Browsing W&L Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability by Title
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Paradise Lost: Effects of Tourism on Poor Populations of Small, Developing Tropical Nations
By some measures tourism is the largest industry in the world, and many small developing nations are economically dependent upon revenue generated by international tourism. Literature on tourism is varied and extensive, ... -
Partiality as Justice: a Critique of Thomas Pogge's World Poverty and Human Rights
. . . I find the priority and emphasis Pogge gives to negative obligations in formulating our moral obligation to alleviate poverty to be troubling. In Pogge's work, positive obligations based on justice can only arise ... -
A Path to Depression: The Stigmatization of Poor Single Mothers
Although there are certainly other contributing factors that predispose poor women to depression, the way in which false classist assumptions contribute to depression in poor single mothers has been largely neglected in ... -
The Pediatric Medical Home Model: A Policy Recommendation to Increase Healthcare Quality for Children in Poverty
The pediatric medical home is a family-centered approach to providing comprehensive primary care. In a medical home, healthcare professionals work with patients and their families to ensure all medical and non-medical ... -
Personal Responsibility in Healthcare for Low Socioeconomic Individuals
Health is the accumulation of the past and a hard life manifests itself in poor health. The link between poverty and health is a highly complex issue and there is no silver bullet to address the problem. However there are ... -
Picking Pockets for Profit: Wage Theft and the Fair Labor Standards Act
I will start with a brief history of the FLSA and the purposes for the legislation. I will also outline wage and hour requirements under the FLSA, the remedies available to workers when an employer fails to satisfy those ... -
Policy Reform Proposal: China's Hukou System
Hukou is a household registration system that categorizes every citizen as “agricultural (rural)” or “non-agricultural (urban)” and bans the movement into different regions (Meng, 2012). Although its restriction on migration ... -
Post-PRWORA Implications for Poor Abuse Victims: How Do They Fare?
Because most instances of physical and sexual abuse towards women fall into the category of family violence, in this paper I focus on the various forms of family violence in the United States. First I examine the problem ... -
The Potentially Problematic Ethics of Long-Acting Birth Control for Marginalized Women
It is impossible to research contraception in America, in any form, without finding divergent opinions. The purpose of this capstone is to wade through the multitudinous opinions, criticisms, and fears, using the implementation ... -
Poverty Re-Measured: A New Approach to Assessing the Role of Poverty in Facilitating Violent Conflict
The case of Rwanda raises several questions which I hope to shed light on through this research. My prevailing concern is studying the question of how the absence of human capabilities, poverty, can influence individuals ... -
POVERTY SLAM! How Slam Poetry Transforms the Lives of Impoverished Youth
This paper will discuss slam poetry's impact on impoverished youth by looking at the format and history of slam, slam's connection to poverty, and why slam makes such a connection to impoverished youth. The most important ... -
The Power of ZIP Codes: Segregation in Southern California, Reexamined
The ultimate aim of this study is to explore and deconstruct the myriad causes which contribute to segregation's persistence, even when no longer mandated by law as it was only a few generations ago. Within the nation that ... -
Power Structure, Minorities and the Politics of Identity: A Theory Advocating the Importance of Movements of Self Determination of Cultural Identity by Minorities in Addressing Minority Issues in Multicultural Societies Favoring Assimilation
The paper is divided into two parts. Part 1 studies how inability of minorities in societies which the dominant culture determines the groups identity takes away the minorities capacity for agency and self determinism, and ... -
Predatory Financial Practices and the Impact on the Poor
In summary, the solutions for breaking the cycle of poverty presented by this paper focus heavily on reducing the exorbitant costs of financial services paid by low-income families. This is in contrast to the long-standing ... -
Predatory Lending: Payday Lenders and Credit Card Companies
Predatory payday lenders and credit card companies target lower income earners. Wage earners who utilize these services spend a disproportionate amount of money on interest and late fees. Therefore, these low earners have ... -
Present Situation, Problems, and Policy Solutions Concerning the State of Teacher Quality in Low-Income, Rural West Virginia
Since 40.6% of West Virginia schools are rural and 43.5% of the state's students attend these rural schools, it becomes incredibly important to scrutinize the functioning of the education system outside of the state's more ... -
[The Press and Media Coverage of Poverty]
This paper aims out to examine the coverage of poverty by three mid-sized, daily newspapers across the country – The St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, The Memphis (TN) Commercial Appeal, and The Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal. ... -
Primary Care's Code Blue: Can Basic Patient Care Be Revitalized?
Part One of this paper will identify what it means exactly to access primary care in the ER, the people who access such care, and why they access primary care in the ER. I argue that those who access primary/ambulatory ... -
The Privatization of Social Service Programs
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PWRORA) represented a major shift in the national welfare system. It allows states the option of providing welfare-related services to the ... -
The Problem with PrEP: Intersectional Stigma and Modern HIV Prevention in the United States
Even though the literature published on PrEP [Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis] is still relatively new, there has already been a lack of coherence between studies to understand which social mechanisms and individual factors ...