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Misinformation and Misfortune in the Scottish Colonial Failure of New Caledonia in Panama, 1695-1707
(2023-04-25)
This thesis examines the poor use of information and distorted knowledge in the
failed Scottish effort to establish an entrepôt (what scholars now call the Darién Scheme)
in the Darién jungle of Panama in the late ...
Politicization of the UNHCR After the Cold War
(2023-04-28)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is the United Nations global face for refugee protection. It has guided the world through its moral obligation to protect populations made vulnerable from conflicts for ...
The use of Sports as a Propaganda Tool
(2023-04-28)
The problem that was investigated by the current thesis was Mobutu’s motivation for hosting the Rumble in the Jungle in the Congo and the perception this had created in the world press. Although previous scholars have ...
More Than “One Small Ball in the Air:” How Lyndon Johnson Spun Sputnik into a National Crisis
(2023-04-25)
The story of the Sputnik 1 launch is rooted in a rich history of politics, prestige, and psychology, yet today’s popular summaries simplify the events and omit crucial parts of the story. While most of the world viewed ...
Wrestling with the “fallacious doctrine of racial superiority”: The Discursive Construction of “Race” in American Bahá'í Periodicals
(2023-04-25)
American Bahá'í periodicals have said much about race and racial prejudice. This thesis brings to light the variations of that discourse to provide insight on how American Bahá'ís understood these concepts in relation to ...
The Evolving Nerve Center: Core Roles and Responsibilities of the White House Situation Room.
(2023-04-25)
The Situation Room was established to be a nerve center of information for the President; a single touch point for the President to access unbiased apolitical information to aid in their decision-making. The need for a ...
A Novel Doctrine? An Evaluation of Sola Scriptura in Patristic and Medieval Thought
(2023-04-21)
This thesis examines the question of historical continuity between the sixteenth century Protestant Reformers and patristic/medieval theologians relative to the doctrine of sola scriptura. This principle, that the canonical ...
The Leviathan Poltergeist At Bacon's Rebellion
(2023-04-25)
This thesis examines the historical causes of Bacon’s Rebellion by considering Hobbes’ perspective on human nature, as detailed in Chapter XIII of his work Leviathan, (1651). Specifically incorporating his arguments on the ...
Europe and the Turkish Language Reform: The Role of European Ideas and Preconceptions in the Quest to Showcase a Turkic Language on the World Stage
(2023-04-03)
This thesis examines the European influence on the Turkish Language Reform, a movement peaking in the 1930s in which the new Republic of Turkey set out to purge its language of the many Arabic and Persian expressions that ...
Assessing Mental Health in American Politics: The 1972 Tom Eagleton Affair
(2023-01-10)
This thesis explores the intersection of politics, psychiatry, and media by
examining the 1972 Eagleton affair. Presidential candidate and democrat George
McGovern chose Thomas Eagleton, a Senator from Missouri, hastily ...