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The Perennial Perversion: Idolatrous Self-Worship in Brave New World
(02/21/23)
This literary analysis compares the spiritual landscape of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World against his nonfiction work, The... Go to Article » The Role and Weaponization of Scientific 'Objectivity' in Gender Discourse and the Debate Over Transgender Rights
(10/04/22)
The label of ‘science’ or ‘biology’ can become somewhat of a trump-card in excluding trans people from civil... Go to Article » #ItsNotMyPeriod: Hashtag Activism's Challenge to Narratives of Menstrual Stigma
(09/22/22)
Perceptions of menstruation as a taboo subject have historically characterized Western and non-Western societies alike and persist... Go to Article » Unity in Virginia Woolf and Hannah Arendt: Creating Reality in the Insensitive and Inaccessible
(09/22/22)
Woolfian Scholars regularly denote the moments where Woolf’s characters feel inexplicably connected and inseparable from one... Go to Article » Against Eco-Camp: Analyzing the Flaws of the Modern Climate Movement
(09/19/22)
This interdisciplinary paper investigates the shortfalls and obstacles to success currently facing the climate movement, examining... Go to Article » Occupation and the Road Not Traveled in Habibi Rasak Kharban (2011)
(09/19/22)
In adapting the twelfth-century story Layla and Majnun, Susan Youssef’s 2011 film Habibi Rasak Kharban re-imagines... Go to Article » The Relationship Between Gender and Trauma in Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch
(09/19/22)
The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt is a novel that explores the conditions of grief and escalating lengths characters will go to... Go to Article » How Media Influences the Use of Violence in Protests: An Analysis of the Black Lives Matter and #StopTheSteal Movements
(06/07/22)
Two of the most prevalent protest movements in recent history were the Black Lives Matter and the #StopTheSteal movements. While there... Go to Article » Look Me in the Eyes: Witkacy's 'Portrait Gaze' as a Critique and Anticipation of Culture Industry
(05/06/22)
This paper analyzes the construction of ‘portrait gaze’ as a visual device that orients, manipulates, and challenges the... Go to Article » Guns and Suicidal Thoughts in Adolescence: An Understudied Relationship
(05/06/22)
The prevalent school of thought states that suicidal ideation and suicide planning are not associated with living in households with... Go to Article » Pathological Withdrawal Syndrome: A New Kind of Depression?
(04/15/22)
Marion Godman makes the argument that Pathological Withdrawal Syndrome (PWS) makes the case for psychiatric disorders as a natural... Go to Article » Biased Narratives in the Media: Coverage of Fatal Shootings During Black Lives Matter Demonstrations
(04/15/22)
During the summer of 2020, two fatal shootings occurred following Black Lives Matter protests. The first event involved Kyle Rittenhouse... Go to Article » The Impact of Gender Discrimination on Statelessness: A Case Study of the Impact of Nationality Laws on Statelessness
(04/15/22)
With over 10 million stateless people globally, statelessness has increasingly become a pressing issue in international law. The production... Go to Article » The Past is Female: Exploring the Socio-Sexual Liberation of Historical Women in Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife
(04/15/22)
British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife presents a fresh outlook on myths and fairy tales, by retelling... Go to Article » Fragile Aesthetics: The Problematics Behind Thomas Gainsborough's Landscape Paintings
(04/01/22)
The 17th and 18th centuries saw a wide proliferation of aesthetic discourse through which the picturesque emerged to capture the type... Go to Article » An Assessment of the Origins and Culpability of the Opioid Crisis in the United States
(03/11/22)
The use of synthetic opioids in the United States in the past 30 years has created an epidemic the likes of which our healthcare and... Go to Article » The Relationship Between Stress, Coping Strategies, and Problem-Solving Skills Among College Students
(03/11/22)
The study investigated stress, coping strategies, and problem-solving skills among college students. A total of 202 university students... Go to Article » "Lesbianing together:" Images of Incarcerated Women in Orange is the New Black
(03/11/22)
Using content analysis, this article focuses on the portrayal of female prisoners in the first two seasons of the Netflix show ... Go to Article » Imperial Mughal Literature: A Rich Source of Scientific Information
(02/25/22)
India was ruled by the Timurid-Mughal dynasty from 1526 to 1857. This period is mainly recognised for its art and architecture. The... Go to Article » Funding for Creative Education and its Socioeconomic Benefits: A Literature Review
(02/11/22)
The United States spends more on public education per student than all but three countries in the world based on 2016 findings from... Go to Article » Gothic Romance in The Haunting of Bly Manor: The Modern Transformation of the Victorian Gothic
(02/11/22)
This article explores the expression of the Gothic romance genre in the 21st century, by examining Mike Flannagan’s The Haunting... Go to Article » Knowledge Production in International Relations: A Poststructural Feminist Critique of Liberal Feminism
(02/09/22)
In popular international relations (IR) theory, knowledge production is often dismissed as an objective process between the researcher... Go to Article » Do Textbooks Shape Attitudes Toward War? Narrative 'Images' and Implicit Social Cognition
(01/19/22)
To explore the relationship between history education and attitudes to war, narrative primes about World War II were read by 20 undergraduate... Go to Article » The Politics of Nation-Building, Ethnicity, and Democratization in Ethiopia
(01/17/22)
This article explores the political relationship between nation-building, ethnicity, and democracy in the context of Ethiopia. It... Go to Article » China's International Investments Under Xi Jinping: Long Term Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
(01/14/22)
The study examines the degree to which Xi Jinping has brought about a strategic shift to the Chinese outward investment pattern and... Go to Article » Federalism and the Value of Institutional Experience During a National Disaster: Identifying Determinants of Rapid Emergency Medicaid Waiver Adoption During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(01/06/22)
Section 1135 emergency waivers were designed as tools for policy-makers to rapidly increase health system capacity during a disaster... Go to Article » Understanding the 2016 Republican Primary: Substantive Versus Strategic Voting Behavior
(01/03/22)
Was the selection of Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican Primary a strategic or a substantive choice? Donald Trump defied many predictions... Go to Article » Structural Violence in the Queer Community: A Comparative Analysis of International Human Rights Protections for LBTIQ+ People
(12/20/21)
This paper discusses the structural violence experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, or queer (LGBTIQ+) people and... Go to Article » Deconstructing Social Classification and Mobility: The Hindu Varna System, Plato's Magnificent Myth, and the British Caste System
(12/10/21)
This research elucidates the striking parallelism between the Hindu Varna System and Plato's Magnificent Myth through an unorthodox... Go to Article » American Construction, Reconstruction, and Destruction: The Cultural, Historical, and Literary Underpinnings of our Great Divide
(12/09/21)
This thesis explores the inherent conflict between liberty and equality—the twin pillars on which the United States and its... Go to Article » Emotion and Politics: How Strengths of Mind Relate to Political Attitudes in the United States
(12/01/21)
Political polarization has been an increasingly salient point of discussion since the 2016 presidential campaign, the election of... Go to Article » Vindication for Tin Foil Hats: An Analysis of Unethical Cold War Experiments and Their Enduring Consequences
(11/10/21)
While the Cold War is popularly regarded as a war of ideological conflict, to consider it solely as such does the long-winded tension... Go to Article » Propaganda, Patriotism, and Perseverance: How Music Became an Instrument for the US War Effort During the Second World War
(11/01/21)
This article analyzes the role of musical works in the United States during World War II. It chronologically examines how the social... Go to Article » How Religiosity Shapes Satisfaction with Democracy: A Mediterranean Case Study
(10/26/21)
More and more countries are democratic, but at the same time, the number of people dissatisfied with it has constantly been increasing... Go to Article » Euthanasia and Consensual Harm: Evaluating the Moral and Legal Asymmetry of Self- and Other-Regarding Acts
(10/25/21)
Suicide is legal in almost every country, but places where euthanasia is permitted remain in the minority (Mishara and Weisstub 2016... Go to Article » Cancer Epidemiology in Romani-Americans: A Review of the Current Literature
(10/14/21)
Romanies are one of history’s most misunderstood ethnic populations. Since medieval times, they have faced slavery, forced assimilation... Go to Article » Securitization, Framing, and the Threat of Right-Wing Militias Under Donald Trump
(10/05/21)
This paper assesses the political preferences and ideologies of the Trump administration and how they influenced framing issues in... Go to Article » The Legacy of American Transcendentalism in Contemporary Literature: From Thoreau to Krakauer
(09/27/21)
American Transcendentalism (1836-1860), despite having an amorphous and transient lifespan, holds strong importance in American history... Go to Article » Covering Climate Change: A Sentiment Analysis of Major Newspaper Articles from 2010 - 2020
(09/23/21)
This research lies at the nexus of political communication theory relating to emotional affect and political processing and the burgeoning... Go to Article » Grand Narrative, Fragmented Reality: The Belt and Road Initiative in Heilongjiang Province
(09/21/21)
Most analysts agree that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is set to become a defining feature of the global economy of... Go to Article » The Price of Predatory Marketing on Older Adults: A Perspective on Prevagen Potency
(09/20/21)
The calcium-binding protein apoaequorin has been studied for its possible indication to improve human cognition and memory. Faculty... Go to Article » Through Thick and Thin: Understanding Democracy and its Consequences in the United States
(09/17/21)
One of the key ways to measure and analyze the performance of such expansive countries such as the United States is to look at their... Go to Article » How Humans Will End The World: A Cautionary History of Environmental and Civilizational Instability
(09/16/21)
After thousands of years of innovation, humankind has shaped the modern world into a new planetary epoch: the Anthropocene. This paper... Go to Article » Industrial Safety: Factors that Present Barriers to Reporting Workplace Incidents and Contribute to Cultures of Non-Reporting
(06/08/21)
This research study explores factors that present barriers to reporting workplace incidents and contribute to cultures of non-report... Go to Article » Biologization of Capital and Capitalization of Biopower: Connecting Foucault and Marx
(05/25/21)
Foucault raised the concept of biopower in the first volume of The History of Sexuality and placed its emergence in the context of... Go to Article » The Holistic Universe: Wisdom as Attention to the Cohesion of Physicality and Immateriality
(05/11/21)
We are all witnesses. You see and are seen; you step in and step out. You brush your hair out of your face, out of the face of a friend... Go to Article » Double Lives: A Qualitative Analysis of Identity Navigation in Chicago's South and West Sides
(05/11/21)
This paper draws on qualitative interviews to address internal and external identity navigation among gang members and how nonprofits... Go to Article » Gender Theory vs. Pragmatism: A Point of Diversion Between Judith Butler's Gender Performativity and the Psychosocial Limitations of Gender Construction
(04/16/21)
The question of what it means to be a gendered individual has been left unanswered in light of its variants. The feminist movement... Go to Article » Revenant Narratives and the Representation of Demonic Lovers in English Gothic Ballads
(04/06/21)
The Demon-Lover functions as a significant motif in English Gothic ballad tradition, which scholar Hugh Shields articulates as a &... Go to Article » The Growing Popularity of the Radical Right: Comparing Institutional, Societal and Historical Explanations in the United States and France
(04/05/21)
Following the enlightenment era, a new incarnation of politics created a uniquely democratic, liberal, egalitarian structure of government... Go to Article » 16th-Century Clapback: The Manipulation of Poetic Devices in Sir Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry
(04/05/21)
Often thought to be a recent development of pop culture, writers have been using biting clapbacks in response to criticism since antiquity... Go to Article » The Eumenides, Antigone and the Nature of Objective Justice
(03/30/21)
Justice in The Eumenides is established as an objective entity and it is in The Eumenides that it is solidified as a concept which... Go to Article » Conservative Perspectives of Political Outsiders
(03/18/21)
Western conservatism is often conceived as the philosophy of large landowners in the past and business executives in the present.... Go to Article » Single-Payer Reform and Rural Health in the United States: Lessons from Our Northern Neighbor
(03/15/21)
Single-payer health reform has secured its place in the mainstream American health policy debate, yet its implications for particular... Go to Article » Reconstructing Ruin as Future: Rethinking the Spatiotemporality of Race and Gender in Glissant and Spillers' Middle Passage
(03/10/21)
Intersecting Edouard Glissant’s poetics with Hortense Spillers’ theory of race, gender, and sexuality alchemizes a new... Go to Article » The Self-Cognizant Idea and the Methodological Transformation of Hegel, Marx, and Ditlthey's Historiography
(03/10/21)
The transformation of the philosophy of history reveals how and why methodological systems change over time. Methodological systems... Go to Article » Linguistic Affect: Positive and Negative Emotion Words are Contagious, Predict Likability, and Moderate Positive and Negative Affect
(03/05/21)
Positive affect (PA) is active, enthusiastic, and happy engagement in pleasurable activities and negative affect (NA) includes aversiveness... Go to Article » The Fleeting Nature of Techno-Horror: Kairo's Failure to Appeal to Gen Z
(03/03/21)
Techno-horror is a sub-genre of horror defined by the use of science or technology as the source of horror, and often, this genre... Go to Article » Penelope, Helen, and the Ancient Greek Spectrum of Femininity: Observations of Womanhood in the Homeric Epics
(02/26/21)
Although most Ancient Greek literature focused on male characters, a literary analysis of Homeric poetry reveals an inquisition of... Go to Article » Death in John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" and "The Eve of St. Agnes"
(02/25/21)
This paper explores Keats’ depiction of death in “Ode to a Nightingale” and “The Eve of St. Agnes.” &... Go to Article » A Critical Analysis of the Biopsychosocial Risks Associated with Postpartum Depression in Indian Mothers
(02/22/21)
Motherhood is an essential yet challenging feat that requires constant emotional, social, and physical support. Postpartum depression... Go to Article » Sensationalism of Trauma in American Film and Literature
(02/19/21)
The Virgin Suicides written by Jeffrey Eugenides, as well as Sofia Coppola’s film adaptation, utilize the literary and cinematic... Go to Article » Commodifying Nature: Reflections of Hegemony in Ecotourism
(02/18/21)
This paper will attempt to link fundamental ideas and terms of environmental sociology in the context of ecotourism relating to human... Go to Article » Inglorious Basterds: A Satirical Criticism of WWII Cinema and the Myth of the American War Hero
(02/16/21)
This article explores the way in which Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds challenges the myth of the American hero and... Go to Article » Cultural Misrepresentation of the East in Nicholas Roerich's Art
(02/12/21)
Nicholas Roerich was inspired by the mystical concept of “Shambhala”—a utopian expanse of endless truth, knowledge... Go to Article » The Graphic Novel as Argument: Visual Representation Strategy In Kyle Baker's Nat Turner
(02/11/21)
Traditional slave narratives follow a set of conventions that helped abolitionists recognize them as factual and trustworthy stories... Go to Article » The Role of the Media in the Cuban Revolution: Resource-Mobilization Theory and Cultural Framing
(02/05/21)
On January 1st, 1959, a small band of Cuban rebels shocked the world, overthrowing the American-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista.... Go to Article » Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children: A Comprehensive Review
(02/04/21)
Post-traumatic stress disorder in children under six years old has been formally recognized since 2013 (Veteran’s Affairs, 2019... Go to Article » Liberal and Realist Explanations of Merkel's "Open-Door Policy" During the 2015 Refugee Crisis
(02/01/21)
During the 2015 refugee crisis Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed refugees to enter Germany in unprecedented numbers. Her historic decision... Go to Article » Stereotypes in Bollywood Cinema: Does Article 15 Reinforce the Dalit Narrative?
(01/26/21)
‘Article 15’, released in 2019 is the first mainstream Bollywood film to focus on caste based atrocities. It depicts several... Go to Article » Edgar Allan Poe and Race: Analyzing the "Absent Negro" Trope in Gothic Literature
(01/22/21)
Edgar Allan Poe is known for writing about a wide variety of controversial topics, such as death, murder, and addiction. However,... Go to Article » Material Nostalgia in Classical and Early Modern Drama
(01/21/21)
The inescapability and influence of the past becomes most discernable with homecoming. A particularly powerful sense of nostalgia... Go to Article » Mental Illness Stigma in Criminal Justice: An Examination of Stigma on Juror Decision-Making
(01/20/21)
Negative stereotypes associated with mental illnesses can lead to discrimination towards those with these illnesses through a process... Go to Article » Democratic Misrepresentation: A Quantitative Analysis of Out of District State Campaign Fundraising
(01/19/21)
This paper aims to fill the gap in quantitative research on out of district donations at state levels of American government. Examining... Go to Article » Impacts of Positive or Negative Feedback on State-Authenticity, State-Flow, Self-Efficacy, and Meaningfulness
(01/18/21)
Authenticity, flow, and meaning are three important factors of an individual’s ability to achieve sustained long-term happiness... Go to Article » The Efficacy of the Incorporation of First Language in ESL English Grammar Learning
(01/11/21)
English grammar learning is challenging but essential for English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners. It is vital for ESL learners... Go to Article » Reading Religion in Literature: Toni Morrison, Luisah Teish, and Postsecular Theory
(01/04/21)
The postsecular turn of the late 1990’s refers to the emergence of a critical theory which challenges an important modern assumption... Go to Article » The Role of Native American Healing Traditions Within Allopathic Medicine
(12/10/20)
Although spirituality has been an essential part of healing for most of mankind, modern medicine is more likely to embrace a mechanistic... Go to Article » Examining the Complex, Subjective Filmography of Oliver Stone: A Comparison and Critique of JFK to Nixon and Platoon to Heaven & Earth
(12/08/20)
Oliver Stone's filmography has levied an unprecedented effect on the popular understanding of American history, especially of the... Go to Article » Genocide Memorialization in the Modern Era: Communal Mourning Through Institutions and Culture
(12/07/20)
Genocide Memorialization focuses on the community after a genocide in what they choose to remember and how they achieve that goal... Go to Article » Bonds of Slavery and Bonds of Love: Investigating the Role of African-American Families and Marital Unions in the Struggle Against Slavery
(11/28/20)
Resistance to oppression is often found in the most unlikely of places. This article investigates the significance that families and... Go to Article » A Postcolonial Theory of Value: Broadening Economic Scholarship Through Disciplinary-Mimetic Valuation
(11/24/20)
This work aims to integrate postcolonial scholarship into some basic theoretical foundations of a mainstream economic curriculum.... Go to Article » Molding the Peasantry on the Road to Modernity: State and Peasant Relations in Russia and the Soviet Union
(11/19/20)
This paper examines the peasantry's response to modernization measures taken by Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union during the late... Go to Article » A Quantitative Evaluation of Shame Resilience Theory
(11/17/20)
Shame is an adaptive emotion. Yet, it is associated with poor mental and behavioral health as well as lower wellbeing and negative... Go to Article » Goddess in the Sheets, Prostitute in the Streets: Examining Public & Private Divisions of Gender in Mesopotamian Cities
(11/17/20)
This paper explores the spatial expression of the female gender in early Mesopotamian cities from c. 2334-1595 B.C.E. Gender in Mesopotamia... Go to Article » Today's Poland as a Bastion of Conservative Populism: Targeting Families in a Populist Power Grab
(11/13/20)
With right-wing populists gaining power and electoral campaigns everywhere becoming more virulent, many are calling for a return to... Go to Article » Has the U.S. Constitution Reached its Expiration Date? A Review and Criticism of the World's Longest Lasting Constitution
(11/10/20)
The United States Constitution is the longest lasting written constitution in the world, despite the fact that one of the key framers... Go to Article » Deconstructing and Renouncing the Conditioned Identities of Gender and Nationality in Modern Society
(11/09/20)
This paper investigates the convoluted societal processes to which the individual is exposed from an early age in order to form and... Go to Article » Complementary Spheres of Resistance in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle: The Relationship Between Formal and Informal Arenas of Protest
(11/08/20)
The African National Congress is widely credited as the institutional body that effectuated the fall of Apartheid in South Africa.... Go to Article » Challenging the Dichotomy Between "Natural" and "Cultural" in Museums: A Case Study of Bird Symbolism and Human Origins
(11/05/20)
Many natural history museums use the categories of “cultural” and “natural” as a means of separating exhibition... Go to Article » Hume's Law and Genetic Engineering: Considering the Possible Implications of Positive Eugenics in Light of Our Horrific Past
(10/28/20)
The eugenics movement of the 20th century epitomizes the danger that is possible when religion and science coalesce. Grounded in the... Go to Article » Resurrecting the Bog Queen: Exploring the Gender Politics of Ireland's Bogs in Postcolonial and Nationalist Literature
(10/26/20)
Bogs are one of Ireland’s most notable and mysterious landscapes. As explored in the work of Seamus Heaney, the bog’s... Go to Article » Flipping the Cultural Script: Papaya Soap and Skin Color Stratification in the Philippines
(10/21/20)
Centuries of subjugation under Spanish and American colonial rule have embedded an idealistic view of white beauty in the minds of... Go to Article » Poor Cultural Communication as an Obstacle to Adequate Medical Care: A Case Study of the Manchurian Plague Epidemics
(10/21/20)
This study analyzes the publications of Dr. Wu Lien-teh, health commissioner during the Manchurian plague epidemics, to demonstrate... Go to Article » How Populist Conservatism Influences the Rhetoric of Ethnic Entrepreneurs
(10/21/20)
This research paper investigates the impact that the rhetoric of a populist conservative ethnic entrepreneur can have on ethnic conflict... Go to Article » Trust in State Media: Analyzing the Chinese Communist Party's Changing Approach to Public Opinion and Media Censorship
(10/21/20)
China’s rise as a global power has major implications for the future of free speech and media censorship both within and outside... Go to Article » The Use of Ketamine as a Treatment for Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders
(10/10/20)
Ketamine, described by the chemical formula C13H16ClNO, is most commonly associated with adolescent and adult recreational drug users... Go to Article » Redemption and Reconciliation in Oedipus at Colonus and Gran Torino: A Comparative Reading
(10/08/20)
This paper presents a comparative analysis of Oedipus at Colonus, a play written by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles, and Gran... Go to Article » The Gender Gap in American Politics: How Money in Politics Affects Female Representation
(10/06/20)
In the 116th United States Congress, women hold 23.2% of House seats and 25% of Senate seats. Down the ballot, across state and local... Go to Article » Affective Gender Communication: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Toddler Behavior
(10/02/20)
Conversations about the gender expression of young children are often characterized by confusion, as parents, educators, and even... Go to Article » The Effectiveness of the International Criminal Court: Challenges and Pathways for Prosecuting Human Rights Violations
(09/30/20)
Of the thousands of potential cases that could have been investigated by the International Criminal Court (ICC), only 44 individuals... Go to Article » Poststructuralism and Female Identity in Sylvia Plath's Ariel
(09/30/20)
Sylvia Plath’s posthumously published collection of poetry, Ariel, is perhaps best defined by the vivid imagery that delves... Go to Article » James E. Webb and the Grand Strategy of the Moon Landing: A Political, Administrative, and Contextual Analysis
(09/28/20)
The man who powered NASA through the Apollo Era had no background in science or engineering. Rather, NASA achieved one of history&... Go to Article » Improving Medical Humanitarianism: Pitfalls and Best Practices for International Aid
(09/25/20)
The necessity of international relief is unending as new crises continue to emerge across the world. International aid plays a crucial... Go to Article » Abu Ghraib, Homonationalism, and the Rationalization of Modern Torture
(09/24/20)
Drawing on Jasbir Puar’s analysis of homonationalism in the post-9/11 United States, I investigate the Orientalist and Islamophobic... Go to Article » Intergenerational Intimate Partner Violence: Pathways of Genetic and Environmental Interactions
(09/22/20)
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious public health issue that results in social, psychological, emotional, and physical consequences... Go to Article » Unification of Mind, Matter, and Consciousness Through an Essence of Relation
(09/18/20)
In contemporary philosophy, the mind-body problem and the problem of consciousness are often viewed through the lens of physicalism... Go to Article » The Weight of Emotions on Decision-Making: A Comparative Analysis
(09/16/20)
When making decisions, a person must rationally analyze their options and understand potential outcomes. Emotions, the way that we... Go to Article » Cobalt, Computation, and the Congo: Making Corporations Pay for Their Transnational Terrors
(09/15/20)
Though electronic products are ubiquitous in the modern Western world, most people are not aware of the origins of the batteries that... Go to Article » The Forgotten Center: An Analysis into the Disappearing Moderate in a Climate of Increasing Political Polarization
(09/11/20)
Political polarization in the United States has been one of the main issues at the forefront of American politics. Studies show that... Go to Article » Chaos and Dissimulation in Ian McEwan's Modern Retelling of Hamlet
(09/10/20)
This paper analyses Ian McEwan’s reuse of Shakespeare’s material in his retelling of Hamlet from the unusual point of... Go to Article » A Historical Perspective on the Cultural Connotations Surrounding Eating Disorders
(09/08/20)
Over 30 million people in the US are plagued by eating disorders (EDs), with at least one ED-related death occurring every 62 minutes... Go to Article » Terry Richardson and the Celebration of "Porn Chic:" A Critique of Fashion Photography
(09/07/20)
In On Photography, Susan Sontag derides photography for generating a sense of false objectivity. Focusing on the moral implications... Go to Article » Negotiating the Concept of National Allegory: Homosexuality, Departure, and Homecoming in Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory and Midi Z's Nina Wu
(09/06/20)
Often regarded as the glorious palace showcasing contemporary world cinema (“Press Conference”), the Cannes Film Festival... Go to Article » Combating Xenophobia in the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Importance of Health Literacy
(07/15/20)
A global pandemic is often characterized by an abundance of information, the race for a vaccine, and a focus on preventing others... Go to Article » Women's Erotic Consumption: Articulating the Sexual Self Under Late Capitalism
(07/15/20)
From a very young age, women are taught to suppress their sexuality. Sex, we are told, is deeply personal; a private act that must... Go to Article » Gender Dynamics in The Sheik as Novel and as Film Adaptation
(02/28/20)
The 1921 Hollywood film The Sheik tells the story of Lady Diana Mayo, a spirited English peeress who, on a trip to the French Sahara... Go to Article » Democratic Backsliding in the U.S. and Why the Rest of the West Should Care
(02/28/20)
‘State fragility’ comes in many manifestations, ranging from violent civil conflict to state-sanctioned corruption. Often... Go to Article » The Social Construction of Female Genital Mutilation
(02/27/20)
On November 20th, 2018, a federal judge in Michigan ruled that the Female Genital Mutilation Act 1996, which federally prohibits female... Go to Article » Seeking a Better Life: Asylum Law, the Migration Crisis and Available Legal Remedies
(02/27/20)
Between 2012 and 2017, the number of asylum applications from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—countries collectively known... Go to Article » The Psychology of Romance: The Impact of Personality Traits on Romantic Relationships
(12/12/19)
Research shows conflicting results when relaying how personality traits play into successful and satisfying romantic relationships... Go to Article » The Aftermath of Agent Orange: Combating Slow Violence, Necropolitics, and Stigma in Vietnamese Communities
(12/02/19)
Although the Vietnam War officially ended in 1975, the long-term effects of the toxic contaminant, dioxin, found in Agent Orange continues... Go to Article » A Nietzschean Interpretation of the Self in Psychological Continuity
(12/02/19)
There are two views of personal identity that many people find plausible. The first is the psychological continuity view; the second... Go to Article » Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An Analysis of Genetic and Biological Pathologies
(11/05/19)
This paper compiles and analyzes a series of published articles discussing some of the genetic and physiological principles of obsessive... Go to Article » United States Patents, Biopiracy, and Cultural Imperialism: The Theft of India's Traditional Knowledge
(10/03/19)
This article aims to present the biopiracy of traditional knowledge from India by the United States, which has occurred directly through... Go to Article » Restoring Justice: An Alternative to the School-to-Prison Pipeline
(10/02/19)
The school-to-prison pipeline, a "partnership” between juvenile courts and the school system, "developed through a punitive... Go to Article » Fatherhood Socialization of Masculinity Through Parental Involvement in Youth Sport
(10/02/19)
Fathers often use sport to socialize their sons into masculinity. When coaching their own son in a sport, men must juggle their own... Go to Article » The Status of Women in Late Antiquity: Examining the Sociopolitical Climate, Societal Values, and Gender Roles
(10/02/19)
The status of women and their role in Late Antiquity has been a topic of inquiry among historians. It is a particularly challenging... Go to Article » Unveiling Ultimate Reality in Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Bhagavad Gita
(09/27/19)
Questions regarding the very foundations of our reality abound throughout the history of world philosophies. For example, if we examine... Go to Article » Echoes of W.E.B. Du Bois' Double-Consciousness in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
(04/20/19)
A close scrutiny through a text-based analysis of Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass, an American... Go to Article » Fringe Religion & the Far-Right: Dangerous Behavior Patterns Among Christian Millennialists
(03/01/19)
Radical thinking among the far-right is a growing security problem for modern western society. Over the past several decades anti-... Go to Article » Discourse, Public Space, and the Politics of Korean "Comfort Women:" Implications for East Asian Relations
(02/20/19)
The issue of “comfort women,” sex slaves utilized by the Japanese army during World War II, is treated in this paper as... Go to Article » Climate Change as a Security Issue in the Indo-Pacific Region: Borders, Environmental Phenomena and Preexisting Vulnerabilities
(02/15/19)
In recent years, climate change has been increasingly framed as a security issue, with some theorists going so far as to call it the... Go to Article » Slavery to Self-Liberation: The Haitian Revolution in Marxist Theory
(02/06/19)
The Haitian Revolution of 1791 – 1804 was a successful slave rebellion in the French colony of Saint-Domingue that began in... Go to Article » The Search for Nationhood in Older Scots Literature: A Study of The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy and The Tale of Ralph the Collier
(02/01/19)
The corpus of Older Scots literature is hyper-attentive to the themes and issues surrounding nationhood and sovereignty. Authors of... Go to Article » Understanding Ethnic Tensions in Diverse Neighborhoods: The Role of People With Strong Positive/Negative Attitudes Towards Diversity
(01/31/19)
In this article, we explore the role people with evident positive or negative attitudes towards diversity have in either decreasing... Go to Article » The Criminal Justice System's Mistreatment of Transgender Individuals: A Call for Policy Reform to Assist a Marginalized Prisoner Community
(01/31/19)
While media coverage and politicians constantly acknowledge the inadequacies of the criminal justice system in managing victims and... Go to Article » Women & Globalization: The Impact of Increased Women's Economic Rights on Globalization
(01/15/19)
Globalization is generally studied as a process that extensively impacts nations and peoples across every aspect of society. Empirical... Go to Article » A State of Illegitimacy: The Dynamics of Criminal and State Legitimacy in Mexico
(10/08/18)
The following paper seeks to elucidate the complex processes involved in the Mexican State’s loss of authority and the subsequent... Go to Article » Wind Energy Legislation Strategies for the Lone Star State
(05/11/18)
Texas introduced Senate Bill 277 as its first wind energy siting law during the 2017 Legislature. The bill combats radar interference... Go to Article » Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy: A Review of the Literature
(05/09/18)
This review discusses Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy research to date. A literature review first explores mindfulness and art therapy... Go to Article » Educational Investment and Sociopsychological Wellbeing Among Rural Chinese Women
(05/09/18)
Universal secondary education is vital if rural China is to achieve long-term socioeconomic sustainability, as education offers the... Go to Article » On the Necessity of Developing General Education for Undergraduates in Chinese Higher Institutions
(04/24/18)
The promotion of general education is a matter of ongoing debate owing to the pressing question of how to improve higher education... Go to Article » Native Design in Modern Fashion: The Transformations of Native American Flower Beadwork
(03/13/18)
What happens to flower beadwork when its application is transformed from traditional clothing decoration, to painting on the wall,... Go to Article » Japan at Work in the 21st Century: An Analysis of Developing Labor Practices in Japan and Institutional Barriers to Reform
(03/08/18)
Devastated by an economic collapse at the end of the 20th century, Japan’s economy entered a decade long period of stagnation... Go to Article » One Pronoun at a Time: Gender-Specific Pronouns Improve Reading Comprehension
(02/23/18)
The current study focuses on the effect of gender-specific (he, she) and gender-neutral (they) pronouns on male and female recognition... Go to Article » Do Black and White Americans Hold Different Views on Marijuana Legalization? Analyzing the Impact of "The War on Drugs" on Racialized Perceptions of Legalizing Marijuana
(02/22/18)
This study examines whether black and white Americans develop their views regarding the legalization of marijuana based on different... Go to Article » The Birth of the Creative Consciousness: Childhood Spaces, Memory, and Psychoanalytic Play in the Memoirs of Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf
(01/22/18)
Both Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf detail memories of having intense shocks into consciousness during their early childhoods... Go to Article » Victorian Racism: An Explication of Scientific Knowledge, its Social Character, and its Relation to Victorian Popular Culture
(01/17/18)
The British Empire of the nineteenth century displayed and embodied racism in its composite. In embodying this idea of racial inequality... Go to Article » Debating Space Through the Göttingen Review: Why Kant's Transcendental Ideality of Space Exceeds Berkeley's Subjective Idealist Interpretation
(01/09/18)
It is not often that one questions the nature of space, in fact, most people understand extension as independent of their mind as... Go to Article » Globalization of Chinese Online Literature: Understanding Transnational Reading of Chinese Xuanhuan Novels Among English Readers
(12/21/17)
Since its emergence in the 19th century, fantasy fiction has proliferated throughout the world, from the global craze of Lord of the... Go to Article » Realism and Arab Nationalism: An Uneasy Partnership
(12/18/17)
The relationship between realism and nationalism is not clearly articulated in international relations literature. On one hand, realism... Go to Article » Narratives, Binaries, and Framing in the Cultural Contest Over Climate Change
(12/13/17)
Climate change is already altering our biosphere and is projected to bring about monumental changes to our planet’s environment... Go to Article » Leaving Religion: A Qualitative Analysis of Religious Exiting
(12/12/17)
Religion has been a part of society for thousands of years and touches every life on the globe. Despite this, religious non-affiliation... Go to Article » Food Insecurity and the Threat to Global Stability and Security in the 21st Century
(12/07/17)
In 2010, over 250,000 Syrian farmers were forced from their land due to water shortages. Lack of water left these farmers dangerously... Go to Article » The Changing Arena of Power Contestation Between the State and Chaebols in South Korea: Democracy and the Ascent of Legal Institutions
(11/30/17)
The growth of the South Korean economy has often been attributed to the rise of Chaebols, or family owned businesses with wide-ranging... Go to Article » Opposites Attract? An Evaluation of Foreign Policy Impediments in Sino-Vatican Relations
(11/30/17)
The relationship between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Holy See appears to be an uneasy association between opposites... Go to Article » Persianization and Intimidation: Investigating Discord in the Court of Alexander the Great
(11/29/17)
A subset of Alexandrian scholarship which has garnered long-held fascination does not center upon a success, but rather a failure:... Go to Article » Walking Gendered Lines: The Contradictory Expectations of Men Who Work in Early Childhood Education
(11/27/17)
Men who choose to work in Early Childhood Education (ECE) face both discrimination and a privileged status due to their under-representation... Go to Article » Theoretical Utilisation of Biological Warfare from Aquatic Invasive Species
(11/16/17)
This research project focuses on invasive aquatic species and their potential usage as biological weapons. It’s a cross disciplinary... Go to Article » "Jazz Is My Story:" A Historical Analysis of Jazz and 20th Century African-American Literature
(11/15/17)
The period of time from the Bebop era to the present—mid-1940s onwards—has been an era of great cultural evolution in... Go to Article » Eminent Domain in the United States and China: Comparing the Practice Across Countries
(11/14/17)
Regardless of which side of the Pacific individuals reside on, the idea of the government taking property and uprooting citizens tends... Go to Article » The Feminine Threat: Reconsidering the Damsel in Distress in Early Disney Films
(11/06/17)
“Disney perpetuated a male myth through his fairy-tale films,” argues Jack Zipes (1995, p. 37). He writes that Walt Disney... Go to Article » Cacao Cravings: Europe's Assimilation and Europeanization of Chocolate Drinking from Mesoamerica, 1492-1700 C.E.
(10/27/17)
Chocolate is a foodstuff that many people in the modern world take for granted; the sweet treat can today be found plentifully and... Go to Article » Pederasty and Power in Plato's Mythological Dialogues
(10/26/17)
As a topic of philosophical interest the Socratic dialogues play a pivotal role in many of Plato’s works of more than thirty... Go to Article » Tracing the Success of Soft Power in the US State Department's Future Leaders Exchange Program
(10/23/17)
The United States government started exploring the soft power potential of student and scholar exchange programs as early as 1908,... Go to Article » The Value and Benefit of an Enlightened People for the Continuity of Democratic Societies
(10/19/17)
Political philosophers and theorists alike continue to debate if more enlightened populations would be of value or not. This piece... Go to Article » Commercialization and Discontent on the American Farm: The Farmer's Movements of the Late-19th and Early-20th Centuries
(10/10/17)
During the periods of the Agrarian Revolt and the 1920s, farmers were unhappy with the economic conditions in which they found themselves... Go to Article » Fighting for Euskera: The Role of Language in Basque Nationalism and the Development of the ETA
(06/09/17)
Basque nationalism is a movement that has encompassed myth, mystery, violence, and compromise, all of which have found their justification... Go to Article » The Next Frontline of the Battle Against the Islamic State? Southeast Asia
(06/07/17)
The global network of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as Daesh,2 is expanding rapidly. Southeast Asia is especially... Go to Article » Nationalism, Identity, and Public Policy in Sweden: Pursuing an Elusive National Identity
(06/01/17)
Similarly to many European countries, the Swedish population often perceive their history as an epoch of homogeneity: a time when... Go to Article » Aristocratism and Authoritative Politics in Behn's Oroonoko: The Existential and Socio-Political Semiotics of Death and Torture
(05/30/17)
Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko offers a complex representation of the semiotic and socio-political meaning of seventeenth-century torture... Go to Article » Nature or Culture? The Anthropocene as Social Narrative
(05/22/17)
Is it possible to objectively define the Anthropocene? This essay argues that whether or not it is precisely definable as a geological... Go to Article » The Red Army Faction: Understanding a Measured Government Response to an Adaptive Terrorist Threat
(05/22/17)
For three decades prior to 9/11, West Germany fought its own war on terror. For 28 years, it faced off against the Red Army Faction... Go to Article » Alienating Ethnic Kin: Assessing Immigration Integration Policies for the Brazilian Nikkeijin in Japan and Joseonjok Marriage Migrants in South Korea
(05/22/17)
In recent decades, Japan and South Korea have become hosts to ethnic return migrants who have returned to their ancestral homeland... Go to Article » Remote Sensing Satellites as a Solution Towards Anticipating Food and Water Wars
(05/22/17)
In December 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognized the universal human right... Go to Article » Libya 2011: Exploring the Implementation of the 'Responsibility to Protect'
(05/11/17)
This article explores the role that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) played in the 2011 intervention in Libya. It examines the... Go to Article » The Psyscholinguistic Semiotics and Metanormative Ethics of Suicide and Death in Shakespeare's King Lear
(05/02/17)
The fascination with death and the sensationalizing of suicide are prevalent metaphysical themes which traverse all Shakespearean... Go to Article » Mary Magdalene as a Renewed Feminist Icon: Representations in the Christian Tradition as a Resource for Contemporary Liberation Theology
(05/02/17)
Mary Magdalene remains prevalent within Christianity and popular culture. A mysterious and enigmatic figure, she continues to capture... Go to Article » Does Essence Precede Existence? A Look at Camus's Metaphysical Rebellion
(05/01/17)
Albert Camus lived during a tumultuous time that included his experience of World War II and the Algerian War. Camus is most prominently... Go to Article » Suicide Terrorism as a Tactic: How Dominant, yet Subtle Representations Form Identities and Meanings
(04/30/17)
Although terrorism has been present in the world for centuries, it is only since the 1980s that suicide terrorism has become an object... Go to Article » The Effects of Race and Religion on Patriotism Among Americans
(04/30/17)
This paper examines the reasons behind people's different views of defining what "patriotism" is. Three multivariate linear regressions... Go to Article » The Fundamental Illegitimacy of Facism and the Innate Desire for Freedom
(04/27/17)
This piece examines the ideologies and tactics used by fascist governments to validate and enforce their authority through Michael... Go to Article » Hegemonic Overreach in the British Empire: Economic Distress, Strategic Imperative, and the Fall of Singapore
(04/19/17)
Since the end of the Second World War, scholars of British military history have busied themselves with attempts to explain the British... Go to Article » The Purposive Power of Natural Theology: On Moser and the Christian Apologetics
(04/14/17)
In recent years there has been quite a bit of talk in philosophy of religion regarding how relevant and how purposive natural theology... Go to Article » Theistic Explanations of the Ontology of Consciousness
(04/01/17)
Consciousness is a thought-provoking phenomenon. In recent decades, though, the philosophy of mind has revealed consciousness to be... Go to Article » A Tale of Mattel's Two Dolls and the Politics of Dollplaying: A Critical Examination of Barbie and American Girl's Roles in Educating Young American Girls
(04/01/17)
A quintessential aspect of many American girls' childhood involves plastic bodies (Rogers, 1999, 112). Pieced together by molded plastic... Go to Article » Scientific Federal Agencies & the United States Negotiation for the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1962-1963
(03/27/17)
In October of 1962, the United States and Soviet Union’s arms race in ballistic missiles escalated to an unnerving confrontation... Go to Article » The Inequalities of Climate Change and Poverty: Impact Analysis and Potential Solutions
(03/22/17)
In Gallup’s 2016 environment poll, 64 percent of U.S. adults are now worried a “great deal” or “fair amount... Go to Article » Choosing a Dissertation Adviser: Challenges and Strategies for Doctoral Students
(03/22/17)
The process of selecting a dissertation adviser can be accomplished in a number of ways. The importance, however, of this process... Go to Article » Social Networking Sites and Romantic Relationships: Effects on Development, Maintenance, and Dissolution of Relationships
(03/14/17)
The evolution of social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., have changed the way we look at relationships. Social... Go to Article » World War II in the United States Colony of the Philippines: Beyond the Bataan Death March and Douglas MacArthur
(03/07/17)
World War II ranks among the deadliest military conflicts in history. From 1939-1945, the estimated number of casualties worldwide... Go to Article » Carbon Capture and Storage as a Method to Mitigate Climate Change
(03/06/17)
Through increased industry practices, land degradation, and burning of fossil fuels the anthropogenic sources of CO2 have increased... Go to Article » Globalization and the State: Assessing the Decline of the Westphalian State in a Globalizing World
(03/03/17)
In the year 1648, two treaties signed in the cities of Osnabruck and Munster, collectively known as the Treaty of Westphalia, brought... Go to Article » Harry Potter is Gay: An Investigation of Queer Fan Culture
(03/02/17)
Not long after J.K. Rowling published the first Harry Potter book on June 26, 1997, The Boy Who Lived exploded into an international... Go to Article » The Power of Symbols: The Ideological Representations of a French Revolution Playing Card Deck, the Revolutionnaires
(03/01/17)
In 1793-1794, during the height of the French Revolution, a deck of playing cards was introduced that radically changed the future... Go to Article » Reinterpreting the Treatment of the Rural Population by Peru's Shining Path
(02/22/17)
The Peruvian Communist Party (PCP) was founded as the Peruvian Socialist Party in 1928 by José Carlos Mariátegui after... Go to Article » The Psychopathology of Pica: Etiology, Assessment, and Treatment
(02/21/17)
Pica is a condition that has been prevalent among humans for centuries. According to the DSM-V (2013) pica is classified as an eating... Go to Article » Gender Equality in International Institutions: Progress and Challenges in Moving Toward Gender Parity
(02/18/17)
The International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda, for the first time... Go to Article » The Economic Argument for Expanding GMO Regulation in America
(02/09/17)
The necessity to grow crops faster and more efficiently has long been a goal for the agriculture industry. Now, through the development... Go to Article » Linguistic Hegemony in Academia and the Devaluation of Minority Identity in Higher Education
(01/30/17)
A commonly observed trend among American universities is the relative underperformance of minorities in the academic arena. The usual... Go to Article » Looking into the Crystal Ball of Kosova: Perceptions, Understandings, and Predictions of the Next Generation
(01/29/17)
Kosovar university students have strong opinions on the current situation and future of their nation. Their opinions regarding negotiations... Go to Article » Communicating Meaning in BioArt: The Temporal Strength of Living Media and the Impact of Longevity
(01/09/17)
BioArt is a modern art-form born from the marriage of biotechnology and human inspiration. I argue that the longevity of the art pieces... Go to Article » Navigating the Leftist Spectrum in Argentina: An Economic Classification of the Kirchner Era
(01/08/17)
Argentina’s economic policies under Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner were hugely impactful in the country... Go to Article » The Rise of Gay Liberation in Toronto: From Vilification to Validation
(01/03/17)
When it comes to social perceptions of sexuality, media portrayals cannot be ignored, and in most cases provide important insights... Go to Article » Latin America's Female Prisoner Problem: How the War on Drugs, Feminization of Poverty, and Female Liberation Contribute to Mass Incarceration of Women
(12/31/16)
According to the International Centre for Prison Studies, the number of women in prisons in Latin America has almost doubled since... Go to Article » Belonging in a New Home: Discursive Othering of Latin American Immigrants in U.S. Print Media
(12/31/16)
The year 2015 saw heightened racial and ethnic tension in the United States, with particular regard to Latin American immigrants and... Go to Article » New Methods Of Democratic Consolidation: The Application Of Citizenship Laws In Ethnically Fractured States
(12/31/16)
The consensus in scholarly circles regarding democratic consolidation stipulates the importance of a cohesive demos, or population... Go to Article » Reevaluating Military Strategy: The Effectiveness Of Conventional Deterrence
(12/31/16)
The rise of modernized and efficient militaries competing for dominance against the United States' military has resulted in increased... Go to Article » Commercialization of Biochar and the Benefits for Climate Change and Agriculture
(12/21/16)
Biochar is biomass that has been converted into charcoal through the pyrolysis process. Biochar is applied into soils for carbon sequestration... Go to Article » Genetics, Pathology, & Potential Future Advances in the Study of Huntington's Disease
(12/13/16)
Huntington’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects around five people in every 100,000. It is caused... Go to Article » Joint-Value Creation Between Marine Protected Areas and the Private Sector
(12/08/16)
President Richard Nixon signed the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) in 1972 to both promote research in underwater... Go to Article » The LGBT Movement in China: Public Perception, Stigma, and the Human Rights Debate
(12/05/16)
Ever since its elimination from the list of mental illnesses in 2001, and decriminalization in 1997, homosexuality in China continues... Go to Article » The Role of Female Quotas and Female Activism in Passing Gender Based Violence Legislation in Sub Saharan Africa: South Africa as a Case Study
(12/05/16)
"One thing governments have got is legislation. Legislation has an impact. It affects millions of people in a country just by a stroke... Go to Article » The ASEAN Experience, Northeast Asia and Beyond: Free Trade and Economic Integration
(12/05/16)
Economic regionalism has been an observable phenomenon worldwide. Many countries around the world pursue some degree of economic integration... Go to Article » Child Care Policy and Female Labor Force Participation: A Comparison of Germany and Sweden
(12/05/16)
Labor markets have traditionally been regarded as the product of a demand and supply of labor.2 In Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional... Go to Article » Lasting and Expanding: An Analysis of the Islamic State's Incentive System
(12/05/16)
In the past five years, millions of people have lost their homes, loved ones, and lives.2 The Syrian territory is now a battlefield... Go to Article » Quantifying China's Influence on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
(12/05/16)
Following the People's Republic of China's "Reform and Opening Up" (gaige kaifang) ushered in by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China's participation... Go to Article » Bridging the Gap - Towards a Transatlantic Approach to Reducing Inequality: A Policy Proposal
(12/05/16)
We met Scott and Kerstin on different sides of the Atlantic. I met the former in Philadelphia on my way to a convenience store in... Go to Article » First Language Attrition in German Jewish Refugees of the Nazi Dictatorship: The Impact of Age and Attitude on Language Loss
(12/02/16)
First language attrition (L1) studies are a comparably young and theoretically unspecified field of research in bilingualism. Young... Go to Article » An Analysis of the Threat of Ontario's Hydroelectric Dams on its River Ecosystems
(11/30/16)
Dams have been used for centuries to assist with the development of human civilization. Access to drinking water, flood control and... Go to Article » The Political Rationality of Terror: Understanding Terrorism as the Result of Organizational Goal-Seeking
(11/28/16)
In the early 1990s, two terrorist organizations, Hamas and the Fatah-led Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), were using terrorism... Go to Article » The Use of Violence on the American Frontiers: Examining U.S.-Native American Relations in the 18th and 19th Centuries
(11/21/16)
Following the end of the American Revolutionary War of 1776 to 1783, the U.S. government adopted an aggressive and expansionistic... Go to Article » A Colonial Catalyst: Reverberations of the Sykes-Picot Agreement in the Rise of ISIS
(11/11/16)
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (more commonly known as “ISIS,” but also referred to as the “Islamic State of... Go to Article » How Democratic Was The Roman Republic? The Theory and Practice of an Archetypal Democracy
(11/06/16)
In Federalist No. 34 Alexander Hamilton, arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution, claimed that the Roman Republic... Go to Article » The Internet of Things: A Look Into The Social Implications of Google Glass
(11/03/16)
In its beta release, Google Glass was positioned as a groundbreaking technology - a glimpse into a future that has long been promised... Go to Article » Intellectual Responsibility and the Epistemic Search: Comparing Plato and Augustine
(10/31/16)
In the earliest stages of education, children naturally start to interrogate their elders with the question “why?” This... Go to Article » Nutritional Communications Across Climates: A Comparative Research Study Between Ecuador and the Netherlands
(10/30/16)
A study in May 2014 analyzed food labels in Quito, Ecuador, to better understand the culture's nutritional communication. The study... Go to Article » Sweden, the World's Most Sustainable Country: Political Statements and Goals for a Sustainable Society
(10/30/16)
Sweden, a small country with almost 10 million inhabitants, is the world's most sustainable country according to some reports that... Go to Article » Applying the Centrifugal Organizational Model for Pastoralists and Other Competing Communities on the Ethiopian Landscape and the Shift to Agriculture After 1975
(10/30/16)
For the past four decades, pastoralist activities have been pushed to marginal areas in several regions of Ethiopia. This change was... Go to Article » Species Conservation in a Globalized World
(10/30/16)
In today's globalized world, international cooperation and information sharing becomes increasingly important. This paper examines... Go to Article » The Technological Abyss: Heideggerian Ontology and Climate Change
(10/30/16)
Whenever a decision is made in a social, political, or economic context, it is implicitly grounded in an ethical outlook. But where... Go to Article » The Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's Failed Democratic Transition
(10/28/16)
In January of 2011, massive protests emerged against Hosni Mubarak, the autocratic leader of Egypt since 1981. After Mubarak stepped... Go to Article » Models of Internet Monetization
(10/27/16)
Predicting the future of the news industry begins with understanding the history of newspapers and the current news delivery landscape... Go to Article » Canadian Democracy in Theory and Practice: The Roots of Semi-Representative Liberalism
(10/27/16)
This article explores the nature of Canada’s political system as an evolving consequence of its roots in classical liberal thinking... Go to Article » New Media Adaptations of Classic Literature: From Pride and Prejudice to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
(10/26/16)
Pride and Prejudice, the work of nineteenth century novelist Jane Austen, has been celebrated for over two-hundred years since its... Go to Article » Intersections of Gender, Race and Nation in Cloud Nine and M. Butterfly
(10/25/16)
This article contributes to the debate as to whether Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill and M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang are ultimately... Go to Article » A Review of Rehabilitation Protocols Following ACL Reconstruction
(10/22/16)
The present study provided a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized control trials involving the effectiveness of various... Go to Article » Can Marxist Thought Successfully Accommodate Radical Feminism?
(10/18/16)
The relationship between feminism and socialism is extremely intimate but also immensely intricate. According to feminist poet Adrienne... Go to Article » Theories of Nationalism: A Brief Comparison of Realist and Constructivist Ideas of the Nation
(10/16/16)
In the immense field of scholarly work regarding defining nationhood, a raging debate exists between the conservative view of the... Go to Article » Poetic Sovereignty in the Work of the Romantic Poets: Self-Determiniation and Revolutionary Thought
(10/10/16)
This essay first explores how Romantic poets William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley invoke the medium of language, specifically poetic... Go to Article » Awareness of Emirati Women's Economic Roles Before the Oil Boom: Changing Perceptions of Gender Roles?
(10/09/16)
In the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in general, women played an important economic role... Go to Article » Chinese Nationalism or the Chinese Communist Party: Who is Really Guiding China's Foreign Policy?
(10/05/16)
China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that leads it has historically limited itself in regards to projecting power and inserting... Go to Article » Defining a Terrorist: A Critical Examination of the Discourse of Terrorism
(09/21/16)
Understanding the term 'terrorist' is a complex and controversial issue within both academic scholarship and mainstream literature... Go to Article » Creating Life Within the Confines of Slavery: Comparing Northrup's Memoir Twelve Years a Slave and Genovese's The World the Slaves Made
(09/13/16)
Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave (1853) provides a comprehensive first-hand account of slavery that both corroborates... Go to Article » Spectrums of Nationalism: A Comparison of American and Chinese Nationalism
(09/12/16)
American media generally depicts nationalism as a negative concept, which is threatening to peace and security. However, in its broadest... Go to Article » Theories of Nuclear Proliferation: Why Do States Seek Nuclear Weapons?
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Nuclear weapons are the most powerful and destructive weapons held in the aresenals of any modern states. Since the creation of the... Go to Article » Should Governments Negotiate With Terrorists?
(08/24/16)
It is sometimes said that governments should never talk to terrorists. What light does the Northern Ireland experience cast upon that... Go to Article » What Were Mao's Motivations for Intervention in the Korean War?
(08/24/16)
Chinese intervention in Korea in October 1950 continued a period of hideous violence and death in China's history. Between 1927 and... Go to Article » Détente Studies in Cold War International History: Questions (Un)Marked?
(08/24/16)
‘There was no official declaration of détente, no official starting points, no clear-cut end.' ... Go to Article » Comparing Godly and Satanic Happiness in John Milton's Paradise Lost
(08/21/16)
Two conflicting modes of living—happiness pursued obediently (Godly) versus happiness pursued disobediently (Satanic)—... Go to Article » The Importance of the Ras-Raf Pathway in Cancer Development
(08/15/16)
The Ras/Raf pathway is a crucial cell signaling pathway utilized by eukaryotic cells for growth and proliferation, and it is highly... Go to Article » Erasmus and the Transformation of Early Modern Political Authority in The Education of a Christian Prince
(08/07/16)
Often called the “prince of the humanists” Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) was one of the most influential European philosophers... Go to Article » Genealogy of a Crisis: Europe, Greece, and the Management of the Refugee Population
(07/26/16)
As Europe’s frontier with the Muslim East, Greece has been cast as backward, and not worthy of full sovereignty since the earliest... Go to Article » Perpetuating the Cycle: Opioid Addiction and the Criminal Justice System
(07/05/16)
Heroin use and the consequences that come from it are skyrocketing around the United States. From major metropolitan areas to rural... Go to Article » Nagarjuna's Idealism as a Metaphysical Justification Against Ignorance
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The revered Madhyamika Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna is a central figure in the history of Eastern thought. In his Seventy Stanzas... Go to Article » A Community Approach to Education in the Luang Prabang Region of Laos
(06/23/16)
Although education is at the forefront of innumerable research and development initiatives, some countries remain significantly under... Go to Article » The Rise of Global Health: How Did Health Become a Matter of Global Concern?
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Despite being often overlooked within the discipline of International Relations (Lee, 2004: 29; Bambra et al., 2005: 187), the governance... Go to Article » Rethinking the Role of Cooperatives in African Development
(06/07/16)
In their search for a new development paradigm, many African governments and international organizations have reverted to cooperatives... Go to Article » State Failure in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia: The Importance of Australia's Response for National and Regional Stability
(06/02/16)
The occurrence of state failure is an important concern for Australia as it pertains to the security and stability of the broader... Go to Article » Women's Motivations and Roles in Islamist Organizations
(05/31/16)
It is a common misperception that Islamist organizations are men’s groups. Some, like the Muslim Brotherhood, even involve specifically... Go to Article » Standardization of International Advertising Strategies: A Content Analysis of Pantene Pro-V
(05/31/16)
With products available in more than 180 countries, Procter & Gamble is one of the largest global advertisers. Considering today... Go to Article » Evaluating the Internal Communications of the Triangle's "Best Places to Work"
(05/31/16)
Fun. Creative. Engaging. These adjectives may come to mind when thinking of the best places to work. But what makes a company culture... Go to Article » An Analysis of LEGO's Response to an Attack on its Partnership with Royal Dutch Shell
(05/31/16)
In 2014, Greenpeace launched an attack on a 50-year brand partnership between Danish toy company LEGO and Royal Dutch Shell, an oil... Go to Article » Exaggerations and Stereotypes of Schizophrenia in Contemporary Films
(05/31/16)
Due to filmmakers focusing on violence, traumatic events, and hallucinations when depicting characters with schizophrenia, critics... Go to Article » Rationally Irrational: Applying the Rational Actor Model to Rio De Janeiro's Police-Gang Conflict
(05/31/16)
Both gangs and police in Rio de Janeiro seemingly operate irrationally in an extended conflict, as it is highly unlikely that the... Go to Article » Gendered Literacies: A Qualitative Study of Literacy Practices in an All Female OB/GYN Clinic
(05/31/16)
In this ethnographic case study, field observations were conducted of an all-female obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) clinic located... Go to Article » Yoga On Instagram: Disseminating or Destroying Traditional Yogic Principles?
(05/31/16)
Today, more than 15 million Americans practice yoga, making the ancient Indian discipline synonymous with the Western society's culture... Go to Article » How YouTube Developed into a Successful Platform for User-Generated Content
(05/31/16)
Since its development, YouTube, the world's third most popular online destination, has transformed from a video-sharing site into... Go to Article » Examining Preadolescent Television Programming and the Rise of Generation Me
(05/31/16)
Preadolescence is a pivotal time for individuals as they develop their own set of values, attitudes, and beliefs. With children ages... Go to Article » Do Healthcare Systems Discriminate? A Comparative Policy Analysis of Health Inequality in the United States and United Kingdom
(05/31/16)
This comparative analysis of U.S. and U.K. healthcare systems pinpoints inequalities in health outcomes and recommends policies to... Go to Article » Defining the Legitimacy and Power of the State Through Weber and Foucault
(05/24/16)
As a founder of sociology, Max Weber influenced the social sciences immensely. In his “Politics as a Vocation,” Weber... Go to Article » The Uprisings of Nat Turner and John Brown: Response and Treatment from the Abolitionist Movement and the Press
(05/23/16)
This paper examines two influential slave uprisings and the treatment these received by both the abolitionist movement and the press... Go to Article » Transitional Justice in Ongoing Conflict: Colombia's Integrative Approach to Peace and Justice
(05/23/16)
It is clear that the peace should not be purchased at any price. But the illusion that it can be free is ridiculous. &... Go to Article » Consequences of Iraqi De-Baathification
(05/23/16)
Ambassador Paul Bremer of the Coalition Provisional Authority, America's interim government between Saddam's fall and the independent... Go to Article » Angola, 1990-2000: Oil, Democracy, and a "Successful Failed State"
(05/23/16)
Four decades after independence from Portugal, Angola remains a country with significant barriers to good governance and social development... Go to Article » Hearts and Minds: A Comparison of Counter-Radicalization Strategies in Britain and the United States
(05/23/16)
Bataclan. San Bernadino. One need not read any further to understand how radicalization is crucial to counterterrorism and national... Go to Article » Creating the Cult of Xi Jinping: The Chinese Dream as a Leader Symbol
(05/23/16)
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has used publicly displayed propaganda art... Go to Article » Exploiting the Poor and Powerless: Forced Labor Systems in the Early and Later Modern World
(05/14/16)
Our world has witnessed significant shifts, transformations, and evolution in government systems, the balance of power among nations... Go to Article » The Impact of Music on Emotion: Comparing Rap and Meditative Yoga Music
(05/03/16)
Music has accompanied major social events throughout the history of mankind. Major gatherings such as weddings, graduations, or birthdays... Go to Article » Does Trade Liberalization Lead to Declining Fish Stock Health? Analyzing the Causality
(05/03/16)
The paper “Does Trade Liberalization Lead to Declining Fish Stock Health? Analyzing the Causality” by Erin K. Glenn has... Go to Article » The Effect of a 311 Vacant Building Call on Crime Rates
(05/03/16)
It is generally accepted among researchers that incidence of crime is on average higher around vacant and abandoned properties because... Go to Article » How Does Medical Marijuana Legalization Affect the Number of Marijuana Users? An Inclusion and Examination of Different Age Groups
(05/03/16)
This paper studies the effect of medical marijuana legalization on the number of marijuana users in a given state's general population... Go to Article » An Econometric Analysis of the Major Choice of First-Generation College Students
(05/03/16)
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, I estimate a multinomial logit choice model for the college major... Go to Article » Executive Compensation at Credit Unions
(05/03/16)
This study is the first to examine credit union executive pay using compensation information from IRS Form 990. Using OLS, logistic... Go to Article » Shame, Anger, and Guilt: The Hierarchy of Emotions in Restorative Justice
(04/28/16)
There has been a shift away from the traditional adversarial criminal justice system and towards a victim centered system. The effects... Go to Article » China and India in Africa: Implications of New Private Sector Actors on Bribe Paying Incidence
(04/26/16)
This paper seeks to address one of the most common critiques of Asian firms doing business in Africa: that low levels of corporate... Go to Article » The Implausibility of the Barter Narrative & Credit Money in Ancient Babylon
(04/15/16)
Whereas the standard economics textbook literature motivates the emergence of money by pointing to the inefficiencies of barter economies... Go to Article » Plotinus' Ontology and the Problem of Matter
(03/30/16)
Within The Enneads, Plotinus claims all existence derives from an entirely immaterial and benevolent source which he calls the One... Go to Article » The Development Agenda After the Millenium Development Goals: Is the Post-2015 Agenda "Truly Transformative?"
(03/25/16)
In 2014, the United Nations called for "a truly transformative agenda to follow the Millennium Development Goals." This study applies... Go to Article » Memories and Fear: Treatment Techniques to Dissociate Traumatic Memories
(03/17/16)
Fear finds its place in the world through numerous forms, including natural disasters, genocide, war, trauma and countless other events... Go to Article » Enhanced Resistance Training Performance via the Neutralization of Lactic Acid with Sodium Bicarbonate
(03/08/16)
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the ingestion of sodium bicarbonate (SB) pre-exercise improved athletic performance... Go to Article » Robert Lowell's Life Studies: The Examination of an Ailing Soul
(03/04/16)
Upon studying Robert Lowell’s distinguished body of poetry, one subconsciously adopts an overwhelming sensation of pity, reverence... Go to Article » Women in Meiji Japan: Exploring the Underclass of Japanese Industrialization
(02/24/16)
With the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the late 1860s, there emerged (or re-emerged) a new center for power in Japan—the... Go to Article » Problematising the Critical Realist Positional Approach to Intersectionality
(02/21/16)
In Developing a Critical Realist Positional Approach to Intersectionality, Martinez et. al. (2014) argue that Critical Realism (henceforth... Go to Article » Psychological Effects of Fitness Advertising on Female Collegiate Athletes
(02/18/16)
In recent decades, research has focused on the powerful effects of advertising on negative body image. While researchers have studied... Go to Article » Defeating Apathy and Alienation in Scotland: True Victors of the Scottish Referendum
(02/17/16)
At 7am in the morning after the Referendum on Scottish Independence, a triumphant David Cameron stood on the steps of number 10 Downing... Go to Article » Challenges to Mammal Migratory Route Conservation in North America
(02/17/16)
Mammal migration between seasonal ranges can consist of relatively short distance migrations of a single individual as well as massive... Go to Article » The Life and Death of the Hippie: A Dance with the Devil and the Media
(02/06/16)
The media has always had a strong propensity to influence our opinions and behaviors, creating and destroying public images for hundreds... Go to Article » Revisiting Crime Rates as a Measure of Crime Prevention Effectiveness: Does the "Crime Drop" Reveal a Policy Effectiveness 'Outcomes' Gap?
(02/04/16)
A companion article (Has New Zealand Identified the Causes of Crime?) explored the development of five factors described as "the underlying... Go to Article » An Exploration of Perseverative Behaviors in Young Children with Autism
(02/03/16)
This study explored the interplay of stereotypical behaviors and social skills interventions in a clinical environment when stereotypy... Go to Article » The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on HIV-Positive Men and Women in the Southern United States
(02/03/16)
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 called upon states to expand Medicaid, a subsidized health insurance program... Go to Article » "Responsiveness" in American Higher Education: The Evolution of Institutional Governance Structures
(02/02/16)
Building a framework to understand a complex system, such as American Higher Education, requires a focused approach. The richness... Go to Article » Crossed Wires: International Cooperation on Cyber Security
(01/31/16)
Cyber security is a compelling problem for scholars of International Politics. Internet technology is so thoroughly integrated into... Go to Article » The Internet as a Slippery Object of State Security: The Problem of Physical Border Insensitivity, Anonymity and Global Interconnectedness
(01/31/16)
Cybersecurity is presented in the growing literature on the subject as an essentially "slippery" object for state security.1 The Internet... Go to Article » Clear-Cutting of the Coastal Temperate Rainforest: A Brief Analysis of Clayoquot Sound
(01/31/16)
Using Clayoquot Sound as a reference, the consequences clear-cut logging has on the coastal temperate rainforest ecosystems was examined... Go to Article » Toxicological Effects of Nanomaterials on Aqueous and Terrestrial Ecosystems
(01/31/16)
This paper provides a holistic overview of the effects of engineered and natural nanomaterials (ENMs and NNMs) in the environment.... Go to Article » Costs and Benefits of Nitrogen and Phosphate Fertilizer Use In the Lake Erie Basin
(01/31/16)
This paper explores both the positive and negative externalities associated with nitrogen and phosphate-based fertilizer use. Using... Go to Article » Ecosystems as Stakeholders to Urban Air Pollution Mitigation Decisions in Toronto
(01/31/16)
This paper explores the role that ecosystems can have in the decision making framework for urban air pollution mitigation in Toronto... Go to Article » Competing Claims in the South China Sea Viewed Through International Admiralty Law
(01/27/16)
There is a longstanding territorial dispute raging in the South China Sea between China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei... Go to Article » The Occupation of Common Sense: From Neoliberalism to Radical Democracy
(01/21/16)
Conceiving neoliberalism as a form of constructivism, an ideological project rather than a doctrine prefigured by ‘human nature... Go to Article » Impacts and Assessment of the Endangered Snow Leopard: A Conservational Approach
(01/21/16)
Overcoming the threats of the snow leopard with immediate action may be what will save this species from extinction. This report provides... Go to Article » Sexual Behavior in Prison Populations Understood Through the Framework of Rational Choice and Exchange Theory
(01/17/16)
Rational choice and exchange theories have been used to explain many phenomena in the field of sociological research. Although some... Go to Article » Updating Academia: Rethinking the Methodology of Academic Discourse
(01/07/16)
Academic writing is the process through which people with specialized knowledge formulate and communicate their ideas. The process... Go to Article » Addressing the Gender Wage Gap in the United States: Shortcomings of Federal Legislation
(01/05/16)
The most commonly cited statistic for the gender wage gap in the United States is that women earn seventy-eight cents to every dollar... Go to Article » The New Silk Road: Assessing Prospects for "Win-Win" Cooperation in Central Asia
(01/01/16)
The New Silk Road, formally termed the Silk Road Economic Belt and also known as the "One Belt, One Road," was first proposed by China... Go to Article » United States-India Defense Relations: A Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century
(01/01/16)
Starting with a high profile push through the region in 2011, the Obama Administration has made the "Pivot to Asia" a central part... Go to Article » Pollinating Prices: Estimating the Relationship Between Honeybee Population and Almond Prices
(12/31/15)
This paper examines the potential effect of decreasing honeybee population on crop prices by estimating the relationship between honeybee... Go to Article » Divided Society, Divided Schools, Divided Lives: The Role of Education in Creating Social Cohesion in Northern Ireland
(12/31/15)
The Troubles, a period of conflict between mostly Protestant Unionists and mostly Catholic Nationalists in Northern Ireland, ended... Go to Article » Let Them Export Cake: An Examination of The Role of Economic Freedoms in Fostering Intra-EMU Export Growth
(12/31/15)
This paper investigates the relationship between various types of economic freedom and intra-EMU export growth. Export growth is the... Go to Article » A "Born Leader:" The Fallacy of Identifying Leadership as an Innate Characteristic
(12/22/15)
Gazing up at rulers past and present, it is easy to attribute success to an innate and ineffable quality of greatness. We are led... Go to Article » Economic Impacts of the Conservation of the Mojave Shoulderband Snail (Helminthoglypta 'Coyote' Greggi)
(12/20/15)
The terrestrial Mojave Shoulderband Snail (Helminthoglypta (Coyote) greggi) is being considered for status and protection as an endangered... Go to Article » E-Fluid Induces Inflammation Responses in Lung Epithelial Cells
(12/03/15)
Electronic cigarettes (E-cigarettes) are devices that effectively deliver vaporized liquid nicotine to the lungs and are commercially... Go to Article » Sediment Mass and Nutrient Accumulation Rates in Lake Erie Using Geographic Information System
(12/03/15)
This study emphasizes the reconstruction of sediment deposition rates, sediment concentrations of nutrients, and nutrient fluxes in... Go to Article » Globalization, Inequality, and the Concentration of Wealth in the UK
(11/30/15)
An article in The Guardian last month reported on the extreme and increasing levels of wealth inequality that exist in Britain today... Go to Article » Islamic Feminism in Egypt: Toward a Reconceptualization of Social Movement Theories
(11/25/15)
A review of literature on social movements highlights its many and sometimes conflicting definitions. Relying on Saba Mahmood&rsquo... Go to Article » The Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
(11/24/15)
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), also known as insulin-dependent diabetes, is a chronic disease caused by autoimmune (type 1a) or... Go to Article » What was the Influence of Cosmopolitan Law on the Permanent Court of International Justice?
(11/20/15)
When speaking to a lay person, the concept of international justice may conjure a perception of impartiality rising above national... Go to Article » Comparing the Effectiveness of Positive and Negative Political Campaigns
(11/18/15)
In the United States, Americans elect 50 governors, roughly a third of the U.S. Senate’s 100 members, all 435 members of the... Go to Article » Image Repair and Crisis Response of Professional Athlete Adrian Peterson
(11/18/15)
During the 2014 season, a disastrous year in terms of public relations for the NFL, Adrian Peterson was among those who tainted the... Go to Article » Human Rights Framing in U.S. Newspaper Coverage of the Sochi Olympic Preparations
(11/18/15)
Every two years, the global spotlight shines on the Olympics and the nation hosting the worldwide event, particularly the country'... Go to Article » An Analysis of Successful Student-Run Public Relations and Advertising Agencies
(11/18/15)
Like other communication-related fields, such as broadcast journalism and print journalism that typically have their own student-led... Go to Article » John Stuart Mill's Solution to the Problem of Socrates in the Autobiography
(11/16/15)
Ever since its posthumous publication, John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography has elicited reactions of primarily disappointment and... Go to Article » Did Stalin Plan to Attack Hitler in 1941? The Historiographical Controversy Surrounding the Origins of the Nazi-Soviet War
(11/03/15)
The controversy surrounding the origins of the Nazi-Soviet War in 1941, namely over the issue of whether or not Stalin intended to... Go to Article » An Overview of Essential Security Measures for Competitive Organizations
(10/30/15)
Considering information is the most valuable asset of any organization, information security is one of the most important areas for... Go to Article » Using Anti-Money Laundering Measures in the Financial World to Combat Organized Crime
(10/28/15)
This research paper thoroughly explains the concept of money laundering and examines the costs that are endured by the governments... Go to Article » Weight of Evidence Reporting: Pragmatic Optimism or a Bad Idea?
(10/22/15)
While some believe that scientists should communicate their research apolitically in research journals, others believe that scientists... Go to Article » Neither Can Live While the Other Survives: How the Representation of the Syrian Conflict Neglects the Citizen
(10/22/15)
Headlines are littered with the rhetoric of the powerful. The most present modern crises can ostensibly be reduced to deconstructed... Go to Article » Examination of Woodchuck (Marmota Monax) Burrowing Behavior and Relationship Between Burrow Diameter and Distance from Water
(10/21/15)
Using data collected through field research at Tyler State Park in Pennsylvania, this study examines the characteristics of Woodchuck... Go to Article » Why are Gender Relations Important to Include in the Study of Politics and Society?
(10/19/15)
Politics has been given many different definitions, ranging from something as solid as “the activities associated with the governance... Go to Article » Sexual Relationships Shaped by the Political Agenda: A Case Study of Chile
(10/19/15)
It is a generally accepted fact that there are both public and private spheres of action, and that as set out in Article 12 of the... Go to Article » Re-Understanding Pompeii: A History of our Interpretation of the Lost City
(10/16/15)
The catastrophic demise of the Oscan-Roman city of Pompeii in 79 A.D. left its mark on our collective psyche. Its remains have long... Go to Article » Transitional Justice and Religion: An Examination of Faith-Based Actors in Kenyan Civil Society
(10/14/15)
This paper address two overarching research questions: first, what is the role of religion in transitional justice? Second, does the... Go to Article » Spatial Analysis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in South Carolina
(10/12/15)
Crohn’s disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC) are both parts of the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) family and are lifelong... Go to Article » Impact of Nitrogen Fertilization on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Abundance in Association with Panicum Virgatum
(09/30/15)
Energy researchers have recently taken interest in the use of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) as a biofuel. Arbuscular mycorrhizal... Go to Article » A Framework for Internal Corporate Communications
(09/25/15)
Public relations is a growing field in the United States (Botan, 1992, p. 149). This growth can be partially explained by the fact... Go to Article » Factors that Limit Regulatory Response in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis: Ideology, Regulatory Capture, and Power Dynamics
(09/23/15)
Since the financial crisis of 2007, regulators have recognized the necessity for global governance in an increasingly interconnected... Go to Article » Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey: Conveying Experience Through Nature
(09/22/15)
Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” takes on an abundance of ideas regarding nature’s ability to preserve one&rsquo... Go to Article » The Kakawin Sutasoma: A Look at Bhinneka Tunggal Ika and Perceptions of the Text's Religious Implications
(09/16/15)
This study is an analysis of the religious aspects of the epic Sutasoma. Written in the 14th century CE during the height of the Majapahit... Go to Article » Plato's Republic as Moral Poetry
(09/14/15)
One of the greatest ironies of Plato's Republic is that, although he condemns the poets and exiles them from his idyllic city, the... Go to Article » Telephone Scatalogia: Review of Current Literature
(09/10/15)
This paper examines the limited research conducted on telephone scatologia. Research was found through mining key search terms, such... Go to Article » An Explanation of Self-Censorship in China: The Enforcement of Social Control Through a Panoptic Infrastructure
(09/03/15)
In contemporary China, as a result of centuries of censorship, major dissent at the domestic level has become rather rare. This research... Go to Article » Media Initiation in Environmental Education: An Indian Model of Environmental Pedagogy
(09/01/15)
Environmental communication is now an emerging and a significant curriculum from schools to research centers. The effective and efficient... Go to Article » Ecuador: Communicating to Bridge the Education Gap in Nutrition
(09/01/15)
After conducting a study in May of 2014 on nutrition communication in Ecuador and how it affects consumer behaviour, researchers identified... Go to Article » Using Music as an Anti-Anxiety Intervention for Outpatients Undergoing Minor Medical Procedures
(08/31/15)
Many patients experience increased anxiety prior to invasive medical procedures. This anxiety can lead to elevated heart rate and... Go to Article » The Shah Bano Controversy: A Case Study of Individual Rights, Religious Tolerance, and the Role of the Secular State
(08/29/15)
Since Independence, the Indian government has struggled to achieve political modernity within acceptable religious boundaries. Religious... Go to Article » From Retribution to Restoration in Sierra Leone: Fambul Tok's Drive to Heal Post-Civil Communities
(07/14/15)
Between 1991 and 2002, the small West African coastal state of Sierra Leone was rocked by a brutal civil war, which killed, injured... Go to Article » The Islamic State Healthcare Paradox: A Caliphate in Crisis
(07/05/15)
The civil war in Syria has taken an enormous toll on civilian populations. One of the most commonly overlooked aspect of this crisis... Go to Article » Roosevelt's Recession: A Historical and Econometric Examination of the Roots of the 1937 Recession
(06/28/15)
The 1937 Recession is a lesser-known event overshadowed by the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. Nonetheless, it... Go to Article » Feminism in Death and the Maiden and Like Water for Chocolate
(06/27/15)
The theme of feminism is present in Ariel Dorfman’s play, Death and the Maiden, and Laura Esquivel’s novel, Like Water... Go to Article » Media Discourse During the Financial Crisis: An Inquiry into the Nature of the Contemporary "Fourth Estate"
(06/19/15)
The concept of a “fourth estate” was first articulated by John Declare, editor of The Times in an article published in... Go to Article » Ancient Greek Women and Warfare: Building a More Accurate Portrait of Ancient Women Through Literature
(06/16/15)
The present study explores the portrayal of women in ancient Greek literature within the context of warfare. More specifically, this... Go to Article » Polysemic Language, Democratization, and the Empowerment of the Body Politic in Shakespeare's Hamlet
(06/15/15)
In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince Hamlet’s polysemic language raises the theme of empowerment of the body politic... Go to Article » India's Anti-GMO Rhetoric: Wielding Gandhian Thought to Undermine Corporate-Capitalist Agriculture
(05/31/15)
As a predominantly rural and densely populated developing nation, India is positioned at the vanguard of the global debate surrounding... Go to Article » That's What Makes You Suc-cess-ful: An Analysis of the Required Conditions for an Internationally Successful Music Industry
(05/31/15)
The production, distribution, and consumption of music are highly international transactions. In the past, what made them so was the... Go to Article » Do Western-Educated Middle East Leaders Pass the Democracy Test?
(05/31/15)
This research examines the assumed relationship between Western education and democracy as it relates to Middle East leadership. While... Go to Article » The Impact of External Support on Intrastate Conflict
(05/31/15)
Supporting participants in intrastate conflict often appears as a relatively cheap, effective strategy to address security concerns... Go to Article » A Statistical Analysis of Privacy Norms and State Compliance with Anti-Money Laundering Regulations
(05/31/15)
Organized crime and terrorist organizations cannot be battled by force alone; anti-money laundering (AML) techniques have become key... Go to Article » An Examination of Native Americans in Film and Rise of Native Filmmakers
(05/31/15)
This paper explored the role of Native Americans in the Hollywood film industry and their actions to establish authentic representations... Go to Article » How Twitter is Changing Narrative Storytelling: A Case Study of the Boston Marathon Bombings
(05/31/15)
Understanding social media, an integral part of 21st century American life, is more important than ever. On the one-year anniversary... Go to Article » The Effect of Technology on Face-to-Face Communication
(05/31/15)
Recent technological advancements have had a drastic impact on the way individuals communicate. In this research, previous studies... Go to Article » Thomas Arundel's Constitutions and the Condemnation of Wycliffe's Vernacular Translations (1382-1415)
(05/27/15)
Between the publication of Wycliffe’s Bible in 1382 and the Council of Constance in 1415, a thirty-year period in which there... Go to Article » The Influence of Language Difficulties on the Wellbeing of International Students: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
(05/23/15)
Language difficulties are cited as the most critical issue facing international students today. This study particularly looks into... Go to Article » Are E-Cigarettes a Safe Alternative to Smoking? Using Airway Cell Cultures to Assess Early Indicators of COPD Progression
(05/20/15)
There is limited data available on the safety of electronic (E)-cigarettes, despite their commercial availability and widespread use... Go to Article » The Source and Nature of Power: Comparing "Noumenal" and "Structural" Power According to Forst and Strange
(05/15/15)
In 1981 ten incarcerated Irish nationalists starved themselves to death in protest against their denied political status and what... Go to Article » Developing Weirdness Through Cartographic Destabilization in Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation
(05/11/15)
The spatial role of weird fiction seems to be one of dislocation, disorientation, and destabilization in what Ann and Jeff VanderMeer... Go to Article » The Human Rights Impacts of VAWA 2013: A True Victory for Native American Women?
(05/01/15)
The level of gender violence against native women in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. Furthermore, the vast majority... Go to Article » Sodium Absorption in Summer and Winter Acclimated Freshwater Teleosts
(05/01/15)
To maintain sodium (Na+) homeostasis in a hypotonic environment, freshwater teleosts must constantly absorb Na+ through their gills... Go to Article » Does BMI Affect Diagnostic Efficacy of Computer Aided Diagnostic Software in the Identification of Malignant Pulmonary Nodules in Dual Energy Subtracted Chest Radiographs?
(05/01/15)
The increasing level of obesity in the general population of industrialized nations is a major public health concern. While obesity... Go to Article » Using Flow Cytometry and Quantitative Real-Time PCR to Investigate the Role of IL-1 in T-Cell Proliferation and HIV- 1 Reactivation
(05/01/15)
With the advent of antiretroviral therapy, suppressing the HIV-1 virus and stopping the progression of the disease are now possible... Go to Article » Defining International Literary Journalism: Case Studies from South Africa, the U.S., and China
(04/27/15)
The simplistic history of modern journalism commonly disseminated in western classrooms describes literary journalism and its manifestations... Go to Article » Business Negotiations Between American and Vietnamese Businesses: The Influence of Proxemics and Site Setting on Negotiation Outcomes
(04/24/15)
Vietnam is becoming an increasingly inviting market for foreign investment. However, working with foreigners and expanding business... Go to Article » A New Cold War? Explaining Russia's New Confrontations with the West
(04/15/15)
The following is a transcription of the Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture that Ambassador McFaul delivered at Cornell... Go to Article » Al Jazeera America and Strategic Responses to the "Perception Problem"
(04/15/15)
On August 20, 2013, Al Jazeera America televised its first official broadcast amidst a frenzy of speculation about the Qatari-backed... Go to Article » Value-Added Real Effective Exchange Rates: Testing for Countries with High and Low Vertical Specialization in Trade
(04/15/15)
I test a modified value-added real effective exchange rate based on the construction by Bems and Johnson (2012) for suitability as... Go to Article » Multiproduct Pricing and Product Line Decisions with Status Externalities
(04/15/15)
In the present paper, reputation is approached as an idea involving status. We consider a multiproduct monopolist's product line and... Go to Article » Statutory Rape and Teen "Sexting" Laws: The Consequences of Poorly Crafted Legislation
(04/13/15)
Child pornography laws are primarily drawn from the "Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act" of 1977. This act targets... Go to Article » The Medicalization of Blackness: Rashid Johnson and the Diseased Connotations of Race
(04/10/15)
"Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks" was a solo exhibition on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum from September 20, 2013... Go to Article » History and Management of Public Rangelands in the United States: A Case Study from New Mexico
(04/09/15)
Public rangelands are typically managed by a multiple-use policy that seeks to balance economic, conservation, and recreation objectives... Go to Article » Higher Education Reform in Florida: Considering Senate Bill 1720, Remedial Education, and College Readiness
(04/08/15)
Senate Bill 1720 took effect in the state of Florida in 2014. This new education policy makes college placement tests and remedial... Go to Article » Transmitting Values Through Literature: Considering Three Short Stories of Chinese Revolution
(04/06/15)
In a 1920 speech on women’s literature, the cultural critic Zhou Zuoren argued that the value of literature lies in its power... Go to Article » Face Management Theory: Modern Conceptualizations and Future Directions
(04/04/15)
The beginning of any social relationship is often ambiguous (Edelmann, 1985, p. 195). If a social interaction proves to be troublesome... Go to Article » Artificial Composers: Tools of the Modern Musician or Affront to Human Creativity?
(03/22/15)
On August 13, 2014, Youtube user CGPGrey posted Humans Need Not Apply, an informative video detailing the trajectory of automated... Go to Article » The Many Faces of Odysseus in Classical Literature
(03/18/15)
The defining characteristics of Odysseus in classical literature are interpreted in wildly different ways by different authors: he... Go to Article » International Travel, Nation-Branding, and Orientalism: Conflicting Portrayals of Americanism in The Amazing Race
(03/17/15)
Beyond merely claiming to represent 'reality,' reality television shows also inherently operate as “powerful ideological source... Go to Article » Capitalist Hegemony: The Political Challenge of Alter-Globalization
(03/16/15)
Concern regarding the inequity and commodification apparently necessary for the capitalist system to thrive is not new. Marx, in his... Go to Article » Government Public Relations: Public Diplomacy or Propaganda?
(03/15/15)
When politicians attempt to communicate their views in the public forum, the practice can be seen as a perquisite of the democratic... Go to Article » Living with Evil: Crime and Sexuality in Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown
(03/14/15)
Through the late 1960s the French New Wave became a pronounced and significant factor in the creation and development of Hollywood... Go to Article » Anti-Semitism and Religious Intolerance in Aristocratic Age English Literature
(03/10/15)
Anti-semitism was a prevailing cultural sentiment in Europe, particularly in Great Britain, during the period when some of English... Go to Article » The Researcher at the Dance: Epistemology, Ethics and the Ethnographer
(03/06/15)
Before the ethnographer can enter the field of research, indeed, before the researcher can interpret data from the field, he or she... Go to Article » The Cost of For-Profit Education: How Much is Your Degree Really Worth?
(03/04/15)
This paper examines the latest attempt by the United States Department of Education to enact new regulations for addressing the issue... Go to Article » Homonationalism and the Death of the Radical Queer
(03/03/15)
When one analyzes recent LGBTQ advocacy, with its rhetoric of liberal normativity and visibility, the gay rights movement has chosen... Go to Article » The Double Victory Campaign and the Black Press: A Conservative Approach to 'Victory' at Home and Abroad
(02/19/15)
During World War II, the black press and several prominent black leaders called for a “Double V” victory against fascism... Go to Article » The Contemporary Global Public Sphere as Reincarnation of Habermas' Bourgeois Society
(02/17/15)
Our contemporary global public sphere is made up of a tiny proportion of the world’s population. Affluent, exclusive, and concerned... Go to Article » The Desperate Drive for Perfection: Changing Beauty Ideals and Women's Fashion in the 1920s
(02/15/15)
American life in the early twentieth century was marked by a culmination of changes that had been brewing since the end of the Civil... Go to Article » Effects of Attachment Disorder on Psychosocial Development
(02/12/15)
This report examines the outcomes on various domains of development (cognitive, social emotional) of children with attachment disorders... Go to Article » Effects of Attachment Disorder on Psychosocial Development
(02/12/15)
This report examines the outcomes on various domains of development (cognitive, social emotional) of children with attachment disorders... Go to Article » Examining the Image of the United States in the Arab World and the Relationship with Israel During the Obama Administration
(02/09/15)
For a country approximately the size of New Jersey, Israel certainly garners its share of widespread international attention. It is... Go to Article » Zarb-e-Azb: The Obama Administration's Response to the Haqqani Network and the Relationship with Pakistan
(02/09/15)
The Haqqani Network has proven itself to be one of the most deadly, daring and inventive terrorist organizations in modern times.... Go to Article » Predicting the Fate of the Judiciary After Obama
(02/09/15)
One often-admired trait of the federal courts is their apolitical nature. Judges that are appointed for lifetime tenure do not face... Go to Article » How Eric Holder's Role as Attorney General Impacted the Obama Presidency
(02/09/15)
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s recent resignation is not the first controversial issue to arise out of his nearly six... Go to Article » Women's Issues in the Obama Era: Expanding Equality and Social Opportunity Under the Obama Administration
(02/08/15)
In 1972, The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced to Congress to protect an individual’s irrefutable equality of rights... Go to Article » Inaction on Gun Control Reform During the Obama Administration
(02/08/15)
Gun control and federal reform of firearm legislation have recently become popular and contentious topics in Washington D.C. and around... Go to Article » Appellate Attorney as Storyteller: A Postmodern Analysis of Narrative in Appellate Briefs
(02/03/15)
The idea that narrative has an important role to play in the legal process is not a particularly radical one, at least since the rise... Go to Article » Treating Bulimia Nervosa with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Interpersonal Psychotherapy
(02/02/15)
Bulimia nervosa represents a significant source of morbidity among young women. This review compares cognitive-behavioral therapy (... Go to Article » Comparing Health Systems and Challenges in Costa Rica and the United States
(02/01/15)
Rising rates of chronic diseases, aging populations, and mounting medical costs threaten the financial solvency of the health care... Go to Article » Phase Cancellation in Ultrasonic Measurements Due to Misalignment of Receiving Transducer
(01/15/15)
Bone sonometry is an established modality for the characterization of potentially osteoporotic cancellous bone. The ultrasonic field... Go to Article » The Arcane and The Rational: Lovecraft's Development of a Unique Mythos
(01/15/15)
The early 20th century saw the rise of a unique subgenre of science fiction and horror literature known as weird fiction. H.P Lovecraft... Go to Article » Can One Side of the Coin Be More Equal than the Other: Greater Jerusalem and its 'Settlements'/'Neighbourhoods'
(01/01/15)
If I belonged to the majority of the Israeli public I might call this paper ‘A journey along an Israeli neighbourhood &ndash... Go to Article » The Bush Administration and Torture: Who is Responsible for the Abuse at Abu Ghraib?
(01/01/15)
Since first becoming public in March 2004,1 the case of the detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib Prison2 has gained widespread interest... Go to Article » Access to Education for Girls in the Rural Regions of Afghanistan Following the Fall of the Taliban
(01/01/15)
At present, ‘more than 80 percent of Afghan women are illiterate’.1 However, in the rural regions of Afghanistan, where... Go to Article » An Axe to Grind: An Overview of Hungary's 'Axe Murder Case' and its Effects on the International Community
(01/01/15)
Politics is the result of interaction of different groups and communities, aiming to ensure peaceful cohabitation of all actors. Due... Go to Article » Do Civil Society Organizations Undermine State-Building?
(12/31/14)
In spite of the long-standing debate among economists on the optimal level of government involvement in economic development, little... Go to Article » Consumption: The Role of Eating in Rehabilitation in the Memoirs "A Million Little Pieces" and "Two Kinds of Decay"
(12/30/14)
The relationship between the self and food intersects at the meal, and this vital connection represents—physiologically, psychologically... Go to Article » Opportunities and Challenges of Allocation of Alternative Energy Resources in Japan
(12/19/14)
In the case of Japan, which lacks any significant fossil fuel reserves (Gasparatos & Gadda, 2009, pp. 4038-4048) some alternative... Go to Article » The Right and the Good: Communicating Environmental Issues
(12/19/14)
What we see is partially dependent on what we are shown. As communicators, we have a duty to inform and educate and lead. As environmental... Go to Article » Chris Christie's Use of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey's Gubernatorial Elections
(12/18/14)
“I didn't get sent here to be elected Prom King.” Chris Christie peppered this signature mantra in many of his 2009 stump... Go to Article » The Holocaust in Romania: The Extermination and Protection of the Jews Under Antonescu's Regime
(12/15/14)
Between 1941 and 1944, Romania was responsible for exterminating approximately 300,000 Jews, giving it the sinister distinction of... Go to Article » Important Distinctions Between Labels and Certifications and Why They Matter
(12/10/14)
When browsing the grocery aisle, consumers are bombarded with and confused by a myriad of special labels. “Organic,” &... Go to Article » Spiritual Autobiography and Dave Eggers' "What is the What"
(12/07/14)
Spiritual autobiographies have a long and rich history as a form of memoir, beginning at about 397AD with the release of Saint Augustine... Go to Article » What Determines the Success of First Dates? Psycho-Social Factors that Impact Mate Choice in Pre-Mating Encounters
(12/02/14)
First dates are social phenomena of sexual selection. Successful mating depends not only on assortative mating, but also on interpersonal... Go to Article » Who You Are Affects What You Buy: The Influence of Consumer Identity on Brand Preferences
(11/30/14)
This study examined the extent to which individuals used their self-concepts to determine brand preference. It was predicted that... Go to Article » Humanizing a Brand: Consumer Relationships Through an Anthropomorphic Lens
(11/30/14)
Brand loyalty develops as an intermixing of self-image and brand image, and anthropomorphized brands succeed when their ideal traits... Go to Article » Representations of American Culture in Food Advertisements in Mainstream, Latina, and African-American Magazines
(11/30/14)
This study analyzed 54 advertisements for food products, grocery stores and restaurants in nine major women’s magazines in order... Go to Article » From "Pockets of Poverty" to Potential Prosperity in Appalachia: Examining Mass Media Narratives of Poverty Stereotypes in Appalachia
(11/30/14)
This research examined poverty stereotypes in Appalachia that were portrayed in a national newspaper, The New York Times, and a local... Go to Article » The Father-Son Relationship of Jim and Huck in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(11/16/14)
Since its publication in 1884, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been construed to have numerous meanings, many... Go to Article » The Father-Son Relationship of Jim and Huck in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(11/16/14)
Since its publication in 1884, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been construed to have numerous meanings, many... Go to Article » The Implementation of Social Software in Authentic Literacy Activities
(11/13/14)
While international literacy results show Canada maintaining a strong standing, there have been declines in the results for both traditional... Go to Article » The Gender Binary: Working Towards Uniqueness in American Education
(11/11/14)
In today’s society, the categorization of gender in our educational system is leading to a socialization of masculinity and... Go to Article » Phantom-Limb Pain: Causes and Treatment Options
(11/02/14)
Phantom-limb pain (PLP) is a frequent consequence of amputation which has been reported to affect up to 80% of patients who have suffered... Go to Article » An Analysis on the Regulation of Grey Market Cyber Materials
(11/01/14)
This paper analyzes the grey market for cyber materials by evaluating the current nature of transactions within the market. This paper... Go to Article » U.S. Policy Toward Africa: Application of U.S. Africa Command Signals Africa's Increasing Strategic Importance
(11/01/14)
The formation and expansion of the U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM) signals the increasing strategic importance of Africa to U.S. security... Go to Article » Incentive, Shock, or Neither? The Impact of Croatian Accession on Bosnia's EU Negotiations
(11/01/14)
What are the prospects for European Union accession in Bosnia, a country with a legacy of ethnic conflict and malfunctioning democracy... Go to Article » The Case of Edward Snowden: A Different Path
(11/01/14)
Legitimate whistleblower or traitor? While the public continues to debate which of these titles most aptly describes former National... Go to Article » Man as Image: Clark Gable, James Dean, and the Audience that Looked at Them
(10/30/14)
In her seminal essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" Laura Mulvey (1975) connects psychoanalytic concepts of scopophilic desire1... Go to Article » Weight Bias and Anti-Fat Attitudes: Sources, Impacts, and Prevention Methods
(10/28/14)
The number of overweight and obese individuals in the United States has steadily increased over the last decade (CDC, 2012). According... Go to Article » MIT's Stata Center: The Static Soul of a Dynamic Body
(10/26/14)
Although President Thomas Jefferson’s neo-classical design for the University of Virginia (completed in 1826) is often credited... Go to Article » Third Grade Reading and Retention Policies to Improve Education Outcomes
(10/22/14)
Third grade reading proficiency is believed to be an important benchmark in education. The transition from third grade to fourth grade... Go to Article » "What is the What" as a Religious Memoir
(10/17/14)
David Eggers’ What is the What is a memoir about the life of Valentino Achak Deng and his personal experience with warfare,... Go to Article » Characterization in John Updike's "You'll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You"
(09/30/14)
In an interview in The Paris Review (1968), John Updike denies that characterization is a primary goal of fiction. While he believes... Go to Article » An Investigation into the Impact of Children's Literature Through a Review of Dr. Seuss's The Lorax
(09/30/14)
This article is a brief overview of The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss, the story of a repentant ex-industrialist who tells a tale of environmental... Go to Article » Rachel Carson: Humanizing Nature
(09/30/14)
Rachel Carson was instrumental in changing the way the world viewed conservation. Her initial written works demonstrated the idea... Go to Article » Understanding Organics at the Grassroots Level: An Analysis of Ecuadorian and Canadian Perceptions
(09/30/14)
There is a growing public concern over the genetic alteration and use of chemicals in conventionally produced agriculture. The perceived... Go to Article » The Value of a Graduate Degree: Changing Returns to Postgraduate Qualifications in the UK
(09/29/14)
Higher education in the UK has experienced radical change over the last two decades. As a result of the increased supply of university... Go to Article » The High Cost of Living in Saudi Arabia: Growth and Inflation in a Macroeconomic Perspective
(09/24/14)
The Saudi economy is one of the most robust economies in the world. As “one of the best performing G-20 economies in recent... Go to Article » The "Great Divergence" Redefined: the Rise and Fall of the West and the Recovery of China
(09/22/14)
Up until the 19th century, China held a position as a great world power. However, for the last two hundred years the West has dominated... Go to Article » Holly Golightly and the Endless Pursuit of Self-Actualization in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
(09/20/14)
Yes, they still have prizes in Cracker Jack boxes. Beneath the glossy surface of this timeless commodity lies a variable that provides... Go to Article » Gene Therapy: Current Treatment Options and Likely Near-Term Developments
(09/15/14)
Gene therapy has ceased to be a futuristic dream and instead become a treatment for the present. Somatic cells can be treated with... Go to Article » Humanity and Its Place in Nature: Rethinking the Reality of 'Wilderness'
(09/07/14)
The Western concept of wilderness encompasses pristine, untrammeled land viewed as “the last remaining place where civilization... Go to Article » Describing the World or Transforming It? Considering the Roles of the Arts and the Natural Sciences
(08/31/14)
We often acquire knowledge about the world through the detailed process of description. We understand even more by describing and... Go to Article » Regulating GMOs in the United States and Europe: The Political and Economic Drivers Behind Monsanto's Agricultural Biotechnology Business
(08/18/14)
While the regulation of bioengineered agriculture began at the same time in both the United States (U.S.) and the European Union (... Go to Article » Graphic Novels: Preparing for a Mulitmodal and Multiliterate World
(08/05/14)
Graphic novels have become increasingly popular in the classroom as a means to engage English language learners (ELL) in new ways (... Go to Article » Depending on Distance: Mrs. Ramsay as Artist and Inspiration in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
(06/09/14)
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse is a novel of artists and within its pages appear two characters who are clearly labeled... Go to Article » The Role of Hydrogen Peroxide in Controlling Plant Cell-Signaling and Gene-Expression Patterns Related to Stress and Defense Responses
(06/06/14)
The major purpose of this review article is to explore the influence of hydrogen peroxide on cell signaling and gene expression patterns... Go to Article » HIV-Positive Youth Empowerment in Swaziland: An Evaluation of the Social Stigma Surrounding HIV
(06/04/14)
UNAIDS reports the antenatal HIV prevalence rate—the prevalence of HIV in unborn children—to be approximately 38% in Swaziland... Go to Article » The British Blockade During World War I: The Weapon of Deprivation
(06/02/14)
The First World War is largely thought of as a conflict where the majority of the significant operations took place almost exclusively... Go to Article » To Intervene or Not to Intervene: The Role of Humanitarianism, U.N. Approval, and Economic Incentives in Determning NATO Military Intervention in Conflict
(05/31/14)
The North American Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded at the outset of the Cold War and served as a collective defense alliance... Go to Article » Prospect Theory in International Relations
(05/31/14)
Prospect theory, a behavioral economic theory first proposed by David Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979, has evolved into a seminal... Go to Article » Policy and Place in International Economic Coercion
(05/31/14)
This paper investigates factors that contribute to the effectiveness of international economic sanctions. A review of existing literature... Go to Article » Partisan Pork: How House Delegation Cohesion Affects Earmark Spending
(05/31/14)
The federal earmark is a topic often lamented by the general public as corrupt and wasteful. Until recently, this "pork" was a mainstay... Go to Article » The Effects of Electoral Systems and Gender Quotas on Female Representation in National Legislatures
(05/31/14)
Women make up anywhere from 0% to 56% of the national legislatures around the world. Research has attributed this wide spectrum to... Go to Article » An Investigation of Novel Genes Involved in Female Decision-Making in Drosophila Melanogaster
(05/30/14)
In animals, the ability to make decisions is dependent on brain circuits that are organized and maintained by the activity of genes... Go to Article » Comparative Analysis of Teleost Fish and Humans: The Evolutionary Impracticality of Hermaphroditism in Humans
(05/30/14)
Hermaphroditism is a widespread sex allocation strategy among teleost fishes that occurs in several forms including sequential (protogyny... Go to Article » Film Production Design: Case Study of The Great Gatsby
(05/29/14)
The author examined the significance of production design in film. This paper reviewed scholarly articles on the evolution of production... Go to Article » A Content Analysis of Twitter Use: Factors That Might Increase Music Sales During an Award Show
(05/29/14)
Can Twitter be used in marketing an artist’s music during award shows? To answer this question, the author examined four artists... Go to Article » Cell Phone Use While Walking Across Campus: An Observation and Survey
(05/29/14)
Cell phone plays an essential role in communications throughout the world. The technological revolution that many Americans have experienced... Go to Article » The Agenda-Setting Potential of Saturday Night Live
(05/29/14)
This study explored the effects of the late-night sketch comedy Saturday Night Live in the political sphere, specifically analyzing... Go to Article » Molecular Detection of Complex Vertebral Malformation in Holstein Calves
(05/04/14)
Complex vertebral malformation (CVM) in Holstein calves is a recessive syndrome that is the result of a transversion mutation within... Go to Article » The International Military Police and the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War
(04/24/14)
In 1914 Russia was a powerful empire. It constituted a fundamental part of the European balance of power. However, years of bloody... Go to Article » Diplomacy and Debt: U.S. Attribution of Status Resulting from IDA Graduation
(04/15/14)
Freeman writes that global governance in this period has been characterized by the United States’ inability to form a &lsquo... Go to Article » Women of War: The Female Fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(04/15/14)
Since the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War in 1983, Tamil women have occupied a key role in the conflict. In the struggle for the... Go to Article » Realism Versus Idealism at Nuremburg: The Creation of the Court
(04/15/14)
The creation of the Nuremberg Court following World War II exemplified international cooperation, particularly between the Great Powers... Go to Article » Don't Fear the Reaper: Analyzing the Effect of Health on Microfinance Participation
(04/15/14)
The randomized introduction of microfinance to neighborhoods surrounding Hyderabad, India provides an opportunity to analyze the relationship... Go to Article » The Relationship Between Monetary Policy and Asset Prices: A New Approach Analyzing U.S. M&A Activity
(04/15/14)
This article details the relationship between asset prices and monetary policy with a specific focus on the mergers and acquisitions... Go to Article » Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital at the Community Level: Effects and Implications for Policymakers
(04/14/14)
Research on the impact of ethnic diversity on ‘social capital’ is relatively new in the field of political science (Stolle... Go to Article » Talking to 'Terrorists': Facilitating Dialogue with the Afghan Taliban
(04/09/14)
After 35 years of war in Afghanistan[1], the year 2014 brings two milestones capable of major impact on the future – for better... Go to Article » The Sovereignty of the European Court of Justice and the EU's Supranational Legal System
(04/04/14)
The European legal system has been considered as either an intergovernmental legal system or a supranational one. The intergovernmental... Go to Article » State Building in Somalia in the Image of Somaliland: A Bottom-Up Approach
(03/30/14)
The creation of western-style government institutions has been unsuccessful in Somalia. This is a direct result of colonial administrations... Go to Article » How to Explain the Millennial Generation? Understand the Context
(03/27/14)
As a child, I was sheltered and not allowed to watch the Power Rangers or other such violent and crude television series. My parents... Go to Article » Debating the Existence of God: God Exists
(03/26/14)
The debate between science and religion over the existence of a higher power often leads to little more than a shouting match. We... Go to Article » Theories of Multicultural Toleration: An Examination of Justice as Fairness and Political Theology
(03/23/14)
The place of multiculturalism in a liberal democracy continues to be a contentious question and one with which the liberal democratic... Go to Article » Wordsworth's Prescient Baby: Conceptions of the Mother-Infant Relationship in the Development of the Self (1790s-1890s)
(03/22/14)
This dissertation explores late eighteenth and nineteenth century views of the mother-infant[1] relationship and how they reveal conceptions... Go to Article » Mark Twain's Portrayal of Family and Relationships in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(03/21/14)
Whether real or symbolic, the family and the relationships within family units are a frequent theme in Mark Twain’s classic... Go to Article » Would You Cheat? Cheating Behavior, Human Nature, and Decision-Making
(03/20/14)
Questions concerning human nature provoke controversy across disciplines, particularly when it comes to explaining evil or ‘... Go to Article » Water Pollution Control Policy: Addressing Non-Point Source Pollution
(03/19/14)
Non-point source (NPS) pollution occurs when pollutants from many different and often difficult to track sources have a negative impact... Go to Article » Soil Pollution From Recycling Centers: Case Study Analysis from the Campus of Michigan State University
(03/17/14)
Soil composition greatly affects the health of the entire ecosystem, making it useful to investigate how anthropogenic processes impact... Go to Article » Asceticism in the Modern World: The Religion of Self-Deprivation
(03/14/14)
Among the questions that have attracted my attention during my theological career thus far, nothing has struck me more forcibly than... Go to Article » A Study of Planarian Phototaxis, Tactile Response and Regeneration
(03/14/14)
The phylum Platyhelminthes is comprised of aquatic worms that span over 20,000 species of either free-living flatworms or parasitic... Go to Article » Immigration and Stress: The Relationship Between Parents' Acculturative Stress and Young Children's Anxiety Symptoms
(03/05/14)
Previous research suggests that risk factors related to immigration in parents are associated with the manifestation of anxiety symptoms... Go to Article » Demagoguery and the Westboro Baptist Church: Deconstructing the Tactics of Hate
(02/07/14)
The Westboro Baptist Church has become widely known for their hatred, polarizing statements, and funeral protests. Consisting of only... Go to Article » Soaring to Green Heights: The Current Sustainable Initiatives in the Commercial Airline Industry
(01/14/14)
The air travel industry is changing. The needs of the environment are being considered and research into ways of improving the industry... Go to Article » Dian Fossey's Controversial "Active Conservation" Proves Useful in Increasing Mountain Gorilla Awareness
(01/13/14)
As a researcher and advocate of the mountain gorilla, Dian Fossey dedicated her life and career to understanding, protecting, and... Go to Article » Climate Change Strategies 101
(01/13/14)
The development of climate change action plans and strategies is usually done via the policy cycle during the first half of a government... Go to Article » "Goblin Market:" Renunciation and Redemption in Christina Rossetti's Narrative Poem
(01/11/14)
In "Goblin Market" (1862), Christina Rossetti (1830‑1894) presents a story of two sisters who must endure carnal lust in order... Go to Article » Christopher Benjamin's Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada - Stories to Change Minds and Move Hearts
(01/10/14)
In his 2011 book, Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada, environmental journalist Chris Benjamin provides a new kind of... Go to Article » Creating Europe: The Discourse of Civilisation
(01/01/14)
They made us leave history - our history, to follow tbem, right at the back; to follow tbe progress of their history. - Amilcar... Go to Article » International Cooperation in Combating Threats to Maritime Security: Global Maritime Security and International Law
(01/01/14)
It may be said that a cooperative international law based on a community of interests has developed in the field of crime prevention... Go to Article » Denuclearization: A Models-Based Approach
(12/31/13)
With nuclear proliferation a major threat to international security, this study examines the factors that led three countries to denuclearize... Go to Article » On Global Order: South Africa as a Case Study for the Validity of City-Specific Research in International Development
(12/31/13)
This study provides an overview of the international development field's attention to urbanization. Despite cities being proven the... Go to Article » Toward A More Sustainable Food Supply Network: An Economic Analysis of Sustainability in the United States Food Industry
(12/21/13)
In order to determine the current state of the industrial food system, both a quantitative survey and a qualitative interview were... Go to Article » Race as a Material Ideology
(12/21/13)
The persistence of racism within the working class is a fundamental problem for any Marxist analysis of race, and there have been... Go to Article » Mythology and Astronomy as Manifestations of Ancient Greek Culture
(12/19/13)
It is common to think of mythical heroes as being "larger than life." The stories of their legendary pursuits put these warriors on... Go to Article » Alternative Methods to Autologous Nerve Grafting for the Regeneration of the Peripheral Nervous System
(12/19/13)
The peripheral nervous system is made up of the nerves and neurons that are outside of the central nervous system. These nerves and... Go to Article » Healthcare Access Implications and Psychosocial Effects of Sickle Disease
(12/19/13)
Millman (1993) defines healthcare access as "the timely use of affordable personal health services to achieve the best possible health... Go to Article » Undergraduate Internship Expectations: Strategic Encouragement of Student Involvement
(12/17/13)
Internships supply undergraduates with work experience, networking potential, and opportunities to apply classroom content to career... Go to Article » Corporate Use of Environmental Marketplace Advocacy: A Case Study of GE's 'Ecomagination' Campaign
(12/14/13)
This study explored the concept of marketplace advocacy within the context of General Electric's "Ecomagination" environmental campaign... Go to Article » Image Restoration in Political Sex Scandals: What To Do (And What Not To Do) When You're Caught With Your Pants Down
(12/14/13)
This study sought to apply a Crisis Communications lens to the area of American political sex scandals. Applying William Benoit's "... Go to Article » Testing the Appeals of Feminist Ideologies in Female Athletic Advertising
(12/09/13)
The purpose of this study was to determine whether Generation Y women respond more to athletic ads that embodied a second-wave feminist... Go to Article » Examining Green Advertising and Its Impact on Consumer Skepticism and Purchasing Patterns
(12/09/13)
The twenty-first century has seen a significant increase in environmental awareness and activism, which has ultimately developed into... Go to Article » Pay for Play: Analysis of the Image Restoration Strategies of High Profile College Athletes
(12/09/13)
This study sought to explore the college athletic landscape through a Crisis Communications perspective. Using William Benoit&rsquo... Go to Article » Conceptualizing the Shared Governance Model in American Higher Education: Considering the Governing Board, President and Faculty
(12/09/13)
The evolution of the governance model in higher education is a complex idea to pin down with simple definitions. New stakeholders,... Go to Article » Art, Hallucination, and Embodiment
(11/24/13)
This essay will discuss visual perception as well as examine the relationship between art and hallucination. The paper is divided... Go to Article » The Natural History of Osteoarthritis
(11/24/13)
Early signs of vertebral osteoarthritis begin to appear around the age of thirty. By age fifty, almost everyone exhibits some form... Go to Article » Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) Habitat Use and Behavior Analysis in Response to Repeated Aggression
(11/24/13)
Gavialis gangeticus, the Indian gharial, is the only extant gharial species in the world. The gharial is a large crocodilian in the... Go to Article » Covariation in Limb-limb and Limb-trunk Proportions in Whites and Blacks and Males in Females using the Hamann-Todd Collection, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
(11/22/13)
Stature estimation is traditionally an important consideration in physical anthropology and archaeology and is especially pertinent... Go to Article » A Genome Wide Search for Proteins that Control the Balance Between Proliferation and Differentiation in the Drosophila Ovary, an in vivo model System
(11/22/13)
Understanding how progenitor cells stop proliferating and enter a differentiation pathway is a fundamental question in cancer and... Go to Article » Adaptations and Preferences of Wild Hummingbirds Introduced into a Captive Setting
(11/22/13)
This case study focuses on the effects of avian introductions into a captive exhibit. Two hummingbirds, Colibri coruscans (sparkling... Go to Article » The Role of Innate Receptor TLR2 in Neutrophil Recruitment in Oropharyngeal Candidiasis (OPC)
(11/22/13)
Candida albicans (CA) is a dimorphic fungus that commonly colonizes the oral cavity. Overgrowth can result in an infection of the... Go to Article » Effects of Simulated Deer Browsing Intensity and Fragmentation on Regenerative Dynamics of Acer saccharum Marsh. (Sugar Maple) Plants in Temperate Forests
(11/22/13)
The deer browsing effects on the regeneration of woody plants in forested ecosystems is not fully understood. More can be learned... Go to Article » Proxidant Injection Causes the Onset of Type 2 Diabetes in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Obese (SHROB/Kol) Rat
(11/22/13)
The spontaneously hypertensive obese (SHROB/Kol) rat is a model of prediabetes characterized by normal fasting and high postprandial... Go to Article » Development of a Micro-integration Technique for the Fabrication of a Cell-Fiber Scaffold Complex in Heart Valve Tissue Engineering
(11/22/13)
All clinically available heart valve prostheses, such as mechanical and bioprosthetic valves, are intrinsically flawed in that they... Go to Article » Discrepancy Between Parent Report and Clinician Observation of Symptoms in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
(11/21/13)
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention defines Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) as pervasive developmental disabilities in which... Go to Article » The Contribution of HPG Axis-Hormones and Hormone Replacement Timing on Cognition and Associated Signaling
(11/21/13)
Many women experiencing menopause show cognitive function deficits and have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease (AD... Go to Article » Ape Fracture Patterns Show Higher Incidence in More Arboreal Species
(11/21/13)
In the following study, the Hamann-Todd Osteological Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History was examined to compare... Go to Article » Timed Writing Assessment as a Measure of Writing Ability: A Qualitative Study
(11/20/13)
Throughout the American education system, the assessment of writing skill and general academic performance through timed essay examinations... Go to Article » "Irreversibility" and the Modern Understanding of Death
(11/20/13)
Recent advancements in medicine have resulted in technology that allows us to have a better understanding of the essence of life.... Go to Article » Motivating Behavior Change: A Content Analysis of Public Service Announcements From the Let's Move! Campaign
(11/16/13)
Childhood obesity is an important issue facing our country and as a result, public health programs including the Let's Move! campaign... Go to Article » Pumping Steel and Sex Appeal: Message Strategies and Content in Dietary Supplement Advertisements
(11/16/13)
Existing in a regulatory gray area as neither a food nor a drug, dietary supplements have fierce controversies over safety and regulation... Go to Article » Assessing Network TV Ad Watches in the 2012 Presidential Election
(11/15/13)
In today’s election atmosphere, Americans are inundated with campaign advertisements during the election cycle. Much research... Go to Article » Truth and Context in the 2012 Presidential Debates
(11/15/13)
Today’s modern age has led to a plethora of information available at the fingertips of all voters. During the 2012 presidential... Go to Article » India and Nigeria: Similar Colonial Legacies, Vastly Different Trajectories: An Examination of the Differing Fates of Two Former British Colonies
(11/15/13)
The nations of Nigeria and India both have exceptionally diverse populations, endured the deliberate divide-and-rule strategies executed... Go to Article » Natural Resources and Prolonged Conflict: The Case of Sierra Leone
(11/15/13)
Why did Sierra Leone experience such a protracted civil war between 1991 and 2002? Sierra Leone has been beset with challenges since... Go to Article » The Effects of the US Pivot to Asia on European Strategic Cooperation
(11/15/13)
The current state of European strategic cooperation is optimistically described as "splintered" and pessimistically labeled as "nonexistent... Go to Article » Power, Religion, and Capital Punishment: A Comparative Analysis Between Abolitionist Turkey & Retentionist Iran
(11/15/13)
Turkey and Iran are both predominately Muslim-populated countries with a history of powerful political leaders who have shaped their... Go to Article » Caught Between "Deradicalization" and "Disengagement:" Clarifying Terms in the Discourse of Terrorism
(11/14/13)
Observations from the media and from public discourse on Islamist radicalization reveal that terms such as 'Islamist extremism,' '... Go to Article » Learning to Innovate: Characteristics of Education Systems That Promote Creativity
(10/22/13)
In ac tellus quis tortor accumsan consequat et eu dolor. Morbi vulputate, nisi eget scelerisque tristique, ante ipsum consequat mi... Go to Article » The Struggle for Integration in the Eurozone: Identity Politics and the Financial Crisis
(10/22/13)
Maecenas id tempus quam. Nullam id leo sem. Fusce rhoncus pretium lobortis. Aliquam erat volutpat. Morbi consectetur lorem quis... Go to Article » Symbols of Love and War: Bringing Stories from the Choctaw Nation into the Native American Narrative
(10/22/13)
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi dictum elit dolor, a laoreet tellus euismod quis. Nam fringilla eros... Go to Article » The Politics of Failed States: From Greed and Grievance Toward Reconstruction
(10/22/13)
Aliquam erat volutpat. Morbi consectetur lorem quis lacus faucibus gravida ut vitae turpis. Nullam ultrices sollicitudin auctor.... Go to Article » Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss in the Indonesia Archipelago: Cultural Factors Fueling Deforestation
(10/22/13)
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi dictum elit dolor, a laoreet tellus euismod quis. Nam fringilla eros... Go to Article » The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey: Cross-National Tensions and Policy Implications in the Middle East
(10/22/13)
In ac tellus quis tortor accumsan consequat et eu dolor. Morbi vulputate, nisi eget scelerisque tristique, ante ipsum consequat mi... Go to Article » The Law of Attack in Cyberspace: Considering the Tallinn Manual's Definition of 'Attack' in the Digital Battlespace
(10/22/13)
'Attack' is a term of central importance in the Law of Armed Conflict, the body of international rules and standards that regulate... Go to Article » Refugee Policy and Foreign Policy: Examining Policy Linkage in Chinese Relations with North Korea, Myanmar, and Vietnam
(10/11/13)
This paper analyzes state refugee policies through the lenses of foreign policy behavior and policy linkage. The case studies compare... Go to Article » Mycobacteriophage Meru: Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Mycobacteriophage
(10/10/13)
Mycobacteriophage are the most prevalent type of microorganism present in the biological universe. In fact, since the first mycobacteriophage... Go to Article » Rural-Urban Migration and Agricultural Transformation in India: Observing the Impact on Childhood Migration From Bihar to New Delhi
(10/07/13)
Large-scale rural to urban migrations have been occurring in India in record numbers within the last thirty years, inflating the populations... Go to Article » Visualizing Sound: Effects of Pitch Height and Tonality on Luminance Matching
(10/04/13)
Synesthesia, a perceptual condition in which two or more senses intermix, has elicited research on cross-modal perception in general... Go to Article » Technology and Justice: The Philosophy of Authenticity and Democratic Theory
(10/02/13)
"The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world, everything is as it is, and everything happens as it does happen... Go to Article » Selling Ourselves Short: A Discussion of Water-Markets in Alberta
(09/30/13)
The issue of water management has become one of increasing importance. Any new policy regarding resource management must balance the... Go to Article » Ecological Education: Proposal of Implementation Programs in Romania
(09/30/13)
The following is a case study of the author’s country of origin, Romania, and its journey back to sustainable living. Her article... Go to Article » Competing on Climate Change: An Interprovincial, Longitudinal Review of Emerging Environmental Risks to Canadian Homeowners
(09/30/13)
In an era of accelerated climate change, Canadian homeowners face growing financial exposures to environmental risks, and climate-... Go to Article » Barriers for Women to Positions of Power: How Societal and Corporate Structures, Perceptions of Leadership and Discrimination Restrict Women's Advancement to Authority
(09/30/13)
Women’s advancement in the corporate workplace has taken significant strides over the last century. Research demonstrates, however... Go to Article » A Stakeholder's Perspective on the Implications of IFRS and Fair Value Accounting on Valuation of Securities
(09/30/13)
Due to the complexity of modern financial instruments, accurate valuation can prove difficult even in optimal market conditions. Traditionally... Go to Article » Unclean, Unsaid, Undead: Beckett, Merleau-Ponty, and the Degradation of Body and Language
(09/24/13)
Life is pain. And life persists, obscure, but life for all that, even in the tomb. Matter disintegrates and is dispersed; the eternal... Go to Article » Between Linguistic Universalism and Linguistic Relativism: Perspectives on Human Understandings of Reality
(09/19/13)
The most striking feature of language seems to be its diversity: contrary to the rather limited physical variations of the human species... Go to Article » How Do I Look? The Impact of Compliments on Self-Perceived Attractiveness
(09/09/13)
The present study investigates the effect of a compliment on self-perceived attractiveness and then compares this effect between genders... Go to Article » Mexican Drug Activity, Economic Development, and Unemployment in a Rational Choice Framework
(09/05/13)
From his inauguration in 2005 to the end of his presidency in 2012, Mexican President Felipe Calderon presided over one of the most... Go to Article » Assessing the EU's 'Lisbon Strategy:' Failures & Successes
(09/03/13)
The quest for economic supremacy has been at the heart of the European integration process since its very inception. Tracing the historical... Go to Article » America's Misguided 'War on Terror:' Contrasting Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations with Ibn Khaldun's Theory of Social Solidarity
(09/02/13)
Islam has been under siege since 2001 and in today's political environment, Muslims are too often associated with terrorism. The heinous... Go to Article » Understanding the Flu: Host and Environmental Factors Associated With Susceptibility to Influenza Virus-Induced Disease
(09/01/13)
Influenza virus infection is a worldwide public health burden because of the significant morbidity and mortality that result from... Go to Article » In Treatment: The Casting and Bracketing of Repulsion in The Sopranos
(08/29/13)
The Sopranos (1999-2007) opens with its lead character, Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), unenthusiastically meeting his therapist,... Go to Article » Comparing Faulkner's A Rose for Emily and Porter's The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
(08/27/13)
William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” focuses on the life and death of Emily Grierson, a monumental figure representing... Go to Article » The Military-Industrial Complex in the United States: Evolution and Expansion from World War II to the War on Terror
(08/26/13)
After World War II, the United States military gradually came into a position of overwhelming dominance in the world. Military spending... Go to Article » Chinese Economic Policy in the 21st Century: Growth, Imbalance, and Considerations for Australia
(08/20/13)
This report examines the Chinese economic model, the potential for future Chinese growth, and the implications for Australia. An examination... Go to Article » Sexual Relations Between Elite White Women and Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South: A Socio-Historical Analysis
(08/18/13)
There is ample evidence of sexual relations, from rapes to what appear to be relatively symbiotic romantic partnerships, between white... Go to Article » Sexual Relations Between Elite White Women and Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South: A Socio-Historical Analysis
(08/18/13)
There is ample evidence of sexual relations, from rapes to what appear to be relatively symbiotic romantic partnerships, between white... Go to Article » Societal and Legislative Attitudes Toward Social Housing Tenants in Ireland: Critical Evaluation of Housing Law and Policies, Statistics, Case Law and Literature
(08/16/13)
One area in which the division among Irish citizens remains apparent is in the realm of social housing. Housing represents the largest... Go to Article » God as Creator in Patience: A Re-Examination of Cotton Nero A.x.
(08/11/13)
Patience, the third poem in Cotton Nero A.x., tells the story of the Old Testament prophet Jonah, placing the narrative within the... Go to Article » Melatonin and Sleep Disorders: The Neurobiology of Sleep, Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders, and Various Treatment Methods
(07/10/13)
Melatonin is a lipophilic, indolic-structured compound found ubiquitously in nature. This ubiquity suggests that such an evolutionarily... Go to Article » From Physician to Patient: the Effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
(06/14/13)
During the 2008 Presidential Election, voters designated health insurance reform as a key issue for their future president to work... Go to Article » The Gender Wage Gap in the United States: Current Policy and an Improved Approach for Closing the Gap
(06/10/13)
“Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation—not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of... Go to Article » Sleep Quality Among University Students: Evaluating the Impact of Smoking, Social Media Use, and Energy Drink Consumption on Sleep Quality and Anxiety
(06/07/13)
Objectives: Identify the factors affecting quality of sleep, and assess the impact of low quality sleep on the daily activities of... Go to Article » The End of Multiculturalism? Immigration and Integration in Germany and the United Kingdom
(06/05/13)
Within a short span of time, immigration has become one of the major issues in the field of European politics and social discourse... Go to Article » The Populist Bind: Death Penalty Abolition as an Anti-Democratic Decision
(05/31/13)
The continued application of the death penalty in the United States marks the country as an extreme outlier among its allies and like... Go to Article » Women in the Schoolhouse, Whitehouse, and Whorehouse: Empowering Sex Trafficked Women in Southeast Asia Through Education and Political Participation
(05/31/13)
While the enslavement of humans has been occurring even before the dawn of written history, today's form of slavery occurs on an unprecedented... Go to Article » Environmentalism and Postmaterialism in China
(05/31/13)
Postmaterialist values, those that emphasize higher-order human needs, have become widely accepted as the determining force behind... Go to Article » The Great Convergence: Asia, The West, and The Logic of One World
(04/15/13)
Mr. Mahbubani is a Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore... Go to Article » Barack, Benghazi, and Bungles: Tracing the Obama Administration's Handling of the Benghazi Attacks
(04/15/13)
"If you wish to fault the administration, it's that we didn't have a clear picture, and we probably didn't do as clear a job explaining... Go to Article » Bangladesh: A Case Study in the Rise of the Nation-State
(04/15/13)
After the Partition of India in 1947, the two nascent countries of India and Pakistan each faced the difficult task of nation-state... Go to Article » Prospect of Northeast Asian Regionalism: Comparative Case Study of Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia
(04/15/13)
Regionalism, as Edward Mansfield describes, usually involves policy coordination through formal institutions within a region.1 Although... Go to Article » Addressing the Use of Sexual Violence as a Strategic Weapon of War
(04/01/13)
This paper examines historical and contemporary instances wherein sexual violence, specifically rape, was used as a strategic weapon... Go to Article » The Soviet Nationality Policy in Central Asia
(03/26/13)
The Soviet nationality policy for Central Asia in the early twentieth century was an acceleration of the processes of modernization... Go to Article » From Nostalgia to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Mass Society Theory of Psychological Reactions to Combat
(02/17/13)
This paper analyzes the evolution of the construct known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Specifically, it examines the ways in... Go to Article » Exploring the Nature of Existence: An Analysis of Wallace Stevens' The Plain Sense of Things
(01/31/13)
In his poem “The Plain Sense of Things,” Wallace Stevens strikes out in a direction that differs greatly from the established... Go to Article » Planetary Survival in the 21st Century: Confronting Land Degradation, Biodiversity Loss, and Climate Change
(01/15/13)
Everywhere, everyday we are reminded of the planetary crisis. Ice caps melt, forests are decimated, species go extinct and extreme... Go to Article » Correlation Between Prevalence of Diabetes and Lack of Physical Activity in Alabama
(01/14/13)
Alabama was cited among the states with greatest prevalence of diabetes for the past five years (Diabetes Surveillance, 2009). There... Go to Article » Assessing State Judicial Selection: The Missouri Plan vs. Partisan Elections
(01/13/13)
Since the United States Constitution was ratified in the late-18th century, the question of state judge selection has been an important... Go to Article » The State's Struggle to Master Asymmetrical Warfare
(12/31/12)
The last decade of American military policy has been dedicated to fighting an enigma – how to wage war against an enemy that... Go to Article » "Türkenproblematik" 2011: Views of German Youth Towards the Turkish Minority
(12/31/12)
In the 1960s because of a stagnant economy, the Federal Republic of Germany (hereinafter as West Germany) invited Turks to Germany... Go to Article » The Educational Gender Gap in Latin America: Why Some Girls Do Not Attend School
(12/31/12)
Girl's education is universally recognized in the International Development community as an important aspect of development. Educating... Go to Article » Karl Marx and the Fair Trade Chocolate Industry in the Ivory Coast
(12/31/12)
The research completed aimed to show that the idea of fair trade, using the example of goals for the chocolate industry of the Ivory... Go to Article » Tested and Found Wanting: A Quantitative Analysis of Legal Integration in the Member States of the 2004 European Union Enlargement
(12/31/12)
The subject of European legal integration entered the spotlight of interdisciplinary studies in the mid-1990s and has continued to... Go to Article » A Vote of No (Self)-Confidence: Gender, Socialization, and Political Ambition
(12/31/12)
In light of women's underrepresentation in student government, this paper investigates to what extent levels of political ambition... Go to Article » The Weakest Link: Credible Deterrence Threats and Alliance Entrapment
(12/31/12)
Over the past 20 years, the international order has been characterized by the conflict between the United States' desire for isolationism... Go to Article » Minorities and Homelessness in the United States and Europe: A Comparative Analysis
(12/26/12)
This study asks the question of why minorities are so overrepresented among the homeless, with a focus on the United States and Europe... Go to Article » The Tongue of the Learned: How the Elaboration Likelihood Model and Group Communication Can Improve Biblical Literacy
(12/18/12)
Interest in the intersection of religion and politics has grown in salience in the Post-9/11 era. Recent scholarship purports that... Go to Article » Democracy Up Close in Somaliland: Reflections of an International Election Observer
(12/17/12)
In May 1991, Somaliland emerged as a self-declared independent state in the aftermath of the failure and subsequent collapse of Siyad... Go to Article » International Law Reconsidered: Is International Law Actually Law?
(12/13/12)
While in many cases it serves as a stabilizing factor in the international system, and can even be called a force for good, international... Go to Article » Lessons on Government from one Non-State Entity to Another: How the Irish Republican Movement Informs Hezbollah's Attempt at the Clausewitzian Political Arm
(11/01/12)
The great nineteenth-century military theorist Carl von Clausewitz changed the art of war forever with his masterwork, “On War... Go to Article » Revisions to Lipset's Economic Theory of Democratic Development: India as a Case Study
(11/01/12)
Seymour M. Lipset dubbed economic development a “social requisite to democracy,” considering factors such as national... Go to Article » Should the Responsibility to Protect be Enshrined in International Law?
(11/01/12)
While states admit a moral responsibility to take action against states that violate human rights and international criminal law,... Go to Article » Campaign of Devastation: Assessing Motives for the Russian Government's 1999-2000 Destruction of Chechnya
(11/01/12)
In 1999, the Russian government all but razed Chechnya’s capital city of Groznyy. The Russian military devastated Chechnya,... Go to Article » A Pacifist in the Pacific: Past, Present, and Future United States Policy Towards Myanmar
(11/01/12)
Myanmar, sitting on the border between South and Southeast Asia, reflects a historically oppressive state with internal struggle as... Go to Article » Habermas's Linguistic Theory Applied to David Mamet's Films: Communicative Action in Action
(10/31/12)
Jürgen Habermas - a prominent German philosopher and critical social theorist - offers a theory of language use that identifies... Go to Article » Diverging Discontent: Examining the PATRIOT Act's Passage in Congress Under the Bush Administration
(10/23/12)
On October 26, 2001, President George W. Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.... Go to Article » Maternal Mortality in Nepal: Addressing the Issue
(10/22/12)
Each year around 358,000 women die because of complications during pregnancy or childbirth and many more encounter serious problems... Go to Article » Non-Traditional Therapies in Forensic Populations: Benefits of Human-Animal Interaction, Art Therapy, and Meditation-Based Interventions
(10/16/12)
Unique challenges are present in therapy when working with mentally ill offenders in a correctional setting. In order to encourage... Go to Article » Obtaining Justice for Victims of Strangulation in Domestic Violence: Evidence Based Prosecution and Strangulation-Specific Training
(10/10/12)
Strangulation accounts for 10-percent of violent deaths in the United States, with six female victims to every male victim. A common... Go to Article » Reevaluating the Role of Women in Beowulf
(09/30/12)
This essay explores the roles of women in Beowulf in a contextual assessment. It is often an incorrect assumption that women within... Go to Article » Reevaluating the Role of Women in Beowulf
(09/30/12)
This essay explores the roles of women in Beowulf in a contextual assessment. It is often an incorrect assumption that women within... Go to Article » A Nation Divided: Civil War Politics and Emancipation
(09/28/12)
The Emancipation Proclamation was arguably the United States’ first step away from hypocrisy and toward true racial equality... Go to Article » From Proto-State to Para-State Accountability: Russian Political Regimes Under Yeltsin, Putin, and Medvedev
(09/26/12)
When on September 24th, 2011 Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin announced his bid to run for president in the presidential... Go to Article » Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in Nepal: Good Public Health Intention Gone Bad
(09/25/12)
Nepal is a small developing country in South Asia, bordered by China to the north and India to the south, east and west. With a total... Go to Article » Ignoring Islam: U.S. Education in Need of Intervention
(09/24/12)
The United States’ education system is unprepared to discuss Islam, despite the pertinence of religious education in the modern... Go to Article » A Rhetorical Examination of the Product Keynotes of Steve Jobs
(09/19/12)
Upon Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ death in October 2011, he was mourned worldwide as an innovator who changed the landscape of the... Go to Article » Limiting Values of Democracy and Competing Views on Materialism in American Society: Comparing Kirk and Nedelsky
(09/18/12)
Limits lie at the heart of the American political system. No governmental body or figure has unlimited authority—all are checked... Go to Article » Assessing the Impact of "Three Strikes" Laws on Crime Rates and Prison Populations in California and Washington
(09/16/12)
The efficacy of three strikes laws has been a topic of contention among researchers since the first such piece of legislation was... Go to Article » The Role and Impact of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Taking Satire Seriously On A "Daily Show" Basis
(09/06/12)
Throughout the past decade, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has expanded its depth of analysis and impacted the political process... Go to Article » Analyzing the Criminalization of Sex Purchasers and the Provision of Immunity in Ireland
(09/04/12)
In Ireland, the Turn Off the Red Light Campaign is currently lobbying for the criminalization of the act of purchasing sex services... Go to Article » A Multi-State Analysis of Correctional Boot Camp Outcomes: Identifying Vocational Rehabilitation as a Complement to Shock Incarceration
(09/02/12)
This paper evaluates the outcomes of various correctional boot camp and shock incarceration programs from three U.S. states. It examines... Go to Article » Self-Esteem and Trust: Correlation Between Self-Esteem and Willingness to Trust in Undergraduate Students
(08/29/12)
Previous studies have shown a correlation between low self-esteem, loneliness, and social connectedness (McWhirter, 1997). These are... Go to Article » Lucius Sergius Catalina: Villain or Victim? The Famed Cicero as a Violent Aggressor
(08/28/12)
Marcus Tullius Cicero is among the more well-known of ancient Roman men. Many know the name and can identify him as having been a... Go to Article » The Impact of Parental Marital Status on Gender Ideology
(08/27/12)
Even in the new millennium, divorce is a taboo subject. Society is inundated with statistics reporting high rates of divore, that... Go to Article » Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan as Third-Party Propagators: Categorizing the Participation of Private Security Companies
(08/23/12)
A public good is defined as a product or service that is both non-rival and non-excludable, meaning that one cannot withhold it from... Go to Article » Mobile Phone Contamination by Microorganisms in Health Facilities: Comparing Health Care Workers and Patient Visitors in a Post-Operative Pediatric ICU
(08/22/12)
Background: Mobile phones (MPs) come in close contact with the body and serve as a ready surface for colonization. The aim of this... Go to Article » Redefining the Elegy in the Twentieth Century: Thomas Hardy's The Convergence of the Twain And Sylvia Plath's Daddy
(08/21/12)
Forms of poetry are constantly changing as authors stray from what is conventional and familiar, and delve into what is new and different... Go to Article » Seeking Sustainability: Adopting Sustainable and Renewable Energy Sources to Create a Maintable World
(08/15/12)
Nelson Mandela once said, "You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself." This quote is particularly applicable... Go to Article » Globalization's Peace: The Impact of Economic Connections on State Aggression and Systemic Conflict
(08/14/12)
The question of whether economic relations have an impact on interstate military conflict has divided scholars and political thinkers... Go to Article » Not Just a Game: Sport and Society in the United States
(08/12/12)
Sports are an essential and important aspect of American society; they are indispensible when it comes to their impact on a plethora... Go to Article » Not Just a Game: Sport and Society in the United States
(08/12/12)
Sports are an essential and important aspect of American society; they are indispensible when it comes to their impact on a plethora... Go to Article » John Temple Graves and the 'Lost Tribe:' An Analysis of "The Big World At Last Reaches Gee's Bend"
(08/08/12)
An exhibition entitled “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend” opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in November... Go to Article » Ethical Considerations in Criminal Justice Research: Informed Consent and Confidentiality
(08/07/12)
Experiments involving human subjects are increasingly utilized in criminal justice research. However, these studies present relatively... Go to Article » Trade and Conflict in South Asia: Examining the Relationship Between Trade Interdependence and Militarized Conflict
(08/06/12)
The relationship between trade and conflicts between countries in South Asia is important to examine because of the rising prominence... Go to Article » Containment and the Cold War: Reexaming the Doctrine of Containment as a Grand Strategy Driving US Cold War Interventions
(08/03/12)
By retracing shifts in the meaning, usage, and perception of the doctrine of ‘Soviet containment’, this article provides... Go to Article » Voice Therapy: A Safe and Effective Alternative to Voice Surgery
(08/02/12)
The voice is perhaps one of the most important functions of the human body, as it permits individuals to speak their thoughts and... Go to Article » Lessons of Darkness in the Context of Carroll's Erotetic Narrative
(07/30/12)
In his essay, “An Aesthetic Reality,” Andre Bazin writes, “Let us agree, by and large, that film sought to give... Go to Article » Are We All Keynesians Now? Political Ideology and State Deficit Spending in the Great Recession
(07/25/12)
The “Great Recession” of 2008 resulted in unprecedented levels of state deficit spending.[1] However, even though deficits... Go to Article » The Eternal Search for Truth: A Comparative Analysis of Marie Denise Viller's A Young Woman Drawing and George De La Tour's The Penitent Magdalen
(07/23/12)
The search for truth is a struggle that has plagued humanity since the dawn of time. At the core of all human beings is an authentic... Go to Article » Green Alliances: Collaboration Between Businesses and Environmental Advocacy Organizations
(07/20/12)
The notion of radical, restless environmental activists clashing with conservative, dollar-hungry businesses represents a classic... Go to Article » Cultural Issues in the Higher Education Classroom
(07/14/12)
Multicultural and multilingual classrooms have become the norm in many educational (and professional) settings throughout the U.S.... Go to Article » The Mystery of Miracles: Examining Religious Providence in the Sixteenth-Century Captivity Narratives of Hans Staden and Cabeza de Vaca
(07/06/12)
Miracles are a complex and fascinating phenomenon. Accounts throughout history have detailed remarkable instances of what people have... Go to Article » Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Struggle Against Society and Nature
(07/02/12)
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was a bold piece of fiction in its time, and protagonist Edna Pontellier was a controversial character... Go to Article » The Challenges of Climate Change Policy: Explaining the Failure of Cap and Trade in the United States With a Multiple-Streams Framework
(06/26/12)
With their long-term orientation, environmental problems present a unique challenge to the system of policymaking in the United States... Go to Article » Defense of Insanity in Ireland: Present Law and its Application to Psychopaths
(06/22/12)
Propositions for the reform of the criminal law concerning insanity had been debated in Ireland for decades. The factors, which undoubtedly... Go to Article » Food, Love and Death in Norman's 'night Mother
(06/17/12)
Marsha Norman’s 1983 play‘night Mother is full of food imagery and references. From the opening stage directions to Jessie... Go to Article » Global Governance and the Environment: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Global Governance in Tackling Contemporary Environmental Issues
(06/13/12)
"Global Governance" is the buzzword of the moment in international relations. A rapidly emerging political discourse centered on environmental... Go to Article » Adolescent Eating Disorders: Summary Overview, Common Causes, and Counseling Methods
(06/10/12)
Eating disorders have plagued society for many centuries. Since the ancient times of Saint Catherine of Siena and Julius Caesar to... Go to Article » The Impact of the Zapatista Movement on Women's Rights in Chiapas, Mexico
(05/31/12)
This paper seeks to determine the impact the Zapatista Movement had on women's rights in Chiapas, Mexico. I hypothesized that the... Go to Article » A New Missionary Method: Latin America as a Mission Field
(05/31/12)
Missionary work has been an integral part of community development in Latin America. However, does missionary work actually impact... Go to Article » Worlds of Potential: Funding for Community-Based Organizations in Nairobi, Kenya
(05/31/12)
Despite a proliferation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) in Kibera, the largest informal... Go to Article » What's Wrong with Just War Theory? Examining the Gendered Bias of a Longstanding Tradition
(05/28/12)
The project of just war theory has enjoyed a long and distinguished pedigree, dating back to the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy. Over... Go to Article » European Union Citizenship: More Than Merely Financial Integration
(05/25/12)
Is European Citizenship merely a mechanism for a deepening financial integration of the European Union? Or is there a deeper meaning... Go to Article » Zora Neale Hurston's Sweat and the Black Female Voice: The Perspective of the African-American Woman
(05/23/12)
Zora Neale Hurston is the author of the acclaimed short story Sweat. The story was published in 1926, an incredible accomplishment... Go to Article » Sovereignty Over Airspace: International Law, Current Challenges, and Future Developments for Global Aviation
(05/21/12)
The issue of sovereignty lies at the very heart of international aviation because all aviation relations are built upon it. The purpose... Go to Article » Stroke Rehabilitation and Neuroplasticity: Efficacy and Methods Available
(05/17/12)
A stroke is defined by the Stroke Association as a ‘brain attack’, where part of the brain is deprived of oxygen. It is... Go to Article » The Invisible Bruise: Complexities of Protecting Children from Emotional Abuse and Psychological Maltreatment
(05/14/12)
This paper presents and evaluates the varying roadblocks that make identifying and assessing emotional abuse to children so complex... Go to Article » Duty in the Face of Defeat: The Confederate Soldier's Perseverance
(05/11/12)
By 1864 and 1865, the effects of three years of war were like symptoms of a terrible disease afflicting the Confederacy. Internal... Go to Article » Examining the Foundations of Documentary Film Through The Cove
(05/02/12)
Directed by Louie Psihoyos, The Cove (2009) is an Oscar-winning documentary that follows Psihoyos and a crew of devoted dolphin activists... Go to Article » Examing the Social Impacts of French Education Reforms in Tonkin, Indochina (1906-1938)
(04/17/12)
Education reforms were among the most invested projects of French Indochina. The colonial government introduced them for several purposes... Go to Article » Deconstructing the Camarena Affair and the Militarized United States-Mexico Border
(04/15/12)
Recently, the state of the United States-Mexico border has assumed primary importance in American domestic politics. And with that... Go to Article » The Consequences of Rape During Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(04/15/12)
"I rape because of the need. After that I feel like a man." These are the words of a rebel soldier who ruthlessly roams the forests... Go to Article » Banning Evil: Cluster Munitions and the Successful Formation of a Global Prohibition Regime
(04/15/12)
The rise and entry into force of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) that prohibits cluster bombs constitutes a global... Go to Article » The War Lovers (Again): What the Foreign Policy Advisers of Presidential Candidates May Tell Us About Future U.S. Foreign Policy
(04/15/12)
Evan Thomas's recent book, The War Lovers, chronicles the "monumental turning point" of the U.S. declaration of war against Spain... Go to Article » Placebo Administration to Depressed Patients: An Analysis of the Ethics of the Placebo in Clinical Practice
(04/10/12)
According to recent estimates, over nine percent of the United States population has some degree of depression—a proportion... Go to Article » Russia and Iran: Strategic Partners or Competing Regional Hegemons? A Critical Analysis of Russian-Iranian Relations in the Post-Soviet Space
(04/07/12)
Russia and Iran have a long history of being geographic neighbours, rivals, competitors and partners - a history which has coined... Go to Article » Comparing Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Kate Chopin's The Awakening
(04/07/12)
On the surface, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair do not have anything in common. The Awakening features... Go to Article » Weber and Nagel on Values in the Social and Natural Sciences
(03/27/12)
Due to their different subject matter, the way in which social and natural science inquiries are conducted differs. For some, this... Go to Article » Cyber Terrorism and IR Theory: Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism in the New Security Threat
(03/23/12)
The Internet is the world’s great equalizer. As the driving force behind globalization and modern progress, the Internet has... Go to Article » The Changing Shape of America's Youth: Combating Childhood Obesity Using the School Nurse
(03/23/12)
Drive past a playground where children are playing and one thing is clear: the children of today come in all different shapes and... Go to Article » Cablegate and Watergate: More Namesake than Legacy
(03/20/12)
Just a few months after making international news in early 2010 for releasing confidential reports on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars... Go to Article » The Constitutionality of the Patriot Act: Examining Section 213
(03/16/12)
In the aftermath of September 11, Congress was eager to put laws on the books to prevent another attack. In an unprecedented spirit... Go to Article » Free Speech and Abortion Clinics: Protesters, Security, and Patients' Rights
(03/14/12)
Since Roe v. Wade affirmed the constitutional right to abortion in 1974, antiabortion activists have used various forms of protesting... Go to Article » William Tyndale: Contribution to the English Language and Father of the English Bible
(02/23/12)
The English language is constantly changing. More and more editions of the Webster’s Dictionary are being published every decade... Go to Article » Watergate and the Washington Post: Questionable Tactics in Service to Democracy
(02/23/12)
In their introduction to Journalism: The Democratic Craft, G. Stuart Adam and Roy Peter Clark write that “journalism is one... Go to Article » Computer-Mediated Communication and Globalization: Considering Social, Academic, and Business Factors
(02/22/12)
“Most of us are surrounded by communication channels and tools that keep us constantly connected to sources of information and... Go to Article » Climate Change Negotiations in Montreal, Kyoto, and Copenhagen: Analyzing Negotiation Components and Techniques
(02/16/12)
Climate change negotiations have been on the international stage for almost four decades. They have a complex history, and act as... Go to Article » What Riot? Punk Rock Politics, Fascism, and Rock Against Racism
(01/30/12)
The punk-rock movement or youth subculture of late seventies Britain was and is, even today, the cause of much controversy. It has... Go to Article » The Right of Return: An Obstacle on the Road to Peaceful Negotiations Between Israel and Palestine
(01/29/12)
The level of displacement surrounding the Israel-Palestinian conflict is astounding. At this point there are over nine million Palestinian... Go to Article » A Preservationist's Perspective on Levittown Communities: Urban Planning and Design's Awkward Dilemma
(01/27/12)
Suburban housing is the backbone of an unsustainable living pattern. Long commutes to work and long drives for groceries, other supplies... Go to Article » Fate, Fortune, and Timon of Athens: Reinterpreting The Senecan Chorus
(01/25/12)
In Seneca's tragedies, the Roman playwright and philosopher employed the concept of fate and fortune to structure the outcome of characters... Go to Article » Literature as a Social Tool: Education and Cohesion or Class Domination?
(01/13/12)
English literature is all-encompassing: it ranges from societal utilitarianism of the didactic through to the celebration of individualism... Go to Article » Fraternity and Social Change in the Digital Age: The It Gets Better Project in the March of Online Fraternity
(01/02/12)
Throughout the ages, communication has impacted human interactions and relationships. The dawning of the digital age has changed communication... Go to Article » How Will the Crisis in the European Single Currency Change the Direction of Intergration Europe?
(01/01/12)
This essay will analyse the on-going events in the Eurozone single currency area. It will look at the current sovereign debt crisis... Go to Article » States' Interests and Migrant Rights: A Legal Dilemma?
(01/01/12)
The strict regulations for immigration fuels the smuggling of irregular migrants, however, amongst the irregular migrants are genuine... Go to Article » Superbrands, Globalization, and Neoliberalism: Exploring Causes and Consequences of the Nike Superbrand
(12/29/11)
The rise of superbrands has many implications for the nature of work, workers, and organizations. This paper explores superbrands... Go to Article » Effects of Globalization on Work and Organizations: Exploring Post-Industrialism, Post-Fordism, Work and Management in the Global Era
(12/18/11)
As we move from Fordism to Post-Fordism and from Industrialism to Post-Industrialism, the new Market that prevails under Globalization... Go to Article » Effects of Globalization on Work and Organizations: Exploring Post-Industrialism, Post-Fordism, Work and Management in the Global Era
(12/18/11)
As we move from Fordism to Post-Fordism and from Industrialism to Post-Industrialism, the new Market that prevails under Globalization... Go to Article » Jane Austen's Unnamed Character: Exploring Nature in Pride and Prejudice (2005)
(12/12/11)
The 2005 film Pride & Prejudice opens with sound rather than picture, but it is not the expected man-made musical score that fills... Go to Article » Debating Genetics as a Predictor of Criminal Offending and Sentencing
(11/14/11)
Since the beginning of criminological research there has been an ongoing debate on the correlation between genetic characteristics... Go to Article » A Q-Methodological Study of Male Attitudes Towards Testicular Cancer and Testicular Self-Examination
(11/08/11)
This study used Q-methodology in order to explore the diverse range of meanings and understandings that young males construct in relation... Go to Article » The Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Satiric Perspective on Courtly Love
(11/03/11)
In Plautus’ Roman Comedies, the stock character of the slave employs mistaken identity or a disguise to deceive his master and... Go to Article » The Evolution of Revolution: Social Media in the Modern Middle East and its Policy Implications
(11/01/11)
Wael Ghonim, a 30-year-old Egyptian who works as an executive for Google, enjoyed a house in the United Arab Emirates with a pool... Go to Article » Information Technology and Control in the DPRK
(11/01/11)
In the Hermit Kingdom, information is a crucial resource. Its possession represents access to resource and weapons development techniques... Go to Article » The Illusion of US Isolationism
(11/01/11)
As of September 2011, the United States was involved, at different levels, in military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen... Go to Article » Militarization of Aid and its Implications for Colombia
(11/01/11)
The US has increasingly turned to using the military to administer humanitarian aid in recent years. This process has come under attack... Go to Article » Racial Uplift: Acculturation to the Dominant Culture in Contending Forces by Pauline E. Hopkins
(10/27/11)
Domestic fiction reigned in women’s literature during the nineteenth-century. These narratives defined ”True Womanhood... Go to Article » The Media's Sexualization of Female Athletes: A Bad Call for the Modern Game
(10/24/11)
Since the early 20th century, the feminist movement has made enormous strides to improve the status of female athletes. Prior to the... Go to Article » Addiction to Altering States: Observable Tendencies Attributed to Learning and Neurology
(10/20/11)
The observable tendency of a person to repeat the use of drugs, and continue use in spite of possible or real negative consequences... Go to Article » Remote Causes and Counseling Implications of Examination Malpractice in Nigeria
(10/17/11)
This study considers the remote causes of examination malpractice in the Nigerian education system with a view to suggest new ways... Go to Article » Huntington's Clash of Civilizations in Yugoslavia
(10/10/11)
While Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations presents a compelling argument for the events that happened in the former Yugoslavia... Go to Article » The Legacy of International Cooperation at the Nuremberg Trials
(10/04/11)
On November 21, 1945, Robert H. Jackson, the Chief Prosecutor for the United States of America opened the prosecution’s case... Go to Article » Antifertility Effects of Aqueous Extract of Phyllanthus Niruri in Male Albino Rats
(09/26/11)
The effects of aqueous extract of P.niruri on epididymal sperm characteristics, fructose and testosterone levels in male albino rats... Go to Article » The Restorative Forces of Balance in Stephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh
(09/20/11)
Stephen Mitchell’s interpretation of the 3500 year old Sumerian epic, Gilgamesh, offers valuable lessons behind its monster-... Go to Article » Begging for Change: A Comparative Analysis of How the Media Frames Domestic and International Poverty
(09/19/11)
Today, approximately 50% of the world, over three billion people, lives on less than $2.50 U.S. dollars a day. Despite poverty&rsquo... Go to Article » The Macdonald Sisters: How They Visually Created Equality Between Men and Women
(09/13/11)
The prevailing issue of fin-de-siècle France was the increasing autonomy of women. Independence for women threatened traditional... Go to Article » Selling the 'Wild': Challenges Facing Volunteer Based Conservation Projects
(09/12/11)
Volunteer conservation is a rapidly growing sub-sector of eco-tourism where fee-paying volunteers travel to developing countries to... Go to Article » The Model Minority: Asian-American Youth and the Harmful Perpetuation of a Cultural Myth
(09/08/11)
My living room piano speaks loudly through its stillness. Drawn to the haunting beauty of its polished black wood, visitors would... Go to Article » European Enlargement: A Normative Perspective
(09/01/11)
It was commonplace among academics of the 1970s to share an understanding of the frozen nature of international relations during the... Go to Article » The Importance of the Lisbon Treaty in the Future Governance of Europe, and the Necessity for Further Revision
(09/01/11)
The Treaty of Lisbon1 has had effects on the workings of the European Union, and has significant implications both for how it functions... Go to Article » What are the Benefits and Challenges of the Economic and Monetary Union?
(09/01/11)
The Economic Monetary Union (EMU) is the end point of an ambitious and historic stage of integrated market changes1 that not only... Go to Article » The Resurgence of Russia and its Relations with Europe: A True Transformation or a Superficial Change?
(09/01/11)
The first decade of the twenty-first century was a period of change for Russia. The crisis of the 1990s was/were overcome and its... Go to Article » Privatization: Analyzing the Process of Privatization in Theory and Practice
(08/29/11)
Privatization is the practice of engaging the private sector in some aspect of the functions and responsibilities of government operations... Go to Article » Ronan Bennett's The Catastrophist: Paralleling Ireland and Congo
(08/26/11)
In The Catastrophist, Ronan Bennett draws on events in Ireland to frame the political situation in the Congo and depicts political... Go to Article » Political and Social Change and its Depictions in 19th Century French and English Caricature: Decapitation, Dismemberment, and Defecation
(08/15/11)
The function of caricature within the public sphere can be described as a subversive weapon.[1] It can be said that caricature as... Go to Article » The Technological Evolution of Filmmaking and its Relation to Quality in Cinema
(08/13/11)
The development of motion picture complexity has been driven by a continuing technological evolution, ignited and manipulated by human... Go to Article » Mining in Latin America: The Interplay Between Natural Resources, Development, and Freedom
(08/08/11)
The extraction of non-renewable natural resources in the form of large-scale mining projects has intensified in recent years in Latin... Go to Article » Examining Postpartum Depression Symptoms and Treatment
(08/05/11)
Postpartum Depression also referred to as Postpartum Major Depression (PMD), “occurs in approximately 10 percent of childbearing... Go to Article » Debating Voluntary Human Adult Euthanasia
(08/03/11)
One of the fastest growing medical phenomena is that of human euthanasia. No matter what the argument or the entity involved, the... Go to Article » Free Play: Unmasking and Ending the Exploitation of NCAA Student Athletes
(07/19/11)
The current system of collegiate football and basketball in America’s universities is littered with corruption caused by the... Go to Article » The Historical Jesus: What Can We Really Learn?
(07/11/11)
Whether or not one believes in the theology attached to him, it is impossible to deny the effect that Jesus has had on humanity. Movements... Go to Article » Duke Ellington's Jazz Narrative of the African-American: Black, Brown, and Beige
(06/29/11)
To assume the task of narrating the history of an overtly oppressed race is a daunting responsibility. Nonetheless, Edward Kennedy... Go to Article » Appropriation in Contemporary Art
(06/22/11)
Appropriation refers to the act of borrowing or reusing existing elements within a new work. Post-modern appropriation artists, including... Go to Article » Appropriation in Contemporary Art
(06/22/11)
Appropriation refers to the act of borrowing or reusing existing elements within a new work. Post-modern appropriation artists, including... Go to Article » Satire in 18th Century British Society: Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal
(06/17/11)
The 18th century was one in which exaltation of wit and reason came to the forefront of literature in the form of both Horatian and... Go to Article » Satire in 18th Century British Society: Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal
(06/17/11)
The 18th century was one in which exaltation of wit and reason came to the forefront of literature in the form of both Horatian and... Go to Article » An Ethnography of Water Birth and its Representations on YouTube
(06/16/11)
The purpose of this qualitative research study is to report semi-structured interview narratives from sixteen parents who had given... Go to Article » Jazz Writing: Identity and Multiculturalism in Jazz Literature
(06/14/11)
Jazz is not a solitary art. Its form does not only reveal itself in the music. Jazz finds manifestation in many other forms of expression... Go to Article » Implementation of Multi Input Power Converter for Grid Connected Hybrid Renewable Energy Generation System
(06/10/11)
The objective of this paper is to propose a novel multi-input power converter for the grid-connected hybrid renewable energy system... Go to Article » Nigromancy in the Later Middle Ages
(06/09/11)
The struggle of the early modern church against witchcraft is rightly famous. However, before they were hunting woman flying on broomsticks... Go to Article » Nuclear Weapons Testing in the United States: Sacrificing Health for National Defense
(06/01/11)
As WWII ended, and the Cold War began, America began to strengthen its national defense against the Soviet Union. Alliances were created... Go to Article » Temptation and the Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring
(05/31/11)
Published in 1954, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is a follow-up to his 1937 book, The Hobbit. An epic fantasy... Go to Article » Creation and Rebellion in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
(05/25/11)
Perusing famous works of literature, one would be hard pressed to find a volume that does not concern itself with the relationship... Go to Article » Vehicles for Story: Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on Defining African Literature, Preserving Culture and Self
(05/20/11)
The historic 1962 conference at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda brought together scholars and writers from various parts of... Go to Article » The Effect of CEDAW Ratification in Central Asia
(05/16/11)
Despite the increasing number of states that have ratified binding international human rights treaties, human rights abuses continue... Go to Article » Adorno's Bach-Schoenberg Connection: Frivolity and Expectation
(05/11/11)
Theodor Adorno’s 1967 essay on Arnold Schoenberg[1] makes an excellent case for the great composer as a spiritual successor... Go to Article » Dissociative Identity Disorder: Overview and Current Research
(05/09/11)
This paper entails a description of factors related to diagnosis and treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Epidemiology, including... Go to Article » Improving Grid Power Quality With FACTS Device on Integration of Wind Energy System
(04/29/11)
Renewable energy sources, which are expected to be a promising alternative energy source, can bring new challenges when connected... Go to Article » The State of Democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(04/28/11)
The problems associated with democratic reform in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are manifold. While the name of the country... Go to Article » Custine, Tocqueville, and Intellectual Autonomy in Comparative Politics
(04/20/11)
The most obvious and immediate difference between Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and Astolphe de Custine&rsquo... Go to Article » Dramatic Therapy: Stylish Re-enactments in Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie
(04/18/11)
Alfred Hitchcock’s first three films of the 1960s, Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie, feature alliterative blonde bombshell leads... Go to Article » Governmentality and the Deportation of Eastern European Roma in Italy and France
(04/15/11)
This case study asks the following question: given the symbol of the European Union as the ultimate supranational, rights-based, compliance... Go to Article » Divisive Economic Device? Understanding China's Choice to Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund
(04/15/11)
This essay seeks to elucidate the puzzle of China's policy decision to create a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF). Much literature has been... Go to Article » The Odd Couple: Modernization and Democratization in Southeast Asia
(04/15/11)
Seymour Martin Lipset's, "the more well-to-do a nation, the greater chances that it will sustain democracy,"1 has set off over five... Go to Article » Adapt-Qaeda: Analyzing the Relationship Between Ideology, Organizational Transformation, and the Exploitation of Information Technology
(04/15/11)
This paper traces and analyzes the organizational evolution of al-Qaeda from the late 1980s to the present day. It notes that al-... Go to Article » The Problems of Former USSR: Citizens in Russian-Latvian Relations
(04/15/11)
The problem of migration is one of the most urgent ones in the modern world. As a rule, people migrate voluntarily. In the USSR, however... Go to Article » Decentralization Examined: Conditions Dependent Path Towards Success
(04/15/11)
When a country undergoes the process of decentralization, it requires a transfer of authority, responsibility, and/ or resources from... Go to Article » Postmodernism in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
(04/14/11)
“No damn cat, and no damn cradle.” (Vonnegut 66). This quote encompasses the satiric postmodern themes of absolute truth... Go to Article » Interpreting Gawain: The Hermeneutics of Translation
(04/13/11)
In the Broadview Press edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, editor and translator James Winny makes a concerted effort to render... Go to Article » Brave New World and the Threat of Technological Growth
(04/11/11)
The world in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World has one goal: technological progress. The morals and aspirations of the society... Go to Article » Defining Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law
(04/08/11)
International Humanitarian Law, based on the concepts of jus ad bello, is defined to be the law of war. This means that the laws involved... Go to Article » Defining Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law
(04/08/11)
International Humanitarian Law, based on the concepts of jus ad bello, is defined to be the law of war. This means that the laws involved... Go to Article » Understanding Iran: Between Central Asia and the Gulf Cooperation Council
(04/05/11)
The Islamic Republic of Iran today sits at the crossroads of Asia between the Middle East and Central Asia. This inherently places... Go to Article » The Importance Of Canadian Identity: Michael Adams' Fire And Ice and Richard Bocking's Canada's Water
(04/01/11)
Michael Adams’ Fire and Ice and Richard Bocking’s excerpts from Water Export: The Canadian Response present two very distinct... Go to Article » Admirable Echoes: Intellectual Debts of Dramaturgical Sociology
(03/31/11)
Erving Goffman (June 11, 1922 – November 19, 1982) left an indelible imprint on contemporary sociological theory and research... Go to Article » Examining Intersectionality: The Conflation of Race, Gender, and Class in Individual and Collective Identities
(03/28/11)
As many cultural studies theorists have noted, identity is problematic (Hall, 1989; Ang, 2001; Brah, 1996). It is ambiguous because... Go to Article » The Politics of Transgression: History, Society, and the Individual in Postcolonial Literature
(03/25/11)
In two postcolonial novels, The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Secrets by Nuruddin Farah, both authors use the politics... Go to Article » Bipedalism: A Response to Climate and Other Evolutionary Pressures
(03/24/11)
Many theories regarding bipedalism in early hominids, as well as the advantages provided by bipedalism have arisen and have been debated... Go to Article » Using Online Forums in Language Learning and Education
(03/23/11)
Online forums are also known as discussion boards or message boards. They enable users of a website to interact with each other by... Go to Article » Ungoverned Space, Fragile States, and Global Threats: Deconstructing Linkages
(03/21/11)
It is widely recognized that state security is no longer contingent upon a balance of power or the threat of conquering states, but... Go to Article » The Negotiations at Brest-Litovsk: New York Times Coverage from January 1st to 12th, 1918
(03/18/11)
The New York Times coverage of negotiations at Brest-Litovsk between January 1 and January 12, 1918, reflected the newspaper's preoccupation... Go to Article » Transjordan and Israel: Examining the Foundations of a Special Relationship
(03/17/11)
With the Great Arab Revolt in 1915, the Hashemite family was catapulted to the forefront of Middle Eastern politics and became the... Go to Article » Immigration Policy and Controversy in Sweden and Denmark
(03/16/11)
Controversy, in its etymology, expresses a significant change to something deeply rooted. Hence, differing degrees of controversy... Go to Article » Combat Motivation During the First World War
(03/15/11)
This paper considers the combat motivations of British men during the First World War; why did men fight, and once in the trenches... Go to Article » Health and Nutritional Status of the Indian Tribes of Tripura and Effects on Education
(03/14/11)
Tribal communities in India mainly consist of forest dwellers who have accumulated a rich knowledge on the uses of various forests... Go to Article » 2010 Colorado Senate Race: How Bennet Defeated Buck
(03/08/11)
The 2010 Colorado Senate race was one of the most contentious and hard-fought races in the country during the 2010 election cycle.... Go to Article » Human Rights, Truth Commissions, and Anthropology in Latin America
(03/02/11)
In the aftermath of mass violence and terror, nations are left in a state of disillusionment, fear, and often a lack of state legitimacy... Go to Article » Rebecca West's "The Return of the Soldier": Analyzing the Interrelationship of Male and Female Traumas
(03/01/11)
Rebecca West’s 1918 novel The Return of the Soldier dissects the socioeconomic and psychological tensions wrought by the upheaval... Go to Article » Human History and the Natural World in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams and Yusef Komunyakaa
(02/28/11)
It is universally accepted that a poem, at least a “good” poem, should be able to stand by itself, to be able to strike... Go to Article » Disappearance and Death: The Fate of Chechen Human Rights Activists
(02/25/11)
The Republic of Chechnya in Russia’s North Caucasus region has drawn significant attention for being host to remarkable instability... Go to Article » United States Aid to Kenya: Regional Security and Counterterrorism Assistance Before and After 9/11
(02/22/11)
Following 9/11 and the beginning of the global War on Terror, it became obvious that the United States needed an ally in East Africa... Go to Article » The Effect of Troy's Rebirth on Aeneas's Transformation in the Aeneid
(02/18/11)
In the Aeneid, Virgil depicts the struggle of the newly displaced Trojans to find a new home, under the leadership of Aeneas. The... Go to Article » Thomas King's Medicine River as Associational Literature
(02/17/11)
Based on his own definition of the term in “Godzilla vs. Post-Colonial,” Thomas King has created a piece of associational... Go to Article » Hawaiian Biodiversity Loss Driven by Feral Ungulates
(02/16/11)
The activity of feral ungulates such as pigs, goats, and deer has resulted in extensive biodiversity loss in Hawaii. These animals... Go to Article » Resistance in Luci Tapahonso's "A Radiant Curve": The Application of European Poetic Form to Navajo Storytelling
(02/15/11)
Elements of defiance in the face of traditionally European ideals and practices are evident throughout Luci Tapahonso’s 2008... Go to Article » Patty Murray vs. Dino Rossi: Analyzing the 2010 Washington State Senatorial Race
(02/14/11)
The 2010 Washington State senatorial race was crucial for Republicans, as it could have earned the GOP a Senate majority and eliminated... Go to Article » The Formation of New Social Conventions in Early America
(02/11/11)
Early American society experienced moments of great change, politically, economically and socially. With the signing of the Declaration... Go to Article » Effects of Collectivistic and Individualistic Cultures on Imagination Inflation in Eastern and Western Cultures
(02/10/11)
Previous research suggests that culture influences our autobiographical memories. This study sought to determine if the collectivism... Go to Article » Effects of Collectivistic and Individualistic Cultures on Imagination Inflation in Eastern and Western Cultures
(02/10/11)
Previous research suggests that culture influences our autobiographical memories. This study sought to determine if the collectivism... Go to Article » The Relationship Between Gods and Humans in Aias and the Poetry of Sapphos
(02/09/11)
Reading Greek plays provides valuable insight into the relationships between gods and humans. While both gods and humans have fairly... Go to Article » Chinese Women and Christianity in the Late Imperial Era
(02/08/11)
Christianity has not gained a large number of adepts in China, if compared, for example, with Japan. But Christianity in China, in... Go to Article » Human Constructions and Changing Perceptions in W. G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn"
(02/07/11)
High school science textbooks are quick to point out that virtually everything in existence today was at some point formed by the... Go to Article » Transnational Waterstreams in the Middle East
(02/01/11)
Access to water has been a major factor in international relations for many centuries, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa1... Go to Article » Climate Finance: Breaking the Deadlock in Climate Change Negotiations?
(02/01/11)
In December 2009 the Danish capital, Copenhagen, hosted a convention of approximately 45,000 participants including 120 Heads of State... Go to Article » The Reign of Peter the Great
(01/28/11)
Peter the Great inherited a score of problems in the administration of his empire. Of course, through his well-known zest and ambition... Go to Article » The Reign of Peter the Great
(01/28/11)
Peter the Great inherited a score of problems in the administration of his empire. Of course, through his well-known zest and ambition... Go to Article » The Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind and Avenues for Improvement
(01/27/11)
President Obama has an immense task before him. In this upcoming year, he will be responsible for the long overdue reauthorization... Go to Article » Exploring Time in Folktales: Analyzing "Youth Without Age and Life Without Death" and "Where There Is No Death"
(01/18/11)
Youth without Age and Life without Death and Where there is No Death present the theme of time in opposite ways: while in Youth without... Go to Article » Incorporating Technology into the Modern English Language Arts Classroom
(01/17/11)
The mere mention of the English Language Arts content area, for many people, might conjure images of ancient, dusty tomes, the sound... Go to Article » You Owe Me: Examining a Generation of Entitlement
(01/14/11)
Once upon a time, in a land called America, people truly believed in a capitalist system. Citizens worked hard their entire lives... Go to Article » Comparing Marriage in Fitcher's Bird by the Brothers Grimm and Margaret Atwood's Bluebeard's Egg
(01/13/11)
Fitcher’s Bird, by the Brothers Grimm, and Margaret Atwood’s Bluebeard’s Egg present the theme of a woman’... Go to Article » Wine Appellation Regulation in the U.S. and France as a Response to Globalization
(01/12/11)
This paper explores the link between cultural identity and globalization through the lens of wine appellation regulations in the United... Go to Article » I Get By With A Little Help From My Bros: An Analysis of the Male Homosocial Relationship on 'How I Met Your Mother'
(01/09/11)
As children, we idolize the relationship of our parents. We watch their love and affection and assume that such relationships are... Go to Article » Fangbangers, Tin Soldiers, and Living Toys! Fictional Creatures Becoming 'Real'
(01/07/11)
The divide between human and non-human, real and not-real, is a problem frequently explored in texts about toys and undead creatures... Go to Article » The Great Gatsby's Relation to and Importance as a Work of Art
(01/06/11)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, as quoted by Matthew Bruccoli, recognized the importance of his own novel and its artistic achievements: &ldquo... Go to Article » Ending Ethnic Conflict and Creating Positive Peace in Rwanda and Sierra Leone
(01/04/11)
Although peace and pacifism are familiar ideas to most students today, for much of human history these concepts have been relegated... Go to Article » Preventive Security in the 21st Century: The Threats of the Threats
(01/03/11)
“Human security means protecting vital freedoms. It means protecting people from critical and pervasive threats and situations... Go to Article » In What Sense are Short Poetic Texts a Narrative?
(12/31/10)
We can categorize poetic texts into three distinct types: the narrative poem, or poem that tells a story; the epic poem, or a long... Go to Article » Hobbes' Leviathan and Views on the Origins of Civil Government: Conservatism by Covenant
(12/30/10)
In his seminal text, Leviathan, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes offers what was then a radically novel conception of the origins of... Go to Article » Vitamin D Insufficiency Due to Insufficient Exposure to Sunlight and Related Pathology
(12/27/10)
Vitamin D has long been considered important for bone health because it aids in the absorption of calcium into the bone tissue. However... Go to Article » Review of John Bernard's Theatricality and Textuality: The Example of 'Othello'
(12/20/10)
Work for Review: Bernard, John. “Theatricality and Textuality: The Example of ‘Othello’.” New Literary History... Go to Article » "All the World's a Stage": Shakespeare's Theatrum Mundi of Romance
(12/14/10)
The idea of the Theatrum Mundi (literally the world stage) is an apt metaphor for Shakespeare’s world-view. In many of his plays... Go to Article » The Politics of Cooperation: Analyzing the Relationship Between China, Australia, and the U.S.
(12/13/10)
John Howard, then-Prime Minister of Australia, claimed that, ‘I count it as one of the great successes of this country&rsquo... Go to Article » Wartime Rationing During World War II and the Effect of Public Opinion in Great Britain and Austria
(12/09/10)
During World War II, a key aspect of almost every country’s wartime strategy focused heavily on limiting domestic consumption... Go to Article » No Child Left Behind: A Failing Attempt at Reform
(12/07/10)
Testing has changed in many ways since it first appeared with the beginning of public education led by Horace Mann. Standardized testing... Go to Article » Group Therapies for the Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa
(12/06/10)
Eating disorders continue to increase in prevalence among adolescents, young men and women, as well as older adults, affecting nearly... Go to Article » Defining a Nation: The Power of the Nation and its Influence on Native American 'First Nations'
(11/29/10)
The term ‘nation’ is notoriously hard to define, not only because it has multiple meanings, but because the prevailing... Go to Article » The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: The Fate of the de Leon Family
(11/18/10)
In Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the de Léon family is in a perpetual hell, moving from struggle... Go to Article » Online Dating Study: User Experiences of an Online Dating Community
(11/15/10)
Increasingly, human interactions are being communicated by means of electronic, Internet-based medias. Readily available programs... Go to Article » Female Cyberbullying: Causes and Prevention Strategies
(11/12/10)
In recent months, the epidemic of bullying in the United States has received widespread attention in the news media. Though bullying... Go to Article » The Water Crisis: A Quest to Conserve Our Planet's Most Precious Resource
(11/11/10)
We are at war. Yes, I said it. We are at war. We are at war, with ourselves, against ourselves, and by that, I mean we are damaging... Go to Article » The Equivocal Nature of Exploitation: How Poor Workers in Developing Nations Exploit Capitalist Greed for a Profit
(11/08/10)
Learning to play guitar is painful. For the first months, the coarse steel of the guitar strings shreds the soft skin of the player... Go to Article » Analysis of John Keats's "When I Have Fears:" Death & The Freedom of Limitations
(11/04/10)
John Keats’s “When I Have Fears” has often been read as a poem about a poet and his fear of mortality. Such a fear... Go to Article » Obese, Female, & Nude: Epistemological Satire or Sociological Critique?
(11/03/10)
Historically, female models in photographic art have depicted an ideological construction of the female body which women, regardless... Go to Article » Corn Subsidies Make Me Sick (and Fat)
(11/02/10)
There are few government policies disheartening enough to make me lose sleep at night. But of those few, the subsidization of the... Go to Article » Containing the Atom: Paul Nitze and the Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons
(11/01/10)
Immediately following the first and only uses of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, President Truman described nuclear stewardship... Go to Article » The Public Sphere's Private Intelligence
(11/01/10)
Supporters of “green-badgers”—the nickname given to contractors working inside the American intelligence community... Go to Article » The Same Bed: Articulating a Continuity Thesis in US-China Policy
(11/01/10)
This analysis of U.S.-China relations was motivated by what I perceived to be misplaced "controversy" over Obama's China visit in... Go to Article » The Politics of Asian Regionalism in Korea: Identity Politics and Its Implications for U.S.-ROK Relations
(11/01/10)
Drawing from the concept of national identity in the Constructivist School of International Relations, this paper sheds light on the... Go to Article » The Matthaean Exception Clause: A 21st Century Interpretation
(10/27/10)
Sexism is not unique to Christianity; however, in the Christian religion many of those who identify themselves as Christian fundamentalists... Go to Article » English Student Resource Guide: Annotated Bibliography of Four General Dictionaries
(10/22/10)
This bibliography will be especially helpful to beginners who wish to begin a comparative study of dictionaries or philosophies of... Go to Article » English Student Resource Guide: Annotated Bibliography of Various English Resources
(10/22/10)
This bibliography will be helpful to the English student looking for particular kinds of resources on the English language. It will... Go to Article » Libido and Thanatos in Tobias Wolff's "The Night in Question"
(10/18/10)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca once said that “All art is but imitation of nature” (Bartlett’s 106) and this has held true... Go to Article » Female Writers in the 18th Century: The Power of Imagination
(10/15/10)
Female writers of the Eighteenth Century often focused on the role of the female imagination in novel writing, poetry composition,... Go to Article » Memory Replacement, Confabulation, and Repression: Remembering Creatively
(10/14/10)
The specific purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the factors that would permit an individual to dissociate himself from his... Go to Article » Qi (Chi) in James Cameron's Avatar
(10/12/10)
A nine-foot-tall, royal blue giant creeps low to the ground, brushing by exotic foliage. He holds a proportionally large bow and arrow... Go to Article » Reconsidering Constitutional Theory in the Global Age: Structure, Finance, and Representation
(10/07/10)
We live in a time today similar to the beginning of the 20th century; then, industrial forces were rapidly changing (as seen in the... Go to Article » The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan: Explaining the Party's Ability to Dominate Japanese Politics
(10/06/10)
The Liberal Democratic Party’s largely uninterrupted dominance of Japanese politics must be ascribed to processes which transverse... Go to Article » Implications of the Split Brain: A Consideration of Nagel
(09/24/10)
In his article “Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness,” Thomas Nagel suggests that the ordinary conception of... Go to Article » The Death Penalty and Intellectual Disability
(09/21/10)
Should convicted criminals who are legally declared as mentally ill be excused from the death penalty? In 1981, Ricky Rector of Conway... Go to Article » Women in Ancient Japan: From Matriarchal Antiquity to Acquiescent Confinement
(09/15/10)
The role of women in ancient Japan elicits inconsistencies due to different influences that were integrated at various time periods... Go to Article » The Sobibor Revolt: "Death to the Fascists"
(09/14/10)
Between 1942 and 1943, 250,000 innocent Jews were systematically murdered at the Nazi death camp Sobibor (Blatt). An underground movement... Go to Article » Health Care Utilization in the Kenyan Health System: Challenges and Opportunities
(09/13/10)
A country of approximately 37 million people, Kenya has struggled to build a health system that can effectively deliver quality health... Go to Article » George Bush and the New York Times: A Contentious Relationship
(09/08/10)
George W. Bush’s relationship with the New York Times got off to a rocky start. At a campaign event in early September of 2000... Go to Article » Understanding Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD): To Medicate or not to Medicate?
(09/07/10)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), also known as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), has become increasingly prevalent... Go to Article » Crime and Development in Kenya: Emerging Trends and the Transnational Implications of Political, Economic, and Social Instability
(09/01/10)
Postcolonial Kenya has seen a significant amount of development, both politically and economically, since its independence in 1963... Go to Article » The Bush Administration Torture Policy: Origins and Consequences
(08/30/10)
In March of 2002, US intelligence and law enforcement agents, in collaboration with Pakistani security forces, raided a compound in... Go to Article » "And I of Ladies Most Deject and Wretched:" Diagnosing Shakespeare's Ophelia with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
(07/28/10)
If William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is “the most famous play in English literature,” his Ophelia is arguably the field... Go to Article » The Millenium Challenge Account: Foreign Aid and International Development Programs of the Bush Administration
(07/27/10)
The United States presidency is a complex role, encompassing both domestic and foreign policy responsibilities. As a major world power... Go to Article » A Critical Analysis of the Rwanda-Burundi Genocide and the Sociopolitical Implications of Colonial Rule in Africa
(07/22/10)
There has always been a great deal of intrigue as to why certain people and certain parts of the world are cursed with such a greater... Go to Article » Mysticism and Christianity in Early English Literature: Comparing Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(07/12/10)
The introduction of Christianity to England in 597 established a structured, uniform faith among a people accustomed to different... Go to Article » Aphra Behn's The Rover: Evaluating Women's Social and Sexual Options
(07/08/10)
Following the collapse of the Puritan Protectorate in 1660, the halls of court seemed to buzz with a festive attitude: “Out... Go to Article » Aphra Behn's The Rover: Evaluating Women's Social and Sexual Options
(07/08/10)
Following the collapse of the Puritan Protectorate in 1660, the halls of court seemed to buzz with a festive attitude: “Out... Go to Article » The Bush Presidency: Undermining the Separation Between Church and State
(07/01/10)
The Establishment Clause is an important element of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It states that “Congress shall... Go to Article » Social Networking: Protecting Your Information and Personal Brand
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The Internet is a necessity in Americans’ lives and something that many access often throughout the day. Over 80% of students... Go to Article » The Taiwan Strait: From Civil War to Status Quo
(06/28/10)
In 2005, during a period of heightened tensions between China and Taiwan and with the United States deeply embroiled in two major... Go to Article » Japan's Multilateral Gambit: Leading the Charge Toward an East Asian Community
(06/24/10)
If Japan was a person, it would be an exceptionally wealthy yet rapidly aging individual, who, for two decades, had been struck by... Go to Article » How to Think About Iran: Demystifying a Complex International Challenge
(06/21/10)
"When can we expect a pro-Western, pro-business government in Iran?" asks a US government official in the quasi-fictitious film Syriana... Go to Article » The Horn of Africa: Critical Analysis of Conflict Management and Strategies for Success in the Horn's Future
(06/18/10)
Conflict management in the Horn of Africa has been relatively unsuccessful. Foreign colonialism created boundaries that have yet to... Go to Article » Cases and Controversies: George W. Bush's Appeals Court Nominations
(06/16/10)
In his eight years as President, George W. Bush appointed two Supreme Court justices, 61 Appeals Court judges, and 261 Federal District... Go to Article » President Bush, The Iraq Invasion, and "Enhanced Interrogation"
(06/16/10)
Martin Luther King, Jr. once wrote that “to ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.”[1] Although this statement... Go to Article » A Response to Tanzimat: Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Pan-Islamism
(05/14/10)
Under the rule of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II in the late nineteenth century the concept of Pan-Islamism, the concept that all Islamic... Go to Article » Colin Powell: Examining a Key Player in the Bush Administration
(05/13/10)
To understand an administration, you need to understand the key players. Through analyzing the Bush presidency, it is clear that the... Go to Article » The Bush Administration, Human Rights, and a Culture of Torture
(05/12/10)
For most Americans, 9/11 represents a turning point for our country. It is the beginning of a new chapter in our relations to the... Go to Article » Islamic Modernism: Responses to Western Modernization in the Middle East
(05/10/10)
By the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a large part of the Muslim world had begun to lose much of its cultural and political... Go to Article » Labor Relations Under the Bush Administration
(05/06/10)
On January 20, 2001, George W. Bush was sworn into office as America’s 43rd President. Bush stood out amongst his 42 predecessors... Go to Article » How Compassionate Was George W. Bush's Conservatism?
(05/05/10)
In this chapter, we will be observing the extent to which our 43rd President upheld his 2000 campaign promise to be a compassionate... Go to Article » Rationalizing Sexual Tourism: How Some Countries Benefit from Selling Sex
(04/22/10)
Brazil’s northeast coast has a perfect climate for a booming tourism industry. The beaches are unspoiled, the people are friendly... Go to Article » Epideictic Oratory in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
(04/21/10)
“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life. No matter who makes the claim, how... Go to Article » The Design of Absent Crisis: The Clinton Administration on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
(04/20/10)
The year 1993 was not a good one for Bill Clinton. An exception, perhaps, being the morning of January 20th when he stood at the west... Go to Article » The X Factor: How Malcolm X Internationalized the Civil Rights Movement
(04/15/10)
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... Go to Article » Influence Operations as Counterinsurgency: A Strategy of Divisiveness
(04/15/10)
"Our forces were vastly superior to the rebels. Then why couldn't we finish with them quickly? Because they managed to mobilize the... Go to Article » NATO's Dilemma: Asset Specificity and the Challenge of Securing Afghanistan
(04/15/10)
On the 60th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's founding, Afghanistan provides a unique opportunity for the alliance... Go to Article » Judging Wars: The International Politics of Humanitarian Adjudication
(04/15/10)
The past sixty years witnessed a global proliferation of international courts and tribunals of almost all sizes and purposes. Today... Go to Article » Human Trafficking, the Japanese Commercial Sex Industry, and the Yakuza: Recommendations for the Japanese Government
(04/15/10)
Human trafficking is a global issue that is only recently being recognized with global action. The United Nations' Protocol to Prevent... Go to Article » Pragmatic Nationalism and Confucianism: The New Ideology of the CCP
(04/13/10)
Confucianism was one of the dominant political philosophies of Imperial China. Confucianism’s influence declined throughout... Go to Article » A Generation of Men Raised by Women: Gender Constructs in 'Fight Club'
(04/09/10)
Throughout history has existed a prevalent theme of men and women being reliant on one another, despite the significant—though... Go to Article » Major Development Challenges Facing the Republic of Angola: Completing the Democratic Transition and Making Government Work
(04/05/10)
Angola today is framed by a history of violent conflict that has left the population far behind on all major indicators. Lacking a... Go to Article » Richard Lester, The Beatles, and the Rock Musical Revised
(04/02/10)
A popular film genre in Britain and the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s was the rock and roll musical. As Susan... Go to Article » Birobidjan: The Story of the First Jewish State
(04/01/10)
The world's largest menorah is not in Jerusalem, Lakewood or even in Crown Heights; it can be found in the town square of Birobidjan... Go to Article » Ivan's Transformation and Coming to Terms in Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Illyich"
(03/30/10)
In Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich, the story's protagonist--Ivan--is dead before the story begins. The first chapter concerns... Go to Article » Mind Sweet Mind: A Closer Look at Salman Rushdie's Invisible Homeland in East, West
(03/26/10)
Every person has a birthplace, a starting point that offers a sense of identity for an individual. Through this start, this receding... Go to Article » Historic Preservation and Environmentalism: The Politics of Ignorance
(03/25/10)
The inevitable integration of historic preservation and environmental protection is a subject that needs to be defined and understood... Go to Article » Love in the Time of Pollution: A Look at Eco-Feminism Roots in Disney's "Wall-E"
(03/25/10)
Despite critics’ assumption that WALL-E centers its plot upon an anti-pollution/sustainability theme, the writer Andrew Stanton... Go to Article » The Flipside of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
(03/24/10)
The United Nations states that at its broadest, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be defined as the overall contribution of... Go to Article » What to do With Nuclear Waste? The Rise and Fall of Yucca Mountain
(03/23/10)
With over 20% of United States power production being of a nuclear nature, and all of this nuclear production generating high-level... Go to Article » "Every Place in the World on the Same Level!": Examining the Display of Non-Western Art at the Musee du Quai Branly
(03/22/10)
The Musée du Quai Branly opened under the long shadow of the Eiffel Tower in 2006 to spectacular criticism. Initiated primarily... Go to Article » Learning to Put Morals on the Backburner at Film School
(03/19/10)
At the University of Southern California Film School, there are two main goals: to foster creativity and encourage technical growth... Go to Article » The Need for an Open Debate on Drug Legalization
(03/17/10)
The question of the legalization of drugs has emerged sporadically throughout the past few decades of national and international politics... Go to Article » Moral Adaptation in Primo Levi's "Survival in Auschwitz"
(03/17/10)
The holocaust proved that morality is adaptable in extreme circumstances. Traditional morality ceased to be so within the barbed... Go to Article » The Social Media Revolution: Exploring the Impact on Journalism and News Media Organizations
(03/11/10)
Twitter. Facebook. Digg. MySpace. LinkedIn. The list of social media tools could probably run on for paragraphs, and today’s... Go to Article » Raising Titanic: The World of Communication & the Creation of One of the World's Most Succesful Films
(03/10/10)
Twentieth Century Fox was right to question the likelihood of box-office success for James Cameron’s $200 million film Titanic... Go to Article » Using Stem Cell and Gene Therapy Technologies to Treat Parkinson's Disease
(03/10/10)
Parkinson’s disease (PD), a progressive neurodegerative disorder most prevalent in the elderly and for which there is currently... Go to Article » Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission: Taking America from a Proud Democracy to a Privately-Funded Corporatocracy
(03/09/10)
Democracy is based on the core principle that the power to govern should be in the hands of the people. In the United States... Go to Article » Shakespeare's Apemantus: The Amazing, Changing Flat Character in Timon of Athens
(03/04/10)
In William Shakespeare's The Life of Timon of Athens, the character Apemantus is a Cynic philosopher, who delights in presenting the... Go to Article » Innovation or Desperation: David Bowie's "Little Wonder"
(02/26/10)
Despite releasing twenty-two albums in the nearly thirty years between his debut in 1967 and the commercially rejected No. 1 Outside... Go to Article » Examining the Radicalization of Chechen Separatists During the Resistance Movement
(02/24/10)
The Chechen people have endured a long history of aggression, culminating at the end of the twentieth century during which a separatist... Go to Article » It's All Over Now, Baby Blue: Psychoanalyzing Connie in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
(02/24/10)
It is perhaps an understatement to say that the character Connie in Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “Where Are You Going... Go to Article » Decision Making: Factors that Influence Decision Making, Heuristics Used, and Decision Outcomes
(02/23/10)
Every day, people are inundated with decisions, big and small. Understanding how people arrive at their choices is an area of cognitive... Go to Article » Exploring the American Immigrant Experience Through Literature
(02/23/10)
In “Amor de lejos: Latino (Im)migration Literatures,” B.V. Olguin writes, “Latino/a (im)migration narratives&hellip... Go to Article » Immigration, and What it Means to be an American
(02/22/10)
On the eve of the 19th century, in 1781, French-American immigrant Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur wrote a letter, the third in his... Go to Article » Examining Greek Pederastic Relationships
(02/19/10)
Pederasty is an ancient Greek form of interaction in which members of the same sex would partake in the pleasures of an intellectual... Go to Article » In Defense of The Spirit Of An Author: On Anne Fadiman's "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down"
(02/19/10)
Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures... Go to Article » Online Social Support: An Effective Means of Mediating Stress
(02/17/10)
It is estimated that in North America, alone, there are currently 251 million people who use the internet (Miniwats Marketing Group... Go to Article » Re-Envisioning Paulo Freire's "Banking Concept of Education"
(02/16/10)
Paulo Freire was a Brazilian ideologist whose radical ideas have shaped the modern concept of and approaches to education. In his... Go to Article » Mikhail Bulgakov and Antun Gustav Matos: Two Authors and Periods Collide
(02/16/10)
The eccentric literary style used by the popular nineteenth-century Croatian writer Antun Gustav Matos in his opera is a good starting... Go to Article » Being Educated for Failure
(02/12/10)
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under... Go to Article » Attending College When You've Never Been to High School: Integrating Homeschoolers into the College System
(02/05/10)
Since the 1990s, homeschooling in the United States has jumped to impressive numbers, with special assistance in 2000 from the so-... Go to Article » Burying the Pen: Tackling Resistance to Formal Education by the Karimojong in Uganda
(02/02/10)
The Karimojong people of the Karamoja region of Uganda are perhaps one of the few groups left on the planet that remain mostly disconnected... Go to Article » The Relevance of Food to Representations of Gender in The Awakening and Goblin Market
(02/02/10)
Carole Counihan argues that ‘men’s and women’s ability to produce, provide and consume food is a key measure of... Go to Article » The White Feather Campaign: A Struggle with Masculinity During World War I
(02/01/10)
World War I was a brutal conflict that shattered countries, redefined warfare with its bloody massacres, and left a generation with... Go to Article » The Manipulative Nature of Claudius in Shakespeare's Hamlet
(02/01/10)
King Claudius, as seen in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is both intelligent and well-spoken, two traits that, put together,... Go to Article » The Relationship Between Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare
(01/31/10)
A father’s goal is for his son to surpass him or simply carry on the honor of the family name. To try and avoid any mishaps,... Go to Article » Nat Turner and the Bloodiest Slave Rebellion in American History
(01/29/10)
Frederick Douglass’ statement about slavery concisely defines the effect that such an institution had on the entire shape of... Go to Article » Reflecting on the Life of a Revolutionary: Jean-Paul Marat
(01/29/10)
Jean-Paul Marat, notorious for his inspiring yet aggressive publications during the French Revolution, was one of the most influential... Go to Article » The Ugly Truth: An Exploration of Postwar Representations of the Holocaust Through The Obscene
(01/28/10)
Omer Bartov’s essay from Intellectuals on Auschwitz expresses the author’s dismay with the postwar and postmodern representations... Go to Article » The Burden of Disarmament: UN Peacekeeping Operations & Illicit Weapons
(01/27/10)
"Disarmament is not an end in itself. The end is peace, and security is one of its essential elements.”- John Paul II to the... Go to Article » International Law and Nuclear Weapons: Does the Continued Development of Advanced Nuclear Weapons Violate International Law?
(01/26/10)
Since the beginning of the Cold War, nuclear weapons have played a crucial role in the international community, shaping the behavior... Go to Article » The Beijing Consensus: China's Alternative Development Model
(01/22/10)
Since 1989, when economist John Williamson first conceived of the economic and policy recommendations known as the Washington Consensus... Go to Article » A Second Look at Don John, Shakespeare's Most Passive Villain
(01/22/10)
In William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, all of the main characters experience and participate in some form of deceit... Go to Article » The Human Genome and Patient Privacy: A Proposal to Expand Protections for Patients and Family Members
(01/21/10)
As medical and biological technology has progressed in recent years, concerns have been raised about the privacy implications of genetic... Go to Article » Sylvia Plath's "Bee Sequence": A Microcosm of Poetic Development
(01/21/10)
The poems which Sylvia Plath composed in the weeks and days immediately preceding her death contain some of the most disturbing themes... Go to Article » A Midsummer Night's Dream: Imagination, Romantic Love, and the Creation of Art
(01/20/10)
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare plays with the themes of love, art, imagination, and dreaming to forge an overall... Go to Article » Exclusion, Misrepresentation and Discrimination: Still Prevalent for Women in American Media and Politics
(01/20/10)
Mass media is perhaps the most powerful tool in the world for creating, changing or perpetuating society’s ideas about an issue... Go to Article » The Effect of Marriage on Political Identification
(01/19/10)
Party identification among individuals is determined by multiple factors including current marital status and other variables such... Go to Article » Breaking the Cycle: Violence, Control & Resistance in American Slave Narratives
(01/18/10)
In the world of the American slave, violence and control were intimately connected. As Frederick Douglass notes, “Men are whipped... Go to Article » Confusing The Wind: The Burj Khalifa, Mother Nature, and the Modern Skyscraper
(01/14/10)
If you happen to check in to the Grand Hyatt San Francisco on a windy day, you’ll receive a friendly note at the front desk... Go to Article » A River for Freedom: The Itaipu Hyrdoelectric Project and the Democratization of Paraguay
(01/13/10)
From 1954 to 1989, Paraguay was subject to the authoritarian regime of Alfredo Stroessner and the Colorado Party. While Stroessner... Go to Article » Neglected Responsibilities: America's Failure to Support Native Alaskan Students
(01/12/10)
When the United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867, it did not simply grow by 663,000 square miles; it also accepted... Go to Article » Perceptions of Heroes and Villains in European Literature
(01/12/10)
It is tempting to classify literary, cinematic, and historical characters into groups. The trouble, of course, is that such labels... Go to Article » Examining U.S. Foreign Policy, Refuting American Isolationism
(01/06/10)
From before its birth to the present, the expansion of US power has been analogous to an ever-expanding hand upon the globe. Despite... Go to Article » Examining Oppression Through the Lives and Stories of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(01/05/10)
Sylvia Plath‘s The Bell Jar is about a young woman named Esther Greenwood entering college in the early 1950’s, a time... Go to Article » China Offers Alternative Development Model in 'Beijing Consensus'
(01/02/10)
The Beijing Consensus, a new development model based on China’s own economic success, is one of the latest ways that China is... Go to Article » Controlling the Weather: Science Fiction, or Reality?
(01/02/10)
Farmers worried that drought or hail will put their crops at risk have a number of options, some stranger than others. They can improve... Go to Article » Still the Good Fight? The Commonwealth of Nations Turn 60
(01/01/10)
Such was the BBC’s indictment of the Commonwealth after its 1950 Foreign Minister’s conference in Colombo.1 Yet despite... Go to Article » The Lisbon Treaty: Am I A Real Boy Now?
(01/01/10)
“But you can’t grow,” answered the Fairy. “Why not?” “Because Marionettes never grow. They are... Go to Article » Panta Rei: The Next Ninety Years Of International Politics
(01/01/10)
From Heraclitus to Marx, intellectuals have often recognised changes in the flow of history. Certain periods tend to be more dynamic... Go to Article » The Hero We Create: 9/11 & The Reinvention of Batman
(12/30/09)
A giant hole is ripped in the side of a skyscraper. Smoke and flames pour out and debris tumbles into the street. Clouds of smoke... Go to Article » Hell Hath No Fury: The Relationship Between Greece's Medusa and Egypt's Wadjet
(12/29/09)
Two seemingly unconnected goddesses have more in common than most know. The earth is a small place and mythologies from one... Go to Article » The Development of Theatre: Peter Brook and the Human Connection
(12/24/09)
An actor is on stage. He begins to speak, and as he does so the hearts of the audience wrench. The actor is pronouncing his love to... Go to Article » Is Fat-Phobia Forever?
(12/23/09)
Author Susan Bordo has said, “fat is the devil, and we are continually beating him” (48). When considering this statement... Go to Article » Let There Be Light: An Exploration of the Life of Nikola Tesla
(12/22/09)
A great deal is known about Nikola Tesla’s origins—namely, his country and people, to which and of whom he attributed... Go to Article » Review of Literature: Instructional Approaches That Significantly Increase Reading Comprehension
(12/21/09)
In Instructional Approaches That Significantly Increase Reading Comprehension, Block, Whitely, Parris, Reed, and Cleveland (2009)... Go to Article » How Now, Hecate? The Supernatural in Shakespeare's Tragedies
(12/17/09)
I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the... Go to Article » Enhancing the Recall of Presented Material for Undergraduate Students
(12/14/09)
In Enhancing the Recall of Presented Material, Larson (2009) examined the effects of different styles of note-taking and which ones... Go to Article » Serbia and the Former Yugoslavia: What's to Be Done?
(12/11/09)
It is mid-1998. On news programs in the United States, the issue of intervention in Kosovo is addressed as a prevalent concern. It... Go to Article » Slavery Plays Jump-Rope with Racism: Examining the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley
(12/10/09)
Children’s literature in the context of this research paper (and hopefully too in the eyes of the majority) is the ultimate... Go to Article » The Passage from Now to Then: Examining Historical Literature Through Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian"
(12/09/09)
When considering historical literature that is based upon people who once lived, readers often ask where the details are taken directly... Go to Article » Understanding Human Language: An In-Depth Exploration of the Human Facility for Language
(12/08/09)
What critical evolutionary events does the span of human progression include? Anthropologists agree that decisive transitions such... Go to Article » An Insatiable Hunger: A Literary Analysis of Richard Wright's Autobiography, "Black Boy"
(12/08/09)
The autobiography Black Boy, by Richard Wright, is a tale of hope and determination. It catalogues Wright’s life growing up... Go to Article » Who Makes a Nation? An Examination of Nationalism, Gender, and Membership in the Nation
(12/07/09)
Nationalism is defined by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary as, “loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially: a sense of national... Go to Article » Contrasting Views of Money in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
(12/04/09)
Atlas Shrugged’s presentation of money departs from the traditional dichotomy of the “haves and have-nots.” In fact... Go to Article » The Methamphetamine Crisis in American Indian and Native Alaskan Communities
(12/03/09)
The prevalence of methamphetamine (ME) use among American Indians and Native Alaskans (AI/NAs) is strikingly high in comparison to... Go to Article » John Locke on Equality, Toleration, and the Atheist Exception
(12/02/09)
Political philosopher and social psychologist, John Locke was an outspoken supporter of equal rights within a governed society. He... Go to Article » Army Girls: The Role of Militarization in Women's Lives
(11/30/09)
In her book, Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (2000), Cynthia Enloe examines the role militarization... Go to Article » Confrontation with Death Illuminates Death's Mystery in the Odyssey
(11/28/09)
Even in fairy tales and fantastical legends, the trespassing of the breathing upon the domain of the spirits is rare. It is a disturbing... Go to Article » A Brief Look at Feminism in Shakespeare's Macbeth
(11/25/09)
In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, he presents the conflicting character of Lady Macbeth. Upon receiving her husband’s letter... Go to Article » A Brief Look at Feminism in Shakespeare's Macbeth
(11/25/09)
In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, he presents the conflicting character of Lady Macbeth. Upon receiving her husband’s letter... Go to Article » Religion in Caribbean Literature
(11/23/09)
The language of religion plays an important part in the novels Brown Girl, Brownstones; The Farming of Bones; and In the Time of the... Go to Article » Understanding the Implications of a Global Village
(11/20/09)
Imagine the vast spectrum of all the cultures in the world. Listen to the music—from the gentle drum beats of Africa, to the... Go to Article » Understanding the Implications of a Global Village
(11/20/09)
Imagine the vast spectrum of all the cultures in the world. Listen to the music—from the gentle drum beats of Africa, to the... Go to Article » Lenin's New Economic Policy: What it was and how it Changed the Soviet Union
(11/19/09)
By the time 1921 came around, Russia’s economy had been maimed by the effects of War Communism. Socialism had not begun on a... Go to Article » Lenin's New Economic Policy: What it was and how it Changed the Soviet Union
(11/19/09)
By the time 1921 came around, Russia’s economy had been maimed by the effects of War Communism. Socialism had not begun on a... Go to Article » Female Norms and the Patriarchal Power Structure in Shakespeare's Hamlet
(11/17/09)
Socialization is the process by which individuals internalize the mores and norms of the society they live in. It is through this... Go to Article » "Telepathic Shock" and "The Rush of It All:" Jack Kerouac's Use of Language in On the Road
(11/16/09)
Jack Kerouac once wrote, “It’s not the words that count but the rush of what is said." In a graduate class focusing on... Go to Article » Enterprise Communication in Brief: Securing Enterprise Commnication
(11/16/09)
In today’s world of instant information transfer and with the incredible pace of technological developments that occur daily... Go to Article » From Cutting Trees to Slashing Emissions: Reducing Deforestation in Brazil
(11/14/09)
Much debate has recently arisen over China’s and India’s responsibilities as related to climate protection. These two... Go to Article » Cyber Attack Prevention for the Home User: How to Prevent a Cyber Attack
(11/13/09)
As the sophistication of cyber criminals continues to increase, their methods and targets have also evolved. Instead of building the... Go to Article » Stamp Paid and the Power of Self-Actualization in Beloved
(11/12/09)
A character in Toni Morrison's Beloved whose crucial importance to both the plot and thematic intent of the book is Stamp Paid. He... Go to Article » A Vulnerable Network: Undersea Internet Cable Attacks
(11/11/09)
Multiple undersea internet cables were mysteriously severed and subsequently gained significant attention in the beginning of 2008... Go to Article » Wake Up and Smell the Condoms: An Analysis of Sex Education Programs in the United States, the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, France, and Germany
(11/09/09)
The ability to control one’s sexuality and make informed, responsible decisions about one’s sexual health is a basic human... Go to Article » The Great War: The Similarities and Differences of Print and Television Media
(11/09/09)
News is more likely to be reported if meets one of the following characterisitics: It concerns elite personalities; It is negative... Go to Article » The Relationship Between Stockholm Syndrome and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Battered Women
(11/05/09)
Every year, 10-50% of women suffer intimate partner violence (Bargai, Ben-Shakhar, & Shalev, 2007). It is important to understand... Go to Article » Life as Art as Life: Dramaturgy as Psychology
(11/04/09)
Aristotle played with the idea of human life as a drama and its role on the Greek stage in his Poetics, defining tragedy—the... Go to Article » Grassroots in San Cristobal de las Casas: Sna Jtz'Ibajom and Zapatistas
(11/03/09)
The performativity of ritual, theatre, and spectacle give credence to all three being viewed as a type of social action. Not only... Go to Article » Why Financial Conglomerates are at the Center of the Financial Crisis
(11/01/09)
The global economy is currently experiencing the “most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression.” The ongoing... Go to Article » The G-20 Preempts the G-8: What Kind of World Economic Order?
(11/01/09)
Few would disagree that the most significant development at the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh during September 24-25, 2009 was the formal... Go to Article » A World of Financial Models: The French Touch in Deregulation, 1980-2009
(11/01/09)
September 15th, 2008. Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy. The Anglo- American model of finance collapses. This is a “Big Bang... Go to Article » For Japan, Better Late than Never
(11/01/09)
The Japanese general election on August 30, 2009 ousted the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which had governed almost uninterrupted... Go to Article » Withdrawing the Case of Uganda from the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
(11/01/09)
The trend from international armed conflicts toward internal insurgencies has altered our common understandings of classical strategic... Go to Article » USAID's Alternative Development Strategy: A Critical Review of Initiatives in Colombia
(10/31/09)
Since 2000, the United States (U.S.) has devoted approximately 4.7 billion dollars in foreign aid to Colombia (Isacson 2006:1) with... Go to Article » Janet Malcolm and Norman Mailer: Navigating Author, Narrator, and Subject
(10/31/09)
Janet Malcolm opens her book, The Journalist and the Murderer,[1] with a stringent criticism of journalistic practice: "Every journalist... Go to Article » Friendship and Conflict: The Relationship of the U.S. "Founding Fathers"
(10/30/09)
It is common for Americans to imagine the early leaders of the American Revolution as a group of agreeable, flawless men. However,... Go to Article » Cost-Effective Renovations and Other Improvements for Creating More Energy Efficient Homes
(10/29/09)
Just by flipping through television channels or walking through the aisles of a grocery store, it is easy to see that the popularity... Go to Article » Henry Park's Identity through Selves and Space in Native Speaker
(10/29/09)
Henry Park: family man, father, son, husband, spy, traitor to his race, without race, ghost among the corporeal, in the wrong place... Go to Article » Machismo and the Reaction Formation of the Mexican Man
(10/28/09)
Américo Paredes, in his 1971 article “The United States, Mexico, and Machismo” (Marcy Steen, trans.), defines the... Go to Article » Responding to Rape as a Weapon of War in the Democratic Republic of Congo: CIDA's Actions in an Evaluative Framework
(10/27/09)
At the time of the incident, I was living … in the bush, hiding from the war. One day, I had gone to the fields to collect... Go to Article » Reconstructing Bridges: Heritage Language Education of Asian Americans
(10/27/09)
Language use is a major factor in defining one’s cultural identity. People learn slang, lingo, jargon, idiomatic phrases, and... Go to Article » A Contrast of Issei and Nisei as Illustrated by King-Kok Cheung, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Emiko Okori
(10/26/09)
Hisaye Yamamoto’s double-telling stories, according to King-kok Cheung, convey “two tales in the guise of one,”... Go to Article » Invasion of the Invaded: NAFTA and the Rise of Illegal Immigration
(10/26/09)
On January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement, the great neoliberal experiment that tested the economic waters... Go to Article » Understanding Differences Between Holistic, Alternative, and Complementary Medicine
(10/21/09)
The terms holistic medicine, alternative medicine and complementary medicine have often been used interchangeably. In fact, alternative... Go to Article » Causes for the Guatemalan Civil War as seen in Paradise in Ashes by Beatriz Manz
(10/20/09)
The civil war in Guatemala was the longest struggle in modern Latin American history, spanning decades from the late 1950s to the... Go to Article » John Locke and the Second Treatise on Government
(10/19/09)
In 1688, King James II was overthrown by a group of Parliamentarians. This was the result of what is now known as the Glorious Revolution... Go to Article » Decolonization and the Collapse of the British Empire
(10/19/09)
Before World War II it was stated fairly, “The sun never set on the British Empire.” For decades, this was true: the British... Go to Article » Does Globalization Foster or Reduce Political Violence?
(10/19/09)
Globalization has impacted societies around the world in both positive and negative ways. Despite positive changes in certain areas... Go to Article » Financial Crisis and Regulatory Challenges
(04/15/09)
A number of reports have established a diagnosis of the financial crisis. The first was produced by the Financial Stability Forum,... Go to Article » In Praise of Populism: The Coming Reconstruction of Financial Regulation
(04/15/09)
Newspaper and Television commentaries in the United States and Europe abound with references to "outbursts of populism" in United... Go to Article » The Case for America's Continued Superpower Status
(04/15/09)
Is America really in decline as a global superpower? We examine current arguments for America's economic decline and argue that a... Go to Article » United States Policy and Latin America: An Interview with Former Secretary General of the Organization of American States
(04/15/09)
Ambassador Einaudi spoke at Cornell at the invitation of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies to commemorate the 20th... Go to Article » Gaza in Crisis: Obama's Foreign Policy in the Aftermath of Renewed Conflict
(04/15/09)
This ongoing dispute clearly concerns the United States, the long-term third party in peace negotiations, and a close ally of Israel... Go to Article » Aggressive Foreign Policy as an Instrument for the Legitimization of Putin's Regime: Georgia's Case
(04/15/09)
The responsibility of Georgian President Michael Saakashvili for the war with Russia continued to be hotly debated in Georgia, Russia... Go to Article » Human Rights in Indonesia: The Consequences of Discrepancies in Domestic Versus International Law
(04/15/09)
Two years ago, my mom handed me the article, "Below a Mountain of Wealth, a River of Waste," from The New York Times, describing Freeport... Go to Article » Indo-Pakistani Enmity & the Reorganization of Asia: Strategic Opportunities for China and India
(04/15/08)
South Asia is not in itself the primary zone of interest of China. However, China has since long used the region’s dynamics... Go to Article » Fixing International Security: Reforming the Security Council
(04/15/08)
The United Nations Security Council is the most important organ in the United Nations, charged with determining “the existence... Go to Article » Fragile Foundations and Infant Institutions: The Case of Non-Reform in Haiti
(04/15/08)
Haiti has earned the dubious distinction of being one of the poorest nations, on a per capita basis, in the world. Even the country... Go to Article » Europe Can No Longer Procrastinate
(11/01/07)
Fifteen years ago, the collapse of the bipolar world overwhelmed the installed world order. The USA became the only superpower standing... Go to Article » Domestic Dynamics of Political Islam in the Greater Middle East: Case Studies of Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait and Turkey
(11/01/07)
These four nations showcase the state of Islamism as a political force in the Middle East. Because of differing political circumstances... Go to Article » Change in Technology and its Impact on Delocalisation: An Illustration Based on the European Financial Industry
(11/01/07)
Today’s and tomorrow’s worlds are radically different from yesterday’s. Self-evident, yet our thought processes... Go to Article » Closing the NAFTA Gap: Applying EU Integration to US Immigration
(11/01/07)
The accession of Ireland, Greece, Spain and Portugal into the European Community was a significant move towards manifesting everlasting... Go to Article » China-Africa Interaction: Prospects for a Strategic Partnership
(11/01/07)
China’s emergence as a key player in Africa, the impact of its presence and its challenges to traditional Western pre-eminence... Go to Article » A Tale of Two Countries: Lessons from the Latin Quest for the Balance of Equity, Progress, and Freedom
(11/01/07)
Poverty effaces dreams. Oppression defeats hope. These conditions ruin the human spirit, which no one should tolerate. Liberals and... Go to Article » Essential Modernisation or Excessive Meddling? Labour, Wakeham and the Lords Reforms
(01/01/00)
Tony Blair has long been committed to the abolition of hereditary peers; the 1997 Labour Party Manifesto promised that this would... Go to Article » The Final Frontier: Space Exploration and Politics
(01/01/99)
It is now fourteen years after Ronald Reagan’s infamous ‘Star Wars’ speech, a speech that forecast American space... Go to Article » What Do We Do With Pinochet?
(01/01/99)
On October 16, twenty five years after he took power in the September 1973 coup, Augusto Pinochet was detained in London. This episode... Go to Article » Tony Blair: Thatcher's Clone or Original Thinker?
(01/01/99)
It has been nearly two years since the momentous 1997 general election, and we have had a sizeable amount of time to evaluate the... Go to Article » What Reasons Do We Have to Bomb Serbia?
(01/01/99)
Once again, President Slobodan Milosevic has demonstrated his impunity towards the will of the international community. After prosecuting... Go to Article » The Necessity and Caution for Theatre Missile Defence
(01/01/97)
In March, 1996, Mrs Thatcher reinvigorated the debate over ballistic missile defence in a speech at Fulton, USA, where she conveyed... Go to Article » Is "Maternal Love" a Cause of Peace?
(01/01/97)
In Inter-State, spring 1995, Ms K. Clancy writes about one of today’s issues, the role of feminism in the international relations... Go to Article » The United Nations at 50 - Dead or Alive?
(01/01/97)
When we commemorated the United Nations’ 50th anniversary last year, we all asked the question – what has the UN achieved... Go to Article » Change Within the Conservative and Labour Parties
(01/01/97)
Much has changed in the past years yet we still have the same two dominant parties as we did in 1922. I do not intend to give a historical... Go to Article » Re-stating the Case for Monarchy
(01/01/97)
Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Aberystwyth, to open the new extension of the National Library of Wales, has predictably... Go to Article » What Future for a Polarised Europe?
(01/01/97)
It is a paradox of modern day politics that an issue of such immense constitutional and practical significance to the future of Britain... Go to Article » International NGOs and the 'New Humanitarian Agenda'
(01/01/97)
This article is based on a paper presented at the workshop on Understanding Security and Development in Africa, University of Wales... Go to Article » The Western Media and Africa: Issues of Information and Images
(01/01/97)
As we approach the millennium, with the triumph of the United States over Russia, capitalism over socialism and the market over planning... Go to Article » Securing the Skies: Threats to Civil Aviation From International Terrorism
(01/01/97)
Threats to international security may assume many guises all of which deserve thorough analysis. Indeed, as we approach the new millennium... Go to Article » Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and the Efficacy of Deterrence
(01/01/97)
Nuclear weapons were first used in anger during the Second World War against the Japanese. The Horishima and Nagasaki experience... Go to Article » The Perennial Perversion: Idolatrous Self-Worship in Brave New World
(02/21/23)
This literary analysis compares the spiritual landscape of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World against his nonfiction work, The... Go to Article » The Role and Weaponization of Scientific 'Objectivity' in Gender Discourse and the Debate Over Transgender Rights
(10/04/22)
The label of ‘science’ or ‘biology’ can become somewhat of a trump-card in excluding trans people from civil... Go to Article » #ItsNotMyPeriod: Hashtag Activism's Challenge to Narratives of Menstrual Stigma
(09/22/22)
Perceptions of menstruation as a taboo subject have historically characterized Western and non-Western societies alike and persist... Go to Article » Unity in Virginia Woolf and Hannah Arendt: Creating Reality in the Insensitive and Inaccessible
(09/22/22)
Woolfian Scholars regularly denote the moments where Woolf’s characters feel inexplicably connected and inseparable from one... Go to Article » Against Eco-Camp: Analyzing the Flaws of the Modern Climate Movement
(09/19/22)
This interdisciplinary paper investigates the shortfalls and obstacles to success currently facing the climate movement, examining... Go to Article » Occupation and the Road Not Traveled in Habibi Rasak Kharban (2011)
(09/19/22)
In adapting the twelfth-century story Layla and Majnun, Susan Youssef’s 2011 film Habibi Rasak Kharban re-imagines... Go to Article » The Relationship Between Gender and Trauma in Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch
(09/19/22)
The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt is a novel that explores the conditions of grief and escalating lengths characters will go to... Go to Article » How Media Influences the Use of Violence in Protests: An Analysis of the Black Lives Matter and #StopTheSteal Movements
(06/07/22)
Two of the most prevalent protest movements in recent history were the Black Lives Matter and the #StopTheSteal movements. While there... Go to Article » Change Blindness: The Influence of Positive Mood on Change Detection in Visual Scenes
(06/07/22)
Change blindness is the finding that people often fail to notice substantial changes between different views of a visual scene. The... Go to Article » Look Me in the Eyes: Witkacy's 'Portrait Gaze' as a Critique and Anticipation of Culture Industry
(05/06/22)
This paper analyzes the construction of ‘portrait gaze’ as a visual device that orients, manipulates, and challenges the... Go to Article » Guns and Suicidal Thoughts in Adolescence: An Understudied Relationship
(05/06/22)
The prevalent school of thought states that suicidal ideation and suicide planning are not associated with living in households with... Go to Article » Civil-Military Linkages and Authoritarian Regime Survival During the Arab Spring: Understanding Different Outcomes of the Revolutions
(05/06/22)
Strong linkages between autocrats and the military are often seen as a necessary condition for authoritarian regime survival in the... Go to Article » Pathological Withdrawal Syndrome: A New Kind of Depression?
(04/15/22)
Marion Godman makes the argument that Pathological Withdrawal Syndrome (PWS) makes the case for psychiatric disorders as a natural... Go to Article » Biased Narratives in the Media: Coverage of Fatal Shootings During Black Lives Matter Demonstrations
(04/15/22)
During the summer of 2020, two fatal shootings occurred following Black Lives Matter protests. The first event involved Kyle Rittenhouse... Go to Article » The Impact of Gender Discrimination on Statelessness: A Case Study of the Impact of Nationality Laws on Statelessness
(04/15/22)
With over 10 million stateless people globally, statelessness has increasingly become a pressing issue in international law. The production... Go to Article » The Past is Female: Exploring the Socio-Sexual Liberation of Historical Women in Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife
(04/15/22)
British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife presents a fresh outlook on myths and fairy tales, by retelling... Go to Article » Fragile Aesthetics: The Problematics Behind Thomas Gainsborough's Landscape Paintings
(04/01/22)
The 17th and 18th centuries saw a wide proliferation of aesthetic discourse through which the picturesque emerged to capture the type... Go to Article » Architectural Beauty as a Public Good Through the Lens of Ritzer and Kohn
(03/25/22)
After World War II, America’s baby boom and rapid migration into cities sparked a damaging housing crisis. This marked a turning... Go to Article » An Assessment of the Origins and Culpability of the Opioid Crisis in the United States
(03/11/22)
The use of synthetic opioids in the United States in the past 30 years has created an epidemic the likes of which our healthcare and... Go to Article » The Relationship Between Stress, Coping Strategies, and Problem-Solving Skills Among College Students
(03/11/22)
The study investigated stress, coping strategies, and problem-solving skills among college students. A total of 202 university students... Go to Article » Love and Imperialism: Reading Whitman's Leaves of Grass Through Edward Carpenter and Maurice Bucke
(03/11/22)
This paper explores the complexity of Whitman’s nationalism and, with reference to Leaves of Grass (1856), examines the apparent... Go to Article » "Lesbianing together:" Images of Incarcerated Women in Orange is the New Black
(03/11/22)
Using content analysis, this article focuses on the portrayal of female prisoners in the first two seasons of the Netflix show ... Go to Article » Imperial Mughal Literature: A Rich Source of Scientific Information
(02/25/22)
India was ruled by the Timurid-Mughal dynasty from 1526 to 1857. This period is mainly recognised for its art and architecture. The... Go to Article » Towards a New Consensus? The Post-Centenary Historiography on the Origins of World War I
(02/25/22)
The causes of the First World War remains a historiographical topic of contention more than 100 years on from the start of the conflict... Go to Article » The Evolution of Third-Party Doctrine Analysis: How the Supreme Court's Current Analytical Framework Limits the Scope of the Third-Party Doctrine
(02/25/22)
The Fourth Amendment protects the “right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable... Go to Article » Funding for Creative Education and its Socioeconomic Benefits: A Literature Review
(02/11/22)
The United States spends more on public education per student than all but three countries in the world based on 2016 findings from... Go to Article » Gothic Romance in The Haunting of Bly Manor: The Modern Transformation of the Victorian Gothic
(02/11/22)
This article explores the expression of the Gothic romance genre in the 21st century, by examining Mike Flannagan’s The Haunting... Go to Article » Knowledge Production in International Relations: A Poststructural Feminist Critique of Liberal Feminism
(02/09/22)
In popular international relations (IR) theory, knowledge production is often dismissed as an objective process between the researcher... Go to Article » Explaining the Gender Gap in the Criminal Justice System: How Family-Based Gender Roles Shape Perceptions of Defendants in Criminal Court
(02/09/22)
Numerous studies have investigated why women are vastly underrepresented in prisons across the United States. In explaining this &... Go to Article » Do Textbooks Shape Attitudes Toward War? Narrative 'Images' and Implicit Social Cognition
(01/19/22)
To explore the relationship between history education and attitudes to war, narrative primes about World War II were read by 20 undergraduate... Go to Article » The Politics of Nation-Building, Ethnicity, and Democratization in Ethiopia
(01/17/22)
This article explores the political relationship between nation-building, ethnicity, and democracy in the context of Ethiopia. It... Go to Article » Going in Circles: Temporal Mobility and Migrant Agency in Hamid's Exit West
(01/14/22)
Escaping from your past is hopeless. However, under circular time, running from anything is completely useless––no matter... Go to Article » China's International Investments Under Xi Jinping: Long Term Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
(01/14/22)
The study examines the degree to which Xi Jinping has brought about a strategic shift to the Chinese outward investment pattern and... Go to Article » Federalism and the Value of Institutional Experience During a National Disaster: Identifying Determinants of Rapid Emergency Medicaid Waiver Adoption During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(01/06/22)
Section 1135 emergency waivers were designed as tools for policy-makers to rapidly increase health system capacity during a disaster... Go to Article » Mobutu and the Collective Congolese Memory: Reconstructing the Past as a Survival Tool
(01/06/22)
Despite the focus of scholars on the repressive elements of Mobutu’s Reign, “The rumble in the Jungle,” abacost... Go to Article » Understanding the 2016 Republican Primary: Substantive Versus Strategic Voting Behavior
(01/03/22)
Was the selection of Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican Primary a strategic or a substantive choice? Donald Trump defied many predictions... Go to Article » Structural Violence in the Queer Community: A Comparative Analysis of International Human Rights Protections for LBTIQ+ People
(12/20/21)
This paper discusses the structural violence experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, or queer (LGBTIQ+) people and... Go to Article » Deconstructing Social Classification and Mobility: The Hindu Varna System, Plato's Magnificent Myth, and the British Caste System
(12/10/21)
This research elucidates the striking parallelism between the Hindu Varna System and Plato's Magnificent Myth through an unorthodox... Go to Article » American Construction, Reconstruction, and Destruction: The Cultural, Historical, and Literary Underpinnings of our Great Divide
(12/09/21)
This thesis explores the inherent conflict between liberty and equality—the twin pillars on which the United States and its... Go to Article » Emotion and Politics: How Strengths of Mind Relate to Political Attitudes in the United States
(12/01/21)
Political polarization has been an increasingly salient point of discussion since the 2016 presidential campaign, the election of... Go to Article » Ethics of the Far Future: Why Longtermism Does Not Imply Anti-Capitalism
(11/30/21)
It has recently been argued that longtermism it at odds with capitalism. It is said that while longtermism places great emphasis on... Go to Article » Medusa's Blood: On the Ovidian Assertion of Fame in Cellini's Perseus
(11/30/21)
Cast in one piece of bronze in 1554, Benvenuto Cellini'sPerseus with the Head of Medusa representeda monumental feat of artisticvirtuosity... Go to Article » Deng's War: Assessing the Success of the Sino-Vietnamese War
(11/22/21)
The Sino-Vietnamese War remains one of the most peculiar military engagements during the Cold War. Conventional wisdom would hold... Go to Article » Vindication for Tin Foil Hats: An Analysis of Unethical Cold War Experiments and Their Enduring Consequences
(11/10/21)
While the Cold War is popularly regarded as a war of ideological conflict, to consider it solely as such does the long-winded tension... Go to Article » Propaganda, Patriotism, and Perseverance: How Music Became an Instrument for the US War Effort During the Second World War
(11/01/21)
This article analyzes the role of musical works in the United States during World War II. It chronologically examines how the social... Go to Article » How Religiosity Shapes Satisfaction with Democracy: A Mediterranean Case Study
(10/26/21)
More and more countries are democratic, but at the same time, the number of people dissatisfied with it has constantly been increasing... Go to Article » Euthanasia and Consensual Harm: Evaluating the Moral and Legal Asymmetry of Self- and Other-Regarding Acts
(10/25/21)
Suicide is legal in almost every country, but places where euthanasia is permitted remain in the minority (Mishara and Weisstub 2016... Go to Article » The Structure of Fiction and the Emergence of the Other-Than
(10/18/21)
In this essay, I will analyze the structure of fiction, arguing that this structure is a duality that rests upon a spirit that defines... Go to Article » Cancer Epidemiology in Romani-Americans: A Review of the Current Literature
(10/14/21)
Romanies are one of history’s most misunderstood ethnic populations. Since medieval times, they have faced slavery, forced assimilation... Go to Article » Performance of Class in the Socioeconomic Institutions of Early Medieval Ireland
(10/08/21)
Early medieval Irish society operated on an elaborate power structure formalized by law, practiced through social interaction, and... Go to Article » E.O. Wilson's Sociobiology and the Marxist Response: A Critique of the Critics
(10/05/21)
Sociobiology is a sub-discipline of biology that aims to examine and explain social behavior in terms of evolution. It is interdisciplinary... Go to Article » Securitization, Framing, and the Threat of Right-Wing Militias Under Donald Trump
(10/05/21)
This paper assesses the political preferences and ideologies of the Trump administration and how they influenced framing issues in... Go to Article » Populist Authoritarian Readings of Machiavelli's Prince: From Interwar to the Present
(09/30/21)
In his book, The Prince, written in 1513, Niccolò Machiavelli argued for the autonomy of politics from religion and ethics,... Go to Article » The Legacy of American Transcendentalism in Contemporary Literature: From Thoreau to Krakauer
(09/27/21)
American Transcendentalism (1836-1860), despite having an amorphous and transient lifespan, holds strong importance in American history... Go to Article » Covering Climate Change: A Sentiment Analysis of Major Newspaper Articles from 2010 - 2020
(09/23/21)
This research lies at the nexus of political communication theory relating to emotional affect and political processing and the burgeoning... Go to Article » Grand Narrative, Fragmented Reality: The Belt and Road Initiative in Heilongjiang Province
(09/21/21)
Most analysts agree that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is set to become a defining feature of the global economy of... Go to Article » The Price of Predatory Marketing on Older Adults: A Perspective on Prevagen Potency
(09/20/21)
The calcium-binding protein apoaequorin has been studied for its possible indication to improve human cognition and memory. Faculty... Go to Article » Through Thick and Thin: Understanding Democracy and its Consequences in the United States
(09/17/21)
One of the key ways to measure and analyze the performance of such expansive countries such as the United States is to look at their... Go to Article » Turning Crisis into Opportunity: How Global Economic Institutions Can Use COVID-19 to Address Global Challenges
(09/16/21)
The COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated current global challenges. However, this article argues that this time of crisis can also be a... Go to Article » How Humans Will End The World: A Cautionary History of Environmental and Civilizational Instability
(09/16/21)
After thousands of years of innovation, humankind has shaped the modern world into a new planetary epoch: the Anthropocene. This paper... Go to Article » Industrial Safety: Factors that Present Barriers to Reporting Workplace Incidents and Contribute to Cultures of Non-Reporting
(06/08/21)
This research study explores factors that present barriers to reporting workplace incidents and contribute to cultures of non-report... Go to Article » From Flourishing Industrial Slavocracy to Restrictive Tenancy and Re-Enslavement: The Southern Labor Force Before and After the Civil War
(05/25/21)
Some scholars of American history suggest the institution of slavery was dying out on the eve of the Civil War, implying the Civil... Go to Article » Biologization of Capital and Capitalization of Biopower: Connecting Foucault and Marx
(05/25/21)
Foucault raised the concept of biopower in the first volume of The History of Sexuality and placed its emergence in the context of... Go to Article » The Jazz Ambassadors: Intersections of American Foreign Power and Black Artistry in Duke Ellington's Far East Suite
(05/25/21)
During the height of the Cold War, the US State Department sponsored a series of racially integrated “Jazz Ambassador”... Go to Article » The Holistic Universe: Wisdom as Attention to the Cohesion of Physicality and Immateriality
(05/11/21)
We are all witnesses. You see and are seen; you step in and step out. You brush your hair out of your face, out of the face of a friend... Go to Article » Longevity Blue Zone Centenarians: An Expository Paper
(05/11/21)
Areas of the world found to harbor the people with exceptional lifespans are known as a Longevity Blue Zone (LBZ). LBZ’s are... Go to Article » Double Lives: A Qualitative Analysis of Identity Navigation in Chicago's South and West Sides
(05/11/21)
This paper draws on qualitative interviews to address internal and external identity navigation among gang members and how nonprofits... Go to Article » Gender Theory vs. Pragmatism: A Point of Diversion Between Judith Butler's Gender Performativity and the Psychosocial Limitations of Gender Construction
(04/16/21)
The question of what it means to be a gendered individual has been left unanswered in light of its variants. The feminist movement... Go to Article » Ethnography, Folklore, Afanasev, and Russian Self-Identity
(04/08/21)
While the history of ethnography in Russia dates back to the Kievan Rus era, modern ethnographic production in Russia developed in... Go to Article » Revenant Narratives and the Representation of Demonic Lovers in English Gothic Ballads
(04/06/21)
The Demon-Lover functions as a significant motif in English Gothic ballad tradition, which scholar Hugh Shields articulates as a &... Go to Article » The Growing Popularity of the Radical Right: Comparing Institutional, Societal and Historical Explanations in the United States and France
(04/05/21)
Following the enlightenment era, a new incarnation of politics created a uniquely democratic, liberal, egalitarian structure of government... Go to Article » 16th-Century Clapback: The Manipulation of Poetic Devices in Sir Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry
(04/05/21)
Often thought to be a recent development of pop culture, writers have been using biting clapbacks in response to criticism since antiquity... Go to Article » The Eumenides, Antigone and the Nature of Objective Justice
(03/30/21)
Justice in The Eumenides is established as an objective entity and it is in The Eumenides that it is solidified as a concept which... Go to Article » Conservative Perspectives of Political Outsiders
(03/18/21)
Western conservatism is often conceived as the philosophy of large landowners in the past and business executives in the present.... Go to Article » Foreignness and Freedom in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe
(03/16/21)
In recent years, questions of racial, religious, and sexual inequalities across classic literature have left many educators and students... Go to Article » Single-Payer Reform and Rural Health in the United States: Lessons from Our Northern Neighbor
(03/15/21)
Single-payer health reform has secured its place in the mainstream American health policy debate, yet its implications for particular... Go to Article » Sisters in Solidarity: The Fight for Feminism in Modern Day China
(03/12/21)
Feminism has grown to be a complex, multifaceted topic of conversation in China. It has witnessed a series of peaks and troughs that... Go to Article » Reconstructing Ruin as Future: Rethinking the Spatiotemporality of Race and Gender in Glissant and Spillers' Middle Passage
(03/10/21)
Intersecting Edouard Glissant’s poetics with Hortense Spillers’ theory of race, gender, and sexuality alchemizes a new... Go to Article » The Self-Cognizant Idea and the Methodological Transformation of Hegel, Marx, and Ditlthey's Historiography
(03/10/21)
The transformation of the philosophy of history reveals how and why methodological systems change over time. Methodological systems... Go to Article » The Modern American Family in AMC's The Walking Dead
(03/10/21)
AMC's The Walking Dead (TWD) has maintained a dedicated viewership since its premiere in 2010 and serves as a well-known example of... Go to Article » Linguistic Affect: Positive and Negative Emotion Words are Contagious, Predict Likability, and Moderate Positive and Negative Affect
(03/05/21)
Positive affect (PA) is active, enthusiastic, and happy engagement in pleasurable activities and negative affect (NA) includes aversiveness... Go to Article » The Fleeting Nature of Techno-Horror: Kairo's Failure to Appeal to Gen Z
(03/03/21)
Techno-horror is a sub-genre of horror defined by the use of science or technology as the source of horror, and often, this genre... Go to Article » Penelope, Helen, and the Ancient Greek Spectrum of Femininity: Observations of Womanhood in the Homeric Epics
(02/26/21)
Although most Ancient Greek literature focused on male characters, a literary analysis of Homeric poetry reveals an inquisition of... Go to Article » Death in John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" and "The Eve of St. Agnes"
(02/25/21)
This paper explores Keats’ depiction of death in “Ode to a Nightingale” and “The Eve of St. Agnes.” &... Go to Article » A Critical Analysis of the Biopsychosocial Risks Associated with Postpartum Depression in Indian Mothers
(02/22/21)
Motherhood is an essential yet challenging feat that requires constant emotional, social, and physical support. Postpartum depression... Go to Article » Sensationalism of Trauma in American Film and Literature
(02/19/21)
The Virgin Suicides written by Jeffrey Eugenides, as well as Sofia Coppola’s film adaptation, utilize the literary and cinematic... Go to Article » Commodifying Nature: Reflections of Hegemony in Ecotourism
(02/18/21)
This paper will attempt to link fundamental ideas and terms of environmental sociology in the context of ecotourism relating to human... Go to Article » Inglorious Basterds: A Satirical Criticism of WWII Cinema and the Myth of the American War Hero
(02/16/21)
This article explores the way in which Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds challenges the myth of the American hero and... Go to Article » Cultural Misrepresentation of the East in Nicholas Roerich's Art
(02/12/21)
Nicholas Roerich was inspired by the mystical concept of “Shambhala”—a utopian expanse of endless truth, knowledge... Go to Article » The Graphic Novel as Argument: Visual Representation Strategy In Kyle Baker's Nat Turner
(02/11/21)
Traditional slave narratives follow a set of conventions that helped abolitionists recognize them as factual and trustworthy stories... Go to Article » Cross-Cultural Differences in Memory, Beliefs, and Mental Schemas
(02/10/21)
Although it is self-evident that one’s memories are often fleeting, a large amount of empirical research has been done within... Go to Article » Propaganda, Idealism, and Subculture: The Evolution of Che Guevara's Image in Chinese Cultural Memory
(02/09/21)
Being a worldwide popular icon, the Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara has been differently re-appropriated... Go to Article » The Role of the Media in the Cuban Revolution: Resource-Mobilization Theory and Cultural Framing
(02/05/21)
On January 1st, 1959, a small band of Cuban rebels shocked the world, overthrowing the American-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista.... Go to Article » Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children: A Comprehensive Review
(02/04/21)
Post-traumatic stress disorder in children under six years old has been formally recognized since 2013 (Veteran’s Affairs, 2019... Go to Article » Liberal and Realist Explanations of Merkel's "Open-Door Policy" During the 2015 Refugee Crisis
(02/01/21)
During the 2015 refugee crisis Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed refugees to enter Germany in unprecedented numbers. Her historic decision... Go to Article » A Barrier to Prosperity? Analyzing the Impact of Israeli Security Policy on Palestinian Manufacturing Productivity
(01/27/21)
Israel has increased the nation’s security presence around the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank. Here, the research project analyzes... Go to Article » Stereotypes in Bollywood Cinema: Does Article 15 Reinforce the Dalit Narrative?
(01/26/21)
‘Article 15’, released in 2019 is the first mainstream Bollywood film to focus on caste based atrocities. It depicts several... Go to Article » Edgar Allan Poe and Race: Analyzing the "Absent Negro" Trope in Gothic Literature
(01/22/21)
Edgar Allan Poe is known for writing about a wide variety of controversial topics, such as death, murder, and addiction. However,... Go to Article » Material Nostalgia in Classical and Early Modern Drama
(01/21/21)
The inescapability and influence of the past becomes most discernable with homecoming. A particularly powerful sense of nostalgia... Go to Article » Mental Illness Stigma in Criminal Justice: An Examination of Stigma on Juror Decision-Making
(01/20/21)
Negative stereotypes associated with mental illnesses can lead to discrimination towards those with these illnesses through a process... Go to Article » Democratic Misrepresentation: A Quantitative Analysis of Out of District State Campaign Fundraising
(01/19/21)
This paper aims to fill the gap in quantitative research on out of district donations at state levels of American government. Examining... Go to Article » Impacts of Positive or Negative Feedback on State-Authenticity, State-Flow, Self-Efficacy, and Meaningfulness
(01/18/21)
Authenticity, flow, and meaning are three important factors of an individual’s ability to achieve sustained long-term happiness... Go to Article » The Development of the Modern Author in Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and Strawberry Hill
(01/15/21)
Much contemporary literary criticism has been devoted to Horace Walpole’s novel, The Castle of Otranto; so, too, has much... Go to Article » The Efficacy of the Incorporation of First Language in ESL English Grammar Learning
(01/11/21)
English grammar learning is challenging but essential for English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners. It is vital for ESL learners... Go to Article » Reimagining Populism to Reveal Canada's Right-Wing Populist Zeitgeist
(01/11/21)
Through an examination of recent populist political formulations in Canada, this paper argues that prevailing understandings of right... Go to Article » Cultural Competencies for Healthcare Providers Working with Rural Finnish Americans
(01/08/21)
The number of Americans aged 65-years-and-older is projected to increase significantly by 2050. As rural older adults age-in-place... Go to Article » The Lingering Influence of Revolutionary Political Discourse From the Civil War and Reconstruction Era
(01/08/21)
The Civil War was a seminal moment in the historical development in the United States. The American Revolution may have created the... Go to Article » Hans Bellmer's Dolls and the Subversion of the Female Gaze
(01/05/21)
Hans Bellmer’s Die Puppe (The Doll) photographic series is perhaps one of the most bizarre works to come out of the surrealist... Go to Article » Problems and Solutions in Factory Farming: The Role of Institutions, Capital, and Rhetoric
(01/04/21)
This paper examines the intricacies of factory farming by analyzing its social, political, economic, and environmental impacts in... Go to Article » Reading Religion in Literature: Toni Morrison, Luisah Teish, and Postsecular Theory
(01/04/21)
The postsecular turn of the late 1990’s refers to the emergence of a critical theory which challenges an important modern assumption... Go to Article » The Foreign Language Effect and Disembodied Cognition: The Complexity of Emotional Boundaries and Linguistic Factors
(12/31/20)
Cognitive psychology research informs on the complexities of human functioning and behavior and thereby, simultaneously, extends our... Go to Article » The Brain, Gut and Consciousness: Microbiology of Our Mind
(12/29/20)
This paper presents a view that the brain is not the only actor responsible for emergence of our consciousness and that our consciousness... Go to Article » Courtly Love in Chaucer: Characters as Commentary in "The Franklin's Tale," Troilus and Criseyde, and "Parliament of Fowls"
(12/16/20)
Through major works including “The Franklin’s Tale,” Troilus and Criseyde, and “Parliament of Fowls,&rdquo... Go to Article » Bach and the Style Galant: Progressive Elements in the Italian Concerto
(12/15/20)
While the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is often characterized by elaborate Baroque counterpoint and a relatively conservative set... Go to Article » Genetic Coevolution: Transposable Elements and their Impact on Disease Development in Humans
(12/14/20)
Transposable elements (TEs), also referred to as ‘jumping genes’, are sequences of DNA located in the eukaryotic genome... Go to Article » The Role of Native American Healing Traditions Within Allopathic Medicine
(12/10/20)
Although spirituality has been an essential part of healing for most of mankind, modern medicine is more likely to embrace a mechanistic... Go to Article » Examining the Complex, Subjective Filmography of Oliver Stone: A Comparison and Critique of JFK to Nixon and Platoon to Heaven & Earth
(12/08/20)
Oliver Stone's filmography has levied an unprecedented effect on the popular understanding of American history, especially of the... Go to Article » Genocide Memorialization in the Modern Era: Communal Mourning Through Institutions and Culture
(12/07/20)
Genocide Memorialization focuses on the community after a genocide in what they choose to remember and how they achieve that goal... Go to Article » The Subversion of Conventional Charisma in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: Part One
(12/04/20)
This paper focuses on the manifestation of an unorthodox charisma in the devil figures of John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Johann... Go to Article » Bonds of Slavery and Bonds of Love: Investigating the Role of African-American Families and Marital Unions in the Struggle Against Slavery
(11/28/20)
Resistance to oppression is often found in the most unlikely of places. This article investigates the significance that families and... Go to Article » Pain and Power: BDSM as Spiritual Expression
(11/28/20)
Western society is becoming increasingly secular as religion disappears from the public sphere. This developing identification has... Go to Article » A Postcolonial Theory of Value: Broadening Economic Scholarship Through Disciplinary-Mimetic Valuation
(11/24/20)
This work aims to integrate postcolonial scholarship into some basic theoretical foundations of a mainstream economic curriculum.... Go to Article » The Illusion of Empowerment: A Feminist Analysis of Disney's Hercules
(11/24/20)
Disney’s Hercules, which features both a strong male lead and a strong female lead, has the potential to appeal to, and therefore... Go to Article » Molding the Peasantry on the Road to Modernity: State and Peasant Relations in Russia and the Soviet Union
(11/19/20)
This paper examines the peasantry's response to modernization measures taken by Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union during the late... Go to Article » One Person, Two Names: A Study of Naming Practices in Hong Kong and the Use of English and Chinese Names
(11/18/20)
The practice of using an English name is widespread among native Chinese speakers. Especially in Hong Kong many use an English name... Go to Article » A Quantitative Evaluation of Shame Resilience Theory
(11/17/20)
Shame is an adaptive emotion. Yet, it is associated with poor mental and behavioral health as well as lower wellbeing and negative... Go to Article » Félix González-Torres's Portrait of Ross: Beyond Form and Content
(11/17/20)
Félix González-Torres’s Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) [1991] uses its unconventional medium and presentation... Go to Article » Goddess in the Sheets, Prostitute in the Streets: Examining Public & Private Divisions of Gender in Mesopotamian Cities
(11/17/20)
This paper explores the spatial expression of the female gender in early Mesopotamian cities from c. 2334-1595 B.C.E. Gender in Mesopotamia... Go to Article » Today's Poland as a Bastion of Conservative Populism: Targeting Families in a Populist Power Grab
(11/13/20)
With right-wing populists gaining power and electoral campaigns everywhere becoming more virulent, many are calling for a return to... Go to Article » Has the U.S. Constitution Reached its Expiration Date? A Review and Criticism of the World's Longest Lasting Constitution
(11/10/20)
The United States Constitution is the longest lasting written constitution in the world, despite the fact that one of the key framers... Go to Article » Aquinas, Just-War Theory, and Pandemic Response
(11/10/20)
“Just-war theory,” as it is called, aims to guide action during warfare, so that states and individuals can act ethically... Go to Article » Deconstructing and Renouncing the Conditioned Identities of Gender and Nationality in Modern Society
(11/09/20)
This paper investigates the convoluted societal processes to which the individual is exposed from an early age in order to form and... Go to Article » Complementary Spheres of Resistance in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle: The Relationship Between Formal and Informal Arenas of Protest
(11/08/20)
The African National Congress is widely credited as the institutional body that effectuated the fall of Apartheid in South Africa.... Go to Article » Challenging the Dichotomy Between "Natural" and "Cultural" in Museums: A Case Study of Bird Symbolism and Human Origins
(11/05/20)
Many natural history museums use the categories of “cultural” and “natural” as a means of separating exhibition... Go to Article » Are Isochronic Tones Effective? The Impact of Isochronic Tones on Brainwave Entrainment and Stress
(11/02/20)
Isochronic tones are a hypothesized auditory brainwave entrainment technique in which a single tone is played at regular beat intervals... Go to Article » Construction of "Asian" Identity in Restaurant Menus: A Case Study
(10/29/20)
This paper explores the meaning and implications of “Asian” in the context of American restaurant menus. I determine what... Go to Article » Hume's Law and Genetic Engineering: Considering the Possible Implications of Positive Eugenics in Light of Our Horrific Past
(10/28/20)
The eugenics movement of the 20th century epitomizes the danger that is possible when religion and science coalesce. Grounded in the... Go to Article » Exploring the Role of Skin Tone Among Low-Income Black College Students
(10/27/20)
Colorism or skin tone bias is a form of discrimination based on skin tone that typically awards advantages to light-skinned people... Go to Article » Resurrecting the Bog Queen: Exploring the Gender Politics of Ireland's Bogs in Postcolonial and Nationalist Literature
(10/26/20)
Bogs are one of Ireland’s most notable and mysterious landscapes. As explored in the work of Seamus Heaney, the bog’s... Go to Article » Flipping the Cultural Script: Papaya Soap and Skin Color Stratification in the Philippines
(10/21/20)
Centuries of subjugation under Spanish and American colonial rule have embedded an idealistic view of white beauty in the minds of... Go to Article » Exploring the Concept of Time Using Metaphor in The Aeneid
(10/21/20)
Time has always been an abstract concept in human languages. To better understand how this temporal concept is addressed in different... Go to Article » Poor Cultural Communication as an Obstacle to Adequate Medical Care: A Case Study of the Manchurian Plague Epidemics
(10/21/20)
This study analyzes the publications of Dr. Wu Lien-teh, health commissioner during the Manchurian plague epidemics, to demonstrate... Go to Article » Solving Poverty by Reforming Moral Character: How the New Poor Law Failed 19th Century British Society
(10/21/20)
The 19th century, a tumultuous period which saw a momentous change to a way of life, also saw the implementation of the Poor Law Amendment... Go to Article » How Populist Conservatism Influences the Rhetoric of Ethnic Entrepreneurs
(10/21/20)
This research paper investigates the impact that the rhetoric of a populist conservative ethnic entrepreneur can have on ethnic conflict... Go to Article » Trust in State Media: Analyzing the Chinese Communist Party's Changing Approach to Public Opinion and Media Censorship
(10/21/20)
China’s rise as a global power has major implications for the future of free speech and media censorship both within and outside... Go to Article » Stage as Moment, Cinema as Memory: The Diverging Aesthetics of Two Mediums
(10/20/20)
This paper argues that film is a medium defined by its relationship to memory. Building upon aesthetician György Lukács... Go to Article » Understanding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Teenagers with High-Functioning Autism
(10/19/20)
Research has shown that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) shares similar genetic roots with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and attention... Go to Article » The Power of Right-Wing Populism in the Twitter Age: Analysis of Donald Trump's Tweets During the 2016 Election
(10/16/20)
The emergence of social media platforms into American life has remarkably altered the political communication landscape. Websites... Go to Article » Preserving Cultural Identity in English Language Use by Korean Immigrants
(10/14/20)
This paper argues that the Korean cultural values of humility and social deference directly influence the linguistic choices in Korean... Go to Article » Racialized Discourse and Economies of Female Saracen Bodies in The Sultan of Babylon
(10/12/20)
The fifteenth-century Middle English romance "The Sultan of Babylon" partakes in the Orientalist literary tradition through the poet... Go to Article » Recycled Tropes and the Persistence of Islamophobia in American Films
(10/10/20)
In this essay, I provide a content analysis of commercially and critically successful films that perpetuate popularized Islamophobia... Go to Article » The Use of Ketamine as a Treatment for Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders
(10/10/20)
Ketamine, described by the chemical formula C13H16ClNO, is most commonly associated with adolescent and adult recreational drug users... Go to Article » Redemption and Reconciliation in Oedipus at Colonus and Gran Torino: A Comparative Reading
(10/08/20)
This paper presents a comparative analysis of Oedipus at Colonus, a play written by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles, and Gran... Go to Article » The Gender Gap in American Politics: How Money in Politics Affects Female Representation
(10/06/20)
In the 116th United States Congress, women hold 23.2% of House seats and 25% of Senate seats. Down the ballot, across state and local... Go to Article » The Sanctity and Disgust of the Female Body in Rosemary's Baby
(10/05/20)
This paper explores the woman’s body as a site of sanctity and disgust in the film Rosemary’s Baby. The character of Rosemary... Go to Article » The Cycle of Punishment in Producing Society
(10/03/20)
Punishment from the legal system is typically seen as a proper response to lawbreakers and criminal activity. However, we do not consider... Go to Article » Affective Gender Communication: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Toddler Behavior
(10/02/20)
Conversations about the gender expression of young children are often characterized by confusion, as parents, educators, and even... Go to Article » The Keto Diet and Long-Term Weight Loss: Is it a Safe Option?
(10/01/20)
The ketogenic diet, or keto diet for short, is a fad diet that has gained significant attention in recent years as a popular weight... Go to Article » The Effectiveness of the International Criminal Court: Challenges and Pathways for Prosecuting Human Rights Violations
(09/30/20)
Of the thousands of potential cases that could have been investigated by the International Criminal Court (ICC), only 44 individuals... Go to Article » Poststructuralism and Female Identity in Sylvia Plath's Ariel
(09/30/20)
Sylvia Plath’s posthumously published collection of poetry, Ariel, is perhaps best defined by the vivid imagery that delves... Go to Article » James E. Webb and the Grand Strategy of the Moon Landing: A Political, Administrative, and Contextual Analysis
(09/28/20)
The man who powered NASA through the Apollo Era had no background in science or engineering. Rather, NASA achieved one of history&... Go to Article » The Politics of the Spectacular and the Poetics of the Specular in William Shakespeare's Richard II
(09/28/20)
In his 1957 The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology, Kantorowicz reads Richard’s coup de thé... Go to Article » Improving Medical Humanitarianism: Pitfalls and Best Practices for International Aid
(09/25/20)
The necessity of international relief is unending as new crises continue to emerge across the world. International aid plays a crucial... Go to Article » Abu Ghraib, Homonationalism, and the Rationalization of Modern Torture
(09/24/20)
Drawing on Jasbir Puar’s analysis of homonationalism in the post-9/11 United States, I investigate the Orientalist and Islamophobic... Go to Article » Intergenerational Intimate Partner Violence: Pathways of Genetic and Environmental Interactions
(09/22/20)
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious public health issue that results in social, psychological, emotional, and physical consequences... Go to Article » Unification of Mind, Matter, and Consciousness Through an Essence of Relation
(09/18/20)
In contemporary philosophy, the mind-body problem and the problem of consciousness are often viewed through the lens of physicalism... Go to Article » The Weight of Emotions on Decision-Making: A Comparative Analysis
(09/16/20)
When making decisions, a person must rationally analyze their options and understand potential outcomes. Emotions, the way that we... Go to Article » Cobalt, Computation, and the Congo: Making Corporations Pay for Their Transnational Terrors
(09/15/20)
Though electronic products are ubiquitous in the modern Western world, most people are not aware of the origins of the batteries that... Go to Article » The Forgotten Center: An Analysis into the Disappearing Moderate in a Climate of Increasing Political Polarization
(09/11/20)
Political polarization in the United States has been one of the main issues at the forefront of American politics. Studies show that... Go to Article » Chaos and Dissimulation in Ian McEwan's Modern Retelling of Hamlet
(09/10/20)
This paper analyses Ian McEwan’s reuse of Shakespeare’s material in his retelling of Hamlet from the unusual point of... Go to Article » The Impact of Economic Complexity on Productive Structure and Income Inequality in Indonesia & Venezuela
(09/09/20)
Recent work with the Economic Complexity Index (ECI) has shown that a country’s productive structure constrains its level of... Go to Article » Ergodic Textuality in Egan and Ozeki: The Rhetorical Dialogism of Time Being
(09/08/20)
Human beings decided that time is linear. We continually assert that is made up of the past, present, and future, proceeding infinitely... Go to Article » A Historical Perspective on the Cultural Connotations Surrounding Eating Disorders
(09/08/20)
Over 30 million people in the US are plagued by eating disorders (EDs), with at least one ED-related death occurring every 62 minutes... Go to Article » Terry Richardson and the Celebration of "Porn Chic:" A Critique of Fashion Photography
(09/07/20)
In On Photography, Susan Sontag derides photography for generating a sense of false objectivity. Focusing on the moral implications... Go to Article » Linguistic Essentialism and Indigenous Authenticity: The Role of Indigenous Languages in Defining Indigeneity
(09/07/20)
Since the European invasion of Latin America in the sixteenth century, the concept of indigeneity has been inherently political. In... Go to Article » Negotiating the Concept of National Allegory: Homosexuality, Departure, and Homecoming in Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory and Midi Z's Nina Wu
(09/06/20)
Often regarded as the glorious palace showcasing contemporary world cinema (“Press Conference”), the Cannes Film Festival... Go to Article » Toxic Royalty: Feminism and the Rhetoric of Beauty in Disney Princess Films
(07/23/20)
At Disneyland’s Magic Kingdom, light cascades across the night sky before spiraling down through the stars. The castle that... Go to Article » The Process and Barriers to Legal Gender Transition: A Case Study Analyzing the Yogyakarta Principles
(07/23/20)
Trans people experience a wide range of social and legal disadvantages, including an inconsistent, patchwork system - where one exists... Go to Article » Combating Xenophobia in the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Importance of Health Literacy
(07/15/20)
A global pandemic is often characterized by an abundance of information, the race for a vaccine, and a focus on preventing others... Go to Article » Women's Erotic Consumption: Articulating the Sexual Self Under Late Capitalism
(07/15/20)
From a very young age, women are taught to suppress their sexuality. Sex, we are told, is deeply personal; a private act that must... Go to Article » Totalitarian Friendship: Carl Schmitt in Contemporary China
(07/15/20)
For the past several years, the study of German jurist Carl Schmitt has exploded in China. Floria Sapio remarks that Schmitt has enjoyed... Go to Article » Towards a Theory of Leniency for Immigrants
(04/15/20)
In his compelling account of juvenile justice, “Age of Culpability,” Gideon Yaffe provides a philosophically rigorous... Go to Article » Gender Dynamics in The Sheik as Novel and as Film Adaptation
(02/28/20)
The 1921 Hollywood film The Sheik tells the story of Lady Diana Mayo, a spirited English peeress who, on a trip to the French Sahara... Go to Article » Democratic Backsliding in the U.S. and Why the Rest of the West Should Care
(02/28/20)
‘State fragility’ comes in many manifestations, ranging from violent civil conflict to state-sanctioned corruption. Often... Go to Article » The Social Construction of Female Genital Mutilation
(02/27/20)
On November 20th, 2018, a federal judge in Michigan ruled that the Female Genital Mutilation Act 1996, which federally prohibits female... Go to Article » The Everyday as Empowering: Violence and Suburban Monotony in the Interwar Writing of George Orwell
(02/27/20)
In the opening of J. M. Richards’s post-war account of suburbia, The Castles on the Ground, the author's commentary is unusually... Go to Article » Seeking a Better Life: Asylum Law, the Migration Crisis and Available Legal Remedies
(02/27/20)
Between 2012 and 2017, the number of asylum applications from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—countries collectively known... Go to Article » Why Are South Asian Immigrant Women Vulnerable to Domestic Violence?
(12/20/19)
South Asian women in particular are not only vulnerable to domestic violence, but exceptionally vulnerable to underreporting of domestic... Go to Article » The Psychology of Romance: The Impact of Personality Traits on Romantic Relationships
(12/12/19)
Research shows conflicting results when relaying how personality traits play into successful and satisfying romantic relationships... Go to Article » Evidence of Syllables in American Sign Language
(12/10/19)
This paper will focus on the meaning of signed-language syllables, or the signed-syllable, in American Sign Language (ASL). It is... Go to Article » The Aftermath of Agent Orange: Combating Slow Violence, Necropolitics, and Stigma in Vietnamese Communities
(12/02/19)
Although the Vietnam War officially ended in 1975, the long-term effects of the toxic contaminant, dioxin, found in Agent Orange continues... Go to Article » A Nietzschean Interpretation of the Self in Psychological Continuity
(12/02/19)
There are two views of personal identity that many people find plausible. The first is the psychological continuity view; the second... Go to Article » Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An Analysis of Genetic and Biological Pathologies
(11/05/19)
This paper compiles and analyzes a series of published articles discussing some of the genetic and physiological principles of obsessive... Go to Article » Hyperreality and the Consumption of the Subject as Object in Black Mirror
(10/09/19)
Jean Baudrillard’s essay ‘The Precession of Simulacra’ from Simulacra and Simulation (1981) is a key postmodern... Go to Article » Why are Women More Religious than Men?
(10/04/19)
Scholars have since the 1980s tried to explain why women are more religious than men, but contradictory evidence complicates a precise... Go to Article » United States Patents, Biopiracy, and Cultural Imperialism: The Theft of India's Traditional Knowledge
(10/03/19)
This article aims to present the biopiracy of traditional knowledge from India by the United States, which has occurred directly through... Go to Article » Trauma and Silence in No-No Boy: An Interdisciplinary Reading
(10/03/19)
Depicting the rugged reintegration of Ichiro Yamada, a no-no boy imprisoned during WWII, Japanese American author John Okada presents... Go to Article » Restoring Justice: An Alternative to the School-to-Prison Pipeline
(10/02/19)
The school-to-prison pipeline, a "partnership” between juvenile courts and the school system, "developed through a punitive... Go to Article » Fatherhood Socialization of Masculinity Through Parental Involvement in Youth Sport
(10/02/19)
Fathers often use sport to socialize their sons into masculinity. When coaching their own son in a sport, men must juggle their own... Go to Article » The Status of Women in Late Antiquity: Examining the Sociopolitical Climate, Societal Values, and Gender Roles
(10/02/19)
The status of women and their role in Late Antiquity has been a topic of inquiry among historians. It is a particularly challenging... Go to Article » Unveiling Ultimate Reality in Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Bhagavad Gita
(09/27/19)
Questions regarding the very foundations of our reality abound throughout the history of world philosophies. For example, if we examine... Go to Article » Echoes of W.E.B. Du Bois' Double-Consciousness in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
(04/20/19)
A close scrutiny through a text-based analysis of Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass, an American... Go to Article » The Military Masculine: Storytelling and Role-playing in Phil Klay's Stories of War
(04/03/19)
This paper explores the conflict between hegemonic and new masculinity in Phil Klay’s Redeployment, illustrating the changing... Go to Article » Fringe Religion & the Far-Right: Dangerous Behavior Patterns Among Christian Millennialists
(03/01/19)
Radical thinking among the far-right is a growing security problem for modern western society. Over the past several decades anti-... Go to Article » Discourse, Public Space, and the Politics of Korean "Comfort Women:" Implications for East Asian Relations
(02/20/19)
The issue of “comfort women,” sex slaves utilized by the Japanese army during World War II, is treated in this paper as... Go to Article » Climate Change as a Security Issue in the Indo-Pacific Region: Borders, Environmental Phenomena and Preexisting Vulnerabilities
(02/15/19)
In recent years, climate change has been increasingly framed as a security issue, with some theorists going so far as to call it the... Go to Article » Slavery to Self-Liberation: The Haitian Revolution in Marxist Theory
(02/06/19)
The Haitian Revolution of 1791 – 1804 was a successful slave rebellion in the French colony of Saint-Domingue that began in... Go to Article » Gender-Based Violence in Refugee Camps: Understanding and Addressing the Role of Gender in the Experiences of Refugees
(02/05/19)
The discussion of 'women's rights' is often subsumed into the broader consideration of 'human rights,' but when it comes to understanding... Go to Article » Populist Mobocracy, Fear, and Lies: The Politics of American Populism
(02/05/19)
American politics today operates in an arena where truth and objective reality are bent to the designs of particular interests, powerful... Go to Article » The Search for Nationhood in Older Scots Literature: A Study of The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy and The Tale of Ralph the Collier
(02/01/19)
The corpus of Older Scots literature is hyper-attentive to the themes and issues surrounding nationhood and sovereignty. Authors of... Go to Article » Understanding Ethnic Tensions in Diverse Neighborhoods: The Role of People With Strong Positive/Negative Attitudes Towards Diversity
(01/31/19)
In this article, we explore the role people with evident positive or negative attitudes towards diversity have in either decreasing... Go to Article » The Criminal Justice System's Mistreatment of Transgender Individuals: A Call for Policy Reform to Assist a Marginalized Prisoner Community
(01/31/19)
While media coverage and politicians constantly acknowledge the inadequacies of the criminal justice system in managing victims and... Go to Article » Women & Globalization: The Impact of Increased Women's Economic Rights on Globalization
(01/15/19)
Globalization is generally studied as a process that extensively impacts nations and peoples across every aspect of society. Empirical... Go to Article » The Captain's Compromise: Political Symbolism in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno
(01/09/19)
Until the outbreak of civil war, the United States would continually try and fail to subdue the existential threat of slavery, with... Go to Article » The 'Versipel' Charles Kinbote in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
(01/09/19)
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov is a masterpiece of literature that seems to transform into a remarkably personal experience for anyone... Go to Article » Class, Gender and the Anxieties of Meritocracy in Jacobean England
(01/08/19)
The staged plays of the early Jacobean period are valuable textual products for the literary critic, the cultural researcher and the... Go to Article » Studying Ancient DNA to Understand Contemporary Disease
(12/20/18)
The study of DNA and genetics has always been a large mystery to many scientists. The current Ancient DNA (aDNA) research on human... Go to Article » Exploring the Origins of Achievement Goals and Their Impact on Well-Being
(12/19/18)
Achievement goals refer to the motivational approach of an individual when facing an achievement situation that challenges the person... Go to Article » Is Medical Debt a Social Determinant of Health?
(10/30/18)
Medical Debt has largely been viewed as a financial burden. While studies have linked Medical Debt to decreased savings, reduced health... Go to Article » Changes in Estonian Defense Policy Following Episodes of Russian Aggression
(10/30/18)
After joining the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 2004, Estonians felt secure and in charge... Go to Article » Learning to Love the Absolute Other in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley
(10/30/18)
Innocent lamb, savage tiger, free-flying eagle – time after time animals interrupt poetry as the ideal, the muse, the hero,... Go to Article » Can the Value Proposition Work in Health Care?
(10/24/18)
The value proposition in the commercial setting is the functional relationship of quality and price. It is held to be a utility maximizing... Go to Article » A State of Illegitimacy: The Dynamics of Criminal and State Legitimacy in Mexico
(10/08/18)
The following paper seeks to elucidate the complex processes involved in the Mexican State’s loss of authority and the subsequent... Go to Article » Differences in Ethical Decision-Making and Reward Responsiveness in Individuals with Anxiety and Depression
(09/05/18)
This study aimed to determine if anxiety and depression in individuals are related to deontological ethical decisions, with particular... Go to Article » Explaining the Rise of Populism in Poland: The Post-Communist Transition as a Critical Juncture and Origin of Political Decay in Poland
(07/07/18)
The Polish populist Law and Justice Party (PiS) overturned the mainstream consensus in Polish politics by returning to power in 2015... Go to Article » Specific Language Impairment in Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder
(05/25/18)
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are among the most common neurodevelopmental disorders. According to the Centers for Disease Control... Go to Article » Wind Energy Legislation Strategies for the Lone Star State
(05/11/18)
Texas introduced Senate Bill 277 as its first wind energy siting law during the 2017 Legislature. The bill combats radar interference... Go to Article » Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy: A Review of the Literature
(05/09/18)
This review discusses Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy research to date. A literature review first explores mindfulness and art therapy... Go to Article » Educational Investment and Sociopsychological Wellbeing Among Rural Chinese Women
(05/09/18)
Universal secondary education is vital if rural China is to achieve long-term socioeconomic sustainability, as education offers the... Go to Article » On the Necessity of Developing General Education for Undergraduates in Chinese Higher Institutions
(04/24/18)
The promotion of general education is a matter of ongoing debate owing to the pressing question of how to improve higher education... Go to Article » The Impact of Background Stimuli on the Perception of Fear in Facial Expressions
(03/26/18)
Byrnes (1983) found bright colors were associated with positive emotions (e.g., happiness) and dark colors were associated with negative... Go to Article » The Poetics of Witnessing in the Works of Seamus Heaney
(03/22/18)
In his poem ‘Punishment’ from the poetry collection North (1975), Seamus Heaney picks up the voice of a witness who is... Go to Article » Challenging the Gender Dichotomy in the Victorian Era: Reading Hemingway's Up in Michigan and Mansfield's Frau Brechenmacher Together
(03/22/18)
Sexual violence and coercion became hot topics in 2017, with endless headlines. However, these problems and issues are not new, nor... Go to Article » Newspaper Coverage of the Mau Mau Movement: A Constructivist Argument
(03/21/18)
On February 14th, 1965, just one week before he was assassinated, Malcolm X delivered a speech in Detroit. He spoke about his beliefs... Go to Article » Native Design in Modern Fashion: The Transformations of Native American Flower Beadwork
(03/13/18)
What happens to flower beadwork when its application is transformed from traditional clothing decoration, to painting on the wall,... Go to Article » Japan at Work in the 21st Century: An Analysis of Developing Labor Practices in Japan and Institutional Barriers to Reform
(03/08/18)
Devastated by an economic collapse at the end of the 20th century, Japan’s economy entered a decade long period of stagnation... Go to Article » One Pronoun at a Time: Gender-Specific Pronouns Improve Reading Comprehension
(02/23/18)
The current study focuses on the effect of gender-specific (he, she) and gender-neutral (they) pronouns on male and female recognition... Go to Article » Do Black and White Americans Hold Different Views on Marijuana Legalization? Analyzing the Impact of "The War on Drugs" on Racialized Perceptions of Legalizing Marijuana
(02/22/18)
This study examines whether black and white Americans develop their views regarding the legalization of marijuana based on different... Go to Article » A Line in the Sand: Drug Control Along the U.S.-Mexico Border
(01/31/18)
This paper analyzes the ongoing drug war being waged between Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), their rivals, and the... Go to Article » The Birth of the Creative Consciousness: Childhood Spaces, Memory, and Psychoanalytic Play in the Memoirs of Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf
(01/22/18)
Both Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf detail memories of having intense shocks into consciousness during their early childhoods... Go to Article » Victorian Racism: An Explication of Scientific Knowledge, its Social Character, and its Relation to Victorian Popular Culture
(01/17/18)
The British Empire of the nineteenth century displayed and embodied racism in its composite. In embodying this idea of racial inequality... Go to Article » Debating Space Through the Göttingen Review: Why Kant's Transcendental Ideality of Space Exceeds Berkeley's Subjective Idealist Interpretation
(01/09/18)
It is not often that one questions the nature of space, in fact, most people understand extension as independent of their mind as... Go to Article » Benefits of Interactive Music Therapy on Children with Autism
(01/02/18)
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a wide range of severity, encompassing mild to severe levels... Go to Article » Globalization of Chinese Online Literature: Understanding Transnational Reading of Chinese Xuanhuan Novels Among English Readers
(12/21/17)
Since its emergence in the 19th century, fantasy fiction has proliferated throughout the world, from the global craze of Lord of the... Go to Article » Realism and Arab Nationalism: An Uneasy Partnership
(12/18/17)
The relationship between realism and nationalism is not clearly articulated in international relations literature. On one hand, realism... Go to Article » Narratives, Binaries, and Framing in the Cultural Contest Over Climate Change
(12/13/17)
Climate change is already altering our biosphere and is projected to bring about monumental changes to our planet’s environment... Go to Article » Leaving Religion: A Qualitative Analysis of Religious Exiting
(12/12/17)
Religion has been a part of society for thousands of years and touches every life on the globe. Despite this, religious non-affiliation... Go to Article » Food Insecurity and the Threat to Global Stability and Security in the 21st Century
(12/07/17)
In 2010, over 250,000 Syrian farmers were forced from their land due to water shortages. Lack of water left these farmers dangerously... Go to Article » The Looking Glass Self: The Impact of Explicit Self-Awareness on Self-Esteem
(12/04/17)
Cooley (1902) introduced the looking glass self as an individual’s self-concept defined, in part, by societal heuristics. Silvia... Go to Article » Come, Sir Boy: Subverting Masculinity Through Cross-Gender Performance
(11/30/17)
I was the wounded soldier in the opening scene of Macbeth, lying spread-eagled on the stage, flaunting my unsightly gashes. I closed... Go to Article » Before Drones: U.S. Covert Action in Africa During the Congo Crisis
(11/30/17)
As with much of the African continent, the Congo endured a harsh colonial past. What trailed, after its 1960 independence from Belgium... Go to Article » The Changing Arena of Power Contestation Between the State and Chaebols in South Korea: Democracy and the Ascent of Legal Institutions
(11/30/17)
The growth of the South Korean economy has often been attributed to the rise of Chaebols, or family owned businesses with wide-ranging... Go to Article » Old History in the "New" Cuba: Exploring the Legacy of Race and Economic Inequality on the Island Today
(11/30/17)
This article examines the reasons why racism persists in Cuba more than fifty years after the 1959 Revolution in which Fidel Castro... Go to Article » Opposites Attract? An Evaluation of Foreign Policy Impediments in Sino-Vatican Relations
(11/30/17)
The relationship between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Holy See appears to be an uneasy association between opposites... Go to Article » MNC Decision Making under Sanctions: South Africa and Rhodesia
(11/30/17)
By using an incentives/disincentives model to map the divergent behaviors of multinational corporations (MNCs) confronted by a sanctioned... Go to Article » Persianization and Intimidation: Investigating Discord in the Court of Alexander the Great
(11/29/17)
A subset of Alexandrian scholarship which has garnered long-held fascination does not center upon a success, but rather a failure:... Go to Article » Walking Gendered Lines: The Contradictory Expectations of Men Who Work in Early Childhood Education
(11/27/17)
Men who choose to work in Early Childhood Education (ECE) face both discrimination and a privileged status due to their under-representation... Go to Article » Decision Making Theories and China's Military Intervention in the Korean War
(11/22/17)
This article uses two decision-making theories – rational choice theory and prospect theory – to examine China’s... Go to Article » The Body as a Weapon of Resistance in Postcolonial Short Stories: The Cases of Augusto Monterroso and Zulema de la Rúa Fernández
(11/20/17)
The arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the “New World” at the end of the fifteenth century triggered an age of violence... Go to Article » Theoretical Utilisation of Biological Warfare from Aquatic Invasive Species
(11/16/17)
This research project focuses on invasive aquatic species and their potential usage as biological weapons. It’s a cross disciplinary... Go to Article » "Jazz Is My Story:" A Historical Analysis of Jazz and 20th Century African-American Literature
(11/15/17)
The period of time from the Bebop era to the present—mid-1940s onwards—has been an era of great cultural evolution in... Go to Article » Eminent Domain in the United States and China: Comparing the Practice Across Countries
(11/14/17)
Regardless of which side of the Pacific individuals reside on, the idea of the government taking property and uprooting citizens tends... Go to Article » Domestic Violence and the Indian Women's Movement: A Short History
(11/08/17)
Domestic violence in India poses an interesting paradox: in addition to being the most ubiquitous of basic human rights violations... Go to Article » The Feminine Threat: Reconsidering the Damsel in Distress in Early Disney Films
(11/06/17)
“Disney perpetuated a male myth through his fairy-tale films,” argues Jack Zipes (1995, p. 37). He writes that Walt Disney... Go to Article » The Effects of Institutional and Political Instability on Civil War in South Sudan
(11/02/17)
South Sudan is the youngest and one of the most volatile nations in the world. After two decades of war, it gained its independence... Go to Article » Cognitive Embodiment and Mind Reading in Jane Austen's Persuasion
(10/31/17)
Empirical psychology first emerged as a scientific discipline during the eighteenth century when it was launched into the academic... Go to Article » Cacao Cravings: Europe's Assimilation and Europeanization of Chocolate Drinking from Mesoamerica, 1492-1700 C.E.
(10/27/17)
Chocolate is a foodstuff that many people in the modern world take for granted; the sweet treat can today be found plentifully and... Go to Article » Pederasty and Power in Plato's Mythological Dialogues
(10/26/17)
As a topic of philosophical interest the Socratic dialogues play a pivotal role in many of Plato’s works of more than thirty... Go to Article » Facts, Beliefs, and the Brain: How Propaganda, Ideology, and Donald Trump Inhabit the Group Mind
(10/24/17)
In the human experience, political ideology and propaganda have played powerful roles in forging group identity. In the evolution... Go to Article » Tracing the Success of Soft Power in the US State Department's Future Leaders Exchange Program
(10/23/17)
The United States government started exploring the soft power potential of student and scholar exchange programs as early as 1908,... Go to Article » The Value and Benefit of an Enlightened People for the Continuity of Democratic Societies
(10/19/17)
Political philosophers and theorists alike continue to debate if more enlightened populations would be of value or not. This piece... Go to Article » The Modern and the Traditional: African Women and Colonial Morality
(10/18/17)
“As Roman imperialism laid the foundations of the modern civilization, and led the wild barbarians of these islands along the... Go to Article » The Evolution and Devolution of Mental Health Services in Australia
(10/17/17)
This article provides a brief historical overview of the development of mental health services in Australia. It commences with the... Go to Article » Commercialization and Discontent on the American Farm: The Farmer's Movements of the Late-19th and Early-20th Centuries
(10/10/17)
During the periods of the Agrarian Revolt and the 1920s, farmers were unhappy with the economic conditions in which they found themselves... Go to Article » John Rawls' Primary Goods Approach to Justice: An Analysis of Indexing Problems
(07/14/17)
There has been extensive debate over the past few decades regarding the criteria by which we should measure distributive justice.... Go to Article » Fighting for Euskera: The Role of Language in Basque Nationalism and the Development of the ETA
(06/09/17)
Basque nationalism is a movement that has encompassed myth, mystery, violence, and compromise, all of which have found their justification... Go to Article » The Next Frontline of the Battle Against the Islamic State? Southeast Asia
(06/07/17)
The global network of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as Daesh,2 is expanding rapidly. Southeast Asia is especially... Go to Article » Nationalism, Identity, and Public Policy in Sweden: Pursuing an Elusive National Identity
(06/01/17)
Similarly to many European countries, the Swedish population often perceive their history as an epoch of homogeneity: a time when... Go to Article » Aristocratism and Authoritative Politics in Behn's Oroonoko: The Existential and Socio-Political Semiotics of Death and Torture
(05/30/17)
Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko offers a complex representation of the semiotic and socio-political meaning of seventeenth-century torture... Go to Article » Nature or Culture? The Anthropocene as Social Narrative
(05/22/17)
Is it possible to objectively define the Anthropocene? This essay argues that whether or not it is precisely definable as a geological... Go to Article » The Red Army Faction: Understanding a Measured Government Response to an Adaptive Terrorist Threat
(05/22/17)
For three decades prior to 9/11, West Germany fought its own war on terror. For 28 years, it faced off against the Red Army Faction... Go to Article » When Trying to Surprise Your Opponents Backfires: Exposing the Weaknesses of the Indirect Approach
(05/22/17)
It is often thought that great military strategists do not engage in simple, frontal assaults, but instead devise complex plans meant... Go to Article » Alienating Ethnic Kin: Assessing Immigration Integration Policies for the Brazilian Nikkeijin in Japan and Joseonjok Marriage Migrants in South Korea
(05/22/17)
In recent decades, Japan and South Korea have become hosts to ethnic return migrants who have returned to their ancestral homeland... Go to Article » Remote Sensing Satellites as a Solution Towards Anticipating Food and Water Wars
(05/22/17)
In December 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognized the universal human right... Go to Article » Libya 2011: Exploring the Implementation of the 'Responsibility to Protect'
(05/11/17)
This article explores the role that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) played in the 2011 intervention in Libya. It examines the... Go to Article » The Psyscholinguistic Semiotics and Metanormative Ethics of Suicide and Death in Shakespeare's King Lear
(05/02/17)
The fascination with death and the sensationalizing of suicide are prevalent metaphysical themes which traverse all Shakespearean... Go to Article » Mary Magdalene as a Renewed Feminist Icon: Representations in the Christian Tradition as a Resource for Contemporary Liberation Theology
(05/02/17)
Mary Magdalene remains prevalent within Christianity and popular culture. A mysterious and enigmatic figure, she continues to capture... Go to Article » Does Essence Precede Existence? A Look at Camus's Metaphysical Rebellion
(05/01/17)
Albert Camus lived during a tumultuous time that included his experience of World War II and the Algerian War. Camus is most prominently... Go to Article » Divinity in the Disguise of Mental Illness in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
(05/01/17)
The character of Benjy Compson from William Faulkner’s 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury is a mythic and Christ-like figure... Go to Article » Solitude and Disquiet in Contemporary Islamic and Jewish Poetry
(05/01/17)
This paper examines the differences between the tales of Isaac and Ishmael in the Tanakh and the Quran to explore how the discourse... Go to Article » Suicide Terrorism as a Tactic: How Dominant, yet Subtle Representations Form Identities and Meanings
(04/30/17)
Although terrorism has been present in the world for centuries, it is only since the 1980s that suicide terrorism has become an object... Go to Article » The Effects of Race and Religion on Patriotism Among Americans
(04/30/17)
This paper examines the reasons behind people's different views of defining what "patriotism" is. Three multivariate linear regressions... Go to Article » More Choices More Voices?
(04/30/17)
The relationship between party system fragmentation and voter turnout is not entirely understood in contemporary political science... Go to Article » How Have Corruption Scandals and President Roussef's Impeachment in Brazil Impacted its Economy?
(04/30/17)
In 2009, Brazil was in the path to become a superpower. Immune to the economic crises of 2008, the country's economy benefitted from... Go to Article » Arab Feminism in the Arab Spring: Discourses on Solidarity, the Socio-Cultural Revolution, and the Political Revolution in Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen
(04/30/17)
Over the last couple of decades, women-spearheaded social movements have mobilized to leave a lasting impression on civil societies... Go to Article » The Fundamental Illegitimacy of Facism and the Innate Desire for Freedom
(04/27/17)
This piece examines the ideologies and tactics used by fascist governments to validate and enforce their authority through Michael... Go to Article » Hegemonic Overreach in the British Empire: Economic Distress, Strategic Imperative, and the Fall of Singapore
(04/19/17)
Since the end of the Second World War, scholars of British military history have busied themselves with attempts to explain the British... Go to Article » The Purposive Power of Natural Theology: On Moser and the Christian Apologetics
(04/14/17)
In recent years there has been quite a bit of talk in philosophy of religion regarding how relevant and how purposive natural theology... Go to Article » Literary Repetition and Revision as Healing: Harryette Mullen and Suzan-Lori Parks's Collective Solution to Historical Trauma
(04/11/17)
Music functions as a source of healing in Toni Morrison’s Jazz, both to the bird who is inexplicably sad and for the broken... Go to Article » Antonio Gramsci, Hegemony, and the Greek Crisis: Building New Hegemony to Supersede Neoliberal Discourse
(04/10/17)
Antonio Gramsci’s interpretation and analysis of “hegemony,” its mechanisms, causes and consequences for the Left... Go to Article » A Theory of Vernacular Rhetoric: Reading Dante's De Vulgari Eloquentia
(04/06/17)
The relationships between power and rhetoric have been the subject of many recent studies, most notably from the conversation concerning... Go to Article » The Rebel Hero: Albert Camus and the Search for Meaning Amidst the Absurd
(04/04/17)
Man in his search for meaning—everyman— is Albert Camus’ rebel. In The Rebel man must accept and seek to encounter... Go to Article » Theistic Explanations of the Ontology of Consciousness
(04/01/17)
Consciousness is a thought-provoking phenomenon. In recent decades, though, the philosophy of mind has revealed consciousness to be... Go to Article » A Tale of Mattel's Two Dolls and the Politics of Dollplaying: A Critical Examination of Barbie and American Girl's Roles in Educating Young American Girls
(04/01/17)
A quintessential aspect of many American girls' childhood involves plastic bodies (Rogers, 1999, 112). Pieced together by molded plastic... Go to Article » Causal Inference to Ascertain Causes of Metastasis in Melanoma
(04/01/17)
Causal inference methods were performed on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) clinical datasets. First, relevant patient data were collected... Go to Article » Obama and the Economic Recovery: Keynesian Policies, Gridlock, and the New Global Economy
(03/31/17)
The Obama presidency will largely be defined by the administration’s ability to respond to the unique and historic challenge... Go to Article » Scientific Federal Agencies & the United States Negotiation for the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1962-1963
(03/27/17)
In October of 1962, the United States and Soviet Union’s arms race in ballistic missiles escalated to an unnerving confrontation... Go to Article » Lowering Restrictions on Performance Enhancing Drugs in Elite Sports
(03/24/17)
This article argues that performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) ought to be allowed across all elite sporting competitions for athletes... Go to Article » The Inequalities of Climate Change and Poverty: Impact Analysis and Potential Solutions
(03/22/17)
In Gallup’s 2016 environment poll, 64 percent of U.S. adults are now worried a “great deal” or “fair amount... Go to Article » Choosing a Dissertation Adviser: Challenges and Strategies for Doctoral Students
(03/22/17)
The process of selecting a dissertation adviser can be accomplished in a number of ways. The importance, however, of this process... Go to Article » Ghosts of Romanticism in Neil Gaiman's Children's Fiction
(03/21/17)
From the point of view of childhood, modern Western society shows many parallels to the Romantic Age. While the industrial economy... Go to Article » Social Networking Sites and Romantic Relationships: Effects on Development, Maintenance, and Dissolution of Relationships
(03/14/17)
The evolution of social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., have changed the way we look at relationships. Social... Go to Article » The Telos of History as Understood by Hegel
(03/13/17)
Is there a goal or purpose to history? And if so, how is one to determine its starting point, the ways in which it develops, and how... Go to Article » The Conceptual Access-Network Thesis: Theorizing the Success of New Internet-Based Products, Services, & Technologies
(03/13/17)
The Conceptual Access-Network Thesis proposed suggests that the development or success of any new internet-based product, service,... Go to Article » Sex and Sexual Violence in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(03/09/17)
Anyone in pursuit of knowledge is bound to encounter sex somewhere along the way. In the early 19th century, a period during which... Go to Article » World War II in the United States Colony of the Philippines: Beyond the Bataan Death March and Douglas MacArthur
(03/07/17)
World War II ranks among the deadliest military conflicts in history. From 1939-1945, the estimated number of casualties worldwide... Go to Article » Carbon Capture and Storage as a Method to Mitigate Climate Change
(03/06/17)
Through increased industry practices, land degradation, and burning of fossil fuels the anthropogenic sources of CO2 have increased... Go to Article » Globalization and the State: Assessing the Decline of the Westphalian State in a Globalizing World
(03/03/17)
In the year 1648, two treaties signed in the cities of Osnabruck and Munster, collectively known as the Treaty of Westphalia, brought... Go to Article » Harry Potter is Gay: An Investigation of Queer Fan Culture
(03/02/17)
Not long after J.K. Rowling published the first Harry Potter book on June 26, 1997, The Boy Who Lived exploded into an international... Go to Article » The Power of Symbols: The Ideological Representations of a French Revolution Playing Card Deck, the Revolutionnaires
(03/01/17)
In 1793-1794, during the height of the French Revolution, a deck of playing cards was introduced that radically changed the future... Go to Article » The Value of Reason in the Stoic Philosophies of Epictetus and Aurelius
(03/01/17)
Philosophers have long debated the meaning of virtuousness and the role that reason plays in achieving it. According to the Stoic... Go to Article » Bilingual Episodic Memory and Eye-Witness Testimony
(02/28/17)
The human memory system comprises multiple components. The focus of this paper is on the encoding and decoding process of episodic... Go to Article » A 16th Century Ovid: The Influence of Classical Mythology on the Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays
(02/27/17)
Commonly believed to be the single greatest writer and poet of the English language, as well as one of the most distinguished and... Go to Article » Imagining Ethiopia: The Contrasting Views of Ethiopian Power, Progress, and Significance
(02/26/17)
The ancient civilization of Ethiopia has captivated the West and served, across centuries, as an inspiration for much of Africa. As... Go to Article » Is Western Political Science Applicable to the Islamic World? On the Universality of Particularism in the Middle East
(02/23/17)
Given pervasive representations of its geostrategic and global economic significance, the Middle East constitutes an important area... Go to Article » Reinterpreting the Treatment of the Rural Population by Peru's Shining Path
(02/22/17)
The Peruvian Communist Party (PCP) was founded as the Peruvian Socialist Party in 1928 by José Carlos Mariátegui after... Go to Article » Identifying a Developing Christian Culture in the Fourth Century
(02/22/17)
To briefly set the scene, the fourth century was a complex period for Christianity. It moved from being a persecuted sect to being... Go to Article » The Psychopathology of Pica: Etiology, Assessment, and Treatment
(02/21/17)
Pica is a condition that has been prevalent among humans for centuries. According to the DSM-V (2013) pica is classified as an eating... Go to Article » Gender Equality in International Institutions: Progress and Challenges in Moving Toward Gender Parity
(02/18/17)
The International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda, for the first time... Go to Article » A General Theory of Buzzwords: Synergistic Meta-Linguistic Paradigm Shifts
(02/16/17)
Liz Lemon, frazzled executive producer of a struggling sketch comedy show and main character of the NBC comedy 30 Rock is trying to... Go to Article » The Economic Argument for Expanding GMO Regulation in America
(02/09/17)
The necessity to grow crops faster and more efficiently has long been a goal for the agriculture industry. Now, through the development... Go to Article » Tyrant or Temptress: Deciphering Meaning from Stella's Sole Reply in Sir Philip Sidney's Fourth Song
(02/06/17)
First published in 1591 but thought to be composed sometime during the previous decade, Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella... Go to Article » The Effect of Dodd-Frank on the Profitability of Community Banks: An Econometric Model
(02/03/17)
This study examines the effects of the Dodd-Frank Act on community banks in the Northeastern region of the United States. Using annual... Go to Article » Development Discourse and the "Conduct of Conduct:" Promoting Good Governance in Tanzania
(02/01/17)
Following the failure of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in the 1980s, and the liberal triumphalism caused by the end of the... Go to Article » Examining Eveline: A Study in the Origins of the Paralysed Subject in Joyce's Dubliners
(01/31/17)
When James Joyce rewrote “The Sisters,” intending it to serve as an introduction to the whole of Dubliners, he altered... Go to Article » The Sentimentality of Sterne's Tristram Shandy: A Mind and Body Story
(01/31/17)
The literature of the 18th century includes parodies, satires, and denunciations; however, the role of sentimentality usually comes... Go to Article » Linguistic Hegemony in Academia and the Devaluation of Minority Identity in Higher Education
(01/30/17)
A commonly observed trend among American universities is the relative underperformance of minorities in the academic arena. The usual... Go to Article » Looking into the Crystal Ball of Kosova: Perceptions, Understandings, and Predictions of the Next Generation
(01/29/17)
Kosovar university students have strong opinions on the current situation and future of their nation. Their opinions regarding negotiations... Go to Article » The Role of Deception in Love as Portrayed in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night
(01/18/17)
Although he is arguably best known for his tragedies exploring emotions associated with familial obligations, the need for revenge... Go to Article » Explaining the Muslim Brotherhood's Electoral Success in Egypt: Examining the Parliamentary Elections of 2011 and Presidential Election of 2012
(01/12/17)
From the 1980s to the parliamentary and presidential elections of 2011 and 2012, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt out-performed the... Go to Article » Communicating Meaning in BioArt: The Temporal Strength of Living Media and the Impact of Longevity
(01/09/17)
BioArt is a modern art-form born from the marriage of biotechnology and human inspiration. I argue that the longevity of the art pieces... Go to Article » Navigating the Leftist Spectrum in Argentina: An Economic Classification of the Kirchner Era
(01/08/17)
Argentina’s economic policies under Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner were hugely impactful in the country... Go to Article » The Rise of Gay Liberation in Toronto: From Vilification to Validation
(01/03/17)
When it comes to social perceptions of sexuality, media portrayals cannot be ignored, and in most cases provide important insights... Go to Article » "Solidarity of 'the Colonized'": A Critical Discourse Analysis of Sinn Féin's Connection To Palestine
(12/31/16)
Ireland and Palestine share histories of colonialism, ethnonationalist conflict, and resistance characterized as "terrorism." While... Go to Article » The China Dilemma: A Study of the Ideological Roots of U.S. Foreign Policy Towards China During the Cold War
(12/31/16)
This paper investigates the influence of U.S. foreign policymakers' perceptions towards China on policy formulation during the Cold... Go to Article » Latin America's Female Prisoner Problem: How the War on Drugs, Feminization of Poverty, and Female Liberation Contribute to Mass Incarceration of Women
(12/31/16)
According to the International Centre for Prison Studies, the number of women in prisons in Latin America has almost doubled since... Go to Article » Belonging in a New Home: Discursive Othering of Latin American Immigrants in U.S. Print Media
(12/31/16)
The year 2015 saw heightened racial and ethnic tension in the United States, with particular regard to Latin American immigrants and... Go to Article » Understanding the Potential for Conflict in the South China Sea
(12/31/16)
Foreign policymakers, academics, and regional pundits have all acknowledged the importance of the South China Sea. This region, rich... Go to Article » New Methods Of Democratic Consolidation: The Application Of Citizenship Laws In Ethnically Fractured States
(12/31/16)
The consensus in scholarly circles regarding democratic consolidation stipulates the importance of a cohesive demos, or population... Go to Article » Reevaluating Military Strategy: The Effectiveness Of Conventional Deterrence
(12/31/16)
The rise of modernized and efficient militaries competing for dominance against the United States' military has resulted in increased... Go to Article » Commercialization of Biochar and the Benefits for Climate Change and Agriculture
(12/21/16)
Biochar is biomass that has been converted into charcoal through the pyrolysis process. Biochar is applied into soils for carbon sequestration... Go to Article » Juxtaposing Sexist and Feminist Understandings of Pro-Life: An Analysis of Reproductive Rights Rhetoric
(12/16/16)
Near the end of 2015, in the midst of recent presidential and congressional debates, House Republicans proposed a bill to defund... Go to Article » Genetics, Pathology, & Potential Future Advances in the Study of Huntington's Disease
(12/13/16)
Huntington’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects around five people in every 100,000. It is caused... Go to Article » Preserving Cantonese Television & Film in Guangdong: Language as Cultural Heritage in South China's Bidialectal Landscape
(12/12/16)
The sheer number of distinct dialects present within the country has long complicated Chinese language standardization and language... Go to Article » Joint-Value Creation Between Marine Protected Areas and the Private Sector
(12/08/16)
President Richard Nixon signed the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) in 1972 to both promote research in underwater... Go to Article » Artistic Expression for Political Change: Comedy as Counter-Terrorist Action
(12/07/16)
In 1931, Kenneth Burke challenged the idea that literature and art were merely ornamental. “All of the verbal arts,” he... Go to Article » The LGBT Movement in China: Public Perception, Stigma, and the Human Rights Debate
(12/05/16)
Ever since its elimination from the list of mental illnesses in 2001, and decriminalization in 1997, homosexuality in China continues... Go to Article » The Role of Female Quotas and Female Activism in Passing Gender Based Violence Legislation in Sub Saharan Africa: South Africa as a Case Study
(12/05/16)
"One thing governments have got is legislation. Legislation has an impact. It affects millions of people in a country just by a stroke... Go to Article » The ASEAN Experience, Northeast Asia and Beyond: Free Trade and Economic Integration
(12/05/16)
Economic regionalism has been an observable phenomenon worldwide. Many countries around the world pursue some degree of economic integration... Go to Article » Child Care Policy and Female Labor Force Participation: A Comparison of Germany and Sweden
(12/05/16)
Labor markets have traditionally been regarded as the product of a demand and supply of labor.2 In Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional... Go to Article » Lasting and Expanding: An Analysis of the Islamic State's Incentive System
(12/05/16)
In the past five years, millions of people have lost their homes, loved ones, and lives.2 The Syrian territory is now a battlefield... Go to Article » Quantifying China's Influence on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
(12/05/16)
Following the People's Republic of China's "Reform and Opening Up" (gaige kaifang) ushered in by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China's participation... Go to Article » Bridging the Gap - Towards a Transatlantic Approach to Reducing Inequality: A Policy Proposal
(12/05/16)
We met Scott and Kerstin on different sides of the Atlantic. I met the former in Philadelphia on my way to a convenience store in... Go to Article » First Language Attrition in German Jewish Refugees of the Nazi Dictatorship: The Impact of Age and Attitude on Language Loss
(12/02/16)
First language attrition (L1) studies are a comparably young and theoretically unspecified field of research in bilingualism. Young... Go to Article » "It's a Wise Child:" A Levinasian Analysis of J. D. Salinger's Glass Family Stories
(11/30/16)
J. D. Salinger is a household name in America, but relatively few people know of his Glass family characters. Seven impossibly bright... Go to Article » An Analysis of the Threat of Ontario's Hydroelectric Dams on its River Ecosystems
(11/30/16)
Dams have been used for centuries to assist with the development of human civilization. Access to drinking water, flood control and... Go to Article » Environmental Decisions in the Context of War: Bombing ISIL's Oil
(11/30/16)
This paper evaluates the ethical dilemma coalition forces had to face when deciding to target and take out ISIL's primary source of... Go to Article » The Political Rationality of Terror: Understanding Terrorism as the Result of Organizational Goal-Seeking
(11/28/16)
In the early 1990s, two terrorist organizations, Hamas and the Fatah-led Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), were using terrorism... Go to Article » Was Spinoza a Kabbalist? The Influence of Jewish Mysticism in Book I of Ethics
(11/23/16)
Throughout philosophy’s history, some of its most prominent thinkers have drawn inspiration from sources outside of its canon... Go to Article » The Use of Violence on the American Frontiers: Examining U.S.-Native American Relations in the 18th and 19th Centuries
(11/21/16)
Following the end of the American Revolutionary War of 1776 to 1783, the U.S. government adopted an aggressive and expansionistic... Go to Article » Consumption as Postmodern Ideology in China
(11/17/16)
Jean Baudrillard makes the argument that in a postmodern globalized world, in which competing utopian metanarratives from both sides... Go to Article » The Role of Minor and Ephemeral Characters in Shakespeare's Henry V
(11/15/16)
Never has a work of Shakespeare courted such controversy amongst critics than The Life of King Henry V. ‘By far the most controversial... Go to Article » Post-Colonial Duality and Identity in Ballard's The Crystal World
(11/14/16)
J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World (1966) is a prismatic text, apparently translucent yet linguistically opaque, with moments... Go to Article » A Colonial Catalyst: Reverberations of the Sykes-Picot Agreement in the Rise of ISIS
(11/11/16)
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (more commonly known as “ISIS,” but also referred to as the “Islamic State of... Go to Article » A Summary of the Bystander Effect: Historical Development and Relevance in the Digital Age
(11/10/16)
This article provides a historical perspective on the bystander effect, a social phenomenon that Darley and Latané first studied... Go to Article » How Democratic Was The Roman Republic? The Theory and Practice of an Archetypal Democracy
(11/06/16)
In Federalist No. 34 Alexander Hamilton, arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution, claimed that the Roman Republic... Go to Article » The Anxiety of the Unforseen in Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(11/04/16)
Robert Louis Stevenson typifies an anxiety shared by many prolific Victorian writers: that God will disappear as human psychology... Go to Article » The Internet of Things: A Look Into The Social Implications of Google Glass
(11/03/16)
In its beta release, Google Glass was positioned as a groundbreaking technology - a glimpse into a future that has long been promised... Go to Article » ISIS and the Global Image War: An Archival Perspective on Iconoclastic Performance and Bio-Political Authority
(11/02/16)
The so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – also known as ISIL, IS and Daesh – has during the last years disseminated... Go to Article » Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace: Bridging the Gap Between Genders
(11/01/16)
A meta-analytic review was conducted on the adverse outcomes and prevalence of sexual harassment in a federally operated workplace... Go to Article » Intellectual Responsibility and the Epistemic Search: Comparing Plato and Augustine
(10/31/16)
In the earliest stages of education, children naturally start to interrogate their elders with the question “why?” This... Go to Article » Nutritional Communications Across Climates: A Comparative Research Study Between Ecuador and the Netherlands
(10/30/16)
A study in May 2014 analyzed food labels in Quito, Ecuador, to better understand the culture's nutritional communication. The study... Go to Article » Sweden, the World's Most Sustainable Country: Political Statements and Goals for a Sustainable Society
(10/30/16)
Sweden, a small country with almost 10 million inhabitants, is the world's most sustainable country according to some reports that... Go to Article » Applying the Centrifugal Organizational Model for Pastoralists and Other Competing Communities on the Ethiopian Landscape and the Shift to Agriculture After 1975
(10/30/16)
For the past four decades, pastoralist activities have been pushed to marginal areas in several regions of Ethiopia. This change was... Go to Article » Responding to Environmental Challenges in Alberta
(10/30/16)
Climate change and the myriad of challenges that come with it are a reality the entire world must face. However, for Canadian province... Go to Article » Species Conservation in a Globalized World
(10/30/16)
In today's globalized world, international cooperation and information sharing becomes increasingly important. This paper examines... Go to Article » The Technological Abyss: Heideggerian Ontology and Climate Change
(10/30/16)
Whenever a decision is made in a social, political, or economic context, it is implicitly grounded in an ethical outlook. But where... Go to Article » OMEGA: Playing for Change
(10/30/16)
Despite all the information we have regarding climate change and the potential perils of continuing on our path of consumption, people... Go to Article » The Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's Failed Democratic Transition
(10/28/16)
In January of 2011, massive protests emerged against Hosni Mubarak, the autocratic leader of Egypt since 1981. After Mubarak stepped... Go to Article » Models of Internet Monetization
(10/27/16)
Predicting the future of the news industry begins with understanding the history of newspapers and the current news delivery landscape... Go to Article » Canadian Democracy in Theory and Practice: The Roots of Semi-Representative Liberalism
(10/27/16)
This article explores the nature of Canada’s political system as an evolving consequence of its roots in classical liberal thinking... Go to Article » New Media Adaptations of Classic Literature: From Pride and Prejudice to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
(10/26/16)
Pride and Prejudice, the work of nineteenth century novelist Jane Austen, has been celebrated for over two-hundred years since its... Go to Article » Intersections of Gender, Race and Nation in Cloud Nine and M. Butterfly
(10/25/16)
This article contributes to the debate as to whether Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill and M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang are ultimately... Go to Article » Right Hemisphere Involvement in Auditory Processing: A Review
(10/24/16)
An orthodox opinion within neurolinguistics is left hemispheric lateralization for language processing. The left hemisphere of the... Go to Article » A Review of Rehabilitation Protocols Following ACL Reconstruction
(10/22/16)
The present study provided a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized control trials involving the effectiveness of various... Go to Article » Fetal Homicide Laws: The Policing of Women's Bodies
(10/21/16)
Over the last few decades, fetal homicide laws have become the topic of fierce debate. Some argue they are necessary to protect pregnant... Go to Article » Anxieties of the Modern World: Assessing the Risk Society Thesis
(10/19/16)
This quote by the early 20th century Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran captures both the core idea and some of the implicit issues posed... Go to Article » Can Marxist Thought Successfully Accommodate Radical Feminism?
(10/18/16)
The relationship between feminism and socialism is extremely intimate but also immensely intricate. According to feminist poet Adrienne... Go to Article » Interpreting Political Unrest in Hong Kong Through The Midnight After (2014)
(10/17/16)
Hong Kong is standing at a crucial social and political juncture in its history. A former British colony, it has retained its unique... Go to Article » Theories of Nationalism: A Brief Comparison of Realist and Constructivist Ideas of the Nation
(10/16/16)
In the immense field of scholarly work regarding defining nationhood, a raging debate exists between the conservative view of the... Go to Article » Terror and Torture in the 21st Century: Reimagining the American Hero
(10/14/16)
In the aftermath of the attacks on September 11, 2001 fear and anger shaped American attitudes in response to terrorism. Even so,... Go to Article » The Polar Bear Expedition of 1918 - 1919: Interpreting Masculinity Through the Eyes of a Soldier
(10/11/16)
In the annals of warfare, what often matters most is the simple question of who won. As a general rule of thumb, the winners are often... Go to Article » Poetic Sovereignty in the Work of the Romantic Poets: Self-Determiniation and Revolutionary Thought
(10/10/16)
This essay first explores how Romantic poets William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley invoke the medium of language, specifically poetic... Go to Article » Awareness of Emirati Women's Economic Roles Before the Oil Boom: Changing Perceptions of Gender Roles?
(10/09/16)
In the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in general, women played an important economic role... Go to Article » Chinese Nationalism or the Chinese Communist Party: Who is Really Guiding China's Foreign Policy?
(10/05/16)
China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that leads it has historically limited itself in regards to projecting power and inserting... Go to Article » Tweeting 2016: How Social Media is Shaping the Presidential Election
(09/26/16)
Something seems different about 2016. Something many of us just can’t place our fingers on. Sure, The Donald looms disconcertingly... Go to Article » Women's Struggles in Industrialized Victorian London as Depicted in Charles Dickens's Hard Times and Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market
(09/23/16)
The Victorian Age was a time of rapid economic, social, and cultural change throughout England. Beginning in the late 1700s and early... Go to Article » Defining a Terrorist: A Critical Examination of the Discourse of Terrorism
(09/21/16)
Understanding the term 'terrorist' is a complex and controversial issue within both academic scholarship and mainstream literature... Go to Article » Rethinking Microcredit in Bangladesh: Does Grameen Bank Serve the Neoliberal Agenda?
(09/20/16)
Grameen Bank, translated as "rural bank" in the Bangla language, is a grassroots microcredit organization founded in 1983 by Bangladeshi... Go to Article » The Right to Privacy in a Digital Age: Reinterpreting the Concept of Personal Privacy
(09/16/16)
The right to privacy dates back farther than 1890, when Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis penned The Right to Privacy: “In... Go to Article » Creating Life Within the Confines of Slavery: Comparing Northrup's Memoir Twelve Years a Slave and Genovese's The World the Slaves Made
(09/13/16)
Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave (1853) provides a comprehensive first-hand account of slavery that both corroborates... Go to Article » Spectrums of Nationalism: A Comparison of American and Chinese Nationalism
(09/12/16)
American media generally depicts nationalism as a negative concept, which is threatening to peace and security. However, in its broadest... Go to Article » The Colonial Subject: Seeing the Unseen and the Construction of Subjectivity in Apocalypse Now and La Noire de...
(09/09/16)
The evolution of the moving image from the seemingly simplistic Edison/Dickson shorts of the late 19th century to the technically... Go to Article » A Contemporary Analysis of Action Films with Female Leads
(09/07/16)
A doorbell rings. Off screen, we hear a sing-songy “Coming!” A woman dressed in a cerulean track suit rushes to the door... Go to Article » Depoliticizing and Deconstructing Human Rights: Changing the Lens Through Which We View Universal Human Rights
(09/01/16)
This paper is an attempt to navigate through existing theories of universalisation of human rights and existing justifications thereof... Go to Article » Addressing Shortcomings in Afro-Pessimism
(09/01/16)
Afro-Pessimism forwards a crucially important foundation with which anyone concerned with forming Black resistance strategy should... Go to Article » Theories of Nuclear Proliferation: Why Do States Seek Nuclear Weapons?
(08/30/16)
Nuclear weapons are the most powerful and destructive weapons held in the aresenals of any modern states. Since the creation of the... Go to Article » Still Cordiale? Revisiting the Entente Cordiale in the Context of European Security and Brexit
(08/24/16)
When Britain and France signed what became known as the ‘Entente Cordiale' in 1904, it brought into being an era of mutual cooperation... Go to Article » How Important is the Notion of the 'Civilising Mission' to Our Understanding of British Imperialism Before 1939?
(08/24/16)
The ‘civilising mission' is a broad ideology that combines four main ideals; Enlightenment ideals, Christian / Evangelical ideas... Go to Article » Should Governments Negotiate With Terrorists?
(08/24/16)
It is sometimes said that governments should never talk to terrorists. What light does the Northern Ireland experience cast upon that... Go to Article » What Were Mao's Motivations for Intervention in the Korean War?
(08/24/16)
Chinese intervention in Korea in October 1950 continued a period of hideous violence and death in China's history. Between 1927 and... Go to Article » Détente Studies in Cold War International History: Questions (Un)Marked?
(08/24/16)
‘There was no official declaration of détente, no official starting points, no clear-cut end.' ... Go to Article » Comparing Godly and Satanic Happiness in John Milton's Paradise Lost
(08/21/16)
Two conflicting modes of living—happiness pursued obediently (Godly) versus happiness pursued disobediently (Satanic)—... Go to Article » The Importance of the Ras-Raf Pathway in Cancer Development
(08/15/16)
The Ras/Raf pathway is a crucial cell signaling pathway utilized by eukaryotic cells for growth and proliferation, and it is highly... Go to Article » Erasmus and the Transformation of Early Modern Political Authority in The Education of a Christian Prince
(08/07/16)
Often called the “prince of the humanists” Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) was one of the most influential European philosophers... Go to Article » Genealogy of a Crisis: Europe, Greece, and the Management of the Refugee Population
(07/26/16)
As Europe’s frontier with the Muslim East, Greece has been cast as backward, and not worthy of full sovereignty since the earliest... Go to Article » Assessing the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Brain Development
(07/19/16)
In this paper, I review the course of brain development during childhood and adolescence and examine how early adverse experiences... Go to Article » The Forgotten Illnesses: The Mental Health Movements in Modern America
(07/10/16)
The modern world has made incredible bounds towards generating social movements to support disenfranchised groups. When thinking of... Go to Article » Perpetuating the Cycle: Opioid Addiction and the Criminal Justice System
(07/05/16)
Heroin use and the consequences that come from it are skyrocketing around the United States. From major metropolitan areas to rural... Go to Article » Nagarjuna's Idealism as a Metaphysical Justification Against Ignorance
(06/28/16)
The revered Madhyamika Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna is a central figure in the history of Eastern thought. In his Seventy Stanzas... Go to Article » A Community Approach to Education in the Luang Prabang Region of Laos
(06/23/16)
Although education is at the forefront of innumerable research and development initiatives, some countries remain significantly under... Go to Article » Accessibility of Abortion in Canada: Geography as a Barrier to Access in Ontario and Quebec
(06/16/16)
In Canada, a point of national pride has often been our publicly funded health care system. Its pillars of universality, accessibility... Go to Article » The Danish Girl (2015) and the De/Construction of Gender Identity
(06/14/16)
By and large, today’s Western audience is unlikely to be roused by the story told in The Danish Girl (2015, directed by Tom... Go to Article » The CRISPR Fantasy: Flaws in Current Metaphors of Gene-Modifying Technology
(06/13/16)
CRISPR gene-modifying technology continues to revolutionize fields involving biological research. Rapid advancements, however, have... Go to Article » Life-Course Criminology: Comparing the Dual Taxonomy and Age-Graded Theories of Criminal Behavior
(06/10/16)
One of the most well established assertions in criminology is that of the relationship between crime and age (e.g. Sampson & Laub... Go to Article » The Rise of Global Health: How Did Health Become a Matter of Global Concern?
(06/09/16)
Despite being often overlooked within the discipline of International Relations (Lee, 2004: 29; Bambra et al., 2005: 187), the governance... Go to Article » Rethinking the Role of Cooperatives in African Development
(06/07/16)
In their search for a new development paradigm, many African governments and international organizations have reverted to cooperatives... Go to Article » State Failure in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia: The Importance of Australia's Response for National and Regional Stability
(06/02/16)
The occurrence of state failure is an important concern for Australia as it pertains to the security and stability of the broader... Go to Article » Women's Motivations and Roles in Islamist Organizations
(05/31/16)
It is a common misperception that Islamist organizations are men’s groups. Some, like the Muslim Brotherhood, even involve specifically... Go to Article » Motives for Engaging with the Kardashian Reality Television Family
(05/31/16)
Reality television has been around for more than a half-century, dating back to the hidden cameras in Candid Camera in 1948. Today... Go to Article » Standardization of International Advertising Strategies: A Content Analysis of Pantene Pro-V
(05/31/16)
With products available in more than 180 countries, Procter & Gamble is one of the largest global advertisers. Considering today... Go to Article » Evaluating the Internal Communications of the Triangle's "Best Places to Work"
(05/31/16)
Fun. Creative. Engaging. These adjectives may come to mind when thinking of the best places to work. But what makes a company culture... Go to Article » An Analysis of LEGO's Response to an Attack on its Partnership with Royal Dutch Shell
(05/31/16)
In 2014, Greenpeace launched an attack on a 50-year brand partnership between Danish toy company LEGO and Royal Dutch Shell, an oil... Go to Article » Exaggerations and Stereotypes of Schizophrenia in Contemporary Films
(05/31/16)
Due to filmmakers focusing on violence, traumatic events, and hallucinations when depicting characters with schizophrenia, critics... Go to Article » Rationally Irrational: Applying the Rational Actor Model to Rio De Janeiro's Police-Gang Conflict
(05/31/16)
Both gangs and police in Rio de Janeiro seemingly operate irrationally in an extended conflict, as it is highly unlikely that the... Go to Article » Gendered Literacies: A Qualitative Study of Literacy Practices in an All Female OB/GYN Clinic
(05/31/16)
In this ethnographic case study, field observations were conducted of an all-female obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) clinic located... Go to Article » Yoga On Instagram: Disseminating or Destroying Traditional Yogic Principles?
(05/31/16)
Today, more than 15 million Americans practice yoga, making the ancient Indian discipline synonymous with the Western society's culture... Go to Article » Thrifty Authoritarians: U.S. Regime Change 1945-Present
(05/31/16)
The efficacy of efforts by the United States government to influence regime change in foreign nations has been increasingly called... Go to Article » The Burrito Behemoth: Chipotle Mexican Grill and Its Model for Success
(05/31/16)
Chipotle Mexican Grill has revolutionized the fast food industry. In a short time, the brand has served as inspiration for the growing... Go to Article » How YouTube Developed into a Successful Platform for User-Generated Content
(05/31/16)
Since its development, YouTube, the world's third most popular online destination, has transformed from a video-sharing site into... Go to Article » Revitalizing Young-Adult Citizenship: An Analysis of High-School Predictors on Civic Engagement
(05/31/16)
Civic engagement and political participation among the US population are waning, and this is particularly apparent in the young adult... Go to Article » Examining Preadolescent Television Programming and the Rise of Generation Me
(05/31/16)
Preadolescence is a pivotal time for individuals as they develop their own set of values, attitudes, and beliefs. With children ages... Go to Article » The American Dream: Discourses of Equality and Achievability for Black Americans
(05/31/16)
What is the meaning of the American Dream for educated black Americans? How do perceptions of the equality and the achievability of... Go to Article » Do Healthcare Systems Discriminate? A Comparative Policy Analysis of Health Inequality in the United States and United Kingdom
(05/31/16)
This comparative analysis of U.S. and U.K. healthcare systems pinpoints inequalities in health outcomes and recommends policies to... Go to Article » A Content Analysis of Celebrity Instagram Posts and Parasocial Interaction
(05/31/16)
Instagram allows users to share a snapshot of their lives with a mass audience in a matter of seconds. This capability and power has... Go to Article » Neighborhood Violence and Crime: Do Public Institutions Reduce Crime In Neighborhoods?
(05/31/16)
This paper explores the role of public institutions in reducing or fostering neighborhood violence and crime. Understanding institutional... Go to Article » Analyzing Female Gender Roles in Marvel Comics from the Silver Age (1960) to the Present
(05/31/16)
Comic books, a form of American popular culture, offer a window into the past, allowing researchers to track societal changes over... Go to Article » Terrorist Divorce: Examining Alliance Break-Ups and the Al Qaeda/ISIL Split
(05/31/16)
Though somewhat counterintuitive given terrorist organizations' clandestine nature, such organizations do engage in strategic alliances... Go to Article » The Seeds of the "Springtime of the Peoples:" A Study in the Causes of the Revolutions of 1848
(05/25/16)
There have been plenty of greater revolutions in the history of the modern world, and certainly plenty of more successful ones. Yet... Go to Article » Defining the Legitimacy and Power of the State Through Weber and Foucault
(05/24/16)
As a founder of sociology, Max Weber influenced the social sciences immensely. In his “Politics as a Vocation,” Weber... Go to Article » The Uprisings of Nat Turner and John Brown: Response and Treatment from the Abolitionist Movement and the Press
(05/23/16)
This paper examines two influential slave uprisings and the treatment these received by both the abolitionist movement and the press... Go to Article » Transitional Justice in Ongoing Conflict: Colombia's Integrative Approach to Peace and Justice
(05/23/16)
It is clear that the peace should not be purchased at any price. But the illusion that it can be free is ridiculous. &... Go to Article » Consequences of Iraqi De-Baathification
(05/23/16)
Ambassador Paul Bremer of the Coalition Provisional Authority, America's interim government between Saddam's fall and the independent... Go to Article » Angola, 1990-2000: Oil, Democracy, and a "Successful Failed State"
(05/23/16)
Four decades after independence from Portugal, Angola remains a country with significant barriers to good governance and social development... Go to Article » Hearts and Minds: A Comparison of Counter-Radicalization Strategies in Britain and the United States
(05/23/16)
Bataclan. San Bernadino. One need not read any further to understand how radicalization is crucial to counterterrorism and national... Go to Article » Creating the Cult of Xi Jinping: The Chinese Dream as a Leader Symbol
(05/23/16)
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has used publicly displayed propaganda art... Go to Article » Exploiting the Poor and Powerless: Forced Labor Systems in the Early and Later Modern World
(05/14/16)
Our world has witnessed significant shifts, transformations, and evolution in government systems, the balance of power among nations... Go to Article » The Impact of Music on Emotion: Comparing Rap and Meditative Yoga Music
(05/03/16)
Music has accompanied major social events throughout the history of mankind. Major gatherings such as weddings, graduations, or birthdays... Go to Article » Does Trade Liberalization Lead to Declining Fish Stock Health? Analyzing the Causality
(05/03/16)
The paper “Does Trade Liberalization Lead to Declining Fish Stock Health? Analyzing the Causality” by Erin K. Glenn has... Go to Article » The Effect of a 311 Vacant Building Call on Crime Rates
(05/03/16)
It is generally accepted among researchers that incidence of crime is on average higher around vacant and abandoned properties because... Go to Article » How Does Medical Marijuana Legalization Affect the Number of Marijuana Users? An Inclusion and Examination of Different Age Groups
(05/03/16)
This paper studies the effect of medical marijuana legalization on the number of marijuana users in a given state's general population... Go to Article » An Econometric Analysis of the Major Choice of First-Generation College Students
(05/03/16)
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, I estimate a multinomial logit choice model for the college major... Go to Article » Executive Compensation at Credit Unions
(05/03/16)
This study is the first to examine credit union executive pay using compensation information from IRS Form 990. Using OLS, logistic... Go to Article » Shame, Anger, and Guilt: The Hierarchy of Emotions in Restorative Justice
(04/28/16)
There has been a shift away from the traditional adversarial criminal justice system and towards a victim centered system. The effects... Go to Article » China and India in Africa: Implications of New Private Sector Actors on Bribe Paying Incidence
(04/26/16)
This paper seeks to address one of the most common critiques of Asian firms doing business in Africa: that low levels of corporate... Go to Article » The Ferris Wheel, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and the Display of American Superiority
(04/17/16)
In May 1893, the gates to the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago officially opened to visitors. The event was a grand celebration... Go to Article » Comparing the Roots of Conflict in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
(04/15/16)
In public discourse, Africa and the Middle East have become synonymous with ethnic and religious conflict, whereas Europe is known... Go to Article » The Implausibility of the Barter Narrative & Credit Money in Ancient Babylon
(04/15/16)
Whereas the standard economics textbook literature motivates the emergence of money by pointing to the inefficiencies of barter economies... Go to Article » Social Brokers: Reinforcing the Family to Increase Social Mobility
(04/11/16)
Social and economic wellbeing are not simply determined by the choices one makes. Social class and poverty display consistent patterns... Go to Article » Coming Out and the Transition to Adulthood in LGBQ Youth
(04/03/16)
The transition to adulthood in the lives of non-heterosexual youth may offer rich information regarding the criteria youth utilize... Go to Article » Plotinus' Ontology and the Problem of Matter
(03/30/16)
Within The Enneads, Plotinus claims all existence derives from an entirely immaterial and benevolent source which he calls the One... Go to Article » Questioning Community in the Ku Klux Klan
(03/26/16)
This is the first line from the Ku Klux Klan's (KKK) "Objects and Character of the Order" (Horn, 1939, p. 38). Although these are... Go to Article » The Development Agenda After the Millenium Development Goals: Is the Post-2015 Agenda "Truly Transformative?"
(03/25/16)
In 2014, the United Nations called for "a truly transformative agenda to follow the Millennium Development Goals." This study applies... Go to Article » Mega-Events and the Neoliberal Production of Space in Rio de Janeiro
(03/23/16)
Sporting mega-events in Rio de Janeiro, including the 2014 World Cup and the upcoming 2016 Olympics, employ particular tactics of... Go to Article » Adam Smith and Religious Plurality in America
(03/21/16)
The ideas of Adam Smith have remained relevant well beyond his lifetime. He is remembered as the father of modern-day economics and... Go to Article » The Loneliness of Digital Devices: Examining "Removed" (Photo Series) by Eric Pickersgill
(03/18/16)
The 2015 photo series “Removed,” shot by Eric Pickersgill, contains twenty-eight black and white photographs showing different... Go to Article » Memories and Fear: Treatment Techniques to Dissociate Traumatic Memories
(03/17/16)
Fear finds its place in the world through numerous forms, including natural disasters, genocide, war, trauma and countless other events... Go to Article » Today's Non-Traditional Student: Challenges to Academic Success and Degree Completion
(03/15/16)
Nontraditional students represent a substantial proportion of those enrolled in higher education institutions. The purpose of this... Go to Article » The Resource Curse in Nigeria: Comparing the Security of Offshore and Onshore Oil Production
(03/09/16)
Developing states with large natural resource industries have an inclination to become over-reliant on one source of capital, causing... Go to Article » Enhanced Resistance Training Performance via the Neutralization of Lactic Acid with Sodium Bicarbonate
(03/08/16)
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the ingestion of sodium bicarbonate (SB) pre-exercise improved athletic performance... Go to Article » Too Much Tech Harms Reading Retention in Young Children
(03/06/16)
For today's children, technological devices such as iPads, smartphones, and e-readers are quickly replacing more traditional "toys... Go to Article » Robert Lowell's Life Studies: The Examination of an Ailing Soul
(03/04/16)
Upon studying Robert Lowell’s distinguished body of poetry, one subconsciously adopts an overwhelming sensation of pity, reverence... Go to Article » Was Amir Khusrau a Historian? Examining his Work in a Contemporary Framework
(03/02/16)
Ab'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau (1253-1325) is one of the most celebrated poets of medieval India, writing both in Persian, the... Go to Article » Book Review: Planet of Slums by Mike Davis (2006)
(02/27/16)
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis (2006) is a startling, terrifying, and honest exposé of the world’s poorest big-city slum... Go to Article » Understanding Nirvana in Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism: In Support of Nagarjuna's Mahayana Perspective
(02/25/16)
The path towards and the meaning of Nirvana have been central issues to many theorists of the Buddhist Tradition. With this paper,... Go to Article » Women in Meiji Japan: Exploring the Underclass of Japanese Industrialization
(02/24/16)
With the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the late 1860s, there emerged (or re-emerged) a new center for power in Japan—the... Go to Article » Utilizing Technology for Learning STEM Subjects: Perceptions of Urban African-American Middle School Students
(02/22/16)
This study was designed to explore current issues of access, interests and attitudes towards technology use in STEM related courses... Go to Article » Problematising the Critical Realist Positional Approach to Intersectionality
(02/21/16)
In Developing a Critical Realist Positional Approach to Intersectionality, Martinez et. al. (2014) argue that Critical Realism (henceforth... Go to Article » Psychological Effects of Fitness Advertising on Female Collegiate Athletes
(02/18/16)
In recent decades, research has focused on the powerful effects of advertising on negative body image. While researchers have studied... Go to Article » Instagram and Branding: A Case Study of Dunkin' Donuts
(02/18/16)
Instagram, a social media app, is becoming increasingly popular as a business and communication tool. Analyzing 12 posts on Dunkin... Go to Article » Defeating Apathy and Alienation in Scotland: True Victors of the Scottish Referendum
(02/17/16)
At 7am in the morning after the Referendum on Scottish Independence, a triumphant David Cameron stood on the steps of number 10 Downing... Go to Article » Challenges to Mammal Migratory Route Conservation in North America
(02/17/16)
Mammal migration between seasonal ranges can consist of relatively short distance migrations of a single individual as well as massive... Go to Article » Examining Free-Will Through Spinoza and Descartes
(02/14/16)
Within the works of Spinoza, as well as those of Descartes, issues concerning the nature of free-will come to the fore. With this... Go to Article » Book Review: A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey (2005)
(02/12/16)
Michael Thompson, reviewing A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey, calls it ‘the world according to David Harvey&... Go to Article » The Development of Modern Feminist Thought: A Summary
(02/10/16)
Who is a woman? What does it mean to be a woman? Is she a mother-daughter-wife-sister? Or is she more than that? What is her role... Go to Article » The Life and Death of the Hippie: A Dance with the Devil and the Media
(02/06/16)
The media has always had a strong propensity to influence our opinions and behaviors, creating and destroying public images for hundreds... Go to Article » Revisiting Crime Rates as a Measure of Crime Prevention Effectiveness: Does the "Crime Drop" Reveal a Policy Effectiveness 'Outcomes' Gap?
(02/04/16)
A companion article (Has New Zealand Identified the Causes of Crime?) explored the development of five factors described as "the underlying... Go to Article » Has New Zealand Identified the Causes of Crime?
(02/04/16)
This article explores the genesis and development of The 5 Drivers of Crime (described as "the underlying causes of offending and... Go to Article » An Exploration of Perseverative Behaviors in Young Children with Autism
(02/03/16)
This study explored the interplay of stereotypical behaviors and social skills interventions in a clinical environment when stereotypy... Go to Article » The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on HIV-Positive Men and Women in the Southern United States
(02/03/16)
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 called upon states to expand Medicaid, a subsidized health insurance program... Go to Article » "Responsiveness" in American Higher Education: The Evolution of Institutional Governance Structures
(02/02/16)
Building a framework to understand a complex system, such as American Higher Education, requires a focused approach. The richness... Go to Article » Crossed Wires: International Cooperation on Cyber Security
(01/31/16)
Cyber security is a compelling problem for scholars of International Politics. Internet technology is so thoroughly integrated into... Go to Article » Book Review: Cyber War Will Not Take Place
(01/31/16)
In Cyber War Will Not Take Place1, Thomas Rid develops his argument on the concept of "cyberwar", previously formulated in an article... Go to Article » Stuxnet: The World's First Cyber... Boomerang?
(01/31/16)
In June 2012, two years after the initial discovery of the Stuxnet worm,1 an excerpt from David Sanger's then soon to be released... Go to Article » The Internet as a Slippery Object of State Security: The Problem of Physical Border Insensitivity, Anonymity and Global Interconnectedness
(01/31/16)
Cybersecurity is presented in the growing literature on the subject as an essentially "slippery" object for state security.1 The Internet... Go to Article » Internet Freedom: Rhetoric Versus Reality
(01/31/16)
In the last few years the Internet has borne witness to and facilitated a great deal of social and societal change. From Hilary Clinton... Go to Article » Clear-Cutting of the Coastal Temperate Rainforest: A Brief Analysis of Clayoquot Sound
(01/31/16)
Using Clayoquot Sound as a reference, the consequences clear-cut logging has on the coastal temperate rainforest ecosystems was examined... Go to Article » Effects of Conventional and Organic Agricultural Techniques on Soil Ecology
(01/31/16)
This paper explores the differing effects that conventional and organic agriculture have on soil ecosystems. The findings are primarily... Go to Article » Toxicological Effects of Nanomaterials on Aqueous and Terrestrial Ecosystems
(01/31/16)
This paper provides a holistic overview of the effects of engineered and natural nanomaterials (ENMs and NNMs) in the environment.... Go to Article » Costs and Benefits of Nitrogen and Phosphate Fertilizer Use In the Lake Erie Basin
(01/31/16)
This paper explores both the positive and negative externalities associated with nitrogen and phosphate-based fertilizer use. Using... Go to Article » Ecosystems as Stakeholders to Urban Air Pollution Mitigation Decisions in Toronto
(01/31/16)
This paper explores the role that ecosystems can have in the decision making framework for urban air pollution mitigation in Toronto... Go to Article » From Jalaluddin to Akbar: Analyzing the Akbarid Notion of Kingship
(01/29/16)
Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar is placed among the elite few in history; he is amongst the “Great”[1]. Popularly known for... Go to Article » Competing Claims in the South China Sea Viewed Through International Admiralty Law
(01/27/16)
There is a longstanding territorial dispute raging in the South China Sea between China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei... Go to Article » Comparing the Political Theories of Lao Tzu and Machiavelli: Arguments in Favor of Political Rights and Fair Leadership
(01/26/16)
Within Lao Tzu’s Tao-Teh-Ching and Machiavelli’s The Prince, there are similar notions concerning how a ruler should maintain... Go to Article » Economic Historiography of the War of 1812
(01/26/16)
While the overall focus of most scholarships related to the 32-month War of 1812 concentrates on the war’s political and military... Go to Article » The Sixth Species Extinction Event by Humans
(01/22/16)
The number of species becoming extinct has drawn a significant deal of attention from scientists and non-scientists alike. This research... Go to Article » The Occupation of Common Sense: From Neoliberalism to Radical Democracy
(01/21/16)
Conceiving neoliberalism as a form of constructivism, an ideological project rather than a doctrine prefigured by ‘human nature... Go to Article » Impacts and Assessment of the Endangered Snow Leopard: A Conservational Approach
(01/21/16)
Overcoming the threats of the snow leopard with immediate action may be what will save this species from extinction. This report provides... Go to Article » Sexual Behavior in Prison Populations Understood Through the Framework of Rational Choice and Exchange Theory
(01/17/16)
Rational choice and exchange theories have been used to explain many phenomena in the field of sociological research. Although some... Go to Article » Hans Jonas' Critique of the Modern Concept of Causality
(01/15/16)
Hans Jonas main objective in his book The phenomenon of life is to offer an interpretation of the phenomenon of Being that is neither... Go to Article » The Historical Life of Maximilien Robespierre's Reign of Terror
(01/11/16)
If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the mainspring of popular government in revolution is both virtue... Go to Article » Updating Academia: Rethinking the Methodology of Academic Discourse
(01/07/16)
Academic writing is the process through which people with specialized knowledge formulate and communicate their ideas. The process... Go to Article » Addressing the Gender Wage Gap in the United States: Shortcomings of Federal Legislation
(01/05/16)
The most commonly cited statistic for the gender wage gap in the United States is that women earn seventy-eight cents to every dollar... Go to Article » Terrorism and the Infinite Bargaining Model
(01/01/16)
From the Ku Klux Klan's lynchings to al Qaeda's World Trade Center attacks, terrorist organizations have historically exploited fear... Go to Article » Norm or Necessity? The Non-Interference Principle in ASEAN
(01/01/16)
Founded in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is one of the most prominent intergovernmental organizations in... Go to Article » The New Silk Road: Assessing Prospects for "Win-Win" Cooperation in Central Asia
(01/01/16)
The New Silk Road, formally termed the Silk Road Economic Belt and also known as the "One Belt, One Road," was first proposed by China... Go to Article » United States-India Defense Relations: A Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century
(01/01/16)
Starting with a high profile push through the region in 2011, the Obama Administration has made the "Pivot to Asia" a central part... Go to Article » A Silent Dissonance: LGBT Rights & Geopolitics in Maidan and Post-Maidan Ukraine
(01/01/16)
A faceless speaker cries out in a crowded square. Around him is an uneven cacophony produced by an undefined group of people. Fires... Go to Article » Effects of Cultural Factors on AIDS Epidemics in Sub-Saharan African Countries from 2005-2010
(12/31/15)
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has ravaged sub-Saharan Africa in the decades since its first recorded case. The disease... Go to Article » Pollinating Prices: Estimating the Relationship Between Honeybee Population and Almond Prices
(12/31/15)
This paper examines the potential effect of decreasing honeybee population on crop prices by estimating the relationship between honeybee... Go to Article » Divided Society, Divided Schools, Divided Lives: The Role of Education in Creating Social Cohesion in Northern Ireland
(12/31/15)
The Troubles, a period of conflict between mostly Protestant Unionists and mostly Catholic Nationalists in Northern Ireland, ended... Go to Article » First the Land and then the Language: Linguistic Imperialism in Transjordan and Palestine
(12/31/15)
In Jordan, a state renowned for medical tourism, all physicians are proficient in English because medical classes are taught in English... Go to Article » Let Them Export Cake: An Examination of The Role of Economic Freedoms in Fostering Intra-EMU Export Growth
(12/31/15)
This paper investigates the relationship between various types of economic freedom and intra-EMU export growth. Export growth is the... Go to Article » A "Born Leader:" The Fallacy of Identifying Leadership as an Innate Characteristic
(12/22/15)
Gazing up at rulers past and present, it is easy to attribute success to an innate and ineffable quality of greatness. We are led... Go to Article » Economic Impacts of the Conservation of the Mojave Shoulderband Snail (Helminthoglypta 'Coyote' Greggi)
(12/20/15)
The terrestrial Mojave Shoulderband Snail (Helminthoglypta (Coyote) greggi) is being considered for status and protection as an endangered... Go to Article » E-Fluid Induces Inflammation Responses in Lung Epithelial Cells
(12/03/15)
Electronic cigarettes (E-cigarettes) are devices that effectively deliver vaporized liquid nicotine to the lungs and are commercially... Go to Article » Sediment Mass and Nutrient Accumulation Rates in Lake Erie Using Geographic Information System
(12/03/15)
This study emphasizes the reconstruction of sediment deposition rates, sediment concentrations of nutrients, and nutrient fluxes in... Go to Article » Virtue Ethics and its Potential as the Leading Moral Theory
(12/03/15)
There has been a modern revival of interest in virtue ethics as a plausible moral theory. There has been dissatisfaction with the... Go to Article » Foodservice Experience and Tipping Behavior: Further Evidence of Wage-Inequality Between Tipped and Non-Tipped Workers
(12/02/15)
This study focuses on the relationship between prior foodservice experience and a person’s tipping behavior. Using data from... Go to Article » Globalization, Inequality, and the Concentration of Wealth in the UK
(11/30/15)
An article in The Guardian last month reported on the extreme and increasing levels of wealth inequality that exist in Britain today... Go to Article » Islamic Feminism in Egypt: Toward a Reconceptualization of Social Movement Theories
(11/25/15)
A review of literature on social movements highlights its many and sometimes conflicting definitions. Relying on Saba Mahmood&rsquo... Go to Article » The Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
(11/24/15)
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), also known as insulin-dependent diabetes, is a chronic disease caused by autoimmune (type 1a) or... Go to Article » What was the Influence of Cosmopolitan Law on the Permanent Court of International Justice?
(11/20/15)
When speaking to a lay person, the concept of international justice may conjure a perception of impartiality rising above national... Go to Article » Comparing the Effectiveness of Positive and Negative Political Campaigns
(11/18/15)
In the United States, Americans elect 50 governors, roughly a third of the U.S. Senate’s 100 members, all 435 members of the... Go to Article » How University Websites Portray Study Abroad
(11/18/15)
University websites across the country showcase the important underlying values of study abroad: experiencing a "local" culture, creating... Go to Article » Image Repair and Crisis Response of Professional Athlete Adrian Peterson
(11/18/15)
During the 2014 season, a disastrous year in terms of public relations for the NFL, Adrian Peterson was among those who tainted the... Go to Article » Color Theory and Social Structure in the Films of Wes Anderson
(11/18/15)
Filmmaker Wes Anderson has developed a distinct aesthetic style that is easily recognizable through his use of striking color palettes... Go to Article » Do African-American Female Stereotypes Still Exist in Television? A Descriptive Character Analysis of Olivia Pope
(11/18/15)
Scandal, the first network drama in decades to star an African-American woman, reaches millions of viewers on a weekly basis. This... Go to Article » Human Rights Framing in U.S. Newspaper Coverage of the Sochi Olympic Preparations
(11/18/15)
Every two years, the global spotlight shines on the Olympics and the nation hosting the worldwide event, particularly the country'... Go to Article » Unrecognized Potential: Media Framing of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1930-1933
(11/18/15)
In an effort to understand how Americans regarded Adolph Hitler's influence in Germany and beyond as he navigated the country's political... Go to Article » Examining Social Media and Digital Practices Among Southeastern Magazines
(11/18/15)
Recent advancements in digital media have had drastic effects on magazines across the country. This research paper addressed those... Go to Article » An Analysis of Successful Student-Run Public Relations and Advertising Agencies
(11/18/15)
Like other communication-related fields, such as broadcast journalism and print journalism that typically have their own student-led... Go to Article » John Stuart Mill's Solution to the Problem of Socrates in the Autobiography
(11/16/15)
Ever since its posthumous publication, John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography has elicited reactions of primarily disappointment and... Go to Article » The Dead Bodies of the West African Ebola Epidemic: Understanding the Importance of Traditional Burial Practices
(11/09/15)
The traditional mourning and burial rituals common in West Africa played a key role in the recent Ebola epidemic focused in Liberia... Go to Article » The Danger of Sitting Down: A Summary of the Health Risks of Excessive Sedentary Behavior
(11/08/15)
Excessive sedentary behavior (defined as waking time spent sitting, reclining, or lying down) represents an increasingly noteworthy... Go to Article » On Obedience as Identity: Milgram and the Banality of Evil
(11/05/15)
Stanley Milgram's now famous obedience to authority (OTA) experiments, conducted in 1963, 1965, and 1974, shocked the world and are... Go to Article » Did Stalin Plan to Attack Hitler in 1941? The Historiographical Controversy Surrounding the Origins of the Nazi-Soviet War
(11/03/15)
The controversy surrounding the origins of the Nazi-Soviet War in 1941, namely over the issue of whether or not Stalin intended to... Go to Article » An Overview of Essential Security Measures for Competitive Organizations
(10/30/15)
Considering information is the most valuable asset of any organization, information security is one of the most important areas for... Go to Article » Using Anti-Money Laundering Measures in the Financial World to Combat Organized Crime
(10/28/15)
This research paper thoroughly explains the concept of money laundering and examines the costs that are endured by the governments... Go to Article » How Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man Retold the Story of the Black American Experience for the Cultural Mainstream
(10/26/15)
People love a good story. A good story can be intriguingly informative, a good story can well up deep emotions and a good story can... Go to Article » Exploring the Impact of the Autobiographical Story on Learning English as a Foreign Language: Case Study in the Primary Classroom
(10/23/15)
This case study examines the effects of an EFL teacher’s autobiographical story on 26 Spanish primary students in terms of comprehension... Go to Article » Weight of Evidence Reporting: Pragmatic Optimism or a Bad Idea?
(10/22/15)
While some believe that scientists should communicate their research apolitically in research journals, others believe that scientists... Go to Article » Neither Can Live While the Other Survives: How the Representation of the Syrian Conflict Neglects the Citizen
(10/22/15)
Headlines are littered with the rhetoric of the powerful. The most present modern crises can ostensibly be reduced to deconstructed... Go to Article » Examination of Woodchuck (Marmota Monax) Burrowing Behavior and Relationship Between Burrow Diameter and Distance from Water
(10/21/15)
Using data collected through field research at Tyler State Park in Pennsylvania, this study examines the characteristics of Woodchuck... Go to Article » Why are Gender Relations Important to Include in the Study of Politics and Society?
(10/19/15)
Politics has been given many different definitions, ranging from something as solid as “the activities associated with the governance... Go to Article » How Important are Masculinity and Femininity in the Culture of Militaries?
(10/19/15)
In 1999, The New York Times Magazine ran a cover story which asked: Does “being a good soldier [depend] on being an aggressive... Go to Article » Sexual Relationships Shaped by the Political Agenda: A Case Study of Chile
(10/19/15)
It is a generally accepted fact that there are both public and private spheres of action, and that as set out in Article 12 of the... Go to Article » How Effective are Gender Quotas in Achieving Meaningful Change for Women? A Case Study of Argentina
(10/19/15)
Statistics show that it is reasonable to argue that an increasing number of people worldwide are convinced of the importance of gender... Go to Article » Re-Understanding Pompeii: A History of our Interpretation of the Lost City
(10/16/15)
The catastrophic demise of the Oscan-Roman city of Pompeii in 79 A.D. left its mark on our collective psyche. Its remains have long... Go to Article » Transitional Justice and Religion: An Examination of Faith-Based Actors in Kenyan Civil Society
(10/14/15)
This paper address two overarching research questions: first, what is the role of religion in transitional justice? Second, does the... Go to Article » Press Play for Politics: The Weapon of a Eurovision Song
(10/13/15)
On the first day of 2010, I got a phone call from the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB), the official organizers of Eurovision Song... Go to Article » Spatial Analysis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in South Carolina
(10/12/15)
Crohn’s disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC) are both parts of the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) family and are lifelong... Go to Article » The Dichotomy of Gender in Euripides' Bacchae
(10/12/15)
In Euripides’ Bacchae, careful examination of the character Dionysus illuminates discrepancies in action based on gender. Ultimately... Go to Article » Edward Martyn's "Debt" to Henrik Ibsen and his Work An Enemy of the People
(10/09/15)
In his book ‘Since O’Casey’ and other essays on Irish Drama, published in 1983, US academic Robert Hogan made the... Go to Article » The Origins of Cuban Music and its Cultural and Spiritual Importance Within the Cuban Diaspora Community
(10/02/15)
This paper explores how the Cuban Diaspora has formed connections and forged a new identity around music, meanwhile reinforcing the... Go to Article » Impact of Nitrogen Fertilization on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Abundance in Association with Panicum Virgatum
(09/30/15)
Energy researchers have recently taken interest in the use of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) as a biofuel. Arbuscular mycorrhizal... Go to Article » Kant and Mill on Physician-Assisted Suicide
(09/29/15)
Dr. Timothy Quill made headlines in the fields of patient rights and euthanasia when he published “Death and Dignity”... Go to Article » A Framework for Internal Corporate Communications
(09/25/15)
Public relations is a growing field in the United States (Botan, 1992, p. 149). This growth can be partially explained by the fact... Go to Article » Factors that Limit Regulatory Response in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis: Ideology, Regulatory Capture, and Power Dynamics
(09/23/15)
Since the financial crisis of 2007, regulators have recognized the necessity for global governance in an increasingly interconnected... Go to Article » Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey: Conveying Experience Through Nature
(09/22/15)
Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” takes on an abundance of ideas regarding nature’s ability to preserve one&rsquo... Go to Article » The Kakawin Sutasoma: A Look at Bhinneka Tunggal Ika and Perceptions of the Text's Religious Implications
(09/16/15)
This study is an analysis of the religious aspects of the epic Sutasoma. Written in the 14th century CE during the height of the Majapahit... Go to Article » Cultural Tensions and Hybrid Identities in Derek Walcott's Poetry
(09/15/15)
In his Nobel Lecture, Derek Walcott described the experience of watching a Ramleela performance in a village in Trinidad, remarking... Go to Article » Plato's Republic as Moral Poetry
(09/14/15)
One of the greatest ironies of Plato's Republic is that, although he condemns the poets and exiles them from his idyllic city, the... Go to Article » Pottermania: Capitalist Eye-Candy Viewed Through a Neo-Marxist Lens
(09/11/15)
“Beware: Capitalist-Consumerism poses a danger to our Socialist ideals,” the Soviet-propaganda papers such as Pravdaand... Go to Article » Telephone Scatalogia: Review of Current Literature
(09/10/15)
This paper examines the limited research conducted on telephone scatologia. Research was found through mining key search terms, such... Go to Article » Development on the Outer Banks: A Case of Public Perception
(09/09/15)
Many U.S. coastal resort areas with high amenity values have experienced a high influx of both residents (full-time and part-time)... Go to Article » Effects of the "Spiral of Silence" in Digital Media
(09/04/15)
Since its introduction by German-born Political Scientist Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann in 1974, the Spiral of Silence theory has become... Go to Article » An Explanation of Self-Censorship in China: The Enforcement of Social Control Through a Panoptic Infrastructure
(09/03/15)
In contemporary China, as a result of centuries of censorship, major dissent at the domestic level has become rather rare. This research... Go to Article » Sociolinguistic Bias in AP Style: How News Media Deny African American Vernacular English Realities
(09/01/15)
In Media Representations and the Global Imagination, Orgad (2012) addresses the division between content and interpretative analyses... Go to Article » Media Initiation in Environmental Education: An Indian Model of Environmental Pedagogy
(09/01/15)
Environmental communication is now an emerging and a significant curriculum from schools to research centers. The effective and efficient... Go to Article » A Tale of Garbage
(09/01/15)
In 1973, an American archaeologist named Dr. William Rathje sought to create a method that would help his students understand the... Go to Article » Breaking the Cycle: Changing Alberta in the Present to Save the Future
(09/01/15)
Alberta's resource power lies within the energy sector; in particular, the oil and gas industry. However, this same energy sector... Go to Article » Ecuador: Communicating to Bridge the Education Gap in Nutrition
(09/01/15)
After conducting a study in May of 2014 on nutrition communication in Ecuador and how it affects consumer behaviour, researchers identified... Go to Article » Fire for Well-Being: Use of Prescribed Burning in the Northern Boreal Forest
(09/01/15)
Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Alberta Boreal Forest have used fire knowledge and burning practices to maintain their environment... Go to Article » Using Music as an Anti-Anxiety Intervention for Outpatients Undergoing Minor Medical Procedures
(08/31/15)
Many patients experience increased anxiety prior to invasive medical procedures. This anxiety can lead to elevated heart rate and... Go to Article » The Shah Bano Controversy: A Case Study of Individual Rights, Religious Tolerance, and the Role of the Secular State
(08/29/15)
Since Independence, the Indian government has struggled to achieve political modernity within acceptable religious boundaries. Religious... Go to Article » Discussing Refugee Women: Speechlessness, Helplessness and Bodies-as-Facts
(08/25/15)
“Not all silences are equal,” writes Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1997, p.27). Not everyone, I add, possesses the power to... Go to Article » Tragedy in the Ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde
(08/11/15)
One Victorian writer whose similarities to Nietzsche continue to receive sustained attention is Oscar Wilde—even though, as... Go to Article » The Process of Unity in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts
(07/23/15)
In Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts, Woolf raises the theme of a progression toward social unification. Through her analysis... Go to Article » Corruption and Graft in Post-Conflict Afghanistan
(07/22/15)
With the departure of international forces and the exit of Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan has entered a new age. While Afghanistan&rsquo... Go to Article » Radical Populism in Crisis-Era Greece: Examining the Impact of Populist Movements on Greek Democracy
(07/18/15)
This study looks at populist movements in Greece that formed in reaction to the failures of elite statist politicians. Beginning with... Go to Article » From Retribution to Restoration in Sierra Leone: Fambul Tok's Drive to Heal Post-Civil Communities
(07/14/15)
Between 1991 and 2002, the small West African coastal state of Sierra Leone was rocked by a brutal civil war, which killed, injured... Go to Article » The Islamic State Healthcare Paradox: A Caliphate in Crisis
(07/05/15)
The civil war in Syria has taken an enormous toll on civilian populations. One of the most commonly overlooked aspect of this crisis... Go to Article » Roosevelt's Recession: A Historical and Econometric Examination of the Roots of the 1937 Recession
(06/28/15)
The 1937 Recession is a lesser-known event overshadowed by the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. Nonetheless, it... Go to Article » Feminism in Death and the Maiden and Like Water for Chocolate
(06/27/15)
The theme of feminism is present in Ariel Dorfman’s play, Death and the Maiden, and Laura Esquivel’s novel, Like Water... Go to Article » Media Discourse During the Financial Crisis: An Inquiry into the Nature of the Contemporary "Fourth Estate"
(06/19/15)
The concept of a “fourth estate” was first articulated by John Declare, editor of The Times in an article published in... Go to Article » Reassessing the Effectiveness of All-Hazards Planning in Emergency Management
(06/18/15)
The field of emergency management in the United States has grown and changed significantly in the past several decades. In the 1940s... Go to Article » Ancient Greek Women and Warfare: Building a More Accurate Portrait of Ancient Women Through Literature
(06/16/15)
The present study explores the portrayal of women in ancient Greek literature within the context of warfare. More specifically, this... Go to Article » Polysemic Language, Democratization, and the Empowerment of the Body Politic in Shakespeare's Hamlet
(06/15/15)
In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince Hamlet’s polysemic language raises the theme of empowerment of the body politic... Go to Article » Teresa of Avila's The Interior Castle as an Individualizing Text
(06/12/15)
Teresa of Avila has long been respected as one of the most significant theologians to emerge from Spanish Catholicism. Her determined... Go to Article » Erich Remarque's Depiction of Authority Styles in All Quiet on the Western Front
(06/10/15)
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s celebrated 1929 novel, depicts the emotional and brutal experience of... Go to Article » The Development of the Printing Press and the Decline of the Chronicle as Historical Method
(06/04/15)
In his work The Idea of History, philosopher and historian Robin Collingwood outlines the development of historiography by leading... Go to Article » The Arab Uprisings and the Blossoming of a 'Global Imaginary'
(06/01/15)
The social uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt that unfolded in late 2010 and early 2011 were the catalyst for a political awakening that... Go to Article » India's Anti-GMO Rhetoric: Wielding Gandhian Thought to Undermine Corporate-Capitalist Agriculture
(05/31/15)
As a predominantly rural and densely populated developing nation, India is positioned at the vanguard of the global debate surrounding... Go to Article » That's What Makes You Suc-cess-ful: An Analysis of the Required Conditions for an Internationally Successful Music Industry
(05/31/15)
The production, distribution, and consumption of music are highly international transactions. In the past, what made them so was the... Go to Article » Do Western-Educated Middle East Leaders Pass the Democracy Test?
(05/31/15)
This research examines the assumed relationship between Western education and democracy as it relates to Middle East leadership. While... Go to Article » The Impact of External Support on Intrastate Conflict
(05/31/15)
Supporting participants in intrastate conflict often appears as a relatively cheap, effective strategy to address security concerns... Go to Article » A Framing Analysis of Media Coverage of the Rodney King Incident and Ferguson, Missouri Conflicts
(05/31/15)
This study explored how news organizations presented the Ferguson, Missouri, story in comparison with a similar Rodney King incident... Go to Article » A Statistical Analysis of Privacy Norms and State Compliance with Anti-Money Laundering Regulations
(05/31/15)
Organized crime and terrorist organizations cannot be battled by force alone; anti-money laundering (AML) techniques have become key... Go to Article » Yesterday's News: Media Framing of Hitler's Early Years, 1923-1924
(05/31/15)
This research used media framing theory to assess newspaper coverage of Hitler published in The New York Times, The Christian Science... Go to Article » An Examination of Native Americans in Film and Rise of Native Filmmakers
(05/31/15)
This paper explored the role of Native Americans in the Hollywood film industry and their actions to establish authentic representations... Go to Article » Instabranding: Shaping the Personalities of the Top Food Brands on Instagram
(05/31/15)
Instagram is a growing social media platform that provides a means of self-expression and communication through creative visuals.... Go to Article » How Luxury Fashion Brands Utilize YouTube to Engage Consumers and Promote Brand Identity
(05/31/15)
As the world becomes more technologically advanced, the demand for two-way communication between brand and consumer has become stronger... Go to Article » Faux Activism in Recent Female-Empowering Advertising
(05/31/15)
This study content analyzed six brands from Unilever and Procter & Gamble, whose advertisements promoted both male-targeted products... Go to Article » The Impact of Technology on Music Stars' Cultural Influence
(05/31/15)
This research paper addressed how technology has changed cultural relationships consumers have with music. The music industry&rsquo... Go to Article » How Twitter is Changing Narrative Storytelling: A Case Study of the Boston Marathon Bombings
(05/31/15)
Understanding social media, an integral part of 21st century American life, is more important than ever. On the one-year anniversary... Go to Article » Analysis of Promising Beacon Technology for Consumers
(05/31/15)
To be at the forefront of innovations that push brands forward, marketers and advertisers strive to create seamless experiences amidst... Go to Article » The Effect of Technology on Face-to-Face Communication
(05/31/15)
Recent technological advancements have had a drastic impact on the way individuals communicate. In this research, previous studies... Go to Article » Narcissism and Social Networking Sites: The Act of Taking Selfies
(05/31/15)
This study focused on why the act of taking selfies and posting them to the Internet is a factor leading to an increase in narcissistic... Go to Article » Thomas Arundel's Constitutions and the Condemnation of Wycliffe's Vernacular Translations (1382-1415)
(05/27/15)
Between the publication of Wycliffe’s Bible in 1382 and the Council of Constance in 1415, a thirty-year period in which there... Go to Article » The Influence of Language Difficulties on the Wellbeing of International Students: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
(05/23/15)
Language difficulties are cited as the most critical issue facing international students today. This study particularly looks into... Go to Article » Are E-Cigarettes a Safe Alternative to Smoking? Using Airway Cell Cultures to Assess Early Indicators of COPD Progression
(05/20/15)
There is limited data available on the safety of electronic (E)-cigarettes, despite their commercial availability and widespread use... Go to Article » The Source and Nature of Power: Comparing "Noumenal" and "Structural" Power According to Forst and Strange
(05/15/15)
In 1981 ten incarcerated Irish nationalists starved themselves to death in protest against their denied political status and what... Go to Article » Developing Weirdness Through Cartographic Destabilization in Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation
(05/11/15)
The spatial role of weird fiction seems to be one of dislocation, disorientation, and destabilization in what Ann and Jeff VanderMeer... Go to Article » Survival and Morality in Cormac McCarthy's The Road: Exploring Aquinian Grace and the Boy as Messiah
(05/01/15)
In the first scene of The Road (2006), Cormac McCarthy encapsulates the bleak psychology of his post-apocalyptic novel with a metaphor... Go to Article » The Human Rights Impacts of VAWA 2013: A True Victory for Native American Women?
(05/01/15)
The level of gender violence against native women in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. Furthermore, the vast majority... Go to Article » Interviews of College Students with Siblings Who Have Genetic Diseases
(05/01/15)
There are more than 6,000 different genetic diseases manifested in 1/200 live births. These children are often part of a family with... Go to Article » Sodium Absorption in Summer and Winter Acclimated Freshwater Teleosts
(05/01/15)
To maintain sodium (Na+) homeostasis in a hypotonic environment, freshwater teleosts must constantly absorb Na+ through their gills... Go to Article » Does BMI Affect Diagnostic Efficacy of Computer Aided Diagnostic Software in the Identification of Malignant Pulmonary Nodules in Dual Energy Subtracted Chest Radiographs?
(05/01/15)
The increasing level of obesity in the general population of industrialized nations is a major public health concern. While obesity... Go to Article » Using Flow Cytometry and Quantitative Real-Time PCR to Investigate the Role of IL-1 in T-Cell Proliferation and HIV- 1 Reactivation
(05/01/15)
With the advent of antiretroviral therapy, suppressing the HIV-1 virus and stopping the progression of the disease are now possible... Go to Article » Defining International Literary Journalism: Case Studies from South Africa, the U.S., and China
(04/27/15)
The simplistic history of modern journalism commonly disseminated in western classrooms describes literary journalism and its manifestations... Go to Article » Business Negotiations Between American and Vietnamese Businesses: The Influence of Proxemics and Site Setting on Negotiation Outcomes
(04/24/15)
Vietnam is becoming an increasingly inviting market for foreign investment. However, working with foreigners and expanding business... Go to Article » The Use and Effectiveness of Problem-Oriented Policing
(04/17/15)
The question of how to lower crime rates has baffled criminologists and law enforcement officials for decades. Over the years, many... Go to Article » The Potential Benefits of Early, Neutral Intervention in Revolutions
(04/15/15)
This paper discusses Allen Buchanan’s proposed shift in intervention found in his essay, “The Ethics of Revolution and... Go to Article » Surveying the Challenges and Opportunities of America's Foreign Policy Toward Central Asia
(04/15/15)
America’s record of engagement in Central Asia[i] has been extensive during its post-9/11 era of adventurism. Between its vast... Go to Article » A New Cold War? Explaining Russia's New Confrontations with the West
(04/15/15)
The following is a transcription of the Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture that Ambassador McFaul delivered at Cornell... Go to Article » Al Jazeera America and Strategic Responses to the "Perception Problem"
(04/15/15)
On August 20, 2013, Al Jazeera America televised its first official broadcast amidst a frenzy of speculation about the Qatari-backed... Go to Article » Colombia's Opportunity for Transitional Justice
(04/15/15)
Colombia has had the longest internal armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere, which has delayed the development of a true democratic... Go to Article » Value-Added Real Effective Exchange Rates: Testing for Countries with High and Low Vertical Specialization in Trade
(04/15/15)
I test a modified value-added real effective exchange rate based on the construction by Bems and Johnson (2012) for suitability as... Go to Article » Bayesian Portfolio Analysis: Analyzing the Global Investment Market
(04/15/15)
The goal of portfolio optimization is to determine the ideal allocation of assets to a given set of possible investments. Many optimization... Go to Article » Multiproduct Pricing and Product Line Decisions with Status Externalities
(04/15/15)
In the present paper, reputation is approached as an idea involving status. We consider a multiproduct monopolist's product line and... Go to Article » Statutory Rape and Teen "Sexting" Laws: The Consequences of Poorly Crafted Legislation
(04/13/15)
Child pornography laws are primarily drawn from the "Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act" of 1977. This act targets... Go to Article » Exploring the Corruption of the Soul in the Works of Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and Robert Louis Stevenson
(04/12/15)
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr... Go to Article » The Medicalization of Blackness: Rashid Johnson and the Diseased Connotations of Race
(04/10/15)
"Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks" was a solo exhibition on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum from September 20, 2013... Go to Article » History and Management of Public Rangelands in the United States: A Case Study from New Mexico
(04/09/15)
Public rangelands are typically managed by a multiple-use policy that seeks to balance economic, conservation, and recreation objectives... Go to Article » Higher Education Reform in Florida: Considering Senate Bill 1720, Remedial Education, and College Readiness
(04/08/15)
Senate Bill 1720 took effect in the state of Florida in 2014. This new education policy makes college placement tests and remedial... Go to Article » Transmitting Values Through Literature: Considering Three Short Stories of Chinese Revolution
(04/06/15)
In a 1920 speech on women’s literature, the cultural critic Zhou Zuoren argued that the value of literature lies in its power... Go to Article » Face Management Theory: Modern Conceptualizations and Future Directions
(04/04/15)
The beginning of any social relationship is often ambiguous (Edelmann, 1985, p. 195). If a social interaction proves to be troublesome... Go to Article » Avoiding the Tyranny of Democracy: The Republican Ideal of a 'Mixed' Constitution
(04/02/15)
The assertion that unconstrained power brings with it inevitable corruption has occupied theorists since the first considerations... Go to Article » Feminist and New Historicist Readings of Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King"
(03/25/15)
“The Man Who Would Be King” (1888)[1] is one of Rudyard Kipling’s most well known and highly acclaimed short stories... Go to Article » Capital Controls in Emerging Market Economies: Comparing Their Use and Effectiveness in Five Countries
(03/23/15)
The use and effectiveness of capital controls in emerging market economies is important to examine because of the potentially damaging... Go to Article » Artificial Composers: Tools of the Modern Musician or Affront to Human Creativity?
(03/22/15)
On August 13, 2014, Youtube user CGPGrey posted Humans Need Not Apply, an informative video detailing the trajectory of automated... Go to Article » Mob Violence Against Women in Algeria: A Historical Case Analysis
(03/20/15)
Violence against women has recently become well recognized as a violation of human rights that holds worldwide significance. Unfortunately... Go to Article » The Many Faces of Odysseus in Classical Literature
(03/18/15)
The defining characteristics of Odysseus in classical literature are interpreted in wildly different ways by different authors: he... Go to Article » International Travel, Nation-Branding, and Orientalism: Conflicting Portrayals of Americanism in The Amazing Race
(03/17/15)
Beyond merely claiming to represent 'reality,' reality television shows also inherently operate as “powerful ideological source... Go to Article » Capitalist Hegemony: The Political Challenge of Alter-Globalization
(03/16/15)
Concern regarding the inequity and commodification apparently necessary for the capitalist system to thrive is not new. Marx, in his... Go to Article » Government Public Relations: Public Diplomacy or Propaganda?
(03/15/15)
When politicians attempt to communicate their views in the public forum, the practice can be seen as a perquisite of the democratic... Go to Article » Living with Evil: Crime and Sexuality in Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown
(03/14/15)
Through the late 1960s the French New Wave became a pronounced and significant factor in the creation and development of Hollywood... Go to Article » Intelligent Design in the Complexity of the Human Body
(03/11/15)
In a previous article I wrote about fine-tuning in the Universe and the empirical evidence for a Grand Designer that can be found... Go to Article » Anti-Semitism and Religious Intolerance in Aristocratic Age English Literature
(03/10/15)
Anti-semitism was a prevailing cultural sentiment in Europe, particularly in Great Britain, during the period when some of English... Go to Article » Apocalyptic Imagery in Aurora Leigh
(03/09/15)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh (1856) is an apocalyptic work, as seen in Aurora and Romney’s vision of the... Go to Article » Out in Force: The New Struggle Against Sexually Oriented Policing
(03/09/15)
Since the inception of the American crime fighting force, law enforcement has struggled to prevent discrimination against minority... Go to Article » The Researcher at the Dance: Epistemology, Ethics and the Ethnographer
(03/06/15)
Before the ethnographer can enter the field of research, indeed, before the researcher can interpret data from the field, he or she... Go to Article » Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland as a Commentary on the Holocaust
(03/05/15)
Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a conscious mix of genres and themes combined to present... Go to Article » The Cost of For-Profit Education: How Much is Your Degree Really Worth?
(03/04/15)
This paper examines the latest attempt by the United States Department of Education to enact new regulations for addressing the issue... Go to Article » Homonationalism and the Death of the Radical Queer
(03/03/15)
When one analyzes recent LGBTQ advocacy, with its rhetoric of liberal normativity and visibility, the gay rights movement has chosen... Go to Article » Roosevelt's Imperialism: The Venezuelan Crisis, the Panama Canal, and the Origins of the Roosevelt Corollary
(03/02/15)
The Roosevelt Corollary, outlined in Theodore Roosevelt’s 1904 and 1905 State of the Union addresses, proclaimed a new imperialist... Go to Article » The Double Victory Campaign and the Black Press: A Conservative Approach to 'Victory' at Home and Abroad
(02/19/15)
During World War II, the black press and several prominent black leaders called for a “Double V” victory against fascism... Go to Article » The Contemporary Global Public Sphere as Reincarnation of Habermas' Bourgeois Society
(02/17/15)
Our contemporary global public sphere is made up of a tiny proportion of the world’s population. Affluent, exclusive, and concerned... Go to Article » The Desperate Drive for Perfection: Changing Beauty Ideals and Women's Fashion in the 1920s
(02/15/15)
American life in the early twentieth century was marked by a culmination of changes that had been brewing since the end of the Civil... Go to Article » Effects of Attachment Disorder on Psychosocial Development
(02/12/15)
This report examines the outcomes on various domains of development (cognitive, social emotional) of children with attachment disorders... Go to Article » Effects of Attachment Disorder on Psychosocial Development
(02/12/15)
This report examines the outcomes on various domains of development (cognitive, social emotional) of children with attachment disorders... Go to Article » Examining the Image of the United States in the Arab World and the Relationship with Israel During the Obama Administration
(02/09/15)
For a country approximately the size of New Jersey, Israel certainly garners its share of widespread international attention. It is... Go to Article » Zarb-e-Azb: The Obama Administration's Response to the Haqqani Network and the Relationship with Pakistan
(02/09/15)
The Haqqani Network has proven itself to be one of the most deadly, daring and inventive terrorist organizations in modern times.... Go to Article » Predicting the Fate of the Judiciary After Obama
(02/09/15)
One often-admired trait of the federal courts is their apolitical nature. Judges that are appointed for lifetime tenure do not face... Go to Article » How Eric Holder's Role as Attorney General Impacted the Obama Presidency
(02/09/15)
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s recent resignation is not the first controversial issue to arise out of his nearly six... Go to Article » The Urban President: Assessing Obama's Community Redevelopment Policies
(02/08/15)
On February 27, 2014, while surrounded by nearly two dozen African-American young men in the East Room of the White House, President... Go to Article » Women's Issues in the Obama Era: Expanding Equality and Social Opportunity Under the Obama Administration
(02/08/15)
In 1972, The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced to Congress to protect an individual’s irrefutable equality of rights... Go to Article » Inaction on Gun Control Reform During the Obama Administration
(02/08/15)
Gun control and federal reform of firearm legislation have recently become popular and contentious topics in Washington D.C. and around... Go to Article » E-Electioneering: The Political and Cultural Influence of Social Media in the 2008 and 2012 Presidential Elections
(02/07/15)
Early in 2007, a junior senator with a thin legislative résumé but an inspiring background in community organizing approached... Go to Article » Why Taking the White House Online Does Not Make It More Accessible To The Public
(02/07/15)
Much has been said in regards to Barack Obama’s revolutionary use of technology during both his 2008 and 2012 campaigns for... Go to Article » The Myth of Obama's Post-Racial Presidency: Why Barack Obama's Election Didn't End Racial Inequality in America
(02/07/15)
The presidential campaign of Barack Obama was met with enthusiasm and controversy. If you were alive and cognizant at the time, you... Go to Article » Does "Obamaism" Exist? An Analysis of Ideology and its Place in the Obama Era
(02/07/15)
Philosophers have been grappling at what characterizes the manifestation of what we call “ideology” for some time now.... Go to Article » The Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine: Stages of the Maidan Movement and Why They Constitute a Revolution
(02/06/15)
What is “revolution”? Can the Maidan movement in Ukraine, which led to the ousting of Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014... Go to Article » Appellate Attorney as Storyteller: A Postmodern Analysis of Narrative in Appellate Briefs
(02/03/15)
The idea that narrative has an important role to play in the legal process is not a particularly radical one, at least since the rise... Go to Article » Treating Bulimia Nervosa with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Interpersonal Psychotherapy
(02/02/15)
Bulimia nervosa represents a significant source of morbidity among young women. This review compares cognitive-behavioral therapy (... Go to Article » Comparing Health Systems and Challenges in Costa Rica and the United States
(02/01/15)
Rising rates of chronic diseases, aging populations, and mounting medical costs threaten the financial solvency of the health care... Go to Article » Phase Cancellation in Ultrasonic Measurements Due to Misalignment of Receiving Transducer
(01/15/15)
Bone sonometry is an established modality for the characterization of potentially osteoporotic cancellous bone. The ultrasonic field... Go to Article » The Remittance Effect: Do Remittances Help Development?
(01/15/15)
In 2013, developing countries were expected to receive $414 billion in remittances – money sent back home by migrant workers... Go to Article » How the Electrical Activity and Synaptogenesis of Neurons Contribute to the Efficacy of Neurofeedback Therapy
(01/15/15)
Neurofeedback Therapy (NFT) is a type of biofeedback therapy specifically targeting the brain and nervous system. According to the... Go to Article » The Arcane and The Rational: Lovecraft's Development of a Unique Mythos
(01/15/15)
The early 20th century saw the rise of a unique subgenre of science fiction and horror literature known as weird fiction. H.P Lovecraft... Go to Article » Exchanging Oil Sands Expansion for Renewable Energy Growth in Canada
(01/09/15)
The majority of oil extracted from the Alberta oil sands is processed, diluted, and then sold to the US. The implications that arise... Go to Article » Britain's 4th Afghan War
(01/01/15)
British troops will be winding up their operations in Afghanistan by the end of next year. There may be other specialised things British... Go to Article » Can One Side of the Coin Be More Equal than the Other: Greater Jerusalem and its 'Settlements'/'Neighbourhoods'
(01/01/15)
If I belonged to the majority of the Israeli public I might call this paper ‘A journey along an Israeli neighbourhood &ndash... Go to Article » Explaining China's Intervention in the Korean War in 1950
(01/01/15)
In October 1950, Chinese troops under the name of the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army (CPV) crossed the Yalu River to assist... Go to Article » The Bush Administration and Torture: Who is Responsible for the Abuse at Abu Ghraib?
(01/01/15)
Since first becoming public in March 2004,1 the case of the detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib Prison2 has gained widespread interest... Go to Article » Access to Education for Girls in the Rural Regions of Afghanistan Following the Fall of the Taliban
(01/01/15)
At present, ‘more than 80 percent of Afghan women are illiterate’.1 However, in the rural regions of Afghanistan, where... Go to Article » The Concept of Property and Ownership in the Antebellum American South: Slaves, Slaveholders, Theft, Conflict and the Law
(01/01/15)
The role of personal property in our lives is one that to a very great extent we take for granted. We, in a crowded country such as... Go to Article » An Axe to Grind: An Overview of Hungary's 'Axe Murder Case' and its Effects on the International Community
(01/01/15)
Politics is the result of interaction of different groups and communities, aiming to ensure peaceful cohabitation of all actors. Due... Go to Article » Do Civil Society Organizations Undermine State-Building?
(12/31/14)
In spite of the long-standing debate among economists on the optimal level of government involvement in economic development, little... Go to Article » Should AGOA be Renewed in 2015?
(12/31/14)
On May 18th, 2000, the United States enacted the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), dramatically expanding trade between itself... Go to Article » Consumption: The Role of Eating in Rehabilitation in the Memoirs "A Million Little Pieces" and "Two Kinds of Decay"
(12/30/14)
The relationship between the self and food intersects at the meal, and this vital connection represents—physiologically, psychologically... Go to Article » The Sino-American Rivalry and the Future of the Asia Pacific Trade Architecture
(12/24/14)
How will the rise of China and the subsequent American “pivot” of reengagement with Asia affect the trade of the Asian... Go to Article » Opportunities and Challenges of Allocation of Alternative Energy Resources in Japan
(12/19/14)
In the case of Japan, which lacks any significant fossil fuel reserves (Gasparatos & Gadda, 2009, pp. 4038-4048) some alternative... Go to Article » The Right and the Good: Communicating Environmental Issues
(12/19/14)
What we see is partially dependent on what we are shown. As communicators, we have a duty to inform and educate and lead. As environmental... Go to Article » Chris Christie's Use of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey's Gubernatorial Elections
(12/18/14)
“I didn't get sent here to be elected Prom King.” Chris Christie peppered this signature mantra in many of his 2009 stump... Go to Article » The Holocaust in Romania: The Extermination and Protection of the Jews Under Antonescu's Regime
(12/15/14)
Between 1941 and 1944, Romania was responsible for exterminating approximately 300,000 Jews, giving it the sinister distinction of... Go to Article » Important Distinctions Between Labels and Certifications and Why They Matter
(12/10/14)
When browsing the grocery aisle, consumers are bombarded with and confused by a myriad of special labels. “Organic,” &... Go to Article » Finding 'Love' in China: An Overview of Chinese Marriage Markets (BaiFaXiangQin)
(12/10/14)
Since 2004, the proliferation of marriage markets in China has made BaiFaXiangQin an attractive alternative for parents that are anxious... Go to Article » Spiritual Autobiography and Dave Eggers' "What is the What"
(12/07/14)
Spiritual autobiographies have a long and rich history as a form of memoir, beginning at about 397AD with the release of Saint Augustine... Go to Article » What Determines the Success of First Dates? Psycho-Social Factors that Impact Mate Choice in Pre-Mating Encounters
(12/02/14)
First dates are social phenomena of sexual selection. Successful mating depends not only on assortative mating, but also on interpersonal... Go to Article » Who You Are Affects What You Buy: The Influence of Consumer Identity on Brand Preferences
(11/30/14)
This study examined the extent to which individuals used their self-concepts to determine brand preference. It was predicted that... Go to Article » Humanizing a Brand: Consumer Relationships Through an Anthropomorphic Lens
(11/30/14)
Brand loyalty develops as an intermixing of self-image and brand image, and anthropomorphized brands succeed when their ideal traits... Go to Article » Representations of American Culture in Food Advertisements in Mainstream, Latina, and African-American Magazines
(11/30/14)
This study analyzed 54 advertisements for food products, grocery stores and restaurants in nine major women’s magazines in order... Go to Article » Interactive Graphic Novels: A Hybrid Advertising Technique
(11/30/14)
As web-based technologies continue to advance, marketers and advertisers are pairing up traditional advertising with new web-based... Go to Article » Feminine Agendas: The Historical Evolution of Feminism as Reflected in the Content of American Women's Magazines
(11/30/14)
The purpose of this research is to identify trends and themes that reflect feminist values in American women’s magazines throughout... Go to Article » How Christian Leaders Interact with Twitter
(11/30/14)
This paper explores the relationship between Christian leaders and Twitter. Twitter’s founding resulted in an outburst in the... Go to Article » From "Pockets of Poverty" to Potential Prosperity in Appalachia: Examining Mass Media Narratives of Poverty Stereotypes in Appalachia
(11/30/14)
This research examined poverty stereotypes in Appalachia that were portrayed in a national newspaper, The New York Times, and a local... Go to Article » Environmental Problems and American Politics: Why is Protecting the Environment so Difficult?
(11/23/14)
Environmental concerns have been of increasing salience to Americans since the 1960s, when Rachel Carson published Silent Spring and... Go to Article » Boda Boda: The Impact of Motorbike Taxi Service in Rural Uganda
(11/20/14)
Rural populations in sub-Saharan Africa often suffer from a lack of access to transportation. This study analyzes the impact of a... Go to Article » The Father-Son Relationship of Jim and Huck in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(11/16/14)
Since its publication in 1884, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been construed to have numerous meanings, many... Go to Article » The Father-Son Relationship of Jim and Huck in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(11/16/14)
Since its publication in 1884, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been construed to have numerous meanings, many... Go to Article » The Implementation of Social Software in Authentic Literacy Activities
(11/13/14)
While international literacy results show Canada maintaining a strong standing, there have been declines in the results for both traditional... Go to Article » The Gender Binary: Working Towards Uniqueness in American Education
(11/11/14)
In today’s society, the categorization of gender in our educational system is leading to a socialization of masculinity and... Go to Article » The Sexual and the Spiritual in John Donne's Poetry: Exploring "The Extasie" and its Analogues
(11/10/14)
This paper looks at the poet John Donne’s method of incorporating sexual imagery into religious and spiritual contexts. The... Go to Article » The Modern Memoir: Popular Confession and How it Sells 'A Million Little Pieces'
(11/04/14)
In recent years the memoir has come to the forefront of American literature as a popular form for both writers and readers. The best... Go to Article » The Evolution of Human Rights Law in Europe: Comparing the European Court of Human Rights and the ECJ, ICJ, and ICC
(11/03/14)
Human rights protection in Europe evolved significantly over the last century, culminating in the creation of the European Court of... Go to Article » Phantom-Limb Pain: Causes and Treatment Options
(11/02/14)
Phantom-limb pain (PLP) is a frequent consequence of amputation which has been reported to affect up to 80% of patients who have suffered... Go to Article » On Understanding Abstract Portraits: Applying Cognitive Semiotics and Psychophysiological Symbolism
(11/01/14)
Expression through artwork, representation, and interpretation are significant aspects of our human experience and key elements of... Go to Article » Iceland's Clean Energy Economy: A Roadmap to Sustainability and Good Business
(11/01/14)
President Grimsson studied economics and political science at the University of Manchester, and in 1970, became the first person in... Go to Article » An Analysis on the Regulation of Grey Market Cyber Materials
(11/01/14)
This paper analyzes the grey market for cyber materials by evaluating the current nature of transactions within the market. This paper... Go to Article » U.S. Policy Toward Africa: Application of U.S. Africa Command Signals Africa's Increasing Strategic Importance
(11/01/14)
The formation and expansion of the U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM) signals the increasing strategic importance of Africa to U.S. security... Go to Article » Incentive, Shock, or Neither? The Impact of Croatian Accession on Bosnia's EU Negotiations
(11/01/14)
What are the prospects for European Union accession in Bosnia, a country with a legacy of ethnic conflict and malfunctioning democracy... Go to Article » The Case of Edward Snowden: A Different Path
(11/01/14)
Legitimate whistleblower or traitor? While the public continues to debate which of these titles most aptly describes former National... Go to Article » A Beautiful Mess: The Evolution of Political Graffiti in the Contemporary City
(11/01/14)
In the late 1990's the spray-painted name "Banksy" began accompanying stenciled images throughout the cities of London and Bristol... Go to Article » A Beautiful Mess: The Evolution of Political Graffiti in the Contemporary City
(11/01/14)
In the late 1990's the spray-painted name "Banksy" began accompanying stenciled images throughout the cities of London and Bristol... Go to Article » Man as Image: Clark Gable, James Dean, and the Audience that Looked at Them
(10/30/14)
In her seminal essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" Laura Mulvey (1975) connects psychoanalytic concepts of scopophilic desire1... Go to Article » China's 'Harmonious World' in the Era of the Rising East
(10/29/14)
Is China building a harmonious world? In order to answer this question, it is necessary go beyond simply reviewing the official narrative... Go to Article » Weight Bias and Anti-Fat Attitudes: Sources, Impacts, and Prevention Methods
(10/28/14)
The number of overweight and obese individuals in the United States has steadily increased over the last decade (CDC, 2012). According... Go to Article » The Power of the Happy Family in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
(10/27/14)
Tolstoy infamously starts the novel Anna Karenina with the line, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy... Go to Article » MIT's Stata Center: The Static Soul of a Dynamic Body
(10/26/14)
Although President Thomas Jefferson’s neo-classical design for the University of Virginia (completed in 1826) is often credited... Go to Article » Third Grade Reading and Retention Policies to Improve Education Outcomes
(10/22/14)
Third grade reading proficiency is believed to be an important benchmark in education. The transition from third grade to fourth grade... Go to Article » Revisiting Footbinding: The Evolution of the Body as Method in Modern Chinese History
(10/21/14)
For scholars of gender and sexuality, the publication of Joan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed essay “Gender: A Useful Category... Go to Article » The Search for Utopia: Charles Dickens' Hard Times and Alfred Tennyson's Mariana
(10/20/14)
Charles Dickens’ Hard Times and Alfred Tennyson’s poem Mariana both invite readers to explore notions of utopia and the... Go to Article » "What is the What" as a Religious Memoir
(10/17/14)
David Eggers’ What is the What is a memoir about the life of Valentino Achak Deng and his personal experience with warfare,... Go to Article » Inequality and Corruption: Drivers of Tunisia's Revolution
(10/13/14)
In July 2013, a general strike and mass demonstrations erupted in Tunisia after Mohamed Brahmi, an opposition leader to the democratically... Go to Article » The Drama and Romance of Suicide in "Mrs. Dalloway" and "Madame Bovary"
(10/12/14)
Is it noble to take your own life? Across the ages there have been many different interpretations of the morality of suicide, leading... Go to Article » How Much Should I Tip? Restaurant Tipping Behavior as a Result of Prior Foodservice Experience
(10/06/14)
Tipping is a customary practice in the U.S., but many have questioned why customers are so willing to give money away to a server... Go to Article » The Spanish Financial Crisis: Economic Reforms and the Export-Led Recovery
(10/01/14)
In July 2012, Spain's unemployment rate was above 20%, its stock market was at its lowest point in a decade, and the government was... Go to Article » The Spanish Financial Crisis: Economic Reforms and the Export-Led Recovery
(10/01/14)
In July 2012, Spain's unemployment rate was above 20%, its stock market was at its lowest point in a decade, and the government was... Go to Article » Characterization in John Updike's "You'll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You"
(09/30/14)
In an interview in The Paris Review (1968), John Updike denies that characterization is a primary goal of fiction. While he believes... Go to Article » An Investigation into the Impact of Children's Literature Through a Review of Dr. Seuss's The Lorax
(09/30/14)
This article is a brief overview of The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss, the story of a repentant ex-industrialist who tells a tale of environmental... Go to Article » The Classic Maya Collapse: The Importance of Ecological Prosperity
(09/30/14)
The relationship between humans and their environment is a heavily debated, multi-disciplinary discussion that has raised awareness... Go to Article » Rachel Carson: Humanizing Nature
(09/30/14)
Rachel Carson was instrumental in changing the way the world viewed conservation. Her initial written works demonstrated the idea... Go to Article » Edmonton Hiphop Kulture: Techniques of Self and Cultural Sustainability
(09/30/14)
The word culture is rich with complex meanings and despite its use in common speech little is known about it and even less about the... Go to Article » Understanding Organics at the Grassroots Level: An Analysis of Ecuadorian and Canadian Perceptions
(09/30/14)
There is a growing public concern over the genetic alteration and use of chemicals in conventionally produced agriculture. The perceived... Go to Article » Deconstruction Over Demolition: Manasc Isaac Architects
(09/30/14)
This photographic documentary examines everyday activism through the lens of sustainable construction. There are many misconceptions... Go to Article » The Value of a Graduate Degree: Changing Returns to Postgraduate Qualifications in the UK
(09/29/14)
Higher education in the UK has experienced radical change over the last two decades. As a result of the increased supply of university... Go to Article » The High Cost of Living in Saudi Arabia: Growth and Inflation in a Macroeconomic Perspective
(09/24/14)
The Saudi economy is one of the most robust economies in the world. As “one of the best performing G-20 economies in recent... Go to Article » The "Great Divergence" Redefined: the Rise and Fall of the West and the Recovery of China
(09/22/14)
Up until the 19th century, China held a position as a great world power. However, for the last two hundred years the West has dominated... Go to Article » Social Movement Theory and Terrorism: Explaining the Development of Al-Qaeda
(09/21/14)
Since the attacks of September 11th, the Western world has labeled al-Qaeda and its leadership as suicidal and irrational terrorists... Go to Article » Holly Golightly and the Endless Pursuit of Self-Actualization in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
(09/20/14)
Yes, they still have prizes in Cracker Jack boxes. Beneath the glossy surface of this timeless commodity lies a variable that provides... Go to Article » Gene Therapy: Current Treatment Options and Likely Near-Term Developments
(09/15/14)
Gene therapy has ceased to be a futuristic dream and instead become a treatment for the present. Somatic cells can be treated with... Go to Article » Increases in the Prevalence of Autism Disorder: Exploring Biological and Socio-Environmental Factors
(09/14/14)
Autism is a complex neuro-developmental disorder causing deficits in social interaction and language development at an early age.... Go to Article » Comparing the Philosophy of Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault
(09/08/14)
This paper contrasts the philosophy of Michel Foucault and Jürgen Habermas to determine whether there is any point of substantial... Go to Article » Humanity and Its Place in Nature: Rethinking the Reality of 'Wilderness'
(09/07/14)
The Western concept of wilderness encompasses pristine, untrammeled land viewed as “the last remaining place where civilization... Go to Article » Describing the World or Transforming It? Considering the Roles of the Arts and the Natural Sciences
(08/31/14)
We often acquire knowledge about the world through the detailed process of description. We understand even more by describing and... Go to Article » Two Roadmaps for Kashmiri Democracy
(08/24/14)
To assert that Kashmir has been at a perennial crossroads is a gross understatement. For the good part of sixty years, Indian, Pakistani... Go to Article » Regulating GMOs in the United States and Europe: The Political and Economic Drivers Behind Monsanto's Agricultural Biotechnology Business
(08/18/14)
While the regulation of bioengineered agriculture began at the same time in both the United States (U.S.) and the European Union (... Go to Article » Graphic Novels: Preparing for a Mulitmodal and Multiliterate World
(08/05/14)
Graphic novels have become increasingly popular in the classroom as a means to engage English language learners (ELL) in new ways (... Go to Article » The Arab League's Role in the Syrian Civil War
(07/13/14)
In March 2011 peaceful protests over the arrest and torture of young Syrians, themselves having drawn slogans refering to the revolutions... Go to Article » The Labor Market in Saudi Arabia: Foreign Workers, Unemployment, and Minimum Wage
(06/28/14)
The issue of foreign labor in Saudi Arabia is now one that touches all corners of the globe. Since 30% of Saudi Arabia's population... Go to Article » The GM Crop Network: An Overview of the Environmental, Political, Economic, and Human Health Contexts Surrounding Bt Corn
(06/25/14)
A genetically modified (GM) crop is defined as a recombinant-deoxyribonucleic acid plant, in which genetic material has been changed... Go to Article » A New Approach to Ohio Pig Farming
(06/25/14)
Although current methods of pig farming now allow cheap pork availability to consumers throughout America, they come at high costs... Go to Article » Is the Switch to Organic Soybeans Possible?
(06/25/14)
Soybeans first appeared on the world stage when Chinese farmers began cultivating them around 1100 B.C. (North Carolina Soybean Producers... Go to Article » Naming and Identity in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Song of Solomon
(06/22/14)
As an African American author, Toni Morrison is acutely aware of the pain that is intertwined with the history of her history. She... Go to Article » Comparing Israel's 2009 and 2013 Elections: Impacts of the "Spiral of Silence"
(06/13/14)
Israeli election campaigns, and especially Likud campaigning under Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu, are known for their emphasis... Go to Article » Depending on Distance: Mrs. Ramsay as Artist and Inspiration in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
(06/09/14)
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse is a novel of artists and within its pages appear two characters who are clearly labeled... Go to Article » The Role of Hydrogen Peroxide in Controlling Plant Cell-Signaling and Gene-Expression Patterns Related to Stress and Defense Responses
(06/06/14)
The major purpose of this review article is to explore the influence of hydrogen peroxide on cell signaling and gene expression patterns... Go to Article » HIV-Positive Youth Empowerment in Swaziland: An Evaluation of the Social Stigma Surrounding HIV
(06/04/14)
UNAIDS reports the antenatal HIV prevalence rate—the prevalence of HIV in unborn children—to be approximately 38% in Swaziland... Go to Article » The British Blockade During World War I: The Weapon of Deprivation
(06/02/14)
The First World War is largely thought of as a conflict where the majority of the significant operations took place almost exclusively... Go to Article » To Intervene or Not to Intervene: The Role of Humanitarianism, U.N. Approval, and Economic Incentives in Determning NATO Military Intervention in Conflict
(05/31/14)
The North American Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded at the outset of the Cold War and served as a collective defense alliance... Go to Article » Prospect Theory in International Relations
(05/31/14)
Prospect theory, a behavioral economic theory first proposed by David Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979, has evolved into a seminal... Go to Article » Policy and Place in International Economic Coercion
(05/31/14)
This paper investigates factors that contribute to the effectiveness of international economic sanctions. A review of existing literature... Go to Article » Partisan Pork: How House Delegation Cohesion Affects Earmark Spending
(05/31/14)
The federal earmark is a topic often lamented by the general public as corrupt and wasteful. Until recently, this "pork" was a mainstay... Go to Article » The Effects of Electoral Systems and Gender Quotas on Female Representation in National Legislatures
(05/31/14)
Women make up anywhere from 0% to 56% of the national legislatures around the world. Research has attributed this wide spectrum to... Go to Article » An Investigation of Novel Genes Involved in Female Decision-Making in Drosophila Melanogaster
(05/30/14)
In animals, the ability to make decisions is dependent on brain circuits that are organized and maintained by the activity of genes... Go to Article » Evolution of the Interstellar Medium of Luminous Infrared Galaxies Since z=1
(05/30/14)
In general, redshift can be said to be a measure of time as well as a measure of distance and the shifting of characteristic spectra... Go to Article » Comparative Analysis of Teleost Fish and Humans: The Evolutionary Impracticality of Hermaphroditism in Humans
(05/30/14)
Hermaphroditism is a widespread sex allocation strategy among teleost fishes that occurs in several forms including sequential (protogyny... Go to Article » Film Production Design: Case Study of The Great Gatsby
(05/29/14)
The author examined the significance of production design in film. This paper reviewed scholarly articles on the evolution of production... Go to Article » Revolutionizing the Newsroom: How Online and Mobile Technologies Have Changed Broadcast Journalism
(05/29/14)
This study interviewed journalists across the United States in 2013 to find out how online and mobile technologies have changed television... Go to Article » The Efficacy of Guerrilla Advertising on Public Health Issues
(05/29/14)
While commercial businesses utilize guerrilla advertising regularly nowadays, the practice has crossed over into non-commercial territory... Go to Article » Brand Identities and Portrayal of Minority Groups in 2013 Super Bowl Automobile Advertisements
(05/29/14)
The fact that brands have unique identities and personalities is well known and researched. However, the extent to which a brand&rsquo... Go to Article » Palestinian-Arab Media Frames and Stereotypes of Israeli-Jews
(05/29/14)
This study sought to take the pulse on the modern Israeli-Palestinian conflict by analyzing primary sources from online Palestinian... Go to Article » Big Apple Kickoff vs. Tipoff: A Twitter Analysis
(05/29/14)
This paper examined the different Twitter strategies used by each of two NFL and NBA teams. The study examined the New York Jets,... Go to Article » A Content Analysis of Twitter Use: Factors That Might Increase Music Sales During an Award Show
(05/29/14)
Can Twitter be used in marketing an artist’s music during award shows? To answer this question, the author examined four artists... Go to Article » Cell Phone Use While Walking Across Campus: An Observation and Survey
(05/29/14)
Cell phone plays an essential role in communications throughout the world. The technological revolution that many Americans have experienced... Go to Article » The Agenda-Setting Potential of Saturday Night Live
(05/29/14)
This study explored the effects of the late-night sketch comedy Saturday Night Live in the political sphere, specifically analyzing... Go to Article » Trauma Reenactment in the Gothic Loop: A Study on Structures of Circularity in Gothic Fiction
(05/23/14)
Ever since its original emergence, Gothic fiction has been shaped by a unique narrative direction that is often described by scholars... Go to Article » The Influence of Gender on Long-Term Incidental Memory
(05/22/14)
A baby is born, and almost instantaneously, assigned to a life of stereotypical gender identity. The female is described as a &ldquo... Go to Article » The Visual Rhetoric of Lady Justice: Understanding Jurisprudence Through 'Metonymic Tokens'
(05/09/14)
Lady Justice, also commonly know as 'Justitia,' has important symbolic significance. However, as we will find through the use of metonymic... Go to Article » Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs to Curb Prescription Drug Abuse: Examining the Components of Program Efficacy
(05/05/14)
In the American healthcare system there have been few trends as persistent, yet avoidable, as the rise in prescription drug overdoses... Go to Article » Molecular Detection of Complex Vertebral Malformation in Holstein Calves
(05/04/14)
Complex vertebral malformation (CVM) in Holstein calves is a recessive syndrome that is the result of a transversion mutation within... Go to Article » Infanticide as Slave Resistance: Evidence from Barbados, Jamaica, and Saint-Domingue
(04/29/14)
Colonial-era fictional and non-fictional descriptions of slave motherhood offer conflicting accounts of the attitudes of slave mothers... Go to Article » Visibility for Women in the Works of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf
(04/28/14)
When examining the works of both George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, many critics are quick to assess the credibility and quality of... Go to Article » The International Military Police and the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War
(04/24/14)
In 1914 Russia was a powerful empire. It constituted a fundamental part of the European balance of power. However, years of bloody... Go to Article » The Consequences of Food Waste
(04/22/14)
The copious amounts of forgotten and disregarded food that are tossed mindlessly into our landfills are a global travesty of massive... Go to Article » Woodrow Wilson and the American Expeditionary Force to Siberia, 1918-1920
(04/15/14)
On August 15, 1918, American doughboys landed in Siberia to begin one of the more contentious episodes in U.S.-Soviet relations. The... Go to Article » Diplomacy and Debt: U.S. Attribution of Status Resulting from IDA Graduation
(04/15/14)
Freeman writes that global governance in this period has been characterized by the United States’ inability to form a &lsquo... Go to Article » Women of War: The Female Fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(04/15/14)
Since the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War in 1983, Tamil women have occupied a key role in the conflict. In the struggle for the... Go to Article » Realism Versus Idealism at Nuremburg: The Creation of the Court
(04/15/14)
The creation of the Nuremberg Court following World War II exemplified international cooperation, particularly between the Great Powers... Go to Article » U.S. Policy of Engagement Toward North Korea: Normalizing the Balance of Terror
(04/15/14)
The balance of terror created by the presence of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) on the Korean peninsula has escalated the sense... Go to Article » An Uncertain Belonging: Permanent Residency ID Cards and East Jerusalem's Identity Crisis
(04/15/14)
Rimaz Kasabreh is Palestinian. Because of her Israeli-issued green identification card, she is considered a legal resident of the... Go to Article » Muslims in Moscow
(04/15/14)
In the ultimate years of the Soviet Union, as the liberalizations introduced by perestroika and glasnost took full effect, the nationalistic... Go to Article » Don't Fear the Reaper: Analyzing the Effect of Health on Microfinance Participation
(04/15/14)
The randomized introduction of microfinance to neighborhoods surrounding Hyderabad, India provides an opportunity to analyze the relationship... Go to Article » The Effect of Crime on Achievement: The Differential Effect of Violent and Non-Violent Crimes on Achievement in High Schools
(04/15/14)
This paper examines how the different forms of crime, violent and non-violent, affect the academic achievement of students scoring... Go to Article » The Relationship Between Monetary Policy and Asset Prices: A New Approach Analyzing U.S. M&A Activity
(04/15/14)
This article details the relationship between asset prices and monetary policy with a specific focus on the mergers and acquisitions... Go to Article » Efficient Pricing of Carbon in the EU and its Effect on Consumers
(04/15/14)
A European single market for electricity is modeled to find the optimal portfolio of energy generation technologies in the presence... Go to Article » Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital at the Community Level: Effects and Implications for Policymakers
(04/14/14)
Research on the impact of ethnic diversity on ‘social capital’ is relatively new in the field of political science (Stolle... Go to Article » Exploring Virgilian Structures in Book III of Spenser's Faerie Queene
(04/13/14)
Contrary to the scintillating promise of its title, Spenser’s Faerie Queene is a far cry from the insubstantial delights of... Go to Article » Talking to 'Terrorists': Facilitating Dialogue with the Afghan Taliban
(04/09/14)
After 35 years of war in Afghanistan[1], the year 2014 brings two milestones capable of major impact on the future – for better... Go to Article » Jane Eyre as a Female Gothic Novel
(04/07/14)
Charlotte Brontë invests gothic elements in Jane Eyre with a symbolic meaning to create a new, ‘female’ language.... Go to Article » The "Roving Ambassador:" Bayard Rustin's Quaker Cosmopolitanism and the Civil Rights Movement
(04/06/14)
"As you know," wrote Bayard Rustin to Charles S. Johnson, the president of Fisk University, in December 1946, "I have been interested... Go to Article » The Sovereignty of the European Court of Justice and the EU's Supranational Legal System
(04/04/14)
The European legal system has been considered as either an intergovernmental legal system or a supranational one. The intergovernmental... Go to Article » Title IX and the Gender Binary: Trajectories of Equality
(04/01/14)
Prior to 1970, women were severely underrepresented in high school and college math, science, and business courses, and were almost... Go to Article » Passing Time in The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch
(03/31/14)
In one of his most famous triptychs, the Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch uses a linear and chronological order to represent... Go to Article » State Building in Somalia in the Image of Somaliland: A Bottom-Up Approach
(03/30/14)
The creation of western-style government institutions has been unsuccessful in Somalia. This is a direct result of colonial administrations... Go to Article » Making Sense of Memes: Where They Came From and Why We Keep Clicking Them
(03/28/14)
Are memes mere distractions from our normal office boredom? Funny, stupid, or poignant, this most simple digital medium captures our... Go to Article » How to Explain the Millennial Generation? Understand the Context
(03/27/14)
As a child, I was sheltered and not allowed to watch the Power Rangers or other such violent and crude television series. My parents... Go to Article » Debating the Existence of God: God Exists
(03/26/14)
The debate between science and religion over the existence of a higher power often leads to little more than a shouting match. We... Go to Article » Baudrillard's Vision of the Postmodern Society and the Hope for Human Action
(03/25/14)
This paper is about the numbing of man’s critical impulse brought about by consumer society, a society obsessed with speed,... Go to Article » Gender Differences in Syntactic Development Among English Speaking Adolescents
(03/24/14)
Numerous studies have reported on the female advantage in language skills. It appears that across many domains of language, female... Go to Article » Theories of Multicultural Toleration: An Examination of Justice as Fairness and Political Theology
(03/23/14)
The place of multiculturalism in a liberal democracy continues to be a contentious question and one with which the liberal democratic... Go to Article » Wordsworth's Prescient Baby: Conceptions of the Mother-Infant Relationship in the Development of the Self (1790s-1890s)
(03/22/14)
This dissertation explores late eighteenth and nineteenth century views of the mother-infant[1] relationship and how they reveal conceptions... Go to Article » Mark Twain's Portrayal of Family and Relationships in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(03/21/14)
Whether real or symbolic, the family and the relationships within family units are a frequent theme in Mark Twain’s classic... Go to Article » Would You Cheat? Cheating Behavior, Human Nature, and Decision-Making
(03/20/14)
Questions concerning human nature provoke controversy across disciplines, particularly when it comes to explaining evil or ‘... Go to Article » Water Pollution Control Policy: Addressing Non-Point Source Pollution
(03/19/14)
Non-point source (NPS) pollution occurs when pollutants from many different and often difficult to track sources have a negative impact... Go to Article » Hegemonic Masculinity in Boys Don't Cry (1999)
(03/18/14)
The need for individuals to categorize themselves and others based on gender has guided the way individuals interact with one another... Go to Article » Soil Pollution From Recycling Centers: Case Study Analysis from the Campus of Michigan State University
(03/17/14)
Soil composition greatly affects the health of the entire ecosystem, making it useful to investigate how anthropogenic processes impact... Go to Article » Asceticism in the Modern World: The Religion of Self-Deprivation
(03/14/14)
Among the questions that have attracted my attention during my theological career thus far, nothing has struck me more forcibly than... Go to Article » A Study of Planarian Phototaxis, Tactile Response and Regeneration
(03/14/14)
The phylum Platyhelminthes is comprised of aquatic worms that span over 20,000 species of either free-living flatworms or parasitic... Go to Article » The Turkish-Kurdish Conflict in Theory and Practice
(03/07/14)
Like the theories that explain it, group conflict has existed since man became a social creature. Nevertheless, social scientists... Go to Article » Immigration and Stress: The Relationship Between Parents' Acculturative Stress and Young Children's Anxiety Symptoms
(03/05/14)
Previous research suggests that risk factors related to immigration in parents are associated with the manifestation of anxiety symptoms... Go to Article » Demagoguery and the Westboro Baptist Church: Deconstructing the Tactics of Hate
(02/07/14)
The Westboro Baptist Church has become widely known for their hatred, polarizing statements, and funeral protests. Consisting of only... Go to Article » The Chinese Pollution Problem and the Politics of "Airpocalypse"
(01/18/14)
In 1992 during his famed Southern Trip, Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader of the Communist Party of China, proclaimed that "To Get... Go to Article » The Price of Development: The Importance of Preserving Local Agricultural Lands
(01/14/14)
Regardless of the fact that we have long been warned of the negative impact of industrial farming, rural communities are being wiped... Go to Article » Soaring to Green Heights: The Current Sustainable Initiatives in the Commercial Airline Industry
(01/14/14)
The air travel industry is changing. The needs of the environment are being considered and research into ways of improving the industry... Go to Article » Roots, Tendrils, Sprouts and Shoots: A Case Study of Parkallen's Community Garden, a Permaculture Project
(01/14/14)
The first growing season of Edmonton’s Parkallen Community Garden began in Spring 2012. We transformed an unused strip of lawn... Go to Article » One World, One Ocean, One Mission
(01/14/14)
MacGillivray Freeman Films was founded over forty years ago by Greg MacGillivray and the late Jim Freeman. In 2011, the company launched... Go to Article » Hoarding Plastic Waste: Buried Alive
(01/14/14)
Plastic is a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives. Popular for its versatility, it can be attributed to the creation of the numerous... Go to Article » Dian Fossey's Controversial "Active Conservation" Proves Useful in Increasing Mountain Gorilla Awareness
(01/13/14)
As a researcher and advocate of the mountain gorilla, Dian Fossey dedicated her life and career to understanding, protecting, and... Go to Article » Conserving China's Biodiversity
(01/13/14)
Over the past several decades, with the introduction of ecology as a scientific pursuit, China has made advancements in ensuring the... Go to Article » Climate Change Strategies 101
(01/13/14)
The development of climate change action plans and strategies is usually done via the policy cycle during the first half of a government... Go to Article » "Goblin Market:" Renunciation and Redemption in Christina Rossetti's Narrative Poem
(01/11/14)
In "Goblin Market" (1862), Christina Rossetti (1830‑1894) presents a story of two sisters who must endure carnal lust in order... Go to Article » Who is King of Sarawak's Rainforest? An Insight to Sarawak's Land Corruption Led by its Chief Minister and His Family
(01/10/14)
Malaysia's 13th General Elections were hopes of many to be the turning point of change, breaking Barisan Nasional's (BN or National... Go to Article » Christopher Benjamin's Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada - Stories to Change Minds and Move Hearts
(01/10/14)
In his 2011 book, Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada, environmental journalist Chris Benjamin provides a new kind of... Go to Article » Defending the Cyber Realm
(01/01/14)
There is a widespread belief that as societies and governments become increasingly reliant upon information technology, they in turn... Go to Article » Food Security in the Contemporary World: Making Security Sustainable
(01/01/14)
The concept of food security is dynamic; it has been changing to incorporate new ideas over the years since it was established. In... Go to Article » Creating Europe: The Discourse of Civilisation
(01/01/14)
They made us leave history - our history, to follow tbem, right at the back; to follow tbe progress of their history. - Amilcar... Go to Article » International Cooperation in Combating Threats to Maritime Security: Global Maritime Security and International Law
(01/01/14)
It may be said that a cooperative international law based on a community of interests has developed in the field of crime prevention... Go to Article » The Interests of Minority and Majority Shareholders in the EU
(01/01/14)
The recent economic crisis roved to be immensely threatening to the economic equilibrium within the European Union (EU). Beginning... Go to Article » Denuclearization: A Models-Based Approach
(12/31/13)
With nuclear proliferation a major threat to international security, this study examines the factors that led three countries to denuclearize... Go to Article » On Global Order: South Africa as a Case Study for the Validity of City-Specific Research in International Development
(12/31/13)
This study provides an overview of the international development field's attention to urbanization. Despite cities being proven the... Go to Article » Intent to Harm: Factors Influencing Target Selection by Africa Islamist Militant Groups
(12/31/13)
The rise of Islamist militant groups and their propensity towards violence has perplexed researchers and policy-makers and lead to... Go to Article » Vision to Product: Inconsistencies in Theories Used in Failed Peacebuilding Programs
(12/31/13)
This paper identifies and provides an initial analysis of the problem of mismatched theories in peacebuilding programs. This problem... Go to Article » Economic Countercyclical Fiscal Policy and Growth in Democracies After the 2008 Recession
(12/31/13)
After years of economic downturn and recovery, the debate over stimulus packages and countercyclical policy continues globally. Proponents... Go to Article » Toward A More Sustainable Food Supply Network: An Economic Analysis of Sustainability in the United States Food Industry
(12/21/13)
In order to determine the current state of the industrial food system, both a quantitative survey and a qualitative interview were... Go to Article » Race as a Material Ideology
(12/21/13)
The persistence of racism within the working class is a fundamental problem for any Marxist analysis of race, and there have been... Go to Article » Genome Profile of Ambystoma mexicanum
(12/21/13)
The Ambystoma mexicanum, commonly known as the axolotl, possesses extraordinary regenerative abilities and is capable of reconstituting... Go to Article » South Korea's Sustainable Urban Planning and Environmental Technology
(12/21/13)
South Korea's rapid urbanization began in the 1950s and greatly increased the urban population as well as the country's economy. However... Go to Article » Individualized Behavioral and Image Analysis of Response Time, Accuracy, and Social Cognitive Load During Social Judgments in Adolescents
(12/20/13)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become an invaluable tool in understanding the relationship between brain and behavior... Go to Article » Parametric Study of a Nd: Yag Laser Beam Interaction with Graphite
(12/19/13)
Graphite is an important material in a number of specialized industrial applications due to its high thermal conductivity and resistance... Go to Article » Mythology and Astronomy as Manifestations of Ancient Greek Culture
(12/19/13)
It is common to think of mythical heroes as being "larger than life." The stories of their legendary pursuits put these warriors on... Go to Article » Alternative Methods to Autologous Nerve Grafting for the Regeneration of the Peripheral Nervous System
(12/19/13)
The peripheral nervous system is made up of the nerves and neurons that are outside of the central nervous system. These nerves and... Go to Article » Healthcare Access Implications and Psychosocial Effects of Sickle Disease
(12/19/13)
Millman (1993) defines healthcare access as "the timely use of affordable personal health services to achieve the best possible health... Go to Article » Undergraduate Internship Expectations: Strategic Encouragement of Student Involvement
(12/17/13)
Internships supply undergraduates with work experience, networking potential, and opportunities to apply classroom content to career... Go to Article » U.S. Media's Failure to Set the Agenda for Covering Sex Trafficking
(12/14/13)
The sex trafficking industry poses a clear and present threat in society, but the American public seems to be unaware of the gravity... Go to Article » Anime: From Cult Following to Pop Culture Phenomenon
(12/14/13)
This study examined the scope of influence that Japanese anime had on American people born in the '80s and '90s. Relying on secondary... Go to Article » Coupons of the 21st Century: The Golden Age of The Daily Deal Industry
(12/14/13)
Since its introduction in the late 1800s, coupons have transformed drastically to appeal to the changing needs and behaviors of the... Go to Article » Corporate Use of Environmental Marketplace Advocacy: A Case Study of GE's 'Ecomagination' Campaign
(12/14/13)
This study explored the concept of marketplace advocacy within the context of General Electric's "Ecomagination" environmental campaign... Go to Article » Crisis Management and Sports in the Age of Social Media: A Case Study Analysis of the Tiger Woods Scandal
(12/14/13)
Tiger Woods saw his reputation crumble as reports of infidelity leaked to the press in November of 2009. This research evaluated the... Go to Article » Image Restoration in Political Sex Scandals: What To Do (And What Not To Do) When You're Caught With Your Pants Down
(12/14/13)
This study sought to apply a Crisis Communications lens to the area of American political sex scandals. Applying William Benoit's "... Go to Article » The Interactive Indulgence: The Use of Advergames to Curb Childhood Obesity
(12/14/13)
As childhood obesity rates in the United States continue to rise, health professionals and pro-health advocates are looking to utilize... Go to Article » The Invisible Become Visible: An Analysis of How People Experiencing Homelessness Use Social Media
(12/13/13)
This research examined how people experiencing homelessness use the social media platforms of blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn... Go to Article » Facebook Pages and Benefits to Brands
(12/13/13)
Facebook fan pages allow a brand to create an online community of brand users through the social networking site. By pressing Facebook... Go to Article » Is Paganism a Religion? Exploring the Historical and Contemporary Relevance of Paganism
(12/11/13)
Years of adversity and oppression have pushed the once thriving practice of Paganism into the shadows. Even in our contemporary world... Go to Article » Testing the Appeals of Feminist Ideologies in Female Athletic Advertising
(12/09/13)
The purpose of this study was to determine whether Generation Y women respond more to athletic ads that embodied a second-wave feminist... Go to Article » Appealing to Women: An Analysis of Print Advertisements in Three Women's Interest Magazines
(12/09/13)
The purpose of this study was to analyze advertisements in magazines targeting women readers and find the preferred type of appeals... Go to Article » Examining Green Advertising and Its Impact on Consumer Skepticism and Purchasing Patterns
(12/09/13)
The twenty-first century has seen a significant increase in environmental awareness and activism, which has ultimately developed into... Go to Article » The Construction of Southern Identity Through Reality TV: A Content Analysis of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Duck Dynasty and Buckwild
(12/09/13)
The reality television genre has been increasingly at the forefront of media and cultural studies and a subject of critique across... Go to Article » Public Perceptions of Media Bias: A Meta-Analysis of American Media Outlets During the 2012 Presidential Election
(12/09/13)
There has been a considerable surge of scholastic inquiry in recent years into understanding the factors responsible for the fluctuating... Go to Article » Constantly Connected: The Impact of Social Media and the Advancement in Technology on the Study Abroad Experience
(12/09/13)
This study examined the impact of the advancement in technology and convenience of social media on the study abroad experience. It... Go to Article » Evolution of the Gaming Experience: Live Video Streaming and the Emergence of a New Web Community
(12/09/13)
The introduction of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) into the eSports industry has caused an unprecedented growth in its viewership... Go to Article » Pay for Play: Analysis of the Image Restoration Strategies of High Profile College Athletes
(12/09/13)
This study sought to explore the college athletic landscape through a Crisis Communications perspective. Using William Benoit&rsquo... Go to Article » A Case Study on Film Authorship: Exploring the Theoretical and Practical Sides in Film Production
(12/09/13)
Film authorship has been a topic of debate in film theory since the Cahiers du Cinema critics first birthed auteur theory. Andrew... Go to Article » A Case Study on Film Authorship: Exploring the Theoretical and Practical Sides in Film Production
(12/09/13)
Film authorship has been a topic of debate in film theory since the Cahiers du Cinema critics first birthed auteur theory. Andrew... Go to Article » Conceptualizing the Shared Governance Model in American Higher Education: Considering the Governing Board, President and Faculty
(12/09/13)
The evolution of the governance model in higher education is a complex idea to pin down with simple definitions. New stakeholders,... Go to Article » Rudyard Kipling's Literary and Historical Legacy
(11/25/13)
Critical opinion of Rudyard Kipling, his imperialism, and his oeuvre has radically changed in the last century. Depending on the literary... Go to Article » Art, Hallucination, and Embodiment
(11/24/13)
This essay will discuss visual perception as well as examine the relationship between art and hallucination. The paper is divided... Go to Article » The Natural History of Osteoarthritis
(11/24/13)
Early signs of vertebral osteoarthritis begin to appear around the age of thirty. By age fifty, almost everyone exhibits some form... Go to Article » Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) Habitat Use and Behavior Analysis in Response to Repeated Aggression
(11/24/13)
Gavialis gangeticus, the Indian gharial, is the only extant gharial species in the world. The gharial is a large crocodilian in the... Go to Article » Nada es Sencilla: un Análisis de Cinco Películas Almodovareñas
(11/22/13)
A pesar de la variación en material sujeto, las películas largometrajes del Pedro Almodóvar contienen elementos... Go to Article » Covariation in Limb-limb and Limb-trunk Proportions in Whites and Blacks and Males in Females using the Hamann-Todd Collection, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
(11/22/13)
Stature estimation is traditionally an important consideration in physical anthropology and archaeology and is especially pertinent... Go to Article » Turning Behaviors in the Cockroach Blaberus discoidalis
(11/22/13)
Legged insects are able to traverse a wide range of unpredictable terrain and assess their surroundings by responding to sensory input... Go to Article » A Genome Wide Search for Proteins that Control the Balance Between Proliferation and Differentiation in the Drosophila Ovary, an in vivo model System
(11/22/13)
Understanding how progenitor cells stop proliferating and enter a differentiation pathway is a fundamental question in cancer and... Go to Article » Adaptations and Preferences of Wild Hummingbirds Introduced into a Captive Setting
(11/22/13)
This case study focuses on the effects of avian introductions into a captive exhibit. Two hummingbirds, Colibri coruscans (sparkling... Go to Article » The Role of Innate Receptor TLR2 in Neutrophil Recruitment in Oropharyngeal Candidiasis (OPC)
(11/22/13)
Candida albicans (CA) is a dimorphic fungus that commonly colonizes the oral cavity. Overgrowth can result in an infection of the... Go to Article » Effects of Simulated Deer Browsing Intensity and Fragmentation on Regenerative Dynamics of Acer saccharum Marsh. (Sugar Maple) Plants in Temperate Forests
(11/22/13)
The deer browsing effects on the regeneration of woody plants in forested ecosystems is not fully understood. More can be learned... Go to Article » Four Lines to Immortality: Dido's Renaissance Through Josquin des Prez
(11/22/13)
Dulces exuuiae, dum fata deusque sinebat, accipite hanc animam meque his exsoluite curis. uixi et quem dederat cursum Fortuna peregi... Go to Article » Proxidant Injection Causes the Onset of Type 2 Diabetes in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Obese (SHROB/Kol) Rat
(11/22/13)
The spontaneously hypertensive obese (SHROB/Kol) rat is a model of prediabetes characterized by normal fasting and high postprandial... Go to Article » Development of a Micro-integration Technique for the Fabrication of a Cell-Fiber Scaffold Complex in Heart Valve Tissue Engineering
(11/22/13)
All clinically available heart valve prostheses, such as mechanical and bioprosthetic valves, are intrinsically flawed in that they... Go to Article » Discrepancy Between Parent Report and Clinician Observation of Symptoms in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
(11/21/13)
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention defines Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) as pervasive developmental disabilities in which... Go to Article » Social Support in PTSD: An Analysis of Gender, Race, and Trauma Type
(11/21/13)
The current study discusses social support systems and the ways in which they impact persons diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder... Go to Article » Mindfulness and Perfectionism
(11/21/13)
Perfectionism is an individual’s wish for the highest performance combined with critical evaluations of performance (Frost,... Go to Article » The Contribution of HPG Axis-Hormones and Hormone Replacement Timing on Cognition and Associated Signaling
(11/21/13)
Many women experiencing menopause show cognitive function deficits and have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease (AD... Go to Article » Ape Fracture Patterns Show Higher Incidence in More Arboreal Species
(11/21/13)
In the following study, the Hamann-Todd Osteological Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History was examined to compare... Go to Article » The Mexican American Health Paradox: The Collective Influence of Sociocultural Factors on Hispanic Health Outcomes
(11/20/13)
According to recent statistics published by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2011, Hispanics in the... Go to Article » Timed Writing Assessment as a Measure of Writing Ability: A Qualitative Study
(11/20/13)
Throughout the American education system, the assessment of writing skill and general academic performance through timed essay examinations... Go to Article » Overcoming Modernity in Yukio Mishima
(11/20/13)
The relationship between Japan and Western Civilization has often been one of ambivalence. Little characterizes this relationship... Go to Article » Falsifying the Existence of Women: Exploring Marxian and Gender Theories in Mad Men to Examine Roles of Consciousness in the Gender Dynamics of the Workplace
(11/20/13)
One may contend that attaining unadulterated awareness of one’s existence is, in present society, idealistic. Specifically,... Go to Article » "Irreversibility" and the Modern Understanding of Death
(11/20/13)
Recent advancements in medicine have resulted in technology that allows us to have a better understanding of the essence of life.... Go to Article » Reliving American Slavery in 12 Years a Slave
(11/20/13)
As the lights dropped and I sank into my seat, I thought I was ready for 12 Years a Slave, the 2013 film adaptation of Solomon Northup... Go to Article » The Portrayal of the American Legal System in Prime Time Television Crime Dramas
(11/19/13)
This is a case study looking at how the legal system is portrayed on prime time network television crime dramas in respect to suspect... Go to Article » Visual Persuasion: The Media's Use of Images in Framing People Groups
(11/18/13)
This article compares the media's framing of five groups in response to a societal catalyst that propelled them into the public and... Go to Article » The Influence of Rap and Hip-Hop Music: An Analysis on Audience Perceptions of Misogynistic Lyrics
(11/18/13)
Using a qualitative content analysis and online survey, this research examined how college students perceive and respond to the portrayal... Go to Article » Motivating Behavior Change: A Content Analysis of Public Service Announcements From the Let's Move! Campaign
(11/16/13)
Childhood obesity is an important issue facing our country and as a result, public health programs including the Let's Move! campaign... Go to Article » Pumping Steel and Sex Appeal: Message Strategies and Content in Dietary Supplement Advertisements
(11/16/13)
Existing in a regulatory gray area as neither a food nor a drug, dietary supplements have fierce controversies over safety and regulation... Go to Article » Women in TV Broadcast News: Reporters and Sources in Hard News Stories
(11/15/13)
This study, conducted during a two-week period leading up to the 2012 Presidential Election, analyzed three prime time news broadcasts... Go to Article » Assessing Network TV Ad Watches in the 2012 Presidential Election
(11/15/13)
In today’s election atmosphere, Americans are inundated with campaign advertisements during the election cycle. Much research... Go to Article » Truth and Context in the 2012 Presidential Debates
(11/15/13)
Today’s modern age has led to a plethora of information available at the fingertips of all voters. During the 2012 presidential... Go to Article » Social Media and Politics: Twitter Use in the Second Congressional District of Virginia
(11/15/13)
With social media recently evolving as a platform for social, informational, and political exchanges, it comes as no surprise that... Go to Article » Soft Power Deployment on the Korean Peninsula
(11/15/13)
South Korea, also known as the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a remarkable country in many ways. It survived the Korean War, supported... Go to Article » India and Nigeria: Similar Colonial Legacies, Vastly Different Trajectories: An Examination of the Differing Fates of Two Former British Colonies
(11/15/13)
The nations of Nigeria and India both have exceptionally diverse populations, endured the deliberate divide-and-rule strategies executed... Go to Article » Natural Resources and Prolonged Conflict: The Case of Sierra Leone
(11/15/13)
Why did Sierra Leone experience such a protracted civil war between 1991 and 2002? Sierra Leone has been beset with challenges since... Go to Article » The Effects of the US Pivot to Asia on European Strategic Cooperation
(11/15/13)
The current state of European strategic cooperation is optimistically described as "splintered" and pessimistically labeled as "nonexistent... Go to Article » From Fighting Nazis to Electing Nazis: The Rise of Golden Dawn in Greece
(11/15/13)
In Greece's parliamentary elections of June 2012, a far-right neo-fascist party called Golden Dawn gained eighteen seats, making them... Go to Article » Power, Religion, and Capital Punishment: A Comparative Analysis Between Abolitionist Turkey & Retentionist Iran
(11/15/13)
Turkey and Iran are both predominately Muslim-populated countries with a history of powerful political leaders who have shaped their... Go to Article » Caught Between "Deradicalization" and "Disengagement:" Clarifying Terms in the Discourse of Terrorism
(11/14/13)
Observations from the media and from public discourse on Islamist radicalization reveal that terms such as 'Islamist extremism,' '... Go to Article » On Freedom and Progress: Comparing Marx and Mill
(11/04/13)
This essay compares Karl Marx’s and J.S. Mill’s understandings of freedom and their analyses of the impediments to its... Go to Article » Propaganda, Public Opinion, and the Second South African Boer War
(10/28/13)
The Second Boer War (1899‑1902) was costly for Great Britain and the semi‑independent South African Republic (Transvaal... Go to Article » Women's Fashion and the Renaissance: Considering Fashion, Women's Expression, and Sumptuary Law in Florence and Venice
(10/24/13)
In 1487, Laura Cereta wrote a letter in which she railed against women who “strive by means of exquisite artistry to seem more... Go to Article » Learning to Innovate: Characteristics of Education Systems That Promote Creativity
(10/22/13)
In ac tellus quis tortor accumsan consequat et eu dolor. Morbi vulputate, nisi eget scelerisque tristique, ante ipsum consequat mi... Go to Article » The Struggle for Integration in the Eurozone: Identity Politics and the Financial Crisis
(10/22/13)
Maecenas id tempus quam. Nullam id leo sem. Fusce rhoncus pretium lobortis. Aliquam erat volutpat. Morbi consectetur lorem quis... Go to Article » Symbols of Love and War: Bringing Stories from the Choctaw Nation into the Native American Narrative
(10/22/13)
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi dictum elit dolor, a laoreet tellus euismod quis. Nam fringilla eros... Go to Article » The Politics of Failed States: From Greed and Grievance Toward Reconstruction
(10/22/13)
Aliquam erat volutpat. Morbi consectetur lorem quis lacus faucibus gravida ut vitae turpis. Nullam ultrices sollicitudin auctor.... Go to Article » Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss in the Indonesia Archipelago: Cultural Factors Fueling Deforestation
(10/22/13)
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi dictum elit dolor, a laoreet tellus euismod quis. Nam fringilla eros... Go to Article » The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey: Cross-National Tensions and Policy Implications in the Middle East
(10/22/13)
In ac tellus quis tortor accumsan consequat et eu dolor. Morbi vulputate, nisi eget scelerisque tristique, ante ipsum consequat mi... Go to Article » The Law of Attack in Cyberspace: Considering the Tallinn Manual's Definition of 'Attack' in the Digital Battlespace
(10/22/13)
'Attack' is a term of central importance in the Law of Armed Conflict, the body of international rules and standards that regulate... Go to Article » Controversial Kin: Transracial Adoption in "Hope Leslie" and "Ramona"
(10/20/13)
Critics often ignore transracial adoption as a literary theme in both Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie; Or, Early Times in Massachusetts... Go to Article » Is the European Commission Too Powerful? Neofunctionalism and Intergovernmentalism Considered
(10/17/13)
This article highlights the European Commission’s role within the European Union (EU), which has been weakened over time. Through... Go to Article » James Joyce's "Ulysses" and Bloom's Utopian Vision of Ireland
(10/16/13)
James Joyce's Ulysses is first and foremost a political novel, a "real Irish nationalist epic in its most . . . politically figurative... Go to Article » Refugee Policy and Foreign Policy: Examining Policy Linkage in Chinese Relations with North Korea, Myanmar, and Vietnam
(10/11/13)
This paper analyzes state refugee policies through the lenses of foreign policy behavior and policy linkage. The case studies compare... Go to Article » Mycobacteriophage Meru: Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Mycobacteriophage
(10/10/13)
Mycobacteriophage are the most prevalent type of microorganism present in the biological universe. In fact, since the first mycobacteriophage... Go to Article » Rural-Urban Migration and Agricultural Transformation in India: Observing the Impact on Childhood Migration From Bihar to New Delhi
(10/07/13)
Large-scale rural to urban migrations have been occurring in India in record numbers within the last thirty years, inflating the populations... Go to Article » The Visual Vocabulary of Chitra Ganesh: Femininity, Sexuality, and Abjection in Ganesh's Visual Art
(10/05/13)
Whence does the definitive understanding of the human body as a site of power, pleasure, and horror come? Is there at all a definitive... Go to Article » Visualizing Sound: Effects of Pitch Height and Tonality on Luminance Matching
(10/04/13)
Synesthesia, a perceptual condition in which two or more senses intermix, has elicited research on cross-modal perception in general... Go to Article » Technology and Justice: The Philosophy of Authenticity and Democratic Theory
(10/02/13)
"The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world, everything is as it is, and everything happens as it does happen... Go to Article » Sustainability Through Urban Gardening
(09/30/13)
Three visions of attaining sustainability through urban gardening – at the individual, community, and city level – are... Go to Article » Selling Ourselves Short: A Discussion of Water-Markets in Alberta
(09/30/13)
The issue of water management has become one of increasing importance. Any new policy regarding resource management must balance the... Go to Article » Ecological Education: Proposal of Implementation Programs in Romania
(09/30/13)
The following is a case study of the author’s country of origin, Romania, and its journey back to sustainable living. Her article... Go to Article » Competing on Climate Change: An Interprovincial, Longitudinal Review of Emerging Environmental Risks to Canadian Homeowners
(09/30/13)
In an era of accelerated climate change, Canadian homeowners face growing financial exposures to environmental risks, and climate-... Go to Article » Barriers for Women to Positions of Power: How Societal and Corporate Structures, Perceptions of Leadership and Discrimination Restrict Women's Advancement to Authority
(09/30/13)
Women’s advancement in the corporate workplace has taken significant strides over the last century. Research demonstrates, however... Go to Article » A Stakeholder's Perspective on the Implications of IFRS and Fair Value Accounting on Valuation of Securities
(09/30/13)
Due to the complexity of modern financial instruments, accurate valuation can prove difficult even in optimal market conditions. Traditionally... Go to Article » An Econometric Analysis of the 'Backward-Bending' Labor Supply of Canadian Women
(09/25/13)
This study investigates the behavior of the labor supply of Canadian women at different composite hourly wages of all paid jobs in... Go to Article » Unclean, Unsaid, Undead: Beckett, Merleau-Ponty, and the Degradation of Body and Language
(09/24/13)
Life is pain. And life persists, obscure, but life for all that, even in the tomb. Matter disintegrates and is dispersed; the eternal... Go to Article » Shedding New Light on Acne: The Effects of Photodynamic Therapy on Propionibacterium acnes
(09/23/13)
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the susceptibility of propionibacterium acnes to photodynamic therapy (PDT). Propionibacterium... Go to Article » The Impact of Listening to Music on Cognitive Performance
(09/20/13)
Listening to music for relaxation is common among students to counter the effects of stress or anxiety while completing difficult... Go to Article » The Impact of Listening to Music on Cognitive Performance
(09/20/13)
Listening to music for relaxation is common among students to counter the effects of stress or anxiety while completing difficult... Go to Article » Between Linguistic Universalism and Linguistic Relativism: Perspectives on Human Understandings of Reality
(09/19/13)
The most striking feature of language seems to be its diversity: contrary to the rather limited physical variations of the human species... Go to Article » Anxieties of Empire: Examining Frontier Governance in 19th Century British India
(09/18/13)
In May 2012, Shakil Afridi received a sentence of thirty-three years “rigorous imprisonment” and a large fine for aiding... Go to Article » The Role of Antisocial Personality Disorder and Antisocial Behavior in Crime
(09/17/13)
Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), also known as dyssocial personality disorder, is a mental illness that is characterized by... Go to Article » The Role of Antisocial Personality Disorder and Antisocial Behavior in Crime
(09/17/13)
Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), also known as dyssocial personality disorder, is a mental illness that is characterized by... Go to Article » The Barents Sea Conflict: Russia and Norway Competing Over Fossil Fuel Riches in the Arctic
(09/16/13)
This article aims to investigate the effects of moderators such as culture, power dynamics and political factors on the negotiation... Go to Article » Student Perceptions About Campus Drinking Policies and Potential Impact on Alcohol Consumption
(09/12/13)
Despite stringent drinking policies among various colleges and universities, inappropriate alcohol consumption continues to persist... Go to Article » How Do I Look? The Impact of Compliments on Self-Perceived Attractiveness
(09/09/13)
The present study investigates the effect of a compliment on self-perceived attractiveness and then compares this effect between genders... Go to Article » Mexican Drug Activity, Economic Development, and Unemployment in a Rational Choice Framework
(09/05/13)
From his inauguration in 2005 to the end of his presidency in 2012, Mexican President Felipe Calderon presided over one of the most... Go to Article » Assessing the EU's 'Lisbon Strategy:' Failures & Successes
(09/03/13)
The quest for economic supremacy has been at the heart of the European integration process since its very inception. Tracing the historical... Go to Article » America's Misguided 'War on Terror:' Contrasting Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations with Ibn Khaldun's Theory of Social Solidarity
(09/02/13)
Islam has been under siege since 2001 and in today's political environment, Muslims are too often associated with terrorism. The heinous... Go to Article » Understanding the Flu: Host and Environmental Factors Associated With Susceptibility to Influenza Virus-Induced Disease
(09/01/13)
Influenza virus infection is a worldwide public health burden because of the significant morbidity and mortality that result from... Go to Article » In Treatment: The Casting and Bracketing of Repulsion in The Sopranos
(08/29/13)
The Sopranos (1999-2007) opens with its lead character, Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), unenthusiastically meeting his therapist,... Go to Article » Comparing Faulkner's A Rose for Emily and Porter's The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
(08/27/13)
William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” focuses on the life and death of Emily Grierson, a monumental figure representing... Go to Article » The Military-Industrial Complex in the United States: Evolution and Expansion from World War II to the War on Terror
(08/26/13)
After World War II, the United States military gradually came into a position of overwhelming dominance in the world. Military spending... Go to Article » Chinese Economic Policy in the 21st Century: Growth, Imbalance, and Considerations for Australia
(08/20/13)
This report examines the Chinese economic model, the potential for future Chinese growth, and the implications for Australia. An examination... Go to Article » Sexual Relations Between Elite White Women and Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South: A Socio-Historical Analysis
(08/18/13)
There is ample evidence of sexual relations, from rapes to what appear to be relatively symbiotic romantic partnerships, between white... Go to Article » Sexual Relations Between Elite White Women and Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South: A Socio-Historical Analysis
(08/18/13)
There is ample evidence of sexual relations, from rapes to what appear to be relatively symbiotic romantic partnerships, between white... Go to Article » Societal and Legislative Attitudes Toward Social Housing Tenants in Ireland: Critical Evaluation of Housing Law and Policies, Statistics, Case Law and Literature
(08/16/13)
One area in which the division among Irish citizens remains apparent is in the realm of social housing. Housing represents the largest... Go to Article » God as Creator in Patience: A Re-Examination of Cotton Nero A.x.
(08/11/13)
Patience, the third poem in Cotton Nero A.x., tells the story of the Old Testament prophet Jonah, placing the narrative within the... Go to Article » Net Neutrality: A Human Right for the Digital Age?
(08/11/13)
Sitting at home reading one night, you come across the term “WikiLeaks.” Unaware of its meaning, you exhale forcefully... Go to Article » Melatonin and Sleep Disorders: The Neurobiology of Sleep, Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders, and Various Treatment Methods
(07/10/13)
Melatonin is a lipophilic, indolic-structured compound found ubiquitously in nature. This ubiquity suggests that such an evolutionarily... Go to Article » The Typology of Sacrifice in George Herbert's The Temple
(07/10/13)
George Herbert's (1593-1633) three-part work The Temple (1633) denotes the nature of his relationship with God. He conveys this unique... Go to Article » From Physician to Patient: the Effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
(06/14/13)
During the 2008 Presidential Election, voters designated health insurance reform as a key issue for their future president to work... Go to Article » Power and Presence in Fritz Lang's M (1931)
(06/11/13)
In the penultimate scene of Fritz Lang’s M (1931), mentally-disturbed child murderer Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) falls to his... Go to Article » The Gender Wage Gap in the United States: Current Policy and an Improved Approach for Closing the Gap
(06/10/13)
“Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation—not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of... Go to Article » Sleep Quality Among University Students: Evaluating the Impact of Smoking, Social Media Use, and Energy Drink Consumption on Sleep Quality and Anxiety
(06/07/13)
Objectives: Identify the factors affecting quality of sleep, and assess the impact of low quality sleep on the daily activities of... Go to Article » The Oklahoma City Bombing and Bill Clinton's Eulogy to Bombing Victims
(06/06/13)
On Wednesday, April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb at the base of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. For the 168 individuals... Go to Article » Commencement Addresses Delivered by Incumbent U.S. Presidents, 1914-2010: A Historical Analysis
(06/05/13)
Each year, thousands of colleges and universities across the United States hold commencement. This is a time when campus is in full... Go to Article » The End of Multiculturalism? Immigration and Integration in Germany and the United Kingdom
(06/05/13)
Within a short span of time, immigration has become one of the major issues in the field of European politics and social discourse... Go to Article » Trouble in Paradise: Fiji's Proclivity to Coups
(05/31/13)
Widely known as a tropical tourist destination, the Fiji Islands have been gripped by political turmoil and have had four coups in... Go to Article » Busted by the Feds? Government Corruption and Drug Trafficking
(05/31/13)
The international drug trade and the power of drug cartels have perplexed both analysts and policy makers for years. As drug production... Go to Article » Commercial Interests, Political Influence, and the Arms Trade
(05/31/13)
Given the importance of the global defense trade to geopolitics, the global economy, and international relations at large, this paper... Go to Article » The Populist Bind: Death Penalty Abolition as an Anti-Democratic Decision
(05/31/13)
The continued application of the death penalty in the United States marks the country as an extreme outlier among its allies and like... Go to Article » Women in the Schoolhouse, Whitehouse, and Whorehouse: Empowering Sex Trafficked Women in Southeast Asia Through Education and Political Participation
(05/31/13)
While the enslavement of humans has been occurring even before the dawn of written history, today's form of slavery occurs on an unprecedented... Go to Article » Environmentalism and Postmaterialism in China
(05/31/13)
Postmaterialist values, those that emphasize higher-order human needs, have become widely accepted as the determining force behind... Go to Article » The Great Convergence: Asia, The West, and The Logic of One World
(04/15/13)
Mr. Mahbubani is a Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore... Go to Article » The Forgotten Continenent: The Story of the US's Return to Africa
(04/15/13)
"In addition to the disturbing influence of racial friction, the nationalist movement in Africa is further harassed by the machinations... Go to Article » Barack, Benghazi, and Bungles: Tracing the Obama Administration's Handling of the Benghazi Attacks
(04/15/13)
"If you wish to fault the administration, it's that we didn't have a clear picture, and we probably didn't do as clear a job explaining... Go to Article » Liberal Opposition: Mounting Pressures for Reform in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
(04/15/13)
For all the border-transcending, common cause implications of the popular moniker "the Arab Spring," the sociopolitical upheaval it... Go to Article » Bangladesh: A Case Study in the Rise of the Nation-State
(04/15/13)
After the Partition of India in 1947, the two nascent countries of India and Pakistan each faced the difficult task of nation-state... Go to Article » Prospect of Northeast Asian Regionalism: Comparative Case Study of Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia
(04/15/13)
Regionalism, as Edward Mansfield describes, usually involves policy coordination through formal institutions within a region.1 Although... Go to Article » Legal Dilemmas in the Digital Age
(04/15/13)
In the modern era of cyberspace and technology, advancements pose new threats to legal order. A 2010 census revealed that 2 billion... Go to Article » Corruption Driven Reform: China's Economic Reforms in the Post-Mao Period
(04/09/13)
Corruption is damaging in almost every economic aspect, but it can play a crucial role in the dynamics of political changes and reforms... Go to Article » Ronald Reagan's Presidential Radio Addresses: Themes of Unity
(04/05/13)
When U.S. President Ronald Reagan left office in 1989, he enjoyed a reputation as one of the most rhetorically dynamic Presidents... Go to Article » Addressing the Use of Sexual Violence as a Strategic Weapon of War
(04/01/13)
This paper examines historical and contemporary instances wherein sexual violence, specifically rape, was used as a strategic weapon... Go to Article » The Soviet Nationality Policy in Central Asia
(03/26/13)
The Soviet nationality policy for Central Asia in the early twentieth century was an acceleration of the processes of modernization... Go to Article » The Apparition of Fading Apartheid: Racialized Vision, Khaya Mthethwa, and Idols SA
(03/12/13)
This essay examines the first black winner in 2012 on Idols SA, Khaya Mthethwa (Appendix 1), the TV format of the Idol brand, and... Go to Article » A Modern Portrayal of Lesbian Motherhood in The L Word
(03/05/13)
Showtime's television show The L Word (2004-2009) follows a fictional group of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women living in Los... Go to Article » Perón and the People: Democracy and Authoritarianism in Juan Perón's Argentina
(02/19/13)
Although the ‘Perónist Years’ amounted to a little less than a decade, Juan Perón’s presidency had... Go to Article » From Nostalgia to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Mass Society Theory of Psychological Reactions to Combat
(02/17/13)
This paper analyzes the evolution of the construct known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Specifically, it examines the ways in... Go to Article » Race in Elite American Universities: Diversity as Distraction
(02/12/13)
From elite universities’ admissions publications and demographic data, an otherwise uninformed observer might conclude that... Go to Article » Regime Change Processes in the Republic of Georgia: Challenges to Stability and Democracy
(02/11/13)
Of the three states in the South Caucasus, Georgia has experienced the most political instability since the collapse of the USSR.... Go to Article » Challenging Stereotypes in Glee, or Not? Exploring Masculinity and Neoliberal Flexibility
(02/04/13)
The popular television show Glee (2009-current) features a fictional glee club, the New Directions, which – in the words of... Go to Article » Exploring the Nature of Existence: An Analysis of Wallace Stevens' The Plain Sense of Things
(01/31/13)
In his poem “The Plain Sense of Things,” Wallace Stevens strikes out in a direction that differs greatly from the established... Go to Article » Causes of Violent Conflict in the Caucasus Since the Collapse of Communism
(01/22/13)
Unfortunately, the Caucasus often conjure images of violence and war in the minds of many people. Indeed, the region has been plagued... Go to Article » Planetary Survival in the 21st Century: Confronting Land Degradation, Biodiversity Loss, and Climate Change
(01/15/13)
Everywhere, everyday we are reminded of the planetary crisis. Ice caps melt, forests are decimated, species go extinct and extreme... Go to Article » Correlation Between Prevalence of Diabetes and Lack of Physical Activity in Alabama
(01/14/13)
Alabama was cited among the states with greatest prevalence of diabetes for the past five years (Diabetes Surveillance, 2009). There... Go to Article » Assessing State Judicial Selection: The Missouri Plan vs. Partisan Elections
(01/13/13)
Since the United States Constitution was ratified in the late-18th century, the question of state judge selection has been an important... Go to Article » The State's Struggle to Master Asymmetrical Warfare
(12/31/12)
The last decade of American military policy has been dedicated to fighting an enigma – how to wage war against an enemy that... Go to Article » "Türkenproblematik" 2011: Views of German Youth Towards the Turkish Minority
(12/31/12)
In the 1960s because of a stagnant economy, the Federal Republic of Germany (hereinafter as West Germany) invited Turks to Germany... Go to Article » The Educational Gender Gap in Latin America: Why Some Girls Do Not Attend School
(12/31/12)
Girl's education is universally recognized in the International Development community as an important aspect of development. Educating... Go to Article » Karl Marx and the Fair Trade Chocolate Industry in the Ivory Coast
(12/31/12)
The research completed aimed to show that the idea of fair trade, using the example of goals for the chocolate industry of the Ivory... Go to Article » Tested and Found Wanting: A Quantitative Analysis of Legal Integration in the Member States of the 2004 European Union Enlargement
(12/31/12)
The subject of European legal integration entered the spotlight of interdisciplinary studies in the mid-1990s and has continued to... Go to Article » A Vote of No (Self)-Confidence: Gender, Socialization, and Political Ambition
(12/31/12)
In light of women's underrepresentation in student government, this paper investigates to what extent levels of political ambition... Go to Article » The Weakest Link: Credible Deterrence Threats and Alliance Entrapment
(12/31/12)
Over the past 20 years, the international order has been characterized by the conflict between the United States' desire for isolationism... Go to Article » Minorities and Homelessness in the United States and Europe: A Comparative Analysis
(12/26/12)
This study asks the question of why minorities are so overrepresented among the homeless, with a focus on the United States and Europe... Go to Article » The Tongue of the Learned: How the Elaboration Likelihood Model and Group Communication Can Improve Biblical Literacy
(12/18/12)
Interest in the intersection of religion and politics has grown in salience in the Post-9/11 era. Recent scholarship purports that... Go to Article » Democracy Up Close in Somaliland: Reflections of an International Election Observer
(12/17/12)
In May 1991, Somaliland emerged as a self-declared independent state in the aftermath of the failure and subsequent collapse of Siyad... Go to Article » International Law Reconsidered: Is International Law Actually Law?
(12/13/12)
While in many cases it serves as a stabilizing factor in the international system, and can even be called a force for good, international... Go to Article » Echoes in Gothic Romance: Stylistic Similarities Between Jane Eyre and Rebecca
(11/06/12)
When Daphne DuMaurier's acclaimed Gothic romance novel Rebecca debuted in 1938, it was devoured by the female readers of its day.... Go to Article » Protest and Rock n' Roll During the Vietnam War
(11/05/12)
In the 1960s, several now-influential artists appealed to the disaffected counterculture’s emphasis on peace and love, especially... Go to Article » A Call for Ecologically Informed Policy to Address Sex Work: Evidence From Kenya
(11/01/12)
With the recognition that sex workers constitute a key population at higher risk for the acquisition and dissemination of sexually... Go to Article » Lessons on Government from one Non-State Entity to Another: How the Irish Republican Movement Informs Hezbollah's Attempt at the Clausewitzian Political Arm
(11/01/12)
The great nineteenth-century military theorist Carl von Clausewitz changed the art of war forever with his masterwork, “On War... Go to Article » Effects of Islamic Banking on Financial Market Outcomes in GCC Countries and Iran
(11/01/12)
Islamic banking and finance have become increasingly widespread over the past two decades, particularly in Muslim-majority countries... Go to Article » Revisions to Lipset's Economic Theory of Democratic Development: India as a Case Study
(11/01/12)
Seymour M. Lipset dubbed economic development a “social requisite to democracy,” considering factors such as national... Go to Article » Should the Responsibility to Protect be Enshrined in International Law?
(11/01/12)
While states admit a moral responsibility to take action against states that violate human rights and international criminal law,... Go to Article » Campaign of Devastation: Assessing Motives for the Russian Government's 1999-2000 Destruction of Chechnya
(11/01/12)
In 1999, the Russian government all but razed Chechnya’s capital city of Groznyy. The Russian military devastated Chechnya,... Go to Article » A Pacifist in the Pacific: Past, Present, and Future United States Policy Towards Myanmar
(11/01/12)
Myanmar, sitting on the border between South and Southeast Asia, reflects a historically oppressive state with internal struggle as... Go to Article » Justice and Inequality in the World Trading System: A Critical Assesment
(11/01/12)
It has been argued that the global trading system is supposed to promote global efficiency and growth, but a rising chorus of voices... Go to Article » Habermas's Linguistic Theory Applied to David Mamet's Films: Communicative Action in Action
(10/31/12)
Jürgen Habermas - a prominent German philosopher and critical social theorist - offers a theory of language use that identifies... Go to Article » How Everything Fits Together: On Knowledge and Ancient Understanding
(10/26/12)
As humans, we are compelled to ask the questions, why do we exist? How do we exist? Even, how can I know that I am using this existence... Go to Article » Diverging Discontent: Examining the PATRIOT Act's Passage in Congress Under the Bush Administration
(10/23/12)
On October 26, 2001, President George W. Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.... Go to Article » Maternal Mortality in Nepal: Addressing the Issue
(10/22/12)
Each year around 358,000 women die because of complications during pregnancy or childbirth and many more encounter serious problems... Go to Article » Non-Traditional Therapies in Forensic Populations: Benefits of Human-Animal Interaction, Art Therapy, and Meditation-Based Interventions
(10/16/12)
Unique challenges are present in therapy when working with mentally ill offenders in a correctional setting. In order to encourage... Go to Article » Obtaining Justice for Victims of Strangulation in Domestic Violence: Evidence Based Prosecution and Strangulation-Specific Training
(10/10/12)
Strangulation accounts for 10-percent of violent deaths in the United States, with six female victims to every male victim. A common... Go to Article » Yue Fei's Different Goals and Ideals in the Chinese Song Dynasty, 960-1279
(10/01/12)
Since his death in 1142 CE, Yue Fei of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) has been revered by the Chinese as a national hero. His skill as... Go to Article » Reevaluating the Role of Women in Beowulf
(09/30/12)
This essay explores the roles of women in Beowulf in a contextual assessment. It is often an incorrect assumption that women within... Go to Article » Reevaluating the Role of Women in Beowulf
(09/30/12)
This essay explores the roles of women in Beowulf in a contextual assessment. It is often an incorrect assumption that women within... Go to Article » A Nation Divided: Civil War Politics and Emancipation
(09/28/12)
The Emancipation Proclamation was arguably the United States’ first step away from hypocrisy and toward true racial equality... Go to Article » From Proto-State to Para-State Accountability: Russian Political Regimes Under Yeltsin, Putin, and Medvedev
(09/26/12)
When on September 24th, 2011 Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin announced his bid to run for president in the presidential... Go to Article » Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in Nepal: Good Public Health Intention Gone Bad
(09/25/12)
Nepal is a small developing country in South Asia, bordered by China to the north and India to the south, east and west. With a total... Go to Article » Ignoring Islam: U.S. Education in Need of Intervention
(09/24/12)
The United States’ education system is unprepared to discuss Islam, despite the pertinence of religious education in the modern... Go to Article » A Rhetorical Examination of the Product Keynotes of Steve Jobs
(09/19/12)
Upon Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ death in October 2011, he was mourned worldwide as an innovator who changed the landscape of the... Go to Article » Limiting Values of Democracy and Competing Views on Materialism in American Society: Comparing Kirk and Nedelsky
(09/18/12)
Limits lie at the heart of the American political system. No governmental body or figure has unlimited authority—all are checked... Go to Article » Napoleon Bonaparte's Peak of Military Success: Ulm and Austerlitz
(09/17/12)
“There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once; as for me I see only one thing, namely the enemy... Go to Article » Assessing the Impact of "Three Strikes" Laws on Crime Rates and Prison Populations in California and Washington
(09/16/12)
The efficacy of three strikes laws has been a topic of contention among researchers since the first such piece of legislation was... Go to Article » "Pressing Disengagement:" Chile's Transition to Democracy After Augusto Pinochet's 1973 Military Coup
(09/15/12)
Although he left office in March 1990, dictator Augusto Pinochet effectively held absolute power in Chile from 1973-1988. His September... Go to Article » The Islamic Middle Ages, a Fractured Polity, and the Flourishing of a Cultural and Scientific Renaissance
(09/12/12)
Ibn Khaldun highlighted that societies in their natural state exist in the rural countryside, where the struggle of daily life binds... Go to Article » The Role and Impact of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Taking Satire Seriously On A "Daily Show" Basis
(09/06/12)
Throughout the past decade, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has expanded its depth of analysis and impacted the political process... Go to Article » Article Review: "Pillow Talk: Exploring Disclosures After Sexual Activity" by Amanda Denes
(09/05/12)
In the March-April 2012 issue of the Western Journal of Communication, a piece appeared by University of California-Santa Barbara (... Go to Article » Analyzing the Criminalization of Sex Purchasers and the Provision of Immunity in Ireland
(09/04/12)
In Ireland, the Turn Off the Red Light Campaign is currently lobbying for the criminalization of the act of purchasing sex services... Go to Article » Shakespeare's King Lear: The Promised End
(09/03/12)
William Shakespeare's King Lear begins with Lear ignoring the natural order of family inheritance by deciding to divide his kingdom... Go to Article » A Multi-State Analysis of Correctional Boot Camp Outcomes: Identifying Vocational Rehabilitation as a Complement to Shock Incarceration
(09/02/12)
This paper evaluates the outcomes of various correctional boot camp and shock incarceration programs from three U.S. states. It examines... Go to Article » Self-Esteem and Trust: Correlation Between Self-Esteem and Willingness to Trust in Undergraduate Students
(08/29/12)
Previous studies have shown a correlation between low self-esteem, loneliness, and social connectedness (McWhirter, 1997). These are... Go to Article » Lucius Sergius Catalina: Villain or Victim? The Famed Cicero as a Violent Aggressor
(08/28/12)
Marcus Tullius Cicero is among the more well-known of ancient Roman men. Many know the name and can identify him as having been a... Go to Article » The Impact of Parental Marital Status on Gender Ideology
(08/27/12)
Even in the new millennium, divorce is a taboo subject. Society is inundated with statistics reporting high rates of divore, that... Go to Article » Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan as Third-Party Propagators: Categorizing the Participation of Private Security Companies
(08/23/12)
A public good is defined as a product or service that is both non-rival and non-excludable, meaning that one cannot withhold it from... Go to Article » Mobile Phone Contamination by Microorganisms in Health Facilities: Comparing Health Care Workers and Patient Visitors in a Post-Operative Pediatric ICU
(08/22/12)
Background: Mobile phones (MPs) come in close contact with the body and serve as a ready surface for colonization. The aim of this... Go to Article » Redefining the Elegy in the Twentieth Century: Thomas Hardy's The Convergence of the Twain And Sylvia Plath's Daddy
(08/21/12)
Forms of poetry are constantly changing as authors stray from what is conventional and familiar, and delve into what is new and different... Go to Article » Wrongful Conviction in the American Judicial Process: History, Scope, and Analysis
(08/20/12)
This paper addresses the historical, current, and projected scope of wrongful convictions in the judicial process of the United States... Go to Article » Public Opinion, Democracy, and the Economy: Case Studies from the Southern Cone
(08/19/12)
Utilizing 2009 data from the Latinobarómetro public opinion survey and bivariate statistical methods, this study assesses the... Go to Article » Toward a Neurobiological Understanding of Religion: Examining Ritual and the Body
(08/17/12)
One of the numerous working definitions of religion includes "a belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers to be worshipped,"... Go to Article » Dialogic Conflict and Speech Identity in Jean Rhys' Let Them Call it Jazz
(08/16/12)
Confined to prison following her inability to pay a five-pound fine, Selina Davis situates herself outside a traditional system. She... Go to Article » Seeking Sustainability: Adopting Sustainable and Renewable Energy Sources to Create a Maintable World
(08/15/12)
Nelson Mandela once said, "You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself." This quote is particularly applicable... Go to Article » Globalization's Peace: The Impact of Economic Connections on State Aggression and Systemic Conflict
(08/14/12)
The question of whether economic relations have an impact on interstate military conflict has divided scholars and political thinkers... Go to Article » Not Just a Game: Sport and Society in the United States
(08/12/12)
Sports are an essential and important aspect of American society; they are indispensible when it comes to their impact on a plethora... Go to Article » Not Just a Game: Sport and Society in the United States
(08/12/12)
Sports are an essential and important aspect of American society; they are indispensible when it comes to their impact on a plethora... Go to Article » John Temple Graves and the 'Lost Tribe:' An Analysis of "The Big World At Last Reaches Gee's Bend"
(08/08/12)
An exhibition entitled “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend” opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in November... Go to Article » Ethical Considerations in Criminal Justice Research: Informed Consent and Confidentiality
(08/07/12)
Experiments involving human subjects are increasingly utilized in criminal justice research. However, these studies present relatively... Go to Article » Trade and Conflict in South Asia: Examining the Relationship Between Trade Interdependence and Militarized Conflict
(08/06/12)
The relationship between trade and conflicts between countries in South Asia is important to examine because of the rising prominence... Go to Article » Containment and the Cold War: Reexaming the Doctrine of Containment as a Grand Strategy Driving US Cold War Interventions
(08/03/12)
By retracing shifts in the meaning, usage, and perception of the doctrine of ‘Soviet containment’, this article provides... Go to Article » Voice Therapy: A Safe and Effective Alternative to Voice Surgery
(08/02/12)
The voice is perhaps one of the most important functions of the human body, as it permits individuals to speak their thoughts and... Go to Article » Lessons of Darkness in the Context of Carroll's Erotetic Narrative
(07/30/12)
In his essay, “An Aesthetic Reality,” Andre Bazin writes, “Let us agree, by and large, that film sought to give... Go to Article » A CouchSurfing Ethnography: Traveling and Connection in a Commodified World
(07/30/12)
The past decades have seen significant expansion in the markets for commercial tourism, offering high-cost accommodation, luxury services... Go to Article » Good Girls Gone Bad: Race and Gender in Oxygen's The Bad Girls Club
(07/30/12)
“Reality television” programs attempt to portray normal people in everyday situations. In recent years, the genre has... Go to Article » Are We All Keynesians Now? Political Ideology and State Deficit Spending in the Great Recession
(07/25/12)
The “Great Recession” of 2008 resulted in unprecedented levels of state deficit spending.[1] However, even though deficits... Go to Article » The Eternal Search for Truth: A Comparative Analysis of Marie Denise Viller's A Young Woman Drawing and George De La Tour's The Penitent Magdalen
(07/23/12)
The search for truth is a struggle that has plagued humanity since the dawn of time. At the core of all human beings is an authentic... Go to Article » Green Alliances: Collaboration Between Businesses and Environmental Advocacy Organizations
(07/20/12)
The notion of radical, restless environmental activists clashing with conservative, dollar-hungry businesses represents a classic... Go to Article » Chalk Dreams: The Use of Fantasy as a Method of Rethinking Life in Ali Zaoua
(07/19/12)
Set in the city of Casablanca, Morocco, Nabil Ayouch’s Moroccan film Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000) drifts between... Go to Article » Finitude, Existence, and Community: Letting the Individual Die
(07/16/12)
Addressing finitude as it relates to existence and community, Jean Luc Nancy and Martin Heidegger recognize finitude to be both the... Go to Article » Cultural Issues in the Higher Education Classroom
(07/14/12)
Multicultural and multilingual classrooms have become the norm in many educational (and professional) settings throughout the U.S.... Go to Article » Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy: The Search For Purpose and Meaning
(07/09/12)
Equivalent parts biographical and theoretical, this paper provides a discussion of the main historical events and contributions of... Go to Article » The Mystery of Miracles: Examining Religious Providence in the Sixteenth-Century Captivity Narratives of Hans Staden and Cabeza de Vaca
(07/06/12)
Miracles are a complex and fascinating phenomenon. Accounts throughout history have detailed remarkable instances of what people have... Go to Article » Contradiction in Marriage and Love in the Song of Songs
(07/04/12)
The Song of Songs is a unique book in the Bible. There is no plot and no mention of God, but the piece says a lot about early Hebrew... Go to Article » Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Struggle Against Society and Nature
(07/02/12)
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was a bold piece of fiction in its time, and protagonist Edna Pontellier was a controversial character... Go to Article » The Challenges of Climate Change Policy: Explaining the Failure of Cap and Trade in the United States With a Multiple-Streams Framework
(06/26/12)
With their long-term orientation, environmental problems present a unique challenge to the system of policymaking in the United States... Go to Article » Defense of Insanity in Ireland: Present Law and its Application to Psychopaths
(06/22/12)
Propositions for the reform of the criminal law concerning insanity had been debated in Ireland for decades. The factors, which undoubtedly... Go to Article » The Effects of Processing and Sensory Systems on Perceptual Fluency
(06/19/12)
Supposing that there is in fact a concrete relationship between perceptual fluency and the processing and sensory systems by which... Go to Article » Food, Love and Death in Norman's 'night Mother
(06/17/12)
Marsha Norman’s 1983 play‘night Mother is full of food imagery and references. From the opening stage directions to Jessie... Go to Article » Global Governance and the Environment: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Global Governance in Tackling Contemporary Environmental Issues
(06/13/12)
"Global Governance" is the buzzword of the moment in international relations. A rapidly emerging political discourse centered on environmental... Go to Article » The Glass House as Gay Space: Exploring the Intersection of Homosexuality and Architecture
(06/12/12)
Philip Johnson is, without a doubt, one of the most famous architects of the 20th century. He was also gay, a fact known to some in... Go to Article » Adolescent Eating Disorders: Summary Overview, Common Causes, and Counseling Methods
(06/10/12)
Eating disorders have plagued society for many centuries. Since the ancient times of Saint Catherine of Siena and Julius Caesar to... Go to Article » Much Ado About Nothing: Examining the Curse of Tutankhamun
(06/10/12)
In the early part of the 20th century, the world experienced tumultuous change. At the turn of the century, advances in technology... Go to Article » The Impact of the Zapatista Movement on Women's Rights in Chiapas, Mexico
(05/31/12)
This paper seeks to determine the impact the Zapatista Movement had on women's rights in Chiapas, Mexico. I hypothesized that the... Go to Article » A New Missionary Method: Latin America as a Mission Field
(05/31/12)
Missionary work has been an integral part of community development in Latin America. However, does missionary work actually impact... Go to Article » American Aid to Greece: The Marshall Plan as a Model for Development Aid
(05/31/12)
In response to a growing acknowledgement of the failure of international aid, one school of scholars has identified a lack of aid... Go to Article » Increasing Voter Turnout: Can Mass Transit Help?
(05/31/12)
Since the mid-20th Century, voting rights activists have sought to open the American electoral system and reduce the costs of voting... Go to Article » The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the Deep South
(05/31/12)
This paper examines explanations for the current HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Deep South United States. The first set of explanations... Go to Article » Worlds of Potential: Funding for Community-Based Organizations in Nairobi, Kenya
(05/31/12)
Despite a proliferation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) in Kibera, the largest informal... Go to Article » What's Wrong with Just War Theory? Examining the Gendered Bias of a Longstanding Tradition
(05/28/12)
The project of just war theory has enjoyed a long and distinguished pedigree, dating back to the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy. Over... Go to Article » European Union Citizenship: More Than Merely Financial Integration
(05/25/12)
Is European Citizenship merely a mechanism for a deepening financial integration of the European Union? Or is there a deeper meaning... Go to Article » Zora Neale Hurston's Sweat and the Black Female Voice: The Perspective of the African-American Woman
(05/23/12)
Zora Neale Hurston is the author of the acclaimed short story Sweat. The story was published in 1926, an incredible accomplishment... Go to Article » Sovereignty Over Airspace: International Law, Current Challenges, and Future Developments for Global Aviation
(05/21/12)
The issue of sovereignty lies at the very heart of international aviation because all aviation relations are built upon it. The purpose... Go to Article » Stroke Rehabilitation and Neuroplasticity: Efficacy and Methods Available
(05/17/12)
A stroke is defined by the Stroke Association as a ‘brain attack’, where part of the brain is deprived of oxygen. It is... Go to Article » The Political Returns of Philanthropy: The Case of Tammany Hall
(05/15/12)
New York’s 1827 mayoral election was the harbinger for a new era in politics. Tammany Hall—New York’s democratic... Go to Article » The Invisible Bruise: Complexities of Protecting Children from Emotional Abuse and Psychological Maltreatment
(05/14/12)
This paper presents and evaluates the varying roadblocks that make identifying and assessing emotional abuse to children so complex... Go to Article » Duty in the Face of Defeat: The Confederate Soldier's Perseverance
(05/11/12)
By 1864 and 1865, the effects of three years of war were like symptoms of a terrible disease afflicting the Confederacy. Internal... Go to Article » The Thin Blue Line and the Ambiguous Truth
(05/10/12)
In his 1988 documentary, The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris explores the 1976 murder case of police officer Robert Wood and the man... Go to Article » Hip-Hop is for Everybody: Examining the Roots and Growth of Hip-Hop
(05/04/12)
Starting from humble roots, hip-hop has grown from the creative outlet of underrepresented black teenagers living in the South Bronx... Go to Article » Hip-Hop is for Everybody: Examining the Roots and Growth of Hip-Hop
(05/04/12)
Starting from humble roots, hip-hop has grown from the creative outlet of underrepresented black teenagers living in the South Bronx... Go to Article » Examining the Foundations of Documentary Film Through The Cove
(05/02/12)
Directed by Louie Psihoyos, The Cove (2009) is an Oscar-winning documentary that follows Psihoyos and a crew of devoted dolphin activists... Go to Article » Day of Destruction, Decade of War: How Photographs Justified the War on Terror
(05/01/12)
For many Americans, the date September 11, 2001 carries more weight than any other date in our nation’s history. It marks the... Go to Article » Book Review: The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future by Vali Nasr
(04/23/12)
In his book The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future (2006), Vali Nasr addresses an issue that is gaining... Go to Article » I Choose You: Sexuality in Pokemon
(04/21/12)
In a world where pre-adolescents journey oft and far with hopes of launching their careers, a party of three continues its travels... Go to Article » Examing the Social Impacts of French Education Reforms in Tonkin, Indochina (1906-1938)
(04/17/12)
Education reforms were among the most invested projects of French Indochina. The colonial government introduced them for several purposes... Go to Article » Korean LGBT: Trial, Error, and Success
(04/15/12)
South Korea does not have a strong and visible lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender social movement in the public, despite active issue... Go to Article » Hot Cocoa: Agricultural Economics and the Ivorian Civil Wars
(04/15/12)
For roughly a decade, Côte d'Ivoire has been bitterly divided by a civil war between its dry Muslim north and its fertile Christian... Go to Article » Deconstructing the Camarena Affair and the Militarized United States-Mexico Border
(04/15/12)
Recently, the state of the United States-Mexico border has assumed primary importance in American domestic politics. And with that... Go to Article » The Consequences of Rape During Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(04/15/12)
"I rape because of the need. After that I feel like a man." These are the words of a rebel soldier who ruthlessly roams the forests... Go to Article » Banning Evil: Cluster Munitions and the Successful Formation of a Global Prohibition Regime
(04/15/12)
The rise and entry into force of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) that prohibits cluster bombs constitutes a global... Go to Article » The War Lovers (Again): What the Foreign Policy Advisers of Presidential Candidates May Tell Us About Future U.S. Foreign Policy
(04/15/12)
Evan Thomas's recent book, The War Lovers, chronicles the "monumental turning point" of the U.S. declaration of war against Spain... Go to Article » The Awakening: How Revolutionaries, Barack Obama, and Ordinary Muslims are Remaking the Middle East
(04/15/12)
When we interviewed him in 1997, he said a number of things to us, which I think represent kind of an alternative vision of the Middle... Go to Article » The LOST Soundtrack: An Analysis
(04/12/12)
LOST is a narrative acclaimed for its complex characters and mythological elements, securing an enormous fan base from different cultures... Go to Article » Placebo Administration to Depressed Patients: An Analysis of the Ethics of the Placebo in Clinical Practice
(04/10/12)
According to recent estimates, over nine percent of the United States population has some degree of depression—a proportion... Go to Article » Russia and Iran: Strategic Partners or Competing Regional Hegemons? A Critical Analysis of Russian-Iranian Relations in the Post-Soviet Space
(04/07/12)
Russia and Iran have a long history of being geographic neighbours, rivals, competitors and partners - a history which has coined... Go to Article » Comparing Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Kate Chopin's The Awakening
(04/07/12)
On the surface, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair do not have anything in common. The Awakening features... Go to Article » Cracking the Digital Vault: A Study of Cyber Espionage
(04/03/12)
Today, we live in the aftermath of the Internet revolution. Humanity has never before been more interconnected or had as much access... Go to Article » Weber and Nagel on Values in the Social and Natural Sciences
(03/27/12)
Due to their different subject matter, the way in which social and natural science inquiries are conducted differs. For some, this... Go to Article » Cyber Terrorism and IR Theory: Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism in the New Security Threat
(03/23/12)
The Internet is the world’s great equalizer. As the driving force behind globalization and modern progress, the Internet has... Go to Article » The Changing Shape of America's Youth: Combating Childhood Obesity Using the School Nurse
(03/23/12)
Drive past a playground where children are playing and one thing is clear: the children of today come in all different shapes and... Go to Article » Cablegate and Watergate: More Namesake than Legacy
(03/20/12)
Just a few months after making international news in early 2010 for releasing confidential reports on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars... Go to Article » Dissent, Protest, and Revolution: The New Europe in Crisis
(03/19/12)
In the waking moments of the twenty-first century, political science faces a burgeoning global movement, a crisis in some eyes, and... Go to Article » Before the Fall: Calls for Reform Prior to the French Revolution
(03/16/12)
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot wrote, “Because it takes a long time before we are convinced of their inutility, foundations have... Go to Article » The Constitutionality of the Patriot Act: Examining Section 213
(03/16/12)
In the aftermath of September 11, Congress was eager to put laws on the books to prevent another attack. In an unprecedented spirit... Go to Article » Free Speech and Abortion Clinics: Protesters, Security, and Patients' Rights
(03/14/12)
Since Roe v. Wade affirmed the constitutional right to abortion in 1974, antiabortion activists have used various forms of protesting... Go to Article » Examing Almond and Sartori on Political Culture and Stability
(02/27/12)
"There is a wealth of ignorance and a poverty of knowledge about the symptoms and origins of political instability" – Smith.[... Go to Article » William Tyndale: Contribution to the English Language and Father of the English Bible
(02/23/12)
The English language is constantly changing. More and more editions of the Webster’s Dictionary are being published every decade... Go to Article » Watergate and the Washington Post: Questionable Tactics in Service to Democracy
(02/23/12)
In their introduction to Journalism: The Democratic Craft, G. Stuart Adam and Roy Peter Clark write that “journalism is one... Go to Article » Computer-Mediated Communication and Globalization: Considering Social, Academic, and Business Factors
(02/22/12)
“Most of us are surrounded by communication channels and tools that keep us constantly connected to sources of information and... Go to Article » The Politics of Harold Pinter
(02/17/12)
The politics of Harold Pinter’s work are not derived from any ideological affinity with a specific political position, or indeed... Go to Article » Climate Change Negotiations in Montreal, Kyoto, and Copenhagen: Analyzing Negotiation Components and Techniques
(02/16/12)
Climate change negotiations have been on the international stage for almost four decades. They have a complex history, and act as... Go to Article » Implicit Negritude in The Dark Child
(02/05/12)
In James Kirkup and Ernest Jones’ English translation of Camara Laye’s 1953 autobiography, The Dark Child, there is a... Go to Article » The Legal Liability of Air Traffic Controllers
(02/02/12)
The very first air traffic controller was Archie League at Saint Louis Airport in Missouri. His control tower was a wheelbarrow with... Go to Article » What Riot? Punk Rock Politics, Fascism, and Rock Against Racism
(01/30/12)
The punk-rock movement or youth subculture of late seventies Britain was and is, even today, the cause of much controversy. It has... Go to Article » The Right of Return: An Obstacle on the Road to Peaceful Negotiations Between Israel and Palestine
(01/29/12)
The level of displacement surrounding the Israel-Palestinian conflict is astounding. At this point there are over nine million Palestinian... Go to Article » A Preservationist's Perspective on Levittown Communities: Urban Planning and Design's Awkward Dilemma
(01/27/12)
Suburban housing is the backbone of an unsustainable living pattern. Long commutes to work and long drives for groceries, other supplies... Go to Article » Fate, Fortune, and Timon of Athens: Reinterpreting The Senecan Chorus
(01/25/12)
In Seneca's tragedies, the Roman playwright and philosopher employed the concept of fate and fortune to structure the outcome of characters... Go to Article » A Brief History of Industrial Psychology
(01/23/12)
Industrial Psychology is almost as old as Psychology itself. Psychology came about in 1879 in the laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt in Germany... Go to Article » A Brief History of Industrial Psychology
(01/23/12)
Industrial Psychology is almost as old as Psychology itself. Psychology came about in 1879 in the laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt in Germany... Go to Article » Trading For Membership: Effects of EU Candidacy on Trade Openness and GDP Per Capita in Countries Seeking Membership
(01/16/12)
Does candidacy to the European Union (EU) increase a nation’s Trade Openness? A good way to begin examining this question is... Go to Article » Literature as a Social Tool: Education and Cohesion or Class Domination?
(01/13/12)
English literature is all-encompassing: it ranges from societal utilitarianism of the didactic through to the celebration of individualism... Go to Article » Fraternity and Social Change in the Digital Age: The It Gets Better Project in the March of Online Fraternity
(01/02/12)
Throughout the ages, communication has impacted human interactions and relationships. The dawning of the digital age has changed communication... Go to Article » Who Drove the Libyan Uprising?
(01/01/12)
During the armed conflict to topple Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, a common question for observers was “who are the Libyan opposition... Go to Article » The Protocols of the Elders of Mecca
(01/01/12)
‘An ethno-religious group has a plan to take control over Europe. The nation is stabbed in the back by one group of people.&... Go to Article » How Will the Crisis in the European Single Currency Change the Direction of Intergration Europe?
(01/01/12)
This essay will analyse the on-going events in the Eurozone single currency area. It will look at the current sovereign debt crisis... Go to Article » 'We Need to Talk About Lisbon': The Capacity of the European Union as a Global Trade Actor
(01/01/12)
"[Trade] was one of only two among the more than two dozen Commission posts with responsibilities and powers… [but the Lisbon... Go to Article » States' Interests and Migrant Rights: A Legal Dilemma?
(01/01/12)
The strict regulations for immigration fuels the smuggling of irregular migrants, however, amongst the irregular migrants are genuine... Go to Article » Superbrands, Globalization, and Neoliberalism: Exploring Causes and Consequences of the Nike Superbrand
(12/29/11)
The rise of superbrands has many implications for the nature of work, workers, and organizations. This paper explores superbrands... Go to Article » Cedars to the East: A Study of Modern Lebanon
(12/23/11)
The political history of the Middle East is a complex story wrought with instability, conflict, religious and ethnic cleavages, and... Go to Article » The Fenian Dynamite Campaign and the Irish American Impetus for Dynamite Terror, 1881-1885
(12/19/11)
"We must take the offensive! Action gives life, action gives health. At present the Irish cause is received with a hiss and a sneer... Go to Article » Effects of Globalization on Work and Organizations: Exploring Post-Industrialism, Post-Fordism, Work and Management in the Global Era
(12/18/11)
As we move from Fordism to Post-Fordism and from Industrialism to Post-Industrialism, the new Market that prevails under Globalization... Go to Article » Effects of Globalization on Work and Organizations: Exploring Post-Industrialism, Post-Fordism, Work and Management in the Global Era
(12/18/11)
As we move from Fordism to Post-Fordism and from Industrialism to Post-Industrialism, the new Market that prevails under Globalization... Go to Article » Comparing the Tsarist Russian and Soviet Empires
(12/15/11)
Compared to other empires throughout history, the USSR was an exception. The rulers of the Soviet Union viewed empire and imperialism... Go to Article » Jane Austen's Unnamed Character: Exploring Nature in Pride and Prejudice (2005)
(12/12/11)
The 2005 film Pride & Prejudice opens with sound rather than picture, but it is not the expected man-made musical score that fills... Go to Article » Religious Intolerance in The Female American, Or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield
(12/06/11)
Published in 1767, The Female American, Or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield claims to be the spiritual autobiography of an... Go to Article » Effects of Drug Carrier Geometry on Drug Delivery
(11/28/11)
Traditional drug delivery development has often neglected the study of drug carrier shape in favour of size and surface chemistry... Go to Article » Preserving the Role of the French Constitutional Council as a Check on Executive Power
(11/22/11)
The Constitutional Council was established when the Fifth Republic was born in 1958 (Cole 1998, p. 63). Initially designed as a tool... Go to Article » Gestalt Therapy in Psychological Practice
(11/20/11)
Gestalt therapy is an empowering and germane framework for psychotherapy. It is uplifting for both practitioners and patients. Its... Go to Article » Reassessing the House of Lords: Why the Lords Should Remain Unelected
(11/15/11)
“As the House of Lords has existed for about six centuries without reform, some alterations have become necessary in order to... Go to Article » Debating Genetics as a Predictor of Criminal Offending and Sentencing
(11/14/11)
Since the beginning of criminological research there has been an ongoing debate on the correlation between genetic characteristics... Go to Article » A Q-Methodological Study of Male Attitudes Towards Testicular Cancer and Testicular Self-Examination
(11/08/11)
This study used Q-methodology in order to explore the diverse range of meanings and understandings that young males construct in relation... Go to Article » The Word-Pocalypse: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse and Dystopian Language
(11/07/11)
Joss Whedon's television series Dollhouse was an innovative and problematic example of what can be achieved on network television... Go to Article » The Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Satiric Perspective on Courtly Love
(11/03/11)
In Plautus’ Roman Comedies, the stock character of the slave employs mistaken identity or a disguise to deceive his master and... Go to Article » When Should the US Intervene? Criteria for Military Intervention in Weak Countries
(11/01/11)
When should the United States intervene militarily in weak countries? This is a topic of pressing international concern because the... Go to Article » Letter from Tunisia
(11/01/11)
Elyès Jouini is the vice-president for research of Université Paris-Dauphine and former Minister for the Economic and... Go to Article » Empowering Women in the Chinese Capitalist Factory System
(11/01/11)
Over the past thirty years, China has moved from a communist to a capitalist economy. This change has pushed millions of young, rural... Go to Article » The Problems With American Exceptionalism
(11/01/11)
In 2001, German President Johannes Rau made a statement that divided Germany. In an interview with a television station, Rau said... Go to Article » The Evolution of Revolution: Social Media in the Modern Middle East and its Policy Implications
(11/01/11)
Wael Ghonim, a 30-year-old Egyptian who works as an executive for Google, enjoyed a house in the United Arab Emirates with a pool... Go to Article » Brazil's China Challenge
(11/01/11)
In 2001, Goldman Sachs named Brazil one of the four most important emerging economies, with China, Russia and India.1 The BRICs, a... Go to Article » Information Technology and Control in the DPRK
(11/01/11)
In the Hermit Kingdom, information is a crucial resource. Its possession represents access to resource and weapons development techniques... Go to Article » The Illusion of US Isolationism
(11/01/11)
As of September 2011, the United States was involved, at different levels, in military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen... Go to Article » Militarization of Aid and its Implications for Colombia
(11/01/11)
The US has increasingly turned to using the military to administer humanitarian aid in recent years. This process has come under attack... Go to Article » The Shock Value of the SCUM Manifesto
(10/31/11)
In 1967, Valerie Solanas wrote and self-published the SCUM Manifesto, which called for male gendercide and the creation of a superior... Go to Article » Racial Uplift: Acculturation to the Dominant Culture in Contending Forces by Pauline E. Hopkins
(10/27/11)
Domestic fiction reigned in women’s literature during the nineteenth-century. These narratives defined ”True Womanhood... Go to Article » The Media's Sexualization of Female Athletes: A Bad Call for the Modern Game
(10/24/11)
Since the early 20th century, the feminist movement has made enormous strides to improve the status of female athletes. Prior to the... Go to Article » Addiction to Altering States: Observable Tendencies Attributed to Learning and Neurology
(10/20/11)
The observable tendency of a person to repeat the use of drugs, and continue use in spite of possible or real negative consequences... Go to Article » Remote Causes and Counseling Implications of Examination Malpractice in Nigeria
(10/17/11)
This study considers the remote causes of examination malpractice in the Nigerian education system with a view to suggest new ways... Go to Article » Remembering Tuskegee: Comparing Two Approaches to Studying the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
(10/13/11)
History selectively chooses which events in our past gain notoriety in the present. This selectivity has some basis in the events&... Go to Article » Mimicry and Its Discontents: Examining Bhabha's Multiculturalism as Mimicry and Hybridity
(10/11/11)
In October of 2010, the German Prime Minister, Angela Merkel, declared, “German multiculturalism is dead” (Connolly, 1... Go to Article » Huntington's Clash of Civilizations in Yugoslavia
(10/10/11)
While Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations presents a compelling argument for the events that happened in the former Yugoslavia... Go to Article » Power and Transgression in Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure: Artifice and Ideology as Tools of the Elite
(10/07/11)
Shakespeare’s comedies, at first glance, seem to uniformly end on a positive note, with the fulfillment of desires, the overcoming... Go to Article » The Legacy of International Cooperation at the Nuremberg Trials
(10/04/11)
On November 21, 1945, Robert H. Jackson, the Chief Prosecutor for the United States of America opened the prosecution’s case... Go to Article » Somali Piracy: Causes and Consequences
(09/30/11)
Since the early 1990s, rampant piracy off the coast of Somalia has become a major issue for global trade and security, prompting strong... Go to Article » UK Membership in the European Union: Undermining Parliamentary Sovereignty?
(09/27/11)
Of the European Union’s twenty-seven member states, no country is more sceptical of political and economic integration than... Go to Article » Antifertility Effects of Aqueous Extract of Phyllanthus Niruri in Male Albino Rats
(09/26/11)
The effects of aqueous extract of P.niruri on epididymal sperm characteristics, fructose and testosterone levels in male albino rats... Go to Article » The Restorative Forces of Balance in Stephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh
(09/20/11)
Stephen Mitchell’s interpretation of the 3500 year old Sumerian epic, Gilgamesh, offers valuable lessons behind its monster-... Go to Article » Begging for Change: A Comparative Analysis of How the Media Frames Domestic and International Poverty
(09/19/11)
Today, approximately 50% of the world, over three billion people, lives on less than $2.50 U.S. dollars a day. Despite poverty&rsquo... Go to Article » The African Dimension of Egyptian Foreign Policy
(09/14/11)
In the era since the removal of the monarchy in Egypt, a distance seems to have developed between the Egyptian people and the African... Go to Article » The Macdonald Sisters: How They Visually Created Equality Between Men and Women
(09/13/11)
The prevailing issue of fin-de-siècle France was the increasing autonomy of women. Independence for women threatened traditional... Go to Article » Selling the 'Wild': Challenges Facing Volunteer Based Conservation Projects
(09/12/11)
Volunteer conservation is a rapidly growing sub-sector of eco-tourism where fee-paying volunteers travel to developing countries to... Go to Article » The Model Minority: Asian-American Youth and the Harmful Perpetuation of a Cultural Myth
(09/08/11)
My living room piano speaks loudly through its stillness. Drawn to the haunting beauty of its polished black wood, visitors would... Go to Article » Dexter, Democracy, and Nietzsche: Puzzling Through the Deep End of America's TV Obsession
(09/06/11)
Within the milieu of American television, the vigilante serial killer, Dexter, stands alone with one of the largest audiences. Why... Go to Article » Emily Dickinson's 'My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-': Revealing the Power of a Woman's Words
(09/05/11)
Born in 1830 to Calvinist parents in Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson is renowned as one of America’s greatest poets. Though her... Go to Article » European Enlargement: A Normative Perspective
(09/01/11)
It was commonplace among academics of the 1970s to share an understanding of the frozen nature of international relations during the... Go to Article » Is the EU Reaching the Limits of Enlargement?
(09/01/11)
Among European states in the aftermath of the Second World War, multilateral cooperation was seen as a long term stabilisation for... Go to Article » The Importance of the Lisbon Treaty in the Future Governance of Europe, and the Necessity for Further Revision
(09/01/11)
The Treaty of Lisbon1 has had effects on the workings of the European Union, and has significant implications both for how it functions... Go to Article » On Why the EU Should Die. And be Resurrected
(09/01/11)
To say the recent few years have not been the EU’s brightest would certainly be an understatement. There is so much eclecticism... Go to Article » What are the Benefits and Challenges of the Economic and Monetary Union?
(09/01/11)
The Economic Monetary Union (EMU) is the end point of an ambitious and historic stage of integrated market changes1 that not only... Go to Article » In the ECJ We Trust: The Authority of EU Law in the Context of Constitutional Conflict
(09/01/11)
“In God We Trust” - the motto that inspired a nation built on the paradox ‘out of many, one’ could be construed... Go to Article » The Resurgence of Russia and its Relations with Europe: A True Transformation or a Superficial Change?
(09/01/11)
The first decade of the twenty-first century was a period of change for Russia. The crisis of the 1990s was/were overcome and its... Go to Article » Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried: Postmodern Fiction for a Postmodern War
(08/31/11)
In the western history of human existence the event, idea, and act of war stands totemic in the landscape. Borders both physical and... Go to Article » Can Religious-Based Ethics Play a Role in Development?
(08/30/11)
Development is closely linked to the idea of progress. Therefore the way in which progress is quantified, whether through economic... Go to Article » Privatization: Analyzing the Process of Privatization in Theory and Practice
(08/29/11)
Privatization is the practice of engaging the private sector in some aspect of the functions and responsibilities of government operations... Go to Article » Ronan Bennett's The Catastrophist: Paralleling Ireland and Congo
(08/26/11)
In The Catastrophist, Ronan Bennett draws on events in Ireland to frame the political situation in the Congo and depicts political... Go to Article » Posthuman: Exploring the Obsolescence of the Corporeal Body in Contemporary Art
(08/26/11)
As technology progresses, the rift between organic and mechanic is increasingly made more obscure. This leads one to then ask whether... Go to Article » Somali Refugees in Kenya: Security Deficiencies and Public Health Concerns as a Result of Ineffective Policy
(08/23/11)
Somalia is home to roughly 9 million people, the overwhelming majority of whom are ethnic Somalis (UN Statistics Division 2010). The... Go to Article » Free Will in the Christian Cosmology: Comparing Paul and Augustine
(08/16/11)
The Abrahamic God is an awesome god. He is omnipotent, omniscient, omni-benevolent, and omnipresent. Such a being truly deserves our... Go to Article » Political and Social Change and its Depictions in 19th Century French and English Caricature: Decapitation, Dismemberment, and Defecation
(08/15/11)
The function of caricature within the public sphere can be described as a subversive weapon.[1] It can be said that caricature as... Go to Article » The Technological Evolution of Filmmaking and its Relation to Quality in Cinema
(08/13/11)
The development of motion picture complexity has been driven by a continuing technological evolution, ignited and manipulated by human... Go to Article » Mining in Latin America: The Interplay Between Natural Resources, Development, and Freedom
(08/08/11)
The extraction of non-renewable natural resources in the form of large-scale mining projects has intensified in recent years in Latin... Go to Article » Examining Postpartum Depression Symptoms and Treatment
(08/05/11)
Postpartum Depression also referred to as Postpartum Major Depression (PMD), “occurs in approximately 10 percent of childbearing... Go to Article » Debating Voluntary Human Adult Euthanasia
(08/03/11)
One of the fastest growing medical phenomena is that of human euthanasia. No matter what the argument or the entity involved, the... Go to Article » Taweret: An Untraditional Egyptian Goddess
(08/01/11)
The Ancient Egyptian goddess Taweret, ‘the Great One’, is depicted by scholars and in ancient Egypt as being the protective... Go to Article » Bonne de Luxembourg's Three Living and Three Dead: Abnormal Decomposition
(07/27/11)
In fourteenth century Medieval Europe the theme of the macabre was commonplace as seen by an overwhelming obsession of cadaverous... Go to Article » The Influence of Social, Political, and Economic Factors on the Development and Form of Zulu Religious Activity in the 19th and 20th Centuries
(07/26/11)
This proverb sadly encapsulates the reality of existence for the Zulu people in the last two centuries. Ripped from their positions... Go to Article » Impression Management: Considering Cultural, Social, and Spiritual Factors
(07/22/11)
According to Sinha (2009), "Impression management is an active self-presentation of a person aiming to enhance his image in the eyes... Go to Article » Free Play: Unmasking and Ending the Exploitation of NCAA Student Athletes
(07/19/11)
The current system of collegiate football and basketball in America’s universities is littered with corruption caused by the... Go to Article » Jews and Jewry Law in Medieval Germany
(07/18/11)
Perhaps for no group of people were ‘the dark ages’ so aptly named as for the Jews. Over the span of one thousand years... Go to Article » Reading Deeply: How The Internet May Limit Our Autonomy
(07/12/11)
Traditionally, human beings and tools are thought to be in a simple relationship with one another. All agency is located in the person... Go to Article » The Historical Jesus: What Can We Really Learn?
(07/11/11)
Whether or not one believes in the theology attached to him, it is impossible to deny the effect that Jesus has had on humanity. Movements... Go to Article » Women in American Media: A Culture of Misperception
(07/05/11)
American culture is saturated with messages propagated by mass media. What was originally created for encouraging consumerism is now... Go to Article » Women in American Media: A Culture of Misperception
(07/05/11)
American culture is saturated with messages propagated by mass media. What was originally created for encouraging consumerism is now... Go to Article » Duke Ellington's Jazz Narrative of the African-American: Black, Brown, and Beige
(06/29/11)
To assume the task of narrating the history of an overtly oppressed race is a daunting responsibility. Nonetheless, Edward Kennedy... Go to Article » Appropriation in Contemporary Art
(06/22/11)
Appropriation refers to the act of borrowing or reusing existing elements within a new work. Post-modern appropriation artists, including... Go to Article » Appropriation in Contemporary Art
(06/22/11)
Appropriation refers to the act of borrowing or reusing existing elements within a new work. Post-modern appropriation artists, including... Go to Article » Satire in 18th Century British Society: Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal
(06/17/11)
The 18th century was one in which exaltation of wit and reason came to the forefront of literature in the form of both Horatian and... Go to Article » Satire in 18th Century British Society: Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal
(06/17/11)
The 18th century was one in which exaltation of wit and reason came to the forefront of literature in the form of both Horatian and... Go to Article » An Ethnography of Water Birth and its Representations on YouTube
(06/16/11)
The purpose of this qualitative research study is to report semi-structured interview narratives from sixteen parents who had given... Go to Article » Dostoevsky's Hegelian Parody in Crime and Punishment
(06/15/11)
This project examines the role of the Left Hegelian school of philosophy in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Special attention... Go to Article » Jazz Writing: Identity and Multiculturalism in Jazz Literature
(06/14/11)
Jazz is not a solitary art. Its form does not only reveal itself in the music. Jazz finds manifestation in many other forms of expression... Go to Article » Israel and Palestine: An E.U. Model For Peace
(06/13/11)
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a perplexing problem that weighs heavily on the world. For over seventy-five years, blood has... Go to Article » Implementation of Multi Input Power Converter for Grid Connected Hybrid Renewable Energy Generation System
(06/10/11)
The objective of this paper is to propose a novel multi-input power converter for the grid-connected hybrid renewable energy system... Go to Article » Nigromancy in the Later Middle Ages
(06/09/11)
The struggle of the early modern church against witchcraft is rightly famous. However, before they were hunting woman flying on broomsticks... Go to Article » Was Adopting Agriculture Our Biggest Mistake? Challenging the Progressivist View of Human History
(06/08/11)
“The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” is the embodiment of anti-progressivist theory. Jared Diamond challenges... Go to Article » Comparing Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Henry James' Daisy Miller
(06/07/11)
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Henry James' Daisy Miller seemingly differ greatly in style. The forms--play and... Go to Article » The Red Wheelbarrow: Dissecting the Minimal Masterpiece
(06/02/11)
William Carlos Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow” contains four two line stanzas in which the first line contains... Go to Article » Nuclear Weapons Testing in the United States: Sacrificing Health for National Defense
(06/01/11)
As WWII ended, and the Cold War began, America began to strengthen its national defense against the Soviet Union. Alliances were created... Go to Article » Temptation and the Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring
(05/31/11)
Published in 1954, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is a follow-up to his 1937 book, The Hobbit. An epic fantasy... Go to Article » Copernicus, Galileo, and the Church: Science in a Religious World
(05/27/11)
During most of the 16th and 17th centuries, fear of heretics spreading teachings and opinions that contradicted the Bible dominated... Go to Article » Copernicus, Galileo, and the Church: Science in a Religious World
(05/27/11)
During most of the 16th and 17th centuries, fear of heretics spreading teachings and opinions that contradicted the Bible dominated... Go to Article » Creation and Rebellion in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
(05/25/11)
Perusing famous works of literature, one would be hard pressed to find a volume that does not concern itself with the relationship... Go to Article » Comparing Counterinsurgency Tactics in Iraq and Vietnam
(05/23/11)
Insurgency is not a new phenomenon for the United States, in fact by definition the American's built an insurgency during the Revolutionary... Go to Article » Vehicles for Story: Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on Defining African Literature, Preserving Culture and Self
(05/20/11)
The historic 1962 conference at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda brought together scholars and writers from various parts of... Go to Article » Gender and Power in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
(05/18/11)
In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, the overriding force of the narrator, Humbert Humbert, is his need to prove himself master of everything... Go to Article » The Effect of CEDAW Ratification in Central Asia
(05/16/11)
Despite the increasing number of states that have ratified binding international human rights treaties, human rights abuses continue... Go to Article » The Japanese Number System
(05/13/11)
Borrowing heavily from the Chinese, Japan abandoned their own numerals many years ago and used the ones from China. When written and... Go to Article » Adorno's Bach-Schoenberg Connection: Frivolity and Expectation
(05/11/11)
Theodor Adorno’s 1967 essay on Arnold Schoenberg[1] makes an excellent case for the great composer as a spiritual successor... Go to Article » Dissociative Identity Disorder: Overview and Current Research
(05/09/11)
This paper entails a description of factors related to diagnosis and treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Epidemiology, including... Go to Article » The Role of Obedience in Society
(05/06/11)
Obedience is a part of the foundation of society. Without obedience, naught would exist but chaos and anarchy. Without stability,... Go to Article » Gender and Unity of the Self in Virgina Woolf's Orlando
(05/04/11)
The confluence of biography and fiction in Virginia Woolf's Orlando raises the question, of which the book is highly aware, of which... Go to Article » Is Paul a Liar? The Pauline Corinthian Conflict and the Need for Reform in the American Church
(05/02/11)
The corpus of literature regarding Pauline Criticism is largely qualitative and polarized. Close examination of the Pauline-Corinthian... Go to Article » Improving Grid Power Quality With FACTS Device on Integration of Wind Energy System
(04/29/11)
Renewable energy sources, which are expected to be a promising alternative energy source, can bring new challenges when connected... Go to Article » The State of Democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(04/28/11)
The problems associated with democratic reform in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are manifold. While the name of the country... Go to Article » Persuasion and Agency in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
(04/27/11)
Aphra Behn’s 1688 novel Oroonoko leaves many questions unanswered.[1] In one of many seeming contradictions within the text,... Go to Article » Democracy and Islamism in Algeria: Islamocracy?
(04/26/11)
Following a successful war of liberation in 1962, Algeria successfully gained independence from France and an authoritarian social... Go to Article » Representing History in Art Spiegelman's Maus II
(04/21/11)
When representing an idea, it is important to realize that a representation is much different from the original idea and can never... Go to Article » Custine, Tocqueville, and Intellectual Autonomy in Comparative Politics
(04/20/11)
The most obvious and immediate difference between Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and Astolphe de Custine&rsquo... Go to Article » The Rise and Fall of Modernist Architecture
(04/19/11)
Modernism first emerged in the early twentieth century, and by the 1920s, the prominent figures of the movement – Le Corbusier... Go to Article » The Rise and Fall of Modernist Architecture
(04/19/11)
Modernism first emerged in the early twentieth century, and by the 1920s, the prominent figures of the movement – Le Corbusier... Go to Article » Dramatic Therapy: Stylish Re-enactments in Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie
(04/18/11)
Alfred Hitchcock’s first three films of the 1960s, Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie, feature alliterative blonde bombshell leads... Go to Article » Governmentality and the Deportation of Eastern European Roma in Italy and France
(04/15/11)
This case study asks the following question: given the symbol of the European Union as the ultimate supranational, rights-based, compliance... Go to Article » Divisive Economic Device? Understanding China's Choice to Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund
(04/15/11)
This essay seeks to elucidate the puzzle of China's policy decision to create a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF). Much literature has been... Go to Article » The Odd Couple: Modernization and Democratization in Southeast Asia
(04/15/11)
Seymour Martin Lipset's, "the more well-to-do a nation, the greater chances that it will sustain democracy,"1 has set off over five... Go to Article » Mass Killing: Politics By Other Means
(04/15/11)
Mass killing (often carried out in the form of genocide) offends the sensibilities of many people around the world. It is considered... Go to Article » Adapt-Qaeda: Analyzing the Relationship Between Ideology, Organizational Transformation, and the Exploitation of Information Technology
(04/15/11)
This paper traces and analyzes the organizational evolution of al-Qaeda from the late 1980s to the present day. It notes that al-... Go to Article » The Key Drivers of Human Security Discourse and the Challenge to Realism
(04/15/11)
Recently, earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and New Zealand, mudslides in Brazil, a catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the fallout... Go to Article » The New Geopolitics: Why Nuclear Weapons No Longer Serve U.S. Interests
(04/15/11)
Richard Burt is the former U.S. ambassador to Germany, and recently played a critical leadership role in the ratification of the Strategic... Go to Article » The Problems of Former USSR: Citizens in Russian-Latvian Relations
(04/15/11)
The problem of migration is one of the most urgent ones in the modern world. As a rule, people migrate voluntarily. In the USSR, however... Go to Article » Decentralization Examined: Conditions Dependent Path Towards Success
(04/15/11)
When a country undergoes the process of decentralization, it requires a transfer of authority, responsibility, and/ or resources from... Go to Article » Postmodernism in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
(04/14/11)
“No damn cat, and no damn cradle.” (Vonnegut 66). This quote encompasses the satiric postmodern themes of absolute truth... Go to Article » Interpreting Gawain: The Hermeneutics of Translation
(04/13/11)
In the Broadview Press edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, editor and translator James Winny makes a concerted effort to render... Go to Article » John Rawls, Robert Nozick, and the Difference Principle: Finding Common Ground
(04/12/11)
A large portion of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, The State and Utopia is dedicated to refuting the theories of John Rawls. Specifically... Go to Article » Brave New World and the Threat of Technological Growth
(04/11/11)
The world in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World has one goal: technological progress. The morals and aspirations of the society... Go to Article » Defining Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law
(04/08/11)
International Humanitarian Law, based on the concepts of jus ad bello, is defined to be the law of war. This means that the laws involved... Go to Article » Defining Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law
(04/08/11)
International Humanitarian Law, based on the concepts of jus ad bello, is defined to be the law of war. This means that the laws involved... Go to Article » The Performance of Femininity in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland and Simone de Beauvior's Second Sex
(04/07/11)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novella Herland explores a separatist feminist utopia. Published in 1915, Herland begins when three... Go to Article » Living on the Streets: The Street Children of Brazil
(04/06/11)
The existence of street children is most often viewed as a significant problem, stripping youth of their humanity and burdening them... Go to Article » Understanding Iran: Between Central Asia and the Gulf Cooperation Council
(04/05/11)
The Islamic Republic of Iran today sits at the crossroads of Asia between the Middle East and Central Asia. This inherently places... Go to Article » The Importance Of Canadian Identity: Michael Adams' Fire And Ice and Richard Bocking's Canada's Water
(04/01/11)
Michael Adams’ Fire and Ice and Richard Bocking’s excerpts from Water Export: The Canadian Response present two very distinct... Go to Article » Admirable Echoes: Intellectual Debts of Dramaturgical Sociology
(03/31/11)
Erving Goffman (June 11, 1922 – November 19, 1982) left an indelible imprint on contemporary sociological theory and research... Go to Article » The Influence of Gaze Direction on Approach- vs. Avoidance-Oriented Emotions
(03/30/11)
When investigating the effect of gaze direction on facial expressions of emotion, previous imaging research indicated that dynamic... Go to Article » Exploring "Locked-In Syndrome" Through the Case of Jean-Dominique Bauby
(03/29/11)
On 5 December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered from an abrupt massive stroke that severed his brainstem. The stroke disconnected... Go to Article » Examining Intersectionality: The Conflation of Race, Gender, and Class in Individual and Collective Identities
(03/28/11)
As many cultural studies theorists have noted, identity is problematic (Hall, 1989; Ang, 2001; Brah, 1996). It is ambiguous because... Go to Article » The Politics of Transgression: History, Society, and the Individual in Postcolonial Literature
(03/25/11)
In two postcolonial novels, The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Secrets by Nuruddin Farah, both authors use the politics... Go to Article » Bipedalism: A Response to Climate and Other Evolutionary Pressures
(03/24/11)
Many theories regarding bipedalism in early hominids, as well as the advantages provided by bipedalism have arisen and have been debated... Go to Article » Using Online Forums in Language Learning and Education
(03/23/11)
Online forums are also known as discussion boards or message boards. They enable users of a website to interact with each other by... Go to Article » Ungoverned Space, Fragile States, and Global Threats: Deconstructing Linkages
(03/21/11)
It is widely recognized that state security is no longer contingent upon a balance of power or the threat of conquering states, but... Go to Article » The Negotiations at Brest-Litovsk: New York Times Coverage from January 1st to 12th, 1918
(03/18/11)
The New York Times coverage of negotiations at Brest-Litovsk between January 1 and January 12, 1918, reflected the newspaper's preoccupation... Go to Article » Transjordan and Israel: Examining the Foundations of a Special Relationship
(03/17/11)
With the Great Arab Revolt in 1915, the Hashemite family was catapulted to the forefront of Middle Eastern politics and became the... Go to Article » Immigration Policy and Controversy in Sweden and Denmark
(03/16/11)
Controversy, in its etymology, expresses a significant change to something deeply rooted. Hence, differing degrees of controversy... Go to Article » Combat Motivation During the First World War
(03/15/11)
This paper considers the combat motivations of British men during the First World War; why did men fight, and once in the trenches... Go to Article » Health and Nutritional Status of the Indian Tribes of Tripura and Effects on Education
(03/14/11)
Tribal communities in India mainly consist of forest dwellers who have accumulated a rich knowledge on the uses of various forests... Go to Article » "Britain Can Take It:" Rethinking British Morale in 1940
(03/11/11)
"Britain can take"[1] it refers to a film produced by the Ministry of Information in 1940, which had been originally titled &ldquo... Go to Article » C'est Moi: Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary"
(03/10/11)
Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary is an intricate and compelling tale of a young woman caught in the throes of romanticism, a... Go to Article » John Dewey & The Ethics of Democracy
(03/09/11)
John Dewey was an ingenious and significant figure whose criticisms spanned a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, education... Go to Article » 2010 Colorado Senate Race: How Bennet Defeated Buck
(03/08/11)
The 2010 Colorado Senate race was one of the most contentious and hard-fought races in the country during the 2010 election cycle.... Go to Article » Habitus in Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew
(03/07/11)
Scholars have written a good deal about Shakespeare’s play, The Taming of the Shrew. They have presented many different interpretations... Go to Article » Identity in Conflict: Race and Violent Crime in South Africa in the Context of Contemporary Insurgencies
(03/04/11)
Violence undermines an inclusive national identity that considers those of other races, classes and creeds as compatriots, for as... Go to Article » Ahab's Devolution in Herman Melville's Moby Dick
(03/03/11)
Ahab, the monomaniacal ship captain of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, is a man plagued by revenge. Searching the seas for the... Go to Article » Human Rights, Truth Commissions, and Anthropology in Latin America
(03/02/11)
In the aftermath of mass violence and terror, nations are left in a state of disillusionment, fear, and often a lack of state legitimacy... Go to Article » Rebecca West's "The Return of the Soldier": Analyzing the Interrelationship of Male and Female Traumas
(03/01/11)
Rebecca West’s 1918 novel The Return of the Soldier dissects the socioeconomic and psychological tensions wrought by the upheaval... Go to Article » Human History and the Natural World in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams and Yusef Komunyakaa
(02/28/11)
It is universally accepted that a poem, at least a “good” poem, should be able to stand by itself, to be able to strike... Go to Article » Disappearance and Death: The Fate of Chechen Human Rights Activists
(02/25/11)
The Republic of Chechnya in Russia’s North Caucasus region has drawn significant attention for being host to remarkable instability... Go to Article » Western Feminism in a Global Perspective
(02/24/11)
American women have struggled historically against certain paradigms of inferiority that all women experience. The female identity... Go to Article » Contemporary Poetry's Influence on Cross-Cultural Perceptions
(02/23/11)
Despite the fact that human nature has evolved little since the dawn of humankind, our most basal emotions remaining largely unchanged... Go to Article » United States Aid to Kenya: Regional Security and Counterterrorism Assistance Before and After 9/11
(02/22/11)
Following 9/11 and the beginning of the global War on Terror, it became obvious that the United States needed an ally in East Africa... Go to Article » The Effect of Troy's Rebirth on Aeneas's Transformation in the Aeneid
(02/18/11)
In the Aeneid, Virgil depicts the struggle of the newly displaced Trojans to find a new home, under the leadership of Aeneas. The... Go to Article » Thomas King's Medicine River as Associational Literature
(02/17/11)
Based on his own definition of the term in “Godzilla vs. Post-Colonial,” Thomas King has created a piece of associational... Go to Article » Hawaiian Biodiversity Loss Driven by Feral Ungulates
(02/16/11)
The activity of feral ungulates such as pigs, goats, and deer has resulted in extensive biodiversity loss in Hawaii. These animals... Go to Article » Resistance in Luci Tapahonso's "A Radiant Curve": The Application of European Poetic Form to Navajo Storytelling
(02/15/11)
Elements of defiance in the face of traditionally European ideals and practices are evident throughout Luci Tapahonso’s 2008... Go to Article » Patty Murray vs. Dino Rossi: Analyzing the 2010 Washington State Senatorial Race
(02/14/11)
The 2010 Washington State senatorial race was crucial for Republicans, as it could have earned the GOP a Senate majority and eliminated... Go to Article » The Formation of New Social Conventions in Early America
(02/11/11)
Early American society experienced moments of great change, politically, economically and socially. With the signing of the Declaration... Go to Article » 94 Minutes in the Badlands (1973)
(02/11/11)
If you’re looking for another all-American cross-country love story, you’d be better off browsing movie aisles far, far... Go to Article » Effects of Collectivistic and Individualistic Cultures on Imagination Inflation in Eastern and Western Cultures
(02/10/11)
Previous research suggests that culture influences our autobiographical memories. This study sought to determine if the collectivism... Go to Article » Effects of Collectivistic and Individualistic Cultures on Imagination Inflation in Eastern and Western Cultures
(02/10/11)
Previous research suggests that culture influences our autobiographical memories. This study sought to determine if the collectivism... Go to Article » The Relationship Between Gods and Humans in Aias and the Poetry of Sapphos
(02/09/11)
Reading Greek plays provides valuable insight into the relationships between gods and humans. While both gods and humans have fairly... Go to Article » Chinese Women and Christianity in the Late Imperial Era
(02/08/11)
Christianity has not gained a large number of adepts in China, if compared, for example, with Japan. But Christianity in China, in... Go to Article » Human Constructions and Changing Perceptions in W. G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn"
(02/07/11)
High school science textbooks are quick to point out that virtually everything in existence today was at some point formed by the... Go to Article » Gender-Specific Language of the Major Prophets in The Hebrew Bible: The Case of the First and Second Isaiah
(02/04/11)
Prophecy is one of the most important institutions in the Hebrew Bible. The prophet is regarded as the voice of the Lord, bringing... Go to Article » Thomas Jefferson's View on Post-Jefferson America
(02/03/11)
Fifty years after their daring signing of the Declaration of Independence, absolving political ties with England, John Adams and Thomas... Go to Article » Primo Levi's Use of Poetic Language to Promote Cross-Cultural Understanding in "Survival in Auschwitz"
(02/02/11)
Though the Holocaust ended nearly a lifetime ago, the systematic extermination of two- thirds of Europe’s Jewish population... Go to Article » Byzantine and Russian Influences in Andrei Rublev's Art
(02/01/11)
Andrei Rublev (c. 1360-1430) is a mysterious figure, whose biography is not well known, although he is historically considered the... Go to Article » 2010: The Year of Biodiversity
(02/01/11)
The urgency of concern over the earth’s biodiversity has increased over the last couple of decades. This has resulted in the... Go to Article » The North Pole: Shall We Race?
(02/01/11)
The territorial claims on the North Pole are the latest contentious grey area amongst world forces – Russia, Canada, the USA... Go to Article » Going Soft? Environment Policy in the European Union
(02/01/11)
“The foreign policy of the Obama administration was going to be one of smart power: ‘Using all the tools in our foreign... Go to Article » Social Change in Venezuela
(02/01/11)
Amidst highly politicised coverage of Venezuela and the media’s obsession with its controversial leader, Hugo Chávez,... Go to Article » Transnational Waterstreams in the Middle East
(02/01/11)
Access to water has been a major factor in international relations for many centuries, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa1... Go to Article » Climate Finance: Breaking the Deadlock in Climate Change Negotiations?
(02/01/11)
In December 2009 the Danish capital, Copenhagen, hosted a convention of approximately 45,000 participants including 120 Heads of State... Go to Article » Crime and Personality: Personality Theory and Criminality Examined
(01/31/11)
The search for the criminal personality or super trait has captured both the minds and imaginations of academics and the wider community... Go to Article » Crime and Personality: Personality Theory and Criminality Examined
(01/31/11)
The search for the criminal personality or super trait has captured both the minds and imaginations of academics and the wider community... Go to Article » The Reign of Peter the Great
(01/28/11)
Peter the Great inherited a score of problems in the administration of his empire. Of course, through his well-known zest and ambition... Go to Article » The Reign of Peter the Great
(01/28/11)
Peter the Great inherited a score of problems in the administration of his empire. Of course, through his well-known zest and ambition... Go to Article » The Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind and Avenues for Improvement
(01/27/11)
President Obama has an immense task before him. In this upcoming year, he will be responsible for the long overdue reauthorization... Go to Article » The 1905 Russian Revolution through the Eyes of Vladimir Nabokov in Speak, Memory
(01/26/11)
The insight that Vladimir Nabokov provides into the 1905 Russian Revolution, in his book Speak, Memory, sometimes merges with the... Go to Article » High-Stakes Standardized Testing: A Panacea or a Pest?
(01/25/11)
If you talk to any person in the field of education today about high-profile and controversial issues in their field, the topic of... Go to Article » Slavery and Religion in the Antebellum South
(01/24/11)
For many decades, scholars have debated the importance of religion in helping slaves cope with the horrible experience of slavery... Go to Article » F.W. Murnau, His Films, and Their Influence on German Expressionism
(01/24/11)
F.W. Murnau had a diverse and artistic upbringing, and led an international lifestyle as an adult. His experiences, interests, and... Go to Article » Solving Health Issues in Ethiopia with Religion
(01/23/11)
Dealing with the issue of healthcare is no small challenge for any country, either rich or poor. For Ethipoia, health issues represent... Go to Article » Emile Durkheim and Methodological Individualism
(01/21/11)
Throughout Émile Durkheim’s Social Facts, he provides an account of what he deems to be the correct nature of social... Go to Article » Cartel Parties and Party Competition: Growth and Analysis
(01/20/11)
Throughout the course of the second half of the 20th century, it is undeniable that the organizational structures and methods employed... Go to Article » The Influence of Religion on Health
(01/19/11)
Religion is a subject that we encounter daily, either because we follow a specific faith and the rules established by it, or because... Go to Article » Dealing with Time in an Autobiography
(01/18/11)
When starting on an autobiography, the author must ask themselves how they will choose to deal with the aspect of time in their work... Go to Article » Exploring Time in Folktales: Analyzing "Youth Without Age and Life Without Death" and "Where There Is No Death"
(01/18/11)
Youth without Age and Life without Death and Where there is No Death present the theme of time in opposite ways: while in Youth without... Go to Article » Incorporating Technology into the Modern English Language Arts Classroom
(01/17/11)
The mere mention of the English Language Arts content area, for many people, might conjure images of ancient, dusty tomes, the sound... Go to Article » The Poetry of Yevgheny Yevtushenko
(01/17/11)
Yevgheny Yevtushenko’s poetry spans time and space when relating to Russia and its history. His poetry, as he himself, declares... Go to Article » You Owe Me: Examining a Generation of Entitlement
(01/14/11)
Once upon a time, in a land called America, people truly believed in a capitalist system. Citizens worked hard their entire lives... Go to Article » Comparing Marriage in Fitcher's Bird by the Brothers Grimm and Margaret Atwood's Bluebeard's Egg
(01/13/11)
Fitcher’s Bird, by the Brothers Grimm, and Margaret Atwood’s Bluebeard’s Egg present the theme of a woman’... Go to Article » Wine Appellation Regulation in the U.S. and France as a Response to Globalization
(01/12/11)
This paper explores the link between cultural identity and globalization through the lens of wine appellation regulations in the United... Go to Article » "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Tiger's Bride": To Be or Not To Be a Beast?
(01/11/11)
Madame de Beaumont's Beauty and the Beast and Angela Carter's The Tiger's Bride delve into the nature of men and women and the relationships... Go to Article » Retelling the Stories of the Holocaust in 'Shoah' and 'Maus': Distorted Images of a Monstrous Past
(01/11/11)
An artist, especially one who works with the visual media, is bound to come across obstacles in his creation of a work that represents... Go to Article » The "N-Word:" The Use and Development of the Term "Nigger" in African-American Culture, as Depicted in the Plays of August Wilson
(01/10/11)
August Wilson represents the experiences of African-Americans in each decade of the 20th century in his Pittsburgh Cycle, a collection... Go to Article » I Get By With A Little Help From My Bros: An Analysis of the Male Homosocial Relationship on 'How I Met Your Mother'
(01/09/11)
As children, we idolize the relationship of our parents. We watch their love and affection and assume that such relationships are... Go to Article » Fangbangers, Tin Soldiers, and Living Toys! Fictional Creatures Becoming 'Real'
(01/07/11)
The divide between human and non-human, real and not-real, is a problem frequently explored in texts about toys and undead creatures... Go to Article » The Great Gatsby's Relation to and Importance as a Work of Art
(01/06/11)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, as quoted by Matthew Bruccoli, recognized the importance of his own novel and its artistic achievements: &ldquo... Go to Article » Big Oil's Stranglehold on America
(01/05/11)
Big oil’s ruthless supply and demand tactics have monopolized the entire energy industry by shredding competitors’ attempts... Go to Article » Ending Ethnic Conflict and Creating Positive Peace in Rwanda and Sierra Leone
(01/04/11)
Although peace and pacifism are familiar ideas to most students today, for much of human history these concepts have been relegated... Go to Article » Preventive Security in the 21st Century: The Threats of the Threats
(01/03/11)
“Human security means protecting vital freedoms. It means protecting people from critical and pervasive threats and situations... Go to Article » In What Sense are Short Poetic Texts a Narrative?
(12/31/10)
We can categorize poetic texts into three distinct types: the narrative poem, or poem that tells a story; the epic poem, or a long... Go to Article » Hobbes' Leviathan and Views on the Origins of Civil Government: Conservatism by Covenant
(12/30/10)
In his seminal text, Leviathan, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes offers what was then a radically novel conception of the origins of... Go to Article » Exploring Madness in Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lawrence's Women in Love
(12/29/10)
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a novel about the human psyche. It is as concerned with man’s ability to descend... Go to Article » Heroin Chic: The Fashion Phenomenon Analyzed Through the Writing of Christine Harold and Timothy Hickman
(12/28/10)
Heroin chic emerged in the 1990s as a high class fashion trend which appropriated visual imagery of heroin junkies and their environment... Go to Article » Vitamin D Insufficiency Due to Insufficient Exposure to Sunlight and Related Pathology
(12/27/10)
Vitamin D has long been considered important for bone health because it aids in the absorption of calcium into the bone tissue. However... Go to Article » Review of John Bernard's Theatricality and Textuality: The Example of 'Othello'
(12/20/10)
Work for Review: Bernard, John. “Theatricality and Textuality: The Example of ‘Othello’.” New Literary History... Go to Article » Giovanni Boccaccio's "The Decameron" and the Roles of Men and Women
(12/16/10)
In the society that Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron is set in, women generally are held in a lower social standing than men... Go to Article » "All the World's a Stage": Shakespeare's Theatrum Mundi of Romance
(12/14/10)
The idea of the Theatrum Mundi (literally the world stage) is an apt metaphor for Shakespeare’s world-view. In many of his plays... Go to Article » The Politics of Cooperation: Analyzing the Relationship Between China, Australia, and the U.S.
(12/13/10)
John Howard, then-Prime Minister of Australia, claimed that, ‘I count it as one of the great successes of this country&rsquo... Go to Article » Cyborgs and Robots: A Logically Ordered Existence?
(12/10/10)
"The 'logically ordered' society results in a loss of spirit and soul, with the absence of suffering, of twilight and mystery, of... Go to Article » Wartime Rationing During World War II and the Effect of Public Opinion in Great Britain and Austria
(12/09/10)
During World War II, a key aspect of almost every country’s wartime strategy focused heavily on limiting domestic consumption... Go to Article » Memoirs and Confessions: The Hybrid Form of Decadent Texts
(12/08/10)
Decadent texts are a subclass of literature paradoxically characterised by both creation and decay, and are thus texts that resist... Go to Article » No Child Left Behind: A Failing Attempt at Reform
(12/07/10)
Testing has changed in many ways since it first appeared with the beginning of public education led by Horace Mann. Standardized testing... Go to Article » Group Therapies for the Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa
(12/06/10)
Eating disorders continue to increase in prevalence among adolescents, young men and women, as well as older adults, affecting nearly... Go to Article » "Inventing their Own Plots:"
The Agency and Ambition of Cromwell and Macbeth
(12/03/10)
Most criticisms of Macbeth and An Horatian Ode focus on the differences between the two central figures. Macbeth is the &lsquo... Go to Article » The Law of Adoption: A Time for Change
(12/02/10)
Adoption is often classified under one umbrella with the assumption that all adoptions are the same. In reality, adoptions are not... Go to Article » Childhood Obesity: Prevention and the Role of School Psychologists
(12/01/10)
Instances of childhood obesity in the United States have increased substantially in recent years. In fact, studies of incidence of... Go to Article » Freudian Theories Present in Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera"
(11/30/10)
The Phantom of the Opera was originally penned as a French serial by Gaston Leroux in 1909. It tells the story of a young man... Go to Article » Defining a Nation: The Power of the Nation and its Influence on Native American 'First Nations'
(11/29/10)
The term ‘nation’ is notoriously hard to define, not only because it has multiple meanings, but because the prevailing... Go to Article » Challenges Faced by "Gifted Learners" in School and Beyond
(11/24/10)
Gifted learners, although possessing higher levels of intelligence than their peers, are disadvantaged in the sense that they frequently... Go to Article » American Transcendentalism and Analysis of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance"
(11/23/10)
What began in New England in the early nineteenth-century as a reform of the Congregational Church grew into what some scholars consider... Go to Article » American Transcendentalism and Analysis of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance"
(11/23/10)
What began in New England in the early nineteenth-century as a reform of the Congregational Church grew into what some scholars consider... Go to Article » The Sermon on the Mount: Is it Livable?
(11/22/10)
When the Preacher wrote, “of making many books there is no end” [KJV Eccles. 12:12] he did not anticipate the mass of... Go to Article » William Bradford, The Puritan Ethic, & The Mayflower Compact
(11/19/10)
Dissatisfied with the results of the reformation of the Church of England, a group of extreme separatists known as the Puritans desired... Go to Article » The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: The Fate of the de Leon Family
(11/18/10)
In Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the de Léon family is in a perpetual hell, moving from struggle... Go to Article » Comparison of Petrarch's Sonnet 292 of the Canzoniere and Shakespeare's Sonnet 130
(11/17/10)
Petrarch and Shakespeare are two poets known for their work on the subject of love. While they each approach the subject of their... Go to Article » Botulinum Toxins: Bad Bug or Miracle Medicine?
(11/16/10)
Botulinum toxin is widely known for causing a type of food poisoning known as botulism. According to the Center for Disease Control... Go to Article » Online Dating Study: User Experiences of an Online Dating Community
(11/15/10)
Increasingly, human interactions are being communicated by means of electronic, Internet-based medias. Readily available programs... Go to Article » Female Cyberbullying: Causes and Prevention Strategies
(11/12/10)
In recent months, the epidemic of bullying in the United States has received widespread attention in the news media. Though bullying... Go to Article » The Water Crisis: A Quest to Conserve Our Planet's Most Precious Resource
(11/11/10)
We are at war. Yes, I said it. We are at war. We are at war, with ourselves, against ourselves, and by that, I mean we are damaging... Go to Article » The Obesity Epidemic in America and the Responsibility of Big Food Manufacturers
(11/10/10)
Millions of people in the United States are considered obese. As waistlines continue to increase, people are asking the question:... Go to Article » James Joyce's "The Dead" Replaying Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
(11/09/10)
Burdened by the tomes housing Joyce criticism, new texts that examine “The Dead” risk sinking into a critical vacuum.... Go to Article » The Equivocal Nature of Exploitation: How Poor Workers in Developing Nations Exploit Capitalist Greed for a Profit
(11/08/10)
Learning to play guitar is painful. For the first months, the coarse steel of the guitar strings shreds the soft skin of the player... Go to Article » Fascism: A Political Ideology of the Past
(11/05/10)
Fascism cannot adapt to, and exist under, certain prominent, contemporary conditions. Specifically, it cannot adapt to the strong... Go to Article » Analysis of John Keats's "When I Have Fears:" Death & The Freedom of Limitations
(11/04/10)
John Keats’s “When I Have Fears” has often been read as a poem about a poet and his fear of mortality. Such a fear... Go to Article » Obese, Female, & Nude: Epistemological Satire or Sociological Critique?
(11/03/10)
Historically, female models in photographic art have depicted an ideological construction of the female body which women, regardless... Go to Article » Corn Subsidies Make Me Sick (and Fat)
(11/02/10)
There are few government policies disheartening enough to make me lose sleep at night. But of those few, the subsidization of the... Go to Article » Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" and the Mysterious Rosa Coldfield
(11/01/10)
William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! begins in the year 1833, when the stranger, Thomas Stupen, rides into Jefferson, Mississippi... Go to Article » Doomed to Fail: Barack Obama's Foreign Policy
(11/01/10)
Stephen M. Walt, professor of international affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, spoke at Cornell... Go to Article » Obama and Afghanistan
(11/01/10)
James Goldgeier is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University and a 2010-2011 senior... Go to Article » Containing the Atom: Paul Nitze and the Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons
(11/01/10)
Immediately following the first and only uses of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, President Truman described nuclear stewardship... Go to Article » The Public Sphere's Private Intelligence
(11/01/10)
Supporters of “green-badgers”—the nickname given to contractors working inside the American intelligence community... Go to Article » Getting It Right: Searching for the Elusive Solution in the Niger Delta
(11/01/10)
The Niger Delta conflict is one created and exacerbated by the oil and natural gas riches of the region. Great hydrocarbon wealth... Go to Article » The Same Bed: Articulating a Continuity Thesis in US-China Policy
(11/01/10)
This analysis of U.S.-China relations was motivated by what I perceived to be misplaced "controversy" over Obama's China visit in... Go to Article » The Politics of Asian Regionalism in Korea: Identity Politics and Its Implications for U.S.-ROK Relations
(11/01/10)
Drawing from the concept of national identity in the Constructivist School of International Relations, this paper sheds light on the... Go to Article » The Blue Counterrevolution: The First Year of President Viktor Yanukovych
(11/01/10)
The initial 100 days of Viktor Yanukovych’s presidency appeared to be a complete departure from the Yushchenko presidency. While... Go to Article » Superheroes, Superpowers, and Sexuality
(10/29/10)
Superheroes have a strong influence in our society, and as such we should look at the messages that they represent. To this... Go to Article » The Matthaean Exception Clause: A 21st Century Interpretation
(10/27/10)
Sexism is not unique to Christianity; however, in the Christian religion many of those who identify themselves as Christian fundamentalists... Go to Article » A Psychoanalytic Deconstruction of Perspective in John McGahern's 'The Dark'
(10/26/10)
You, he, they, and I. All of these pronouns are used in John McGahern’s The Dark to refer to the central character who, when... Go to Article » Clinical Competency and Ethics in Psychology
(10/25/10)
The American Psychological Association (APA) Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct (2002) have multiple standards on competence.... Go to Article » English Student Resource Guide: Annotated Bibliography of Four General Dictionaries
(10/22/10)
This bibliography will be especially helpful to beginners who wish to begin a comparative study of dictionaries or philosophies of... Go to Article » English Student Resource Guide: Annotated Bibliography of Various English Resources
(10/22/10)
This bibliography will be helpful to the English student looking for particular kinds of resources on the English language. It will... Go to Article » Shock Advertising: Theories, Risks, and Outcomes Analyzed Using the Case of Barnardo's
(10/21/10)
Founded in 1867 by Dr. Thomas Barnardo to help "abused, vulnerable, forgotten and neglected children," children's charity Barnardo... Go to Article » Reforming the Insanity Defense: The Need for a Psychological Defect Plea
(10/20/10)
This paper examines the role of societal biases on the use of the insanity plea, particularly with serial killers. As it stands today... Go to Article » Direct Democracy and the Effects of Voter Ignorance on Tax Policy Ballot Propositions
(10/19/10)
Many scholars believe that the mass public is ignorant regarding political matters (Somin 1998; Converse 1964; Campbell, Converse,... Go to Article » Libido and Thanatos in Tobias Wolff's "The Night in Question"
(10/18/10)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca once said that “All art is but imitation of nature” (Bartlett’s 106) and this has held true... Go to Article » Female Writers in the 18th Century: The Power of Imagination
(10/15/10)
Female writers of the Eighteenth Century often focused on the role of the female imagination in novel writing, poetry composition,... Go to Article » Memory Replacement, Confabulation, and Repression: Remembering Creatively
(10/14/10)
The specific purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the factors that would permit an individual to dissociate himself from his... Go to Article » Conducting Business in a Fast-Paced World: The Importance of Change Management
(10/13/10)
Today companies strive to find new strategies and ways to dominate their markets. With the rapdily changing technological realm, companies... Go to Article » Qi (Chi) in James Cameron's Avatar
(10/12/10)
A nine-foot-tall, royal blue giant creeps low to the ground, brushing by exotic foliage. He holds a proportionally large bow and arrow... Go to Article » Reconsidering Constitutional Theory in the Global Age: Structure, Finance, and Representation
(10/07/10)
We live in a time today similar to the beginning of the 20th century; then, industrial forces were rapidly changing (as seen in the... Go to Article » The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan: Explaining the Party's Ability to Dominate Japanese Politics
(10/06/10)
The Liberal Democratic Party’s largely uninterrupted dominance of Japanese politics must be ascribed to processes which transverse... Go to Article » Sustainability: Is It a Good Choice for Small Companies?
(10/05/10)
The search for competitive advantage is an ongoing quest for companies in the United States. As new technologies continue to develop... Go to Article » The Mind in the Brain, the Brain in a Robot: Strong AI in an Artificial Neural Network Brain Replica Housed in an Autonomous, Sensory Endowed Robot
(10/04/10)
The advent of digital computers and contemporary neuroscience has fundamentally changed possible approaches to artificial intelligence... Go to Article » Implications of the Split Brain: A Consideration of Nagel
(09/24/10)
In his article “Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness,” Thomas Nagel suggests that the ordinary conception of... Go to Article » Italian Politics and the Sicilian Mafia: An Account from 1983 to Present
(09/23/10)
Many know the Island of Sicily as a warm, sun-filled exotic paradise that became home to travelers from distant lands. This paese... Go to Article » Kosovo's Road to Independence
(09/22/10)
Since the collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1991, the world has gone through a final massive wave of democratization in Europe, which... Go to Article » The Death Penalty and Intellectual Disability
(09/21/10)
Should convicted criminals who are legally declared as mentally ill be excused from the death penalty? In 1981, Ricky Rector of Conway... Go to Article » Logotherapy and the Holocaust: Uniting Human Experience in Extremity and Normality
(09/20/10)
The Holocaust created a new type of person en masse: survivors. Those who survived were forced to cope with a first-hand encounter... Go to Article » Sled Dogs: Cultural Legacy and Forgotten History
(09/17/10)
Sled dogs have been acclaimed for their heroism, athleticism, and their unconditional affection through numerous books, movies, and... Go to Article » The Role of News in Shakespeare's Works
(09/16/10)
William Shakespeare's uses of the word “news,” and news as a source of information, are usually crucial in his works as... Go to Article » Women in Ancient Japan: From Matriarchal Antiquity to Acquiescent Confinement
(09/15/10)
The role of women in ancient Japan elicits inconsistencies due to different influences that were integrated at various time periods... Go to Article » The Sobibor Revolt: "Death to the Fascists"
(09/14/10)
Between 1942 and 1943, 250,000 innocent Jews were systematically murdered at the Nazi death camp Sobibor (Blatt). An underground movement... Go to Article » Health Care Utilization in the Kenyan Health System: Challenges and Opportunities
(09/13/10)
A country of approximately 37 million people, Kenya has struggled to build a health system that can effectively deliver quality health... Go to Article » The History of Mental Illness: From Skull Drills to Happy Pills
(09/10/10)
The limitlessly varied personalities of human beings have fascinated both scientists and fellow members of society throughout the... Go to Article » The History of Mental Illness: From Skull Drills to Happy Pills
(09/10/10)
The limitlessly varied personalities of human beings have fascinated both scientists and fellow members of society throughout the... Go to Article » The White Rose Movement: Conscience in Silent Nazi Germany
(09/09/10)
The morality of every person dictates the innate wrongness of genocide, and yet the world stood by as the Nazis sent millions to the... Go to Article » The White Rose Movement: Conscience in Silent Nazi Germany
(09/09/10)
The morality of every person dictates the innate wrongness of genocide, and yet the world stood by as the Nazis sent millions to the... Go to Article » George Bush and the New York Times: A Contentious Relationship
(09/08/10)
George W. Bush’s relationship with the New York Times got off to a rocky start. At a campaign event in early September of 2000... Go to Article » Understanding Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD): To Medicate or not to Medicate?
(09/07/10)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), also known as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), has become increasingly prevalent... Go to Article » The Bush Tax Cuts: A Lasting Legacy
(09/02/10)
"And I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third resort. But when a... Go to Article » Crime and Development in Kenya: Emerging Trends and the Transnational Implications of Political, Economic, and Social Instability
(09/01/10)
Postcolonial Kenya has seen a significant amount of development, both politically and economically, since its independence in 1963... Go to Article » Property Dualism & Physicalism: Unclenching the Soldier's Fist
(08/31/10)
From the time of the ancient Greek philosophers to modern contemporaries, the mind-body problem has been perpetually debated. With... Go to Article » The Bush Administration Torture Policy: Origins and Consequences
(08/30/10)
In March of 2002, US intelligence and law enforcement agents, in collaboration with Pakistani security forces, raided a compound in... Go to Article » The Lockean Memory Theory of Personal Identity: Definition, Objection, Response
(08/09/10)
For centuries philosophers have struggled to define personal identity. In his 1690 work An Essay Concering Human Understanding, John... Go to Article » The Lockean Memory Theory of Personal Identity: Definition, Objection, Response
(08/09/10)
For centuries philosophers have struggled to define personal identity. In his 1690 work An Essay Concering Human Understanding, John... Go to Article » "And I of Ladies Most Deject and Wretched:" Diagnosing Shakespeare's Ophelia with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
(07/28/10)
If William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is “the most famous play in English literature,” his Ophelia is arguably the field... Go to Article » The Millenium Challenge Account: Foreign Aid and International Development Programs of the Bush Administration
(07/27/10)
The United States presidency is a complex role, encompassing both domestic and foreign policy responsibilities. As a major world power... Go to Article » A Critical Analysis of the Rwanda-Burundi Genocide and the Sociopolitical Implications of Colonial Rule in Africa
(07/22/10)
There has always been a great deal of intrigue as to why certain people and certain parts of the world are cursed with such a greater... Go to Article » Thirty-Six Days of Turmoil: George W. Bush and the 2000 Election
(07/20/10)
During his first term in office, President George W. Bush claimed that he had a clear political mandate from the voters of the United... Go to Article » Mysticism and Christianity in Early English Literature: Comparing Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(07/12/10)
The introduction of Christianity to England in 597 established a structured, uniform faith among a people accustomed to different... Go to Article » Book Review: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (2007)
(07/09/10)
Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine ties together history, economics, globalization, natural disasters and geopolitics into one... Go to Article » Aphra Behn's The Rover: Evaluating Women's Social and Sexual Options
(07/08/10)
Following the collapse of the Puritan Protectorate in 1660, the halls of court seemed to buzz with a festive attitude: “Out... Go to Article » Aphra Behn's The Rover: Evaluating Women's Social and Sexual Options
(07/08/10)
Following the collapse of the Puritan Protectorate in 1660, the halls of court seemed to buzz with a festive attitude: “Out... Go to Article » Ending the Exceptional: Defiance of Conventions in Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider"
(07/06/10)
The myth of American exceptionalism has existed since early on in our nation’s history. As early as the mid 1830s, Alexis de... Go to Article » The Bush Presidency: Undermining the Separation Between Church and State
(07/01/10)
The Establishment Clause is an important element of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It states that “Congress shall... Go to Article » The Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Movement
(06/30/10)
“A song is something that we communicate to those people who otherwise would not understand where we are coming from. You could... Go to Article » Social Networking: Protecting Your Information and Personal Brand
(06/29/10)
The Internet is a necessity in Americans’ lives and something that many access often throughout the day. Over 80% of students... Go to Article » The Taiwan Strait: From Civil War to Status Quo
(06/28/10)
In 2005, during a period of heightened tensions between China and Taiwan and with the United States deeply embroiled in two major... Go to Article » Lenin's New Economic Policy: Coverage of the Policy by the New York Times
(06/28/10)
When Lenin ushered in the New Economic Policy in August 1921, many Bolsheviks and their sympathizers lost faith in the Soviet government... Go to Article » Japan's Multilateral Gambit: Leading the Charge Toward an East Asian Community
(06/24/10)
If Japan was a person, it would be an exceptionally wealthy yet rapidly aging individual, who, for two decades, had been struck by... Go to Article » Political "Ideals" Versus Political "Realities": A Dilemma of Theory
(06/23/10)
In theories of political practice and institutional design, there is a clash between what should be done ideally, and what can be... Go to Article » Rhetorical Analysis: Pauline Inklings in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(06/22/10)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson proves to be an enduring literary illumination into the human... Go to Article » George Bush and No Child Left Behind: A Federalist Perspective
(06/22/10)
President George Bush came into office in 2001 after both a campaign and outcome that shook the nation. Following the controversial... Go to Article » How to Think About Iran: Demystifying a Complex International Challenge
(06/21/10)
"When can we expect a pro-Western, pro-business government in Iran?" asks a US government official in the quasi-fictitious film Syriana... Go to Article » The Horn of Africa: Critical Analysis of Conflict Management and Strategies for Success in the Horn's Future
(06/18/10)
Conflict management in the Horn of Africa has been relatively unsuccessful. Foreign colonialism created boundaries that have yet to... Go to Article » Cases and Controversies: George W. Bush's Appeals Court Nominations
(06/16/10)
In his eight years as President, George W. Bush appointed two Supreme Court justices, 61 Appeals Court judges, and 261 Federal District... Go to Article » President Bush, The Iraq Invasion, and "Enhanced Interrogation"
(06/16/10)
Martin Luther King, Jr. once wrote that “to ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.”[1] Although this statement... Go to Article » Exploring Japanese Popular Culture as a Soft Power Resource
(05/17/10)
Power is the ability to achieve one’s purposes or goals.[1] Through the scholarship of Joseph Nye, the concept of power occupies... Go to Article » A Response to Tanzimat: Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Pan-Islamism
(05/14/10)
Under the rule of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II in the late nineteenth century the concept of Pan-Islamism, the concept that all Islamic... Go to Article » Colin Powell: Examining a Key Player in the Bush Administration
(05/13/10)
To understand an administration, you need to understand the key players. Through analyzing the Bush presidency, it is clear that the... Go to Article » The Bush Administration, Human Rights, and a Culture of Torture
(05/12/10)
For most Americans, 9/11 represents a turning point for our country. It is the beginning of a new chapter in our relations to the... Go to Article » Idle Youth: Using Sport to Address the Youth Bulge in Sierra Leone
(05/11/10)
There is a growing consensus that the prevalence of a large youth population is not conducive to peace and that such a ‘youth... Go to Article » Islamic Modernism: Responses to Western Modernization in the Middle East
(05/10/10)
By the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a large part of the Muslim world had begun to lose much of its cultural and political... Go to Article » Vampires: The Ever-Changing Face of Fear
(05/07/10)
In the past two-hundred or so years, vampires have transformed from a sort of worst nightmare into the charming hero of our dreams... Go to Article » Eight Years, Twelve Vetoes: Why President Bush Chose to Ignore his Veto Power
(05/06/10)
Long held as one of the most prized executive powers, the presidential veto in American politics grants the sitting president the... Go to Article » Labor Relations Under the Bush Administration
(05/06/10)
On January 20, 2001, George W. Bush was sworn into office as America’s 43rd President. Bush stood out amongst his 42 predecessors... Go to Article » How Compassionate Was George W. Bush's Conservatism?
(05/05/10)
In this chapter, we will be observing the extent to which our 43rd President upheld his 2000 campaign promise to be a compassionate... Go to Article » A Taxing Presidency: A Critique of the George W. Bush Tax Policy
(05/05/10)
Now that President George W. Bush has completed his two terms in office, it is only natural that political scientists and historians... Go to Article » The Position of Jews and Christians in the Ottoman Empire
(05/04/10)
The position of Jewish and Christian peoples under the Ottoman Empire is an issue that continues to be disputed today, almost a century... Go to Article » The Universal Prayer: How Money Became the World's First Shared Religion
(05/03/10)
Money is a term difficult to define. It is a concept subject to deep individual interpretation. For some, money means power, to others... Go to Article » Anti-Rhetoric in Alanis Morissette's "Mary Jane"
(04/30/10)
Rhetoric is commonly regarded as the art of persuasion. To take it a step further, Gerard A. Hauser states that rhetoric is &ldquo... Go to Article » (Im)Mortality and the Poem: Comparing and Contrasting Marvell and Shakespeare
(04/29/10)
The meaning behind both Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and Shakespeare’s sonnets has been debated... Go to Article » Food and Dining in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies"
(04/28/10)
In the collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri uses food and dining as a vehicle to display the deterioration... Go to Article » The Dalai Lama, Buddhism, and Tibet: Reflecting on a Half-Century of Change
(04/27/10)
Throughout history, there have been several ways in which people perceive Tibet. Since it has traditionally been isolated from the... Go to Article » Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" compared with Shakespeare's Original Work
(04/26/10)
Baz Luhrmann’s kaleidoscopic film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, while often leaving much to be desired from the two main actors... Go to Article » Rationalizing Sexual Tourism: How Some Countries Benefit from Selling Sex
(04/22/10)
Brazil’s northeast coast has a perfect climate for a booming tourism industry. The beaches are unspoiled, the people are friendly... Go to Article » Epideictic Oratory in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
(04/21/10)
“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life. No matter who makes the claim, how... Go to Article » The Design of Absent Crisis: The Clinton Administration on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
(04/20/10)
The year 1993 was not a good one for Bill Clinton. An exception, perhaps, being the morning of January 20th when he stood at the west... Go to Article » Berlin After the Wall: Decades After Its Fall, History Still Haunts
(04/16/10)
Game Changer—any person, institution, or event whose action significantly alters the current environment and status quo&mdash... Go to Article » The X Factor: How Malcolm X Internationalized the Civil Rights Movement
(04/15/10)
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... Go to Article » Influence Operations as Counterinsurgency: A Strategy of Divisiveness
(04/15/10)
"Our forces were vastly superior to the rebels. Then why couldn't we finish with them quickly? Because they managed to mobilize the... Go to Article » Singing in the Wilderness: Kuchi Nomads in Modern Afghanistan
(04/15/10)
The word kuchi conjures up a romantic but ultimately anachronistic lifestyle—tattooed women in red and gold embroidered dresses... Go to Article » No Guts No Glory: Essential Elements For Post-War Reconstruction
(04/15/10)
Colonel William Way is a USAR officer. He received a direct commission in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps in 1990. Colonel... Go to Article » Torturing America: Securing the American Interest
(04/15/10)
Even before his inauguration, President Barack Obama made it clear that he believed torture was morally reprehensible and promised... Go to Article » NATO's Dilemma: Asset Specificity and the Challenge of Securing Afghanistan
(04/15/10)
On the 60th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's founding, Afghanistan provides a unique opportunity for the alliance... Go to Article » Judging Wars: The International Politics of Humanitarian Adjudication
(04/15/10)
The past sixty years witnessed a global proliferation of international courts and tribunals of almost all sizes and purposes. Today... Go to Article » Human Trafficking, the Japanese Commercial Sex Industry, and the Yakuza: Recommendations for the Japanese Government
(04/15/10)
Human trafficking is a global issue that is only recently being recognized with global action. The United Nations' Protocol to Prevent... Go to Article » Elusive Economic Development in the Maghreb and Beyond
(04/15/10)
How many political, economic, and social mistakes will a population accommodate before it rebels? Due to the self-checking mechanism... Go to Article » The Burdensome Neighbor: South Africa and the Zimbabwe Dilemma
(04/15/10)
In 1980, Robert Mugabe became the first leader of a free Zimbabwe after fighting a bitter and ultimately successful struggle against... Go to Article » A Trip Through Peter Kubelka's "Unsere Afrikareise" (Our Trip to Africa)
(04/14/10)
Peter Kubelka’s 1966 film “Unsere Afrikareise” or “Our Trip to Africa” is a remarkably unique bit of... Go to Article » Pragmatic Nationalism and Confucianism: The New Ideology of the CCP
(04/13/10)
Confucianism was one of the dominant political philosophies of Imperial China. Confucianism’s influence declined throughout... Go to Article » The Rocky Horror Picture Show as the Inverted Plautine Comedy
(04/12/10)
The first line of Plautus’ epitaph reads: “Postquam est mortem aptus Plautus, comoedia luget, scaena est deserta,&rdquo... Go to Article » A Generation of Men Raised by Women: Gender Constructs in 'Fight Club'
(04/09/10)
Throughout history has existed a prevalent theme of men and women being reliant on one another, despite the significant—though... Go to Article » Levels of Processing: The Effects of Orthographic, Phonologic, and Semantic Processing on Memory
(04/08/10)
The processes by which the human brain creates, stores, and uses memories are very complex and have been the topics of many research... Go to Article » High Fidelity: Comparing Novel and Film
(04/07/10)
Since soon after the invention of sound films, directors have been turning popular—and sometimes not so popular—books... Go to Article » The Concept of Unity in Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South"
(04/06/10)
North and South is a novel defined by the resolution of binary conflicts: heroine Margaret Hale is presented with a number of divisions... Go to Article » Major Development Challenges Facing the Republic of Angola: Completing the Democratic Transition and Making Government Work
(04/05/10)
Angola today is framed by a history of violent conflict that has left the population far behind on all major indicators. Lacking a... Go to Article » Richard Lester, The Beatles, and the Rock Musical Revised
(04/02/10)
A popular film genre in Britain and the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s was the rock and roll musical. As Susan... Go to Article » Birobidjan: The Story of the First Jewish State
(04/01/10)
The world's largest menorah is not in Jerusalem, Lakewood or even in Crown Heights; it can be found in the town square of Birobidjan... Go to Article » Nora as a Doll in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
(03/31/10)
In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Nora Helmer spends most of her on-stage time as a doll: a vapid, passive character with little personality... Go to Article » Nora as a Doll in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
(03/31/10)
In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Nora Helmer spends most of her on-stage time as a doll: a vapid, passive character with little personality... Go to Article » Ivan's Transformation and Coming to Terms in Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Illyich"
(03/30/10)
In Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich, the story's protagonist--Ivan--is dead before the story begins. The first chapter concerns... Go to Article » Human Rights and Radical Social Change: Liberalism, Marxism and Progressive Populism in Venezuela
(03/29/10)
“Human rights” is a concept so deeply intertwined into the modern discourse that it seems almost impossible to question... Go to Article » Mind Sweet Mind: A Closer Look at Salman Rushdie's Invisible Homeland in East, West
(03/26/10)
Every person has a birthplace, a starting point that offers a sense of identity for an individual. Through this start, this receding... Go to Article » Historic Preservation and Environmentalism: The Politics of Ignorance
(03/25/10)
The inevitable integration of historic preservation and environmental protection is a subject that needs to be defined and understood... Go to Article » Love in the Time of Pollution: A Look at Eco-Feminism Roots in Disney's "Wall-E"
(03/25/10)
Despite critics’ assumption that WALL-E centers its plot upon an anti-pollution/sustainability theme, the writer Andrew Stanton... Go to Article » The Flipside of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
(03/24/10)
The United Nations states that at its broadest, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be defined as the overall contribution of... Go to Article » Differences and Similarities Between Buddhist Monks and Nuns
(03/24/10)
Established around 500 BCE by Siddhartha Gotama, known better as Buddha, Buddhism has since spread throughout the world, attracting... Go to Article » What to do With Nuclear Waste? The Rise and Fall of Yucca Mountain
(03/23/10)
With over 20% of United States power production being of a nuclear nature, and all of this nuclear production generating high-level... Go to Article » Embodied Memory and Trauma: Recovering from Rape in Jasmila Zbanic's "Grbavica"
(03/23/10)
On its simplest level, Jasmila Zbanic’s 2006 film Grbavica examines how the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s still shape life in post... Go to Article » "Every Place in the World on the Same Level!": Examining the Display of Non-Western Art at the Musee du Quai Branly
(03/22/10)
The Musée du Quai Branly opened under the long shadow of the Eiffel Tower in 2006 to spectacular criticism. Initiated primarily... Go to Article » The Breakdown of Censorship in American Cinema
(03/22/10)
In America, the years from 1946 to 1962, labeled the “post classical era” of cinema, were years in a state of transition... Go to Article » U.S. Presidential Elections in the Age of Millenium Media
(03/19/10)
On November 2nd, 2000, FOX News declared George W. Bush to be the next President of the United States (Moore 36). Within four minutes... Go to Article » Learning to Put Morals on the Backburner at Film School
(03/19/10)
At the University of Southern California Film School, there are two main goals: to foster creativity and encourage technical growth... Go to Article » Hitler's Use of Film in Germany, Leading up to and During World War II
(03/18/10)
German cinema from 1927 to 1945 was affected drastically by the political environment that grew within the nation. After Germany suffered... Go to Article » The Need for an Open Debate on Drug Legalization
(03/17/10)
The question of the legalization of drugs has emerged sporadically throughout the past few decades of national and international politics... Go to Article » Moral Adaptation in Primo Levi's "Survival in Auschwitz"
(03/17/10)
The holocaust proved that morality is adaptable in extreme circumstances. Traditional morality ceased to be so within the barbed... Go to Article » Neuropsychological and Behavioural Aspects of Huntington's Disease
(03/12/10)
George Huntington first described Huntington’s disease (HD) in 1872 as being a hereditary chorea, “an heirloom fortunately... Go to Article » The Social Media Revolution: Exploring the Impact on Journalism and News Media Organizations
(03/11/10)
Twitter. Facebook. Digg. MySpace. LinkedIn. The list of social media tools could probably run on for paragraphs, and today’s... Go to Article » America's Growing Problem: Increasing Levels of Childhood Obesity
(03/11/10)
In the United States today, 59% of the adult population and more than 25% of Americans under age nineteen meet the definition of being... Go to Article » Raising Titanic: The World of Communication & the Creation of One of the World's Most Succesful Films
(03/10/10)
Twentieth Century Fox was right to question the likelihood of box-office success for James Cameron’s $200 million film Titanic... Go to Article » Using Stem Cell and Gene Therapy Technologies to Treat Parkinson's Disease
(03/10/10)
Parkinson’s disease (PD), a progressive neurodegerative disorder most prevalent in the elderly and for which there is currently... Go to Article » Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission: Taking America from a Proud Democracy to a Privately-Funded Corporatocracy
(03/09/10)
Democracy is based on the core principle that the power to govern should be in the hands of the people. In the United States... Go to Article » The Resilient Czech Spirit, on Display in Bohumil Hrabal's "Closely Observed Trains" and "I Served the King of England"
(03/09/10)
Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1915, and lived through some of the most tumultuous years of Czech history. Hrabal grew up in the time... Go to Article » Career Snapshot: The Film Director, A Human Lens
(03/05/10)
The scene is set for another take: the actors and extras are in costume and in place; the set decorator has set the stage just as... Go to Article » Mitochondria and Brain Disease
(03/05/10)
Mitochondria are eukaryotic, membrane-enclosed, 1-10um sized organelles, described as “cellular power plants” as they... Go to Article » Shakespeare's Apemantus: The Amazing, Changing Flat Character in Timon of Athens
(03/04/10)
In William Shakespeare's The Life of Timon of Athens, the character Apemantus is a Cynic philosopher, who delights in presenting the... Go to Article » Recent Advances in Neural Stem Cell Research: How Stem Cells in the Brain Are Altered by a Changing Environment
(03/04/10)
The discovery of adult neurogenesis (the endogenous production of new neurons) in the mammalian brain more than 40 years ago (Malcolm... Go to Article » Prompts for Progress: Feminism in the Islamic World
(03/03/10)
From skimpy skirts to smoldering skivvies, American’s remember the 1960s as a decade of social change and assertion of the rights... Go to Article » Gay Marriage in Antiquity: How Far Have We Come?
(03/03/10)
Mention the phrase “gay marriage” to any American and you can almost always expect some type of response. Everyone, it... Go to Article » Revisiting H.G. Wells' Depiction of Science and Religion in War of the Worlds
(03/02/10)
Every passing decade, the culture of human beings as a whole has been significantly affected by technology and science. Whether it... Go to Article » Stepping Back from the Brink: Working to Stop and Reverse the Ecological Damage Caused by Modern Industry
(03/02/10)
In recent years, it has become clear through scientific investigation and public opinion that the current state of environmental degradation... Go to Article » Conceptions of the American Dream
(03/01/10)
Since its coinage in 1931, the concept of “the American Dream” has lured tens of millions of immigrants from all corners... Go to Article » The Uncommon Commonality of Eleanor of Aquitaine
(03/01/10)
"Western civilization was feeling the need for a reassessment, a redefinition of some of its basic principles regarding the nature... Go to Article » Innovation or Desperation: David Bowie's "Little Wonder"
(02/26/10)
Despite releasing twenty-two albums in the nearly thirty years between his debut in 1967 and the commercially rejected No. 1 Outside... Go to Article » Perspective in the Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
(02/26/10)
Reading a story by Ursula Le Guin is like watching a poignant movie unfold on screen: captivating and intriguing, a tale that is not... Go to Article » Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Reflection and Rebuke of Victorian Society
(02/25/10)
Bram Stoker’s now legendary novel, Dracula, is not just any piece of cult-spawning fiction, but rather a time capsule containing... Go to Article » Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Reflection and Rebuke of Victorian Society
(02/25/10)
Bram Stoker’s now legendary novel, Dracula, is not just any piece of cult-spawning fiction, but rather a time capsule containing... Go to Article » Analyzing Reader-Response in J.D. Salinger's The Laughing Man
(02/25/10)
J.D. Salinger’s “The Laughing Man” is a classic frame story which displays the parallels between a storyteller and... Go to Article » Examining the Radicalization of Chechen Separatists During the Resistance Movement
(02/24/10)
The Chechen people have endured a long history of aggression, culminating at the end of the twentieth century during which a separatist... Go to Article » It's All Over Now, Baby Blue: Psychoanalyzing Connie in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
(02/24/10)
It is perhaps an understatement to say that the character Connie in Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “Where Are You Going... Go to Article » Decision Making: Factors that Influence Decision Making, Heuristics Used, and Decision Outcomes
(02/23/10)
Every day, people are inundated with decisions, big and small. Understanding how people arrive at their choices is an area of cognitive... Go to Article » Exploring the American Immigrant Experience Through Literature
(02/23/10)
In “Amor de lejos: Latino (Im)migration Literatures,” B.V. Olguin writes, “Latino/a (im)migration narratives&hellip... Go to Article » Jesus Christ as The Modern Hero in John Milton's Paradise Lost
(02/22/10)
The story of mankind's fall from Eden as written by John Milton in his epic poem Paradise Lost portrays a classically heroic Satan... Go to Article » An Oasis in the Desert? Issues and Intricacies Concerning the Louvre-Abu Dhabi Museum Expansion
(02/22/10)
“You have created a Museum; carefully assemble here every masterpiece which the Republic [of France] already possesses&hellip... Go to Article » Immigration, and What it Means to be an American
(02/22/10)
On the eve of the 19th century, in 1781, French-American immigrant Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur wrote a letter, the third in his... Go to Article » Examining Greek Pederastic Relationships
(02/19/10)
Pederasty is an ancient Greek form of interaction in which members of the same sex would partake in the pleasures of an intellectual... Go to Article » In Defense of The Spirit Of An Author: On Anne Fadiman's "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down"
(02/19/10)
Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures... Go to Article » Online Social Support: An Effective Means of Mediating Stress
(02/17/10)
It is estimated that in North America, alone, there are currently 251 million people who use the internet (Miniwats Marketing Group... Go to Article » The Significance Of The Screenplay
(02/17/10)
Film is a highly collaborative medium. Most movie viewers probably do not think of the collaboration process each time they sit at... Go to Article » Re-Envisioning Paulo Freire's "Banking Concept of Education"
(02/16/10)
Paulo Freire was a Brazilian ideologist whose radical ideas have shaped the modern concept of and approaches to education. In his... Go to Article » Sexuality, Religion, and Science As Seen Through "Twilight of the Gods"
(02/16/10)
Within the first ten minutes of Twilight of the Golds, it is clear that both Judaism and homosexuality play a role in the Gold family... Go to Article » Mikhail Bulgakov and Antun Gustav Matos: Two Authors and Periods Collide
(02/16/10)
The eccentric literary style used by the popular nineteenth-century Croatian writer Antun Gustav Matos in his opera is a good starting... Go to Article » Deception, Delusion, and Division in American Politics: Fruits of the Contact Zone
(02/12/10)
The U.S. political system has become strangled by the misconceptions, dishonesty, and unfounded beliefs held and espoused by the opposing... Go to Article » Being Educated for Failure
(02/12/10)
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under... Go to Article » The American Immigrant: A Roach In The Glue - Examining the work of Hemon and Kambanda
(02/11/10)
At the conclusion of her essay, “My New World Journey,” Nola Kambanda writes that “Sometimes I am not sure whether... Go to Article » Preventing Juvenile Delinquency: Early Intervention and Comprehensiveness as Critical Factors
(02/11/10)
Every single person living in the United States today is affected by juvenile crime. It affects parents, neighbors, teachers, and... Go to Article » Using Social Business to Reshape the Capitalist Economy and Support Environmental Awareness
(02/10/10)
During his Inaugural Address, President Barack Obama resonated with the ideals of many Americans—prosperity, freedom, good will... Go to Article » Michael Cassio as a Foil to Shakespeare's Othello
(02/10/10)
Theodore Spencer wrote of Shakespeare's Othello, “In presenting the character of Othello to his audience, Shakespeare emphasizes... Go to Article » Restoring the Social Justice Identity of the Black Church
(02/09/10)
In the days of past, the clarion call and mission of the black church was two-fold: it served as a beacon of hope for the lost-soul... Go to Article » The Balance of Power Between Men and Women in Robert Browning's Poems
(02/09/10)
Robert Browning’s two poems, “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess,” have some striking similarities... Go to Article » Health Care Reform: Reducing Waste and Improving Efficiency in Today's Medicaid
(02/08/10)
As the nation’s largest health insurance program, Medicaid plays a huge role in the current health care reform debate. The program... Go to Article » From Bullies to Heroes: Homophobia in Video Games
(02/08/10)
Due to the lack of homosexual characters in mainstream video games, there are very few positive references to homosexuality. If a... Go to Article » Attending College When You've Never Been to High School: Integrating Homeschoolers into the College System
(02/05/10)
Since the 1990s, homeschooling in the United States has jumped to impressive numbers, with special assistance in 2000 from the so-... Go to Article » Comparing Female Characters in "Christabel" and "The Eve of St. Agnes"
(02/05/10)
Despite both being the leading female characters in their respective pieces, Christabel from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Christabel... Go to Article » Getting Enough Sleep is No Easy Task for Today's Students
(02/03/10)
Take a look inside a high school classroom. You will most likely find a teacher at the front of the class and students sitting at... Go to Article » Corruption and Theories of Kingship in Macbeth
(02/03/10)
In England and Scotland, the notion of a king's divine right to rule gained leverage during the reign of King James I. In James&rsquo... Go to Article » Burying the Pen: Tackling Resistance to Formal Education by the Karimojong in Uganda
(02/02/10)
The Karimojong people of the Karamoja region of Uganda are perhaps one of the few groups left on the planet that remain mostly disconnected... Go to Article » Virginia Woolf on the Role of the Artist in the Modern World
(02/02/10)
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse follows the development of the painter, Lily Briscoe, as she strives to create a meaningful... Go to Article » The Relevance of Food to Representations of Gender in The Awakening and Goblin Market
(02/02/10)
Carole Counihan argues that ‘men’s and women’s ability to produce, provide and consume food is a key measure of... Go to Article » The White Feather Campaign: A Struggle with Masculinity During World War I
(02/01/10)
World War I was a brutal conflict that shattered countries, redefined warfare with its bloody massacres, and left a generation with... Go to Article » The Manipulative Nature of Claudius in Shakespeare's Hamlet
(02/01/10)
King Claudius, as seen in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is both intelligent and well-spoken, two traits that, put together,... Go to Article » With REAL ID, Privacy Concerns for the Transgender Community
(02/01/10)
The level of data collection mandated by the REAL ID Act of 2007 should raise concern for all American citizens who enjoy their privacy... Go to Article » The Relationship Between Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare
(01/31/10)
A father’s goal is for his son to surpass him or simply carry on the honor of the family name. To try and avoid any mishaps,... Go to Article » Nat Turner and the Bloodiest Slave Rebellion in American History
(01/29/10)
Frederick Douglass’ statement about slavery concisely defines the effect that such an institution had on the entire shape of... Go to Article » Reflecting on the Life of a Revolutionary: Jean-Paul Marat
(01/29/10)
Jean-Paul Marat, notorious for his inspiring yet aggressive publications during the French Revolution, was one of the most influential... Go to Article » The Ugly Truth: An Exploration of Postwar Representations of the Holocaust Through The Obscene
(01/28/10)
Omer Bartov’s essay from Intellectuals on Auschwitz expresses the author’s dismay with the postwar and postmodern representations... Go to Article » Brief Review: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
(01/28/10)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is about a man on a voyage by ship, who in one impulsive... Go to Article » Brief Review: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(01/28/10)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is about a man on a voyage by ship, who in one impulsive... Go to Article » The Burden of Disarmament: UN Peacekeeping Operations & Illicit Weapons
(01/27/10)
"Disarmament is not an end in itself. The end is peace, and security is one of its essential elements.”- John Paul II to the... Go to Article » Degrees of Violence in the French Revolution
(01/27/10)
The French Revolution marks a stain in history, notorious for one of the bloodiest periods in modern civilization. Whether this infamous... Go to Article » The "Vast Wasteland" Gets Vaster: The Future of Television in the Online Revolution
(01/26/10)
In 1961, nearly a decade after the “Golden Age” of television had passed, commercial television was still changing the... Go to Article » International Law and Nuclear Weapons: Does the Continued Development of Advanced Nuclear Weapons Violate International Law?
(01/26/10)
Since the beginning of the Cold War, nuclear weapons have played a crucial role in the international community, shaping the behavior... Go to Article » Women as the Submissive Sex in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(01/26/10)
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the author characterizes each woman as passive, disposable and serving a utilitarian function... Go to Article » Filling in the Holes in the Biography of William Shakespeare
(01/25/10)
Shakespeare was a man surrounded by controversy. He, himself, has a biography filled with holes and question marks. Some have... Go to Article » Conspiracy: Did FDR Deceive the American People in a Push for War?
(01/24/10)
“Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy…” is one of the most recognized speeches in... Go to Article » Research Shows Lack of Support for Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Youth in U.S. School Systems
(01/24/10)
Transgender children are some of the most vulnerable students in America’s schools. Nobody knows how many there are, and very... Go to Article » The Beijing Consensus: China's Alternative Development Model
(01/22/10)
Since 1989, when economist John Williamson first conceived of the economic and policy recommendations known as the Washington Consensus... Go to Article » A Second Look at Don John, Shakespeare's Most Passive Villain
(01/22/10)
In William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, all of the main characters experience and participate in some form of deceit... Go to Article » The Human Genome and Patient Privacy: A Proposal to Expand Protections for Patients and Family Members
(01/21/10)
As medical and biological technology has progressed in recent years, concerns have been raised about the privacy implications of genetic... Go to Article » Sylvia Plath's "Bee Sequence": A Microcosm of Poetic Development
(01/21/10)
The poems which Sylvia Plath composed in the weeks and days immediately preceding her death contain some of the most disturbing themes... Go to Article » A Midsummer Night's Dream: Imagination, Romantic Love, and the Creation of Art
(01/20/10)
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare plays with the themes of love, art, imagination, and dreaming to forge an overall... Go to Article » Exclusion, Misrepresentation and Discrimination: Still Prevalent for Women in American Media and Politics
(01/20/10)
Mass media is perhaps the most powerful tool in the world for creating, changing or perpetuating society’s ideas about an issue... Go to Article » The Positive Impact of African Union Forces in Darfur
(01/19/10)
After the wave of liberalization of many African states in the late twentieth-century, the world has seen a rise in the amount of... Go to Article » The Effect of Marriage on Political Identification
(01/19/10)
Party identification among individuals is determined by multiple factors including current marital status and other variables such... Go to Article » Breaking the Cycle: Violence, Control & Resistance in American Slave Narratives
(01/18/10)
In the world of the American slave, violence and control were intimately connected. As Frederick Douglass notes, “Men are whipped... Go to Article » Losing and Writing: Synonymous Art Forms for Poet Elizabeth Bishop
(01/15/10)
Elizabeth Bishop, known for her reticent poetic style, reveals the secrets of her personal life through carefully wrought metaphors... Go to Article » Confusing The Wind: The Burj Khalifa, Mother Nature, and the Modern Skyscraper
(01/14/10)
If you happen to check in to the Grand Hyatt San Francisco on a windy day, you’ll receive a friendly note at the front desk... Go to Article » Comparing Characters from Albert Camus's "The Fall" and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
(01/14/10)
Jean-Baptiste Clamence in Albert Camus's The Fall and the mysterious Ancient Mariner in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the... Go to Article » A River for Freedom: The Itaipu Hyrdoelectric Project and the Democratization of Paraguay
(01/13/10)
From 1954 to 1989, Paraguay was subject to the authoritarian regime of Alfredo Stroessner and the Colorado Party. While Stroessner... Go to Article » Rethinking the American Civil War, Through the Eyes of a Teenager
(01/13/10)
The legacy of the American Civil War with which we are left is one that emphasizes a participatory American populace, overwhelmingly... Go to Article » Neglected Responsibilities: America's Failure to Support Native Alaskan Students
(01/12/10)
When the United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867, it did not simply grow by 663,000 square miles; it also accepted... Go to Article » Perceptions of Heroes and Villains in European Literature
(01/12/10)
It is tempting to classify literary, cinematic, and historical characters into groups. The trouble, of course, is that such labels... Go to Article » William Shakespeare's Richard III: Brilliant Schemer, Entertaining Villain
(01/11/10)
William Shakespeare’s Richard III is no doubt a fascinating character and an entertaining villain. It is Shakespeare’s... Go to Article » Memorializing Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston
(01/11/10)
‘WHO WERE THOSE PEOPLE?’ historian Howard Zinn asked a member of the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society in November... Go to Article » Book Review: Stephen Kotkin's Armageddon Averted
(01/08/10)
As the world's first real Marxist experiment, the Soviet Union, by virtue of lasting seventy odd years, proved Western intelligentsia... Go to Article » "Once There Were Two Towers": Describing Tragedy to Children after 9/11
(01/07/10)
The attacks of September 11th have frequently been characterized as unimaginable, capable of inflicting confusion and emotional trauma... Go to Article » Examining U.S. Foreign Policy, Refuting American Isolationism
(01/06/10)
From before its birth to the present, the expansion of US power has been analogous to an ever-expanding hand upon the globe. Despite... Go to Article » Race, Class, and Oppression: Solutions for Active Learning and Literacy in the Classroom
(01/06/10)
Oppression tends to exist in compartmentalized, clearly labeled categories of race, social class, gender, or sexual preference. While... Go to Article » Race, Class, and Oppression: Solutions for Active Learning and Literacy in the Classroom
(01/06/10)
Oppression tends to exist in compartmentalized, clearly labeled categories of race, social class, gender, or sexual preference. While... Go to Article » La Fin D'un Reve: French Newspaper Coverage of 9/11
(01/05/10)
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, the reaction of the French media was one of passionate empathy. The September 12th headline... Go to Article » Examining Oppression Through the Lives and Stories of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(01/05/10)
Sylvia Plath‘s The Bell Jar is about a young woman named Esther Greenwood entering college in the early 1950’s, a time... Go to Article » Swagger and Soul: Analyzing the Music from Ocean's 11
(01/04/10)
One of the more overt dilemmas in the music of Ocean’s Eleven was the necessary need to reflect on the idea of old guard Las... Go to Article » A High Standard of Living, Brought Low by AIDS in South Africa
(01/04/10)
In 1994 South Africa's regime of apartheid, under which the black majority was suppressed and discriminated against by the white minority... Go to Article » China Offers Alternative Development Model in 'Beijing Consensus'
(01/02/10)
The Beijing Consensus, a new development model based on China’s own economic success, is one of the latest ways that China is... Go to Article » Controlling the Weather: Science Fiction, or Reality?
(01/02/10)
Farmers worried that drought or hail will put their crops at risk have a number of options, some stranger than others. They can improve... Go to Article » Triumph over Tragedy: The Women's Movement of Rwanda Finds Success Post-Genocide
(01/01/10)
On April 6, 1994, the Hutu[1] president of Rwanda and the newly elected president of Burundi, also a Hutu, were both assassinated... Go to Article » A Report on Electoral Turnout in the United Kingdom: Long Term and Contemporary Factors of Voting
(01/01/10)
nsequences. Kingdom varies significantly from one election to the next, be that in a general election or in local elections.1 We... Go to Article » A Parcel Of Rogues: Scotland's Politicians and the Issue of Independence
(01/01/10)
“Scotland is a foreign country. Strange, often beguiling. It is so foreign because of its very familiarity.” – Jonathan... Go to Article » Still the Good Fight? The Commonwealth of Nations Turn 60
(01/01/10)
Such was the BBC’s indictment of the Commonwealth after its 1950 Foreign Minister’s conference in Colombo.1 Yet despite... Go to Article » The Lisbon Treaty: Am I A Real Boy Now?
(01/01/10)
“But you can’t grow,” answered the Fairy. “Why not?” “Because Marionettes never grow. They are... Go to Article » Surveillence Society: Selling Our Secrets
(01/01/10)
As early as 1978 the Henley Center identified that household interactions were becoming increasingly ‘cellular’ rather... Go to Article » Panta Rei: The Next Ninety Years Of International Politics
(01/01/10)
From Heraclitus to Marx, intellectuals have often recognised changes in the flow of history. Certain periods tend to be more dynamic... Go to Article » Barack Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize: Justified or World Optimistic?
(01/01/10)
On the 20th January, 2009, millions of people celebrated the inauguration of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States... Go to Article » Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Plays of Shakespeare
(12/31/09)
The number of ancient sources available to the readers and playwrights of Elizabethan times was truly immeasurable. These sources... Go to Article » The Hero We Create: 9/11 & The Reinvention of Batman
(12/30/09)
A giant hole is ripped in the side of a skyscraper. Smoke and flames pour out and debris tumbles into the street. Clouds of smoke... Go to Article » Hell Hath No Fury: The Relationship Between Greece's Medusa and Egypt's Wadjet
(12/29/09)
Two seemingly unconnected goddesses have more in common than most know. The earth is a small place and mythologies from one... Go to Article » An Argument for Outlawing Genocide Denial
(12/28/09)
More than half a century ago, famed philosopher George Santayana observed, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned... Go to Article » The Development of Theatre: Peter Brook and the Human Connection
(12/24/09)
An actor is on stage. He begins to speak, and as he does so the hearts of the audience wrench. The actor is pronouncing his love to... Go to Article » Is Fat-Phobia Forever?
(12/23/09)
Author Susan Bordo has said, “fat is the devil, and we are continually beating him” (48). When considering this statement... Go to Article » The Value of Homework: Is Homework an Important Tool for Learning in the Classroom?
(12/23/09)
Homework continues to be a controversial topic. The debate over homework is an old one, with attitudes shifting throughout the debate... Go to Article » The Value of Homework: Is Homework an Important Tool for Learning in the Classroom?
(12/23/09)
Homework continues to be a controversial topic. The debate over homework is an old one, with attitudes shifting throughout the debate... Go to Article » Let There Be Light: An Exploration of the Life of Nikola Tesla
(12/22/09)
A great deal is known about Nikola Tesla’s origins—namely, his country and people, to which and of whom he attributed... Go to Article » Review of Literature: Instructional Approaches That Significantly Increase Reading Comprehension
(12/21/09)
In Instructional Approaches That Significantly Increase Reading Comprehension, Block, Whitely, Parris, Reed, and Cleveland (2009)... Go to Article » Jean De Joinville and his Biography of Saint Louis on the Seventh Crusade
(12/18/09)
The French historian Jean de Joinville was born into a noble and influential family in Champagne in 1224.[1] He took the cross in... Go to Article » How Now, Hecate? The Supernatural in Shakespeare's Tragedies
(12/17/09)
I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the... Go to Article » Perceptions of Knighthood: Comparing the Character of "The Knight" in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to the Knight in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal
(12/17/09)
Chaucer’s description of “the Knight” in his “General Prologue” may be seen as a multi-layered narration... Go to Article » Writing: A Necessary Undertaking in Advanced Society
(12/16/09)
Written language is one of the greatest human accomplishments; its formation signifies a breakthrough in human progress. The development... Go to Article » Dietary and Lifestyle Interventions to Support Functional Hypothyroidism
(12/15/09)
Hypothyroidism is an unsuspected illness of epidemic proportions in western civilization unrecognized by the modern medical community... Go to Article » Art and Biology: How Discoveries in Biology Influenced the Development of Art Nouveau
(12/15/09)
Art Nouveau is the so-called “modern style” developed at the turn of the 19th century. Although it is dated roughly between... Go to Article » A Study in Violence: Examining Rape in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
(12/14/09)
“The genocide was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible was the absence, the... Go to Article » An Analysis of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity"
(12/14/09)
In her article “Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema”, Laura Mulvey describes a way of analyzing and understanding... Go to Article » Enhancing the Recall of Presented Material for Undergraduate Students
(12/14/09)
In Enhancing the Recall of Presented Material, Larson (2009) examined the effects of different styles of note-taking and which ones... Go to Article » An Analysis of Film Critic Andre Bazin's Views on Expressionism and Realism in Film
(12/11/09)
Film critic Andre Bazin had very strong feelings on the subject of montage and realism. In his article “The Evolution of the... Go to Article » Serbia and the Former Yugoslavia: What's to Be Done?
(12/11/09)
It is mid-1998. On news programs in the United States, the issue of intervention in Kosovo is addressed as a prevalent concern. It... Go to Article » Slavery Plays Jump-Rope with Racism: Examining the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley
(12/10/09)
Children’s literature in the context of this research paper (and hopefully too in the eyes of the majority) is the ultimate... Go to Article » The Passage from Now to Then: Examining Historical Literature Through Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian"
(12/09/09)
When considering historical literature that is based upon people who once lived, readers often ask where the details are taken directly... Go to Article » Understanding Human Language: An In-Depth Exploration of the Human Facility for Language
(12/08/09)
What critical evolutionary events does the span of human progression include? Anthropologists agree that decisive transitions such... Go to Article » An Insatiable Hunger: A Literary Analysis of Richard Wright's Autobiography, "Black Boy"
(12/08/09)
The autobiography Black Boy, by Richard Wright, is a tale of hope and determination. It catalogues Wright’s life growing up... Go to Article » Who Makes a Nation? An Examination of Nationalism, Gender, and Membership in the Nation
(12/07/09)
Nationalism is defined by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary as, “loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially: a sense of national... Go to Article » Universal Grace: Early Christian Texts Focused on Conversion
(12/07/09)
I will oppose fervently anyone who argues that the relative success of the Christian church owes anything to “uniqueness,&rdquo... Go to Article » Contrasting Views of Money in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
(12/04/09)
Atlas Shrugged’s presentation of money departs from the traditional dichotomy of the “haves and have-nots.” In fact... Go to Article » The Methamphetamine Crisis in American Indian and Native Alaskan Communities
(12/03/09)
The prevalence of methamphetamine (ME) use among American Indians and Native Alaskans (AI/NAs) is strikingly high in comparison to... Go to Article » Biblical Allusions in "The House of Fame"
(12/03/09)
In Book II of “The House of Fame,” the narrator states that his dream is of greater significance than the biblical visions... Go to Article » John Locke on Equality, Toleration, and the Atheist Exception
(12/02/09)
Political philosopher and social psychologist, John Locke was an outspoken supporter of equal rights within a governed society. He... Go to Article » Poetic Structure in Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"
(12/01/09)
In Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” the motive behind the narrator’s “stopping... Go to Article » Army Girls: The Role of Militarization in Women's Lives
(11/30/09)
In her book, Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (2000), Cynthia Enloe examines the role militarization... Go to Article » Examining Pope Pius XII and Print Media Coverage in the U.S.
(11/29/09)
Over the last few decades there has been an overflow of publications and discussions regarding Pope Pius XII in realtion to the Holocaust... Go to Article » Confrontation with Death Illuminates Death's Mystery in the Odyssey
(11/28/09)
Even in fairy tales and fantastical legends, the trespassing of the breathing upon the domain of the spirits is rare. It is a disturbing... Go to Article » Anton Chekhov and the Development of the Modern Character
(11/27/09)
Considered by some to be the father of the short story, Anton Chekhov created a paradigmatic form for writing fiction. By mimicking... Go to Article » Examining Mythology in "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis
(11/27/09)
The wonder of opening a book feels very similar to the experience of opening a wardrobe door and finding oneself in another world.&... Go to Article » Environmental Sustainability in China: A Historical Perspective
(11/25/09)
It is no secret that China today faces serious environmental challenges. The combination of a rapidly growing population and a lack... Go to Article » A Brief Look at Feminism in Shakespeare's Macbeth
(11/25/09)
In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, he presents the conflicting character of Lady Macbeth. Upon receiving her husband’s letter... Go to Article » A Brief Look at Feminism in Shakespeare's Macbeth
(11/25/09)
In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, he presents the conflicting character of Lady Macbeth. Upon receiving her husband’s letter... Go to Article » The Real Scoop on Government Contracting
(11/24/09)
Procurement in government, as well as in industry, is going through a tremendous change as a result of globalization, technological... Go to Article » Literary Analysis: Turn of the Screw
(11/24/09)
In “The Turn of the Screw,” Henry James presents to the reader a story that seems as factual as the recorded ghost sightings... Go to Article » Breaking Boundaries: Football and Colonialism in the British Empire
(11/23/09)
In less than one year, South Africa will be the proud host of the 2010 World Cup. To many, this privilege is a mere formality of the... Go to Article » Religion in Caribbean Literature
(11/23/09)
The language of religion plays an important part in the novels Brown Girl, Brownstones; The Farming of Bones; and In the Time of the... Go to Article » The Emobidment of Human Tragedy in the Illiad
(11/23/09)
Why raise the curtain on this 45 day by 45 night saga? In a story whose ending everybody knows already, why choose these actions of... Go to Article » Understanding the Implications of a Global Village
(11/20/09)
Imagine the vast spectrum of all the cultures in the world. Listen to the music—from the gentle drum beats of Africa, to the... Go to Article » Understanding the Implications of a Global Village
(11/20/09)
Imagine the vast spectrum of all the cultures in the world. Listen to the music—from the gentle drum beats of Africa, to the... Go to Article » Milk and Honey: How the Old Testament Speaks to a People in Exile
(11/20/09)
Mortal glory is fleeting. The Old Testament generally does not concern itself with militant triumph or climactic discovery. It much... Go to Article » Lenin's New Economic Policy: What it was and how it Changed the Soviet Union
(11/19/09)
By the time 1921 came around, Russia’s economy had been maimed by the effects of War Communism. Socialism had not begun on a... Go to Article » Lenin's New Economic Policy: What it was and how it Changed the Soviet Union
(11/19/09)
By the time 1921 came around, Russia’s economy had been maimed by the effects of War Communism. Socialism had not begun on a... Go to Article » Distributed Trust Based Management: Who's Getting In?
(11/19/09)
With the explosion of the use of the Internet for nearly all forms of negotiable instrument exchange, the constant transmission of... Go to Article » Making Contact: The Photographer's Interface with the World
(11/18/09)
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a key twentieth-century cultural theorist, has been influential in various fields, including art and... Go to Article » Derek Walcott's A Far Cry from Africa
(11/18/09)
Derek Walcott’s “A Far Cry from Africa” expresses how Walcott is torn between “Africa and the English tongue... Go to Article » Impressions of Ashoka in Ancient India
(11/18/09)
In the latter part of the third century B.C. India was rapidly changing. The Mauryan dynasty was expanding across the sub-continent... Go to Article » Viewing Four Vonnegut Novels Through the Lens of Literary Criticism
(11/17/09)
I like Kurt Vonnegut because he’s innovative and unique, his literary voice speaking out of a time period I love, when he &ldquo... Go to Article » Beyond the 9 to 5: Finding Balance Between Work and Life
(11/17/09)
Many people today are seeking flexibility at work. Parents, for instance, may want more time for family. Students hope... Go to Article » Female Norms and the Patriarchal Power Structure in Shakespeare's Hamlet
(11/17/09)
Socialization is the process by which individuals internalize the mores and norms of the society they live in. It is through this... Go to Article » "Telepathic Shock" and "The Rush of It All:" Jack Kerouac's Use of Language in On the Road
(11/16/09)
Jack Kerouac once wrote, “It’s not the words that count but the rush of what is said." In a graduate class focusing on... Go to Article » Enterprise Communication in Brief: Securing Enterprise Commnication
(11/16/09)
In today’s world of instant information transfer and with the incredible pace of technological developments that occur daily... Go to Article » From Cutting Trees to Slashing Emissions: Reducing Deforestation in Brazil
(11/14/09)
Much debate has recently arisen over China’s and India’s responsibilities as related to climate protection. These two... Go to Article » Child Murders in "Medea": Parallel, Past, and Present Use of Child Soldiers
(11/13/09)
That wars are fought by the young for the old is a universally known truth. It is an ancient argument, a tired anti-war theme. Tired... Go to Article » Cyber Attack Prevention for the Home User: How to Prevent a Cyber Attack
(11/13/09)
As the sophistication of cyber criminals continues to increase, their methods and targets have also evolved. Instead of building the... Go to Article » Stamp Paid and the Power of Self-Actualization in Beloved
(11/12/09)
A character in Toni Morrison's Beloved whose crucial importance to both the plot and thematic intent of the book is Stamp Paid. He... Go to Article » The Ethical Dilemma of When to Publish News
(11/12/09)
The Society of Professional Journalists publishes a code of ethics for journalists; among the rules listed is the journalist&rsquo... Go to Article » A Vulnerable Network: Undersea Internet Cable Attacks
(11/11/09)
Multiple undersea internet cables were mysteriously severed and subsequently gained significant attention in the beginning of 2008... Go to Article » Future Hell: Nuclear Fiction in Pursuit of History
(11/11/09)
What is a cyclical history? Why does humanity seem doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again? Are we doomed to this machine... Go to Article » Predicting Hurricanes: The Whirlwind of Controversy Surrounding Hurricane Alicia
(11/10/09)
Hurricanes will always be a way of life for many Texans. Young Texan schoolchildren learn about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 in... Go to Article » A Brief History of Cryptography
(11/10/09)
The earliest form of cryptography was the simple writing of a message, as most people could not read (New World, 2007). In fact, the... Go to Article » A Brief History of Cryptography
(11/10/09)
The earliest form of cryptography was the simple writing of a message, as most people could not read (New World, 2007). In fact, the... Go to Article » Wake Up and Smell the Condoms: An Analysis of Sex Education Programs in the United States, the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, France, and Germany
(11/09/09)
The ability to control one’s sexuality and make informed, responsible decisions about one’s sexual health is a basic human... Go to Article » The Great War: The Similarities and Differences of Print and Television Media
(11/09/09)
News is more likely to be reported if meets one of the following characterisitics: It concerns elite personalities; It is negative... Go to Article » Human Rights in Chile: Remembrance and Reckoning
(11/06/09)
It is important to note that information about human rights abuses in Chile, as well as the exact details and full connections of... Go to Article » Equitable Capitalism: The Rebirth of American Business
(11/06/09)
My love for business began as I read Ayn Rand’s acclaimed novel, Atlas Shrugged, in the ninth grade. Packed with adventure,... Go to Article » Absurdism in Post-Modern Art: Examining the Interplay between "Waiting for Godot" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
(11/05/09)
Post-modern art is permeated by Absurdism. The Post-World War II Absurdist movement centered on the idea that life is irrational,... Go to Article » The Relationship Between Stockholm Syndrome and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Battered Women
(11/05/09)
Every year, 10-50% of women suffer intimate partner violence (Bargai, Ben-Shakhar, & Shalev, 2007). It is important to understand... Go to Article » Child Sex Tourism: "Us" and "Them" in a Globalized World
(11/04/09)
“In London, Hamburg or San Francisco … we rarely see ordinary, middle-aged men and women flirting with homeless teenagers... Go to Article » Life as Art as Life: Dramaturgy as Psychology
(11/04/09)
Aristotle played with the idea of human life as a drama and its role on the Greek stage in his Poetics, defining tragedy—the... Go to Article » In Search of Manhood: The Black Male's Struggle for Identity and Power
(11/03/09)
Within the cultural framework of America, the systemic structure is characterized by White male patriarchy that allows for Black males... Go to Article » Sublime Inauthenticity: How Critical is Truth in Autobiography?
(11/03/09)
In the autobiography, time and history, at first glance, seem paramount. After all, autobiography is the account of the things that... Go to Article » Grassroots in San Cristobal de las Casas: Sna Jtz'Ibajom and Zapatistas
(11/03/09)
The performativity of ritual, theatre, and spectacle give credence to all three being viewed as a type of social action. Not only... Go to Article » From Comrades to Lovers: "The Hollow Men" and the Broken Homosocial Spectrum
(11/03/09)
In Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Eve Sedgwick proposes the idea that not only women, but also men, can... Go to Article » A Feminist's Argument On How Sex Work Can Benefit Women
(11/02/09)
Sex work has long been criticized and stigmatized in our society. While many members of society view sex work as immoral and degrading... Go to Article » Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia: The Socioeconomic Origins of Machismo and the Macho
(11/02/09)
The simultaneous allure and repulsion of Mexican machismo belies its ambiguous nature as an identifying characteristic of the nation... Go to Article » Why Financial Conglomerates are at the Center of the Financial Crisis
(11/01/09)
The global economy is currently experiencing the “most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression.” The ongoing... Go to Article » The G-20 Preempts the G-8: What Kind of World Economic Order?
(11/01/09)
Few would disagree that the most significant development at the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh during September 24-25, 2009 was the formal... Go to Article » A World of Financial Models: The French Touch in Deregulation, 1980-2009
(11/01/09)
September 15th, 2008. Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy. The Anglo- American model of finance collapses. This is a “Big Bang... Go to Article » The Modern Foreign Policy of Russia
(11/01/09)
Over the two decades of post-Soviet history of modern Russia, its foreign policy has gone through several distinct periods and long... Go to Article » For Japan, Better Late than Never
(11/01/09)
The Japanese general election on August 30, 2009 ousted the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which had governed almost uninterrupted... Go to Article » Putting the B in the BRIC: Brazil's Rise as a Major Emerging Power
(11/01/09)
The world is rapidly changing and the new international order includes developing nations as powerful actors. Among them, Brazil stands... Go to Article » Withdrawing the Case of Uganda from the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
(11/01/09)
The trend from international armed conflicts toward internal insurgencies has altered our common understandings of classical strategic... Go to Article » USAID's Alternative Development Strategy: A Critical Review of Initiatives in Colombia
(10/31/09)
Since 2000, the United States (U.S.) has devoted approximately 4.7 billion dollars in foreign aid to Colombia (Isacson 2006:1) with... Go to Article » Janet Malcolm and Norman Mailer: Navigating Author, Narrator, and Subject
(10/31/09)
Janet Malcolm opens her book, The Journalist and the Murderer,[1] with a stringent criticism of journalistic practice: "Every journalist... Go to Article » Friendship and Conflict: The Relationship of the U.S. "Founding Fathers"
(10/30/09)
It is common for Americans to imagine the early leaders of the American Revolution as a group of agreeable, flawless men. However,... Go to Article » Cost-Effective Renovations and Other Improvements for Creating More Energy Efficient Homes
(10/29/09)
Just by flipping through television channels or walking through the aisles of a grocery store, it is easy to see that the popularity... Go to Article » Henry Park's Identity through Selves and Space in Native Speaker
(10/29/09)
Henry Park: family man, father, son, husband, spy, traitor to his race, without race, ghost among the corporeal, in the wrong place... Go to Article » Machismo and the Reaction Formation of the Mexican Man
(10/28/09)
Américo Paredes, in his 1971 article “The United States, Mexico, and Machismo” (Marcy Steen, trans.), defines the... Go to Article » "Allows itself to anything:" Poor Tom Familiarizing and Enacting Chaos in King Lear
(10/28/09)
In Shakespeare’s King Lear, Poor Tom—a figure of madness, poverty, and linguistic play—acts as the personification... Go to Article » Religion, Commodity, or Escape: Sports in Modern American Culture
(10/27/09)
American sport has become far more than contests with rules played on fields, diamonds, or rinks. Our current conception of sport... Go to Article » Responding to Rape as a Weapon of War in the Democratic Republic of Congo: CIDA's Actions in an Evaluative Framework
(10/27/09)
At the time of the incident, I was living … in the bush, hiding from the war. One day, I had gone to the fields to collect... Go to Article » Reconstructing Bridges: Heritage Language Education of Asian Americans
(10/27/09)
Language use is a major factor in defining one’s cultural identity. People learn slang, lingo, jargon, idiomatic phrases, and... Go to Article » A Daylight Debacle: Is Daylight Saving Time Still Relevant?
(10/27/09)
Whether you noticed it or not, in 2008 Daylight Saving Time ended a bit later than normal. Though this is in fact the second year... Go to Article » Redskin and All-American: Jim Thorpe's Malleable Symbolic Significance
(10/26/09)
In 1950 the Associated Press polled close to 400 sportswriters in order to name the greatest male and female athlete of the first... Go to Article » Rezak Hukanovic: Witness and Survivor in The Tenth Circle of Hell
(10/26/09)
The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia, written by Rezak Hukanovic, is one survivor’s account... Go to Article » A Contrast of Issei and Nisei as Illustrated by King-Kok Cheung, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Emiko Okori
(10/26/09)
Hisaye Yamamoto’s double-telling stories, according to King-kok Cheung, convey “two tales in the guise of one,”... Go to Article » Invasion of the Invaded: NAFTA and the Rise of Illegal Immigration
(10/26/09)
On January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement, the great neoliberal experiment that tested the economic waters... Go to Article » Sermons in Sociolinguistic Skins: An Analysis of Wharry's Study on Discourse Markers in African-American Sermons
(10/23/09)
In her article, “Amen and Hallelujah preaching: Discourse functions in African American sermons,” Cheryl Wharry examines... Go to Article » The American Military and the Press: From Vietnam to Iraq
(10/22/09)
“News is something someone wants suppressed,” British newspaper baron Lord Northcliffe once said. “Everything else... Go to Article » Understanding Differences Between Holistic, Alternative, and Complementary Medicine
(10/21/09)
The terms holistic medicine, alternative medicine and complementary medicine have often been used interchangeably. In fact, alternative... Go to Article » Stalin and the Drive to Industrialize the Soviet Union
(10/21/09)
The late twenties and early thirties were perhaps the most transformative period in Soviet history. It was during this period Stalin... Go to Article » Stalin and the Drive to Industrialize the Soviet Union
(10/21/09)
The late twenties and early thirties were perhaps the most transformative period in Soviet history. It was during this period Stalin... Go to Article » Causes for the Guatemalan Civil War as seen in Paradise in Ashes by Beatriz Manz
(10/20/09)
The civil war in Guatemala was the longest struggle in modern Latin American history, spanning decades from the late 1950s to the... Go to Article » John Locke and the Second Treatise on Government
(10/19/09)
In 1688, King James II was overthrown by a group of Parliamentarians. This was the result of what is now known as the Glorious Revolution... Go to Article » Decolonization and the Collapse of the British Empire
(10/19/09)
Before World War II it was stated fairly, “The sun never set on the British Empire.” For decades, this was true: the British... Go to Article » Does Globalization Foster or Reduce Political Violence?
(10/19/09)
Globalization has impacted societies around the world in both positive and negative ways. Despite positive changes in certain areas... Go to Article » Can the U.S. Win the War in Afghanistan?
(10/19/09)
Nearly eight years into the war, the security situation in Afghanistan appears to be deteriorating at an increasingly fast past. Areas... Go to Article » America in the Post War Period
(10/18/09)
The end of World War II was not just the end of a war, but also the beginning of a tense and dynamic period that affected society... Go to Article » Controlling and Preventing HIV in Southern Africa
(10/17/09)
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) originated in Africa. According to current estimates, the disease first infected humans in... Go to Article » Financial Crisis and Regulatory Challenges
(04/15/09)
A number of reports have established a diagnosis of the financial crisis. The first was produced by the Financial Stability Forum,... Go to Article » In Praise of Populism: The Coming Reconstruction of Financial Regulation
(04/15/09)
Newspaper and Television commentaries in the United States and Europe abound with references to "outbursts of populism" in United... Go to Article » The Case for America's Continued Superpower Status
(04/15/09)
Is America really in decline as a global superpower? We examine current arguments for America's economic decline and argue that a... Go to Article » United States Policy and Latin America: An Interview with Former Secretary General of the Organization of American States
(04/15/09)
Ambassador Einaudi spoke at Cornell at the invitation of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies to commemorate the 20th... Go to Article » Gaza in Crisis: Obama's Foreign Policy in the Aftermath of Renewed Conflict
(04/15/09)
This ongoing dispute clearly concerns the United States, the long-term third party in peace negotiations, and a close ally of Israel... Go to Article » Aggressive Foreign Policy as an Instrument for the Legitimization of Putin's Regime: Georgia's Case
(04/15/09)
The responsibility of Georgian President Michael Saakashvili for the war with Russia continued to be hotly debated in Georgia, Russia... Go to Article » Can Kosovo be a Precedent for South Ossetia and Abkhazia: Recognizing Differences in Dynamics of Recognition
(04/15/09)
The issue of whether the recognition of Kosovo as an independent state might serve as a precedent for former autonomous republics... Go to Article » A Solution for Africa: The Coexistence of Regionalism
(04/15/09)
Regionalism—the efforts of a group of nations to enhance their economic, political, social, and cultural interaction—can... Go to Article » Human Rights in Indonesia: The Consequences of Discrepancies in Domestic Versus International Law
(04/15/09)
Two years ago, my mom handed me the article, "Below a Mountain of Wealth, a River of Waste," from The New York Times, describing Freeport... Go to Article » Rising Euro, Falling Dollar: The Dynamic of a Global Monetary Shift
(04/15/08)
In the past weeks, print media and blogs are buzzing with renewed speculation about a possible replacement of the Dollar as the dominant... Go to Article » The Russian Government and Gazprom
(04/15/08)
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the newly-formed Russian Federation faced a considerable economic downturn. During the... Go to Article » Indo-Pakistani Enmity & the Reorganization of Asia: Strategic Opportunities for China and India
(04/15/08)
South Asia is not in itself the primary zone of interest of China. However, China has since long used the region’s dynamics... Go to Article » Justice: Evasive and Amorphous
(04/15/08)
With mass atrocities ongoing in Darfur and past atrocities yet to be addressed, the question of how to achieve accountability for... Go to Article » Fixing International Security: Reforming the Security Council
(04/15/08)
The United Nations Security Council is the most important organ in the United Nations, charged with determining “the existence... Go to Article » U.S. Policy Towards Colombia: A Focus on the Wrong Issue
(04/15/08)
In recent years the United States has undertaken daunting activities in fighting two overarching wars against intangible enemies across... Go to Article » Rethinking the Premise of Democracy Promotion
(04/15/08)
U.S. foreign policy exemplifies a broad Wilsonian consensus about the value of democracy promotion. The “forward strategy of... Go to Article » Fragile Foundations and Infant Institutions: The Case of Non-Reform in Haiti
(04/15/08)
Haiti has earned the dubious distinction of being one of the poorest nations, on a per capita basis, in the world. Even the country... Go to Article » Cornell and the Marshall Plan (1947-1951)
(04/15/08)
Since his nomination as Cornell University’s twelfth President, Dr. David Skorton has made a “Marshall Plan for higher... Go to Article » Global Outreach Plan for Colleges
(04/15/08)
Dr. David J. Skorton, president of Cornell University, first introduced the idea of a new initiative emphasizing the international... Go to Article » Europe Can No Longer Procrastinate
(11/01/07)
Fifteen years ago, the collapse of the bipolar world overwhelmed the installed world order. The USA became the only superpower standing... Go to Article » Domestic Dynamics of Political Islam in the Greater Middle East: Case Studies of Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait and Turkey
(11/01/07)
These four nations showcase the state of Islamism as a political force in the Middle East. Because of differing political circumstances... Go to Article » Four Challenges for Europe
(11/01/07)
In Washington as in Peking, in Beirut as in Bamako, the question is asked of us: what is the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy... Go to Article » Change in Technology and its Impact on Delocalisation: An Illustration Based on the European Financial Industry
(11/01/07)
Today’s and tomorrow’s worlds are radically different from yesterday’s. Self-evident, yet our thought processes... Go to Article » Closing the NAFTA Gap: Applying EU Integration to US Immigration
(11/01/07)
The accession of Ireland, Greece, Spain and Portugal into the European Community was a significant move towards manifesting everlasting... Go to Article » Discerning Iran: Exploring the Motives for Iranian Foreign Policy
(11/01/07)
In recent years, the turbulent nature of politics in the Middle East has captured the attention of nations worldwide. Iran, in particular... Go to Article » China-Africa Interaction: Prospects for a Strategic Partnership
(11/01/07)
China’s emergence as a key player in Africa, the impact of its presence and its challenges to traditional Western pre-eminence... Go to Article » Country of Contradictions: Mexico's Transition to Modernity
(11/01/07)
A country’s transition from Cold War-era third-world dependence into competitive, global autonomy is often a difficult and complicated... Go to Article » A Tale of Two Countries: Lessons from the Latin Quest for the Balance of Equity, Progress, and Freedom
(11/01/07)
Poverty effaces dreams. Oppression defeats hope. These conditions ruin the human spirit, which no one should tolerate. Liberals and... Go to Article » A New Red Peril? An Analysis of China's Role in the 21st Century
(01/01/00)
In order to understand why China has been recognised as a potential 21st Century superpower, it is necessary to understand what... Go to Article » A House Divided: Is the Division of Britain a Bad Thing?
(01/01/00)
New Labour’ has committed itself to giving each division of the United Kingdom a parliament or assembly of its own. Already... Go to Article » Essential Modernisation or Excessive Meddling? Labour, Wakeham and the Lords Reforms
(01/01/00)
Tony Blair has long been committed to the abolition of hereditary peers; the 1997 Labour Party Manifesto promised that this would... Go to Article » Monster Raving Mad!
(01/01/00)
In September last year, at its annual conference, a political party took a radical new direction with the appointment of a new leader... Go to Article » Can You Live on Two Grand a Year?
(01/01/00)
On Thursday 25th November, over 15,000 students gathered in London for a march and rally against tuition fees and student loans. Since... Go to Article » John Major: The Man and The Myth
(01/01/00)
John Major slipped swiftly from public view after 2 May 1997 as the media and public turned their collective attention to Tony Blair... Go to Article » Michael Portillo Returns to Parliament
(01/01/00)
The former Defence Secretary and Member of Parliament for Enfield & Southgate, Michael Portillo, has been selected as the Conservative... Go to Article » London Mayoral Election: Something Old, Something New
(01/01/00)
At 7.30 am, Glenda Jackson breezed past Euston station. In New Labour fashion she was purposeful but unhurried, radiating a &lsquo... Go to Article » The Dragon on Our Doorstep: New Politics for a New Millennium in Wales
(01/01/00)
At the time of the 1979 Devolution Referendum, when all the votes were counted and the results were announced, the then Secretary... Go to Article » Rugby: Who's Game is it Anyway?
(01/01/00)
Rugby is an extraordinary game for a number of reasons. In the five nations of the Five Nations Championship, it excites great enthusiasm... Go to Article » The Final Frontier: Space Exploration and Politics
(01/01/99)
It is now fourteen years after Ronald Reagan’s infamous ‘Star Wars’ speech, a speech that forecast American space... Go to Article » Are Intelligence Failures Inevitable?
(01/01/99)
“The possible failure of intelligence to assess a situation correctly is a danger coeval with intelligence itself.” -... Go to Article » Breaking Third World Debt
(01/01/99)
Imagine if your student loan determined every decision you made in your entire life… Imagine if you owed 30 times more than... Go to Article » What Do We Do With Pinochet?
(01/01/99)
On October 16, twenty five years after he took power in the September 1973 coup, Augusto Pinochet was detained in London. This episode... Go to Article » Q&A with Ted Rowlands MP
(01/01/99)
On the 14th of October 1998, Mr. Ted Rowlands, Labour MP for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhynmey, gave a brief talk on the Foreign Affairs... Go to Article » Britain And The European Union
(01/01/99)
When Great Britain joined the European Union in 1973 (then referred to as the European Community) many expected the British common... Go to Article » The Future Of The British Monarchy
(01/01/99)
In this article I intend to examine the question of whether the Monarchy has a role in Britain’s future. In order to answer... Go to Article » Is the House of Lords Dead?
(01/01/99)
With my visit last May to the Palace of Westminster with my Boroughs Youth Council to ‘grill’ or be brainwashed (depending... Go to Article » Why Being Third Isn't Good Enough: A Critique of the 'Third Way'
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With the election of Tony Blair to Downing Street in May 1997, there was indeed a great deal of anticipation as to what exactly this... Go to Article » The Irish Presidential System
(01/01/99)
The role of President was laid out in the Irish Constitution (Bunreacht na hÉireann) of 1937 with the first elections to the... Go to Article » The Good Friday Agreement
(01/01/99)
The current political climate in the United Kingdom is very much of devolution to regional governments, whether it is in Scotland... Go to Article » Democracy in Action: Witnessing the Student Guild Elections of 1999
(01/01/99)
On the 23rd of February, I casted my vote at around 11:00 am in the morning at the Student Union. For some, voting is just... Go to Article » Q & A with Alun Michael
(01/01/99)
I think students can have a very positive role if it’s thought through properly. I think there are many students who... Go to Article » Tony Blair: Thatcher's Clone or Original Thinker?
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It has been nearly two years since the momentous 1997 general election, and we have had a sizeable amount of time to evaluate the... Go to Article » 'Three Men And A Loan': The Fall of Peter Mandelson
(01/01/99)
The Christmas of 1998 will be seen by political pundits in years to come as the first crisis to assail the ‘New Labour&rsquo... Go to Article » In Defence of The Third Way: A Response to Peter Hand
(01/01/99)
In Issue 53 of Interstate, Peter Hand argued that the ‘Third Way’ was nothing but a well packaged combination of rhetoric... Go to Article » Will 'New Britain' Mean the End of the UK?
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It cannot have escaped any layman’s notice that the United Kingdom will very soon cease to mean anything to anybody at all,... Go to Article » Is Bombing Serbia Legal?
(01/01/99)
Since the commencement of the Nato action against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), the broadsheets have been full of debate... Go to Article » What Reasons Do We Have to Bomb Serbia?
(01/01/99)
Once again, President Slobodan Milosevic has demonstrated his impunity towards the will of the international community. After prosecuting... Go to Article » Western Intelligence - Nothing More Than A Cold War Relic?
(01/01/97)
I have not seen Goldeneye (honest!) but I do remember a clip where James Bond is admonished as a “relic” for not being... Go to Article » The Necessity and Caution for Theatre Missile Defence
(01/01/97)
In March, 1996, Mrs Thatcher reinvigorated the debate over ballistic missile defence in a speech at Fulton, USA, where she conveyed... Go to Article » Is "Maternal Love" a Cause of Peace?
(01/01/97)
In Inter-State, spring 1995, Ms K. Clancy writes about one of today’s issues, the role of feminism in the international relations... Go to Article » The United Nations at 50 - Dead or Alive?
(01/01/97)
When we commemorated the United Nations’ 50th anniversary last year, we all asked the question – what has the UN achieved... Go to Article » Change Within the Conservative and Labour Parties
(01/01/97)
Much has changed in the past years yet we still have the same two dominant parties as we did in 1922. I do not intend to give a historical... Go to Article » Re-stating the Case for Monarchy
(01/01/97)
Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Aberystwyth, to open the new extension of the National Library of Wales, has predictably... Go to Article » What Future for a Polarised Europe?
(01/01/97)
It is a paradox of modern day politics that an issue of such immense constitutional and practical significance to the future of Britain... Go to Article » To Be or Not to Be: The OSCE in the 'New Europe'
(01/01/97)
The aim of this article is to assess the role of the Organisation of Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in the post-Cold... Go to Article » International NGOs and the 'New Humanitarian Agenda'
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This article is based on a paper presented at the workshop on Understanding Security and Development in Africa, University of Wales... Go to Article » The Western Media and Africa: Issues of Information and Images
(01/01/97)
As we approach the millennium, with the triumph of the United States over Russia, capitalism over socialism and the market over planning... Go to Article » Where a Loan is Better Than a Gift
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A mother makes aprons and children’s clothes and sells them in a local market. She needs money to buy materials and thread.... Go to Article » A Question of Identity
(01/01/97)
Pauline Hanson is the most controversial politician in Australia. Since early September, the Queensland MP has divided Australian... Go to Article » Northern Ireland Revisited
(01/01/97)
I was prompted to review the situation in Northern Ireland for a number of reasons, not least because my previous article published... Go to Article » Should Politicians Be Legally Accountable for Their Election Promises?
(01/01/97)
It is obvious that the majority of the population finds the breaking of promises, especially those made during an election, unpropitious... Go to Article » McPeace
(01/01/97)
War has been an ever present phenomenon in the international system. A solution to this problem has eluded policy-makers and international... Go to Article » Covert Propaganda in the Cold War
(01/01/97)
E.H. Carr defined propaganda as “the specific means by which a state gained power over opinion.”(1) This definition includes... Go to Article » Securing the Skies: Threats to Civil Aviation From International Terrorism
(01/01/97)
Threats to international security may assume many guises all of which deserve thorough analysis. Indeed, as we approach the new millennium... Go to Article » Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and the Efficacy of Deterrence
(01/01/97)
Nuclear weapons were first used in anger during the Second World War against the Japanese. The Horishima and Nagasaki experience... Go to Article » Light Sabres in Space: Soviet Views on SDI
(01/01/97)
President Ronald Reagan branded the USSR an “evil empire” in March 1983. A few days later he instigated a “long... Go to Article » Deng Xiaoping and the Future
(01/01/97)
On the nineteenth of February Deng Xiaoping, the dominant figure of Chinese politics for 19 years, died and left behind him a booming... Go to Article » A Victory For The Centre? Americans Re-Endorse Clinton and the Politics of Divided Government
(01/01/97)
In one of the more memorable moments of the otherwise dull BBC coverage of US election night, veteran political commentator Charles... Go to Article » |
