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Physician-Assisted Suicide Within A Kantian Framework, Daksha Bhatia
Physician-Assisted Suicide Within A Kantian Framework, Daksha Bhatia
Philosophy
The highly polarized debate over the practice of physician-assisted suicide is relatively new to the realm of ethical issues. Physician-assisted suicide was first explicitly legalized in the United States in 1994, when Oregon passed its Death with Dignity Act. Although the Act stipulates that a doctor “may prescribe a lethal dose of medication to terminally ill people under certain conditions,” the term physician-assisted suicide also encompasses giving a patient information on how to commit suicide, or giving them the means to do so in a form other than a prescription. Physician-assisted suicide is different from euthanasia in that the patient, …
Elements Of A Self-Deconstructive Ethic, Cameron R. Waldman
Elements Of A Self-Deconstructive Ethic, Cameron R. Waldman
Philosophy
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Oprah Winfrey V. Texas Cattlemen, Food Libel Laws In The United States And The Constitutionality Of The Texas False Disparagement Of Perishable Food Products Act, Kathleen Mullins
Oprah Winfrey V. Texas Cattlemen, Food Libel Laws In The United States And The Constitutionality Of The Texas False Disparagement Of Perishable Food Products Act, Kathleen Mullins
History
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A New View, Meaghan Mulligan
Mary Shelley’S Frankenstein: The Creature’S Attempt At Humanization, Noelle Webster
Mary Shelley’S Frankenstein: The Creature’S Attempt At Humanization, Noelle Webster
English
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The Backwards Making Of A Heroine: Mary Cowden Clarke’S Girlhood And Its Importance In The Shakespearean Conversation, Jillian Caramanna
The Backwards Making Of A Heroine: Mary Cowden Clarke’S Girlhood And Its Importance In The Shakespearean Conversation, Jillian Caramanna
English
No abstract provided.
Without A Place But Always Trying To Be Placed: Between Hope And Impossibility In Samuel Beckett’S Molloy, Joseph Stepansky
Without A Place But Always Trying To Be Placed: Between Hope And Impossibility In Samuel Beckett’S Molloy, Joseph Stepansky
English
No abstract provided.
Bodies Of Flesh, Bodies Of Knowledge: Representations Of Female Genital Cutting And Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery, Maureen Whitcomb
Bodies Of Flesh, Bodies Of Knowledge: Representations Of Female Genital Cutting And Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery, Maureen Whitcomb
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
This paper will examine popular feminist and mainstream representations of female genital cutting (FGC) and female genital cosmetic surgery (FGCS) and its influence on the creation of effective cross-cultural dialogue and engagement in a deeper understanding of cultural practices. I suggest that these current depictions of FGC and FGCS highlight cultural differences and overlook similarities that exist between the two practices. I further posit that the inability to recognize similarities that exist between FGC and FGCS does not allow for an examination of power structures in regards to who has the power to define these cultural practices as they exist …
Atoms For Peace, Us Foreign Policy And The Globalization Of Nuclear Technology, 1953-1960, Mara Drogan
Atoms For Peace, Us Foreign Policy And The Globalization Of Nuclear Technology, 1953-1960, Mara Drogan
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation analyzes the bilateral agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy enacted under President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace program from 1953 to 1960. It challenges previous representations of Atoms for Peace that depict it as a legitimate attempt at arms control or dismiss it as a mere propaganda campaign. Atoms for Peace was not intended to be a disarmament measure. Instead, it united nuclear, economic, and foreign policy objectives in a synergistic program intended to fulfill a number of postwar aims: blunting nuclear fears in order to quiet criticisms of the American nuclear project, supporting postwar …
The Effect Of Acculturation And Ethnic Identity On Perceived Racism In African American And Black West Indian Populations, Jerome Farrell
The Effect Of Acculturation And Ethnic Identity On Perceived Racism In African American And Black West Indian Populations, Jerome Farrell
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Black Americans comprise 14% of the total population in the U.S. (U.S. Census, 2010), and describes a diverse group of people with many different unique challenges and struggles based upon their specific cultural or ethnic group. Black Americans not only include African Americans but people of African descent from the Caribbean or the African Continent. The difference in country of origin and the subsequent culture of these different groups have led to a rich cultural diversity among Black Americans. This study examined the different cultural experiences of Black Americans.
Response In Real Time : Bringing Context To A Semester's Responses To Student Writing, Scott James O'Callaghan
Response In Real Time : Bringing Context To A Semester's Responses To Student Writing, Scott James O'Callaghan
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Within the field of Composition, research into responding to student writing has most frequently studied individual responses outside the material contexts in which those responses were produced. Advice given to teachers of writing on how best to respond to large amounts of writing--perennially a feature within the reality of the work writing teachers do--has tended to be similarly acontextual. However, further research into response must take into account writing teachers' material conditions and situatedness.
Confraternity And Community : Negotiating Ethnicity, Gender And Place In Colonial Tecamachalco, Mexico, Annette Dionne Richie
Confraternity And Community : Negotiating Ethnicity, Gender And Place In Colonial Tecamachalco, Mexico, Annette Dionne Richie
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Cofradías, lay religious brotherhoods introduced to New Spain by Mendicant friars in the mid-16th century, were optimal vehicles for corporate consciousness. This case study in colonialism, evangelization and ethnic politics centers on avenues and strategies for assessing, accommodating and rejecting cultural elements from "foreign" groups, as well as the freedom to assemble and incorporate, but also marginalize, others.
Boricuas Islenos Y NuyorriqueñOs : La ConstruccióN De Identidades PuertorriqueñAs A TravéS De La PoesíA De La Calle, Carla Santamaria
Boricuas Islenos Y NuyorriqueñOs : La ConstruccióN De Identidades PuertorriqueñAs A TravéS De La PoesíA De La Calle, Carla Santamaria
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Boricuas isleños y nuyorriqueños: La construcción de identidades puertorriqueñas a través de la poesía de la calle
Beyond Bigamy : Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Attempts To Challenge And Change Expectations Of The Middle Class Victorian Woman, Alisa M. Scapatici
Beyond Bigamy : Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Attempts To Challenge And Change Expectations Of The Middle Class Victorian Woman, Alisa M. Scapatici
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
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Castilian Transcodic Markers In Internet Catalan : Analysis Of Generic, Regional And Linguistic Factors, Craig Stokes
Castilian Transcodic Markers In Internet Catalan : Analysis Of Generic, Regional And Linguistic Factors, Craig Stokes
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation is a study of Castilian transcodic markers in the Catalan written on the Internet. Thirty Castilian transcodic markers representing five categories were run through the interface of the Corpus d'Ús del Català a la Web (CucWeb) to collect information in order to conduct both qualitative and quantitative analysis. The major research questions to be answered deal with the absolute and relative frequencies of these transcodic markers in the CucWeb and the factors behind the production of these non-standard forms. In addition to the frequency of the Castilian transcodic markers in the CucWeb, the initial study provides qualitative analysis …
Child Soldiers, Armed Conflicts, And Tactical Innovations, Robert Tynes
Child Soldiers, Armed Conflicts, And Tactical Innovations, Robert Tynes
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Most armed conflicts in the late 20th and early 21st century involve the use of child soldiers. Children have been used in wars before the modern era, but this study argues that a shift has occurred in contemporary conflicts. Child soldier use has become a tactical innovation. Fighting factions utilize children as soldiers in order to gain an advantage on the battlefield. Several different analytical approaches are used in order to test the argument. First, a large-N regression analysis (1987-2007) reveals that depending on the dyadic relationship between government and opposition forces, intensity of war, military expenditures per GDP, political …
Site Identification, Delineation, And Evaluation Through Quantitative Spatial Analysis : Geostatistical And Gis Methods To Facilitate Archaeological Resource Assessment, James Scott Cardinal
Site Identification, Delineation, And Evaluation Through Quantitative Spatial Analysis : Geostatistical And Gis Methods To Facilitate Archaeological Resource Assessment, James Scott Cardinal
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis presents a brief overview of quantitative spatial analysis in archaeology with a discussion of the theoretical and methodological issues involved, and describes a set of methods for using Geographic Information System (GIS) software and spatial statistics for the assessment of archaeological resources. GIS has become a nearly ubiquitous and indispensable tool in many fields of resource management including archaeology. It is, however, applied by archaeologists most frequently for basic cartographic representations, large-scale regional analyses, or resource management data warehousing. Such applications underutilize the scale-independence of GIS, which is equally potent for intra-project data assessment. This thesis describes a …
The Catskill Commons Precontact Archeological Sites : Late Archaic Occupations In The Mid-Hudson River Drainage, Lori Jones Blair
The Catskill Commons Precontact Archeological Sites : Late Archaic Occupations In The Mid-Hudson River Drainage, Lori Jones Blair
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Archeological excavations conducted in advance of a retail development in the Town of Catskill, Greene County, New York revealed three precontact archeological sites occupying a distinct ecological setting connected to a wetland environment. The sites include a large, single-component site, Site CC3, accompanied by two smaller single-component sites, Sites CC1 and CC2.
Poison In The System : Symbols On The Body And The Body As A Symbol In Select Works Of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kathleen Mary Crouse
Poison In The System : Symbols On The Body And The Body As A Symbol In Select Works Of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kathleen Mary Crouse
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
In three texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Birth-Mark," "Rappaccini's Daughter," and The Scarlet Letter, the main female characters share one central trait: a problematic femininity that causes the men in their lives to regard them as something other, and thus suspect. Hawthorne develops this idea of femininity as a defect, and endows these women with actual bodily anomalies in order to explore the ways in which the symbols on the body, or the body itself, invite a variety of interpretation. In doing so, he shows that these interpretations reveal as much or more about the interpreter as they do the …
An Experience With Language, Alexandra Beth Cummings
An Experience With Language, Alexandra Beth Cummings
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
An Experience with Language is a collection of genres designed to incorporate modern-day conversational language and slang for the purpose of tempting young adults into partaking in an involvement in reading--from Young Adult literature to the classic canonical texts. After having encountered numerous adolescents who claim to "not read"--a statement implying not that they are illiterate, but rather have little to no interest in reading--I wondered what, exactly, was contributing to this growing, nation-wide apathy towards literature. With a library or bookstore in every town, how is it possible that the percentage of those who read for pleasure has plummeted …
Life At The Watervliet Shaker Village : An Archaeological And Historical Approach, Joseph John Grygas
Life At The Watervliet Shaker Village : An Archaeological And Historical Approach, Joseph John Grygas
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
To date Shaker archaeology is currently in a relatively primitive stage. Most investigation at Shaker sites has resulted from construction projects and these surveys say very little about Shaker life. It was not until David Starbuck's 2004 "Neither Plain Nor Simple: New Perspectives on the Canterbury Shakers" did a major interpretive work on the Shaker's appear. An opportunity arose to work with the Shaker Heritage Society at Watervliet to do a limited survey at a Dwelling House site. This opportunity was used to test Starbuck's conclusions at another Shaker village. The findings reveal that the Shakers were indeed not strictly …
The Raven Loup : A Modern-Day Romance Novella, Andrew John Hamilton
The Raven Loup : A Modern-Day Romance Novella, Andrew John Hamilton
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
In her appropriately-titled study, Romance, Barbara Fuchs introduces the romantic in literature as the "textual strategy[:] a concatenation of both narratological elements and literary topoi, including idealization, the marvelous, narrative delay, wandering, and obscured identity, that [...] both pose a quest and complicate it". The purpose of this thesis is to creatively employ the "textual strategy" of romance, applying it to a story set in the near-present with modern-day symbols, events, and characters. With this in mind, the traditional romantic hero is a warrior, a general, or a knight with physical or mental prowess that goes beyond the scope of …
Sacrifice In The Name Of Sacred Duty : The Representations Of The Decembrist Wives In Russian Culture, 1825--Present, Anna Viktorovna Biel
Sacrifice In The Name Of Sacred Duty : The Representations Of The Decembrist Wives In Russian Culture, 1825--Present, Anna Viktorovna Biel
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation explores the mythologized collective image of the Decembrist wives, eleven noblewomen who voluntarily followed to Siberian exile their officer husbands after the latter's failed revolt against Emperor Nicholas I on December 14, 1825. Exploring the multiplicity of the Decembrist wives' representations and self-representations that have emerged in Russian culture since 1825, this study reveals the complexity and constructed nature of these women's historical image that places almost exclusive emphasis on their role as wives to portray them as epitomes of self-sacrificial wifely love and loyalty and an embodiment of ideal Russian femininity. Through the examination of the unpublished …
The Construction Of Reading Identity In Struggling Middle School Readers, Anna Marie Anatriello Bonafide
The Construction Of Reading Identity In Struggling Middle School Readers, Anna Marie Anatriello Bonafide
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Middle school students bring various identities into the classroom including their reading identities, their self concepts concerning their views of themselves as readers. Using identity and psycho-social and socio-cultural theoretical constructs as a foundation, I conducted phenomenological case studies that focused on middle school remedial readers and the means by which their reading identities are constructed within and outside the institution of school. The study investigated in- school factors which impact student reading identities, including interactions with remedial and classroom teachers, as well as out- of- school factors such as family literacy.
"Selling New York State To The Nation" : The 1939/1940 New York World's Fair, Mary Ann Borden
"Selling New York State To The Nation" : The 1939/1940 New York World's Fair, Mary Ann Borden
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
American exhibitions after 1853 were linked to motivating themes and the celebration of historical events, while presenting at various times a prophetic implication. They were cultural, political, social, scientific, educational, and promotional extravaganzas, and at times a direct response to a depressed economy. The fairs presented ingenuity from the smallest mouthwatering pickle to the automobile. Amusements ranging from decadent peeps shows to thrilling rides sparkled within the various Midway Plaisances. Architecture became a marketing strategy, especially within the later fairs. Advertisements abounded via posters, pamphlets, magazine and newspapers ads, radio, newsreels, and finally television. An underlying theme, one that appears …
Caribbean Hauntings And Transnational Regionalism In Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century American Literature, Bethany Aery Clerico
Caribbean Hauntings And Transnational Regionalism In Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century American Literature, Bethany Aery Clerico
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Caribbean Hauntings and Transnational Regionalism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature offers a new literary map of U.S. history that is routed through the Caribbean and that intervenes in certain historiographic problems that exceptionalism creates for national literary studies. In the literature of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin R. Delany, Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, I tease out references to the Caribbean that other critics have overlooked as a result of strictly national frames of analysis. These references evidence that each text is haunted by a Caribbean presence, a phrase that signifies both a "real" Caribbean, a political and …
Isaac V. Elizabeth Gouverneur : Sex, Sensibility, And The Creation Of New York's 1787 Divorce Law, Michelle Dorothy Duross
Isaac V. Elizabeth Gouverneur : Sex, Sensibility, And The Creation Of New York's 1787 Divorce Law, Michelle Dorothy Duross
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Isaac v. Elizabeth Gouverneur: Sex, Sensibility, and the Creation of New York's 1787 Divorce Law combines legal and cultural history to illuminate the beginning of judicial divorce in New York State, analyzing the creation of New York’s 1787 divorce law within a prism not previously used in studies relating to early New York divorce. Prior scholarship has either denied the existence of the 1787 law or concentrated on nineteenth-century rulings to conclude that alimony was always dependent on a wife’s innocence. Chancery Court records from 1787 to 1814, however, show that guilty wives were granted alimony, illustrating a significant change …
The Drinking Age Debates, Joy Shana Newman Getnick
The Drinking Age Debates, Joy Shana Newman Getnick
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
In times when regulation, not prohibition, has prevailed, Americans have struggled to regulate youth and young adult alcohol use in a way that targets undesirable problem behaviors and future potential for severe abuse, while acknowledging the realities of youthful moderate drinking. Historically, changes in youth drinking laws reflected new adult understandings of youth alcohol use. These laws were a legislative manifestation of changing public opinion, and the perceived role that policy should play in promoting safe, intelligent drinking behavior.
As They Saw The Thirties : Activist Youth's Vision Of And For America, Britt Haas
As They Saw The Thirties : Activist Youth's Vision Of And For America, Britt Haas
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
During the Great Depression, young radicals developed a vision of and for America that they tried to implement. That vision was molded by their understanding of recent historical events, in particular the Great War and the global economic collapse, as well as by the events unfolding both at home and abroad in the 1930s. Young people came together, forming youth organizations under the leadership of radical activists to make their vision of a free, equal, democratic society based on peaceful coexistence a reality. At first, youth organized on a sectarian basis, but by 1935, two umbrella groups- the American Youth …
RéCits De Filiation : ÉTude De Trois Perspectives Dans La LittéRature QuéBéCoise Contemporaine, Danielle Jouet-Pastre
RéCits De Filiation : ÉTude De Trois Perspectives Dans La LittéRature QuéBéCoise Contemporaine, Danielle Jouet-Pastre
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
La littérature québécoise se transforme de manière significative entre les années 1960-80 avec la présence d'écrivains de souche étrangère, ce qui élargit considérablement la thématique, le style et les horizons culturels d'une littérature autrefois monoculturelle.