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Walking a Fine Line

Decker, Bobbie (2006-12)

In this essay, I examine the social disparity between the genders at Duke University, focusing on two critical time periods – the first decades of the founding of The Woman’s College and Trinity College from the mid 1920’s ...
Walking the Wexner: Experiencing Deconstruction

Workman, John J. (2008-04-28)

As an example of deconstructivist architecture, Peter Eisenman’s Wexner Center revolves around a particularly nuanced question of meaning. Specifically, the building’s significance is not static but lies in an ever-changing ...
Waterloo, les barricades, et l’Histoire dans Les Misérables de Victor Hugo

Kennedy, Lucy Boyce (2011-05-20)

This thesis examines two scenes from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables: the description of the battle of Waterloo and the description of the barricades of June 5-6, 1832. These two scenes may be considered as the opening and ...
Waves of Life: A Study of Radio in Bhutanese Refugee Camps in Nepal

Govindaraj, Priya (2013-04-19)

This paper explores the use of radio by Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. Radio is the primary, and often only, media outlet accessible to refugees and they rely on it heavily for information as well as recreation. Radio is ...
Welcome to the United States: Self-selection of Puerto Rican Migrants

Li, Kathryn Haiying (2011-04-18)

I analyze the characteristics of Puerto Rican migrants and non-migrants to make two contributions to existing literature: (1) The empirical analysis demonstrates that contrary to previous studies done on only working men, ...
Western Colonialism at the "Razor Edge of Decision": Anti-Colonial Ideals and Cold War Imperatives in the Presidential Campaign Rhetoric of John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, August -November 1960

Hager, Joshua (2008-12)

In the presidential campaign rhetoric of 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon discovered a shared middle-ground in regard to colonialism, a major issue of the year due to widespread decolonization ...
"What Have You Been Judging From?": Subjectivity and Judgment in Jane Austen's Novels and George Eliot's Middlemarch

Stern, Rachel (2011-03-15)

This study draws on critical sources such as Lukács’s Theory of the Novel and Benjamin’s essay “The Storyteller”, and on the ideas of Aristotle, Arendt, and Murdoch, among others, to examine the structures – such as ...
When the Global and Local Meet: Meanings of English in ‘Post-colonial’ South Korea

Choi, Michelle Hyun (2011-04-25)

This thesis attempts to unravel the “webs of significance” (Geertz 1973: 5) surrounding English in the local context of Seoul, South Korea, a country that spends close to two percentage of its GDP on English learning and ...
Where Is the Sandinista Spirit?: Nicaraguan Women’s NGOs and the Return of Daniel Ortega

Kwon, Ji-Hyeun (2010-12)

When Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista Front for National Liberation lost the presidential election of 1990 to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro of the National Opposition Union, the autonomous women’s movement began and the number ...
Who Cares About Health Care? Sociodemographics and Attitudes Toward Government’s Role in Health Care Across Germany, Great Britain, and the United States

Tang, Jessie (2010-12-10)

This paper investigates comparative public attitudes as a mechanism to explain American welfare state “exceptionalism” in health care. The countries of Germany, Great Britain, and the United States were chosen as three ...
Who Cleans Up? Examining Local County Governments' Response to the British Petroleum Oil Spill

Ferguson, Kate (2011-12-16)

This paper examines what factors influence a government’s ability to be effective and responsive in the context of the British Petroleum Oil Spill. A case study of the response of three counties in Florida was conducted, ...
Who Goes to College and Who Does not Among Low Socioeconomic Status Youth in the U.S. and India?

Nolan, Sarah (2012-12)

What factors make a difference in whether low socioeconomic status youth attend college, and how do some youth succeed despite lacking many advantages? In general, in both the U.S. and India youth who benefit from supportive ...
"Why Did I Get In?"

Walters, Margaret (2007-05-04)

Admissions policies have adapted a fluid construct, allowing for changes that suit the upcoming academic year. This paper will describe the changing admissions policies that characterized the 1930s and the 1970s, looking ...
Why won’t it sell? Universal Health Care in America, 1945 - 2009

Aberger, Marie (2009-12-04)

This project examines the language used to frame universal health care reform from 1945 to 2009, focusing on four frames: morality, efficacy, personal vulnerability, and fear of government. It analyzes whether the frames ...
Wife's labor supply and marital dissolution: evidence from the NLSY79

Wibulpolprasert, Wichsinee (2009-04-15)

In response to the changing family and social structures in the United States, an accurate understanding of mechanisms and the driving forces of marrital dissolution is important in many aspects. For one, the knowledge ...
Winner-Take-All Economics: Professional Inquiry and Public Discourse on Material Inequality

Pryor, Johnathan (2011-04-18)

What can account for the failure of economists to extend a firm guiding hand into the public discourse on material inequality in contemporary America? This paper reviews historical and modern economic literature and then ...
Witnessing Trauma and Deconstructing Healing on the United States-Mexico Border

Zhang, Pao San Lucy (2010-05-07)

The purpose of this study is to research the emotional effect of undocumented immigration on humanitarian aid works within the organization, No More Deaths. No More Deaths is a service organization that focuses on providing ...
Women-In-Action’s Brand of Biracial Activism: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Class in 1960s-1970s Durham

Miller, Catherine (2012-10-24)

In the popular narrative of the civil rights movement in the United States, the role of women often becomes minimized or overlooked altogether; yet women played a critical part in engaging racial issues in their communities ...
Women In Engineering at Duke University

Richards, Lisa (2006-12-12)

In order to examine the disparity between the number of women in engineering at Duke in comparison to the long-term presence and dominance of men, I will examine three separate time periods and show the change that occurs ...
The World Health Organization's Perceptions of Traditional Medicine

Arkfeld, Chaele (2011-12)

I investigate how the World Health Organization (WHO) perceives traditional medicine. The WHO has issued publications related to traditional medicine for decades, acknowledging and commenting on traditional medicine as a ...