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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 ... -
Origins and Mechanisms of Semantic Memory Retrieval Inhibition
Retrieval blocks can be induced in semantic memory by a variety of methods, including part-list cuing or priming with information semantically related to a target. Mechanisms underlying retrieval blocks may involve automatic ... -
The Painted Image as Paper Propaganda in Pope Boniface VIII's Struggle Against Philip the Fair and the Colonna
Thus, it seems possible that the Lateran frescoes and the Stefaneschi Altarpiece functioned together as part of a single propagandistic campaign. Their iconographic programs certainly seem complementary. In commissioning ... -
The Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon: A Quest for Dignity
The purpose of this paper is the examination of the various factors that contributed to the Palestine Liberation Organization's presence in Lebanon, and its role throughout the recent civil war. In order to do this, I have ... -
Parallel Lives: Adams and Cicero, Hamilton and Caesar, and the Quasi-War with France, 1797-1800
The framers of the Constitution looked to the Roman and Greek states for guidance. To be educated was to know Latin and Greek, and to have read the ancient historians and philosophers. But among the many talented men who ... -
A Partially Changing God: In Defense of Free Will and Foreknowledge
In this thesis I will begin with a libertarian view of human free will, one in which we are able to be active agents in freely choosing our own actions. At the same time, I will assume that there is a God, and that He is ... -
Paterson via the Passaic
Paterson does and says many different things but its most central concern is man and his relationship to the world. Williams adamantly believes that a sustained, immediate interpenetration between the individual and his ... -
Patterns of Ritual in the Works of James Joyce
Any critical study of the works of James Joyce is from the outset impiously reductive. Two alternatives immediately confront the Joycean who embarks on such a study. He can follow the narrative structures of the individual ... -
Pendleton Scott Clark: Life and Works
Pendleton Scott Clark was an active architect in Lynchburg, Virginia and surrounding areas from 1920 until his death in 1975. The firm Clark started in the 1950's; Clark, Nexen, and Owen; is still practicing in Lynchburg ... -
Person' as a Family Resemblance Concept
For the purposes of this paper, the question of the concept 'person' is directed toward the use of 'person' that concerns "having or not having rights." I do not intend to pursue personality, identity, or any of the many ... -
Personal Honor and the Possibility for Redemption
What exactly is redemption? Webster's defines it as "an act or instance of repairing or restoring," and "expiation of guilt or wrong." More to the heart of the matter, is it possible to redeem oneself in an honor society ... -
The Philosopher of Pluralism: An Examination of John Hick's Pluralist Hypothesis
An innovative philosopher of religion and renowned theologian, John Hick is deeply concerned with the manifold issues surrounding the modern inter-religious dialogue. Recognizing both the validity of human thought and ... -
A Philosophical Analysis of the Traditional Christian Orthodox Concept of Hell
This thesis opens with the distinction between two models of hell -- the so-called static and dynamic. The static model asserts that damned individuals are punished only tor their sins accumulated during their temporal ...