W&L University Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
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Ordinary sins (thesis)
Ordinary Sins is a collection of eight connected short stories, following the creation and the demise of a nuclear family. . . . Ultimately, I hope to capture what I think is a central facet of human behavior: For the most ... -
Approaches to Engagement: American Catholicism in the Public Sphere (thesis)
Using history and contemporary sociology, this paper seeks to understand the relationship of the Catholic Church and the public square in the present-day United States of America, critically examining the ways by which ... -
A Sociolinguistic Analysis of 'Immunity': Lessons from Reality Television (thesis)
Through sociolinguistics, the paper explored how immunity changes throughout the course of a Survivor season. It surveyed the way that contestants treat public forms of immunity -- tribal immunity idol and the individual ... -
Distributism and Medieval English Peasant Life: Testing the Historical Vision of Hilaire Belloc (thesis)
This thesis seeks to test Hilaire Belloc's vision of the economic history of medieval England, particularly two of his claims. First, the servile state was abolished and the distributist state nearly fully completed by the ... -
Aristotle's Theory of Just Exchange (thesis)
In this paper, I provide an explanation of marginal and equilibrium analysis, analytic techniques from modern economics, and then defend an interpretation of the passage as meaning that an exchange is just when the value ... -
Pius IX and papal infallibility : La tradizione son' Io! (thesis)
Pius IX was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable men ever to occupy the chair of Saint Peter. He was one of the most devout, beloved popes in history, but also one of the most controversial and detested. He promoted ... -
Sickness and Disability in Children's Literature: Using Picture Books as a Path to Understanding and Empathy (thesis)
In this paper, I investigate three niches within this category of children's books on sickness and disability: books on common illnesses, books on disabilities, and books on serious or chronic illnesses. Each chapter is ... -
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 ... -
Foreign Policy and the Fourth Estate: Vietnam and the Creation of the "Liberal" Media, 1954-2003 (thesis)
The term "Vietnam syndrome" emerged in the aftermath of the war, used to describe the American people's reluctance to support any potentially open-ended or prolonged military engagement. Post-Vietnam presidents argued that ... -
Influence of the Kingak Formation Ultimate Shelf Margin on Frontal Structures of the Brooks Range in National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska (thesis)
Well and seismic data in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) demonstrate that the Jurassic—Lower Cretaceous Kingak Shale is present throughout NPRA. Several southward progradational depositional sequences within ... -
The Evolution of Redemption: An Analysis of the Ideologies of Redemption of Rabbi Abraham, Isaac Kokk, Rabbi Tzvi, Yehuda Kook, and Gush Emunim (thesis)
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, his son Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, and the contemporary Israeli settlement group Gush Emunim, for the purpose of tracing the evolution ... -
Multi-Kulti or Mutti-Kulti: How the German Domestic Identity Discourse Shapes German Policy Towards Turkey (thesis)
The case study of Germany's resistance to Turkey's EU membership and its connection to the integration debate underscores the value of constructivism in explaining foreign policy decisions. The rhetoric of the ruling ... -
The Persistent Problem of Gender Inequality in the Twenty-First Century: Why Sweden's Care and Leave Policies Are Not the Panacea (thesis)
This study focuses on the effects of leave and care policies in Germany, Spain, the UK, and Sweden. Leave and care policies are distinguished as two of the most important social policies affecting women's and men's work-care ... -
An Experimental Determination of the Incorporation of Trace Metals into Calcite (thesis)
A new experimental method to synthesize calcite crystals via aqueous slow diffusion was used to examine the level of incorporation of six different trace metal (Co, Mn, Pb, Hg, As, Se) contaminants in calcite. The aqueous ... -
Chinese Behavior Toward Taiwan: Nationalism as Driver of Foreign and Domestic Policy (thesis)
When the Chinese Nationalists [KMT] retreated to Taiwan in 1949 to establish a government in exile, an obvious hostility emerged between the nationalists and the communists [CCP] who had evicted them from the mainland. ... -
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, ... -
"Charlantanerie", Humbug and the Evolution of Evolution: Charles Darwin and Louis Agassiz in Brazil (thesis)
The purpose of the current study is to challenge the Euro-centric stereotype that during the nineteenth century science spread outwards from the center (Europe, Canada, the United States - collectively "the West") to the ... -
Self-Assembled Antireflective Coatings Using Silica and Titania Nanoparticles (thesis)
Antiretlective coatings have a wide range of applications, from eyeglass and camera lenses to solar panels, and from microscope lenses and optoelectronic devices to skyscraper windows. It is well known that an uncoated ... -
Germany's Free Democrats: Party Development and Post-Reunification Challenges (thesis)
The increased fragmentation of the German party system is not a crisis, although the Volksparteien may see it as such, but rather a symptom of the parties' failure to represent and serve German voters. The FDP attempted ... -
Life and the Ruins: Exploring New Archeological Interpretations of Megalithic Monuments as Places of Life and Death in the British and Irish Neolithic Age (thesis)
In this paper, I examine four stone monuments in Britain and Ireland: Stonehenge in Wessex, England, Avebury in Wessex, England, Maes Howe in Orkney, Scotland, and Newgrange, in County Meath, Ireland. Stonehenge and Avebury ...