W & L Historic Theses: Recent submissions
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The Synthesis of Diisobutylethylcarbinol
Interest in the general problem of the synthesis of tie higher molecular weight, (C10 and higher ), tertiary alcohols was s timulated by the discovery that in a routine laboratory preparation involving the condensation of ... -
A Description of the Field Location and Erection of a Wooden Trestle and Steel Viaduct Situated near Oak Vale, W. Va. on the Virginian Railway
Five Mile Creek Viaduct is situated at mile post 338.7 on the Virginian Railway, about one half a mile below the town of Oak Vale, West Virginia, and spans a stream known as Five Mile Creek. The bridge is composed of ... -
Extension and Improvements of Washington and Lee University Campus, Lexington, Virginia
The extensions and developnents of Washington and Lee Campus discussed in this thesis are considered by the authors as necessary and important to properly open and prepare the way for the future University. The University ... -
Roads to a Market System: A Study of Economic Transition Policies in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic
After summarizing the economic progress in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic between 1989 and 1994, I will conclude the thesis by returning to the two points emphasized in the introduction: First, in several instances ... -
Justice Stanley F. Reed and the American Constitution
This paper is not a eulogy nor a polemic. Its purpose is neither to praise nor condemn the life and work of Justice Stanley Reed. Its aspiration is rather that of a portrait "warts and all" of a man who occupied for nineteen ... -
Volumetric Characterization of Hamster Greater Superficial Petrosal and Glossopharyngeal Taste Afferent Terminal Fields
In developing sensory systems, perinatal changes in afferent activity can influence central organization. The continual turnover of receptor and the corresponding maintenance of appropriate afferent innervation of newly ... -
Authenticity, Faith and Love
"The term 'religion' I am using in its broadest sense, meaning thereby self-realization or knowledge of self." Gandhi's simple view of the word 'religion' reveals an important insight about its meaning: religion in its ... -
Effectiveness of Genetic Algorithms in Finding Steinhaus Graphs with Maximal Clique Size
The goal of this research was to study the effectiveness of genetic algorithms (GA) in finding Steinhaus graphs of a given size whose maximal cliques were as large as possible. This investigation was based on the results ... -
Folk Psychology, Parallel Processing, the Intentional Stance, Supervenience, Multiple Realizability, and Some Hard Problems: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Brain
The objective of this paper is to suggest that folk psychology is the most deeply entrenched myth in the history of the human race. Yet, it appears that -- considered as a theory of how the mind works -- we have ample ... -
Confucius and Fanaticism
Many philosophers have offered their descriptions and understanding of the moral fanatic through the ages, and these examinations have yielded many profound insights. The task of this work is to build upon existing moral ... -
Some Aspects of Slavery in Rockbridge County, Virginia
Rockbridge County, like most of the South, employed its slaves to help grow its crops, to perform the hard labor necessary for its industrial production, and to act as its domestic servants. Rockbridge County's planters ... -
Efforts Toward an African Dignity: A Study of Negritude, African Personality, and African Socialism
It is with mixed emotions of indignation and anger that thoughtful, knowledgeable Africans have witnessed and experienced the injustices , frustrations , and degradation heaped upon the African masses and traditional ... -
The Effects of Ethanol on Embryonic Chick Brain Mitotic Activity: A Model for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) results from infrequent, high levels of ethanol consumption by the pregnant mother, and leads to microcephaly, growth and mental retardation, and facial disfiguration in offspring. The chick ... -
She Closes Her Eyes to Herself: Nietzsche, Feminism, and Christianity
This paper works to examine the lives and arguments of early Christian female ascetics and modern feminist Christians through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche. The arguments against orthodox Christianity presented in Nietzsche ... -
Are Tourists Willing to Pay Additional Fees to Protect Corals in Mexico?
Coral reefs have been referred to as the rainforests of the sea, maintaining the most diverse forms of life on earth. The framework built by corals and algae provides the foundation for ecosystems that support an unsurpassed ... -
History, Fiction, and Meaning: A Study of Graham Swift's Waterland
As he continues to write and develop as a novelist, the now-empty niche of Swiftian criticism will undoubtedly fill up quite quickly. In determining to write this thesis on an author so recent and therefore so little ... -
Natural Imagery Within Kate Chopin's Fiction
Throughout all of Kate Chopin's narratives, sketches, and novels, natural imagery serves as an expression of unconscious, emotional, and unadulterated feeling. Chopin utilizes the environment to illustrate her characters' ... -
A Study of Selected Nitronium Complexes of Nitryl Chloride
It appeared rather logical that by combining certain anhydrides with nitryl chloride in bromine trifluoride solution, the respective nitronium complexes could be directly produced, avoiding the difficult conditions encountered ... -
The Painted Image as Paper Propaganda in Pope Boniface VIII's Struggle Against Philip the Fair and the Colonna
Thus, it seems possible that the Lateran frescoes and the Stefaneschi Altarpiece functioned together as part of a single propagandistic campaign. Their iconographic programs certainly seem complementary. In commissioning ... -
Rado's Selection Principle: Equivalences and Applications
Rado's Selection Principle is a combinatorial theorem which allows the characterization of infinite objects (e.g. graphs, groups, partially-ordered sets) based on the characterization of their finite subparts. That is, a ...