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An Entheogenic Endeavor: Exploring Indigenous Healing In Modern Times, Samantha J. Deboer Mar 2022

An Entheogenic Endeavor: Exploring Indigenous Healing In Modern Times, Samantha J. Deboer

Honors Projects

There are thousands of years of practice and tradition surrounding the use of entheogens as medicine in indigenous cultures around the world. While our modern western culture methodically dives into this research whilst exploring these medicines for pharmaceutical usage, this work delves into indigenous and shamanic cultures uses of these plants.


Poverty And Homelessness: History, Contributing Factors, Modern Reality And Misconceptions, Personal Narratives, And Community Impact, Makaella Caruth Apr 2021

Poverty And Homelessness: History, Contributing Factors, Modern Reality And Misconceptions, Personal Narratives, And Community Impact, Makaella Caruth

Honors Projects

This paper provides tangible explanations and evidence as to the severity of poverty and homelessness. It utilizes national and local research, interviews with local organizations and programs, and personal experience doing outreach. Homelessness is a complex social issue stemming from how society was built and how it is regulated, which systemically outcasts those who are facing adversity. Many people are unaware of the realities of poverty and homelessness, especially with the power given to stereotypes and preconceived notions. These misconceptions need to be broken and there must be a more unified approach developed in order to overcome them, which involves …


Present At The Destruction? Grand Strategy Imperatives Of Us Foreign Policy Experts During The Trump Presidency, Hermann Kurthen May 2020

Present At The Destruction? Grand Strategy Imperatives Of Us Foreign Policy Experts During The Trump Presidency, Hermann Kurthen

Peer Reviewed Articles

This article discusses the grand strategy imperatives of 37 foreign policy experts in Washington, DC. in response to President Donald Trump's nationalist challenge to the post-WWII international order concept. Using an abductive reconstructivist methodology to analyze in-depth interviews, five grand strategy imperatives or rules for action shared by all actors were identified: safeguarding US global leadership, maintaining alliances, securing US prosperity, value orientation, and the belief in a mission. Based on the interpretation of these rules for action, four types of foreign policy experts were distinguished: nationalists, realists, pragmatic liberals, and liberals. The latter three expert types, also labelled globalists, …


Reducing Food Insecurity In Kent County: Assessing The Progress, Nichole Rydahl, Stephen Borders Phd, Mshp Jan 2010

Reducing Food Insecurity In Kent County: Assessing The Progress, Nichole Rydahl, Stephen Borders Phd, Mshp

Student Summer Scholars Manuscripts

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