The Religious Right shifted from an organization that backed a candidate who shared their beliefs to one who would take action on social issues. This group that has become such a strong supporter of the political Right ...
The literature on European Union foreign policy decision-making is fairly new and incomplete. This thesis seeks to fulfill a gap in the literature, which ignores the role of external great powers in EU foreign policy ...
The Dominican Republic and the United States have a long-standing relationship and the waves of immigration that occurred starting in 1965 still continues today. The hyper-globalization of modernity decreases time and ...
How do writers mourn for their unconscious alienation from the authorial norm? Sigmund Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia," and its more recent applications to psychoanalytic trauma theory, illuminates the latency of the ...
Looking back at World War II Japan, there is a general feeling that the government in this time was very authoritarian. However, during this time, Japan’s government did follow a constitution. One may naively think that a ...
This thesis attempts to put forth a better and more sustainable framework for democratic engagement through education. Through the negation of individualism and a look towards community and public interest I incorporate ...
This thesis argues that Karl Popper's situational analysis is a more suitable model for studying social phenomena than utility maximization theory because of the difference in the two models' rationality principle. Utility ...
This paper is a survey of the algorithms that power recommender systems. To start, the social and monetary relevance of recommender systems is outlined. Then we delve into the specifics of how the first recommender system, ...
The HIV pandemic is increasingly infecting and affecting the Black community in America. Such a pervasive problem requires creative and multi-faceted approaches to stifle and stop its spread. Historically the Black Church ...
Political posters, an artistic medium that has long been applied as an effective tool of propaganda by the Chinese, used women as a vehicle in disseminating national policies to a mass audience. This thesis closely analyzes ...
Eighteenth-century French and American theater captured the trajectories of female power, reflecting and refracting changing concepts of gender and virtue in the context of emerging democracies. Despite each nation's embrace ...
In Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the romantic failures of an overweight Dominican nerd are attributed to an all-encompassing curse that is passed through generations and across national borders. ...