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Predatory Financial Practices and the Impact on the Poor
In summary, the solutions for breaking the cycle of poverty presented by this paper focus heavily on reducing the exorbitant costs of financial services paid by low-income families. This is in contrast to the long-standing ... -
Predatory Lending: Payday Lenders and Credit Card Companies
Predatory payday lenders and credit card companies target lower income earners. Wage earners who utilize these services spend a disproportionate amount of money on interest and late fees. Therefore, these low earners have ... -
Preparation and Analysis of the Aquo Salts of Ruthenium
The purpose of this work was to determine the water or the -OH content of the rubidium pentachloro hydroxy and the aquo salts of ruthenium, and also to acquire the technique of handling ruthenium, especially the analysis ... -
The Preparation and Examination of [Beta]-Ethylmercaptopropionic Acid and [Beta]-Butylmercaptopropionic Acid
It is desired that, ultimately, a complete set of data may be collected for each of these acids, so that regularities [or irregularities] in densities, boiling points, melting points, and refractive indexes may be traced ... -
Preparation and Physical Constants of Higher Straight Chain Ethers: Butyl Hexyl Ether
Many of the simpler organic compounds, whose formulas can be so easily written, have never actually been prepared. The literature is as yet imoomplete regarding their physical constants and exact methods of preparation. ... -
Present Situation, Problems, and Policy Solutions Concerning the State of Teacher Quality in Low-Income, Rural West Virginia
Since 40.6% of West Virginia schools are rural and 43.5% of the state's students attend these rural schools, it becomes incredibly important to scrutinize the functioning of the education system outside of the state's more ... -
Presentation and Perception: The Effect of Disclosure Readability on Lending Decisions (thesis)
This paper examines the effect readability has on the perceived creditworthiness of borrowers. I find that reduced readability increases the likelihood that borrowers objectively deserving of an unfavorable credit rating ... -
The President's Other Half: Power, Politics, and America's First Ladies (thesis)
While traditional scholarly literature has neglected the office, the First Lady has tremendous power and plays a pivotal role during her husband's administration. In the public/private and masculine/feminine dualities, ... -
The Presidential Election of 1932
While with the keen eyes of twenty-twenty hindsight, later analysts were able to see in Roooevelt' s adresses many indications of later developments, the public was by no means equally aware of what was in store for them ... -
The Presidential Nominations of 1940
The presidential nominations of 1940 exemplify the actions and reactions of the political campaign to World War II. The cataclysmic events in Europe influenced greatly the other issues, such as the third term and the unusual ... -
[The Press and Media Coverage of Poverty]
This paper aims out to examine the coverage of poverty by three mid-sized, daily newspapers across the country – The St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, The Memphis (TN) Commercial Appeal, and The Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal. ... -
Price Dispersion and the Effectiveness of Integration Efforts
Using a specifically developed measure I find evidence that NAFT A, MERCOSUR, and EU membership are significantly correlated with decreased price dispersion. This suggests that these agreements have increased market ... -
Primary Care's Code Blue: Can Basic Patient Care Be Revitalized?
Part One of this paper will identify what it means exactly to access primary care in the ER, the people who access such care, and why they access primary care in the ER. I argue that those who access primary/ambulatory ... -
The Privatization of Social Service Programs
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PWRORA) represented a major shift in the national welfare system. It allows states the option of providing welfare-related services to the ... -
The Problem of Arbitrariness in American Jurisprudence
The debate over how to interpret the United States Constitution continues to be the most controversial one in the area of constitutional law. In recent years, with the rise of the New Right and its so-called original intent ... -
The Problem of Hell for Christians
At one point or another, almost every human being has considered and questioned the possibility of the existence of some sort of higher being and of an afterlife. The Christian faith teaches that there exists such a being, ... -
The Problem with PrEP: Intersectional Stigma and Modern HIV Prevention in the United States
Even though the literature published on PrEP [Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis] is still relatively new, there has already been a lack of coherence between studies to understand which social mechanisms and individual factors ... -
Problems of International Broadcasting by the American Government
The purpose of this paper is to present an objective evaluation of the work of the Voice of America. Much has been written from a biased standpoint -- little that is objective. Indeed, it was an editorial bitterly attacking ... -
Problems with Education Educational Reform in the Dominican Republic
An in-depth look at the issues plaguing the educational system within the Dominican Republic. The paper focuses on primary and secondary education with an emphasis in both the problems and reforms of currently in place. -
Procedural Generation of Metroidvania Style Levels (thesis)
Video game maps can become dull with repeated play-throughs and handcrafting a variety of maps can be a tedious and time consuming process. This is especially true for games of the Metroidvania genre, games which focus on ...