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On the Justification of State Authority through the Social Contract
(2024-05-03)
This paper seeks to determine the justification for state authority under the social contract by examining two popular appeals. First, it looks at the idea that the contract grants legitimacy to the state based on residency, ...
Testing Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) protocol to counter the cognitive consequences of short sleep in young adult students
(2024-05-03)
Traditional Eastern meditation practices have elicited profound interest in the scientific community, subjecting them to various systematic neuropsychological investigations. Western researchers have adapted meditation ...
Truth Declassified: Comparative Archival Analysis and New Interpretations of Abwehr Espionage against the United States of America
(2024-05-03)
In 1938 U.S. counter espionage agencies learned of Abwehr espionage in America. Since that discovery, historical narratives of the history of Abwehr espionage in the United States can be summarized within three distinct ...
The Night Queen of the North - A Snow Queen Inspired Tale
(2024-05-03)
he Night Queen of the North, a work in progress, tells the story of three girls
who live in the countryside of Virginia at their grandmother’s estate, Alistair House. Told
from the third person point of view, the story ...
Points of No Return: The Eisenhower-Kennedy Transition and US-Japan Relations
(2024-05-03)
There is a considerable amount of focus among historians on both Dwight D. Eisenhower’s and John F. Kennedy’s approaches to foreign policy, including internal developments within the United States and Japan during the Cold ...
Strange Tales from China
(2024-05-03)
Strange Tales from China is a collection of three short stories that each explore a different social issue and/or current topic in China.
The first of these stories, Choking, centers around an aspiring journalist in Beijing ...
Haven: A Historical Fiction Novel
(2024-05-03)
In the 1840s, Transcendentalism was sweeping New England with writers such as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Fuller drawing attention to this spiritual and intellectual movement. While Transcendentalism remains a popular topic, ...
Animus, Part II: In the Caldera
(2024-05-03)
In the town English town of Bath, there is a UNESCO heritage site called the Roman Baths. Here the Romans built and expanded on the hot spring nestled in the Mendip Hills where the locals worshipped. The Romans also built ...
Going Internal
(2024-05-03)
This thesis is an excerpt of my novel in progress, “Going Internal.”
Told in first person, by an unreliable narrator, this story takes on themes of grief, loss, and destruction. The protagonist, Lee Raggs, known affectionately ...
The Billionaire Pledge
(2024-05-03)
The world is broken. Massive inequality, runaway climate change, pandemics and epidemics have all reached a point of no return. A group of forward thinking billionaires believe they can reverse it all by pledging their ...