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The Economics of Equal Education Opportunity
There are four primary objectives for this thesis. First, an economic model of learning behavior is developed combining microeconomic theories with economist Gary Becker's theory on the allocation of time. The economic ...
Great Britain and the Bagdad Railroad (1888-1914)
In a study such as this, it is quite easy to over-estimate the importance of the Bagdad Railroad. Here the major events of the pre-war era have been mentioned only in the light of the railroad project. Yet when the subject ...
Louis Marshall, M. D.: His Administration as President of Washington College
Louis Marshall was not a great educator, and probably deserved his obscurity. As an unrepentant individualist he is an interesting study. As a representative of personalized education, which was becoming unfashionable in ...
The Influence of Franz Liszt's Structural Style on the Music of Claude Debussy: An Analytic Comparison of the Anne?es de Pe?le?rinage and the Preludes
In spite of the fact that there is almost no written evidence to suggest it, it is the intention of this paper to show that the formal and structural styles employed by Liszt in Les Annees de pelerinage did indeed exert a ...
The Stratigraphic Relationship of the Catoctin, Unicoi and Harpers Formations Within a Fault-bounded Rift Basin in Central Virginia
Sediments deposited within a rift basin that is now situated in the Blue Ridge region of central Virginia include spilitic metabasalt, which exhibit pillow structures, alluvial slump deposits, fluvial channel sands, deltaic ...
"in the image of God...male and female he created them": Three Ancient Interpretations of Genesis 1:26-28
For Christians, nearly every influential religious writer from the first century onwards included scriptural interpretation in his/her philosophizing and apologetics. Thinking about the Church, about the Christian life, ...
Chaos and Linearity
Mathematically, one may define chaos in relation to the behavior of discrete dynamical systems, i.e., the behavior of operators (functions) under iteration. R. Devaney, in his book An Introduction to Chaotic Dynamical ...
A Selected Oxidizing Reaction of N2O4 and a Comparison of the Decomposition of Certain Organic Compounds
This is essentially a repeat of I. E. Shillington's original reaction. [From concluding section]
Franciscan Art as Propaganda: The Conventuals and the Chapel of Saint Martin in San Francesco at Assisi
The Chapel of Saint Martin is noteworthy not only because of its subject matter, but also because of the relatively little information known about its commission and patron. This paper will not address all these issues, ...
An Investigation Into the Neuropsychology of Learning and Memory
The first section of this paper will examine the major psychological and philosophical roots of modern research in the neuropsychology of learning and memory. I will attempt, at the end of this section, to establish the ...