W&L University Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
Now showing items 781-800 of 1388
-
Equity & The Discount Rate in Climate Change Economics
The focus of this research seeks to determine the best practices in determining climate change mitigation policies, and will focus on the role of the discount rate. A robust debate surrounding the practice of discounting ... -
Not All African Women Want to be Saved: Examining Colonialism and Cultural Relativism in the Female Genital Cutting Discourse Using the Capabilities Approach
In this paper, I use Sen and Nussbaum's capabilities approach to examine the global female genital cutting debate. In doing so, I explore how and why African feminists protest the intrusion of Western feminism into this ... -
The Impacts of Gentrification on the San Francisco Bay Area
The purpose of this paper is to offer an explanation of the causes and effects of gentrification. First, I will use formal economic models of the markets for both high-end and affordable housing to predict the series of ... -
Structured Settlements and the Factoring Industry: Is There Enough Regulation in Place? Or is the Judiciary Unwilling to Step Up to the Plate and Correctly Enforce it?
Analysis of the factoring industry shows that it is an integral industry that complements structured settlements and can provide for the immediate needs of plaintiffs, but it is also clear that regulation of the industry ... -
The Effect of NSLP Participation on Health Outcomes
In this paper, I argue for the moral obligation of instituting a school lunch program with high nutritional standards using a bioethical framework, and I evaluate the new NSLP's [National School Lunch Program's] effectiveness ... -
The Lines That Define Us: Racial Residential Segregation and Health Disparities for African Americans
This capstone explored the mechanisms underlying the relationship between racial residential segregation and health disparities for African Americans. This relationship was examined through the analysis of how racial ... -
The Social, Medical, and Economic Consequences of Childhood Exposure to Community Violence
Community violence refers to violent crime that occurs outside of a person's home in their neighborhood. It has major consequences for children growing up in high crime areas that extend far beyond what happens to a ... -
Freedom and the Necessity of Political Courage (thesis)
Drawing a distinction between ancient and modern freedom, I advocate for a reconstituted and updated ancient conception of freedom, highlighting the important role of political courage within that conception, in order to ... -
Sensing Fluid Pressure During Plucking Events in a Natural Bedrock Channel: Cowpasture River, VA (thesis)
Bedrock river erosion by plucking -- the wholesale removal of bedrock blocks -- is likely the dominant non-glacial driver of incision into topography over both short- and long-term timescales. Engineering and physical/numerical ... -
World War II and Female Educational Attainment (thesis)
This paper explores World War II's effect on female educational attainment. First, I analyze whether there is a link between World War II and female educational attainment. I then assess two possible channels through which ... -
Do Beer Taxes Affect Birth Rates Among Teens and Young Women in the United States? (thesis)
Alcohol abuse and underage drinking in the United States lead to many adverse outcomes, including unintended pregnancy. One way to reduce alcohol abuse – and therefore its negative outcomes – is to raise the price of beer ... -
Until the Breaking of Day: Stories from Penuel County, Georgia (thesis)
The most important thing to me in this collection is the presence of religion. I came up with the name of the setting of my short stories long before I had even decided that I wanted to write a senior thesis. In a “Bible ... -
Please Vote Responsibly: An Argument for Why We Have an Ethical Responsibility to Inform Ourselves Before Voting (thesis)
. . . Given the fact that citizens living in a free and democratic state have the right to vote, this entails a civic responsibility to sufficiently inform themselves before voting or before engaging in other politically ... -
"It is for Freedom that You Have Been Set Free": Christianity, Minor Characters, and Conceptions of Freedom in Three Works by William Wells Brown (thesis)
By the time William Wells Brown was writing these works, abolition as Christian reform in the United States had become a residual discourse left over from earlier conversations. Despite the shift from Christian reform to ... -
The Maternal Wall in Corporate America: Why the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 Is Failing Mothers Today (thesis)
The Swedish government experienced success with their family leave policies because they were designed to promote gender equality and were implemented in a way that would actually encourage the policy's success. When H.R. ... -
Does Language Translate to Executive Functions? Investigating the Bilingual Advantage in Executive Control (thesis)
Given that twenty-percent of the U.S. population speaks a language other than English at home, it is imperative to assess the effect of a second language on brain structure and function. The bilingual advantage hypothesis ... -
"Reign of Terror": General Thomas C. Hindman and the Confederate Military State in Arkansas, 1862-1863 (thesis)
Through a consideration of this broad historiographical foundation and careful analysis of primary source material from both military and civilian perspectives, this thesis examines the seventy-four day tenure of General ... -
Creating the Ideal English Catholic: Martyrs and Their Scripts in Elizabethan England (thesis)
. . . My analysis does use quotes and stories from various martyrdom accounts, but the purpose of this thesis is to look specifically at how martyrdom and martyrs were framed and described at different times and in different ... -
A Will Independent of Society: Publius, Woodrow Wilson, and the Crisis of Confidence Caused by the Administrative State (thesis)
The phrase the "Administrative State" offers perhaps the best description of the strange, distinctly American amalgamation of republican, constitutional principles and monarchical administrative practices. More than the ... -
Goodbye Lenin, Hello Murat? The Effect of Communism on Individual Attitudes Toward Immigration (thesis)
This paper argues conceptually and demonstrates empirically that individual attitudes toward immigration are deeply affected by a country's politico-economic legacy. Drawing on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and ...