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Charity in Dialogue: A Reflection on Hermeneutics, Religion, and Human Dignity
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The central argument in this thesis is that religion, and in particular the Christian religion, has an essential cultural function to play in the first half of the twenty-first century as a cultural educator par excellence ...
Getting Pay Right: Perceptions of Fairness and the Influence of Transparency and Trust
(Georgetown University, 2021)
This project explores employee pay and what it means to get it right through a human values perspective. The project is based on the hypothesis that satisfaction with pay is linked to employee retention, yet satisfaction ...
Storytelling in Virtual Reality: A Narratological Study of Maqtal
(Georgetown University, 2020)
How can a story like Maqtal (account of martyrdom) of Imam Husayn be told be in Virtual Reality (VR)? The reason why this is a meaningful question is that the notion of telepresence, by which VR is theoretically defined, ...
Love Amongst the Ruins: The Mainline American Protestant Churches and U.S.-Japan Relations During the 1940s and 1950s
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This thesis assesses the impact of the mainline American Protestant churches on relations between Japan and the United States during the Pacific War era and shortly thereafter. In doing so, it argues that the missionaries ...
The Theological Nature of Work and Wealth as the Basis of Contributive Justice and the Moral Foundation for a New Social Contract
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This thesis synthesizes a Catholic theological understanding of work and the responsibilities of wealth. This understanding serves as the conceptual basis for understanding an emerging dimension of justice called contributive ...
Toward a Moral Framework for Improving Rail Passenger Safety: Occupant Protection
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is charged by the U.S. Congress to investigate significant passenger rail accidents to determine the probable cause and to issue safety recommendations aimed at preventing ...
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Building an Ethical Toolkit for an Internationally Recognized Path Forward That Addresses The Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Heritable Human Genome Intervention.
(Georgetown University, 2022)
This thesis, on human genome editing takes a global perspective, with people, knowledge, and technology flowing across borders, the potential is there for ethically controversial practices to flow toward less restrictive ...
THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA CONVEYED RUSSIAN-BACKED DISINFORMATION IN A POLARIZED AMERICA: AN EXAMINATION OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH’S ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY TO RESPOND
(Georgetown University, 2022)
For the last forty years, America has experienced an erosion of trust in institutions. The introduction of social media has only accelerated this trend. Hostile nation-states such as Russia have taken advantage of these ...
TENACIOUS KOREAN WOMEN Reconstruction of Gender Roles from the Joseon Dynasty to 20th-Century Immigration
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Korean immigrant women to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century proved that existing gender roles can be deconstructed and reconstructed. Agreeing with the famous statement of Simone de Beauvoir that “being ...
A Role For Pre-College Programs: Cultural Capital And School Outcomes For Black Students Seeking Higher Education
(Georgetown University, 2023)
Racial and ethnic minority groups face extraordinary challenges in access to and success in higher education due to the complicated history of racism in the US educational system and society. This thesis focuses on past ...