As the number of Jewish Holocaust survivors continues to decline, we must find new
ways to capture their hardships, memories, and legacies. Artistic images and dramatic
representations possess the ability to meet this ...
Functionalized benzosuberene analogues represent an emerging class of anticancer agents that are inspired, in part, by combretastatin A-4 (CA4), a natural product found in bark extracts from Combretum caffrum, an African ...
In the Phenomenology of Spirit G.W. F. Hegel puts forth a number of ideas on
man’s relationship with the world. In his chapter on the “Dialectic of Subject,”
specifically, Hegel looks at the ability of self-consciousness ...
Everyone has needs. Whether we are struck by physical or spiritual hunger, poverty and brokenness, we all must have something or someone come and meet our needs. Ultimately, our physical and spiritual needs reflect our ...
Although many scholars discuss the importance of Christian images in Thomas Hardy’s poetry, most conclude that the ideas and images of the Christian faith were ultimately inadequate for Hardy in his attempts to find hope ...
The Imbirikani Girls High School is an all-girls secondary school that educates
Maasai girls in southwest Kenya and provides its students with the necessary skills to
fulfill their future goals. This business plan outlines ...
In order to alleviate the burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa it is important to understand the impact of lifestyle variables for public health efforts to be effective at the level of the household. This cross-sectional ...
Human trafficking is a global phenomenon with important implications for conceptualizations of citizenship, gender and sovereignty. The approaches by the US government and many academic studies of trafficking are based ...
My thesis explores the ways in which C.S. Lewis uses his love for and knowledge of medieval literature in the writing of his science fiction trilogy. I examine and define the medieval intertextual tradition that C.S. Lewis ...
Approximately 19.5 million people watched the NCAA Men’s Basketball Division I National Championship in 2008. Beyond the financial gains through ticket and merchandise sales, what type of impact, if any, does this widely ...
What can modern philosophers of time learn from the fictional works of C.S. Lewis? In this thesis I demonstrate that Lewis’s conception of time as exemplified throughout his works, but particularly in the Chronicles of ...
The impetus for my thesis is the psychological predicament injustice creates,
namely, the paralyzing effect of suffering. As presented in Boethius’ Consolation of
Philosophy, I examine how the resolution to this problem ...
From the 1970s into the 1980s, Argentina and Guatemala were both ruled by ruthless military dictatorships that systematically killed and tortured men, women and children as a part of their respective wars on subversion. ...
Music is often thought of as a nonverbal language, capable of communicating emotional messages. Areas of the brain have been identified that, when damaged, affect only musical skills. At the same time, while the initial ...
C.S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity that “If I find in myself a desire that no experience in this world can satisfy, the best possible explanation is that I was made for another world.” From this experience of desire for ...
Geographically and economically, New Orleans is unique among North American cities. New Orleans is an island city surrounded by marsh, bayous, lakes and rivers constructed on over four hundred square miles of artificial ...
Oral health is a primary component of health that can have a large impact on the overall health and wellbeing of a person, yet it is commonly overlooked. In the United States, dental caries is the most common chronic disease ...
To assess the unique relationship twins share with each other, mothers of twins were self-selected via announcements distributed through 17 Mothers of Multiples Clubs in Texas. Participants completed a survey containing ...
Over the last 15 years, more than 500 children have died in the United States after being trapped in the hazardous conditions within motor vehicles. Most of these deaths involved children left unattended in the cabin of ...
Illegal downloading of music files has plagued the recording industry for years and stricter enforcement of piracy laws has shown little effectiveness in slowing this phenomenon. This paper studies the effect that religion ...