The Fifteenth Amendment ratified during Reconstruction ensured that no man would be denied equal access to the ballot based on the color of his skin. Although it took nearly a century to realize the full mandates of ...

Global pediatric surgery has remained a neglected area of concern, despite the disproportionate health care burden surgical conditions cause on the already vulnerable pediatric populations living in low and middle-income ...

Hildegard of Bingen, a twelfth-century German abbess (1098-1179), was not only a woman of great influence and power during her time, but she was also a female figure who wrote extensively about women – particularly about ...

Beginning in 1850, America’s doors really opened to the rest of the world, and the United States became a popular destination for people seeking life-altering changes. These people met prejudice and pressures to assimilate, ...

Traditional four-year universities face challenges in their attempts to articulate a vision of what qualities their student leaders ought to develop over the course of their undergraduate experience. In a narrative of ...

In multivariate statistical process monitoring, many methods have been developed for detecting faults and then attributing the cause of a fault to particular monitored variables. Consequently, a variety of metrics are used ...

In this study, I attempted to examine how religion, as well as other various social factors, affect end of life care decisions among Central Texas Christians, Hindus, and Muslims. First, interviews were conducted with ...

The Industrial Revolution remains ingrained as one of the most transformational periods in Great Britain's history. As industry continued to grow through the later half of the 1860s, however, a quieter revolution began in ...

In 1997, the topic of physician assisted suicide entered into the spotlight with the Supreme Court case of Washington v. Glucksberg. Analyzing the constitutionality of a Washington state prohibition of the act, the Court ...

This thesis seeks to answer the question: what are the best practices when creating a narrative about disability? To answer this question, I analyze the development of disability narratives throughout four novels written ...