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Obeah Women, Mediums, and Witches: Spirituality in the Colonial and Postcolonial Gothic (thesis)
This thesis traces the evolution of Self versus Other in terms of religion throughout the colonial and postcolonial Gothic. I begin with an examination of colonial Gothic texts which function in the delegitimizing way that ... -
Obesity, Physical Activity, and Health Implications in the Low-Income Community
Tackling obesity related poverty, specifically found in rural communities, is a larger problem than simply increasing physical activity. However, starting at physical activity allows for an opportunity to tackle problems ... -
Obstacles to Rural Health and Current Directions in Overcoming Them
In the US, the rural elderly are of particular interest. People who are elderly make up a larger share of the population in rural communities than urban ones, while low population density is a major obstacle to efficient ... -
The Odyssey of Leopold Bloom: An Attempt to Find What Will Suffice
Standards of morality have changed to the extent that James Joyce's Ulysses is no longer condemned for being exceptionaIly obscene. Almost fifty years after its publication, however, Joyce's novel remains notorious for ... -
Of Human Identity: Deconstruction and its Discontents
Why would Jacques Derrida and deconstruction so often evoke baseless and sweeping objections like those in the epigraph? Many students and academics find Derrida's works incomprehensible and even contradictory at times. ... -
On Empathy in Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Its Role Within a Contractualist Framework (thesis)
In the eighteenth century, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers emphasized the importance of sympathy in the construction of the moral self. Among this group of philosophers, Adam Smith's moral account is especially astute. ... -
On Showing and Saying: An Analysis of Go?del 1931
In 1931 Kurt Go?del published a theorem demonstrating that many systems of formal logic capable of developing arithmetic possess major deficiencies. He shovs that such systems, if they are consistent, are powerless to ... -
On the Electrolytic Reduction of Tribromoresorcinol
In the studies of halogen substituted resorcinols conducted by the Chemistry Department at Washinton and Lee University, considerable work was done by Lewis Daniel Williams on the preparation of 2-substituted resorcinols ... -
On the Essay: A Gendered Evolution of Narrative Presence in the Personal Essay
The unassuming power behind the essay is what makes modern attempts so crucial. Overt forms, obvious attempts lend themselves to criticism and censorship. These are the violences that are often silenced by the oppressor, ... -
On the Realizability of Projective Configurations (thesis)
Many natural questions emerge from the work of this thesis. The first chapter may inspire a budding mathematician to work (in the fashion of my thesis advisor) on area relations and equidissections. From the second chapter, ... -
On the Theory of Action
This paper concerns several points of action theory. I begin with a discussion of Arthur Dante's thesis on basic and nonbasic action, clarifying and differentiating between, the two. While Danto advances the notion of ... -
Operationalizing Inequality: Low Caste Status, Village Composition, and Public Goods Access in Rural India
Using data from the 2005 Indian Human Development Survey, this paper seeks to differentiate the effects of systemic and interpersonal discrimination by examining whether low caste individuals and households in India have ... -
Optical Properties of Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Thin Films (thesis)
In this thesis, we explore the optical properties of silicon-dioxide (silica) thin-films generated through the use of a process known as ionic self-assembly of monolayers (ISAM). This process may be repeated for multiple ... -
Oral Health Disparities: A Gradient Remedied Through Educational Programs
Dental health in the context of larger health in the United States is a vital area of research as it has a direct impact on overall health, equality of opportunity in the work force, and generational dental health. This ... -
Ordinary Sins
I chose to write Ordinary Sins as short stories rather than a novel, but also made the decision to deny the reader any central narration. The opening story introduces readers to the four central characters: Andy, Linda, ... -
Ordinary sins (thesis)
Ordinary Sins is a collection of eight connected short stories, following the creation and the demise of a nuclear family. . . . Ultimately, I hope to capture what I think is a central facet of human behavior: For the most ... -
Original Compositions
I am a music and mathematics major from Ann Arbor, Michigan. I have studied piano since age six under Mrs. Donna Borgert, Dr. Shuko Watanabe and Dr. Timothy Gaylard. In my junior year of college, I began studying composition ... -
The Original Sin: English Discourses of Race and Plantation in Ireland, 1590-1625 (thesis)
Ireland experienced numerous forms of land redistribution throughout its history due to intermittent invasions. Viking and Norman groups each conquered sections of the island from the 800s to 1200s CE, and the Tudor monarchs ... -
Origins and Mechanisms of Semantic Memory Retrieval Inhibition
Retrieval blocks can be induced in semantic memory by a variety of methods, including part-list cuing or priming with information semantically related to a target. Mechanisms underlying retrieval blocks may involve automatic ...