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The Effects of the Windfall Profits Tax on American Crude Oil Production
The windfall profits tax itself is of some value in the fight against wasteful petroleum production, but it must be considered a third-line choice at best. It is of no use in encouraging investment in unrestrained petroleum ... -
Efforts Toward an African Dignity: A Study of Negritude, African Personality, and African Socialism
It is with mixed emotions of indignation and anger that thoughtful, knowledgeable Africans have witnessed and experienced the injustices , frustrations , and degradation heaped upon the African masses and traditional ... -
"Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris...": Sacred and Profane Violence in Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick presents intriguing patterns of violence that I believe to be in need of further exploration. . . . The publication of Sir James Frazer's The Colden Bough in 1890 produced a new form of cultural anthropology ... -
The Elizabethan Succession Crisis 1558-1600: Dynastic Conflict and Parliamentary Power
It is not generally known that a crisis surrounding the succession to the English throne occurred during Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603). The overwhelming majority of historians of the Elizabethan period, in fact, do not ... -
The Embryonic Artist and the Nightmare of History: In Search of a Father-Guide in James Joyce's Ulysses
As readers of Ulysses, our only guide to Stephen's future comes from looking back, searching the novel for clues to Joyce's providential design. When in search of a father-guide for Stephen, one must look to "Scylla and ... -
Emergent Behaviors in Artificial Life with Genetic Algorithms
Artificial life is concerned with the understanding of various aspects of biological systems by artificially recreating them. An emergent property of any system is a simple or complex behavior that is beyond the original ... -
An Empirical Attack on the Traditional A Priori
Does this mean we should discard the entire methodology of a priori philosophy? If a priori examination requires a propositional conception of knowledge, then I would argue yes. Conceptual analysis is not a completely ... -
An Essay on Absolutism in the Renaissance
Thus we have observed the diverse paths which the renaissance rulers chose to carve their national monarchies. All of them were aided by a powerful but subordinated oligarchy, be it the Royal Council in England, le Conseil ... -
Ethylation by Means of Diethyl Sulphate
It appears from the literature that not a great deal of extensive work has been done on the ethylation of various compounds by me ans of diethyl sulphate. As a result, it was concluded that not only some very interesting, ... -
Eugene O'Neill: A Long Day's Journey Into Death
It is hard to pin-point what O'Neill's exact hope in life was. We get the feeling in studying his life that he could never be satisfied with anything. But O'Neill's one hope and wish in life was to "belong" to something ... -
European Economic Community Enlargements: The Common Agricultural Policy, The Wine Sector, and Their Effects on Integration
The purpose of this paper is to address some of the problems of European integration, with particular emphasis on the Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP) and the last two enlargements of the Community. Greece joined the ... -
Evaluating Host-Based Methods for Detecting Spoofed IP Packets
Billions of messages are transmitted across the Internet each day and most of these use the Internet Protocol (IP) to route packets to specific destinations based upon an IP address. While these packets contain both source ... -
Evolved Recursive Distributed Representations
Computer Science has become increasingly biologically inspired, with neural networks and evolutionary computing gaining increased prominence in the field. Recently, several difficulties with modeling connectionist networks ... -
An Examination of Malory's Arthur or There and Back Again
In its broadest intent, this thesis will examine the dynamic nature of Arthur's kingdom: what it was before Arthur's arrival, what exactly were its Heroic, Worshipful and True attributes, and why and how Arthur's kingdom ... -
An Examination of the Concept of Faith as Contained in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
The problem that interests me and that will be the subject of this paper can be stated briefly as the relationship between 'faith' and 'reason'. I will not offer a precise definition or way of characterizing faith at first, ... -
An Examination of the Kinetics of the Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP) of a 7-oxanorbornene Derivative with Grubbs' Catalyst
The study of ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) has become increasingly important over the past two decades. ROMP is unusual in that it provides a route to polymers with a high degree of unsaturation in the ... -
An Experimental Study of Selected Remedial Reading Techniques
Throughout the past two decades a great deal or attention has been focused upon the correction of poor reading habits. Reliable clinical procedures aimed at correcting defective reading habits have been brought into use ... -
Exploring Text-Based Analysis of Test-Case Dependencies of Web Applications
Web applications must be reliable as the number and popularity of web applications increases. Web applications are difficult to test because of the large input space and frequent changes. Thus their characteristics demand ... -
Extension and Improvements of Washington and Lee University Campus, Lexington, Virginia
The extensions and developnents of Washington and Lee Campus discussed in this thesis are considered by the authors as necessary and important to properly open and prepare the way for the future University. The University ...