W&L University Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
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Reinforced Concrete Arch
Reinforced concrete has been used for only a fev years, but the law governing the combination of concrete and steel, although not absolutely fixed, is known with sufficient exactness to permit the design of nearly all ... -
An Elementary Theorem-Proving Program
My goal is to write a theorem-proving assistant that can , to s ome extent, take a hypothesis (that works on IF-THEN rules) and make some progress toward a realizable goal. However, since I need a more concrete problem ... -
The Washington and Lee University Price Index
Past expenditure patterns for Washington and Lee (fiscal years 1978-1981) are described through the use of price indexes. The expenditures included are a representative sample of total spending at Washington and Lee. The ... -
The Sedimentology of the Snowden Member of the Late Precambrian-Early Cambrian (?) Harper's Formation in Central Virginia
The Snowden Member is the thickest and most mappable of the quartzose sandstone units of the heterogeneous Harpers Formation, the middle unit of the late Precambrian-early Cambrian(?) Chilhowee Group in central Virginia. ... -
Sex, Guns, and Theorems; The Legacy of Evariste Galois
Only ignorance of history can allow one to see mathematicians as those who lead boring, uneventful lives, and a brief look at the career of the French mathematician Evariste Galois (1811 - 1832) will put any skeptic to ... -
The Benson Project: Urban Economic Renewal Strategies in Practice
Efforts to stimulate economic renewal should include a consideration of renewal strategies to ensure their effectiveness and ultimate success. The following study presents four tenets of economic renewal, developed from ... -
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 ... -
Journalism: Craft or Profession?
This paper was undertaken to summarize some of the important thoughts on journalism and professionalism and to accumulate a list of reference materials which, hopefully, will prove helpful to anyone wishing to pursue the ... -
"A Crippled Trust": The Wounded Body in Irish Drama
The recurring use of the wounded body by Irish dramatists throughout the twentieth century begs the student of Irish literature to question how these authors are using this image to debate national character. Because of ... -
Religion as an Empowerer of the Oppressed: A Study of Liberation Theology, Engaged Buddhism, and Pentecostal Serpent Handlers
Liberation theology, "engaged Buddhism" (specifically the movement started by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar), and the Pentecostal serpent handling faith all share one commonality: they appear to empower the oppressed of their ... -
Ordinary Sins
I chose to write Ordinary Sins as short stories rather than a novel, but also made the decision to deny the reader any central narration. The opening story introduces readers to the four central characters: Andy, Linda, ... -
The Serpentine Idol: Worme Imagery in Book I of Spenser's Faerie Queene and John Donne's Funeral Sermons
In this Thesis, I will not speculate about what English literature would have looked like if Donne's poem had superceded The Faerie Queene, but I will investigate the topic of immediacy through an analysis of the worme ... -
The Military Campaigns of the Russian Civil War of 1917-1925
Throughout the chaos of war and the turmoil of life in Russia during the Civil War the visionaries of the party had kept their goals clear and baserd their plans on their ultimate victory. Now that this military victory ... -
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Remembered: African-American Patterns of Adaptation to Plantation Life in the New World
The ultimate value of archaeology rests on the assumption that the material record is an inevitable reflection of past cultures' mental and spiritual lives. The material record should indicate the ways in which people ... -
Quantifying Love: Shakespeare's Comedies and Modern Adult Attachment Theory
By looking at Shakespeare's comedies within the framework of modem adult attachment theory, I hope to validate the practice of both psychological and psychoanalytic readings of his works; to provide a new way of doing so; ... -
Pollen Feeding and Its Effect on a Generalist Predator, the Chinese Praying Mantid, Tenodera sinensis
The Chinese praying mantid, Tenodera sinensis (Saussure), is a univoltine generalist predator that hatches early in the spring and must oviposit in the fall. At both crucial times of early nymph development and oogenesis, ... -
Wittgenstein on the Groundlessness of Our Fundamental Empirical and Religious Beliefs
This paper first examines Wittgenstein's treatment in On Certainty of the groundlessness of our fundamental beliefs. It then examines some 'groundless' aspects of religious (specifically Christian) beliefs, looking for ... -
A Study of the Progress of Pupils and of Their Ability in English Composition and Handwriting in the Public Schools of Lexington, Va.
The survey was carried out with a view to: (1) studying the schoolroom organization and classification of pupils i n the system, and (2) measuring the results of instruction in certain subjects of the curriculum by standard ... -
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 ... -
Go Green: An Examination of Alternative Energy in Germany
This thesis examines the development of German alternative energy technology since the early 1990s. It explores the various motivating factors behind Germany's expansion of alternative energy, including the nation's growing ...