Toni Morrison’s Sula and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening illustrate the negative implications of a patriarchal society as their female characters are compelled to sacrifice their identities to conform. Although they are from different time periods, settin . . .

There has been a growing population of non-religious people in the United States, and a gradual shift towards secularization. Additionally, there has been a renewed interest in the idea of spirituality as more people have denounced religion and the su . . .

This study examines the early history of Reno, Nevada’s Twentieth Century Club and its relationship to the state suffrage movement. Several Club women attempted to introduce the idea of female equality to members with speeches, paper presentations, an . . .

This thesis explores how the relationship between the violence occurring during the 1990s in Los Angeles, California; historical and modern police training; the California penal code; and legal decisions and precedent resulted in the militarization of . . .

Octavia Butler’s award-winning science fiction provides critics with a myriad of topics for discussion. All of her works challenge racial, cultural, gender, and biological boundaries. Butler explores biological determinism and human behavior throughou . . .

The thesis explores one of Just War tradition’s prime tenets of protecting noncombatants. Here, current CIA drone program practices are reviewed to determine potential violations of the jus in bello principles of Discrimination and Proportionality. CI . . .

This study analyzes the intellectual propositions of Abbé Augustin Barruel in his 1798 work Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism. Barruel’s investigative documentation of an eighteenth-century conspiracy reveals that the French Revolution wa . . .

Few historians have investigated women who contributed to the Civil War by fighting as soldiers. It is estimated that between 250-500 women served as soldiers in the war, although the exact number cannot be known. Women joined the fight for a variety . . .

Catherine the Great and Marie Antoinette were near contemporaries, and they faced many similar challenges in their respective positions. At first glance, one would expect Marie Antoinette to have been more successful: she was the daughter of Maria The . . .

The hunger for the restoration of the Hawaiian Kingdom has been a widespread interest amongst the Native Hawaiians since the overthrow of the monarchy by an oligarchy of American plantation owners residing in the kingdom. For sovereignty activists, th . . .