Browsing W & L Historic Theses by Title
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Key Expansionist Journey
The purchase by the United States Government from the Republic of Mexico of territory south of Arizona's Gila River, and a narrow strip along the southern most part of present day New Mexico, cannot be viewed as merely an ... -
Knowledge Through Participation: The Epistemic Status of Religious Belief
Critical philosophy has severely restricted the role of philosophy of religion. A hallmark of the critical approach is an acceptance of Locke's epistemological ethics: belief ought not to go beyond what explicit data or ... -
Land, Women, and Power: The Bayeux Tapestry and the Secular Epic Tradition
As an artifact and representation of the Anglo-Norman period of English history, the Bayeux Tapestry stands unparalleled. The only surviving work of its kind, the Bayeux Tapestry provides information for scholars with ... -
Language and Representation in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
The self-aware form of Tristram Shandy thus separates it from novels of its own century and from those of the century that followed it. It is less evident how the novel significantly differs from more recent texts, which ... -
The Last Romantics: Lady Gregory and the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
Beginning in 1896, W. B. Yeats spent more than twenty summers at Coole Park with Lady Gregory. There they collaborated on plays, gathered folklore, and he wrote poetry. She was an invaluable aid to him in recovering from ... -
Late Wisconsin Glacier Surface Elevations and Flow Directions from the Beartooth Plateau to the Clarks Fork Valley, Wyoming
During the Pinedale glaciation of the Late Wisconsin, an ice cap covered most of the land comprising the Beartooth Plateau and the highlands to the south, stretching to the Clarks Fork Valley in northwestern Wyoming. The ... -
Leadership Behavior Appraisal: A New, Broader Model of Understanding Leadership
Many current models of leadership appraisal assume that causation for all events within the group interaction emerges from the leader, and represents a permanent feature of the leader-group interface. Trait theories, ... -
The Lee Memorial Journalism Foundation: Its History
Following the War Between the States and as the South began to rebuild there came to Lexington, Virginia, the leader of the Confederate cause, General Robert E. Lee. He came to assume the presidency of a little college ... -
Leonard Bernstein: The Unanswered Question
Few composers in our modern era bave striven to reach as high, to partake as much of the divine, as Leoard Bernstein. He was a talented performer, a driven educator, an unconventional conductor, and a critically controversial ... -
Les liaisons dangereuses : deux conceptions diffe?rentes du libertinage
Dans son Essai sur l'Education des Femmes, Laclos decrit la femme naturelle et les effets de la societe sur elle. Dans la nature, la femme peut connaitre la liberte, alors que l'inegalite sociale entre la femme et l'homme ... -
Lexical Disambiguation in Machine Translation with Latent Semantic Analysis
This paper examines a possible solution to the problem of disambiguating polysemous nouns in machine translation. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) , a statistical method of finding and representing word sense, is used to ... -
A Local Habitation and a Name: C. S. Lewis and the Language of Christian Apologetics
C.S. Lewis is a source of intrigue for many twentieth century readers. His audience consists of Christian lay-persons, students of English literature, scholars, clergy, and others. For many of us, C.S. Lewis' popularity ... -
"Look what I can do!" : Ameliorating the Effects of Poverty with Preschool Education
Previous studies have documented the positive effects of early education in highrisk children. A screening measure was created to determine if there were any significant differences between the performance of scholarship ... -
Louis Comfort Tiffany and His Art Nouveau Lamps
This paper will address the life of Louis Comfort Tiffany in the context of two products made at his glass studio on Corona Island, New York, around 1900: the Hanging-head Dragonfly lamp, and the Spider-web lamp. First, a ... -
Louis Marshall, M. D.: His Administration as President of Washington College
Louis Marshall was not a great educator, and probably deserved his obscurity. As an unrepentant individualist he is an interesting study. As a representative of personalized education, which was becoming unfashionable in ... -
A Madwoman for Every Room in the House: Eating Disorders, Schizophrenia and Other Forms of Insanity in Seven Victorian Novels
The subject of insanity, particularly in female characters, in British novels first attracted my attention while studying nineteenth century Gothic novels with my tutor in Oxford last year. I began looking at "sensation" ... -
Many Shades of One Man: Heroic Personalities in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien's heroes appeal to the reader because the heroic development of the individual is so apparent; heroes progress in noticeable ways which are easy for the reader to follow and understand. Plus, no heroic figure goes ...