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Improving Library Services For International Students, Lauren Marshall, Mina Chercourt
Improving Library Services For International Students, Lauren Marshall, Mina Chercourt
Grasselli Library
Inspired by the book, International Students and Academic Libraries: A Survey of Issues and Annotated Bibliography, we decided to investigate ways to improve library services for the international students at John Carroll University.
Paying The Price Of Civilization, Mindy Peden
Paying The Price Of Civilization, Mindy Peden
Political Science
Liberal democratic theory has not adequately addressed the tension between democracy and capitalism and this can be seen most clearly when trying to develop a political theory of taxation. Liberal democratic and public finance experts on taxation have focused on principles of justice and fairness. The imposition of specific kinds of taxes on Africans well after the beginning of colonialism in South Africa will help shed light on the internal challenges to liberalism that such a principled approach to taxation reveals. Through an extended exegesis on colonial tax policy, I will show how a faith in civilization, a racialized belief …
Maintaining Friendships In Early Stage Dementia: Factors To Consider, Phyllis Braudy Harris
Maintaining Friendships In Early Stage Dementia: Factors To Consider, Phyllis Braudy Harris
Sociology
Friendships and the importance of social connectiveness play a critical role in aging well, regardless of gender, race, social class, or impairment. Yet, dementia takes its toll on social relationships, and many friends withdraw and ‘disappear’, because they can no longer bear to see the changes that are taking place in their diagnosed friend. The dementia care literature documents this abandonment; however, this study examines the opposite occurrence. In order to understand more clearly the role of long-term friendships and how such friendships remain and continue, despite the diagnosis of dementia, this qualitative study examines in depth eight people in …