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Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets: An Exploratory Study into the Effectiveness of the Accounting Standards Codification (thesis)
Financial statements are one of the primary tools used to assess a company's performance and financial health. Maintaining clear financial statements is important not only for the company itself but also for other stakeholders, ... -
An Automated, Customizable Framework for Applying Genetic Algorithm to Generate Test Cases for Web Applications (thesis)
Web application testing is an integral part of the web application development process. Faults within a web application can damage a company's reputation and lead to financial losses. Customers will lose confidence if they ... -
The Democratization of American Art: Horatio Greenough's George Washington and the Era of the Common Man
Considering that Greenough's Washington represents the first federal commission granted to an American sculptor, art historical literature on this sculpture is surprisingly limited. The leading scholar on Greenough and his ... -
At the Forefront of Feminism: William Merritt Chase and the American New Woman
Chase married Alice Gerson, whose father managed a large lithography firm, in 1886. She proved to be an inspiration for Chase throughout the rest of his life and frequently appears in his work. While other artists painted ... -
Dating of Lacustrine molluscan Subfossil Assemblages Using AAR Techniques to Contextualize the Introduction of Zebra Mussels to a Wisconsin Lake
In order to accurately track paleoecological change, researchers must first gain detailed knowledge of respective sample dates and thus the degree of time-averaging among those samples. Understanding the degree of ... -
Unbeaten (videorecording)
An inside look at the Washington & Lee University Generals' 2016 football season, "Unbeaten" tells the story of the season after the best in school history, and examines what it means to be a football player in the NCAA's ... -
Ru Zhijuan's "Lilies"
This capstone project undertook the task of translating a portion of Ru Zhijuan’s short story, “Lilies.” Ru Zhijuan, despite being one of only a small handful of female writers in 20th century China, is regarded as one of ... -
The Impact of Motivational Style on Perceptions of Online Exercise Information (poster)
Research shows that motivational style is essential to exercise participation and that intrinsic motivation is more effective for encouraging long-term adherence to exercise routines (Teixeira et. al., 2012). • The internet ... -
Aldo Leopold's Unique Elegy: Consolation and Agency in "Marshland Elegy" and A Sand County Almanac
This essay explores “Marshland Elegy” by first outlining the historical evolution of elegies to provide a foundational understanding of the literary form, and then analyzing the utility in considering “Marshland Elegy’s” ... -
The Dominican Republic Major League Baseball Academies: Facilities of Opportunity
Nearly 30% of all Major League Baseball players today are from Latin America, and with the exception of the United States, the Dominican Republic is the most represented on all MLB rosters. The recent significant increase ... -
The Silencing and the Vocalization of the Transgender Latin American Identity and the Transgender Latinx Identity
Throughout Latin America and the United States, transgender individuals experience a political and social silencing and loss of personhood due to their transgression of the rigid gender binary. In the United States, ... -
Refugee Crisis in the Western Hemisphere: Violence, Movement, and the Response of the United States
The aim of this paper rests on the argument that the nature of the violent conflict in the Northern Triangle of Central America necessitates that those who are fleeing the region should be considered asylum-seekers or ... -
Disrupting the White Man's Game: Violence, Hegemonic Masculinity, and an American Pastime
In this paper, I address how womxn, LGBTQ individuals, persons of color, and non-Americans are simultaneously conceptualized or represented within and excluded from the white, hyper-masculine, ultra-nationalist realm of ... -
Reducing Family Homelessness and Improving Child Outcomes: A Housing-First Approach
Homelessness is a growing concern in the United States, and it has particularly detrimental consequences for children. Homelessness is a severe form of poverty that leads to increased vulnerability to traumatic life ... -
Empowerment and Apartheid's Lingering Legacy: Evaluating the Effectiveness of B-BBEE Policy
This paper evaluates state intervention through South African government policy by assessing the implementation of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Act. First introduced in 2003, this Act has played a ... -
The Essential Poverty of the Face: A Case for Levinasian Responsibility and Justice in Poverty Studies
The moral deliberative theories that ethicists and justice advocates use to address poverty issues all stem from the analytic philosophical tradition, and, while no doubt helpful, they are not fully adequate. Emmanuel ... -
Strengthening the Detroit Economy While Addressing Injustice in Low-Income Neighborhoods Through High-Impact Entrepreneurship
All stakeholders in Detroit have a collective responsibility to reduce injustice in low-income neighborhoods. However, this paper uses a social responsibility framework to argue for the responsibility of high-impact firms ... -
Employment Capability for Individuals with Barriers to Labor Market Entry: The Case of Work-Integration Social Enterprises
In this paper, I will begin by defining social entrepreneurship and giving a brief overview of the rise of the field, both for the sake of clarity and for the relative novelty of the concept. The following section will ... -
The Hidden Homeless: Addressing the Obstacles of the Rural Homeless in Rockbridge County, Virginia
Rural homelessness is an understudied subset of homelessness population in the United States. Yet, the rural homelessness has important distinguishing characteristics and barriers to care that make addressing the problems ...