Exploring the Savings and Loan Crisis – Causes, Impact and Resolution

 Introduction The Savings and Loan Industry The savings and loan industry is established for the purpose of collecting and accumulating customer  savings as well as lending money such as mortgages, personal, and business loans at an established market interest for both parties. Savings and loan institutions are usually shareholder owned in order to limit … Read more

Determinism in Philosophy: Hard and Soft, Libertarianism, Utilitarianism, Virtue Ethics and Existentialism

 Melanie Perez Professor Berkey-Abbott PHI2010 12/2/18 Determinism Does freedom exist? What does “freedom” mean? Philosophers asked these questions when on the topic of freedom. There are many different types of determinism. Types of determinism are hard determinism, soft determinism, indeterminism, and libertarianism. Philosophers had different ethical traditions. Three ethical traditions that we are going … Read more

Nonviolence vs Milk: Examining Jains Contradictory Values in India and the Diaspora

 As whole, the major religions of South Asia place a high value on ahmisa, or nonviolence, which is reflected in the promotion of a vegetarian diet to avoid harming animals. However, in light of modern agriculture’s cultivation practices, some have called into question the permissibility of milk consumption. For many Indians, this represents a … Read more

Solving Employee Engagement Challenges: Northwestern Mutual’s Motivated Workforce Pilot for the Future

 Brief Northwestern Mutual (NWM) is an American finance service, emerging from a global financial crisis, enforcing the ‘Motivated Workforce Pilot’ ensuring a case for the company’s future assets in employee engagement using research on performance measures and analytics.  The main concepts of employee engagement and relations is a development on an older concept from … Read more

Benefits/Drawbacks of Community Resource Mgt: Case Studies, Design Principles and More

 The Benefits and Drawbacks of Community Resource Management Kevin W. Kirk San Diego State University Resource management regimes are used in order to prevent overexploitation and degradation while still allowing current and future resource users to receive benefits. Resource management regimes are typically divided into three categories: state-owned regimes typically have regulations set in … Read more

Exploring the Ancient Mayan City of Chichen-Itza: Contribution to Technology and Culture

 The Mayan civilization existed from 2600 B.C. to 1800 B.C. and was considered one of the dominant indigenous civilizations in mesoamerica. Within that timespan mayans were able to make monumental advances in technology and culture such as the mayan calendar, hieroglyphics, 0-20 number system, and astronomy. The Mayans created large cities such as Tikal, … Read more

Exploring the Benefits of an Authoritarian Parenting Style for a Childs Success

 Observing the Benefits of an Authoritarian Parenting Style Mary Kathryn Hancock Lindenwood University Author Note Mary Kathryn Hancock, Psychology Department, Lindenwood University. Correspondence regarding this paper should be addressed to Mary Kathryn Hancock at Lindenwood University, 209 South Kingshighway, St. Charles, MO, 63301 or email mkh393@ lindenwood.edu Abstract There are six main parenting or … Read more

Effect of HAART on Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission & Long-Term Child Effects

 Evidence in effectiveness of  HAART on transmission of HIV from mother to child during delivery and while breastfeeding Gedamneh Fantaye   Saba University School of Medicine Gedamneh Fantaye   937 Whittmore Drive Nashville, TN 37135 (615)-720-5022 fgedamneh@saba.edu Dr. Bruzik Article word count:​ 5447 Fantaye, Gedamneh 2   Abstract   The disease burden of HIV … Read more

CAG Expansion to Study Effects of Amino Acid Substitution on HTT Protein with NCBI, BLAST and SwissModel

 The CAG repeat is extremely polymorphic and varies from 10 to 35 repeats on chromosomes of unaffected individuals and from more than 36 to 180 repeats on chromosomes of HD patients. Huntingtin Protein can cause loss of striatal neurons and can eventually lead to Huntington’s Disease. The goal of this is to study the … Read more

Exploring Native American Alcoholism: Nature vs Nurture?

 ernment assistance, heathens, drunks. These stereotypes originate from the ethnocentric attitudes of the non-natives who were colonizing the Native Americans and eradicating their cultural freedom. While nearly all of the claims against American Indian culture have since been denounced and nullified, the question regarding alcoholism remains. Today, Native Americans and Alaska Natives are over … Read more