RSS 1.0Lucerna, vol. 8 (2013)
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Ethical Exclusions: Culpability in the Suffering of Vulnerable Populations
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2013)This paper incorporates various sources, especially the ethnography Righteous Dopefiend, in order to analyze mainstream culpability in the suffering of vulnerable populations. It does so by seeking to draw to attention ... -
The Struggle between the Domestic and Desire : Bourgeois Women’s Role in the Modern Market
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2013)The Industrial Revolution brought with it changes in manufacturing, advertising and social order, which in turn spurred a consumer revolution that took hold of Paris in the late nineteenth century. This essay examines ... -
Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Metaphors
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2013)This paper examines how immigration discussions and laws are considered based on the rhetoric used in talking about and planning them. Specifically, it looks at how anti-immigrant rhetoric shapes the way a majority thinks ... -
Evoking Emotion :The Visual Rhetoric of World War II Propaganda
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2013)In our media-dominated culture we are constantly bombarded by visual rhetoric and every image we look at leaves some form of influence on us. The instant that we see an image, whether it is a poster, billboard, or picture, ... -
A Meta-Analysis of Polls from the 2012 Presidential Election
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2013)Political pundits framed the 2012 U.S. presidential election as a horserace between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. However, a number of election forecasters found that the election was always Obama’s to lose. This paper ... -
The impossible proof : an analysis of Adrien-Marie Legendre's attempts to prove Euclid's fith Postulate
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2013)Euclid’s Fifth Postulate, the controversial Parallel Postulate, has been labeled by mathematical scholars throughout the centuries as unnecessary, as able to be proved from the other four Postulates. Many throughout the ... -
The Literary Achievements of Alice Lloyd Pitts : Assumptions of Power through Rhetorical Identity Constructions
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2013)Questions of American female intellectual and social identity were hotly debated at the turn of the 20th century, most publically within urban centers of the eastern United States. Focusing on the 1899 writings of a ... -
United States carbon tax : practical, ethical, and effective within the context of global climate policy
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2013)Thus far, international climate policy negotiations have failed to produce a global policy to mitigate climate change. There is strong evidence that human activities are driving climate change and that the expected ... -
Roots and radicals : community and the new Northwest
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2013)During the last several centuries as the world has acclimatized to a new global economy, economic growth and increasing productivity has traditionally been regarded as a highly desirable sign of a flourishing economy. ... -
Lucerna, volume 8, issue 1 (2013) Preliminary Materials
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2/4/2015)Includes front cover, editorial board, table of contents, Editor and Author Biographies, and note from the editor, from Lucerna, vol. 8, no. 1