Browsing W&L University Student Scholarship by Subject "Virginia"
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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 ... -
Development of the Nomenclature of Ordovician Stratigraphy in Virginia
This paper is a bare outline of the development of the Ordovician nomenclature in Virginia. The emphasis has been on the nomenclature as such and paleontologic relations which are so important to the stratigrapher have ... -
Geology of the Precambrian Igneous-Metamorphic Complex of the Blue Ridge in the Snowden Quadrangle, Virginia
The Snowden 7.5 minute quadrangle is located entirely within the Blue Ridge physiographic province of Virginia. Early Cambrian sediments of the Chilhowee Group occur in the northern half of the quadrangle, while the southern ... -
An Historical and Archaeological Consideration of Brickmaking in Virginia
"Of all ceramics, brick is surrounded by the worst tangle of legend and folklore." (Heite 1970: 43) The above quote represents a statement written by Edward F. Heite in reference to the specific plight of bricks in an ... -
Indentured Servitude in Colonial Virginia: Genteel Ambitions and Harsh Realities
In order to evaluate the status of indentured servants in colonial Virginia, the student must analyze standards of treatment of servants in the context of history. During the seventeenth century, the term "servant" was not ... -
Indigent Defense in Virginia: Practical and Empathic Motivations for Reform
In 1999 an estimated $1.2 billion was spent to provide indigent criminal defense in the nation's 100 most populous counties. This $1.2 billion represents an estimated 3% of all local criminal justice expenditures in these ... -
Local Law Enforcement within a Collapsing Mental Health System: A Qualitative Analysis on Crisis Intervention Team Programs in Virginia (thesis)
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model is a globally recognized and implemented jail diversion program that improves local law enforcement response to individuals with mental illness or substance use disorder (MISUD). ... -
Quaternary Erosional History of the St. Marys River, Western Virginia
The landscape between Vesuvius and Greenville Virginia records the history of competition between the Shenandoah-Potomac and Maury-James basins. The St. Marys River is the latest in a series of stream captures that appear ... -
Religious Education in the Virginia Public Schools
Considering that the control and support of the schools are becoming more and more centralized and that the local community is fast losing control and responsibility for the support and administration of the local school, ... -
Socioeconomic and Geographical Inequalities in Mental Health Combining Social and Health Sector Perspectives
Through personal observations and discussion with both practitioners and administrators, I developed an informed perspective on many of the issues that exist at the intersection of poverty and mental health. At the conclusion ... -
Tobacco and Jesus: The Social Impacts of Scottish and Scots-Irish Immigrants in Colonial Virginia (thesis)
To closely examine how the Scots and Scots-Irish managed to have such an impact on colonial Virginia, this study draws from primary source documents from or about immigrants during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ... -
Trophic Dynamics of Smallmouth Bass Invading Coldwater Ecosystems
Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) are a freshwater fish species that was introduced into Virginia in the late 1800's. The range of smallmouth bass is expected to expand, with climate change being a primary-driver of ... -
Virginia Community Colleges: The Expanding Role and Low-Income Virginians
The community college system in Virginia has experienced a generation of change. Recently, with the implementation of a statewide guaranteed admission policy, community college has expanded upon the base demographic from ... -
The Virginia State Convention of 1829-30
The Convention ended its work January 14, 1830, with the adoption of the Constitution by a vote of fifty-five to forty.[1] On the negative side were all the delegates from the Trans-Alleghany , one of the Valley representatives ...