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Shakespeare and Succession Crisis: Shakespeare's Reimagining of Elizabeth I's Legacy in Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, and King Lear (thesis)
If Shakespeare's works can tell us anything, it is that the Elizabethan time was one filled with as much uncertainty as our own. There was no surety that we would all remember Elizabeth as the greatest queen in English ... -
"God is the Perfect Comprehension:" Faith, Form, and Feeling in Zelda Fitzgerald's Deposition
This paper examines Fitzgerald's Deposition from angles biographical as well as formal and iconographical, relating the piece to her personal system of aesthetics as well as her prior work in order to examine the impact ... -
Bugs and Bacteria: A Survey of Water Quality and Ecosystem Health in Rockbridge County (thesis)
The Maury River and its tributaries comprise an understudied system within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed that is affected heavily by human disturbance. Water and sediment nitrate and E. coli concentrations were used in ... -
Dignified Healthcare for Immigrants: The Need for Cross-Cultural Efficacy in America’s Medical Community
The diversification of the American population changes the healthcare landscape. Patients with different cultural belief systems and the increased incidence of tropical diseases in the United States requires reform in the ... -
Implicit Incentives in Football: An Empirical Analysis of Performance Measurement for NFL Players (thesis)
In this study, I examine how team-based and individual performance metrics are incorporated into NFL players' contracts. The current research in performance evaluation and incentive contract design suggests that a mixed ... -
A Holistic Examination of the Relationship Between ESG Ratings and Corporate Financial Performance (thesis)
This paper examines the effect of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings and several of their component parts core accounting performance metrics, proxied by metrics in the DuPont decomposition. Further, I ... -
The Catholic Church as "Guardian of the Faith"? Sex, Scandal, and Social Progress in the Republic of Ireland (thesis)
What makes Ireland's social and political trajectory notable is not that the debates over marriage equality and abortion departed from the traditional framework used in the West. Instead, it is the distinct historical ... -
The Removal of the Jordan's Point Dam: Examining Channel Restructure and Sediment Mobilization (thesis)
The 2019 removal of the Jordan's Point Dam, a low-head concrete structure built in 1911 but predated by several older crib dams, is understood to have served as a significant geomorphological event in the Maury River. ...