W&L University Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
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Marginalization through Content Moderation: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Silencing of Marginalized Voices on Social Media
Social media is largely considered a democratic space. It seemingly promotes the freedom and equality of all people by enabling individuals to voice their perspectives online, regardless of their identities. However, while ... -
Decolonize the Soil: Case Studies in the Restoration of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Because of rich environmental, linguistic, and cultural history and culture, NGOs and government agencies in Latin America have been studying and implementing cultural knowledge restoration for decades. This investigation ... -
Revolutionizing SUD Recovery: The Crucial Role of Nutrition in Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Substance Abuse
While there are various approaches to treating SUDs [substance use disorders], one promising avenue is through nutrition. Nutrition plays a critical role in overall health and well-being, and it has the potential to address ... -
Analysis of Women's Reproductive Health Care and Prenatal Care in Rural Virginia, A Community Based Research Project
Throughout my undergraduate career I have strived to understand the intersection between poverty and health care. As a pre-medical student, I have sought to comprehend what it means to be a physician and how it requires a ... -
The Effect of ESG on Stock Market Returns Following Financial Restatement (thesis)
(2023)This paper examines the effects of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) scores and their component parts on cumulative abnormal stock returns for 63 publicly traded firms. Using an event study I find a statistically ... -
Can an Effective Lawyer be a Morally Upstanding Person? An Examination of Legal Ethics (thesis)
In this essay, I will analyze various scholarly responses to a widely debated question within legal ethics: does the lawyer's role mint permissions to violate ordinary morality? I will begin with a brief introduction to ... -
Improving Mn(II) Remediation from Coal Mine Drainage by Passive 'Myco-Zeolite' Systems (thesis)
Coal mine drainage (CMD) is a pervasive issue across Appalachia and contaminates watersheds and drinking water with difficult-to-remediate metals like manganese (Mn). Current passive treatment methods for remediating Mn ... -
Investigating Group Threat's Role in the Relationship Between Attitudes Towards Black People and State-Level Punitiveness (thesis)
This thesis is about understanding the relationship between group threat and punitiveness at the state level. In Chapter 1, I begin by giving an account of the history of racialized mass incarceration and how it's been ... -
Atoms for Peace or Atoms for Destruction: America's Relationship with Nuclear Energy (thesis)
Based on over twenty interviews, we can conclude that public opinion, industries and special interest groups, costs of planning and building a nuclear reactor, and the regulatory framework surrounding nuclear energy each ... -
The Working Relationships of a Student Stage Manager (thesis)
This honors thesis aims to explain the working relationship between student stage managers at Washington and Lee and others working on the production in order to best prepare you for your stage management endeavors. Stage ... -
Analyzing the Effect of ESG Language on the Risk and Return of Sin Stocks (thesis)
This paper examines the effect of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)-related language on the returns and associated risk for firms situated in sin stock industries. Specifically, this paper strives to answer the ... -
A Defense of Utilitarianism (thesis)
I will attempt to defend utilitarianism from the demandingness objection. The sort of utilitarianism that I refer to throughout is the consequentialist moral theory that obligates us to maximize well-being. The form of ... -
The Hierarchical Perception and Denigration of Animals in Early Modern English Drama (thesis)
Ethical qualms concerning animals exist beyond practical questions that one faces in modernity. Our thoughts on animals seep into our culture; our rituals, our stories, and our values influence and are influenced by non-human ... -
Obeah Women, Mediums, and Witches: Spirituality in the Colonial and Postcolonial Gothic (thesis)
This thesis traces the evolution of Self versus Other in terms of religion throughout the colonial and postcolonial Gothic. I begin with an examination of colonial Gothic texts which function in the delegitimizing way that ... -
Yerba Mate: Earth as a Companion (thesis)
Yerba mate is an infusion that can be drunk hot or cold, native to Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern Brazil. While often called a tea, mate does not come from the tea plant Camellia sinesis -- therefore, if we're ... -
It's All About Balance: Examining the Factors that Drive a Firm's Integrated Social Performance (thesis)
This paper examines factors that enable corporations to act authentically on the values of human respect and dignity, thus achieving integrated social performance. Integrated social performance is realized when firms that ... -
Hyperdimensional Computing for Gesture Recognition Using a Dynamic Vision Sensor
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has experienced rapid growth in recent years and is receiving unprecedented attention due to the impressive results achieved in various domains, notably computer vision and natural language ... -
Combatant Composition and Peace Durability: A Historical and Empirical Dive into Rebel Group Fragmentation as a Determinant of Conflict Relapse
Nearly all regions of the world have observed repeated cycles of violence involving anti-state militias and domestic or international terrorist groups since the end of World War II. A 2020 UN Human Rights Office report on ... -
Execution Workers Mental Health Policy Recommendation
Conversations around the Death Penalty often focus on its morality and concepts such as retribution and deterrence. This paper considers the people who perform executions and how their work impacts them. Execution workers ...