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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-07-03)
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(2020-07-24)Department: SociologyThis dissertation challenges dominant understandings of social memory as a unified product generated through conflict between competing ideologies. Rather, multiple representations of a given past can comingle in a seemingly ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2012-04)
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(Oklahoma Law Review, 1994)This article examines small-town murder in Johnson County, Kansas, from 1880 to 1939. While providing lurid details of the murders committed over a sixty-year period in the county's small towns and villages, this article ...
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Between the horny and holy: womanist sexual ethics and the cultural productions of "No More Sheets". (2010-04-17)Department: ReligionThis dissertation utilizes a womanist cultural analysis to evaluate religious media and its implications for black women’s sexual decision-making. The dissertation offers a constructive womanist sexual ethics that uses ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2007-10-25)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-06-17)Stacey Kendrick is joined by Dietetic Interns Lindsay Smith and Sarah Lewis to discuss some of the common pitfalls of the beverage we consume. Get suggestions for some healthier drink options and hear about the blind taste ...
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(2021-08-12)This quality improvement study was designed to explore the experiences of first-generation college students of color who participate in All-In Milwaukee’s comprehensive college completion and career placement program. The ...
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(New York University Law Review, 2003)This Article argues that efforts to square the administrative state with the constitutional structure have become too fixated on the concern for political accountability. As a result, those efforts have overlooked an ...
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(Minnesota Law Review, 1999)We knew, of course, that we were treading on dangerous ground in challenging radical multiculturalism. In writing Beyond All Reason we argued that the radicals' postmodern theories conflict deeply with their own laudable ...
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(2023-02-22)Department: Computer ScienceThis paper presents an investigation into the utilization of low-resource deep learning to improve the quality of voice communication in various contexts. The study proposes the creation of Voice Analysis as a Service ...
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(2019-09-18)Department: ReligionNarrow and oversimplified views of children animate the contemporary adult-centric healthcare landscape. The dominant principlist approach in medical ethics reinforces those constrained views by giving disproportionate ...
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(Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013)
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(Federal Sentencing Reporter, 2004)Federal criminal sentencing in the wake of Blakely v. Washington is, to put it charitably, a mess. In holding that Blakely's sentence under the Washington State Sentencing Guidelines was imposed in a manner inconsistent ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: PsychologyCardinality, the ability to state the quantity of a set, is an important skill in the development of precise numerical reasoning abilities. This set of studies investigates the limits of cardinal number knowledge and the ...
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(2012-08-06)Department: Community Research and ActionThis paper provides an examination of the foreclosure crisis from the perspective of community-based organizations (CBOs), aspiring low-income homeowners, and very low-income households. It looks backward to examine the ...
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(2021-08-11)Department: Political ScienceOn average, women are both higher-quality candidates and stronger performers in political office, compared to their male colleagues. Yet, men and women perform equally well at the ballot box. Is this because high-achieving ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Law School, 2008-04-24)"Maniates contends that suggestions that small sacrifices by average citizens alone are enough to cure global warming and other environmental problems underestimate the problem. He argues that essential sacrifices like ...
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(Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 2003)Social norms scholarship faces the challenge of becoming a mature discipline. Norms theorists have proposed several elegant, widely applicable theories of the origin, evolution and function of norms. For the most part, ...
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(Indiana Law Journal, 2011)Sexual harassment law and family leave policy originated as feminist reform projects designed to protect women in the workplace. But many academics now ask whether harassment and leave policies have outgrown their gendered ...