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New Constraints on the Timing, Rate, and Style of Exhumation of the Wood Hills and Pequop Mountains, Elko County, Nevada (thesis)
In this study, zircon (U-Th)/He analysis is used to documents the timing, rate, and style of exhumation of the Wood Hills and Pequop Mountains, which are part of the Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range metamorphic core ... -
A New Optimism for Zip Code and Destiny: Promises and Limitations of Middle School Reform in Areas of Concentrated Poverty
This paper begins with the meaning and trends concerning educational disadvantage and high-poverty schools. I then provide an explanation for some of the factors—both external and internal to schools—that contribute to ... -
"The New Poetic Power": The Imaginative Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Traditional interpretors of literature might perceive little justification for discussing the poetry of the English Romanticist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who lived from 1772-1834, in conjunction with that of the German ... -
News Coverage - 1956 Mock Convention (audiorecording)
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Niche of a Generalist Apex Predator (presentation)
The case for the importance of predators in controlling structure and function of lower trophic levels in ecosystems has gained considerable currency in recent years. Predators control biodiversity through direct and ... -
Nicola Pisano's Pisa Baptistery Pulpit: Baptism, Papal Orthodoxy, and Joachite Heresy
Nicola Pisano's Pisa Baptistery Pulpit has garnered a vast amount of art historical attention. The artist's use of a classical style provides a starting point for any discussion of the Renaissance. However, the identification ... -
Nietzsche's Forgotten Spirit: Woman in Nietzsche's Philosophy (thesis)
In this thesis, I will attempt first to show how some major themes in Nietzsche's philosophy such as the rejection of dualisms and capital-T truths make room for an interpretation that suggests many of the same ideas that ... -
Nietzsche's Metaethics: A Eudaimonistic Theory, An Investigation into Nietzsche's Theory of Value (thesis)
In this paper, I will first outline how modern philosophers typically make the distinction between non-moral and moral value. The rest of the paper will be divided into three parts: first Brian Leiter's interpretation of ... -
Nietzsche's Overman, the Will to Power, and the Absolute Telos
Nietzsche focuses on the idea of the ideal individual as an underlying and vital theme in all of his writing. He examines the question of how man should live his life in this world. His answer encompasses his critique of ... -
Nietzsche, Personal Honor, and the Concept of Honor at Washington and Lee University
Having spent four years at Washington and Lee University, I have been and continue to be impacted by our Honor System daily in both subtle and explicit ways. As a freshman, I heard the "Leave Now" speech in Lee Chapel and ... -
Nietzsche: Genealogy and the Spirit of Moral Revaluation
Nietzsche is concerned with the lack of value that threatens the moral structure upon which man has relied for generations. He challenges us, therefore, to reflect upon our moral history in a new way. His use of a genealogy ...