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RAND TAKES ON THE CONSTITUTION: AN OBJECTIVIST PERSPECTIVE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
Title
RAND TAKES ON THE CONSTITUTION: AN OBJECTIVIST PERSPECTIVE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.
Creator
Robinson, Farin, Jewett, Aubrey, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Author and philosopher Ayn Rand has gathered a cult like following thanks to her bestselling novels We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Through Rand's fictional writings she illustrates the principles of her philosophy objectivism. Objectivism employs five principles; objective reality, reason, self -interest, capitalism and individualism as the truths that govern the philosophy. Objectivists believe that their self-reliant philosophy holds the key to all life's...
Show moreAuthor and philosopher Ayn Rand has gathered a cult like following thanks to her bestselling novels We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Through Rand's fictional writings she illustrates the principles of her philosophy objectivism. Objectivism employs five principles; objective reality, reason, self -interest, capitalism and individualism as the truths that govern the philosophy. Objectivists believe that their self-reliant philosophy holds the key to all life's answers. This thesis examines the following question: what would the founder of objectivism Ayn Rand think about the U.S. Constitution? Sadly Ayn Rand passed away in 1982 and never expressed her full opinion on how she felt about the U.S. Constitution. However, using the five principles of the objectivist ideology, public interviews done with Ayn Rand during her life time, and the opinions expressed by Rand in her four fictional novels this thesis will deconstruct the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights and then reconstruct them so that they concur with the objectivist philosophy. The purpose of this thesis is to inform readers of the objectivist philosophy and to highlight the differences and similarities between Ayn Rand's beliefs and the Founding Fathers through the Constitution.
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Date Issued
2011
Identifier
CFH0004102, ucf:44880
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004102
Towards a militant program for the Socialist Party of America
Title
Towards a militant program for the Socialist Party of America.
Creator
Socialist Party (U.S.) New York
Date Issued
1934
Identifier
2683077, CFDT2683077, ucf:5023
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683077
Going left: The Left wing formulates a draft for a program for the Socialist party of the United States
Title
Going left: The Left wing formulates a draft for a program for the Socialist party of the United States.
Creator
Bittelman, Alexander
Date Issued
1936
Identifier
367839, CFDT367839, ucf:5346
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/367839
The truth about socialism
Title
The truth about socialism.
Creator
Thomas, Norman
Date Issued
1943
Identifier
2683232, CFDT2683232, ucf:5047
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683232
Shovels and guns: The CCC in action
Title
Shovels and guns: The CCC in action.
Creator
Lasswell,James
Date Issued
1935
Identifier
368033, CFDT368033, ucf:5377
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/368033
John L. Lewis exposed
Title
John L. Lewis exposed.
Creator
Hass, Eric
Date Issued
1937
Identifier
1927442, CFDT1927442, ucf:4837
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927442
American socialists and the war
Title
The American socialists and the war: A documentary history of the attitude of the Socialist Party toward war and militarism since the outbreak of the Great War.
Creator
Hillquit, Morris, Rand School of Social Science, Trachtenberg, Alexander
Date Issued
1917
Identifier
2100236, CFDT2100236, ucf:4897
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2100236
Where is the CIO going?: A program for militant trade unionism
Title
Where is the CIO going?: A program for militant trade unionism.
Creator
Morris, George
Date Issued
1949
Identifier
1927060, CFDT1927060, ucf:4813
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927060
The crisis in the Socialist party
Title
The crisis in the Socialist party.
Creator
Foster, William Z.
Date Issued
1936
Identifier
671402, CFDT671402, ucf:5569
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671402
The bankruptcy of the American labor movement
Title
The bankruptcy of the American labor movement.
Creator
Foster, William Z.
Date Issued
1922
Identifier
357440, CFDT357440, ucf:5187
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/357440
The American socialists and the war: A documentary history of the attitude of the Socialist Party toward war and militarism since the outbreak of the Great War
Title
The American socialists and the war: A documentary history of the attitude of the Socialist Party toward war and militarism since the outbreak of the Great War.
Creator
Hillquit, Morris, Rand School of Social Science, Trachtenberg, Alexander
Date Issued
1917
Identifier
334780, CFDT334780, ucf:5181
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/334780
THE END OF U.S. MILITARY DETAINEE OPERATIONS AT ABU GHRAIB, IRAQ
Title
THE END OF U.S. MILITARY DETAINEE OPERATIONS AT ABU GHRAIB, IRAQ.
Creator
Allgood, Michael, Jones, Donald, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Operation Iraqi Freedom launched with the backing of U.S. Coalition Forces (CF) on March 20, 2003 to remove Saddam Hussein from power. The United States occupied Iraq by bombing and cleansing Iraq of weapons (Dahabour 105-130). During the first year of occupation U.S. soldiers at the detention facility Abu Ghraib tortured detainees in their charge. This torture becomes known to the public through worldwide media coverage in May 2004. My thesis will cover my service as a Military Police...
Show moreOperation Iraqi Freedom launched with the backing of U.S. Coalition Forces (CF) on March 20, 2003 to remove Saddam Hussein from power. The United States occupied Iraq by bombing and cleansing Iraq of weapons (Dahabour 105-130). During the first year of occupation U.S. soldiers at the detention facility Abu Ghraib tortured detainees in their charge. This torture becomes known to the public through worldwide media coverage in May 2004. My thesis will cover my service as a Military Police officer (MP) at Abu Ghraib from December 2005-August 2006. During my tour of duty at Abu Ghraib I was required to complete the military goals for success which conflicted with some of my own beliefs and moral values. In this thesis I write an autobiographical description of my nine months of duty as an MP at the U.S. military Forward Operating Base (FOB) Abu Ghraib. I use my own photographs to recreate the environment as vividly as possible for my story. This thesis helps to explain some of the frustrations that U.S. military personnel experience. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) needs to conduct, and implement research on how to prevent military personnel from torturing detainees. After the research is conducted the DOD needs to implement that research in detainee operations. That includes a need for more realistic detainee operations training that emphasizes not torturing detainees, and it should be the standard for all the U.S. military branches.
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Date Issued
2009
Identifier
CFE0002791, ucf:48127
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002791
The President's Party at the Midterm: An Aggregate and Individual-Level Analysis of Seat Loss and Vote Choice in U.S. House Elections
Title
The President's Party at the Midterm: An Aggregate and Individual-Level Analysis of Seat Loss and Vote Choice in U.S. House Elections.
Creator
Macdonald, David, Knuckey, Jonathan, Ilderton, Nathan, Lanier, Drew, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of midterm U.S. House elections using a multi-level research design. At the aggregate-level, multiple regression analysis is used to examine the variables that affect seat loss for the president's party. This integrates, updates and extends the extant literature of the topic, and offers a means of explaining and predicting seat losses by the president's party in the U.S. House. To further probe the findings at the aggregate-level, the thesis...
Show moreThis thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of midterm U.S. House elections using a multi-level research design. At the aggregate-level, multiple regression analysis is used to examine the variables that affect seat loss for the president's party. This integrates, updates and extends the extant literature of the topic, and offers a means of explaining and predicting seat losses by the president's party in the U.S. House. To further probe the findings at the aggregate-level, the thesis develops a pooled cross-sectional model of individual-level vote choice in midterm U.S. House elections using data from the American National Election Studies (1982-2002) and the Cooperative Congressional Election Study for the 2006 and 2010 midterm elections. Findings suggest that variables measuring the performance of the economy and realignment of the South toward the Republican Party affect seat loss at the aggregate level. However, at the individual level, economic evaluations exerted little influence on vote choice, above and beyond party identification, although perceptions of the national economy did appear to influence vote choice in the 2006 and 2010 elections. Future research might incorporate the strategic politician thesis into the explanatory scheme and move the analysis to elections for other political offices, such as U.S. Senate elections as well as state legislative and gubernatorial elections.
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Date Issued
2013
Identifier
CFE0004883, ucf:49655
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004883
The Advance of the United Front: A documentary account
Title
The Advance of the United Front: A documentary account.
Creator
Bittelman, Alex, Communist Party of the United States of America Central Committee
Date Issued
1934
Identifier
363358, CFDT363358, ucf:5302
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/363358
Amalgamation
Title
Amalgamation.
Creator
Fox, Jay, Trade Union Educational League (U.S.)
Date Issued
1923
Identifier
886198, CFDT886198, ucf:5609
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/886198
A PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR BENCHMARKING ACADEMIC PROGRAMS (PBAP)USING U.S. NEWS RANKING DATA FOR ENGINEERING COLLEGES OFFERING GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Title
A PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR BENCHMARKING ACADEMIC PROGRAMS (PBAP)USING U.S. NEWS RANKING DATA FOR ENGINEERING COLLEGES OFFERING GRADUATE PROGRAMS.
Creator
Chuck, Lisa, Tubbs, LeVester, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Improving national ranking is an increasingly important issue for university administrators. While research has been conducted on performance measures in higher education, research designs have lacked a predictive quality. Studies on the U.S. News college rankings have provided insight into the methodology; however, none of them have provided a model to predict what change in variable values would likely cause an institution to improve its standing in the rankings. The purpose of this study...
Show moreImproving national ranking is an increasingly important issue for university administrators. While research has been conducted on performance measures in higher education, research designs have lacked a predictive quality. Studies on the U.S. News college rankings have provided insight into the methodology; however, none of them have provided a model to predict what change in variable values would likely cause an institution to improve its standing in the rankings. The purpose of this study was to develop a predictive model for benchmarking academic programs (pBAP) for engineering colleges. The 2005 U.S. News ranking data for graduate engineering programs were used to create a four-tier predictive model (pBAP). The pBAP model correctly classified 81.9% of the cases in their respective tier. To test the predictive accuracy of the pBAP model, the 2005 U.S .News data were entered into the pBAP variate developed using the 2004 U.S. News data. The model predicted that 88.9% of the institutions would remain in the same ranking tier in the 2005 U.S. News rankings (compared with 87.7% in the actual data), and 11.1% of the institutions would demonstrate tier movement (compared with an actual 12.3% movement in the actual data). The likelihood of improving an institution's standing in the rankings was greater when increasing the values of 3 of the 11 variables in the U.S. News model: peer assessment score, recruiter assessment score, and research expenditures.
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Date Issued
2005
Identifier
CFE0000431, ucf:46377
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000431
A PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR BENCHMARKING ACADEMIC PROGRAMS (PBAP) USING U.S. NEWS RANKING DATA FOR ENGINEERING COLLEGES OFFERING GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Title
A PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR BENCHMARKING ACADEMIC PROGRAMS (PBAP) USING U.S. NEWS RANKING DATA FOR ENGINEERING COLLEGES OFFERING GRADUATE PROGRAMS.
Creator
Chuck, Lisa, Tubbs, LeVester, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Improving national ranking is an increasingly important issue for university administrators. While research has been conducted on performance measures in higher education, research designs have lacked a predictive quality. Studies on the U.S. News college rankings have provided insight into the methodology; however, none of them have provided a model to predict what change in variable values would likely cause an institution to improve its standing in the rankings. The purpose of this study...
Show moreImproving national ranking is an increasingly important issue for university administrators. While research has been conducted on performance measures in higher education, research designs have lacked a predictive quality. Studies on the U.S. News college rankings have provided insight into the methodology; however, none of them have provided a model to predict what change in variable values would likely cause an institution to improve its standing in the rankings. The purpose of this study was to develop a predictive model for benchmarking academic programs (pBAP) for engineering colleges. The 2005 U.S. News ranking data for graduate engineering programs were used to create a four-tier predictive model (pBAP). The pBAP model correctly classified 81.9% of the cases in their respective tier. To test the predictive accuracy of the pBAP model, the 2005 U.S .News data were entered into the pBAP variate developed using the 2004 U.S. News data. The model predicted that 88.9% of the institutions would remain in the same ranking tier in the 2005 U.S. News rankings (compared with 87.7% in the actual data), and 11.1% of the institutions would demonstrate tier movement (compared with an actual 12.3% movement in the actual data). The likelihood of improving an institution's standing in the rankings was greater when increasing the values of 3 of the 11 variables in the U.S. News model: peer assessment score, recruiter assessment score, and research expenditures.
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Date Issued
2005
Identifier
CFE0000576, ucf:46422
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000576
TO CATCH A TERRORIST: THE IMPROPER USE OF PROFILING IN U.S. POST-9/11 COUNTERTERRORISM
Title
TO CATCH A TERRORIST: THE IMPROPER USE OF PROFILING IN U.S. POST-9/11 COUNTERTERRORISM.
Creator
Crawford, Kamillia, Ravich, Timothy M., University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11) caused thousands of deaths, national and global panic, and immediate action by the federal government to protect the borders of the United States of America (USA) from terrorism. In response to these attacks, the United States (U.S.) government enacted laws for law enforcement agencies to protect against terrorist activities. Law enforcement agencies are effective in combating terrorism, but their measures contain a major flaw - the improper use of...
Show moreThe attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11) caused thousands of deaths, national and global panic, and immediate action by the federal government to protect the borders of the United States of America (USA) from terrorism. In response to these attacks, the United States (U.S.) government enacted laws for law enforcement agencies to protect against terrorist activities. Law enforcement agencies are effective in combating terrorism, but their measures contain a major flaw - the improper use of race in profiling to address national security and public safety concerns. Racial profiling is an ineffective measure for preventing terrorism. There are solutions to correct this flaw through reconstructing training and implementing policies for all law enforcement agencies. The intent of this thesis is to discuss the history and the effectiveness of profiling in U.S. post-9/11 counterterrorism through theoretical research of peer-reviewed journals and articles, relevant laws, and United States Supreme Court cases to offer solutions to the problems racial profiling presents. The discussion will generate a search for new ways law enforcement agencies could conduct daily counterterrorism operations.
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Date Issued
2016
Identifier
CFH2000057, ucf:45534
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000057
AN IMPACT EVALUATION OF U.S. ARMS EXPORT CONTROLS ON THE U.S. DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE: AN INTERRUPTED TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS.
Title
AN IMPACT EVALUATION OF U.S. ARMS EXPORT CONTROLS ON THE U.S. DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE: AN INTERRUPTED TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS.
Creator
Condron, Aaron, Sweo, Robert, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The United States Defense Industrial Base (USDIB) is an essential industry to both the economic prosperity of the US and its strategic control over many advanced military systems and technologies. The USDIB, which encompasses the industries of aerospace and defense, is a volatile industry - prone to many internal and external factors that cause demand to ebb and flow widely year over year. Among the factors that influence the volume of systems the USDIB delivers to its international customers...
Show moreThe United States Defense Industrial Base (USDIB) is an essential industry to both the economic prosperity of the US and its strategic control over many advanced military systems and technologies. The USDIB, which encompasses the industries of aerospace and defense, is a volatile industry - prone to many internal and external factors that cause demand to ebb and flow widely year over year. Among the factors that influence the volume of systems the USDIB delivers to its international customers are the arms export controls of the US. These controls impose a divergence from the historical US foreign policy of furthering an open exchange of ideas and liberalized trade. These controls, imposed by the Departments of Commerce, Defense, and State rigidly control all international presence of the Industry. The overlapping controls create an inability to conform to rapidly changing realpolitiks, leaving these controls in an archaic state. This, in turn, imposes a great deal of anxiety and expense upon managers within and outside of the USDIB. Using autoregressive integrated moving average time-series analyses, this paper confirms that the implementation of or amendment to broad arms export controls correlates to significant and near immediate declines in USDIB export volumes. In the context of the US's share of world arms exports, these controls impose up to a 20% decline in export volume.
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Date Issued
2011
Identifier
CFH0004064, ucf:44785
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004064
U.S. INTELLIGENCE REFORM: A BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS APPROACH
Title
U.S. INTELLIGENCE REFORM: A BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS APPROACH.
Creator
Schickler, Bonnie, Houghton, David, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This study investigates the current bureaucratic struggles that exist within the U.S. intelligence community as a result of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) of 2004. The first part of this research examines the history of intelligence reform in the United States beginning with the National Security Act of 1947. The second part provides an in-depth discussion of the 2004 legislation as well as an examination of the main bureaucratic conflicts that have arisen...
Show moreThis study investigates the current bureaucratic struggles that exist within the U.S. intelligence community as a result of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) of 2004. The first part of this research examines the history of intelligence reform in the United States beginning with the National Security Act of 1947. The second part provides an in-depth discussion of the 2004 legislation as well as an examination of the main bureaucratic conflicts that have arisen between the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the rest of the U.S. intelligence community. This study used the bureaucratic politics model to explain the development of the current disagreements, the reasons behind the DNIÂÂ's struggle for power, and the intelligence communityÂÂ's inability to adapt to the reform. This research determined that the current conflicts have occurred as a result of the unclear authorities issued to the DNI by IRTPA and have been further exacerbated by interest-driven intelligence agencies and a well-developed culture that has proven difficult to abandon. This research also provides insight into several alternative approaches that can be used to explain the current U.S. intelligence reform process. Additionally, recommendations were made for reducing the bureaucratic friction that currently exists within the intelligence community and to strengthen the overall authority of the Director of National Intelligence.
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Date Issued
2010
Identifier
CFE0003422, ucf:48376
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003422

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