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Recent Submissions
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Lincecum, Joseph (Humanities, 2013-07-22)
In 1986 the founder and President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), Daniel Elazar, in his address to the Jewish Theological Seminary titled, The Changing Realities of the North American Jewish Community, ...
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Tune, Peyton McLain (Humanities, 2013-07-22)
Christian fundamentalism in America is alive and well and serves as an impediment to the progress of a democratic society because of its tendency to seek universal subordination of all truth to "Biblical truth". In this ...
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Shipnes, Jeffrey Pawling (Humanities, 2013-07-22)
This thesis examines the binaries of community/solitude and patriarchy/proto-feminism in the Old English Life of St. Mary of Egypt. For various reasons scholars such as Hugh Magennis believe that the Old English Life of ...
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Contreras, Adrian (Humanities, 2013-03-20)
This document will closely examine the issue of mystical experience by reviewing its origins in sacred concepts and leading arguments in the field of philosophy of mysticism. Ultimately, this document will attempt to prove ...
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Alkhaolany, Erin (Humanities, 2010-11-01)
Immigrant Muslim women in the United States experience difficulties, as most immigrants do, with integration into a new society. In order to better depict the reality that these women are actually experiencing a lack of ...
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Vestal, Brandon D. (Humanities, 2010-07-19)
During the age of Andrew Jackson (1824-1845), the United States experienced a social and political sea change that would leave the country changed forever. As Jackson served his country first as general and ultimately as ...
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Scott, Nancy Raylene (Humanities, 2009-09-16)
During the 2004 hurricane season, four successive storms struck Central Florida causing catastrophic damage to crops and displacing close to 195,000 migrant and seasonal workers. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this thesis ...
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Ehrlich, Victoria (Humanities, 2007-10-08)
Ostensibly, it would seem that during the Renaissance, subjects of mythological origin in the visual arts were almost exclusively created with the male patron in mind. While this is a highly visible trend, it is important ...
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Crowell, Ethan Duane (Humanities, 2007-08-23)
This thesis focuses on Max Weber’s “Protestant Ethic” Thesis. In his thesis
Weber claims after the Reformation, Calvinism created the needed work ethic to
produce modern capitalism. His critic’s arguments against this ...
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Plauche, Danielle Elaine (Humanities, 2007-08-23)
In many academic institutions today, ESOL (English as a Second or Other Language) writers may incorporate background sources into their writing in ways unrecognized by their academic institutions, which could lead to these ...
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Hodge, Keith Mitchell (Humanities, 2007-08-23)
This thesis has two main goals: (1) to argue that myths are natural products of human cognition; and (2) that structuralism, as introduced by Claude Levi-Strauss, provides an over-arching theory of myth when supplemented ...