Browsing W & L Historic Theses by Title
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Price Dispersion and the Effectiveness of Integration Efforts
Using a specifically developed measure I find evidence that NAFT A, MERCOSUR, and EU membership are significantly correlated with decreased price dispersion. This suggests that these agreements have increased market ... -
The Problem of Arbitrariness in American Jurisprudence
The debate over how to interpret the United States Constitution continues to be the most controversial one in the area of constitutional law. In recent years, with the rise of the New Right and its so-called original intent ... -
The Problem of Hell for Christians
At one point or another, almost every human being has considered and questioned the possibility of the existence of some sort of higher being and of an afterlife. The Christian faith teaches that there exists such a being, ... -
Problems of International Broadcasting by the American Government
The purpose of this paper is to present an objective evaluation of the work of the Voice of America. Much has been written from a biased standpoint -- little that is objective. Indeed, it was an editorial bitterly attacking ... -
Production Control
Production control is that technique employed in manufacturing whereby the production facilities of a plant are coordinated through the advanced planning, routing, scheduling, dispatching, and follow-up of each individual ... -
A Project for the Development of the Woods Creek Ravine, Washington and Lee University Campus, Lexington, Virginia
The plan under consideration of the authors is one to investigate and show the feasibility of developing a natural resource, of the oampus. Advantages presented by such a development are distinctly three-fold in nature: ... -
The "Projective" Unconscious: Charles Olson and Carl Jung
Charles Olson ( 1910-1970), writing the bulk of his most influential works in the late forties through mid sixties, is an American poet who gained fame as a teacher in the Black Mountain College, a successor of Ezra Pound, ... -
The Proletarian Novel in America, 1900-1940
In this thesis I have tried to give what I think is an accurate picture of the proletarian novel. I have tried to trace the origins, motives and developments of this form in the years from 1900 to 1940. It has been necessary ... -
Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and the Third Reich, 1933-1939
There have been many who have claimed that the paganism of the Third Reich was the final blow at the ineffeotive Protestant Church in Germany, but such a view is narrow and negleots one very important aspect of the problem ... -
Prussian Liberalism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Conservatism in Prussia was r etained and liberalism defeated. What caused this defeat? What were the weaknesses of liberalism which doomed it in Bismarck's empire? To me the most important factor was that the dichotomy ... -
Public Involvement and the Formation of Public Policy: The Case of European Monetary Union
European Monetary Union (EMU) represents a complex and technical issue which has been surrounded by controversy since its beginnings. Thus, disagreement on this issue has been widespread. This study examines the disagreement ... -
Public Roads: Their Construction and Maintenance, Also, the Effect of Automobile Traffic on Them
Perhaps never before has there been such concerted and well directed action by the people of our country in the interests od better roads than there has been within the past year or two . The advent of tlie motor car may ... -
Quantifying Love: Shakespeare's Comedies and Modern Adult Attachment Theory
By looking at Shakespeare's comedies within the framework of modem adult attachment theory, I hope to validate the practice of both psychological and psychoanalytic readings of his works; to provide a new way of doing so; ... -
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 ... -
Quaternary Glaciation of Middle Roaring Creek Valley Spar City Quadrangle, Colorado
Major morphological features associated with Quaternary glaciation of Middle Roaring Creek Valley, Spar City Quadrangle, Colorado divide the valley into three regions of varying topography. Analysis of weathering rind ... -
Quest for Expression: The Ekphrastic Poetry and Artistic Creation of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) is widely praised for her mastery of poetic form and language. Recently, Plath scholars have uncovered another dimension to this already complex literary figure. In addition to poetry, Plath also ... -
The Question of Success in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Propaganda
When beginning my research on the two seventeenth-century battle paintings by Velazquez and Maino, Surrender of Breda and Recapture of Bahia, I frequently encountered information concerning the declining state of the Spanish ... -
Quine and the Enigma of Analyticity, or, What it is Like to Think Like a Quinean
Quine's attack on what he considers to be two defunct dogmas of empiricism -- the notions of analyticity and reductionism -- is based on a misconception of the nature of language. Quine's fascination with the workings of ...