W&L University Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
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The General's House: The Lee House as Building, Home, and Shrine (thesis)
Houses that still fill their intended role of "family home" rarely can be described as a shrine or memorial, yet that is the best way to describe the Lee House. While built to house a university president, a function it ... -
Modernization of China Through Language Reform: Vernacular Language Reform Movement in the 1910-20s and Mao's Language Reform in the 1950s (thesis)
In this paper, we will examine the relationship between language reform and the modernization of China. Before we go into any further details about the two different periods of language reform in the first half of the 20th ... -
Critiques of a Strategist: Jean-Michel Basquiat (thesis)
Jean-Michael Basquiat (1960-1988) was one of the most distinguished artists of the 1980s international art scene. His strategic alliances with the media and major galleries in New York City allowed him to legitimize his ... -
Medieval Fasting and Anorexia Nervosa as Goal-Oriented Ascetic Practices (thesis)
This paper analyzes various theories of asceticism and the body and assesses those theories in the context of two behaviors typically considered to have ascetic components: medieval female fasting and modem anorexia nervosa ... -
Savonarola's Widows: Chastity and Piety in Quattrocento Florence (thesis)
In his Book on the Life of the Widow, written in 1491, Savonarola takes into account the realities of a widow's situation, and categorizes women based upon their desires and their options. He does not condemn those who ... -
La Reformulación de Civilización y Barbarie en la Literatura Que Habla Sobre el Peronismo (thesis)
En el presente trabajo, primero voy a definir el contexto histórico y el proyecto político de Sarmiento durante la publicación de Facundo. Después, voy a analizar el esquema polarizado de Sarmiento y lo que él entiende por ... -
A De Dicto Solution to the Non-Identity Problem: Why What We Do to Future People Matters Morally (thesis)
When faced with non-identity cases, we intuitively begin to think of our obligation to future individuals in the de dicto sense; yet, these individuals, when considered from a de re perspective, are not harmed due to facts ... -
Muslim Assimilation in the United States: A Study of Religion and Immigration (thesis)
This project set out to better understand the extent to which Muslim assimilation, at the individual and organization levels, is occurring in the United States. The paper began with a theoretical discussion of types of ... -
Performance Practice of Thomas Tallis: An Educational Perspective (thesis)
A choral student's formative music education is often provided by a high school choir. For many student's, this is where they will receive the bulk of their music education. Consequently, it is extremely important for high ... -
An Analysis of the Dissemination and Evolution of Christian Mysticism Through Middle English Vernacular Literature (thesis)
My thesis examines a total of three works of literature written in Middle English. I believe that Richard Rolle's Meditations on the Passion, the medieval religious lyric I have selected and The Book of Margery Kempe ... -
Divine Intervention: Visionary Imagery and Authority in the Convent of San Domenico of Pisa (thesis)
My thesis forces viewers to reconsider the purpose of images in the convent of San Domenico of Pisa. While scholars such as Ann Roberts argue that the founder of the convent, Chiara Gambacorta, commissioned images of ... -
Arithmetic Progressions in Permutations (thesis)
In this thesis we will examine progressions in permutations. We will analyze regular and circular permutations with progressions either modular or regular with rise one or two. We will calculate the number of permutations ... -
Potential Policy Options to Improve Sport Fishing in Balbina: A Choice Experiment Analysis (thesis)
This research is developed within the framework of environmental economics, which attempts to value non market goods that provide individuals with specific values that are not elicited through market transactions. Environmental ... -
The Reality of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology and Logic of Fiction (thesis)
This paper will begin by outlining and explaining David Lewis's argument for the existence of possible worlds. In Lewis's extreme form of modal realism, all worlds are equally as real as the actual world. I will then address ... -
Ain't no drownin' the spirit : the New Orleans civil religion and its role in Hurricane Katrina (thesis)
Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in the early hours of August 29, 2005, causing the levees surrounding the city of New Orleans to rupture. As flood water rushed into the city, many people questioned the justice of God. ... -
Transcendental Idealism: An Original Interpretation (thesis)
As Paul Guyer and Allen Wood note in the preface to their translation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, "within a few years of the publication of his Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was recognized ... -
Elements of the Supernatural in Three Romances of Chrétien de Troyes (thesis)
In Erec, Yvain, and Perceval, Chrétien blends fantasy and realism in a seamless conjointure, exploiting well known supernatural motifs from various ancient sources to highlight themes relevant to contemporary life. Tropes ...