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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 ... -
Leadership Behavior Appraisal: A New, Broader Model of Understanding Leadership
Many current models of leadership appraisal assume that causation for all events within the group interaction emerges from the leader, and represents a permanent feature of the leader-group interface. Trait theories, ... -
The Lee Memorial Journalism Foundation: Its History
Following the War Between the States and as the South began to rebuild there came to Lexington, Virginia, the leader of the Confederate cause, General Robert E. Lee. He came to assume the presidency of a little college ... -
Leonard Bernstein: The Unanswered Question
Few composers in our modern era bave striven to reach as high, to partake as much of the divine, as Leoard Bernstein. He was a talented performer, a driven educator, an unconventional conductor, and a critically controversial ... -
Les liaisons dangereuses : deux conceptions diffe?rentes du libertinage
Dans son Essai sur l'Education des Femmes, Laclos decrit la femme naturelle et les effets de la societe sur elle. Dans la nature, la femme peut connaitre la liberte, alors que l'inegalite sociale entre la femme et l'homme ... -
Lexical Disambiguation in Machine Translation with Latent Semantic Analysis
This paper examines a possible solution to the problem of disambiguating polysemous nouns in machine translation. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) , a statistical method of finding and representing word sense, is used to ... -
A Local Habitation and a Name: C. S. Lewis and the Language of Christian Apologetics
C.S. Lewis is a source of intrigue for many twentieth century readers. His audience consists of Christian lay-persons, students of English literature, scholars, clergy, and others. For many of us, C.S. Lewis' popularity ... -
"Look what I can do!" : Ameliorating the Effects of Poverty with Preschool Education
Previous studies have documented the positive effects of early education in highrisk children. A screening measure was created to determine if there were any significant differences between the performance of scholarship ... -
Louis Comfort Tiffany and His Art Nouveau Lamps
This paper will address the life of Louis Comfort Tiffany in the context of two products made at his glass studio on Corona Island, New York, around 1900: the Hanging-head Dragonfly lamp, and the Spider-web lamp. First, a ... -
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 ... -
A Madwoman for Every Room in the House: Eating Disorders, Schizophrenia and Other Forms of Insanity in Seven Victorian Novels
The subject of insanity, particularly in female characters, in British novels first attracted my attention while studying nineteenth century Gothic novels with my tutor in Oxford last year. I began looking at "sensation" ... -
Many Shades of One Man: Heroic Personalities in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien's heroes appeal to the reader because the heroic development of the individual is so apparent; heroes progress in noticeable ways which are easy for the reader to follow and understand. Plus, no heroic figure goes ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Martian North Polar Crater Morphology: Implications for an Aquifer
Recent studies of martian north polar craters have suggested that they have more cavity fill than the global crater population, and that the morphology of the crater fill is in some cases-similar to pingo structures on ... -
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 ... -
A Matter of Choice: Reform of the National Nominating Convention
"Within the limits of American institutions," Gerald Pomper writes, "the parties have evolved a functional nominating system." [1] In the course of this paper, there has been an analysis of the evolution of this system, ... -
Maurice Barre?s and French Traditionalism
Barre?s was a novelist who dabbled in the politics of the Chamber. His involvement with political organizations espousing a program of extraparliamentary action was considerable. Yet, he was first and foremost a novelist. ... -
A Meeting of Minds: Frederick the Great and Voltaire
Primary source material for this paper in addition to Frederick's and Voltaire's respective works was their correspondence which began in 1736 and ended in 1778. The original correspondence was exclusively written in French, ...