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Relative Sediment Loading Hazard of Harford County, Maryland
Solutions to non-point source runoff are riparian buffers and constructed/remediated wetlands. Built wetlands in Maryland have successfully been able to remove 68% of nitrogen and 43% total phosphorus from runoff. Riparian ...
e Moviemento
Anthropologic movements within Brazil have traditionally been due to economic imbalances between regions, boom and bust cycles of natural commodities, frontier settlement, industrialization, and climate patterns. Oftentimes, ...
The Efficacy of Peer-led Sexual Assault Preventative Education at Washington and Lee University: Variation in Explicit and Implicit Attitudes (thesis)
This research examines the relative efficacy of peer-led sexual assault awareness training. Efficacy in this case is established by the measurement of a change in attitudes among the first-year students who attended the ...
Beyond Just the Words (thesis)
I divide this paper into 5 sections. In section 1, I present viewpoints of prominent scholars like Rene Descartes, Daniel Dennett, Jerry Fodor, and Paul Churchland on the issue of language, representation, and thought. ...
More Than a Home: Permanent Supportive Housing is Health Care for People Living With HIV/AIDS
Housing instability and HIV-positive status are inextricably linked. Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is an intervention to address chronic homelessness. Individuals who transition from housing instability to PSH experience ...
How Can We Fix the Racial Gap in Infant Deaths? Legal Approaches and Community Based Solutions
This paper takes up the issue of the large racial gap in infant mortality in the United States. After citing data that demonstrates such a gap exists, the paper proceeds to explore factors contributing to and the many ...
Soft Skill Development in Children Born with Low Birthweight: How and Why Should Society Help?
This paper brings together the existing literatures on low birthweight and soft skill development in order to demonstrate that interventions focused on soft skill development hold promise in improving the life outcomes of ...
Taking Your Religion to Court: Exploring the Conflict Between the Capacity of the Individual to Fully Function Within the Family and the Capacity of the Religious Group to Define Itself
In light of the tension between the individual's rights to equal treatment and to the protections of the civil law and the group's right to determine its rules of life, Professor Shachar concludes that it is possible for ...
Homeless and Hurting: Implications for the Mental Health of Children
Because homeless children tend to be from low-income households, they carry not only the stigma of being homeless and impoverished, but also the weight of adversity and struggle that comes from these two categories. Homeless ...
The Unrealized Promise of Goldberg v. Kelly
Goldberg v. Kelly was an important case for welfare rights lawyers. It unquestionably gave them something to cheer about because it ensured that people like John Kelly could not lose their welfare benefits because of a ...