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The 2006 Massachusetts Health Reform Act: Can a Politically and Economically Feasible Health Care Plan Establish a Just Distribution of Health Care for the Poor?
This essay considers whether the Massachusetts Health Reform Act ("Massachusetts Act" or "Act") can solve the problem of health insurance for the poor and near poor? In coming to a conclusion, this essay will focus on ... -
Academic Cheating and Workload Intensity: Theory and Simulations
In this project, I investigate a particular model of punishment featured by some honor codes -- a single sanction. Under a single-sanction honor code, the student judiciary must expel any student found guilty of academic ... -
[Access to Health Insurance]
To isolate and examine the consequences of insurance coverage, we can study how insurance impacts a patient's access to medical information and treatment. Although we most often think of medicine in terms of intervention ... -
Access to Prenatal Care in Rockbridge County: A Community-Based Research Project
This paper, which will function as my Women's and Gender Studies capstone, results from a semester-long look into the issues of prenatal and maternal health care services for women and infants residing in Rockbridge County, ... -
Access, the Best Birth Control: An Issue of Justice
Low-income women face barriers when trying to access family planning services. Notable barriers to accessing family planning services include financial constraints, transportation difficulties, and lack of family planning ... -
Accessing the Divine: Private Devotional Diptychs and Triptychs of Fifteenth-Century Flanders (thesis)
Diptychs were not static portraits but rather functioning objects.' They demanded active viewer participation and contemplation. Yet, the diptych represents a very specific genre that developed because of the religious ... -
Acculturation: The Cumbersome Road to Chronic Diseases among Latino Immigrants
The aim of this work is to analyze the relationship between chronic diseases and the acculturation process in Latin American immigrants. In comparison with many other ethnic groups, the Hispanic/Latino population is young ... -
The Achievement Gap, Proficiency & The Kentucky Education Reform Act
This paper will provide an in-depth analysis of the U.S.'s most extensive state education reform, the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), and assess its impact on student achievement. In a 1991 Kentucky Office of Education ... -
Addressing Food Waste as a Social Issue: Cultural Roots and the Importance of a Multifaceted Approach
Food waste in America amounts to approximately 133 billion pounds of food each year, with loss deriving from every level of the production and consumption chain. Meanwhile, 41.2 million Americans live in food insecure ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...