W & L Historic Theses: Recent submissions
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Abuse, Suffering, and Resistance in A Private Family Matter: Rethinking Gendered Approaches to Domestic Violence
Anthropologists writing on domestic violence often focus on the abusive agency of male perpetrators or the suffering and resistive agency of women victims who, determined to find themselves again, become survivors. In a ... -
Economic and Equity Issues in a Comparison of the Personal Income Tax and the Value-Added Tax
The four previous chapters have tried to systematically compare the United States' personal income tax and a European-style consumption value-added tax. The superiority of one tax over the other, in some cases is clear-cut, ... -
The Proletarian Novel in America, 1900-1940
In this thesis I have tried to give what I think is an accurate picture of the proletarian novel. I have tried to trace the origins, motives and developments of this form in the years from 1900 to 1940. It has been necessary ... -
The Resolution of Racemic Mixtures
In nature, due to selective synthesis or destruction by living organisms, optically active compounds are fairly numerous. However, there also exists a large number of racemic mixtures or optically active compounds. The ... -
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, ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
A Break From Reality: Disturbing Dysfunctions & Making Sense of the Senseless Through the Character of Clelia Walgrave in Larry Shue's The Nerd
The Nerd, by Larry Shue, is a nonsensical take on conventions of domestic comedy in theater. This work examines the precursors and the frequently unfortunate aftermath of living life out of balance. Shue's textured precepts ... -
Dreams and Dreaming in Fred Chappell's Midquest
Dreams emerge as prominent motifs throughout Fred Chappell' s many poems, novels, short stories, and essays. . . . These statements hold equally true for Chappell's Midquest. A "verse novel," as the poet calls his carefully ... -
Alloys of Aluminum
The equipment used in this work has been very crude and that to a very great extent limited. Then, too this branch of metallurgy is very wide and an exhausting research terein might require a lifetime and more, and that ... -
Reporting Live from Base Camp: An Analysis of Expedition Journalism
Little scholarship exists about the adventure/expedition subcategory of participatory journalism. There is an extensive amount, however, concerning embedded and war journalism and a minimal amount concerning travel writing. ... -
Unity Through Resonance: A Study of the Function of Imagery in Browning's The Ring and the Book
This paper will direct itself to answering the question, How does imagery unify The Ring and the Book? The answer lies in the repeated use of images having the same subject. . . . Anne Stevenson, in another context, ... -
Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and the Third Reich, 1933-1939
There have been many who have claimed that the paganism of the Third Reich was the final blow at the ineffeotive Protestant Church in Germany, but such a view is narrow and negleots one very important aspect of the problem ... -
A Study of the Absolute Entropy of the Chloride Ion in Concentrated Solutions as Determined by Thermocell Measurements
This research was undertaken as a corollary to the work done by E . S. McKee (1) at Johns Hopkins University in 1950 with the purpose of "determining the entropy of a single aqueous ion. In doing so, we wished to elucidate ... -
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Connecticut's Kingmaker: Enlightened Machine Politics in the Era of John Bailey, Democratic Boss
Demonstrating that modem political machines could function effectively and efficiently without harming America's constitutional system, Boss John Bailey returned Madison's trust by creating a responsible, republican, and ... -
An Examination of the Concept of Faith as Contained in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
The problem that interests me and that will be the subject of this paper can be stated briefly as the relationship between 'faith' and 'reason'. I will not offer a precise definition or way of characterizing faith at first, ... -
Development of the Nomenclature of Ordovician Stratigraphy in Virginia
This paper is a bare outline of the development of the Ordovician nomenclature in Virginia. The emphasis has been on the nomenclature as such and paleontologic relations which are so important to the stratigrapher have ... -
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 ...