Browsing Georgetown University Institutional Repository by Title
Now showing items 1-40 of 7642
-
15 Million Infrastructure Jobs: An Economic Shot in the Arm to the COVID-19 Recession
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021)A $2 trillion jobs plan (of which $1.5 trillion will go to infrastructure) from the Biden-Harris administration would be good medicine to nurse the economic wounds inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The infrastructure ... -
“The 1574 Mirror for Magistrates is a Possible Source for “Feath’red King” in Shakespeare’s ‘The Phoenix and the Turtle.’”.
(Manchester University Press, 2014) -
The 1989 U.S. Invasion of Panama and the Media: A Case Study
(1992-04-17) -
19th century girls' literature : stories of empowerment or limitation?
(Georgetown University, 2009) -
2- & 3-D Assembly of Cluster and Coordination Materials
(Georgetown University, 2016)The assembly of materials with diverse properties has come to the forefront of attention recently due to the potential wide-ranging applications. Two systems are studied here: first, molecular clusters for their unique ... -
2003 Iraq War : intelligence or political failure?
(Georgetown University, 2011) -
The 2004 Moroccan Moudawana Reforms: Outcomes for Moroccan Women
(Georgetown University, 2013)This paper examines the question of whether the 2004 reform of the Moroccan Moudawana law resulted in improved outcomes for Moroccan women by examining changes in attitudes towards women and women's economic activity before ... -
2006 Undergraduate Fellows Report: Secular and Religious Approaches to Global Development
(2006-12-08)Over the course of 2006, Berkley Center Undergraduate Fellows, in collaboration with the Linz Ethics Project of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, compared and contrasted secular and religious approaches to ... -
2007 Undergraduate Fellows Report: Religious Advocates: A Force in U.S. Politics?
(2008-01-05)The 2007 Undergraduate Fellows Program gave a select group of ten Georgetown undergraduates the resources to study the role of religious advocacy groups in United States politics. Under the direction of Professor Clyde ... -
The 2008 Economic Stimulus Payments and Durable Consumption
(Georgetown University, 2015)During the Great Recession in the United States, a myriad of policy tools were used in the hopes stimulating a stagnant economy. The purpose of this paper is to look into the effects of one such tool that was used, the ... -
2008 Undergraduate Fellows Report: A Leap of Faith: Interreligious Marriage in America
(2008-12-31)Starting in January 2008, ten Georgetown undergraduate student fellows interviewed 45 different couples about interreligious marriage in America, focusing on the challenges and benefits that arise within interreligious ... -
The 2009 Iranian Presidential Elections in Comparative Perspective
(Routledge, 2011) -
The 2009 Presidential Elections and Iran’s Changing Political Landscape
(Elsevier, 2010)Iran's June 2009 elections set into motion four processes that are central to the operations of the Islamic Republic regime. They include: the growing gap between large sections of Iranian society from the Islamic Republican ... -
2012 LABOR REFORM IN MEXICO AND ITS IMPACT IN THE FORMAL AND INFORMAL LABOR MARKETS
(Georgetown University, 2015)Informality in the labor market is a phenomenon that hinders productivity growth causing low tax collection and social security imbalances, among other pervasive effects to any country's economy. This situation is particularly ... -
2013 Thanksgiving Black Friday Survey
(2013)This survey was conducted in the first week of November with the purpose of informing how consumers plan to shop on and around the Thanksgiving holiday. The key findings of the survey, including when and where consumers ... -
2015 District of Columbia Earned Income Tax Credit Expansions and Poverty Reduction for Adults Without Qualifying Children
(Georgetown University, 2022)The federal EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) for adults without qualifying children is too small to offset income and payroll taxes for that group, without temporary expansions. To address this, D.C. government expanded the ... -
2021 Strategic Note on Religion and Diplomacy
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, 2021-05-17)The 2021 Strategic Note on Religion & Diplomacy highlights key recent developments pertaining to the religious dimensions of major topics in foreign policy, offering a brief analysis of how religion fits into the picture ... -
21st Century Competencies: For College and Career Readiness
(Center on Education and the Workforce, 2013-03-07)Dr. Carnevale analyses the economic changes due to mass-production from the Civil War until the 1970's. He also examines and describes the standard competencies needed to enter the labor market as we survive the 21st ... -
21st century lobby and campaign finance reform : enough to prevent scandal
(Georgetown University, 2011) -
287(g) and public safety : determining the effects of local immigration enforcement on crime
(Georgetown University, 2009) -
45TH IN THE DRAFT, 1ST IN OUR HEARTS: A CASE STUDY OF PATRICE BERGERON- CLEARY, AN NHL FRANCHISE FACE
(Georgetown University, 2022-05-03)This senior thesis explores the meaning and use of the franchise face in the National Hockey League (NHL) by using the franchise face of the Boston Bruins: Patrice Bergeron-Cleary as a case study. Through close readings ... -
9-cis-retinoic acided mediated endothelial transdifferentiation in breast cancer cells
(Georgetown University, 2008) -
“90% Sadness and 10% Schadenfreude”: Construction and Uptake of Nuanced Stances on Twitter
(Georgetown University, 2022)This study examines the construction and uptake of what I refer to as “nuanced stances” in interactions on Twitter regarding points of ideological contention in the context of the Covid-related death of Herman Cain. Drawing ... -
'A Broken Puzzle Box': Governance, Localization, and Depoliticization in Moroccan Civil Society
(Georgetown University, 2023)Recent scholarship on Morocco has often focused on its status as a hybrid regime that has successfully managed to diffuse popular discontent by coopting, fragmenting, or repressing political and civil society. However, ... -
A CASE STUDY: ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHANGES IN URBAN FLASH FLOODING POLICY IN MOROCCO
(2023)Urban flash flooding is a growing risk across the world. This is particularly true in the country of Morocco, characteristic of the North Africa and Middle East region, beset by an arid climate, an urbanization trend, and ... -
A Cognitive Linguistics Approach to Explaining the Polysemy of ‘alā and fī in Modern Standard Arabic
(Georgetown University, 2018)‘Alā ‘on’ and fī ‘in’ are two of the most polysemous Arabic prepositions. Previous accounts have varied in the range of meanings attributed to ‘alā and fī. In addition, many have viewed prepositions, including ‘alā and ... -
A Comparative Analysis: Coalitions of the LGBTQ+ and Abortion Rights Movement’s in Argentina
(Georgetown University, 2020)My thesis looks at the factors which cause a social movement to achieve policy outcomes faster than others. My research shows how the internal dynamics of social movement coalitions influence the achievement of a movement’s ... -
A Comparison of Hospital Capacities between Single-Payer and Multi-Payer Healthcare Systems among OECD Nations
(Georgetown University, 2021)The healthcare systems of OECD nations are very diverse and complex. With the COVID-19 pandemic testing these systems to a breaking point not seen in generations, some nations performed better than others in handling the ... -
A Comparison of Student Nurse Anesthetists’ Perceptions of Regional Anesthesia Skill and Knowledge Acquisition Utilizing Cadavers Versus Non-Cadaver Models
(Georgetown University, 2020)Due to the expansion of healthcare to a larger population and the increased need for more anesthesia providers, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) are practicing to the full extent of their education and ... -
A Comparison of Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists Pharmacology Knowledge Acquisition and Long-Term Retention Following Exposure to Didactic Instruction and Experiential Learning Versus Didactic Instruction Alone
(Georgetown University, 2020)High fidelity simulation (HFS) is a useful method to teach practical information without the risk of harming a live patient. It is a teaching method used in at least half of all nurse anesthesia programs, but not generally ... -
A Comprehensive Metagenomic Study of the Antarctic Untersee Oasis as an Astrobiological Analog
(Georgetown University, 2022)Astrobiology is the study of the “living universe,” which includes the study of the origin of lifeas well as its evolution and distribution on Earth and beyond. Prime candidates for alien life include the icy moons of the ... -
A Compromise for Control: Understanding North Korea's Private Market Economy
(Georgetown University, 2018)Free market enterprise embodies values of independent thinking and self-reliance, which are antithetical to the North Korean regime’s ideological values inherent to Marxist-Leninism. However, in recent years, the Kim Jong-un ... -
A Cultural Genealogy of Strategic Rationality
(Georgetown University, 2018)I construct in this dissertation a cultural genealogy to trace in Western civilization a consistent set of values that underlie a worldview that I call Strategic Intelligence (SI). I argue that the plethora of cultural ... -
A Descriptive Study of Nouns and Nominal Phrases in Soqotri
(Georgetown University, 2022)This dissertation thoroughly describes the noun and the major phrases within the nominal domain in Soqotri, one of the Modern South Arabian languages which belong to the West Semitic branch of the Semitic language family. ... -
A Floating History: The Korean War and China's Political Use of War Memory
(Georgetown University, 2020)The Korean War has served as one of the crucial historical conflicts in China’s relations with other countries, especially with the United States. However, the narrative of the official memory and the meaning of the War ... -
A Hedonic Analysis of School Quality Valuation under the Universal Lottery System in Washington, D.C.
(Georgetown University, 2020)School quality is one of many characteristics that impact the price of a house. Though public schooling in the United States is a “free” public good, the quality of the local public schooling options are capitalized in the ... -
A Help or Hinderance: Examining the Role of Curriculum in Task-based Language Teaching Innovation Plans
(Georgetown University, 2022)Despite a theoretical foundation in second language acquisition research (Mackey, 2021), supportive empirical findings (Long, 2015), and growing international popularity (Bryfonski & McKay, 2017), the task-based language ... -
A Holistic Assessment of the Water-for-Agriculture Dilemma in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2018)Prior to the emergence of the oil industry and the subsequent rapid agricultural expansion of the 1970s, there has been little to no concern about water for agriculture in Saudi Arabia since prehistoric times. ...
