Browsing W & L Historic Theses by Title
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Narrative Challenges to the Hero in Welsh Myth and Modern Fantasy
Given that these vast differences exist between the challenges the heroes face in the Welsh tales and the challenges the heroes face in the modern tales, it would almost seem impossible to find basis for a comparison of ... -
Natural Imagery Within Kate Chopin's Fiction
Throughout all of Kate Chopin's narratives, sketches, and novels, natural imagery serves as an expression of unconscious, emotional, and unadulterated feeling. Chopin utilizes the environment to illustrate her characters' ... -
Negative Discount Rates for Health Insurance
This paper measures the discount rate of health insurance by surveying. a sample of nearly 1,000 Washington and Lee alumni. We calculated the discount rate from a series of open-ended survey questions, eliminating some of ... -
Negotiating with the Enemy: Kennedy and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Many scholars have examined the test ban. Several books were written shortly after its adoption, but they lack much of the documentary evidence that is now available. In 1981 Glenn Seaborg published one of the best accounts. ... -
Negro Disfranchisement in Georgia, 1898-1908
Any scholarly analysis of race relations inevitably becomes intertwined with subjective evaluations. Personal experience and considerable reading have taught me that the Negro, given equal opportunities, is fully the equal ... -
"The New Poetic Power": The Imaginative Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Traditional interpretors of literature might perceive little justification for discussing the poetry of the English Romanticist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who lived from 1772-1834, in conjunction with that of the German ... -
Nicola Pisano's Pisa Baptistery Pulpit: Baptism, Papal Orthodoxy, and Joachite Heresy
Nicola Pisano's Pisa Baptistery Pulpit has garnered a vast amount of art historical attention. The artist's use of a classical style provides a starting point for any discussion of the Renaissance. However, the identification ... -
Nietzsche's Overman, the Will to Power, and the Absolute Telos
Nietzsche focuses on the idea of the ideal individual as an underlying and vital theme in all of his writing. He examines the question of how man should live his life in this world. His answer encompasses his critique of ... -
Nietzsche, Personal Honor, and the Concept of Honor at Washington and Lee University
Having spent four years at Washington and Lee University, I have been and continue to be impacted by our Honor System daily in both subtle and explicit ways. As a freshman, I heard the "Leave Now" speech in Lee Chapel and ... -
Nietzsche: Genealogy and the Spirit of Moral Revaluation
Nietzsche is concerned with the lack of value that threatens the moral structure upon which man has relied for generations. He challenges us, therefore, to reflect upon our moral history in a new way. His use of a genealogy ... -
The Nine Friends of Suzhou: A Study of Traditional Chinese Fan Painting from the Qing Dynasty in the Groke Mickey Collection at Washington and Lee University
The Groke Mickey Fan Collection at the Reeves Center of Washington and Lee University represents a variety of styles and trends during the closing years of the Qing Dynasty in China. By choosing to look at this selection ... -
Norms of Composition Operators on the Hardy Space
This thesis covers Hilbert spaces, Hardy spaces, their properties, and composition operators. -
The Odyssey of Leopold Bloom: An Attempt to Find What Will Suffice
Standards of morality have changed to the extent that James Joyce's Ulysses is no longer condemned for being exceptionaIly obscene. Almost fifty years after its publication, however, Joyce's novel remains notorious for ... -
Of Human Identity: Deconstruction and its Discontents
Why would Jacques Derrida and deconstruction so often evoke baseless and sweeping objections like those in the epigraph? Many students and academics find Derrida's works incomprehensible and even contradictory at times. ... -
On Showing and Saying: An Analysis of Go?del 1931
In 1931 Kurt Go?del published a theorem demonstrating that many systems of formal logic capable of developing arithmetic possess major deficiencies. He shovs that such systems, if they are consistent, are powerless to ... -
On the Electrolytic Reduction of Tribromoresorcinol
In the studies of halogen substituted resorcinols conducted by the Chemistry Department at Washinton and Lee University, considerable work was done by Lewis Daniel Williams on the preparation of 2-substituted resorcinols ... -
On the Theory of Action
This paper concerns several points of action theory. I begin with a discussion of Arthur Dante's thesis on basic and nonbasic action, clarifying and differentiating between, the two. While Danto advances the notion of ... -
Ordinary Sins
I chose to write Ordinary Sins as short stories rather than a novel, but also made the decision to deny the reader any central narration. The opening story introduces readers to the four central characters: Andy, Linda, ... -
Original Compositions
I am a music and mathematics major from Ann Arbor, Michigan. I have studied piano since age six under Mrs. Donna Borgert, Dr. Shuko Watanabe and Dr. Timothy Gaylard. In my junior year of college, I began studying composition ...