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Religious institutions and associational freedom in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence.
(2017-08-14)
My dissertation explores the nature, source and scope of the rights of religious institutions in the American legal tradition. I analyze the Supreme Court’s treatment not only of houses of worship, but of religious ...
Revolutionary style : parrēsia and the rhetoric of self-care in the autobiography of Angela Davis.
(2018-07-19)
This thesis explores the rhetoric of self-care in the autobiography of Angela Davis. Staging a conversation between Davis, Michel Foucault, and Audre Lorde, I question how Davis navigates the rhetorical quagmire of writing ...
Weibull mixture model for grouped data and pattern identification in spatial and spatial-temporal data.
(2018-06-22)
Motived by problems in geology, civil engineering, and material science, we develop statistical models and apply statistical tools for characterizing patterns that exist in different types of data. In the first project, ...
Going up Bell's Hill : a social history of a diverse, Waco, Texas, community in the industrial new south.
(, 2018-01-22)
A historical study of Bell's Hill, an older section of Southwest Waco, Texas, 1885-1955, reveals a complex community characterized by social/cultural, ethnic/racial, and economic diversity. From its early history when ...
The death of Celestina : "othering" in changing times.
(2011-05-12)
La Celestina, as the definitive literary work of its period, portrays in microcosm the destructive forces at work within a Spanish society which was successful on the exterior but unraveling at its core as it transitioned ...
Collegiate student-athletes' academic success : academic communication apprehension's impact on prediction models.
(2010-06-23)
This dissertation study examines the impact of traditional and non-cognitive variables on the academic prediction model for a sample of collegiate student-athletes. Three hundred and fifty-nine NCAA Division IA male and ...
In heaven as it is on earth : the development of the interpreting angel motif in biblical literature of the neo-Babylonian, Persian and early Hellenistic periods.
(, 2013-05-15)
The motif of angelic interpretation of symbolic visions is a major feature of late prophetic and apocalyptic literature, yet the development of this literary motif has remained largely unexplored within biblical scholarship. ...
Nicholas Wolterstorff's Reformed epistemology and its challenge to Lockean and Rawlsian liberalism
(2006-07-31)
This dissertation charts the thought of Nicholas Wolterstorff as it regards his epistemology and political philosophy. It seeks to unfold his theory of democracy, which he calls the consocial position. It begins by ...
Figuring Jesus : the power of rhetorical figures of speech in the Gospel of Luke.
(2010-06-23)
This dissertation examines Luke's use of rhetorical figures of speech on the lips of Jesus as a means of persuading his audience to accept a role-reversing message that challenged the social, religious, economic and political ...
Initial systematic investigations of the weakly coupled free fermionic heterotic string landscape statistics.
(, 2011-09-14)
A C++ framework was constructed with the explicit purpose of systematically generating string models using the Weakly Coupled Free Fermionic Heterotic String (WCFFHS) method. The software, optimized for speed, generality, ...