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(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2009-03-27)
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)Jay Tidmarsh offers an intriguing new test for drawing the allimportant line between procedure and substance for purposes of Erie. The Tidmarsh test is attractively simple, yet seemingly reaches the right result in separating ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-06-03)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-06-03)
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(2020-08-18)Department: HistoryEro-guro-nansensu, from the English words ero for “eroticism,” guro for “grotesque,” and nansensu for “nonsense” was a Japanese mass culture movement that encompassed literature, popular magazines, cinema, and criticism. ...
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(Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1998)
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(2006-04-07)Department: Comparative LiteratureThroughout the decades of the 1970s and 1980s, literature written by Latin American women underwent a uniquely enriching narrative renovation. A preference for the theme of the erotic drove this process, and provided the ...
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(2018-04-10)Department: ReligionBlack women’s bodies are experienced as a moral dilemma due to the markers of the race and sex that render them as demonized other. Such formulations sanction America’s social hierarchies, animate violence and neglect of ...
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(2010-08-16)Department: Civil EngineeringMultiple sources of errors and uncertainty arise in mechanics computational models and contribute to the error and uncertainty in the final model prediction. This research develops a systematic error quantification methodology ...
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(2019-03-28)Department: Electrical EngineeringTiming analysis and timing closure are critical for digital circuit design. Traditional designs based on the worst-case delay to set timing constraints. However, a circuit could have dramatically different internal activity ...
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(2014-06-13)Department: Special EducationThe study had four purposes: (a) to describe fraction ordering errors among 227 at-risk 4th-grade students; (b) to examine performance differences among 3 cohorts; (c) to determine whether errors differed by problem type; ...
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(The University of Memphis Law Review, 2008)In the Spring 2008 issue of the Tennessee Law Review, I wrote an essay questioning whether Tennessee's merit system for selecting appellate judges - the Tennessee Plan - satisfies the requirements of the Tennessee Constitution. ...
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Escapes (2023-07-14)Department: Creative WritingThis thesis tells the story of its principle character's return to his hometown in the aftermath of his father's health crisis. It has been two years since Tristan visited his family in Central Florida, and his return ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2020-04-03)The ESL Capstone Portfolio demonstrates my understanding of teaching English as second language during my two-year English Language Learners Program (the ELL Program) at Vanderbilt University. I believe that communicative ...
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(2013-11-27)Department: FrenchThis dissertation investigates the relationship between language and space in the work of the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) and in the work of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). The methodology ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis dissertation traces contemporary theories perceiving the border as an abstract concept mostly defined by migration and crossing processes between Mexico and the United States. My purpose is to decentralize and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-14)
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(Minnesota Law Review, 1987)This essay has suggested, through review of two recent works, how toleration theory can and cannot be used to provide a viable alternative to both moribund liberal ideas and the increasingly successful program of the new ...
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(2019-07-17)Department: EconomicsImproving population health, educating adolescents, and reducing crime rates are all goals that economists and policy makers share. To practice evidence-based decision making, policy makers must be informed about how ...