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Cadmium Cobaltinitrite: Its Preparation and Properties
Cadmium Cobaltini trita is a heretofore practicaJly unknown compound. It was partially isolated in 1920 by S. C. Ogburn and J. T. Dobbins in the course of some original investigation of inorganic cobal tinitrites. Little ... -
Mondrian's Boogie Woogie Beat
Most art historians attribute Mondrian's stylistic changes in New York to New York: skyscrapers, people, lights, advertisements, and jazz. They also compartmentalize Mondrian's New York work from the rest of his career, ... -
The Anxiety of Obsolescence: Pessimistic Depictions of the Artist in the Modern American Novels of Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, and Nathanael West
This study will present the existence of a strand of artistic despair running through modernist American fiction. The consistent failure to positively present the high modem ideal comes about as a result of what I call ... -
"...but what to do with the guilt?" Kantian Autonomy, Heideggerian Authenticity, and Human Lacking
Kantian autonomy and Heideggerian authenticity each have a place in a human life. To show this I must show how the two complement each other and how they differ. To show that authenticity does not conflict with autonomy, ... -
Seven Novels of Angel Maria de Lera: Their Technique and Style, Their Characters, Their Meaning
The following paper is an analysis of seven novels of the contemporary Spanish writer Angel Maria de Lera. The intention is to evidence the maturation of Lera as a writer during the ten years that the seven novels cover ... -
Design of a Viaduct from Doremus Memorial Gymnasium to Wilson Athletic Field
The problem in this thesis is to provide some kind of suitable approach to the stadium on Wilson Athletic Field from the front of Doremus Memorial Gymnasium, for pedestrians. . . . The solution of this problem, as presented ... -
A Study of Reactions Directed Toward the Preparation of Some Alkoxybiphenyls by the Williamson Synthesis
There is a large group of substituted ethers among the biphenyls which needs to be synthesized, particularly with a view toward obtaining asymmetric carbons in alkyl groups attached to the biphenyl nucleus. This necessitates ... -
Confrontation in Korea: The Role of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur
It is my contention that the MacArthur controversy was an important watershed in both inter-factional struggle in the military and in the adjustment of the American military to the changing environment in which they operated. ... -
Highway Construction
Up until a few years ago roads were built solely to stand the wear and tear of carriages, wagons and heavily loaded drays but now a new question has arisen. Which road will best stand the automobile, running at a high speed ... -
Serpulids as Indicators of Mid-late Holocene Climate: Timing and Paleoclimate Significance of Large Worm Tube Aggregates, Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic
Large aggregates of calcareous serpulid worm tubes recorded paleoclimate conditions as they colonized the mid to late Holocene Enriquillo embayment, Dominican Republic. Serpulid worms flourished in the embayment following ... -
Music in the Chaos: A Theoretical Analysis of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
My goal in undertaking this analytical thesis is to isolate the symphony and analyze it entirely self-referentially -- with no outside influences or specific vantage points from which to decode the work. This does not mean ... -
Effects of High and Low Drive on Negative Transfer in a Maze-Learning Situation
The question of the role of motivation in learning is of paramount importance in contemporary learning theories. Motivational behaviorists feel that there is at least one set of emprical relationships in addition to those ... -
Schleiermacher and Barth: The Knowledge of God
I will examine the theological work of two writers, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Karl Barth. Friedrich Schleiermacher has been called the "father of liberal Protestant theology" because his thought started theology on a ... -
Chinese Women Under Communism 1921-1976
Since the Communists came to power in 1949, Chinese women have indeed experienced a great change in their roles in society, as well as their legal rights. Women in China today contribute significantly to the labor force ... -
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 ... -
Evaluating Host-Based Methods for Detecting Spoofed IP Packets
Billions of messages are transmitted across the Internet each day and most of these use the Internet Protocol (IP) to route packets to specific destinations based upon an IP address. While these packets contain both source ... -
The Impact of Monetary Volatility on Investment in Classical and Keynesian Models: Theory and Evidence
In the past several decades, monetary policy has gained increased popularity as a means for affecting the direction of the economy. For example, in the early 1980's the Federal Reserve's active intervention in the economy ... -
Some Comparative Experiments on the Fireproofing of Wood Pulp
The purpose of these experiments was not to produce a pulp that was absolutely unaffected by fire. Nor was it the aim of the writer to develope any one pulp to its maximum efficiency, but solely to place upon a comparative ... -
Inversion and the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
Whatever the reason, lesbianism was often seen as vampiric, monstrous, and even predatory. Bishop alludes to some of these socially deviant qualities in her work, creating characters that often possess traces of such ...