Previous research on background music in television commercials has demonstrated the fact that background music can affect the attitudes held about an ad. Several studies of the effects of background music in other settings ...

Regarded as a setting for civilized debates and gentility, the coffeehouse in eighteenth-century London distinguished itself as the epicenter of political dissent, intellectual discourse, and the circulation ...

This paper explores the association between banking competition and firms’ access to finance in developed countries using three measures of banking sector competition – the three bank concentration ratio, the Herfindahl–Hirschman ...

In 2010, President Obama issued a Total Maximum Daily Load requirement for the states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. A TMDL sets a limit on how much of a particular substance can be released into a water body. My thesis ...

This essay deals with one of Samuel Beckett’s more narrative short plays, Krapp’s Last Tape. While many theorists have delved into the idea that Beckett’s plays belie a certain amount of difficulty and struggle when it ...

This thesis examines the relationship between beauty and morality in Friedrich Schiller's notion of aesthetic education (as presented in his Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man). By first looking back to Kant's ...

Body image, or the mental perception of one’s own body, is shaped by external influences including, but not limited to: media, family and peer pressure, and cultural norms. The interactions between these ...

This thesis is a three-part study exploring the challenges involved in reading Samuel Beckett. Starting with the problems philosophy has had in understanding his work, the study investigates the possibility of, and ultimately ...