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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 ...
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(2021-07-14)Department: Creative WritingFrom the Inventory of Images I Cannot Unsee is a collection of original poetry that explores Asian American diasporic families, intergenerational influences and inheritances, trauma and recovery, queerness, womanhood, and ...
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(2020-08)Although labor market dynamics are highly complex, workforce development programs typically attempt to remediate unemployed or underemployed individuals through trainings focused on “soft skills,” or nontechnical skills ...
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(2021-04-22)"Sabine Refining (pseudonym), a downstream oil, gas, and logistics company, wants to identify and select the best candidates for Front-Line Leader roles in their principal refinery. Sabine Refining’s Learning and Operations ...
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(Michigan Law Review, 2017)A short time ago, the argument that sex discrimination includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation was considered a risky litigation tactic with little hope of success. One reason was the fear that extending ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)Peabody College of Education & Human Development
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(2015-07-31)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation combines archaeological and ethnohistorical methods to examine the lived experiences of enslaved African laborers on the wine haciendas of San Joseph de la Nasca and San Francisco Xavier de la Nasca, owned ...
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(2018-05-16)Department: SociologyThis paper seeks to uncover mechanisms by which print media (The New York Times) frames social movement; in this case, Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the convergence of a diverse group of activists in New York City’s financial ...
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