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The Permanence Of The Sustainable Development Complex, Christopher Ginou
The Permanence Of The Sustainable Development Complex, Christopher Ginou
2016 Undergraduate Awards
Conventional wisdom tells us that sustainable development is the most effective solution to ecological protection, so what has this wisdom led to? Supporters of environmental sustainability have created a permanent sustainable development complex that is embedded within our business culture and the economy. This paper will reveal reasons why this permanence of sustainability has continued and why liberal environmentalism is used indefinitely. Some of these reasons being that sustainable development provides economic growth along with more efficient practices that can be utilized longer than before, and that sustainable development has been argued to produce substantial results that liberal environmentalist theorists …
Transwomen And The Prison Industrial Complex, Naciza Masikini
Transwomen And The Prison Industrial Complex, Naciza Masikini
2016 Undergraduate Awards
As one of the fastest growing populations in the prison system, transwomen have a unique relationship with the prison system and the Prison Industrial Complex. These systems work to further the marginalization of transwomen by subjecting them to psychological and sexual violence. Transwomen’s bodies are criminalized in ways that naturalizes the violence they experience both in the prisons and in the court systems. This paper aims to provide an overview of the ways in which transwomen are dehumanized in their encounters with the criminal justice system (i.e. mis-gendering, the physical and sexual abuse they experience) by contextualizing their experiences. Through …
The Uber Effect, Richard William Kelly
The Uber Effect, Richard William Kelly
2016 Undergraduate Awards
Taxi industries across the world have been affected by a new trend in transportation; ridesharing services. It is suggested that this effect has been demonstrated through falling taxi medallion prices. This recent decline in taxi medallion prices has been coined the term “The Uber Effect”. This paper analyzes the effect that Uber has had on the taxi industry’s medallion prices since UberX has entered three different markets: New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia. The price of a taxi medallion is modeled against a variable of interest: number of Uber drivers in a city, and control variables: unemployment rate, long term …