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The World Ends One Last Time
Full text linkTwo friends are reincarnated into alternate universes where they are destined to meet over and over again. Meanwhile, two otherworldly observers find themselves reflecting on their own bond with each other
Other Bodies and Their Other Worlds: Reimagining the Victorian Femme Fatale
Full text linkThis paper explores Victorian and contemporary challenges to the Victorian femme fatale by comparing Yorgos Lanthimos\u27 2023 film Poor Things with Emily Brontë\u27s Wuthering Heights and Vernon Lee\u27s Oke of Okehurst. It examines how each work constructs and deconstructs the figure of the femme fatale by placing their female protagonists in otherworldly settings that break the boundaries of conventional Victorian norms. Lanthimos\u27 film presents Bella Baxter as a liberated Other in a whimsical, fantastical world, contrasting with the tragic fates of Catherine Earnshaw and Alice Oke, who are grounded in realism despite their otherworldly settings. The paper\u27s analysis highlights the role of the otherworldly in achieving liberation and critiques the sanctioning and regulation of othered bodies. It uses Michel Foucault\u27s and Steven Marcus’s theories on Victorian sexuality as well as interpretations of medical discourse to contextualize Victorian societal constraints. The paper concludes by suggesting that the imaginative and liberated world of Poor Things challenges and expands upon the rigid archetypes established in 19th-century literature in a similar way as Brontë and Lee, yet does so through a lens of fantasy and comedy. While offering a critique of the film’s tone, the paper suggests that its disruption of the femme fatale trope is a continued move towards the liberation of the Other
The Impact of Abortion Shield Laws on Abortion Access in the United States
Full text linkDobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) ruled that abortion access is no longer constitutionally protected resulting in each state deciding who has access to an abortion. This thesis examines if laws that restrict abortion access are effective because one can travel from a state that bans abortion to a state that allows abortion to obtain an abortion procedure. Specifically, this paper investigates the relationship between the increase in travel cost to an abortion clinic located in state with enhanced legal protections—known as abortion shield laws—and U.S. Census variables. Using Gary Becker’s legal analysis model, an abortion seeker will always travel to a state with shield law protections since the probability of prosecution is 0%. This accounts for an abortion seekers’ willingness to pay the increased cost, but this does not consider an abortion seekers’ ability to pay. This thesis uses geographic information systems (GIS) to study the relationship between an increase in travel cost and access to a resource (e.g., ability to pay). This paper concludes laws that restrict abortion access are effective because they create excessive, undue barriers for women who are already economically disenfranchised due to a lack of insurance, education, income, and transportation
Analyzing the impact of COVID-19 driven inflation on customer personal consumption in the US
Full text linkThis paper focuses on the different effects of COVID-19-driven inflation on U.S. consumer spending on food, durable goods, and nondurable goods. The study used regression models to analyze changes in personal consumption spending on three categories between 2010-2017 and 2018-2024. The article emphasized that the economic instability caused by the pandemic and the fiscal policies utilized by the government have contributed to consumer behavior to a certain extent. The survey results show that the impact of inflation on food and non-durable goods spending is very clear: consumption on non-durable goods and food has increased. This may be due to increased health awareness and the demand for disposable household items. At the same time, spending on durable goods fell as consumers became more uncertain about the economic outlook. The study notes that the primary role of government interventions, such as fiscal stimulus measures, is to curb some of the negative economic effects by preserving consumers\u27 purchasing power. Therefore, this means that the policies in the study have a legitimate use for adequately describing market reactions and consumer behavior in global crises, enabling them to inform policymakers and consumers alike. At the same time, the study also presents the need for flexible economic strategies to support effective recovery and resilience to make a greater contribution to society
The accuracy of expected goals in the Premier League
Full text linkExpected Goals are an analytical tool used in soccer which have picked up a lot of value in recent years. They are used to asses teams\u27 quality to create goal scoring opportunities and converting them. Expected goals are commonly used at the end of games to give further insight on who deserved to win based off their goal scoring chances that they had or gave up. In this thesis I am researching the accuracy of expected goals predicting teams finishing position in the Premier League 2014-15 season. This thesis will show of expected goals and expected goals against in a game will accurately predict a game along with all the games of every team in the 2014-15 Premier League Season
A Study of the Impact of Social Trust on Economic Growth and Defining a Potential Threshold for ‘High Trust’ in Economic Research
Full text linkThis paper seeks to 1. evaluate findings from previous literature that demonstrated evidence of social trust having a positive relationship with economic growth in the form of Gross Domestic Product per capita (GDPpc) and 2. evaluate potential trust levels that can be used as a threshold for considering a country ‘high-trusting’ when conducting economic research. The study gathered data to measure social trust levels from World Values Survey where respondents answered yest to the question “most people can be trusted”. Then the study evaluated the relationship between trust and GDPpc with control variables including technology, education, labor, investment, and external balance (variables used found from World Development Indicators within World Bank data and described later). The study also ran regressions using two thresholds for high trust, one at 40% and another at 60%. This was done using dummy variables highTrust 40 and highTrust60. The results from the data demonstrate a positive relationship between social trust and GDPpc growth . There was also a demonstrated difference when passing the threshold of 40% trust but there is more research needed to determine the usefulnes of these findings
The airline industry in the U.S, do airlines choose to price their airfare off their own model being “bag fee” or “non-bag-fee” or are prices decided by the market?
Full text linkIn this thesis, we primarily study the years of 2017, 2020, and 2023 determining if there is a potential relationship between baggage fee charging airlines, non-baggage fee airlines and market level airfare prices in the U.S domestic commercial airline industry. We study these years to see how market fares have changed before, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. Previous literature has studied the question of if baggage fees have a relationship with market level fares, but none investigate the data from 2020 and how market level fares have changed since then. The data used for this study came from the U.S Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and displayed information about the market level airfare prices crucial to this study. The econometric specification of this study held market level airfare prices as it’s dependent variable and if airlines charged baggage fees or not as it’s main independent variable. Other control variables were used within the econometric specification to see other potential relationships with market fares. The main tests used for this study were a linear regression for the econometric model and a specifying descriptive statistics table for all variables. The overall result of this study had found that there is a positive correlation between market level airfare prices and if airlines charge baggage fees. The other result found was that the Covid-19 pandemic did impact the market level fares as they were higher in 2017, lower in 2020, and highest in 2023. Indicating that the airline industry had fallen in 2020 and recovered in 2023
A Gender-Based UFC Demand Analysis
Full text linkThe Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has grown rapidly since its inception in the early 1990s. An important aspect of understanding the explosion of Mixed Martial Arts into mainstream appeal is the relationship between consumer demand and specific attributes of the sport. The UFC first began featuring female events in 2013. A robust division of women’s UFC fighters has developed in the years since. In this study I will be using econometric methods to evaluate the degree to which specific gender related variables influence consumer demand for the UFC. The Pay-Per-View format of UFC events is of critical importance because it inherently informs the degree to which consumers are willing to spend their money on consuming the UFC. Specifically, I will be using linear econometric models in my analysis to determine how variables such as The Ultimate Fighter, weight class and star effect interact with gender to drive demand for the UFC
How Does a Player\u27s Involvement in their National Team Given their Ethnicity affect their Market Valuation in the Top-Five Leagues?
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This paper investigates player involvement in national team and how it effects their market valuation as it relates to ethnicity. Previous research has evaluated other factors that affect player market valuation such as age and position. However, this paper seeks to see if there are discriminatory effects on player market pricing based on a player’s ethnic origins. The three ethnic regions of focus for this paper are South America, African, and Europe. The focus of this paper is to determine whether European players are favored in relation to the other two regions of the world. Regression models consider player age, position, national team representation, and ethnic origins. Findings suggest that there is no evidence for discrimination against African players in the transfer market in relation to European payers. Further, while South American players are generally more favored based on their style of play, when they decide to represent European national teams, there is evidence that they are discriminated against