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(2016-08-23)Department: ReligionEmergent images of masculinities in contemporary men’s movements and mass media are expressive of an increased concern for reimagining men’s roles and identities in a changing society. Androcentric assumptions and connotations ...
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(2011-04-12)Department: Latin American StudiesThis thesis examines the impact of the recent recognition of indigenous autonomy in Bolivia on democracy in that country. Over the past several decades, the Bolivian central government has attempted to improve the quality ...
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(North Carolina Law Review, 2008)The Roberts Court Justices already have revealed many differences from one another, but they also share a (possibly) significant commonality: Presidents promoted all of them to the U.S. Supreme Court from the U.S. Courts ...
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(Johns Hopkins University Presshttp://www.press.jhu.edu/, 1992)
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(2021-08-12)This capstone aims to support KIPP DC’s Fellowship in Education as they support novice special education teachers through their alternative certification program. This study aimed to determine the practices employed by ...
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(2023-01-11)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityFor years, educators have championed numerous strategies for supporting marginalized students in U.S. schools. Recently, researchers have identified racial matching—ensuring teachers of color work with students of similar ...
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(2022-06-16)Department: OtherThe purpose of this dissertation is to understand how and why different state financial aid policy designs have developed, with particular attention to external influences, and what effect those design choices have on ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2007-04-30)
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(2011-04-04)Department: SpanishThis dissertation contextualizes the formal innovations and social critique of twentieth-century Spanish avant-garde theater by reconstructing two important elements of the nineteenth-century cultural landscape from which ...
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(University of Chicago Law Review, 2000)This article proposes a comprehensive system for choice of law that is designed to enhance social wealth by focusing on individual rather than governmental interests. To the extent practicable, parties should be able to ...
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(UCL Journal of Economics, 2022-08-25)What is the nature of substantive representation within American institutions of government, and to what extent do constituents’ preferences turn into adopted policy? To answer these questions, I analyze data on federal ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2007-03-26)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2006-04-14)
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(2008-06-24)Department: ReligionThis project is concerned with racism in Churches of Christ. In this dissertation I explore the manner in which African American members of Churches of Christ moved on a trajectory from segregation to independence from ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2004)A debate between advocates of command and control regulation and advocates of economic incentives has dominated environmental legal scholarship over the last three decades. Both sides in the debate implicitly embrace the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-09-23)
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(2021-06-15)Department: ReligionIn 1906, Ralph Nace Cohen left the island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean for the United States. After sailing across the Atlantic, Cohen made his way to Montgomery, Alabama. Cohen was the first of hundreds of Ottoman ...
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(2015-03-27)Department: HistoryThis paper argues that early-twentieth-century public health efforts witnessed a "medicalization of reform." It traces the changing role of public health nurses in the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor ...
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(2016-07-27)Department: NeuroscienceAddiction is a disorder characterized by drug use despite negative consequences. Drugs of abuse hijack circuits within brain centers which evolved to respond to natural rewards such as palatable, calorie-dense foods. This ...