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The Social Functions and Implications of Voseo in Quito, Ecuador: A Linguistic and Anthropological Account
(2011-04)
The purpose of this study is to provide a linguistic and anthropological analysis of the social complexities of voseo—the use of the second-person singular pronoun vos— in Quito Ecuador.
When the Law Takes Sides: Autonomously Weighing Reasons for Expression
(2018-06-21)
Law-making requires the legislator to take sides. This encroaches upon individual autonomy. As a result, the law must tread carefully while regulating expression. This includes hate speech. Despite this, the United ...
The Lasting Effects of Language Acquisition: Testing Cognitive Abilities after L2 Attrition
(2019-11-01)
Decades of psycholinguistic research have attempted to determine whether a “bilingual advantage” exists for cognitive abilities (e.g., Bialystok & Craik, 2010; Cummins, 1977; for a meta-analysis, see Grundy & Timmer, 2017). ...
“To work, write, sing and fight for women’s liberation”: Proto-Feminist Currents in the American Left, 1946-1961
(2011-04)
This thesis is an exploration of feminist
thought in the radical Left circles of postwar America prior to the well-documented surge in activism for gender equality in the 1960s and 1970s.
Mapping a Novel Hedonic Hotspot in Insular Cortex
(2014-09-22)
Insular cortex has been implicated in a wide array of functions, including integrating multiple sensory modalities, coding disgust for unpleasant foods, and processing reward and motivation. Specifically, anterior insula ...
Kill Your Darlings: Birth Control, Child Abandonment, and Infanticide in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
(2016-08-26)
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there were few ways to prevent a birth that were both effective and safe, yet single or impoverished women often had no way to provide for children. As a result, infanticide ...
Strengths of Character and Virtues: What We Know and What We Still Want to Learn
(Praeger Publishers, 2017)
Urban Exacerbation: The Ineffectiveness of Drug Treatment and Law Enforcement in 1970’s Detroit
(2011-06-03)
After a brief summary of federal War on Drugs initiatives, this paper will examine
drug treatment, specifically methadone clinics, and heroin and crime policing in Detroit in the first half of the 1970’s. Detroit will ...