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Virtue was a concept of paramount importance in the American founders' republican thought. Without virtue, there could be no liberty, no order, no devotion to the common good, and no republican government. This dissertation examines the concept of virtue at the American founding, particularly virtue in the political thought of Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814). The most important female intellectual of the Revolutionary generation, Warren wrote passionately about liberty and the beauty of republican ideals. Most important to this study, she consistently advocated the central place of virtue in a free and well-ordered republic. I argue that Warren incorporates three distinct philosophical threads - classical, bourgeois-marketplace, and Christian ideals - in her conception of virtue. I first analyze how Warren uses each of these three threads of virtue throughout her writings. I then examine how she synthesizes these individual threads into a single, cohesive conception of virtue. I argue that Warren consistently merges these ideals into a conception of virtue that she employs to address three pressing political problems of her day: How to motivate reluctant colonists to seek independence; how to check various forms of corruption spreading among the people; and how to counter corruption arising from commercial growth in the new nation. Modern political theorists often argue that these three threads, especially the classical republican and Christian ideals of virtue, are irreconcilable. My analysis shows that to divorce virtue from Christianity in Warren's conception is to rob it of its corrective vigor within republican government. I argue that what Machiavelli and Rousseau wrote out of republican virtue Warren writes back in. In Warren's political thought, virtue serves as the foundation for a stable enduring political system, provides the necessary informal ordering principle for the emerging republic, and offers the means by which the new nation could achieve its millennial destiny.
ContributorsMunsil, Tracy F (Author) / Ball, Terence (Thesis advisor) / Dagger, Richard (Thesis advisor) / Crittenden, William J. (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2011
DescriptionProvides initiatives that leverage the inclusion of women of color in computer science education.
ContributorsWomen of Color in Computing Research Collaborative (Contributor)
Created2021
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Describes the need to provide initiatives that will increase the inclusion of women of color in computer science education.
ContributorsWomen of Color in Computing Research Collaborative (Contributor)
Created2021
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Provides initiatives that leverage the inclusion of Latinas in computer science education.
ContributorsRodriguez, Sarah, Dr. (Author) / Ramirez, Daisy, M.A. (Author) / Lehman, Kate, Dr. (Author) / Sax, Linda J., 1967- (Author) / Women of Color in Computing Research Collaborative (Contributor)
Created2021 (year uncertain)
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Investigates the inclusion of minority women in the field of computer science, and how the FUTURE Act is advancing this endeavor.
ContributorsShelton, Christin, Ph.D. (Author) / Thomas, Jakita, 1977- (Author) / Eugene, Wanda, Ph.D. (Author) / Daily, Shani B., Ph.D. (Author) / Women of Color in Computing Research Collaborative (Contributor)
Created2021 (year uncertain)
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Provides results of a survey on the attitude of Black and Latinix middle school girls toward scientists its effect on their STEM educational aspirations.
ContributorsNguyen, Ursula (Author) / Riegle-Crumb, Catherine, Ph.D. (Contributor) / Women of Color in Computing Research Collaborative (Contributor)
Created2021 (year uncertain)
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Describes the challanges Black women face as they strive to overcome racial obstacles in the field of computer science.
ContributorsThomas, Jakita, 1977- (Author) / Women of Color in Computing Research Collaborative (Contributor)
Created2021 (year uncertain)
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Assesses different methodologies for recruiting women of color into science and technology industries.
ContributorsGonzales, Laura (Author) / Robinson, Joy, Ph.D. (Author) / Shivers-McNair, Ann, Ph.D. (Author) / San Diego, Clarissa (Author) / Women of Color in Computing Research Collaborative (Contributor)
Created2021 (year uncertain)
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Briefly summarizes racial and gender inequities in calculus classrooms.
ContributorsLeyva, Luis A., Ph.D. (Author) / Women of Color in Computing Research Collaborative (Contributor)
Created2021 (year uncertain)
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Women of color briefly describe their productivity levels at work while managing racial basis.
ContributorsWilliams, Joan, 1952- (Author) / Korn, Rachel, 1988- (Contributor) / Mihaylo, Sky (Contributor) / Maas, Rachel (Researcher) (Contributor) / Women of Color in Computing Research Collaborative (Contributor)
Created2021 (year uncertain)