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Why We Feel Powerless? How Income, Education and Race Influence Political Alienation within the United States
(2005)
This piece of work was a research project for the methods course in sociology. We were given the opportunity to research any topic of interest using the General Social Survey, a national survey administered to about 1,200 ...
Investigation into Superconductor Formation
(2004)
The Intermediate Physics Lab class gave me the opportunity to try to develop a superconductor from mixing basic materials. My studies in physics have led me to understand the theoretical properties of superconductors; ...
Yellow Fever
(2012)
Yellow fever is a hemorrhagic fever caused by the yellow fever virus, a positive-sense RNA virus belonging to the genus Flavivirus. The virus is transmitted through the bite of a mosquito, particularly A. aegypti, which ...
HIV/AIDS and Income Generation: The Use of Microfinance Initiatives as a Prevention Strategy in Sub-Saharan African Refugee Camps
(2012)
The HIV/AIDS epidemic, one of the most pressing yet under-addressed issues of the twenty-first century, disproportionately affects those in situations of poverty and inequality. In selecting a research topic, I chose to ...
Dependence of fertilization in sea urchins, Stronglyocentrotus purpuratus, on microfilament formation and internal calcium concentration
(2006)
Fertilization in sea urchins, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, is the result of a series
of interactions between the egg and sperm. Microfilament formation has been implicated in both
the acrosomal process formation and ...
Individual Responsibility in Aristotle's Politics:
(2012)
I wrote this paper as an exploration of the question, "where do we as individuals end, and the society that made us begin?" This question, in various forms, consistently nagged me throughout my last year at Goucher. Many ...
The Central Concept of Struggle: Sayyid Qutb, Leo Strauss, Modernity and the Past
(2006)
All of us--whether we are students or professors, young or old, political or apathetic--are children of the liberal philosophy that "progress" is the inevitable path towards the "good." Think about our speech: if "things ...
Emission Wavelength Dependence of Flourescence Lifetimes of Bacteriological Spores
(2005)
Concern about biological terror has increased greatly in the 21st century, and correspondingly, so has the need for
accurate detection and identification of biological hazards, such as B. anthracis. Optical techniques ...