W&L University Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
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Fatherlessness, A Look at One of America's Most Pervasive Social Problems
Despite the increasing prevalence and negative consequences associated with fatherlessness in America, very few policies or community resources have been effectively dispatched to combat this social issue. However, after ... -
The Art of Oppression: How Art Museums' Practices and Collections Perpetuate Inequality
Since positive museum representations within audiences and art further the development of capabilities of play, affiliation, and senses, imagination, and thought, it is not only important to include marginalized communities ... -
Human Capital or Human Capability: Basic Education from a Capability Perspective
This paper explores why access to quality basic education should remain an investment priority in the development field by comparing the human capital and human capability approach to education. Based on the analysis, the ... -
Sacrificing the Mentality of Childhood: Poverty's Impact on Children with Mental Illnesses
According to the CDC, up to a fifth of children from all income brackets are thought to suffer from a mental illness ("Child Mental Health"). Low-income children are disproportionately affected with one-third to one-half ... -
Impact of Transportation Barriers and Stigmas on the Labor Force Participation of Women in Urban Cities in India
The three important aspects of an ethical framework that promoting human dignity are well-being, liberty, and equality (Pickett, 2022). All three of these are important for a person to live a life if dignity and happiness. ... -
Behind Desks & Bars: The Impact of Latino Underrepresentation in the Workforce of the Criminal Justice System
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with over 2 million people incarcerated in federal, state, or local prisons and jails (Rovner, and Porter). People of color -- particularly Blacks and Latinos ... -
Invisible Harms: Barriers to Undocumented K-12 Students' Education
Approximately one-fourth of all immigrants residing in the United States are unauthorized, meaning they do not have US citizenship or official government approval to live in the US. That statistic looks like 11 million ... -
The Injustice of Giving: Income and Racial Inequality in the United States Loanable Funds Market
The loanable funds market plays an incredibly important role in the lives of almost every American. The mortgages, car leases, business loans, and student loans that generations of Americans have relied on to provide capital ... -
Dual Reality: Opioid Use Disorder among Pregnant Women and Their Children
Individuals who experience a problematic pattern of opioid use or dependence suffer from opioid use disorder (OUD) ("Opioid Use Disorder"). The experience of OUD among pregnant women is unjust because it results not only ... -
Who Gets Hurt: Sexual Exploitation Among Women During Episodes of Homelessness
While the issue of homelessness has been heavily researched, the relationship between sexual assault among women experiencing homelessness remains an underacknowledged subject. Moreover, although both sexual assault and ... -
Inadequate Workforce Skillset as a Corrosive Disadvantage: Enhancing Marketable Skills to Combat Housing and Homelessness Issues
This paper explores three key themes in addressing the housing and homelessness paradigm: resource distribution, deservingness, and quality of housing. Firstly, on resource distribution, should housing programs maximally ... -
Modern Nature vs. Nurture: Why the Genetic Lottery and Epigenetics Matter for Social Justice
While many are hesitant to lean into the power of genetics to shape our lives, it is an incredibly pervasive part of what makes every human being the ways they are and plays a large role in determining the outcomes of one's ... -
Medical Oppression: The Structural Mistreatments of African Americans in the Health Care System
Healthcare oppression is unique in that its consequences are as much physical as they are psychological. The dignity of the person, as well as their health, is threatened by factors that are inherently prejudiced as well ... -
Understanding a Modern-Day Migrant Crisis
The Venezuelan migrant crisis is one of the worst the world has ever seen. In order to understand the complex issue, the goal of this project is to provide a historical context of the country from a high-level view, and ... -
From Solemnity to Celebration: The Commercialization of the Day of the Dead (thesis)
As holidays have evolved over the past century many have changed from their original intention of celebrating military victories or certain individuals to focusing more on commercial practices that imitate a false sense ... -
Memory and Art: Remembering the Femicides
Femicide -- the targeted murders of women as a form of gender discrimination. Approximately 470 women murdered from 1994-2006 in Ciudad Juàrez, Mexico . . . Mexican government and police force has done little to nothing ... -
Repertoire and Collective Social Memory: The Celebration of Uruguayan Culture and History During Carnaval
The Uruguayan Carnaval illustrates the use of repertoire form of memory and collective social memory due to the inclusion of both African and European cultures and the moments of suppression historically. Carnaval originated ... -
Remembering Women Lost: An Ongoing Fight for Remembrance of Juárez Femicide Victims
Femicide: murder of women specifically on account of their gender; Ciudad Juàrez, Mexico 1993 to 2005 -- more than 370 femicides; Highly likely that these numbers are underestimated due to government indifference and ... -
Redefining 'Lying' (thesis)
My definition of 'lying' is better able than the prevailing definition to capture common intuitions about what is a lie and what is not. It does so specifically by making novel inclusions to the definition, such as the ... -
Modeling Molecular Traffic: Theory, Simulations, and Potential Applications (thesis)
I present a traffic model inspired by the motion of molecular motors along microtubules, represented by particles moving along a one-dimensional track of variable length. As the particles move unidirectionally along the ...