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The Model Minority: Mantra, Myth, and... Mistake?
Since the 1960s, the Asian population in America has been eagerly penned the “model minority,” espousing the ideal of what each minority in America should aspire to be. This translates roughly to high educational achievement ...
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 ...
Assessing the Crisis: Black Males and Secondary Education
In recent years, Black males have been candidly described as an endangered species. This crisis of the Black male has been attributed to several factors and is visible in literally all aspects of society. They are largely ...
Exploring Text-Based Analysis of Test-Case Dependencies of Web Applications (thesis)
Web applications must be reliable as the number and popularity of web applications increases. Web applications are difficult to test because of the large input space and frequent changes. Thus, their characteristics demand ...
Borders from Within and Without: Exploring Heterogeneity between National Identity Type and Immigration Attitudes in the U.S. (thesis)
Given the strong theoretical linkages connecting national identity and immigration attitudes, social scientists have granted arguably scant focus to empirically examining this relationship. Furthermore, despite the expansive ...
The Most Generous Nation in the World? A Critical Analysis of the Charitable Contribution Deduction in the United States' Internal Revenue Code
Despite its cost, people often support the charitable contribution deduction by pointing to the oft-quoted statement, "America is the most generous nation on Earth," and justify philanthropy on the belief that it is ...
Income Inequality in America: How Politics and Policy Have Failed the American Poor
The fight against inequality in America will need to be founded upon five major reforms. These reforms include campaign finance reform, publicly funded outreach campaigns to the poor, more redistributive tax policy, more ...
BreezySLAM: A Simple, Efficient, Cross-platform Python Package for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (thesis)
BreezySLAM is a simple, efficient, multiplatform, open-source Python library for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. By using Python C extensions to wrap existing implementations of existing SLAM algorithms, BreezySLAM ...
Rockbridge Area Credit Study 2010: A Broad Assessment of Financial Issues Facing Low-Income Individuals in Rockbridge County and Recommendations for New Policies and Practices
This study seeks to identify the most significant financial issues facing low-income individuals in Rockbridge County and to suggest solutions that can be implemented to solve the problems identified. We have compiled data ...