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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 ... -
Rado's Selection Principle: Equivalences and Applications
Rado's Selection Principle is a combinatorial theorem which allows the characterization of infinite objects (e.g. graphs, groups, partially-ordered sets) based on the characterization of their finite subparts. That is, a ... -
Rawls Under the Scrutiny of Nozick
In 1971 John Rawls published A Theory of Justice (TJ) in which he expounds what is today one of the most debated theories of social justice. Just three years later, partially in response to Rawls' work, Robert Nozick ... -
Rawlsian Liberalism and Its Moral Support for Gay Rights
In this paper, I will examine the various objections to same-sex marriage and homosexuality. I will include traditional moral arguments against rights to homosexual marriage and other family rights denied to homosexuals. ... -
The Reality of Fiction: An Inquiry Into the Ontology and Logic of Fiction
This paper will begin by outlining and explaining David Lewis's argument for the existence of possible worlds. In Lewis's extreme form of modal realism, all worlds are equally as real as the actual world. I will then address ... -
Reclaiming Myths of Femininity: Molly Bloom's Response to Modernity
Joyce's depiction of the voices of Molly and Gerty allow him to push the cultural boundaries of femininity, ultimately creating an avenue for expression that is unbound by cultural myth. Joyce characterizes Gerty to expose ... -
Red Sky Take Warning: The 1954 CIA Intervention in Guatemala
In the preceding chapters, I have outlined the causes and conduct of the 1954 CIA intervention into Guatemala and assessed it in terms of its justification. I have come to the conclusion, which has incidentally been widely ... -
A Reflection of the Scientific Attitude in English Literature of the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
It is of tremendous and outstanding importance, then, vhen any age finds itself slowly but definitely changing not only its thoughts but its manner of thinking from the preceding ages. Such is the case of the seventeenth ... -
Reform, Corruption and the Tormented Soul: Chaucer's Vision of the Medieval Church in The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales can be interpreted in many contexts, but when we reach the unusual end of the collection, the extensive discourse of the Parson and its sharp departure from the entertaining "Tales" before it invite ... -
Reinforced Concrete Arch
Reinforced concrete has been used for only a fev years, but the law governing the combination of concrete and steel, although not absolutely fixed, is known with sufficient exactness to permit the design of nearly all ... -
The Relationship Between Morphology and Mechanical Properties for Viscoelastic Polymer Composites
Advancement in the extrusion and molding techniques of polymers has spawned an increase in applications of polymeric materials. While previously polymers have been confined to nonstructural applications, development of new ... -
The Relationship Between Psychological Androgyny and Performance on Piagetian Spatial Tasks in College Women
Past research has shown that males typically perform better than females on Piagetian spatial tasks. Other studies indicate that when a task is labelled "masculine" or "feminine", subjects tend to perform better in the ...