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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2019-05-01)“The dream of my life is not yet realized,” Harriet Jacobs declared in her 1861 narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. After liberating herself from slavery and ensuring the freedom of her children, she authored ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2011-04)
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(2014-11-26)Department: HistoryThis dissertation analyzes the evolution of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s power program and its effect on residential electricity use, economic growth, and environmental change in the Tennessee Valley Region between ...
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(2016-04-07)Department: ReligionDominant readings of Luke’s gospel account tend to flatten the presence of children in Luke’s narrative into a handful of scenes. These scenes are typically treated as the exception rather than the rule of Jesus’ ministry ...
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(2021-03-31)Department: Latin American StudiesIn 2016, former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos struck a peace deal with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) which brought an end to the guerrilla group’s prolonged ...
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(2009-11-05)Department: Mechanical EngineeringAs an emerging technology in the field of material joining, friction stir welding (FSW) has the potential to be automated through robotics. Due to the relatively large forces associated with FSW, force control is needed ...
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(Eisenbraunshttps://www.eisenbrauns.com/ECOM/_2ZS0VXQJV.HTM, 2003)
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(2008-08-04)Department: EnglishIn this project, I examine a selection of literary and filmic texts produced between 1946 and 1995, a period I refer to as late modernism. I show how, in offering instances of bodily transformativity that we might call ...
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(Virginia Journal of International Law, 2011)The immunity of foreign states from suit in U.S. courts is governed by a federal statute, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). This statute does not apply to the immunity of individual foreign officials, however, ...
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(Journal of Law & Education, 1994)During the 1992-1993 school year, more than 425,000 students from other countries were studying in the United States. In addition, hundreds of foreign nationals were in the United States as research scholars, visiting ...
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(Seton Hall Law Review, 2018)Michael Risinger's scholarship has had a profound impact on our field. And while his work has run the gamut in evidence law, I think it is clear that Michael's true love has always been expert evidence, and more specifically, ...
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(Notre Dame Law Review, 2015)Much of patent reform has focused on efforts to make it harder to obtain and enforce low-quality patents. The most straightforward way to achieve this goal is to raise the substantive standards of patentability. What is ...
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(Vanderbilt Lawyer, 2002)Ask those who carefully follow the Supreme Court, and they will tell you that--for good or bad, depending on their perspective--the current Supreme Court has reduced to near rubble the metaphorical wall separating church ...
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(Yale Journal on Regulation, 2018)This foreword introduces "Revisiting the Public Utility," a series of essays published in a special issue of Yale Journal on Regulation. We cluster the contributions to this issue around public utility regulation’s core ...
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(Hofstra Law Review, 2000)This is a review of JUSTICE, LIABILITY AND BLAME, by Paul Robinson and John Darley. The book is a summary of 18 studies which surveyed lay subjects about their attitudes toward various aspects of criminal law doctrine, ...
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(2006-08-01)Department: Latin American StudiesSince 1871, approximately 150,000 Syrians and Lebanese have immigrated to Brazil, struggling to preserve their Arabic culture and identity even as they have assimilated to Brazilian society. Previous scholars have ...
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(2011-05-05)Department: HistoryForging the Masculine and Modern Nation: Race, Identity, and the Public Sphere in Cuba and Mexico, 1890s - 1930s David C. LaFevor This dissertation explores the gendered, nationalist, and racial ideas around the introduction ...
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(2015-04-09)Department: ReligionRELIGION FORGIVE US, AS WE FORGIVE: A REFORMED POSITION ON THE VISIBLE HOLINESS OF THE CHURCH SARAH GRACE SANDERSON-DOUGHTY Dissertation under the direction of Professor Paul DeHart This project in constructive theology ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)At the first World's Fair with it's own women's pavillion, chaired by a woman, designed by a woman, and decorated by a woman at a time when sewing was the predominate activitiy for women, why were no quilts in the Women's ...