Browsing Sewanee Senior Honors Theses 2014 by Title
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Aiding and Abetting: An Empoirical Study of the Effects of Foreign Aid on the Rule of Law in sub-Saharan Africa
(University of the South, 2014-04)Bringing the empirical analysis of econometrics to the debate of the effects of foreign aid on countries located in sub-Saharan Africa, this paper analyzes the effect of foreign aid on the rule of law by using instrumental ... -
"Already Having Forgotten:" Violence, Its Memory, and Political Identity in El Salvador
(University of the South, 2014-04-25)El Salvador suffered from a brutal civil war from approximately 1980 until the signing of the Peace Accords in 1992. Civil war identities were formed by the incremental experience of violence, solidified by the post-conflict ... -
Choosing Humanity: The Evolution of the Elephant Man
(University of the South, 2014-04-24)In the following study on Joseph Merrick and perceptions, I detail the differing views of his life and his disease. I combine the different perspectives on Merrick because no one has made comparisons between the perspectives ... -
Monsters of Japan and the Globalization of Folklorism: Oni and Their Representations in "InuYasha" and "The Legend of Zelda."
(University of the South, 2014-04-30)This paper looks at the anime series InuYasha as well as the video game series The Legend of Zelda and analyzes the depictions of Japanese demons (oni) within their narratives, demonstrating the importance of these images ... -
Reproductive Health Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Look at Five Factors and their impact on contraception access using the case studies of Nigeria and Senegal
(University of the South, 2014-04-24)Over the last two decades, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have implemented programs to improve the overall wellbeing of their citizens. While individual countries have observed significant strides in improving education ... -
Signaling or Pressuring for Protection?
(University of the South, 2013-12-10)What INGO efforts successfully influence the adequate protection of a terrorist’s right to due process in extra-territorial detention camps? The discovery of United States CIA black sites and extra-territorial detention ... -
A Spiritual Defense of the Garden
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Wareware to wa Bessekai: The evolution, inhibition, and cultural prohibition of public male-male sexual identities in contemporary Japan
(University of the South, 2014-04-30)Pre-19th century Japanese society expected its members to engage in both hetero- and homosexual acts. However, while Westerners may view Japan as sexually progressive, or even bizarre, today’s Japan is notably conservative ...
