Browsing Composition 211: Sophomore Research Conference by Title
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Blessed are the Peacemakers? : Christianity's Perpetuation of Violence against Women of Color
(2020-12-01)Violence against women of color takes many forms. These forms include domestic violence, racialized violence, and institution-initiated violence. While Christianity may not be a direct cause of violence against women, it ... -
Breaking the Chains of Meth Addiction
(2017-11-17)This paper is designed to argue for behavioral therapy methods to allow for sustainable recovery from methamphetamine. Before providing treatment options, the paper discusses the history and lure of methamphetamine. The ... -
Bridging the Gap between Common Core and Common Practice: Engaging Tennessee Teachers
(2015-12-07)Since 2010, the United States has seen a radical attempt to raise its standards of knowledge and skill in its school systems across the country. The reason behind this attempt is for American students to reach the educational ... -
Bridging the Gender Gap in the Field of Engineering
(2018-11-29)Despite efforts to increase female representation in STEM careers, the engineering field has struggled to recruit more women. While women make up half of the undergraduate population, only twenty percent of undergraduate ... -
The Business of Show Business
(2015-11-19)Regional theatres in East TN and Southwest VA face an imminent threat of financial disaster. Financial disaster that stems from the struggle to get audiences into the theatre. This struggle is persistent across America ... -
Careful the Things You Say: Sondheim’s Didactic Nature and its Effects on Community
(2012-11-29)Other title: “Careful the Things You Say”: Didacticism in Sondheim’s theatre” -
Caring for the Elderly: Eliminating an Annual Cap on Physical Therapy Visits
(2019-12-09)Most physicians encourage a physical therapy program to be completed after a major surgery or injury. Since Medicare started in 1965, elderly patients have struggled with receiving enough physical therapy visits after their ... -
Changing Traditions: Letting God Speak through Women in Church
(2015-12-08)Abstract: The Stone Campbell Movement has historically prohibited women from publicly teaching baptized male believers. This tradition was founded on carefully selected Scriptures that were originally taken out of context ... -
Cinema Sans Sin: Imaginatively Transforming Evangelical Cinema
(2019)Saints and sinners alike are enthralled by cinema, and the statistical majority of American Christians subscribe to Evangelicalism. Yet dissimilar to their ample presence on bookshelves and radio, Evangelicalism remains ... -
Classroom Diversity, RTI and Their Effects on Inclusion
(2015-11-19)The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was reauthorized in 1990. It has allowed our classrooms to become fully inclusive of students with disabilities. This inclusive classroom structure has become the norm ... -
Clean Energy, Dirty Prices: The Disconnect Between Low-Income Communities and Renewable Energy in Western North Carolina
(2022-11-22)Since the introduction of state- and nationwide renewable energy sources in the early 1990s, renewable energy, and its implementation into society has been an issue filled with hardship and conflict. Facing pushback from ... -
Come On In . . . But Not You: The South's Lack of Hospitality to Immigrants
(2018-12-08)In this research paper, I will explore the disparity between the ideal of southern hospitality and the antagonism exhibited toward immigrants in the South. Although the South is frequently associated with hospitality, ... -
Contra Mundum: The European Union must seek a Rapprochement with Poland
(2023-12-09)Relations between the European Union and the Third Polish Republic have grown steadily worse over recent years - to the point where some political commentators have begun to speculate on the future of Poland’s membership. ... -
The Depths of Water Sustainability
(2017-11-16)According to studies, by engineers Arjen Hoekstra and Mesfin Mekonnen at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, "the U.S. consumed the highest annual totals: 1,207 billion, 1,182 billion and 1,053 billion cubic meters, ... -
Dollar to Digital: Understanding the Risks of Retail CBDCs
(2023-11-21)With the emergence of centralized digital currencies, commonly known as cryptocurrencies, in the mid-2010s, governments across the globe began researching and discussing developing and implementing central bank digital ... -
Economic Reconciliation in North America
(2018)North America is composed by Mexico, United States, and Canada. These three countries have had a history of cultural trouble and reconciliation throughout time but, is it possible for their economies to reconcile? This ... -
The Effects of Reality Television on Adolescent Body Perceptions and Acceptance of Stereotypes
(2016-11-17)Adolescence is a time of rapid change, both physically and mentally. Popular television influences adolescent identity formation by stressing certain gender roles and body ideals. Reality television shows like The Bachelor, ...