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Addressing Migrant Children's Education in the United States
Although the U.S. has prioritized universal education to all residents, only ten percent of migrant students graduate from high school. This paper explores specific barriers migrant farmworkers' children face to educational ... -
Adriana Corral: Reimagining U.S. History and Creating Memory Along the U.S.-Mexico Border Through Unearthed: Desenterrado (thesis)
By approaching Corral's work from a theoretical perspective, one more fully appreciates how Unearthed: Desenterrado works to acknowledge the dominant historical narrative and how it manipulates which memories are remembered. ... -
Advantages of Housing First Rehousing Strategy for the Chronically Homeless
Since the 1980s, chronic homelessness, a subset of homeless who have experienced long-term homelessness and suffer from a disability, has increased dramatically. The dominant methodology within the past few decades to house ... -
Aeschylus' Erinyes: Tragedy's Muses
The over-arching theme of Aeschylus' trilogy, the Oresteia, is the emergence of law from vengeance, but does the author also address the nature of tragedy through an innovative treatment of song and the Erinyes? Peter ... -
Affect(ed) (thesis)
I survived with only 28 stitches and the loss of feeling in my right ear. But the physical scars healed much faster than those on the inside. . . . Through interviews with my family, I began to dissect many of these ... -
Affordable Housing in the Rockbridge Area (Rockbridge County, Lexington City, Buena Vista City)
The Rockbridge Area faces a great change in its culture and heritage if it does not address the quantity of available workforce housing. It has made strives with Threshold and the Buck Hill Community Project. As it moves ... -
African-American Men, Higher Education, and the Negative Effects of Poverty
In the pursuit of fiscal stability, many Americans seek degrees that would qualify them for positions that would allow for a certain level of comfort in the future. By striving to attain this monetary success, different ... -
Afro-Brazilian Candomble: Reigniting Cultural Memories in the New World
This paper will explore Candomblé as a religion in its own right that has acted as an important tool for resistance and remembrance, allowing Candomblé practitioners to remember and redefine their African ancestral past ... -
Ain't no drownin' the spirit : the New Orleans civil religion and its role in Hurricane Katrina (thesis)
Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in the early hours of August 29, 2005, causing the levees surrounding the city of New Orleans to rupture. As flood water rushed into the city, many people questioned the justice of God. ... -
Ake v. Oklahoma: Unanswered Questions Make Expert Witnesses Unreachable for Some Indigent Defendants
The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments entitle U.S. citizens to due process. Since it's adoption courts have argued over what due process means; some have expressed that the term is a flexible one, changing over time. Many ... -
Albert Taylor Goodwyn: An Adamistic Look at the South
In this paper I have attempted to tell the story of the life of one man, Albert Taylor Goodwyn, and by doing so shed a small ray of light on the history of the South. Albert Goodwyn lfved from 1842 until 1931. His life ... -
Alchemizing Capitalism: Occupational Tribalism and the Pursuit of the Authentic Self (thesis)
Alchemist Movement -- a spiritual group in Reno, Nevada -- formed around the idea of combining church and theater. While the Alchemists explicitly focus on helping people on their spiritual paths, they also maintain a ... -
Aldo Leopold's Unique Elegy: Consolation and Agency in "Marshland Elegy" and A Sand County Almanac
This essay explores “Marshland Elegy” by first outlining the historical evolution of elegies to provide a foundational understanding of the literary form, and then analyzing the utility in considering “Marshland Elegy’s” ... -
Algerian Immigrants in France: A Case Study of Domestic Immigration Policy and Its International Implications
My paper examines the history of immigration in France, the positive and negative aspects of the public policy ofintegration in France, and the alternative means ofincorporating immigrants into mainstream French society. ... -
Algorithm for Detection of Spikes in the Small Intestine: Investigating the Effects of Induced Ischemia on Small Intestine Electrical Activity (thesis)
This thesis presents an algorithm for spike detection designed to analyze data from induced ischemia experiments. Algorithm design and validation are discussed in detail. Other topics addressed include: electrical activity ... -
Alienation in Modern America: A Sociological Inquiry into the Impact of Self-Estrangement on the American Character in the Twentieth Century and Its Specific Effects on Boys of the Lower Urban Classes
It is my intent in this thesis to present a description in depth of the term "alienation," showing the reasons I feel it has become one of the most significant problems in present day America and pointing out its impact ... -
Alkenes and Cycloalkanes from Tosylhydrazones: The Aprotic Bamford-Stevens Reaction and Camphor Tosylhydrazone
In 1952 Bamford and Stevens discovered that ptoluenesulfonylhydrazones of many different types of ketones decomposed on heating in a base to form alkenes, and cycloalkanes by insertion. In addition to the alkene, molecular ... -
Alloys of Aluminum
The equipment used in this work has been very crude and that to a very great extent limited. Then, too this branch of metallurgy is very wide and an exhausting research terein might require a lifetime and more, and that ... -
The Alternative Lexington: Fashioning Home, Place, and Belonging among Lexington's Latino Immigrant Community
Faced with difficulties in joining Lexington's broader identities, I reason that the city's Latino immigrant population has largely crafted an alternative community -- or an "imagined" Lexington -- relying on the bonding ...