Political discourse in the United States is becoming increasingly polarized. A Natural Language Processing (NLP) framework is provided to uncover political polarization, utilizing political blogs and political websites ...

Sex education has varied throughout history and continues to evolve in response to societal change and sex education research. In the modern era, American sex education varies according to state mandates. In Tennessee, ...

This honors thesis addresses the gender bias of the country music industry. Women are severely underrepresented on country radio, leading to more underrepresentation on touring and festival lineups, award show nominations, ...

This creative project examines the urban development of Nashville, Tennessee, United States, the history of the National Park System and the Tennessee State Park system, the impact of urban and natural environments on ...

Walker Library Digital Scholarship Initiatives supports individual and collaborative digital scholarship projects in research, teaching, and public outreach from any discipline on campus. The Digital Seed Grant is an annual ...

In 2019, the Houston Chronicle found that in the past twenty years, 700 people have reported being sexually abused by a member or leader of a Southern Baptist Church. This prompted leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention ...

Cows housed on compost bedded pack barns are known to experience reduced somatic cell counts (SCC) compared to other types of housing. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between SCC, bacterial cultures of milk ...

Philosopher and theologian Dr. William Lane Craig is a well-known proponent of moral arguments for God’s existence. In the course of arguing for his own formulation of a moral argument in his seminal work Reasonable ...

Linguists disagree on exactly how many languages exist, but the most common estimate is usually around 7,000 (Anderson). Of these some seven thousand languages, English has emerged as the foremost language spoken in the ...