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Is Detection of Colon Motility Waves Possible?: An Investigation of Two Spatial Filtering Techniques with Electrocolonography (EcolG) (thesis)
Electrocolonography (EcolG) is the study of colon motor activity via non-invasive, body surface electrical recordings, analogous to electrocardiography (ECG) for study of cardiac motor activity. EcolG was very recently ...
"It's the theatrical" : Sylvia Plath and the Audacious Performance of an Atomic Identity (thesis)
The body of this thesis explains Plath's most shocking metaphors by arguing that she is not simply a "confessional" poet, as many have labeled her (Britzolakis 3). Instead, she complicates the very idea of confession or ...
Getting personal: Perceptions of Male and Female Candidates' Trustworthiness and Personability in Facebook Campaigning (thesis)
Stereotypes of women impact their decisions to run for office and the way they campaign if they do run. This is carried over to social networking sites, in which female candidates have to strike a balance between optimizing ...
Exploring Community Trends in Juvenile Justice
This study examines the need and effectiveness of alternative rehabilitative services for juvenile delinquents in the Rockbridge County school system and juvenile justice system. We believe that juvenile delinquency has ...
Mental Illness and Mass Incarceration: Reframing the Analysis of the U.S. Criminal Justice System
There has been a recent, increasingly bi-partisan focus on solving the issue of mass incarceration in the U.S. However, many of the supporting arguments and policy proposals have been made from an economic, cost-benefit ...
[Christian Answers to the Challenges and Problems of Poverty]
. . . it neglects the important fact that the majority of the world's Anglicans live in poverty. Indeed, "if there is such a person as an 'average Anglican' today, she would be 22 years old, live in sub-Saharan Africa, and ...
Hugo Chávez's Anti-Poverty Legacy: A Complicated Case
This paper aims to assess the positive and negative legacies of Chávez's anti-poverty policies and their future in a nation on the brink of resource exhaustion and political deterioration. It will first provide a review ...
Effects of a Transitioning Media on Poverty Coverage
This transition from newspapers to the Internet is transforming coverage and its presentation to the public. . . .
In this paper, I am going to explore the effect this transition has had on the coverage of poverty. ...
Arts for All: An Analysis of Arts Access as it Relates to Socioeconomic Status and other Demographic Factors
This paper provides empirical evidence on the benefits of arts education. Building on this, I draw from moral philosophy to advance the claim that all children should receive arts education. However, this paper includes a ...