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Changing Perspectives on Thought and Action in Andre? Malraux's Major Novels
Malraux has expressed his ideas concerning thought and action in many forms. He has explored the conflict between thought and action through various characters on both personal
and political levels. He has evaluated "pure" ...
The Character of Emelye in Chaucer, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Dryden
Although the later attempts to delineate the character of Emelye were also efforts to improve on the original as depicted in Chaucer both attempts were failures in that respect. Chaucer gives us a beautiful outline of ...
The Effects of Bilateral Stimulation of the Hippocampus on Persevarative Neural Processes
In recent years there has been a significant amount
of' work done in the f ield of memory and the physiological
processes that are involved. One main area of research
has been connected with perseveration theory. The ...
Language and Representation in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
The self-aware form of Tristram Shandy thus separates it from novels of its own century and from those of the century that followed it. It is less evident how the novel significantly differs from more recent texts, which ...
Many Shades of One Man: Heroic Personalities in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien's heroes appeal to the reader because the heroic development of the individual is so apparent; heroes progress in noticeable ways which are easy for the reader to follow and understand. Plus, no heroic figure goes ...
South Carolina Politics: A Re-Evaluation of Key
Obviously, many of,the statements which Key made about South Carolina are now obsolete. The politics of color has disappeared and blacks are today an important and influential part of the South Carolina political scene. ...
Decadence and Decline in Works by Thomas Mann and Edward Graf Von Keyserling
Essentially a study of the �decadent individual, this paper will proceed from an examination of tradition to a closer examination of seieral of Mann's and Keyserling's characters. Understanding the characters better, we ...
The Responsible Hero: The Evolution of the Greek Hero from the Epic to the Tragic and Historic
To illustrate the history and evolution of personal responsibility in the Greek world, and the Athenian polis in particular, and the impact this concept of responsibility had on the definition of a "hero," I shall concentrate ...
She Closes Her Eyes to Herself: Nietzsche, Feminism, and Christianity
This paper works to examine the lives and arguments of early Christian female ascetics and modern feminist Christians through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche. The arguments against orthodox Christianity presented in Nietzsche ...
Early New Deal Relief Efforts in Rockbridge County: An Examination of the FERA in a Local Environment
I have limited my work to a consideration of one relief agency of the New Deal: The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). I will attempt to follow the history of the FERA
during its activity in Rockbridge County ...