This study utilizes Derridian deconstruction to subvert the hierarchy order that Habermas posits between communicative and strategic utterances, thus positing strategic utterances as reflective the fundamental structures ...
On August 6th, 1945, when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan became the first nation to endure a nuclear attack. After the conclusion of the Second World War, the memory of this nuclear ...
Hamas is a unique actor in Middle Eastern politics: an Islamic movement with a domestic agenda and domestic activities, Hamas is also a transnational actor capable of regional consequences. The impact of its ideology and ...
In an attempt to extend facets of the current literature on nonverbal behaviors to that of handshaking behavior, a production experiment examined whether variations handshake type and duration can be used to infer different ...
This thesis examines the ways in which Hannibal in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita may be simultaneously read as both strongly Carthaginian and as an individual acting independently of ethnically determined norms. This examination ...
Previous literature studying happiness, or subjective well-being, has mainly analyzed happiness in relation to income. However, such an approach is incomplete, as assets and debt provide additional information related to ...
Numerous studies have demonstrated that positive affect has beneficial effects on cognition, mainly due to more efficient and flexible processing of information. Yet, the neural mechanism of these effects has not been ...
Since the film adaptation of Go Tell It on the Mountain was released in 1985, scholars have given little attention to its validity as a source of analysis alongside the vast discourse on Baldwin's novel. Considering that ...
Friedrich Nietzsche’s thoughts have had an enormous effect on contemporary discourse and are recognized to be a primary source for postmodernism, which critiques philosophical ideas from the Enlightenment. Lawrence J. ...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the determinants of pathological gambling, in particular, the relationship, if any, between gaming activities and gambling behavior. The significance of this topic derives from the ...
This thesis investigates and analyzes the portrayal of the ancient Greek god Hades and his Roman counterpart Pluto in the ancient Greek and Roman literature and in Rick Riordan’s modern children’s literature novel series: ...
A great deal of philosophical anxiety has fixated on the notorious fact that the world does not always match our experience of it. Conversely, little attention has been paid to the equally interesting and similarly difficult ...
The Philadelphia Branch of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship is a diversely populated spiritual community of about four hundred individuals located in suburban Philadelphia, which formed in the early 1970s around the Sri ...
Language, as a strategic policy-planning tool, can be meticulously controlled to frame policy decisions and condition policy interpretation. This thesis analyzes Federal Reserve policy rhetoric to understand how the Federal ...