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  • Treatment Efficacy for Female Offenders 
    Jespersen, Ashley (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
    The treatment of female offenders is becoming an increasingly important issue. The number of federally incarcerated adult female offenders in Canada increased by approximately 75% from 1981 to 2002 (Correctional Service ...
  • Assessing Tsunami Hazard Along Vancouver Islands West Coast Using Viewshed Analysis 
    Johnson, Davin R. E. (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
    Quick and reliable mapping of Tsunami hazard location and intensity is of great importance to mankind. The conventional methods for assessing these natural disasters rely on models that are both very time-consuming and ...
  • Female Aggression and Evolutionary Theory 
    McLaughlin, Cydne (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
    Evolutionists have long argued that more aggressive and more physically fit males that could fight off competition and control sexual access to their female mate(s) were more successful at passing on their genes. As a ...
  • TANF and the Libertarian and Communitarian Prescriptions to Poverty 
    Fuller, David (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
    This paper analyzes the libertarian and communitarian views of the welfare state and the proper responsibilities and limits of governmental action. In the middle of the 1990s, the Clinton administration administered systematic ...
  • New Criticism:The Challenger, the Winner, and the Lasting Legacy 
    Butler, Glenn W. (Lethbridge Undergradulate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
    New Criticism emerged in the early twentieth century from a field of literary theory dominated by Marxism and Impressionism; it rejected both of these from its start. In a bold statement of purpose, J.E. Spingarn sketched ...
  • The Reclassification of Sugar as a Drug 
    Lyle, Marie-Hélène (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
    Sugar is traditionally classified as a food “used to improve the palatability of many foods” (ISMA, 2005). As such, it is the “cheapest instant source of energy” (ISMA, 2005) containing no nutritional value. Recent ...
  • Editorial 
    Gajetzki, Andy (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
    Dear Readers, Thank you very much for your interest in the Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal. I will begin this first issue by extending my personal thanks to all those who have been involved in making this ...
  • The Shaping of Canadian Foreign Policy:1945-1957 
    Matwychuk-Goodman, Curtis (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
    The years between 1945 and 1957 represent a time period in which Canadian foreign policy emerged. It was during this time that Canada became a truly sovereign and autonomous nation, and was beginning to receive recognition ...
  • Charity as the Perfection of Natural Friendship in Aquinas' Summa Theologiae 
    Ney, Philip (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
    In contrast to many of today's sectarian religious figures, Thomas Aquinas was interested in engaging the best of secular philosophy; seeing what his tradition could gain from philosophy and how his tradition could contribute ...
  • The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan:1939-1945 
    Aleman, Bruce (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal, 2006-04)
    In 1939, the Canadian government reached an agreement with Great Britain and other Commonwealth Dominions that created a monumental training regime within Canada's borders. The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan has ...
  • "When Epimethus oped the locks":The Scatological Verses of Jonathan Swift as Statements of Misandry 
    Sexsmith, Melissa M. (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
    Jonathan Swift, one of the most famous satirists in the English canon, is renowned for his misogyny and his general misanthropy is infamous; some of the most reviled allegedly antifeminine works he produced are included ...
  • Kids will be Kids? 
    Publow, Erika (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
  • Jane Austen, Persuasion, and the Pursuit of Happiness 
    Tarlson, Claire Eileen (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalSeattle UniversitySeattle University, 2006-04)
    This paper argues that there is a Romantic shift in the feminist and individualistic ideology of Jane Austen's work as her career progresses, and Austen begins to admire different cognitive qualities in her heroines. ...
  • Ambivalence towards Empire in King Solomon's Mines 
    Vossebelt, Jorina (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
    Children's Literature of the Nineteenth Century was often used to promote imperialist or nationalist ideas, as is evident in H. Rider Haggard's novel King Solomon's Mines. This paper examines Haggard's personal convictions ...
  • Stuck in the Bottle:Vodka in Russia 1863-1925 
    Andreasen, Bryce D. (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research journalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
    This paper looks at how Vodka has played a role in Russian society, specifically in the years immediately before and after the Revolution which toppled the monarchy of Tsar Nicholas II. It looks at Vodka and how it related ...
  • Native American Women, Past, Present and Future 
    Popick, Jacqui (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
    Native American women traditionally belonged to a culture that gave them respect and where they had power, autonomy and equality. Through the last hundred years and due to European colonization they have lost all that ...
  • Empowered or Entrapped? 
    Teeple, Erin (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
  • Coleridge's "Kubla Khan":Creation of Genius or Addiction? 
    Mahar, Karen E. (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-04)
  • Corners in Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend 
    Friedman, Joanna (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University, Princeton New Jersey USA, 2007-01)
  • The Female Gothic Subtext:Gender Politics in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper 
    Pazhavila, Angie (Lethbridge Undergraduate Research JournalSeattle UniversitySeattle University, 2007-01)
    This essay examines how Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper found, in the conventions of the Gothic genre, a forum in which to address the universality of female suffering, ...