By tracing the history of tobacco in Indonesia, while focusing on production and consumption, tobacco provides an avenue of exploration into processes of Dutch colonialism and the trajectories that have been set forth, ...

This thesis is a novel excerpt experimenting with voice and form. Told from the perspectives of multiple characters, it describes the duality of public personas and pressures children of politicians face under the lens of ...

The dissertation overviews and elaborates the concept of polycentricity, and applies it to two cases. Spontaneous order plays an important role in many non-market systems. But not all spontaneous orders are productive or ...

Since 2006, over 44,000 grassroots neighborhood-based communal councils and 1,400 communes have been constructed in Venezuela. These councils are permanent governing structures that bring together members of community ...

In the last forty years, social science research has demonstrated that individuals care significantly about relative ("positional") economic well-being and that gains in private income and/or consumption thereby cast a ...

Approximately one in five women in the United States will experience unwanted sexual contact during her lifetime. Relative to survivors of other traumatic events, survivors of sexual assault have an increased likelihood ...

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, a Saxon canoness of Gandersheim Abbey, lived and wrote in the tenth century, and composed a number of vitae, plays, and poems, as well as two histories. The Primordia Coenebii Gandeshemensis was ...

This thesis examines the theme of object-metaphors in the works of Gabrielle Roy, specifically how Roy uses these object-metaphors to trigger the memories of the characters in the texts: Bonheur d’occasion, Rue Deschambault, ...

The extended parallel processing model (EPPM) is a theory of how individuals’ perceptions of a threat, combined with their perceptions of their own ability to effectively remove the threat, influence their behavioral ...

Using regulatory focus theory (Higgins, 1998) and personality systems interaction (PSI) theory (Kuhl, 2000), this study examined how daily changes in affect and regulatory focus states can predict the amounts of novelty ...