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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

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

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

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

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

Title: THE EFFECTS OF SUICIDE TERRORISM IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ ON US POLICY AND MILITARY STRATEGY.
Creator: Whalen, Michelle, Sadri, Houman, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The international political landscape of the 21st century is strewn with terrorist groups that choose to act violently in order for their political messages to be heard. Around the world groups have been formed to defend their ideologies and fulfill their political agendas through acts of terrorism. The Baader-Meinhof Gang [also known as the Red Army Faction], the Weather Underground, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Hezbollah, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, HAMAS, and the...
Show moreThe international political landscape of the 21st century is strewn with terrorist groups that choose to act violently in order for their political messages to be heard. Around the world groups have been formed to defend their ideologies and fulfill their political agendas through acts of terrorism. The Baader-Meinhof Gang [also known as the Red Army Faction], the Weather Underground, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Hezbollah, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, HAMAS, and the Irish Republican Army have existed for many decades. They represent only a small handful of terrorist groups that have kidnapped, targeted public institutions with bombs, and employed suicide terrorism. More often than not innocent civilians become involved in the carnage of an act of terrorism when they are caught off guard as unassuming bystanders. On September 11th, 2001 both the American public and US government officials bore the weight of that horrific day. Since 9-11, Americans were robbed of their sense of safety, and the American dream of tranquility was shattered. A general unease spread from the wreckage of the World Trade Centers, and with the passing of time a keen sense of awareness about terrorism took its place. The events of 9/11 have made US citizens fully cognizant that there are many actors actively plotting the destruction of the US. Now, eight years later, Americans live with the daily realization that such a heinous act could happen again, in some other unimaginable form. For the US government, the past eight years have been marked with as many successes as failures. The consequences of the inability of the US intelligence community to foresee the international plot unfolding, within and outside of the homeland, resulted in a major reorganization within the US government. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was established on November 25, 2002, and was created solely to address US vulnerabilities highlighted by the actions of nineteen al-Qaeda suicide terrorists. The DHS' main responsibility is to improve communication and information sharing among various intelligence-gathering agencies, so another attempt to plan an attack like 9/11 on US soil would be foiled before it materialized. The US government would no longer be noncommittal in the face of terrorism, as it had before 9/11. Clear messages to terrorists were sent on October 7th, 2001, through the US invasion of Afghanistan, and subsequently on March 20th, 2003 through the US invasion of Iraq. Thus, the US' stance on the War on Terrorism was effectively and clearly communicated to al-Qaeda and throughout the rest of the world. The US might once have been labeled a paper tiger, but hitting the US at the core of their financial and military symbols struck a nerve. The terrorist attacks of 2001 taught the US government a vital lesson, but the military campaigns of Afghanistan and Iraq would demonstrate that the US had even more to learn about the newest military tactics and techniques employed by the enemy, and how these tactics impacted on US military operations, strategies, and policies.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: CFE0002921, ucf:47996
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002921

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: HOW DEFENDANT CHARACTERISTICS AFFECT SENTENCING AND CONVICTION IN THE US.
Creator: Kuenzli, Payton, Edwards, Barry, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: This research study analyzes whether or not there is any relationship between sentencing and conviction and certain defendant characteristics in the US legal system. In the midst of a time where the nation is strongly divided politically, the topic is often the center of research projects and discussions in academic journals. Specifically, this research explores the 3 characteristics- race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Within this article, multiple case studies from other journals are...
Show moreThis research study analyzes whether or not there is any relationship between sentencing and conviction and certain defendant characteristics in the US legal system. In the midst of a time where the nation is strongly divided politically, the topic is often the center of research projects and discussions in academic journals. Specifically, this research explores the 3 characteristics- race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Within this article, multiple case studies from other journals are cited in which research and experiments have suggested that these factors do have influence on both whether or not a defendant gets convicted or for how long the defendant is sentenced. With these cases in mind, we try to test the theory for ourselves in a survey experiment amongst college students. The survey tests cases with instances of academic dishonesty in university with the defendant characteristics being manipulated for race, gender, and socioeconomic status. However, the results were inconclusive of any sort of link between those characteristics and the "sentencing" in the study.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: CFH2000334, ucf:45740
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000334

Title: EFFECTS OF FEDERAL GRANT MONEY ON ECONOMIC MEASURES IN THE COMMUNITY.
Creator: Miller, Andrea L, Guldi, Melanie, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: With the concentration of poverty increasing throughout the United States (Kneebone, 2014) there has been a recent emphasis on mixed-income housing as a means to alleviate this issue. By creating housing in one area with pricing for different income levels it is assumed that the burden imposed by concentrated poverty will be lowered. Many years and many dollars later however, the results of mixed-income housing projects on low-income residents seem to be mixed � while some projects have found...
Show moreWith the concentration of poverty increasing throughout the United States (Kneebone, 2014) there has been a recent emphasis on mixed-income housing as a means to alleviate this issue. By creating housing in one area with pricing for different income levels it is assumed that the burden imposed by concentrated poverty will be lowered. Many years and many dollars later however, the results of mixed-income housing projects on low-income residents seem to be mixed � while some projects have found success, others seem to suggest that it has little to no effect. The federal program HOPE VI is one example of efforts to increase the availability of mixed-income housing. It is the purpose of this study to decipher whether the administration of HOPE VI federal grant money has had an effect on certain economic outcomes within the selected metropolitan areas.
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Date Issued: 2016
Identifier: CFH2000054, ucf:45565
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000054

Title: FARM WOMEN AS PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS IN THE 20TH CENTURY U.S. SOUTH.
Creator: Kaminski, Joseph J, Lester, Connie, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The intent of this thesis is to examine white, rural women of the South who were directly affected by home demonstration between 1920 - 1950 and to discuss their roles as producers and consumers in the expanding market economy. Home demonstration, a three-tiered bureaucratic agency that provided domestic education and production techniques to Southern women, played a major role in guiding women toward the expanding market economy. Agents often had to temper their programs in order to...
Show moreThe intent of this thesis is to examine white, rural women of the South who were directly affected by home demonstration between 1920 - 1950 and to discuss their roles as producers and consumers in the expanding market economy. Home demonstration, a three-tiered bureaucratic agency that provided domestic education and production techniques to Southern women, played a major role in guiding women toward the expanding market economy. Agents often had to temper their programs in order to compromise with the women they served to accommodate rural restrictions on capital, capability, and confidence. By integrating rural women into a more modernized, less isolated, and more urbanized environment, home demonstration hoped to improve the lives of women through its focus on sanitation, nutrition, and efficiency within household production.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: CFH2000509, ucf:45653
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000509

Title: Superforecasting or SNAFU: The Forecasting Ability of the US Military Officer.
Creator: Raugh, David, Handberg, Roger, Dolan, Thomas, Powell, Jonathan, Gannon, Barbara, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: What is the impact of military institutional tendencies and habits on U.S. Army senior officer forecasting accuracy and how does this forecasting ability shape success in battle? Military leaders plan operations based on the forecasted strengths and vulnerabilities of their adversary. Negative habits, such as limited option development, confirmation bias, doctrinal overreliance, and over-consideration of sunk costs, inhibit effective forecasting. The tempo of the modern battlefield,...
Show moreWhat is the impact of military institutional tendencies and habits on U.S. Army senior officer forecasting accuracy and how does this forecasting ability shape success in battle? Military leaders plan operations based on the forecasted strengths and vulnerabilities of their adversary. Negative habits, such as limited option development, confirmation bias, doctrinal overreliance, and over-consideration of sunk costs, inhibit effective forecasting. The tempo of the modern battlefield, hierarchical culture, and institutional tendencies of the US Army may promote and reinforce these habits. I surveyed Colonels in US Army War College programs to measure their individual tendencies, levels of education, and accuracy in forecasting events during a three to twelve-month future. Quantitative analysis of the resulting data shows that these habits are present and negatively affect forecasting ability; additionally, higher levels of education positively affect forecast accuracy, possibly counteracting the effects of negative institutional tendencies and habits. Extending the research using historical and contemporary case studies of senior US Army Generals, including interviews of General David Petraeus and other high-ranking officials, I find that rejection of these institutional habits and tendencies enabled superior forecasting, leading to battlefield success. I conclude by examining how educational levels of commanding generals in the Iraq War affected military success. Exploratory quantitative analysis of data collected from the US Army historical archives shows that higher levels of education positively affected significant activities within the general's assigned areas.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: CFE0007519, ucf:52609
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007519

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

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

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

Title: First citizens and other Florida folks: essays on Florida folklife.
Creator: Foreman, Ronald, PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description: Consists of essays on Florida folklore and folklore studies.
Date Issued: 1984
Identifier: AAA7984QF00010/16/200310/25/200424542Bfam a D0QF, CMP035 - 3268, FHP C CF 2003-10-16, FCLA url 20040714xOCLC, 56815728, CF00001644, 2677103, ucf:24877
Format: E-book
PURL: http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001644.pdf

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