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MAKING DO AND DOING GOOD. AMEN.: AMERICAN CATHOLIC LAYWOMEN’S CHARITABLE EFFORTS IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION THROUGH CATHOLIC WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS
(Georgetown University, 2016-04-21)During the Great Depression, American Catholic laywomen navigated an increasingly tumultuous society caused by severe economic hardship. During this decade, gender roles continued to shift, unemployment threw titanic ... -
RIGHTEOUS OR RELATIVE: HOW THE 1960’S SOCIAL MOVEMENTS INSPIRED GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY’S JESUIT CALL TO SERVICE
(Georgetown University, 2016-04-21)“The ideals and principles that have characterized Jesuit education for over 450 years are central to Georgetown’s mission and character…Students are challenged to engage in the world and become men and women in the ... -
OVERTHROWN: CURT FLOOD, JIM BOUTON, AND BASEBALL’S FREE AGENCY REVOLUTION
(Georgetown University, 2016-04-21)Baseball is not only the national pastime, but also a business and a workplace. After a century of the reserve system, players finally secured the right to become free agents and negotiate contracts in 1975. This thesis ... -
THE MEMORIAL THAT DIES: UNDERSTANDING THE MEMORIAL TREE’S CONVENTIONAL FAILURE AND PUBLIC POPULARITY IN 1918 AND TODAY
(Georgetown University, 2016-04-21)This senior thesis identifies a contradiction in a normalized practice in the United States. In the wake of 9/11, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Americans planted trees to commemorate the trauma, shouting ... -
GOLDEN AGE HEROES: THE AMERICAN MYTH OF WOODWARD AND BERNSTEIN
(Georgetown University, 2016-04-27)The Watergate scandal of the 1970s is one of the greatest presidential scandals in American history. In an elaborate scheme in quest for more power, President Richard Nixon and his administration performed unconstitutional ...
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