W & L Historic Theses: Recent submissions
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Factors Influencing a Battered Woman's Decision to Return to the Abusive Situation: An Empirical Investigation Considering Learned Helplessness and Survivor Theory
This thesis will focus on presenting information to support different models that attempt to explain the behavior of abused women. The thesis wilJ describe the steps a woman takes throughout her relationship to protect ... -
Unspeakable Visions: The Innovative Poetry and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Jack Kerouac
Throughout the experiences and poetry and prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Jack Kerouac, the careful reader will see that both of the writers strove to extend the limits of their chosen art form. They worked carefully ... -
Gadolinium-Based Macrocyclic MRI Contrast Agents
The early detection of diseased and cancerous cells leads to a dramatic increase in the survival rate of the patients. The limitations of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to differentiate many types of cancerous tissues ... -
The United States Foreign Relations with Vichy Government, 1940-1942
To attempt to find clear cut distinctions within the Vichy policy of the United States is almost impossible. There are contradictions and "double-edged swords" lurking behind almost every development. The policy was not ... -
Il Miglior Fabbro, The Achievement of Ezra Pound
In assimilating briefly a body of literature as large as that of Ezra Pound, the urgent thing is to omit and the feasible thing to work in patterns that suggest more than they encompass. This thesis is planned to operate ... -
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 ... -
"I ain't no stranger, I been here before": Malcolm's Bullets and Ellison's Confetti
Contemporary cultural debates demand a close reading of Ellison's essays and Malcolm's oratory. For both within and without the academy issues of nationalism, identity, and "multiculturalism" are at the fore of discussion. ... -
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 ... -
An Examination of the Kinetics of the Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP) of a 7-oxanorbornene Derivative with Grubbs' Catalyst
The study of ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) has become increasingly important over the past two decades. ROMP is unusual in that it provides a route to polymers with a high degree of unsaturation in the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Matter of Choice: Reform of the National Nominating Convention
"Within the limits of American institutions," Gerald Pomper writes, "the parties have evolved a functional nominating system." [1] In the course of this paper, there has been an analysis of the evolution of this system, ... -
Political Liberalism in Crisis: The Deep Conflict Between Sex Equality and Religious Freedom in Rawls's Political Liberalism
In "Political Liberalism, Justice, and Gender," Susan Moller Okin criticizes the account of the family presented in John Rawls's Political Liberalism. As I see it, Okin levels two distinct charges against Rawls. [1] First, ... -
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 ... -
A Thesis on the Potash Contained in Leaves
We see then that in 100 pounds of leaves there is .16 pounds of potash. Further, 100 pounds of leaves, thoroughly dry, will constitute a volume of about 21 bushels. Hence in the large volume of 21 bushels of leaves there ... -
A. Willis Robertson: Pioneer Conservationist
During his lifetime, Robertson was accused of being overly zealous in his defense of wildlife and natural resources. Many people could not understand his deep love for nature and his willingness to risk his political career ... -
Variation of Coal in the Seam
My problem was to find the variation of composition of the coal throughout the seam. To do this I got samples at certain intervals from top to bottom of the seam and analyzed them. The analyses included moisture, volatile ... -
The Search for Meaning in Contemporary Life: A Study of a Central Theme in the Works of James Joyce and T. S. Eliot
In this paper I shall discuss the search for meaning in contemporary life, a central theme that appears in the works of both T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. I shall begin my discussion by suggesting how the just-born individual's ... -
An Abnormal Psychology Syllabus
Psychology is a new science, and the trend of abnormal psychology is one of change with each scientifici finding. There have been many books published on the subject, some adequate and some inadequate, and there seems to ...