Reductive philosophers of mind tell us that scientific explanations can account for meaning with brain function and human action in terms of cause/effect outputs. Before accepting this, we should consider whether there is ...

My thesis is an attempt to explain the imbalanced and incomplete modes of thinking in the modern consciousness that I find to be responsible for humanity's collective irrational and violent destruction of the global ...

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 ...

My study investigates media and personal influence on the everyday use of beauty products. Previous research identifies two roles in the spread of ideas from media: the influential and the imitator. Using social network ...