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Chadian Oil: Avoiding the Resource Curse
(University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2006-05)All too often the benefits of natural resources are not realized by the portions of the population most in need. As has been seen time and time again, revenues from resources such as oil are mismanaged, or worse embezzled, ... -
Child Labor in Wisconsin Agriculture: Human Rights Violation or Beneficial Experience?
(2013-12)Human rights organizations have attacked child labor in U.S. agriculture. Investigations into the conditions for children working in U.S. agriculture, such as the 2010 Human Rights Watch study Fields of Peril, propelled ... -
Circuit Court Experience and Consistency on the Supreme Court (1953 - 2013)
(2014-12)The modern trend of appointing judges from the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court is undeniable. As a near prerequisite to attaining a seat on the bench, Justices from appellate courts have been ... -
Clerical Conceptions of Magic and the Stereotype of the Female Witch
(2011-12)Working from the foundation laid by leading historians of medieval witchcraft -- most notably Richard Kieckhefer, Norman Cohn, Michael Bailey, and Hans Peter Broedel -- this study examines the conceptual development of a ... -
Combating Invisibility: Older Women Stereotypes Revised
(2007-12-18)This essay discusses the difference between television and literary portrayals of middle-aged and older women in the last 30 years of the 20th century. TV writers rarely included older women in programming, and when they ... -
Communication Accommodation in Mixed Gender Dyads
(2011-12)Men and women speak differently. That is, there are observable patterns of gender differences in communication. To reconcile differences and facilitate communication it is necessary to use accommodation, the process of ... -
Confidence and Legitimization: The Role of the Protestant Church in Fostering Opposition in the GDR
(2009-11)The purpose of this paper is to pursue the answer to a perplexing question in German history; namely, how did serious domestic opposition to the East German state develop in the 1980s given the extremely oppressive nature ... -
Confusion for Cheeseheads: How Contradictory Expert Opinions Have Stalled Wisconsin's CCW Legislation.
(2007-12-18)This study argues that Wisconsin’s failure to pass any concealed carrying of weapons (CCW) legislation stems from the multitude of differing opinions and findings on CCW. This assertion is made by focusing on three studies ... -
Content Analysis of Online Commenters on Sexism in the 2008 Presidental Campaign.
(2009)Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin played prominent roles in the 2008 presidential primary and general campaigns, inviting a discussion of sexism. The unstoppable growth of the Internet has allowed news consumers to share ... -
Content Analysis of Online Commenters on Sexism in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
(2009-11)Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin played prominent roles in the 2008 presidential primary and general campaigns, inviting a discussion of sexism. The unstoppable growth of the Internet has allowed news consumers to share ... -
A Contradictory Constitution: Forgotten Hypocrisies in the Blueprint of Democracy
(2008-06-11)The following essay investigates the contradictions of the modern concepts linked to the U.S. Constitution and the actual ideologies of those who wrote it. While it may be viewed as a beacon of modern democracy today, ... -
The Cost of Freedom.
(University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2006-05)Freedom came to enslaved African Americans at a high cost. The struggle of African Americans' fight for freedom started before the Civil War and trudged on. Slaves would experience limited freedoms, more prejudices, and ... -
A Cross-sectional Analysis of Research and Development Expenditures.
(2007-12-18)Long-term economic growth is sustained by research and development activities conducted by private firms, and therefore, understanding how firms make R&D choices is important. In this study, Compustat data is used to ... -
Death of an Organizational Man: An Advertiser's Resistance to the FTC and the Creative Revolution in Advertising in the 1960s
(2012-12)Advertising has harnessed the power of television, radio, the Internet, billboards, and endless new communication mediums, becoming a tremendously profitable industry and a mainstay in American culture. During advertising's ... -
A Diatom-based, Paleolimnological Study of Rush Lake, Wisconsin.
(University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2006-05)Rush Lake, located in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, is a shallow, eutrophic, lake/wetland dominated by cattails. This system has been historically important for fishing and waterfowl production. A sediment core (374 cm) was ... -
Do Existing Screening Tools Accurately Reflect Experiences of LGBTQ-Identified Victims of Intimate Partner Violence?
(2014-12)The purpose of this study was to assess how relevant existing screening tools are to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). Screening tools are surveys medical ... -
Does an Inverted Yield Curve Predict Recessions?
(2008-06-11)This paper examines the factors that determine the rate of growth of Gross Domestic Product in the U.S. economy for the years 1976-2006, with an emphasis on the role of the yield curve in predicting economic growth. Using ... -
Dollarization and Macroeconomic Stability in Latin America.
(University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2006-05)This paper examines if dollarization has had a positive impact on the macroeconomic stability of Latin American countries. Dollarization refers to either the official or unofficial replacement of local currencies with the ... -
Don't Criticize Me Buddy: The Kingston Trio and the Folk Music Revival
(2012-12)At the onset of the 1960s, the folk music revival helped to quench middle-class Americans' appetite for authenticity in the postwar world. Americans longed for a more genuine approach to life that embraced the authentic ... -
Dr. Hania Ris's Contribution to Wisconsin's Contraceptive Legislation
(2012-12)Although a large amount of media attention is currently focused on women's reproductive health issues, most Wisconsinites are unfamiliar with their state's conservative history in the area of contraceptive accessibility. ...