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Freedom and Moral Responsibility in a Deterministic Universe: Perspectives from Buddhism and Clinical Psychology (thesis)
I will be arguing that the concept of an ultimately free agent who takes final responsibility for his actions and desires is inherently incompatible with the dominant western paradigm of materialism and universal causation. ...
Timber Harvests and the Opportunity Cost of Capital: Evidence from the US Southland (thesis)
The optimal timber rotation problem appears in many introductory environmental economics textbooks and has been a standard illustration of the relation between market rates of return and economic decision-making for decades. ...
A Will Independent of Society: Publius, Woodrow Wilson, and the Crisis of Confidence Caused by the Administrative State (thesis)
The phrase the "Administrative State" offers perhaps the best description of the strange, distinctly American amalgamation of republican, constitutional principles and monarchical administrative practices. More than the ...
What Tiresias Has Missed: Prophecy in James Joyce's Ulysses (thesis)
I started the project by attempting to compare and contrast Ulysses and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. The topic that interests me the most is both works in relation to prophecy and Tiresias in Greek mythology. But after a ...
Environmental Impacts on Psychological Well-Being for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
This paper will briefly review certain aspects of the lived space for individuals experiencing homelessness. Specifically, the purpose of this review is to understand the multitudinous consequences of environmental stressors ...
Pioneers of Populism in the 20th Century and the Prevalence of Populist Leaders in the 21st Century
The organization of this paper is as follows. First, it will provide a review on the conceptualization of populism. Then, it will describe the emergence of populist pioneers, their ideologies, their political approaches ...
A Zero Sum Game: Equitable Distribution of Organ Transplants
The transplantation of organs represents an extraordinary medical breakthrough and has positively impacted the lives of many. However, the supply of transplantable organs is inadequate to provide treatment for everyone who ...
Chicago Housing: The Players, Problems and Solutions
While relocation programs appear to solve problems of crime and violence, they often relocate many against their will, placing them in unfamiliar communities that may be no safer than the ones from which the residents came. ...
Reevaluating "Peripheral Sources" : The Impact of David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco on Jackson Pollock (thesis)
In the 2000 biopic titled Pollock starring Ed Harris, a photographic reproduction of José Clemente Orozco's Prometheus is prominently displayed in Jackson Pollock's studio (Figure 1). Harris, who also directed the movie, ...