W&L University Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Subversive Texts, Randomness & Fright, and the Narrative Deconstructure of Thomas Pychon's Gravity's Rainbow
Our inability to paraphrase and reconstruct this book's 11 story, 11 however, is not simply a product of its length and complexity. Rather, the book is structured in such a way that it makes this kind of coherent recall ... -
Sex, Sonnets, and Sermons: The Erotic Theology of John Donne
I intend to use the epithalamia or marriage songs, enhanced by analysis of Donne's sermons, as conceptual bridges to understand the persistence of sexual and physical language from Donne's.secular love poetry to his religious ... -
Glucoprivic Regulation of Puberty Onset
The purpose of our studies was to determine 1) if rats experience hypoglycemia during diet-restriction when puberty is delayed, and 2) if histaminergic pathways mediate glucoprivicinduced delay in puberty onset. Plasma ... -
Rawls Under the Scrutiny of Nozick
In 1971 John Rawls published A Theory of Justice (TJ) in which he expounds what is today one of the most debated theories of social justice. Just three years later, partially in response to Rawls' work, Robert Nozick ... -
Indians on the Eastern Shore of Virginia: Evolving Relationships with the English and Powhatan Indians
My work parallels that of historian Helen C. Rountree who closely examined the Eastern Shore Indians in Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500 - 1722; Pocahontas's People; The Powhatan Indians of Virginia; and Eastern Shore ... -
Design of a 120-foot Span Steel Truss
The form of the roof truss will be the straight chord with lower chord inclined as well as the upper one, having vertical ties and inclined struts. The span will be 120 feet; the distance between trusses 16 feet; the rise ... -
Design of a Single Track, Through, Pin-Connected Pratt Truss: Span 150 Feet, 6 Panels, 25 Feet
Design of a pin-connected, through Pratt railway truss of 150 feet span, 6 panels. The trusses are spaced 17 feet center to center. This design is made for all main members of truss but does not go into the detailing of ... -
City Plan for Huntington, W. Va.
The object of a plan is to give a general picture and program to which the city may in the course of time grow. The design of the City of Huntington as planned by Rufus Cook at the instigation of Collis P. Huntington some ... -
The Stratigraphy and Structure of the Simsboro Gas Field, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Well logs have been used to interpret the structure and stratigraphy of the Simsboro Gas Field of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. A variety of subsurface maps have been constructed in an attempt to interpret the depositional ... -
Late Wisconsin Glacier Surface Elevations and Flow Directions from the Beartooth Plateau to the Clarks Fork Valley, Wyoming
During the Pinedale glaciation of the Late Wisconsin, an ice cap covered most of the land comprising the Beartooth Plateau and the highlands to the south, stretching to the Clarks Fork Valley in northwestern Wyoming. The ... -
Thesis in Chemistry [Double Cesium and Rubidium Salts of Lead Tetrabromide]
Salts in which lead is quadrivalent are comparatively unstable and usually they readily pass over into the corresponding compounds in which the lead is divalent. Salts of Hexa-chloroplumbic acid 2Hcl. Pb cl4 are known and ... -
Creativity Under Fire: Effects of Exaggerated Time Restrictions and High Standards of Criteria on Creative Production
Investigates how two psychological stressors -- exaggerated time restrictions and high standards of criteria -- affect the creative performance of 44 8th and 48 11th grade students and alludes to the relation between ... -
Justice John Marshall Harlan and the "Color-Blind Constitution"
Mr. Justice Harlan was the "Great Dissenter" to the complacent attitudes of The Gilded Age. His opinions ran against the attitudes held by his contemporaries: laissez-fair in economics; imperialism in international ... -
The Environment, Future Generations, and John Rawls
I would like to note that my thesis's main point is not to present an entirely new and complete argument as to why we should preserve the environment, and more importantly, I do not argue that the only reason we should ... -
Tchaikovsky's Ballets
Because of Tchaikovsky's influence, people listen to a ballet score just as they would listen to a symphony. It is doubtful that anyone would want to do the same with the ballet music by Minkus or even Adam. Today, ... -
On the Theory of Action
This paper concerns several points of action theory. I begin with a discussion of Arthur Dante's thesis on basic and nonbasic action, clarifying and differentiating between, the two. While Danto advances the notion of ... -
The Synthesis and Investigation of Hydrazidomalonic Acid
Hence there were t wo unfinished steps in a total investigation of hydrazidomalonic acid as an resolving reagent for optically active c arbonyls, namely; the isolation and identification of hydrazidomalonic acid, and the ...