W&L University Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
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Redefining Jihad in Local Context: From the Rise of Islam to the Islamic State (thesis)
While I have focused primarily on literature produced by the leadership figures within al-Qaeda and the Islamic State and have analyzed how such leaders interpret the historical sources, I would like to suggest that the ... -
The Publicity of Female Sexuality in the Early Modern Period: An Analysis of Reproductive Intervention Techniques (thesis)
This thesis is an attempt to define the ways in which actions such as infanticide, child abandonment, abortion, and contraceptive use existed as methods by which women could take control of their sexuality in early modern ... -
A Contribution by the United States to the Common Stock of Civilization: Francis Lieber and General Orders No. 100 (thesis)
Lieber's Code aimed to encourage nations to renew peace. It relied on commanders understanding this goal and being able to apply it in a way that accomplished this goal. . . . In 1874, Czar Alexander II invited agents ... -
Civilized Barbarism: Cannibalism and Rome in 'Coriolanus' and 'Titus Andronicus' (thesis)
Looking at text and performance, this thesis investigates how cannibalism shapes the identity of Rome in Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus. This thesis posits that both plays utilize cannibalistic diction to form their Roman ... -
Surprised by Joy, Steeped in Sacrament: Shaping the Creative Imaginations of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien (thesis)
. . . This, then, is my best guess (from what inadequate and ambiguous evidence I have gathered), as to how the story-germs of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings grew in the soil of Lewis's and Tolkien's ... -
The Paradox of Virtue: Milton's Satan and the Anti-Hero Tradition (thesis)
In the classical sphere, Milton scholars have placed due emphasis on the associations between Paradise Lost and the epic tradition, particularly as expressed through Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil's Aeneid at the ... -
Ending Zero-Tolerace: How High Poverty Schools can Repair and Restore School Discipline
The prevailing school discipline paradigm in the United States is actively racist and systemically robs the fair equality of opportunity from students across the nation. In the past few decades, the highly punitive ... -
A Modernizing Midwife: Improving Outcomes While Preserving Tradition
. . . the first portion of the study will investigate if the characteristics of a midwife's education -- such as formal education, taking a midwifery course, or years of experience -- have a significant effect on producing ... -
Billboards for the Left: Leon Trotsky's Exile and Mexican Muralism
Leon Trotsky's exile in Mexico in the 1930s significantly changed the political voices of both David Siqueiros and Diego Rivera. His presence also influenced both artists to make changes to their artistic styles. [From ... -
Algorithm for Detection of Spikes in the Small Intestine: Investigating the Effects of Induced Ischemia on Small Intestine Electrical Activity (thesis)
This thesis presents an algorithm for spike detection designed to analyze data from induced ischemia experiments. Algorithm design and validation are discussed in detail. Other topics addressed include: electrical activity ... -
The Importance of Information and Communications Technology in Reducing Poverty
ICT investments can reduce poverty by increasing not only economic development, but by also increasing other aspects of development such as political inclusion, freedom of speech, and gender equality. While investments in ... -
Cigarette Taxes: Sin Taxes or Sinful Taxes?
This paper is divided into two main parts. Section I examines the arguments supporting and opposing new cigarette taxes. Subsections include subsection I, the history of cigarette tax; subsection II, the rationales of ... -
Protecting Essential Human Capabilities of Elders in Institutional Care
The world has moved past the traditional definition of health, while institutional care in America has not. The Word Health Organization (WHO) defines health as a state of complete well-being, and not just the absence of ... -
The Minimum Wage and Justice
Examining the moral status of the minimum wage and determining whether it is just or unjust should be the foremost issue among individuals concerned with justice. Deontological theories need not endorse the conception of ... -
Selected U.S. Tax Expenditures: Historical Trends in Regressivity
U.S. tax expenditures represent $1.2 trillion dollars of lost federal tax revenues in 2013 due to exclusions, deductions, deferrals, and credits allowed by the tax code. Without tax expenditures, the US government would ... -
Social Capital and Poverty: A Community-Based Approach
In the course of this paper I will expand on the moral obligation of enhancing social capital as a means of addressing poverty, examine the resources of social networks that can build social capital and help reduce poverty, ... -
High Infant Mortality Rates among the Poor in America: The Roles of Income and Other Social Factors
Many causes of infant mortalities, both neonatal and postnatal, are due to unpreventable congenital malformations. The other causes are largely preventable. Prenatal care, adequate maternal nutrition, and abstinence from ... -
Assimilation: Removing the Scarlet Letter
This essay analyzes the treacherous road ex-offenders face upon release, the laws helping and hurting their chances, and in-prison and reentry programs designed to reduce recidivism. This paper will also offer reforms in ... -
Summer Programs for Children in Appalachia
The Appalachian region receives little national attention or funds to alleviate its rampant poverty. Rawls's concept of fair equality of opportunity should be the goal of programs that work to alleviate poverty. Christian ... -
Income Inequality in America: How Politics and Policy Have Failed the American Poor
The fight against inequality in America will need to be founded upon five major reforms. These reforms include campaign finance reform, publicly funded outreach campaigns to the poor, more redistributive tax policy, more ...