___________________________________________________________________________________ Sydney Fishman graduated in May 2016 with a B.S. in Environmental Studies and minors in Geohazards and International Policy & Management. She is currently a first-year student at the Duke Nicholas School of the Environment, where she is … [Read more...] about Fake Guns, Real Money; Conspicuous Consumption and Identity Building in Virtual Communities
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Hall v. Florida: A Cauldron of Scientific Jurisprudence?
Hall v. Florida: A Cauldron of Scientific Jurisprudence? Freddie Lee Hall, a man whose mental capacity resembles that of a four year-old, who as a child was “constantly beaten because he was ‘slow’ or because he made simple mistakes,” and whose siblings say plainly there is something “very wrong” with him intellectually, was nearly executed in … [Read more...] about Hall v. Florida: A Cauldron of Scientific Jurisprudence?
The Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders: Punishment or Treatment?
Danielle Pappas is a 2nd year Master of Public Health student with a concentration in Global Health Leadership at the University of Southern California. As a progressive degree student, Danielle began her MPH in her senior year of undergraduate (2014-2015) at USC in which she obtained a B.S. in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention … [Read more...] about The Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders: Punishment or Treatment?
The Ethics of Minimum Wage
Leslie Landers is a senior majoring in economics and applied math. _____________________________________________________________________________________ In October 2008, the capitalist economic system responsible for decades of prosperity in the United States experienced one of its largest market corrections in history. The economic … [Read more...] about The Ethics of Minimum Wage
The House of the Rising Sun: Folklore across the Ages
Bryan Oliver will graduate with honors from USC in 2015 with a degree in Classics and a minor in Russian. He has a passion for foreign cultures and languages, both ancient and modern, and has studied at four universities in three countries. Upon graduation, he will be conducting research in England, and then moving abroad to continue working … [Read more...] about The House of the Rising Sun: Folklore across the Ages