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Soft Skill Development in Children Born with Low Birthweight: How and Why Should Society Help?
This paper brings together the existing literatures on low birthweight and soft skill development in order to demonstrate that interventions focused on soft skill development hold promise in improving the life outcomes of ... -
Some Aspects of Slavery in Rockbridge County, Virginia
Rockbridge County, like most of the South, employed its slaves to help grow its crops, to perform the hard labor necessary for its industrial production, and to act as its domestic servants. Rockbridge County's planters ... -
Some Comparative Experiments on the Fireproofing of Wood Pulp
The purpose of these experiments was not to produce a pulp that was absolutely unaffected by fire. Nor was it the aim of the writer to develope any one pulp to its maximum efficiency, but solely to place upon a comparative ... -
Some Elements of High Tension Power Transmission
This subject will be treated as follows: First -- A general statement of the conditions which suggest a high tension transmission project, and the circumstances limiting the maximum transmission distance and maximum ... -
Some Investigations of the Preparation of 4-(4-carboxyphenyl)semicarbazide and Its Camphor Derivative
At present the series of reagents available for the resolution of optically active carbonyl compounds shows some definite inadquecies. The investigations discussed in this thesis were undertaken to fill these gaps. [From ... -
Some Studies in Coupling of Aliphatic Nitrocompounds
The object of this thesis was the production and isolation of a new compound. . . . this problem was set forth by Merck and Co. because they believe that this compound may have properties similar to sulfanilamide. [From ... -
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Remembered: African-American Patterns of Adaptation to Plantation Life in the New World
The ultimate value of archaeology rests on the assumption that the material record is an inevitable reflection of past cultures' mental and spiritual lives. The material record should indicate the ways in which people ... -
South Carolina Politics: A Re-Evaluation of Key
Obviously, many of,the statements which Key made about South Carolina are now obsolete. The politics of color has disappeared and blacks are today an important and influential part of the South Carolina political scene. ... -
A Southern Intellectual Community: A Sociological Inquiry
The immediate pupose of this thesis is to make a sociological analysis of Washington and Lee University as a Southern intellectual community during the first three decades of the present century. It is not here suggested ... -
Speak Up and Dribble: John Stuart Mill's Freedoms and How they Apply to the Modern Political Athlete (thesis)
J. S. Mill's conception of liberty, as proposed in On Liberty, helps us better understand how society can benefit from viewing and embracing athletes as political actors, and how they can serve as examples for the significance ... -
A Spectacular Minority: Charter Schools that Respond to the Problem of Poverty in Public Education
There are two important questions to keep in mind throughout this paper. The first of these is how "success" ought to be defined. Is it college entrance and graduation? Is it a certain type or level of occupation; that is, ... -
The Spectral Properties of Iodine-Trichloride in Carbon Tetrachloride Solution
The investigation of iodine trichloride as an electron acceptor system for st �b donors by R. D. Whitaker, J. R. Ambrose. and C. T. Hickam has proven very fruitful. In order to complete the investigation of the iodine ... -
Square Wave Optimization in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Subjected to Polarization-Rotated Optical Feedback (thesis)
I experimentally study the dynamics of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) with polarization-rotated optical feedback. This type of semiconductor laser naturally emits linearly-polarized light and can elicit ... -
SSI and Work: The Great American Story
. . . although much of the current debate surrounding SSI [Supplemental Security Income] discusses benefit levels or eligibility, this analysis focuses on the extent to which the program currently achieves the 1971 goal ... -
Standardized Testing in a Non-Standardized World: The Unfairness of High-Stakes Standardized Testing and its Implications for English Language Learners in Texas
This paper aims to determine whether federally mandated standardized tests provide fair equality of opportunity for all students. To assess the effects of high-stakes testing, I researched the performance of English language ... -
The State and the Collection Plate: the Possibilities and Limitations of Charitable Giving
Policymakers and public officials constantly debate how best to assist the poor. Currently, the debate rages about whether the government is too large, and whether shrinking the government means eliminating many public ... -
State Children's Health Insurance Program: Insuring a Better Future for Children
This paper commences with a comparison of health outcomes and quality of care between uninsured children and those who have either public health insurance or private health insurance. Not surprisingly, access to either ...