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The Age of Epic Grandeur: F. Scott Fitzgerald and America’s Cultural Memory of the 1920’s
(2013-05-24)
F. Scott Fitzgerald is remembered as one of the most candid and influential writers of his era, the “Roaring Twenties.” From the swinging parties to the increased use of the automobile, Fitzgerald chronicled the dramatic ...
Go Tell It On The Mountains: Tracing Evangelical Activity in Peru from the Early Dominican Missions to the Contemporary Ministries of Buckner Perú
In the nearly five centuries spanning 1532 to 2015, Peru has experienced three primary political eras. From early colonialism, to nineteenth-century elite republicanism, up to twentieth-century democratization, Peru has ...
Catiline the Mad: An Excursion into the Ancient Sources
(2016-08-08)
One of the most fascinating and beweildering incidents in history is the Catilinarian Consporiacy, an attempted overthrow of the Roman republic by Lucius Sergius Catilina that was foiled by the decisive action of the consul ...
The Innovation of McLennan County: Law Enforcement Approaches to Human Trafficking
(2020-05-19)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze traditional approaches to human trafficking and how these common approaches have been ultimately ineffective in responding to the crime of human trafficking. This is then contrasted ...
Creatures of the Triumvirs: A Study of the Patron-Client Relationship in the Late Roman Republic
(2016-08-08)
Dr. Erich S. Gruen’s article “P. Clodius: Instrument or Independent Agent?” addressed for the first time the problems inherent to viewing the clients of the Late Roman Republic as merely the puppets of their patrons. This ...
Identifying with the Lowly: Jonathan Edwards, Charity, and the Stockbridge Mission.
(2017-05-24)
Jonathan Edwards is commonly thought of as a cold but brilliant theologian, a fire-breathing railer, quick to use his genius with words to reprove, a man bookishly removed from the daily concerns of life. However, recent ...
Origins of Corporate Power: The Historical Growth and Transformation of Corporations
(2017-05-23)
Corporate business today has become instrumental component of our economy and our society as a whole; however, there is comparatively little discussion of how this came to be. How did corporations develop and change overtime, ...
Orthodoxy and Existentialism: The Religious Root of Dostoevsky's Moral Dialectic
In my thesis, I show the ways in which Russian Eastern Orthodoxy relates to and impacts Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Existentialism. I begin by identifying and explaining the Orthodox theme of transformative suffering, as it appears ...
The Catholic Witness During Memphis Yellow Fever Epidemics of the 1870s: A Description and Vindication
(2020-05-29)
In the 1870s, several yellow fever epidemics struck Memphis causing a calamity that shook the entire United States. The yellow fever epidemics in Memphis were some of the deadliest and most terrifying events of American ...
Addressing Racism in the Church: A Historical, Sociological, Theological, and Practical Account
(2020-05-22)
In the past decade, a growing body of literature has examined the pernicious relationship between racism and Christianity, making it an increasingly pressing issue for modern-day ministers to address. However, many are ...