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The Case for Institutionalizing Nuclear Munitions: A Probabilistic Game Theory Analysis
(2017-02-03)
The spread of nuclear weapons is a hotly debated topic, with two dominating schools of thought. One school espouses the belief that horizontal nuclear proliferation is inevitable and that increased proliferation engenders ...
Satirizing the Use of Children as Soldiers in Africa: An Analysis of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy – a Novel in Rotten English and Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation and the First Half of an Original Novel, Odi’s Odyssey
(2017-02-07)
This essay on satire of war explores how two African writers, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Uzodinma Iweala, deride the use of children as soldiers in their novels, Sozaboy – A Novel in Rotten English (1985) and Beasts of No Nation ...
Compassionate Sacrifice: The Buddhist Incorporation of Vedic Homa Rituals
(2017-02-27)
This thesis traces the origins and history of homa in India paying special attention to its Buddhist variations. It compares the Vedic, Hindu, and Buddhist tantric homa rituals and examines similarities and differences ...
Literary Legacy: Rachel Carson's Influence on Contemporary Women Nature Writers
(2017-02-14)
While Rachel Carson is perhaps best known for her book Silent Spring and her work as a scientist and environmentalist, she is often overlooked as an important writer of literature, as evidenced through Silent Spring but ...
Israel, Palestine, and the Last Four U.S. Presidencies: An In-Depth Analysis
(2017-01-09)
The Israel-Palestine conflict is, at the same time, one of the most important challenges in international politics and one of the most difficult issues to solve. The problem is made worse by the fact that stakeholders ...
The Relationship Between Parental Nature Relatedness and Overweight/Obesity in Elementary School Children
(2017-03-03)
This survey based study involving 97 adult participants (86 mothers and 11 fathers) recruited at a small suburban pediatric clinic examined possible associations between parental nature relatedness and the body composition ...
Defending Desdemona, Reclaiming Cordelia: A Woman-Centric Defense of Shakespeare's Heroines in Othello and King Lear
(2017-02-07)
Since the debut of Othello and King Lear more than 400 years ago, the characters of Desdemona and Cordelia have largely served to highlight the despair and fall of their male counterparts. The rise of women’s power in the ...
Innovative Pricing Models Potentially Drive Payer Coverage: A Market Access Case Study for RNAi Therapeutics
(2017-01-30)
The objective of this thesis is to establish a strong understanding of the US payer landscape and key influencers in the orphan disease space. This investigation will also provide a foundational understanding of the payer ...
On Not Knowing Death: The Figure of the Soldier in the Novels of Virginia Woolf
(2017-02-14)
I find that of all the things that drive Virginia Woolf’s work, war is most important. To understand war in her writing, I study the three soldier characters appearing in her novels: Jacob Flanders, Jacob’s Room (1922); ...
The Black Family and Community as Contributors to Increased Academic Achievement: The Ethnographical and Historical Case of the Archer Family From 1647-2017
(2017-02-28)
The Black Family and Community as Contributors to Increased Academic Achievement: The Ethnographical and Historical Case of the Archer Family from 1647-2017, is a study that focuses on John Archer (1647-1718), who was one ...