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Vanishing into Society: The Harsh Reality of Living without an ID
There are millions of Americans like Tony Simmons that become trapped in poverty as they struggle to function in society without an ID. Not having an ID makes it exponentially harder for one to find employment or access ... -
Racial Inequities in OUD Treatment
The racial differences across harm reduction programs and MAT treatments are an inequity that is deserving of people attention. The inequity was created by political policies enacted by the Nixon administration in terms ... -
"Ambiguous at best, discriminatory at worst": College Involuntary Leave Policies Strip Disabled Students of Agency and Opportunity
For college students with mental health conditions that manifest in self-harm or suicidal ideation, . . . the fear of being forced to withdraw from courses and leave campus is everpresent. Many colleges employ policies ... -
Decarceration: A Promising Approach to Closing the Incarcerated Youth Educational Attainment
While many juvenile detention facilities may reach the general public school standards, the education that incarcerated juveniles receive is inequitable. The centers do not provide youth with the resources that they need ... -
Overdoses in Poor and Rural Communities: The Reality of the Opioid Epidemic in the United States
The following paper takes a three-part approach to the Opioid Epidemic in the United States. Specifically, the paper argues the Opioid Epidemic has a disproportionate impact on poor and rural counties in the United States. ... -
Conventions, Idiolects, and Malapropisms: A Critical Evaluation of Davidson (thesis)
Donald Davidson concludes his 1986 article, "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs" by making a few seemingly sensational and ambitious claims: "I conclude that there is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything ... -
Rado's Selection Principle: Equivalences and Applications
Rado's Selection Principle is a combinatorial theorem which allows the characterization of infinite objects (e.g. graphs, groups, partially-ordered sets) based on the characterization of their finite subparts. That is, a ... -
Person' as a Family Resemblance Concept
For the purposes of this paper, the question of the concept 'person' is directed toward the use of 'person' that concerns "having or not having rights." I do not intend to pursue personality, identity, or any of the many ... -
Unofficial Dollarization and Market Integration: The Case of Latin America
This study examines the relationship between unofficial dollarization and goods market integration in the context of dollarizing Latin American nations and the United States. While a breadth of research focuses on the ... -
European Economic Community Enlargements: The Common Agricultural Policy, The Wine Sector, and Their Effects on Integration
The purpose of this paper is to address some of the problems of European integration, with particular emphasis on the Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP) and the last two enlargements of the Community. Greece joined the ... -
Knowledge Through Participation: The Epistemic Status of Religious Belief
Critical philosophy has severely restricted the role of philosophy of religion. A hallmark of the critical approach is an acceptance of Locke's epistemological ethics: belief ought not to go beyond what explicit data or ... -
Franciscan Art as Propaganda: The Conventuals and the Chapel of Saint Martin in San Francesco at Assisi
The Chapel of Saint Martin is noteworthy not only because of its subject matter, but also because of the relatively little information known about its commission and patron. This paper will not address all these issues, ... -
Chaucer and Morris as Narrative Poets: As Determined Chiefly from The Canterbury Tales and The Earthly Paradise
The aim of this paper is to treat the most prominent points of similarity and difference in these two narrative poets. The study will be based almost entirely on the masterpieces of the two poets, the Canterbury Tales and ... -
Potentiometric Titrations with Ceric Sulphate: A Thesis
These investigations indicate that ceric sulphate is an excedingly versatile oxidizing agent useful in many laboratory procedures. It has been found particularly valuable for the determination of reducing agents in the ... -
The Cardboard Sublime: Novella and Postscript
Aristotle claimed that the purpose of art is to delight and to instruct. In dealing with the latter, it is necessary to consider the virtues advocated by a work of literature. At first glance of the opening chapters, it ... -
An Inheritance of Slavery: The Tale of "Jockey" John Robinson, His Slaves, and Washington College
Much of the Washington College slaves' inner lives remain a mystery. The evidence does, of course, illuminate a great deal about the general course of their lives. John Robinson acquired and later bequeathed them to ... -
The Fabrication of Antireflective Coatings by the Self-assembly of Silica Nanopartical and Polycation Bilayers
This study examines several factors that affect the quality of antireflective coatings created by the self-assembly of alternating layers of silica (Si02) nanoparticles and poly(allylamine hydrochloride) or poly(diallyld ... -
The Role of Food Production in the Economic Development of West Africa's Sahel Region
One must not forget, therefore, that the Sahel comprises a fragile ecosystem within an area of scarce resources. Much care and understanding, that is to say "good government", is needed if these sparse , resources are to ... -
The Birth of the Modern Book: Re-reading Vollard's Livres d'artistes
Ambroise Vollard certainly treated all his book projects as works of art. He was tremendously involved in all his book projects, from choosing the literary artist and visual artist to editing the final appearance of the ... -
Jane Austen and the Feminist Tradition
The casual reader of British literature often views Jane Austen as a genteel early nineteenth-century novelist whose works focus on a young woman in her quest for marriage. These same readers would consider as quite ...