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The Photographic Image: New High Art of the Twentieth Century
The production of the photograph, by exposing the negative film to light through the aperture of the camera can be qualified as the "art" of photography; mastering the "art" has everything to do with the process of creation. ... -
Chaucer and Morris as Narrative Poets: As Determined Chiefly from The Canterbury Tales and The Earthly Paradise
The aim of this paper is to treat the most prominent points of similarity and difference in these two narrative poets. The study will be based almost entirely on the masterpieces of the two poets, the Canterbury Tales and ... -
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 ... -
Potentiometric Titrations with Ceric Sulphate: A Thesis
These investigations indicate that ceric sulphate is an excedingly versatile oxidizing agent useful in many laboratory procedures. It has been found particularly valuable for the determination of reducing agents in the ... -
A Study of the Preparation of 8, Mercapto, Quinoline
Edinger in 1908 reported in the German journal, Berichte der Deutschen Chemicen Gesellschaft , that he had prepared 8, mercapto, quinoline su1fonic acid with phosphorour pentachloride, thus obtaining the acid chloride 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 ... -
Summer Soldier, Sunshine Patriot: Liberalism and the Crisis of Military Service in the United States
This paper is not about politics or military strategy. It is not about international relations or just war theory. This is a paper about America on the sidelines. This is a paper about a nation at the mall, even as a tiny ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Four Great Elegies of the English Language: The Book of the Duchess, Lycidas, In Memoriam, and Adonais; A Comparison and Study
. . . Having thus considered the general nature and something of the background of the elegy, let us enter upon I a more direct consideration of the four particular examples which we have taken as representing the ... -
Unofficial Dollarization and Market Integration: The Case of Latin America
This study examines the relationship between unofficial dollarization and goods market integration in the context of dollarizing Latin American nations and the United States. While a breadth of research focuses on the ... -
The Great Crusade: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Campaign of 1912
The year 1912 was an exciting one, and the Taft- Roosevelt feud that it symbolizes is complex and confusing. Allan Nevins, in his Gateway to History, has stated the problem succinctly: "We decide by preliminary survey ... -
The Cardboard Sublime: Novella and Postscript
Aristotle claimed that the purpose of art is to delight and to instruct. In dealing with the latter, it is necessary to consider the virtues advocated by a work of literature. At first glance of the opening chapters, it ... -
Coeducation at Washington and Lee University: A Social Systems Approach
W&L is unique today, but twenty years ago, not only were most of the best private schools all-male, but even some public universities denied admission to women. Then, during the 1960's and 70's something happened, and the ... -
The Use of Indicators for Determining the Relative Strength of Acids: A Class Demonstration Technique
This method, stated in a few words, c onsists in the comparison of the color given by the unknown acid containing a definite amount of indicator with the color given by the same amount of indicator in an equal volume of ... -
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 ... -
Quaternary Erosional History of the St. Marys River, Western Virginia
The landscape between Vesuvius and Greenville Virginia records the history of competition between the Shenandoah-Potomac and Maury-James basins. The St. Marys River is the latest in a series of stream captures that appear ... -
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 ... -
Microstructural and Lattice-Preferred Orientation Analyses of Ductile Shear Zones: Maggia Nappe, Switzerland
Microstructures of 24 samples and quartz lattice-preferred orientations (LPO) of 13 samples from the crystalline Maggia Nappe, Switzerland were measured in order to assess the deformation history, mechanisms, and conditions ...