Persons with Mental Disabilities and the United States Justice System: a Study of Injustice and Contradiction

Honorable Mention winner of the Friends of Fondren Library Undergraduate Research Awards, 2011.This paper explores a short history of the mentally challenged in the legal system and makes comparisons between how the legal system treats subjects with borderline intellectual functioning and juveniles with normal intellectually functioning. The research contained in this paper amply proves the prevalence of nefarious consequences stemming from strict legal boundaries through two case study examples. The paper then proposes an experiment designed to prove that mentally challenged offenders do not meet the culpability standards set forth by the legal system. Conclusions drawn from the experiment are elaborated upon through their constitutional implications

A Lost Cyclical Tale

Submission to the Friends of Fondren Library Undergraduate Research Awards, 201

OATS AND CLIMATE IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO

The effect of monthly rainfalls and temperatures during the growing season, upon the resultant yields of oats is studied by the correlation coefficient method and also by the isopract technique.Cool, wet Junes and Julys are the most important features for high subsequent yields, the degree of significance of these varying, however, according to latitude and topography.A system of 13 zones, each more or less homogeneous in these respects is discussed for the Southern Ontario region.Suggestions for future improvement of varieties in the poorer areas, as well as for more reliable crop and climatic statistics is made.The paper also contains a historical summary of similar work done elsewhere in the world, the results so obtained being contrasted with the present ones. </jats:p