Browsing W & L Historic Theses by Title
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Factors Influencing a Battered Woman's Decision to Return to the Abusive Situation: An Empirical Investigation Considering Learned Helplessness and Survivor Theory
This thesis will focus on presenting information to support different models that attempt to explain the behavior of abused women. The thesis wilJ describe the steps a woman takes throughout her relationship to protect ... -
The Fall of France as Viewed from French West Africa
My paper follows a chronological trajectory, commencing with the build-up to World War Two, moving through the dr6le de guerre, and finally the Battle for France. Chapter I shows how the colonial regime prepared their ... -
Filtering Software: Can Technology Provide a Viable Alternative to Internet Regulation?
Existing research demonstrates that filters are not the cure-all for child online protection that software companies and even the Supreme Court suggest. Filtering packages have several noteworthy pitfalls, as noted in ... -
Flaubert et la Francaise au XIXe Siecle: l'idiot(e) de la Famille
Le 29 janvier 1857, Gustave Flaubert et son oeuvre Madame Bovary etaient mis en jugement pour l'outrage a la morale publique et religieuse et aux bonnes moeurs. Cependant, les raisons pour lesquelles on a poursuivi l'auteur ... -
Fluoremetry: H-ion, Influnce of pH and Certain Neutral Salts upon the Fluorescence of Sulfonic Acids
The method for the quantitative deternination of substances in solution by comparative fluorescence, as suggested by L. J. Desha. # Journal of American Chemical Society, Vol. XVII Number 7, July, 1920, seems to warrant a ... -
Fold Simplification and Fault Estimation for Inverse Modeling of Fault-Bend Folding
It has been long recognized that many folds observed in the field and in seismic reflection data are created as stratigraphic layers are displaced over nonplanar fault surfaces. As material is moved over a bend in a fault, ... -
Folk Psychology, Parallel Processing, the Intentional Stance, Supervenience, Multiple Realizability, and Some Hard Problems: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Brain
The objective of this paper is to suggest that folk psychology is the most deeply entrenched myth in the history of the human race. Yet, it appears that -- considered as a theory of how the mind works -- we have ample ... -
Foreign Trade and Ecuadorian Regional Development: Cuenca's "Panama" Hats, 1900-1970
I believe that this thesis will present a significant summation of the economic, social, cultural, and to a limited extent the political realities as they relate to the dominant industry of the Austro region of Ecuador ... -
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 ... -
Franciscan Art as Propaganda: The Conventuals and the Chapel of Saint Martin in San Francesco at Assisi
The Chapel of Saint Martin is noteworthy not only because of its subject matter, but also because of the relatively little information known about its commission and patron. This paper will not address all these issues, ... -
From Apartheid to Democracy: A Study of Religion and the Law in a Changing South Africa
This paper seeks to examine how religion and religious freedom will fare in the new democratic South Africa. This is not an easy task, for the democracy is young and religious freedom is not a burning issues at the present ... -
From Gangbuster to War Crimes Prosecutor: Joseph Berry Keenan and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1946-48
Of the many efforts to reform Japan, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East has been praised as "one of the bes t examples of international cooperation displayed during the occupation of Japan." [2] The New ... -
Gadolinium-Based Macrocyclic MRI Contrast Agents
The early detection of diseased and cancerous cells leads to a dramatic increase in the survival rate of the patients. The limitations of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to differentiate many types of cancerous tissues ... -
Geochemistry and Petrography of Amphibolites from the Spuhler Peak Metamorphic Suite: Near the Branham Lakes Area, Tobacco Root Mountains, Southwestern Montana
Located in the west-central Tobacco Root Mountains in southwestern Montana, the Archean-aged Spuhler Peak Metamorphic Suite (SPMS) of Gillmeister (1972) consists of lensoid amphibolite beds, more equant bodies of "wispy" ... -
Geology of the Precambrian Igneous-Metamorphic Complex of the Blue Ridge in the Snowden Quadrangle, Virginia
The Snowden 7.5 minute quadrangle is located entirely within the Blue Ridge physiographic province of Virginia. Early Cambrian sediments of the Chilhowee Group occur in the northern half of the quadrangle, while the southern ... -
Georg Buchner's Dantons Tod as a possible source for Peter Weiss's Marat/ Sade
E. M. Fleissner writes that "revolt is central to the drama . . ." and in Georg Buchner's Dantons Tod and Peter Weiss's Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu ... -
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 ...