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Heaven in a Wild Flower: William Blake's Spirituality of Imagination, Mysticism, and Apocalypse (thesis)
The following paper is interested in the spirituality and religious beliefs of the 18th-19th c. poet and artist William Blake. It is composed of three chapters: an introduction to Blake and the historical and thematic ...
The National School Lunch Program in Rockbridge County
Given the fact that 55 million US children between the ages 5 and 19 spend the majority of their days at school, the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) inherently has a significant role in determining the quality of our ...
Felony Disenfranchisement
In this paper I will take an in-depth look at the impact of felony disenfranchisement on the poor and more specifically on the African American community. The paper will focus on the current felony disenfranchisement law, ...
Normative Volume Development of the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract (poster)
Abundant research has shown that in most neural systems, mature synaptic relationships are fine-tuned during development. One correlate of such fine tuning is changes in axon termination patterns. Our lab has previously ...
The Game of NAFTA: Winners, Losers and Policy Implications
The North American Free Trade Agreement, which took effect in 1994, lacks a social component. It has hindered economic development in Mexico.
Picking Pockets for Profit: Wage Theft and the Fair Labor Standards Act
I will start with a brief history of the FLSA and the purposes for the legislation. I will also outline wage and hour requirements under the FLSA, the remedies available to workers when an employer fails to satisfy those ...
The Essential Poverty of the Face: A Case for Levinasian Responsibility and Justice in Poverty Studies
The moral deliberative theories that ethicists and justice advocates use to address poverty issues all stem from the analytic philosophical tradition, and, while no doubt helpful, they are not fully adequate. Emmanuel ...
Customizable Method of Automatically Detecting Malicious User Activity in Web Applications (thesis)
With the increase in the use of the web and security threats on web applications also at its highest point, the need for better security measures also increases. In this thesis we present a customizable method of automatically ...
Homelessness and Trust: The Effects of Homeless Intake Verification on Relationships
Homeless intake verification requires the witnessing and recording of an individual's homelessness to access resources. The invasiveness of this verification causes shame, distrust, and perpetuates negative stereotypes of ...
The Innocent Casualties of Imprisonment
The purpose of this paper is to examine the negative experiences children have when their parent goes to prison while comparing how these negative experiences differ based on socioeconomic status. . . . Our research ...