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 ...
In June 2012 the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). This landmark case has set a new precedent that will have long-lasting effects on the relationship ...
Goldbach's conjecture, proposed in 1742, is one of the oldest open questions in mathematics. Much work has been done on the problem, and despite significant progress, a solution remains elusive. The goal of this paper is ...
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 ...
This thesis is a study of ordinary work in medieval spirituality and is focused on several texts selected for their continuity of themes: The Rule of St. Benedict (6th century), the Middle English pastoral treatise Our ...
Manual therapy techniques are often used to augment the healing process by professionals such as massage therapists, athletic trainers, and physical therapists. The term manual therapy includes a wide variety of techniques ...
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 ...
In this paper, I present a philosophical analysis of petitionary prayer, from the
perspective of one who engages in petitionary prayer on a regular basis. This
paper looks at the basis for petitionary prayer from the ...
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 ...
In this thesis, I propose to examine six parables of Christ through the interpretive tools common to patristic and medieval forms of exegesis. Beginning with a close examination of primary sources, I consider the fundamental ...
This paper estimated the change in price of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in world LNG markets and U.S. domestic markets if the U.S. were to start exporting LNG. We then calculated the estimated effect of such a change in ...
Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem among many strains of bacteria, especially within the populations that most commonly infect hospital patients. A variety of molecules have been found that are capable of inhibiting ...
ABSTRACT
Poverty Alleviation Efforts in Kenya: Combining the Top Down Approach and the
Bottom Up Approach
Vanessa Nyaboke Onguti
Director: Steven Bradley, PhD
In the quest for poverty alleviation, there are typically ...
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a genetic disorder caused by a lack of the 11q-13q segment of the paternal chromosome 15. Although the cause of the lack of genetic information varies, the result is an extreme increase in ...
The last century of patristic scholarship has seen a striking revival in the study of the Cappadocian Fathers, with particular attention given to Origen of Alexandria, Gregory of Nyssa, and Maximus the Confessor. These ...
Automaticity is “the control of one's internal psychological processes by external stimuli and events in one's immediate environment, often without knowledge or awareness of such control” (Bargh and Williams, 2006). ...
This thesis demonstrates that any interpretation of the status of ‘mind-independent
reality’ or ‘the external world’ in Kant’s transcendental idealism is incomplete if it fails
to account for the metaphysical implications ...