Legal Research & Writing: An Undergraduate Pre-Law Course Design

The purpose of this project-based thesis is to develop an undergraduate pre-law course that teaches legal research and writing (LRW) and to design its respective description, topics, reading materials, sample syllabus document, and a sample lesson plan. The research portion of this thesis will study the pedagogy of LRW and the connection between LRW skills and the students’ success in law school and careers in law. Preparing students to excel in LRW skills prior to law school through the proposed undergraduate pre-law LRW course will yield a stronger performance in a first-year law LRW course to follow and amplify students’ success in law school and beyond

British Romanticism and the Global Climate

As a result of developments in the meteorological and geological sciences, the Romantic period saw the gradual emergence of attempts to understand the climate as a dynamic global system that could potentially be affected by human activity. This chapter examines textual responses to climate disruption cause by the Laki eruption of 1783 and the Tambora eruption of 1815. During the Laki haze, writers such as Horace Walpole, Gilbert White, and William Cowper found in Milton a powerful way of understanding the entanglements of culture and climate at a time of national and global crisis. Apocalyptic discourse continued to resonate during the Tambora crisis, as is evident in eyewitness accounts of the eruption, in the utopian predictions of John Barrow and Eleanor Anne Porden, and in the grim speculations of Byron’s ‘Darkness’. Romantic writing offers a powerful analogue for thinking about climate change in the Anthropocene

Tracking Fracking: A Study of the Effect of Hydraulic Fracturing On Housing Prices in Texas

The past decade has seen volatile shifts in the oil and gas market. Oil prices have ranged from $120 a barrel to under$40 a barrel, which has in turn caused many parts of the Texas economy to change drastically in order to adjust. This paper examines how housing prices in Texas have been influenced by the dramatic increase in oil and gas activity due to innovations in hydraulic fracturing. After examining how oil and gas prices, production, and number of wellheads affect the housing prices in Texas at a county level, the data showed that the number of well heads increases housing prices in the year of their implementation. However, after a year of activity, housing prices tend to drop in counties where there was an increase in the number of wells a year prior. The effects were modest for all variables but tended towards a positive correlation, especially when oil and not natural gas was involved

Communion: A True Story

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