W&L University Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
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Right to Play and Right to Health: The Role of Sub-Saharan Sport for Development Programs in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Using the foundation of a child's right of health and right to play, programs in sub-Saharan Africa are making unique and powerful contributions to combatting and educating youth regarding HIV/AIDS. Through critical ... -
Incarcerated Juveniles in America: Rehabilitation from the Family or the State?
Academia and the government both recognize the importance of the family for incarcerated juveniles. Through an examination of the related publications on the juvenile justice system as well as a youth's need for family, ... -
Examining Effective Altruism as a Moral Guide to Alleviating Human Suffering
The individualistic nature of the effective altruism approach limits its capacity to adequately address needless human suffering caused by poverty. Its extreme position argues that one's personal choices on consumption and ... -
Social Entrepreneurship: Social Businesses in the Fight to Alleviate Poverty
This brings us to the main question: how can social businesses best help in alleviating poverty? I will argue that the hybrid business model, one that combines aspects of both for-profit and nonprofit in their organizational ... -
Let Them Eat Cake
This thesis explores these four categories that emerge from popular representations of Marie Antoinette and how they have changed over time. For the theme of luxury, I describe how contemporary observers interpreted her ... -
Totalitarian Trends in Putin's Russia: The Influence of Aleksandr Dugin (thesis)
Analyzing Russia as a totalitarian state is useful because it seems to help explain why Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. By analyzing Russia as a totalitarian state, this paper rejects and aims to disprove attempts to analyze ... -
The Mystical Experience: A Re-Interpretation Through Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment (thesis)
Our bodies allow us to be in the world and form opinions about our experiences through perception and movement. However, this quality goes unnoticed by most because the body is considered a natural and normal part of ... -
Arvo Pärt: Transcendence in the Heart of Secularity (thesis)
In this project, I examine the common phenomenon of experiencing the spiritual within secular music. In particular, I focus upon the mystical minimalist music of contemporary Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt. By exploring ... -
A Non-Invasive Method of Influencing the Distribution of Noise in Human Brain Activity (thesis)
While noise in brain activity has been studied for many years, new theoretical considerations suggest that this noise may be an important and even essential part of normal brain functioning. Here we describe a technique ... -
The Power Relations of Healthcare Institutions in Ethnically Divided Societies (thesis)
Formal healthcare institutions interact with the relationship between ethnic divisions, spatial dynamics, and health in distinctive ways in divided societies, particularly when power is unequally distributed within these ... -
Low-Cost Techniques for Assessing the Quality of Drinking Water from Biosand Filters (thesis)
Over 4 million people worldwide are estimated to benefit from the biosand filter (BSF), an inexpensive point-of-use (POU) water treatment technology designed to remove turbidity, bacterial contamination, and parasites. The ... -
An Introduction to Stochastic Self-Assembly: Theory, Simulation and Experimental Applications (thesis)
We introduce three stochastic cooperative models for particle deposition and evaporation relevant to ionic self-assembly of nanoparticles with applications in surface fabrication and nanomedicine. We present a method for ... -
Realizability of n-Vertex Graphs with Prescribed Vertex Connectivity, Edge Connectivity, Minimum Degree, and Maximum Degree (thesis)
Our work continues a long tradition in graph theory studying the relation- ship between vertex connectivity, edge connectivity, and minimum degree. [From Introduction] -
Towards an Automated and Customizable Linear Cryptanalysis of Substitution-Permutation Network Cipher (thesis)
The increasing scale of the Internet of Things exposes the proprietors and users to a number of security threats in terms of invasion of privacy, identity thefts and the like. It is therefore absolutely necessary that the ... -
Periods of Linearly Recurring Sequences (thesis)
In this thesis, we investigate sequences defined by linear recurrence relations. These are sequences whose subsequent terms are generated using some linear combination of the previous terms. We call the equation that ... -
Permutation Formula (thesis)
Runs in permutations and similar topics have been studied by various authors under different names. Hegarty examined permutations of finite abelian groups which avoid what he called progressions. Riordan studied 3-runs ... -
Division and Radicalization in the German Working Class: A Study of German Socialism from the Revolution to the Halle Congress (thesis)
While class differences and ideological disagreements did play a role in the permanent division of the German working class, the actions of the Ebert government, especially the violence committed by the Freikorps under ... -
"The First Fruits of a Re-United People": The Loyalty, Motivation, and Allegiance of the Men of the Second United States Volunteer Infantry Regiment (thesis)
We were discussing the issues facing President Abraham Lincoln's Administration during the war when he mentioned that in 1864 it had to deal with the uprising of the Plains Indians in Minnesota. To address this threat, the ... -
You Must Be This to Ride: Class, Gender, and Race in the American Amusement Park (thesis)
The apparent democratization of the amusement park, as explored here, belies the reality that increased inclusion in some aspects of an important mass leisure form does not resolve all problems of inclusion in a society. ...