Third party presidential candidates are rarely significant or successful players in American politics. This paper explores what factors create the most amount of relative success for third party presidential candidates as defined by winning more than five percent of the popular vote and more than one state’s electoral votes. This is a low bar, yet only five third party presidential campaigns have risen above it...
The hills of Western Europe bear the physical scars of the First World War. Remnants of
the web of trenches that defined the landscape during the conflict remain in both reality and in
cultural memory. These trenches became the liminal space between the promising hope of a century of peace and the bloody twentieth century. French and Belgian dirt was transformed into what so many young men described as Hell on Earth...
Esbeidy Torres Ibarra
Lone Star College
This study investigates the 1996 Dickey Amendment with an aim to evaluate its effects on law
enforcement’s access to evidence-based gun research alongside police efforts to predict and
prevent school shootings in the United States. A provision to the 1997 Appropriations Bill, the Dickey Amendment restricts the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from
allocating funds to advocate or promote gun control.
A recent survey from Center for Disease Control (CDC) found that six of every ten adults in the United States live with a chronic disease. Within this group, over half are stricken with two or more of these ailments (2023). Chronic diseases, largely incurable, are rapidly increasing in frequency and prominence in the modern world. Researchers expect this rise to continue into the foreseeable future, with the number of diagnosed adults over fifty projected to double in the next twenty years, from 72 million to 144 million in the United States alone...
While research into Hamilton and the genre of historical fiction as a whole often lends itself to the debate of historical accuracy, this research aims to understand how these historical accuracies impact an individual character’s perception in society. This research examines Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton and its presentation of founding father Alexander Hamilton. First, an analysis of the impact historical fiction has on the real world...
With an aim to elucidate the effect of BRCA1 in Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC), this study analyzed the BRCA1 regulatory role at the centromere and its impact on the
expression regulation mechanisms of Estrogen (ER), Progesterone (PR), and Human Epidermal Growth Factor 2 (HER2) receptors. First, Suba’s (2015) BRCA1 and ER-alpha expression mechanism model was selected to serve as the foundation...