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The Impact Of Countries' Leaders' Responses On Covid-19 Deaths, Kate Rumisek

Honors Undergraduate Theses

The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented health crisis with consequences felt worldwide. While every country was impacted, each leader had a different response resulting in different consequences per nation. This paper evaluates the responses of three countries' leaders to the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to COVID-19-related deaths. The countries analyzed are New Zealand, Brazil, and the United States. New Zealand's Prime Minister's response was characterized as proactive and strict. Under the leadership of Bolsonaro, Brazil ignored the magnitude of the pandemic, leading to a lack of a cohesive national plan. The United States, led by President Trump, responded with a …

U.S. Party Platforms And Their Response To Racial Issues, Megan Moylan

Honors Undergraduate Theses

This thesis examines the handling of racial issues in United States political party platforms from 1964 to 2016. The primary objective of this study is to analyze how the two major political parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, have approached issues of race in their platforms.

To accomplish this, a content analysis was conducted on the platforms of both parties during this time period. Each reference to race in the platforms was categorized as either "acclaim," "defend," or "attack." "Acclaim" refers to statements that praise racial progress or advocate for policies that benefit marginalized communities. "Defend" refers to …

When The Clocks Strike Thirteen: Political Repression In Modern America (1990-2015), Faiza Begani

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Abounding acts of repression committed in democracies have continued to be overlooked and under-analyzed by many researchers and scholars due to "democratic exceptionalism". As the United States enters yet another consecutive year of declining political satisfaction and freedom. It has become pertinent that as conflict study researchers, scholars, and readers alike that there is a basic understanding of coercion including acts that have been committed within our own countries. Countless scholars have focused conflict study research on underdeveloped or emerging democracies, yet many have overlooked the seamy side of developed ones. This article aims to explain the relationship between the …

Role Of Revolutionary Leadership In Iran To Its Foreign Policy, Aida Latorre

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the role of different leadership styles within Iran and how such leadership changes influenced Iranian foreign policy. The study utilized event-data analysis of Iranian history and current events and discussed the role of realist and idealist to the development of Iran into the regional power it is today as well as how Western relations played a role in developing Iranian foreign policy, particularly with regard to its nuclear development. The main body of the study drew from the dynamics within Iran, its relations with the West, relations with Israel, and relations with other foreign powers. The event-data …

A Microeconomic Model Of Healthcare Systems: From Theoretical To Practical, Jesse Helligso

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This thesis is a microeconomic market analysis of healthcare systems. Different countries use various forms for financing and providing healthcare, and the effects of market forces on the quality, access and economic efficiency of these divergent healthcare markets is the primary subject. The purpose of this thesis is to describe the forces working in the healthcare market. Free-market healthcare systems allow medical providers to become price-setters. Price-setting by medical providers creates an economically inefficient system which decreases public access to healthcare but creates a high quality system. Single-payer systems make government the price-setter which creates a system in which medical …

Questions On Disarmament And Your Job, Friends Committee On National Legislation (U.S.)

PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

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The Ideological Struggle In The American Left, New Century Publishers

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The Philosophy Of Communism, James E. Jackson

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Constitution Of The United States: Founding Of The Bourgeois Republic, Arnold Petersen

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Poverty And Deprivation In The United States: The Plight Of Two-Fifths Of A Nation, Conference On Economic Progress (U.S.)

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Main Street To Wall Street: End The Cold War!, Gus Hall

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The Crime Against Cuba, Corliss Lamont

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Civil Defense: Both Red And Dead, Arthur I. Waskow

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Disarm To Parley: A Case For Unilateral Disarmament, W. M. Ferry

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The Cuban Episode And The American Press: April 9-23, 1961, Norbert L. Mintz

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The Student Protest Movement A Recapitulation, George R. Boynton

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Colossal Deception: Analysis Of The Shelter Program, Linus Pauling

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The Fascist Revival: The Inside Story Of The John Birch Society, Mike Newberry

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U. S. Foreign Policy And The Soviet Union, Fred Warner Neal

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A Proposal For A Ban On The Use Of Nuclear Weapons, Morton H. Halperin

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Cuba Versus Cia, Robert E. Light

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Socialist Industrial Unionism: The Workers' Power, Eric Hass

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Disarmament And The American Economy: A Symposium, James Stewart Allen

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Is Disarmament Possible?, Friends Committee On National Legislation (U.S.)

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The Struggle Against Opportunism In The American Labor Movement: An Appraisal Of Daniel De Leon, Leonid Grigorevich Raiskii

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Labor And The Cold War, Stewart Meacham

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Unionism: Fraudulent Or Genuine?, Nathan Karp

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The United States And China: Peace Or War?, Herbert Aptheker

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Democracy And Desegregation, Sidney Hook

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Questions For The Left, Sidney Lens

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