W & L Historic Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
South Carolina Politics: A Re-Evaluation of Key
Obviously, many of,the statements which Key made about South Carolina are now obsolete. The politics of color has disappeared and blacks are today an important and influential part of the South Carolina political scene. ... -
Beyond Just the Words
Human communication is embodied -- facial expressions, gestures, and prosody (tone of voice and rhythm) add layers of important information to just the words used by a cognitive agent. In fact,just the use of words often ... -
"Look what I can do!" : Ameliorating the Effects of Poverty with Preschool Education
Previous studies have documented the positive effects of early education in highrisk children. A screening measure was created to determine if there were any significant differences between the performance of scholarship ... -
In Search of a Good Job: Mobility in a Dual Labor Market
Dual labor market theory developed in the late 1960 's as economists tried to explain how and why labor market outcomes deviated from neoclassical expectations. The theory held that the labor market was divided into a ... -
A Method of Estimating by Infrared Spectroscopy the Relative Abundance of Polymeric Components in Complex Polymer Blends
In this Honors Thesis, I describe a method created by Profesor Van Ness and myself which effectively differentiates regions of unique polymer composition within comingled products. My goals are two fold. First, in order ... -
Roosevelt and Yalta: The Myth and the Reality (A President Gambles for Peace)
Because the Crimean happenings have had far-reaching consequences, it is my purpose to place Yalta in a more accurate and meaningful perspective. Because the United States seems to be moving toward a new rapprochement with ... -
Design of Bridge over North River as an Entrance to Lexington, Virginia
The problem of this thesis is to provide some kind of a suitable approach across North River from the Lee Highway, as an entrance to Lexington, Virginia. . . . The solution of this problem as presented in this thesis, ... -
Lexical Disambiguation in Machine Translation with Latent Semantic Analysis
This paper examines a possible solution to the problem of disambiguating polysemous nouns in machine translation. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) , a statistical method of finding and representing word sense, is used to ... -
Beyond Stereotype: Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt had a distinctive relationship with her Presidential husband. They often related through memos, meetings, and go-betweens rather than through face-to-face contact. As strange as this was for a married ... -
Public Roads: Their Construction and Maintenance, Also, the Effect of Automobile Traffic on Them
Perhaps never before has there been such concerted and well directed action by the people of our country in the interests od better roads than there has been within the past year or two . The advent of tlie motor car may ... -
Eugene O'Neill: A Long Day's Journey Into Death
It is hard to pin-point what O'Neill's exact hope in life was. We get the feeling in studying his life that he could never be satisfied with anything. But O'Neill's one hope and wish in life was to "belong" to something ... -
Plagiarism and the News Media
Practically, we, as journalists, are bound to tell the truth. We are in the business of making the truth known to the public. If we lie, not only are we breaking our moral obligation as civilized human beings, as characterized ... -
An Investigation of Relationships Between Standard Physical Texts for a Series of Trinidad and Bermudez Lake Asphaltic Materials
This investigation was made in an attempt to determine the existance of possible relations between the results of the standard tests of a physical nature proformed upon native asphaltic materials used in highway construction. ... -
Sedimentology and Depositional Setting of the Miocene Marnoso-Arenacea Flysch, Marche region, Italy
The Coldigioco-Castellaro basin is the Easternmost basin in a series of basins and adjacent topographic highs formed during the Early Miocene epoch by compression that produced the Italian Northern Apennines. Part of the ...