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The Gerund in Old English: A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Washington and Lee University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Although the gerund is widely familiar to students of languages, and despite the fact that it is used perhaps more freely in Old English than in any other language, I have been unable to find any complete treatment of the ... -
Gesang ist Dasein: Nietzsche, Aesthetics, and Why Art is Worth More than the Truth
What, then, are we to make of Nietzsche's exaltation of art? The goal of this study is to examine why Nietzsche might have declared art to be worth more than the Truth and, with sufficient prudence so as not to attempt to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Godless Societies of Friedrich Nietzsche and the Epicurean Philosophers and Their Consequences Upon The Good Life
When one first encounters their works, the Epicurean philosophers and Friedrich Nietzsche appear to have a great deal in common. Their physics and conception of the universe seem quite similar and both reach the conclusion ... -
The Good Life
What is the best life a human being can live? There can obviously be many different answers to this question with many different reasons. However, I would like to take an Aristotelian approach to this question. In order ... -
The Government Center: Boston, Massachusetts: Its Planning, Construction, and Importance to Boston and to Urban Renewal
The purpose of this paper is to review the planning and construction of the Government Center of Boston, Massachusetts. As the first project in a general plan for the city of Boston that originally called for ten projects, ... -
Great Britain and the Bagdad Railroad (1888-1914)
In a study such as this, it is quite easy to over-estimate the importance of the Bagdad Railroad. Here the major events of the pre-war era have been mentioned only in the light of the railroad project. Yet when the subject ... -
The Grignard Reaction
The Grignard reagent, with its variety of useful reactions, has long been recognized as one of the fundamental tools of organic synthesis. [11] It should, for this reason, be of interest to inspect the topic as a compact ... -
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Balance of Power: A Woman's Quest
Although she has been criticized for her overwrought sentimentality and elaborate romance, Harriet Beecher Stowe has been acknowledged as one of the most popular writers, male or female of the nineteenth century. Stowe ... -
"Here I stand" (in two places): David Tracy's Interpretive Theory and its Application on Luther's Reading of the Pauline Corpus
Thus, interpretation must go about the work of "overcoming distance and cultural differences and of matching the reader to a text which has become foreign, thereby incorporating its meaning into the present comprehension ... -
Highway Construction
Up until a few years ago roads were built solely to stand the wear and tear of carriages, wagons and heavily loaded drays but now a new question has arisen. Which road will best stand the automobile, running at a high speed ... -
Historians for All Time: Thucydides, Winston S. Churchill and Their Great Wars
Professor Taylor Sanders recommended that I compare Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War with Winston S. Churchill's account of the First World War, The World Crisis. After browsing through these two interesting ... -
An Historical and Archaeological Consideration of Brickmaking in Virginia
"Of all ceramics, brick is surrounded by the worst tangle of legend and folklore." (Heite 1970: 43) The above quote represents a statement written by Edward F. Heite in reference to the specific plight of bricks in an ... -
The History and Development of the Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve Act will and has proved to be one of the most constructive contributions ever made by Congress.(2) It is not in its final state, but as new problems and situations arise, substantial changes will have ... -
History and the Pendulum: An Application of the Schlesinger Theory of American Politics to Twentieth-Century Mexico
Beginning with the Greeks Parmenides, Errpodocles and Polybius, continuing through unknown Mayan theologians, to the works of Vico and Hegel, cyclical theories are found throughout the historiographical canon. The tradition ... -
A History of the Franklin Society and Library Company of Lexington, Virginia
To the compiler of any sort ot history the greatest task is the unearthing of source material, whether that history be the narrative of a nation's progress through the centuries or an humble account ot the deeds of an ... -
History, Fiction, and Meaning: A Study of Graham Swift's Waterland
As he continues to write and develop as a novelist, the now-empty niche of Swiftian criticism will undoubtedly fill up quite quickly. In determining to write this thesis on an author so recent and therefore so little ...