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Facebook 1995-1996
No full textTwenty eight page student catalog (known as the Facebook) featuring photographs of students who were entering their first year at New College
TESTING AN AUGMENTED LAFFER CURVE FOR THE U.S. ECONOMY
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to provide an empirical examination of the Laffer Curve theory and its practical relevance to the U.S. economy. While data surrounding individual Tax Reforms alone is not enough to provide a sufficient conclusion on the relationship between tax rates and revenues, regression analysis will provide the necessary evidence. Through the use of two econometric regression models, data on the U.S. tax rate and U.S. cyclical GDP will be compiled over the period of 1947-2024. The first model is the Laffer Baseline model, and the second is the Corporate Profits model, these regressions will provide results on whether the concave quadratic relationship between tax rates and revenues exists. Final results show that there is a quadratic relationship present between tax rates and revenues, however it is not the concave relationship that Arthur Laffer presents in his theory. A convex relationship is determined through the first regression, which is a significant model, this suggests that tax rates are not the only factor in impacting federal revenues. The second model assessing Corporate Profits reveals the accurate relationship Arthur Laffer presents, however the literal model is insignificant. Therefore, tax policy and structure, specifically the use of Supply-Side economic policies are a major contributing factor when determining how to set an optimal tax rate that will provide the benefits that Laffer discusses in his theory
In Defense of Lochner: Natural Rights, Free Labor, and Original Meaning
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Assessing the current state of New College of Florida’s coastal waterfront along with potential remedies to protect a vulnerable piece of shoreline.
No full textCoastal waterfronts allow access to a prime natural resource for the communities they’re surrounded by. However, coastal waterfronts alike are in danger, especially in Florida. With stronger and more destructive storms along with invading non-native species, waterfronts are at risk. The study area is the New College of Florida’s waterfront in Sarasota, FL. In this study, I map out the distribution and location of banyan trees (Ficus benghalensis) in order to examine the extent of their spread. I also map the topography of the area as a detailed topographic map is useful for future planning and assessing flooding risks. I created multiple topographic maps using 5 different methods of interpolation and compared and contrasted them. This study is not set out to be representative of the long term topography or distribution of banyan trees, but rather a snapshot of the present. Land management recommendations are then made to protect this coastal waterfront from future threats
Skazki of the Gulag: The Folktale’s Collapse in Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales
No full textThis thesis examines the role of narrative structure, ritual, and substitution in Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales, analyzing how his documentary prose simultaneously engages with and disrupts folktale conventions. Using Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale as a framework, this study traces how Shalamov adopts key narrative functions such as interdiction, violation, and donor sequences, while subverting their expected resolutions. Instead of restoration of order, Shalamov presents survival as contingent upon acts of substitution, where one life is sacrifi ced for another, and ritualized behaviors become strategies for endurance rather than transcendence. This thesis further expands on Nathaniel Golden’s analysis of the Kolyma Tales. He focuses on narrative techniques like fabula and sujet, point of view, characterization, and setting. His key argument is that Shalamov employs techniques such as estrangement and paradox to depict the Gulag experience, rejecting any notion that suff ering has moral, emotional, or spiritual value. He also emphasizes how Shalamov distances himself from events through focalizers and intertextual allusions to Russian literary traditions. My approach, in contrast, is invested in ritual and folktale structures—not just as narrative techniques but as mechanisms of survival, substitution, and identity preservation. Rather than focusing on estrangement or the impossibility of moral lessons, I analyze how certain structures—like Propp’s functions—persist even in a deformed, brutalized manner within the Kolyma Tales. While Shalamov deconstructs the teleological closure typical of folktales, his use of repetition, character archetypes, and ritualistic exchanges suggests that his narratives function not only as acts of negation but also as mechanisms of survival. The доходяга ( goner ) fi gure, often aligned with the poet or storyteller, embodies this paradox, existing on the threshold between annihilation and persistence through language. This analysis positions Shalamov’s prose within a broader discourse on documentary literature as moral witnessing, revealing how narrative itself becomes a site of both continuity and rupture in the face of historical trauma. This thesis further examines storytelling as a ritual of survival, interrogating the paradox of literary representation in the Gulag: both necessary for historical testimony and fundamentally inadequate to the extremity of suff ering. Through an analysis of Cherry Brandy and Maxim, I argue that storytelling functions as a means of preserving identity beyond the physical annihilation of the body, transforming the доходяга ( goner ) into a fi gure of narrative endurance. Drawing on Propp’s structuralist model, I situate these texts within a broader folkloric tradition, demonstrating how the substitution of one life for another—whether through ritualized exchange, survival-driven violence, or acts of witnessing—governs Shalamov’s vision of the Gulag. In Cherry Brandy, the narrator’s act of poetic substitution for Mandelstam refl ects the impossibility of preserving individual voice within a system designed to erase subjectivity. Maxim, in turn, off ers a counterpoint by depicting language as a force that resurrects the narrator, illustrating the fragile but persistent link between speech and survival. This study ultimately reframes storytelling in the Kolyma Tales as a liminal practice—neither resistance nor acquiescence, but a negotiation between erasure and endurance
Analyzing the Evolution of Major League Baseball Hitting Strategies (1950–2010): A Machine Learning and Interactive Dashboard Approach
No full textThis thesis examines the evolution of Major League Baseball (MLB) hitting strategies from 1950 to 2010 using statistical analysis and machine learning techniques. The study investigates changes in player performance metrics to determine how hitting styles have evolved, specifically focusing on distinguishing power hitters from contact hitters. Principal Component Analysis “(PCA)”, t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding, and clustering methods, such as K Means Clustering, were applied to historical MLB data from Baseball Reference to reveal underlying trends and shifts in player roles over time. An interactive dashboard was developed utilizing Streamlit to visualize these trends dynamically. This was done by incorporating a year-by-year and decade display of stats, decade hitting trend comparison, contact hitting versus power, utilizing a PCA, and a player comparison allowing the user to look at players from 1950-2010 that fall under the contact designation or power designation and compare their stats to see what differentiated them
The Old but New Process of Developing Race in Colonial America
No full textThis thesis will analyze and explore the laws, systems, actors and events in the colonies of America that constructed and evolved the concept of race. Specifically, the Anglo colony of Virginia and the colony of Louisiana which went under French, Spanish and Anglo rule, will be examined. The question of what race is and what its purpose is will be tackled in this thesis. Big picture questions like what came first, slavery or racism will also be answered. The original scholarly work on Virginia was used as a guideline of how to go about studying the concepts of race and racism in an effective manner. After picking a more persuasive method of studying race and racism, that method will be applied to studying Louisiana’s racial development. Throughout the thesis, the focus will be geared towards looking at the context, intentions and purpose of laws and systems regarding race. The thesis will show how the construction and attitudes of race under different systems and legal traditions differed. One thing discovered is that race is not an exclusive New World development, but instead, race by skin color is a New World exclusive. This will be shown in the Louisiana chapter when the Old World nobility practices by the French undergo analysis. The reasoning for the development of race by skin color is due to the structure of slave societies in colonial America. The Europeans were the drivers of colonial projects, enslaved Africans made accessible by the slave trade were the labor force and Natives were the original land occupiers. Unlike other systems of hierarchy, the groups in these societies were distinct in their phenotypes, which became permanent markers of inherent value in society. What was found is that a pattern exclusive in both constructions of race was centered around power and resource distribution in societies, and that the group atop the hierarchy is responsible for creating the notion of race. The beliefs that were shared in both systems were fixed inferior qualities in the groups excluded from power, and the belief that mixture between groups should be prohibited. The way race works as a system is by keeping power in one group, and on the other hand, justifying the oppression of the other
THE EFFECTS OF MELANISM ON LEOPARD SOLITARY BEHAVIOR
No full textBoth melanism and communicative markings have been well-examined for their adaptive value. However, investigation of communicative markings using melanism to represent a loss of those markings is far too rare in existing literature for its research potential. One such species where melanism overrides what are thought to be communicative markings is the leopard (Panthera pardus). Since the dangerous, elusive, and solitary nature of the leopard has made it difficult to study their social behavior, proxies such as tracking collars or camera traps have been used in an attempt to gain insight into their behavior and social organization. By using sighting coordinates as a proxy for solitude in leopards and taking into account their melanistic status, further insight into the purpose of white ear and tail markings and the social responsiveness of leopards can be gained
Book of Hours (England, mid-14th century), Folio 2 of 2
No full textLeaf from a psalter or book of hours. Recto contains explicit of unidentified prayer ( ...sancto spiritu laudemus et super exaltemus eum in secula. Benedictus es domine in firmamento celi et laudabilis et gloriosus et super exaltatus in secula. Amen. ) followed by Psalm 148:1-9, ending at Montes on verso.
Single parchment folio ruled in red ink, written in a single column of twelve lines in black ink. Alternating blue and red initials with simple contrasting (red and blue [now purple]) pen flourishing. Recto contains a single illuminated initial (L) on a field of red and blue with white detailing; more elaborate pen flourishing on verso reaches into the margin.https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/manu/1001/thumbnail.jp
Commentary on St Paul\u27s Letter to the Corinthians (France, 13th century)
No full textAn unidentified commentary on the Pauline epistle to the Corinthians. Text: …nitivam sententiam non protulerat sed iudicaverat hoc est in animo…/…Sed tunc erit hoc temptatio intensa supra .a. ergo…
Single parchment folio written in two columns in black ink; no decoration except paraph marks. Running heads in center of top margin read “In Corinth.” (recto) and “In Co.” (verso). Several textual corrections; also marginal annotations, either corrections or Nota. Prickings preserved in outer margin.https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/manu/1009/thumbnail.jp