Since the 1980's law enforcement has deployed traffic enforcement camera systems to monitor roadways for traffic violations. There are a variety of commercially available systems today that can capture images of vehicles running red lights, passing...
Honduras -- History -- 1933-1982; Honduras -- History -- 1982-; United States -- Foreign relations -- Honduras; Honduras -- Foreign relations -- United States
For the decade following the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979, the United States organized, supported and sustained a group of counter-revolutionary forces in open warfare against a Marxist-inspired Sandinista government. Operating out of Honduran...
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Russia; Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- United States
This study describes the difference between elementary mathematics education in Russia and the United States. What can we learn from Russian mathematics education? The thesis presents that the main source of Russian achievements in mathematics...
Women -- United Arab Emirates -- Social conditions; Women in development -- United Arab Emirates
When one thinks of the United Arab Emirates, one may picture a country that is one of the richest countries in the world and has the money to build resorts, buildings, and tourism destinations. The UAE is a Middle Eastern country, and has Islam as...
Israel -- History -- 20th century; Judaism -- Relations -- Islam; Islam -- Relations -- Judaism; Zionism -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
Origins and Challenges, as the title of this thesis suggests is a study and research in its early existence and in the present. What I consider to be of great importance to today's generation and the future generations is the contemporary issues...
English language -- United States -- Foreign words and phrases -- Spanish; English language -- United States -- Foreign elements -- Spanish; English language -- Variation -- United States; Spanish language -- Influence on English; Hispanic...
Spanglish is a catch-all term for a way of speaking by some Spanish-English bilinguals that has been disparaged, maligned, and vilified by both monolingual Spanish and monolingual English groups alike, with criticism towards it extending from even...
Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States; Arab-Israeli conflict; United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East
A presumption that the United States and Israel are joined in a common struggle against terrorism has become a part of the political orthodoxy of both the U.S. Republican and Democratic parties. Implicit in this worldview is the premise that the...
Drug traffic -- Colombia; Guerrilla warfare -- Colombia; Colombia -- Social conditions
During the 1980's, Latin America was one of the major concerns of the U.S. foreign policy. Countries like Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Colombia had unstable governments and civil war created a clear and present danger to the national security of the...
Africa, Central -- Politics and government -- 1960-; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1960-1997; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1997-; Crimes against humanity -- Africa, Central; Crimes against...
In the Central Africa Region four million people from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have died largely unnoticed by western media from armed conflict and human rights abuses. Some scholars have written extensively that the conflict in...
When World War II ended, the economic infrastructure of the United States remained intact, allowing her to emerge from the war as the world's leading economic power. It was there that the devastated countries of Europe looked to obtain the...
Jos Mart, writer, poet and revolutionary has been given various names, the most widely-used of which are "The Apostle" and "The Master/The Teacher" of Cuban freedom. The interpretation of his works, post-mortum, has resulted in the creation of...
Blacks -- Race identity -- United States; Blacks -- United States -- Attitudes; Blacks -- United States -- Psychology
Racial identity has been associated with various facets of the lives of Blacks. Previous studies have associated African Americans’ racial identity with the development of self-esteem, psychopathology and academic achievement amongst other...
Mobile communication systems -- United States; Wireless communication systems -- United States; Communication in education -- United States
The purpose of this Capstone Project is to research and provide a solution on how mobile technology can be used as a communication tool between a faculty member and his or her students. The solution will be to allow faculty members the ability to...
Religious fundamentalism -- United States; Sexism in religion -- United States; Women in Christianity -- United States; Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
A plethora of fundamentalist Christian literature emerged in the 1970s and 1980s as a retort to growing feminist ideology. Fundamentalist Christian authors today still adhere to perceived Biblical roles of womanhood. Subsequently, women are being...
To date, the exact etiology of migraine remains unknown. However, the medical community has accepted Moskowitz’s trigeminovascular hypothesis as the most acceptable explanation. Moskowitz proposes that both the trigeminovascular system and the...
United States. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act; College students -- Conduct of life -- United States; Universities and colleges -- Administration
Since the demise of the doctrine of in loco parentis in the mid-1960's, the role that the United States government has played in matters of student conduct at postsecondary institutions has changed drastically. Although higher education has...
Norwich (Conn.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History; City and town life -- Connecticut -- Norwich -- History; Norwich (Conn.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects
During the mid 1800s and early 1900s, large numbers of European Immigrants
sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the shores of the United States. While many of these
immigrants still came from the European countries that migrated to this country...
Monitor (Ironclad); United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations; Armored vessels -- History -- 19th century
The object of this study is the restoration to the public memory of the revolutionary United States Ship (USS) Monitor. It follows the history of the vessel from inception to destruction and on to its recent discovery utilizing the works of...
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Treatment -- United States; Veterans -- Mental health -- United States
According to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is threatening the national security as the biomedical approach that has been used for years for treating PTSD has proved to be less...
United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001; Education -- Standards -- United States; Educational accountability -- United States; School principals -- Connecticut
This study examined Connecticut principals’ perceptions of the value of standards-based education and standardized testing, and the actions they have taken because of these conditions to improve student achievement. A descriptive research design...
