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Medicaid Eligibility and Accessibility: Exploring the Intersection of Poverty, Mental Health, and Incarceration from an Ethical Perspective
(2020)This paper will address the many facets of why Medicaid mental health resources should be expanded and enhanced for low-income individuals, specifically those recently released from incarceration. First, the connection ... -
Childhood Exposure to Domestic Violence and the Legal System: Moving Towards Statutory Reform
(2020)Through this analysis, I seek to examine past and current efforts at statutory reform that characterize children's exposure to domestic violence as a form of child abuse or neglect. This may take the form of expanding a ... -
Obstacles to Rural Health and Current Directions in Overcoming Them
(2020)In the US, the rural elderly are of particular interest. People who are elderly make up a larger share of the population in rural communities than urban ones, while low population density is a major obstacle to efficient ... -
What Do We Really Mean by "White Savior?": A Little Due Diligence is the Minimum Requirement
(2020)In this paper, I will engage in a comprehensive discussion of the meanings of "white savior" and provide a critical response to the ways in which it is misused. First, I will provide a genealogical trace of the term, "white ... -
Investigating the Role of Implicit Class Bias in the Clinical Encounter: A Call to Eliminate Health Disparities
(2020)Despite their explicit commitment to providing equal care, studies suggest that implicit prejudice and stereotyping can impact the judgment and behavior of healthcare providers when they interact with stigmatized patients. ... -
Community Empowerment: Mural Arts Philadelphia's Community Muralism Process and Product
(2020)This paper examines community muralism as an instance of community empowerment, specifically through a case study of Philadelphia's mural program. The program is called Mural Arts Philadelphia (MAP) and was founded in 1984 ... -
Small-Scale Fisheries and the Global Fisheries Crisis: A Capabilities Approach
(2020)Considering the threat of environmental degradation to fisher livelihoods and wellbeing, this paper focuses on the following questions: 1) How should the wellbeing of small-scale fisherfolk, as derived from their livelihoods ... -
The Most Generous Nation in the World? A Critical Analysis of the Charitable Contribution Deduction in the United States’ Internal Revenue Code
(2020)Despite its cost, people often support the charitable contribution deduction by pointing to the oft-quoted statement, "America is the most generous nation on Earth," and justify philanthropy on the belief that it is ... -
Sex For Survival: Prostitution, Poverty, and Inequality
(2020)For this topic, there has been a significant amount of work directly on prostitution and the accompanying theoretical or moral arguments. My aim is to analyze the different arguments on prostitution policy and select the ... -
American Misperceptions of Immigration
(2020)Portions of the American public have many misperceptions about the nature and consequences of undocumented immigration, and when we correct these misperceptions, against the background of the philosophical framework of ... -
Which Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) models most effectively enable firms to increase profits ethically?
(2020). . . I have consolidated a wide range of previously published research. From studying academic journals to case studies, I focused on four CSR models: the shared value initiative, the win-win model, delegated philanthropy, ... -
Incarceration and Creative Expression: Why prisons should increase access to art materials for incarcerated people
(2020)Understanding and conveying ideas about ourselves is something that makes us fundamentally human. Our identities are defined by the "cooperatively authored world" in which we live: the stories that we share and the people ... -
American Misperceptions of Immigration
(2020)Portions of the American public have many misperceptions about the nature and consequences of undocumented immigration, and when we correct these misperceptions, against the background of the philosophical framework of ... -
The Incarceration Addiction: A Toxic, Symbiotic Relationship and an Ethical Response (thesis)
(2019)This paper examines the interlocking factors in the toxic, symbiotic relationship between addiction and incarceration. It begins by discussing the “War on Drugs” that heralded the globally unprecedented swelling of the ... -
Blight in the Rural South: Proliferation, Remediation, and Ethical Claims (thesis)
(2019)Across rural communities in the Southern United States, the proliferation of dilapidated structures which do not meet code enforcement standards (i.e. blight) has developed into a primary concern for many communities. Using ... -
Health Outcomes for Undocumented Children and Families in America: A Moral and Ethical Concern (thesis)
(2019)The growing interest surrounding the estimated 11 million unaccounted, undocumented immigrants in America brings to light the issue not only from a governmental policy perspective, but also on a community level framework ... -
Is the use of surveillance technologies justifiable in light of its effects on the well-being of single mothers . . . (thesis)
(2019)The surveillance of single mothers on welfare is a difficult issue to evaluate given that it involves balancing individual privacy rights with citizens' interests in ensuring that government money is being used effectively ... -
Health Inequality in the Andes: An Ethnicity-Centered Approach (thesis)
(2019)In summary, there exists a significant body of work on health inequalities in the Andes. However, much of this literature provides somewhat fragmented pieces of a complex whole with respect to the production of health ... -
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Wealth Inequality Undermines Core American Values (thesis)
(2019)Throughout the course of American history, the right to the pursuit of happiness provided the foundation for ideas such as the American Dream which preaches that Americans can "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" and ... -
The Hole Apartheid Dug: Reducing Crime in South African Townships with Entrepreneurship (thesis)
(2019)For approximately fifty years (1948-1994), South Africa was controlled by a government fixated on the domination of the minority white population over "blacks", "coloreds", and "Indians". In this system, known as apartheid, ...
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