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Seastrand-Bachynski, Sara Jayne | An act to decrease childhood obesity rates in the U.S. | The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 was signed into law in order to address alarming childhood obesity rates in the U.S. In this paper, I address the importance of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 and how it enhances child health by improving the food environment for children in public ... | Childhood obesity - Utah | 2014-05 |
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Jochim, Jordan | Forging a truce, forcing an encounter: James Baldwin and the paradox of injury | In States of Injury, Wendy Brown argues that emancipatory projects premised upon the "injured identity" of oppressed groups work inadvertently to solidify hierarchical social structures and generates forms of resentment that are ultimately self-defeating. As such, she urges the abandonment of injure... | Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 - Criticism and interpretation; Political science - Philosophy; Power (Social science) | 2014-05 |
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Saperstein, Elizabeth | Punctuated equilibrium and the Patriot Act 2001 | An all-encompassing theory to describe the policy-making process in modern political systems has yet to be determined. Therefore, no theory currently exists that uncontestably predicts future policy outcomes. In an attempt to describe the policy process and account for the process as one that fluctu... | Patriot Act (U.S.); Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution) | 2014-08 |
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Rush, Jacob | The Kantian concept of the person, rationality and Socrates' death | In this paper, I consider Socrates' death sentence in The Apology and his choice to accept his death sentence in The Crito. I structure his choice in a Kantian manner. First, I argue that Socrates has a duty to himself, as a rational agent, to (a) act as a promisekeeping individual and (b) perform t... | Socrates - Death and burial; Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1824 - Ethics | 2014-05 |
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