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Browsing Political Science Senior Integrated Projects by Author "Filner, Matthew"
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Afrocentric Feminist Education: The Alternative Solution
(2002)Afrocentric education, or African-centered education, attempts to address basic defects of the U.S. educational system. African-centered education is taught from the perspective of peoples of the African Diaspora. By ... -
America's Anti-Poor Bias And Its Influence on Poverty Policy
(2003)The way in which Americans think about the poor has changed over the last 40 years. At one time, being poor was an economic condition. Poverty was a problem of individuals, by that I mean that becoming impoverished was ... -
American City Form, and Bourgeois and Middle Class Power: An Investigation into the Relationship
(2000)In the early nineteenth century, the primary form of the American city was the walking city in which the elite lived close to the center of town and the most burdensome elements of the population were relegated to the ... -
An Analysis of the Differentiation of Women
(2002)The normalization of the phrase "women of color" suggests that certain ideas can only be conveyed by this more specific categorization as opposed to the general categories of"race" and "gender". Throughout this paper, the ... -
An Analysis of the USA PATRIOT Act
(2002)After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush announced that the U.S. would not only find and punish those responsible for the horrendous crime, but also launch a "War on Terrorism" to prevent ... -
Campaign Finance Reform: A Case Study of Elitism in the United States Legislature
(2001)The debate on the nature of interest group power in the United States has gone on for centuries. This debate is so crucial and so controversial because public interest groups, or organizations that are composed of, represent ... -
A Comparative Study of Divorce: Covenant Marriage-A Free Choice, or a More Restrictive Union
(2000)Beginning with an historical overview of fault and no-fault divorce, this paper will discuss the sociological and political evolution of divorce. It will review the divorce statistics through the past century, and discuss ... -
Disruption of a Cultural Identity: An Examination of Lakota Identity
(2001)In discussing the present situation of Native Americans in the United States, it is important to understand the extent to which government policies have been inflicted upon Indians, specifically the Lakota, in the past as ... -
Ecocentric Environmentalism and Pragmatic Strategy: The Means for an Effective Convention on Biological Diversity
(2001)Throughout these pages, I have argued that a reinvented Convention on Biological Diversity, based on ecocentric environmental theory, would curb today's frightening rates of biodiversity loss, and I have no doubt that it ... -
Judicial Federalism and Individual Rights and Liberties: School Vouchers and the Separation of Church and State
(2002)As a result of the federal government's decline in protecting rights, a need for state courts to do so has emerged. State Courts can expand individual rights and liberties using their own state constitutional provisions. ... -
The Media, The State, And The Subversion of Democracy
(2001-03-30)At six and even o'clock in the evening is when most Americans receive the majority of their political news, the standardized television news times on ail of the major networks. Settling down in front of the television, one ... -
On the "Achievement Gap" A Challenge to the Terms of Public Debate Over Equality in Primary and Secondary Education
(2003)Both sides of the "achievement gap" debate are problematic in two ways. First, neither side questions the significance of the "achievement gap" itself as a measure of equality. Second, both are flawed in their programmatic ... -
Opting Out Without Disclosure: A Survey of How TANF Welfare Reform is Conducive to Perpetuating Prejudice of African-Americans
(2001)Zucchino's motivation for writing the book was to discover if women on welfare were "worthy more of contempt or compassion, or something in between" (1997, 13). Like Zucchino, I too question whether women, specifically ... -
A Qualitative Analysis of Local Attitudes Toward the National CRA Debate
(2003)The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA) was enacted to encourage banking institutions to help meet the credit needs of their entire communities, including low-and moderate-income neighborhoods, consistent with safe ... -
Reflections upon Judicial Independence as we approach the Bicentennial of Marbury v. Madison: Safeguarding the Constitution's "Crown Jewel"
(2001)By 1787, the Revolution had been won and a new, independent nation born. But, the new nation had yet to clearly define a governmental structure with which to establish and maintain the noble principles over which the ... -
The Representation Gap in Politics: Explanations and Recommendations for Closing the Gender Gap in Michigan Democratic Politics
(2002)In my research, I examine the political landscape within the Democratic Party in Michigan, and try to explain through a review of the literature the reasons for the gender disparity in political representation. I hypothesize ... -
Sexual Harassment: a Critique of the Discursive Practices of Women in the Home Improvement Industry
(2001)This essay focuses on the women affected by sexual harassment and their lack of confrontation to sexually harassing behavior. According to Shereen Bingham, there are three different paradigms through which one can view ... -
Two Concepts of Individualism: Puritanism vs. John Locke
(2000)Ideas do not develop ex nihilo, rather they develop over time from preceding ideas and beliefs. As Solomon said, "The thing that hath been, is that which shall be... there is no new thing under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1 ... -
We're Getting Warmer: Calling for a New Look at Global Warming Policy in the United States
(2001)Since the early 1980's, society has been experiencing increasingly strange weather patterns around the globe. Flooding in Bangladesh, fires in Canadian forests, ice and snowstorms in Texas these are all recent weather ...
