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The Waco Community Health Worker Program: A Qualitative Investigation and Community Focused Restructuring
(2021-01-06)Community health care worker programs have been increasingly used as a novel approach to reintegrating those historically excluded from healthcare, yet their varied characteristics lead to vastly different outcomes. The ... -
Waco Crime Trends, 1930 – 2013: A Comparative Study of Violent, Property, and Index Crime Rates
(2015)This thesis examines long-term trends of violent, property, and index crimes in Waco between 1930 and 2013. Data were drawn from the Uniform Crime Reports for the crime rates of Waco, the United States, Texas, three major ... -
The Waco lynching of 1916 : perspective and analysis.
(, 2018-01-22)Many lynchings have occurred in the United States. It is the purpose of this study to isolate one incident and compare its characteristics to other lynchings in Waco and to lynchings across the country. Though all lynchings ... -
Wages of Mexican American women : beyond human capital.
(2009-06-02)Labor force participation of Mexican American women, like the labor force participation of all women, has been increasing in recent years. Due to the increase in the labor force participation of Mexican American women, ... -
Walker Percy and the Catholic sacraments.
(2008-04-15)A noticeable void in Walker Percy studies is the absence of a full-length theological analysis of his treatment of the Catholic sacraments, an unfortunate omission considering the place they occupy in his work. This project ... -
Walker Percy's Comic Vision: Reconciling Grace in a Racially Riven Culture
(2018-05-21)Walker Percy—at once an heir of Southern Stoicism and also a Christian convert who rejected it—stands in a uniquely well-suited place to comment satirically and constructively upon the shortcomings of Southern culture. ... -
Walls Can Talk
(2019-05-24)Upon learning that a large factory in small-town Ohio is closing, tension between employees develops into violence. Though corporate greed is ultimately to blame, racial and social tensions result in a rage-fueled murder ... -
A War of Freedoms: Addressing Modern American Rights Talk
(2015)Modern American rights claims spring from a wide array of historical, legal, and metaphysical sources, but these different sources often lead to radically different ideas about which rights are most important. This confusion ... -
The War on Terror and the Question of Justice
This thesis project uses the Just War Tradition to consider if the War on Terror qualifies as an ethical war. The question is difficult because the War on Terror differs so markedly from traditional wars that have been ... -
Was there a Northern Dust Bowl? Evidence for heightened wind erosion and dust sources during the 1930s in the Northern Great Plains, USA.
(2021-08-08)The 1930s Dust Bowl Drought was a catastrophic event that caused widespread soil erosion and dust storms in the United States Southern Great Plains (SGP). Despite evidence for similar drought conditions and enhanced erosion, ... -
Watching Them, Watching Him: A Novella
(2017-05-23)Watching Them, Watching Him is a short novella featuring an infectious disease doctor by the name of Ari Nadim thrust into an epidemic. He is a doctor fresh out of residency with a hero complex that is quickly destroyed ... -
Water, Power, and Gender: Interrogating Development in the Slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh
(2015-05)Urban migratory trends represent one of the most significant challenges for modern international development. For, in the context of weak state capacity, urban migrants often funnel directly into slums—densely populated ... -
"The waters return": myth and mystery in Graham Swift's Waterland.
(2008-10-14)The following chapter will engage Waterland in isolation from Swift’s other novels and collection of short stories, not because these texts do not mutually illuminate one another, but because Waterland deserves a treatment ... -
Waveform and circuit optimizations to provide spectral compliance for cognitive radar.
(, 2014-06-11)Spectrum requirements on radar systems are becoming stricter due to the increasing number of wireless devices inhabiting the frequency spectrum. Future radar systems that are cognitive and flexible will be able to operate ... -
We believe in the Communion of Saints: a proposed Protestant reclamation of the doctrine.
(2006-10-26)The corrective theology of the Reformation broke the historic union, at least in Europe, among all members of the kingdom of God. Perhaps the most serious Protestant loss—one still not satisfactorily recovered—is the ... -
"We never met a foe in open field we did not drive, nor did we ever meet a foe who could drive us" : the 9th Texas Infantry.
(2009-08-25)The 9th Texas Infantry was formed at the start of the Civil War from companies recruited from North Texas. They fought with the Army of Tennessee until the end of the war. The men joined because of a variety of reasons ... -
'We Shall Not Fail Freedom': Oveta Culp Hobby's role in the formation and implementation of the Women's Army Corps.
(2007-12-03)Oveta Culp Hobby remains unknown to the average American, despite the fact that she was the first director of the Women’s Army Corp and was the second woman to hold a presidential cabinet position as the first Secretary ... -
Weak Rule of Law as the Primary Cause of Lower-Quality Latin American Democracies
(2020-09-02)Drawing on a deep tradition of rule of law literature, spanning from Aristotle to O’Donnell, this thesis argues that the main problem in modern Latin America is a weak rule of law evidenced by ineffective judicial systems ... -
Weakening the “illusion of memory knowledge” : a potential method for improving jurors' evaluation of eyewitness evidence.
(2019-05-31)Many efforts have been made to educate jurors about factors that influence the reliability of eyewitness memory. However, most of them fail to improve jurors’ sensitivity to the quality of a particular memory and instead ... -
Wealth Accumulation and Residential Segregation: Second-Generation Immigrants During the First Mass Migration
(2021-05-17)What is the long-run impact of growing up in a segregated enclave? This paper examines the relationship between residential segregation in childhood and wealth outcomes later in life. I use a new sample of Irish, German, ...