W & L Historic Theses: Recent submissions
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"Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris...": Sacred and Profane Violence in Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick presents intriguing patterns of violence that I believe to be in need of further exploration. . . . The publication of Sir James Frazer's The Colden Bough in 1890 produced a new form of cultural anthropology ... -
It's Only Natural: Challenges and Strategies for Selling the USDA Organic Seal
In October, 2002, the USDA established national criteria to define organic food certification standards. This national certification program was implemented in an effort to provide consumers with a coherent set of guidelines ... -
An Investigation of the Synthesis for Tricyclo [4.4.4] Tetradecane
The principle object of this work was an extensive search of the literature for possible synthetic routes to the compound tricyclo [4.4.4] tetradecane (C14H24). The synthesis of the compound was first suggested by O. B. ... -
"More lively perceptions": Irony and Its Sources in Jane Austen's Novels of Impression and Persuasion
Irony comes from mainly from two sources in Jane Austen's writings: the juxtaposition of an impression or a persuasion with the truth of a situation. This can be seen most clearly in three novels: Lady Susan, which shows ... -
Is the Honor System the Best System?: A Philosophical Inquiry Into and Defense of the Honor System at Washington and Lee University
While the Honor System at Washington and Lee (W&L) is widely regarded as one of the most important and consequential aspects of the school by both alumni and current students, and while it is regarded as one of the most ... -
On Showing and Saying: An Analysis of Go?del 1931
In 1931 Kurt Go?del published a theorem demonstrating that many systems of formal logic capable of developing arithmetic possess major deficiencies. He shovs that such systems, if they are consistent, are powerless to ... -
Barbie as a Model of Gender Nontraditional Career Possible Self Content for Preschool and Kindergarten Girls
Girls (N = 26, mean age= 4.38 years) were interviewed using Barbies dressed in gender traditional and nontraditional career outfits about their identification with the dolls and girls' own aspirations and self-efficacy to ... -
Geochemistry and Petrography of Amphibolites from the Spuhler Peak Metamorphic Suite: Near the Branham Lakes Area, Tobacco Root Mountains, Southwestern Montana
Located in the west-central Tobacco Root Mountains in southwestern Montana, the Archean-aged Spuhler Peak Metamorphic Suite (SPMS) of Gillmeister (1972) consists of lensoid amphibolite beds, more equant bodies of "wispy" ... -
Automobile Hazard in City Streets: The Basic Cause of its Variation, and Indicated Measures for its Reduction
From the date when the automobile first made its appearance on the streets of this country, it has been subjected to legal restriction, in the interest of the safety of the public. . . . For with the rapid increase in ... -
Design of a Single Track, Through, Pin-connected Pratt Truss: Length 160 feet, 8 panels
I have taken the design of a single track through railway bridge, having pin connected trusses of the Pratt type with straight upper chord. The span is 160 feet, divided into 8 panels each 20 feet long. The depth is 30 ... -
Design of a Water Pipe System to Create Improved Pressures in Lexington, Va.
The need for a new design for the water pipes and mains in the town of Lexington is evident. There are no existing maps showing the plan of the system, nor is there any knowledge of the location of mains, hydrants, gate, ... -
Detection and Characterization of Potential Carcinogens in Eucalyptus and Chaparral Herbal Teas
Four different mutant strains of Salmonella typhimurium were used in accordance with the Ames mutagenicity assay to detect and characterize any mutagenic properties in two common herbal teas: chaparral and eucalyptus. ... -
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 ... -
Leonard Bernstein: The Unanswered Question
Few composers in our modern era bave striven to reach as high, to partake as much of the divine, as Leoard Bernstein. He was a talented performer, a driven educator, an unconventional conductor, and a critically controversial ... -
Narrative Challenges to the Hero in Welsh Myth and Modern Fantasy
Given that these vast differences exist between the challenges the heroes face in the Welsh tales and the challenges the heroes face in the modern tales, it would almost seem impossible to find basis for a comparison of ... -
Filtering Software: Can Technology Provide a Viable Alternative to Internet Regulation?
Existing research demonstrates that filters are not the cure-all for child online protection that software companies and even the Supreme Court suggest. Filtering packages have several noteworthy pitfalls, as noted in ... -
3D Structural Modeling Using Remote Sensing and Ground-Based LIDAR
High-resolution remote sensing data and 3D modeling techniques offer new tools for structural analysis that improve on the efficiency, accuracy and precision of geologic mapping, and provide insight into the structure of ... -
"Tell us a story": Ancient Rhetoric and the Power of Story-Telling in Legal Fiction
The power of storytelling in the practice of law is a theme which resonates throughout Twentieth Century American legal fiction. Put simply, it's the idea that "whoever tells the best story wins the case." Storytelling can ... -
A Project for the Development of the Woods Creek Ravine, Washington and Lee University Campus, Lexington, Virginia
The plan under consideration of the authors is one to investigate and show the feasibility of developing a natural resource, of the oampus. Advantages presented by such a development are distinctly three-fold in nature: ...