W&L University Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
Now showing items 41-60 of 1388
-
Margaret Junkin Preston, Lexington poetess
Even in 1950 one can enjoy reading Margaret Preston's poems, which were written for a Victorian audience. She wrote in many forms and metres, and because of this almost everyone can select from her volumes certain examples ... -
Indentured Servitude in Colonial Virginia: Genteel Ambitions and Harsh Realities
In order to evaluate the status of indentured servants in colonial Virginia, the student must analyze standards of treatment of servants in the context of history. During the seventeenth century, the term "servant" was not ... -
Alkenes and Cycloalkanes from Tosylhydrazones: The Aprotic Bamford-Stevens Reaction and Camphor Tosylhydrazone
In 1952 Bamford and Stevens discovered that ptoluenesulfonylhydrazones of many different types of ketones decomposed on heating in a base to form alkenes, and cycloalkanes by insertion. In addition to the alkene, molecular ... -
"And we shall overcome": Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Battle for Civil Rights
Historians will continue to debate Lyndon Johnson's place in history. Many will view the disaster of Vietnam as the most compelling legacy of his presidency and forever judge him by his tragic mistakes. But not all will ... -
An Investigation into the Fear of Death
Our thesis shall be to investigate the fear of death and the belief that death is an evil. By clarifying our notions about death as a harm to the individual I hope to show how many of our fears about death may be unwarranted ... -
Dynamic NMR Studies of Chiral 1,1'-binaphthyl Ligands
Chiral monomeric and polymeric binaphthyl ligands have been shown to be highly enantioselective for the asymmetric addition of dialkylzinc and diarylzinc compounds to aldehydes. Previous studies by Pu and coworkers show ... -
Mussolini: From Power to Puppet
Modern dlctatorthips frequently display an impressive exterior: the facade wilI be showy and the ramparts apparently impregnable. Within, however, the structure often conceals weakness and even rottenness. In these ... -
Bread and Circuses: The Cult of Antiquity in the French Revolution
The Roman Juvenal wrote that the best way to quell civic unrest was to give the people what they want: bread and circuses. This thesis will explore Harold T. Parker's Cult of Antiquity in the French Revolution. Parker's ... -
The Renaissance of a River: An Historical Description Concerning the Development and Construction of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System
The purpose of this paper is to give, in as much detail as possible, a complete historical description of the development and construction of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. Due to the fact that the ... -
Production Control
Production control is that technique employed in manufacturing whereby the production facilities of a plant are coordinated through the advanced planning, routing, scheduling, dispatching, and follow-up of each individual ... -
Maruja Mallo: Lost at Sea
Like many female artists, Maruja Mallo has been "written out of history." Standard texts treating Surrealism generally exclude female Surrealist artists, and Mallo is no exception. However, she is also seldom included even ... -
Albert Taylor Goodwyn: An Adamistic Look at the South
In this paper I have attempted to tell the story of the life of one man, Albert Taylor Goodwyn, and by doing so shed a small ray of light on the history of the South. Albert Goodwyn lfved from 1842 until 1931. His life ... -
The Dynamic Interaction Between the Poet and the People in Slam Poetry
Slam is a revolutionary force in contemporary American poetry, and, increasingly, in global poetry. Much of the power of this movement harkens from its ability to draw upon ancestral memories, restoring poetry to its roots ... -
Evolved Recursive Distributed Representations
Computer Science has become increasingly biologically inspired, with neural networks and evolutionary computing gaining increased prominence in the field. Recently, several difficulties with modeling connectionist networks ... -
Margaret Junkin Preston: Virginia's Poetess of the Old South
The title of this dissertation is: "Margaret Junkin Preston, Virginia's Poetess of the Old South." . . . It is the purpose of this work to disc:iss her life as it throws light upon her works, and to evaluate her works by ... -
Beorhtric Meaw: A Biographical Study Set in Anglo-Saxon England
Having completed my research, a portrait of Beorhtric finally emerged in which he appeared as a powerful and wealthy thegn descended from a family tracing its descent to the Wessex royal line. He and his family appear to ...