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Not All African Women Want to be Saved: Examining Colonialism and Cultural Relativism in the Female Genital Cutting Discourse Using the Capabilities Approach
In this paper, I use Sen and Nussbaum's capabilities approach to examine the global female genital cutting debate. In doing so, I explore how and why African feminists protest the intrusion of Western feminism into this ...
The Social, Medical, and Economic Consequences of Childhood Exposure to Community Violence
Community violence refers to violent crime that occurs outside of a person's home in their neighborhood. It has major consequences for children growing up in high crime areas that extend far beyond what happens to a ...
Apples and Autonomy: Improving Nutrition Education to Maximize Fair Equality of Opportunity
Recent increases in children's food autonomy present both a problem and a promise for school nutrition education programs: greater food autonomy makes these programs all the more important, but how can we improve their ...
Differing Views of Teach For America: Where Does the Controversy Lie?
Founded by Wendy Kopp in 1990, Teach For America has gained both supporters and critics along its way to becoming a nation-wide movement towards achieving educational equity. In an effort to understand the controversy ...
Exploring Challenges to Nonprofit Engagement in Advocacy
Existing literature on nonprofit advocacy focuses on which environmental or organizational factors influence whether nonprofits engage in advocacy, as well as whether their advocacy influences change. This paper explores ...
Primary Care's Code Blue: Can Basic Patient Care Be Revitalized?
Part One of this paper will identify what it means exactly to access primary care in the ER, the people who access such care, and why they access primary care in the ER. I argue that those who access primary/ambulatory ...
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 ...
Nutrition Effects on Health and Recidivism in the American Prison Complex
If food in prison was made more nutritious, would health outcomes improve, and recidivism be reduced? Using the Virginia State Department of corrections as my population, I explore this question in three parts; the existing ...
Hand in Hand: The Impacts of Parental Insurance on Child Health
Healthy parents equals healthy kids. While this statement seems intuitive, policy does not always translate as so. Insurance for children is widely available, yet more controversial for adults. However, this neglects the ...