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Seven Novels of Angel Maria de Lera: Their Technique and Style, Their Characters, Their Meaning
The following paper is an analysis of seven novels of the contemporary Spanish writer Angel Maria de Lera. The intention is to evidence the maturation of Lera as a writer during the ten years that the seven novels cover ... -
"Sex explains it all": Gender in the Literature of Ernest Hemingway and Robert Frost
Gender is merely an attribute, rather than the single determining factor of one's identity, yet Hemingway and Frost both devised their own distinctly masculine personality -- a public image which became progressively more ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Sexuality and System in Thomas Hardy: The Affirmation of Experiential Over Moral Truth
This project is a psychological study of Thomas Hardy's developing attitude towards sexuality; specifically whether it could be brought into a constructive moral system, or whether the experience was fulfilling in its own ... -
She Closes Her Eyes to Herself: Nietzsche, Feminism, and Christianity
This paper works to examine the lives and arguments of early Christian female ascetics and modern feminist Christians through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche. The arguments against orthodox Christianity presented in Nietzsche ... -
The Shellability of Simplices
Shelling can be looked at as a way of piecing together a surface ( or taking it apart), almost as if using legos. The pieces we are using are points, edges, triangles, tetrahedra, and larger n-dimensional cells. You can ... -
Sheltered: Images From a Life Among Shelter Pets and Their People
I hope to provide a glimpse into the shelter system that will leave my readers understanding that animal shelters are about so much more than euthanasia and adoptions. My goal is to prove that shelters are not limited to ... -
Size Matters: Anion Influences on Hamster Chorda Tympani Responses to Na+ Salts
Over the past two decades, researchers have shown repeatedly that salt taste reception depends, in numerous mammals, on the passive diffusion ofNa+ ions through apical, Na+selective ion channels that can be blocked by the ... -
Some Aspects of Slavery in Rockbridge County, Virginia
Rockbridge County, like most of the South, employed its slaves to help grow its crops, to perform the hard labor necessary for its industrial production, and to act as its domestic servants. Rockbridge County's planters ... -
Some Comparative Experiments on the Fireproofing of Wood Pulp
The purpose of these experiments was not to produce a pulp that was absolutely unaffected by fire. Nor was it the aim of the writer to develope any one pulp to its maximum efficiency, but solely to place upon a comparative ... -
Some Elements of High Tension Power Transmission
This subject will be treated as follows: First -- A general statement of the conditions which suggest a high tension transmission project, and the circumstances limiting the maximum transmission distance and maximum ... -
Some Investigations of the Preparation of 4-(4-carboxyphenyl)semicarbazide and Its Camphor Derivative
At present the series of reagents available for the resolution of optically active carbonyl compounds shows some definite inadquecies. The investigations discussed in this thesis were undertaken to fill these gaps. [From ... -
Some Studies in Coupling of Aliphatic Nitrocompounds
The object of this thesis was the production and isolation of a new compound. . . . this problem was set forth by Merck and Co. because they believe that this compound may have properties similar to sulfanilamide. [From ... -
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 ... -
South Carolina Politics: A Re-Evaluation of Key
Obviously, many of,the statements which Key made about South Carolina are now obsolete. The politics of color has disappeared and blacks are today an important and influential part of the South Carolina political scene. ... -
A Southern Intellectual Community: A Sociological Inquiry
The immediate pupose of this thesis is to make a sociological analysis of Washington and Lee University as a Southern intellectual community during the first three decades of the present century. It is not here suggested ... -
The Spectral Properties of Iodine-Trichloride in Carbon Tetrachloride Solution
The investigation of iodine trichloride as an electron acceptor system for st �b donors by R. D. Whitaker, J. R. Ambrose. and C. T. Hickam has proven very fruitful. In order to complete the investigation of the iodine ...