Her Eyes to Herself: Nietzsche, Feminism, and Christianity
This paper works to examine the lives and arguments of early Christian female ascetics and modern feminist Christians through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche. The arguments against orthodox Christianity presented in Nietzsche ... -
She Closes Her Eyes to Herself: Nietzsche, Feminism, and Christianity (thesis)
This paper works to examine the lives and arguments of early Christian female ascetics and modern feminist Christians through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche. The arguments against orthodox Christianity presented in Nietzsche ... -
The Shellability of Simplices
Shelling can be looked at as a way of piecing together a surface ( or taking it apart), almost as if using legos. The pieces we are using are points, edges, triangles, tetrahedra, and larger n-dimensional cells. You can ... -
Sheltered: Images From a Life Among Shelter Pets and Their People
I hope to provide a glimpse into the shelter system that will leave my readers understanding that animal shelters are about so much more than euthanasia and adoptions. My goal is to prove that shelters are not limited to ... -
Shifting Borders: Language and Identity along the U.S-Mexico Border
Aimed at drawing to light the dynamic relationships between identity, language, and borders, this investigation first delves into a consideration of language as a tool to combat existential doubt in “Existence to Expression”. ... -
Should Americans Take Steps to Make Higher Education More Affordable for Poor Americans?
The cost of higher education in America has been constantly rising. The high cost is making it very difficult for low-income Americans to pursue a bachelor's degree. The inability for low-income Americans to obtain a degree ... -
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Recommendations for Short-Term Missions and Volunteering Abroad
This paper will begin with an analysis of the case against short-term service trips abroad . . . Part 1 will break down the case against these trips by dividing it into four distinct claims: a) Short-term term service ... -
Shue and Mencius on the Provision of Subsistence
In this work, I will examine the approaches for the provision of subsistence to those whose subsistence is threatened offered by Henry Shue in Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence and U.S. Foreign Policy (BR) and the ... -
Sick in Suburbia: How the Suburbanization of Poverty Has Created Disparities in Access to Primary Care Among the Metropolitan Poor
Poverty has been suburbanizing since the 1990's in the United States. This metropolitan trend has created disparities in access to primary care between the urban and suburban poor, introducing additional barriers to access ... -
Sickness and Disability in Children's Literature: Using Picture Books as a Path to Understanding and Empathy (thesis)
In this paper, I investigate three niches within this category of children's books on sickness and disability: books on common illnesses, books on disabilities, and books on serious or chronic illnesses. Each chapter is ... -
The Signaling Effect of Rankings: Evidence from Top 14 Law Schools (thesis)
This thesis examines the effect on career outcomes caused by placing within the top 14 spots on US News & World Reports' law school rankings. We use data from the American Bar Association on class profiles, Bar passage ... -
Signs of Yuan Dynasty Imperialism in Tibet: Decoding the Fourteenth-Century Painted Representations of Textiles at Shalu Monastery (thesis)
Two primary questions guide my thesis. First, why did the Mongols, one of the most powerful empires of Asia ruling Tibet at the time (1279-1368), not establish their own aesthetic or simply import one of the well established ... -
Silenced and Stuck in Squalor: Roma's Right to Fair and Equal Opportunity to Speak
In December of 2010, local authorities evicted 56 Roma families to a dump in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Though nearly seven years have passed since local authorities moved families from the center of the city to the outskirts ... -
The Silencing and the Vocalization of the Transgender Latin American Identity and the Transgender Latinx Identity
Throughout Latin America and the United States, transgender individuals experience a political and social silencing and loss of personhood due to their transgression of the rigid gender binary. In the United States, ...