W & L Historic Theses: Recent submissions
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Prussian Liberalism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Conservatism in Prussia was r etained and liberalism defeated. What caused this defeat? What were the weaknesses of liberalism which doomed it in Bismarck's empire? To me the most important factor was that the dichotomy ... -
The Photographic Image: New High Art of the Twentieth Century
The production of the photograph, by exposing the negative film to light through the aperture of the camera can be qualified as the "art" of photography; mastering the "art" has everything to do with the process of creation. ... -
Martian North Polar Crater Morphology: Implications for an Aquifer
Recent studies of martian north polar craters have suggested that they have more cavity fill than the global crater population, and that the morphology of the crater fill is in some cases-similar to pingo structures on ... -
The Felt World: Musical Experience, Emotion, and Meaning
. . . Is music known through the intellect, or felt through the senses, even the soul? In other words, does the cognitive understanding of music or the emotional feeling dominate musical experience? Or, perhaps more ... -
An Examination of Paul J. Flory's Equation of State Using Statistical Thermodynamics
This work is a detailed examination of the development of the partition function and the corresponding equation of state due to Paul J. Flory. After the partition function and equation of state are developed, the equation ... -
Virtue in Practice and Theory: An Exploration of MacIntyre's Ethics
Through this examination we can see why Maclntyre's theory works well today. Were the fundamental rules and principles of the Enlightenment project to be understood as its necessary foundation, Maclntyre's moral theory ... -
Quaternary Erosional History of the St. Marys River, Western Virginia
The landscape between Vesuvius and Greenville Virginia records the history of competition between the Shenandoah-Potomac and Maury-James basins. The St. Marys River is the latest in a series of stream captures that appear ... -
Personal Honor and the Possibility for Redemption
What exactly is redemption? Webster's defines it as "an act or instance of repairing or restoring," and "expiation of guilt or wrong." More to the heart of the matter, is it possible to redeem oneself in an honor society ... -
A Selected Oxidizing Reaction of N2O4 and a Comparison of the Decomposition of Certain Organic Compounds
This is essentially a repeat of I. E. Shillington's original reaction. [From concluding section] -
More Than an Image: A Portrait of Stonewall Jackson by William Garl Browne
With the possible exception of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall JacKson emerged from the American Civil War as the most popular and well-known Southern leader. An intense interest in his exploits and character created a demand for ... -
B. C. Flournoy: Washington and Lee University Architect, 1904-1929
B. C. Flournoy worked at the height of the so-called "American Renaissance." Classical architecture, with all its various connotations, again became the national style. With the great expansion of architectural publications, ... -
Cult and Poetry: A Study of Ajax in Hero Cult, Pindar, and Sophocles
This study has primarily been an exploration of the relationship between the presentation of Ajax in Greek poetry and his status as a cult hero. We have seen how epic poetry preserved the memory and heightened the glory ... -
The Frescoes of Fra Angelico in the Chapel of Pope Nicholas V: Visual Persuasion in the Program of Nicholas' Pontificate
Nicholas' words, recorded, document his penchant for proclaiming the eminence of Rome and the primacy of the papacy through visual persuasion. His unprecedented declaration of religious authority on such a grand scale ... -
Triumph and Tradition in Veronese's Venice: Political Propaganda in the Doge's Palace
Works such as the Triumph of Venice seem only ornate, skillfully painted images of allegory and overblown state glory. Yet upon further inspection, the relationship of this work to the Paradise connects the power of the ... -
The Position of the Dominant Woman in the Drama of Tirso De Molina
Various students of Spain's Golden Age drama have remarked Tirso de Molina's keen insight into feminine character, and some have mentioned his successful handling of women personages in his drama, but apparently none ... -
Historians for All Time: Thucydides, Winston S. Churchill and Their Great Wars
Professor Taylor Sanders recommended that I compare Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War with Winston S. Churchill's account of the First World War, The World Crisis. After browsing through these two interesting ... -
Nicola Pisano's Pisa Baptistery Pulpit: Baptism, Papal Orthodoxy, and Joachite Heresy
Nicola Pisano's Pisa Baptistery Pulpit has garnered a vast amount of art historical attention. The artist's use of a classical style provides a starting point for any discussion of the Renaissance. However, the identification ... -
An Interpretation of Sri Ramakrishna's Approach to Religious Truth and the Situation of Religious Plurality
To be sure, the differences in the various religious ??? Which are to be faced by any individual concerned with understanding the situation of religious pluralism are multifaceted. These differences become manifest in the ... -
Discovering Life in the Modern Age: A Study of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints
Debate over prayer in schools, priests convicted of child molestation, the potential of yet another denominational split, and low attendance on Sunday mornings have invaded news cameras across America. At first thought, ... -
Thesis on Gypsum
The subject of this thesis is to try to prove that dead burnt gypsum will set if it has a nucleui to set around and for this nucleui to be furnished with a given % of either gypsum or plaster of Paris. To confirm the ...