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The Cardboard Sublime: Novella and Postscript
Aristotle claimed that the purpose of art is to delight and to instruct. In dealing with the latter, it is necessary to consider the virtues advocated by a work of literature. At first glance of the opening chapters, it ... -
An Inheritance of Slavery: The Tale of "Jockey" John Robinson, His Slaves, and Washington College
Much of the Washington College slaves' inner lives remain a mystery. The evidence does, of course, illuminate a great deal about the general course of their lives. John Robinson acquired and later bequeathed them to ... -
The Fabrication of Antireflective Coatings by the Self-assembly of Silica Nanopartical and Polycation Bilayers
This study examines several factors that affect the quality of antireflective coatings created by the self-assembly of alternating layers of silica (Si02) nanoparticles and poly(allylamine hydrochloride) or poly(diallyld ... -
The Role of Food Production in the Economic Development of West Africa's Sahel Region
One must not forget, therefore, that the Sahel comprises a fragile ecosystem within an area of scarce resources. Much care and understanding, that is to say "good government", is needed if these sparse , resources are to ... -
The Birth of the Modern Book: Re-reading Vollard's Livres d'artistes
Ambroise Vollard certainly treated all his book projects as works of art. He was tremendously involved in all his book projects, from choosing the literary artist and visual artist to editing the final appearance of the ... -
Jane Austen and the Feminist Tradition
The casual reader of British literature often views Jane Austen as a genteel early nineteenth-century novelist whose works focus on a young woman in her quest for marriage. These same readers would consider as quite ... -
Ayn Rand: An Individualist's Paradoxical Involvement with the Collective
Ayn Rand's paradoxical involvement with collective organizations began early in her career during her crusade against communism. Rand developed her anti-communistic ideas as an individual during her youth in Soviet Russia. ... -
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 ... -
"Imperfect cognizance:" Robert Browning's Demand for Personal Judgment in The Ring And The Book
In Browning's Major Poetry Ian Jack asserts that Robert Browning reveals the principle motivations of each character of The Ring and the Book in the poet's first speech of Book I (Jack 295). As a result, motivation for ... -
A Study of the Preparation of 8, Mercapto, Quinoline
Edinger in 1908 reported in the German journal, Berichte der Deutschen Chemicen Gesellschaft , that he had prepared 8, mercapto, quinoline su1fonic acid with phosphorour pentachloride, thus obtaining the acid chloride of ... -
The Great Crusade: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Campaign of 1912
The year 1912 was an exciting one, and the Taft- Roosevelt feud that it symbolizes is complex and confusing. Allan Nevins, in his Gateway to History, has stated the problem succinctly: "We decide by preliminary survey ... -
The Great Mistake: The Dysfunctional Electoral College and the Direct-Vote Alternative
The need for electoral reform has been evident throughout Arnerican history, but the problem becomes more crucial as the responsibilities and powers of the Presidency increase more rapidly each decade. . . . The relevant ... -
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Balance of Power: A Woman's Quest
Although she has been criticized for her overwrought sentimentality and elaborate romance, Harriet Beecher Stowe has been acknowledged as one of the most popular writers, male or female of the nineteenth century. Stowe ... -
The Synthetic Imagination: An Approach to the Poetry of Thomas Hardy
A reading of Hardy's verse clearly illustrates the poet's tragic view of things and his longing and earnest search for a "cure," for something that would make man's life, in the face of the inevitable destruction wrought ... -
Compressions of Linear Operators Yielding a Single Point Numerical Range
This thesis will focus on finding subspaces M such that the compression of T to M, denoted TM, has a single point numerical range. . . . The motivation for finding such subspaces lies in a theorem from quantum coding ... -
John M. Brooke & the Confederate States Navy
Since the summer of 1861 Brooke had been serving in the Bureau of Ordnance. Finally on March 30, 1863 Brooke was ordered to report to Commander George Minor and relieve him as Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrograpby. ... -
James B. Dorman: Scholar, Politician, and Soldier (1823-1893)
James Dorman lived seventy years. His years of greatest accomplishment were between 18 and 40. After that point a decline set in. This is not to say his life in the last 30 years was not happy, but merely states the fact, ...