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Volunteering Movement in Russia: Regional Presence and Future Perspectives
(University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2015)
This study provides an overview of the volunteering movement in Russia. Particularly, authors concentrate their discussion around major particularities of the volunteer development in Russia: the regional volunteerism, ...
Record of Disposition by Administration of Faculty Senate Actions, 2013-2014
(The University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 2014)
A Convergence Account of Ethics and Aesthetics Through A Composite Understanding of Evaluative Judgments
(2010)
In this dissertation, I argue for a convergence account of the ontological status of the fields of ethics and aesthetics. This project is accomplished in three parts.
Confidence Undergraduate
(2017-04)
When I was 16 years old, my older brother traveled halfway across the world to study abroad. As I looked at his pictures and heard him share his fondest memories, I instantly became enamored with the whole idea of studying ...
Congress, the Court, and the Constitution: Constitutional Deliberation in an Affiliated Age
(2011)
The relationship between Congress and the Constitution and more specifically, constitutional deliberation within Congress, has been the focus of important scholarship (Pickerill, 2004; Devins & Whittington, 2005). This ...
Do Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Predict Anti-China Attitudes?
(2010)
This paper addresses the question of why some Americans hold negative attitudes toward China’s government and people, and the impact that such attitudes have on their preferred China policies. We hypothesized that the ...
Self and Desire as Seeds of Virtue
(2015-03-14)
According to Buddhist philosophies, recognizing the self as impermanent, changing, and interdependent is at the root of virtue. With this realization, desires shift away from inward self-cherishing and toward outward ...
Parent-offspring recognition in cave swallows
(2013)
Natural selection favors investment in genetic relatives over giving such aid indiscriminately. Parental care is often easily directed only towards genetic relatives, but under some circumstances, this task can be problematic. ...
Neoliberal Natives: Projections, Disruptions, and Survivance within Casino Narratives
(2017-05-12)
Upon the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) in 1988, Indian gaming has been at the forefront of Native American discourses regarding sovereignty, self-determination, and economic development. Gaming operations ...
Microcosm assessment of natural processes affecting chemicals of emerging concern in secondary effluent
(2017-05)
The fight for new water sources is over, reclaimed water is next. Currently, the City of Norman supports its water needs via Lake Thunderbird (LT) and the Central Oklahoma Aquifer System (COAS). In times of peak demand, ...