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Discovering F. Scott Fitzgerald's Wise and Tragic Sense of Life
The youthful illusions Fitzgerald alludes to in This Side of Paradise exist in both Amory Blaine, the novel's protagonist, and in Fitzgerald himself speaking through the novel's omniscient narrator. With an attitude of ... -
Missing Mom: The (Re-)Assessment of Gender and Motherhood in Richard Wright's Black Boy, Toni Morrison's Sula and Jazz, and Audre Lorde's Zami
This paper will examine the dynamics of mother-child relationships within African American literature and the ways in which children internalize socially constructed gender roles within not just a male-dominated society, ... -
A Study of the Proceedures [sic.] for a Laboratory Course in General Organic Chemistry
This Thesis is a study of certain organic reactions with a view of adapting them to use in the laboratory instruction in a course in general Organic Chemistry. P:roject No.1, pages 1 thru 5, deals with the formation of a ... -
Edith Wharton's Evolutionary Monster; Undine Spragg of The Custom of the Country
In Wharton's own words she describes her intent for the book, "I argued that in The Custom of the Country I was chronicling the career of a particular young woman, and that to whatever hemisphere her fortunes carried her, ... -
Justice and Immortality: Platonic Reflections on Interview With the Vampire
The relationship between human conceptions of justice and morality, encompassing both their similarities and differences, lies at the foundation of political philosophy and political society. The horizon of death constitutes ... -
Margaret Junkin Preston, Lexington poetess
Even in 1950 one can enjoy reading Margaret Preston's poems, which were written for a Victorian audience. She wrote in many forms and metres, and because of this almost everyone can select from her volumes certain examples ... -
Indentured Servitude in Colonial Virginia: Genteel Ambitions and Harsh Realities
In order to evaluate the status of indentured servants in colonial Virginia, the student must analyze standards of treatment of servants in the context of history. During the seventeenth century, the term "servant" was not ... -
Alkenes and Cycloalkanes from Tosylhydrazones: The Aprotic Bamford-Stevens Reaction and Camphor Tosylhydrazone
In 1952 Bamford and Stevens discovered that ptoluenesulfonylhydrazones of many different types of ketones decomposed on heating in a base to form alkenes, and cycloalkanes by insertion. In addition to the alkene, molecular ... -
"And we shall overcome": Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Battle for Civil Rights
Historians will continue to debate Lyndon Johnson's place in history. Many will view the disaster of Vietnam as the most compelling legacy of his presidency and forever judge him by his tragic mistakes. But not all will ... -
An Investigation into the Fear of Death
Our thesis shall be to investigate the fear of death and the belief that death is an evil. By clarifying our notions about death as a harm to the individual I hope to show how many of our fears about death may be unwarranted ... -
Dynamic NMR Studies of Chiral 1,1'-binaphthyl Ligands
Chiral monomeric and polymeric binaphthyl ligands have been shown to be highly enantioselective for the asymmetric addition of dialkylzinc and diarylzinc compounds to aldehydes. Previous studies by Pu and coworkers show ... -
Mussolini: From Power to Puppet
Modern dlctatorthips frequently display an impressive exterior: the facade wilI be showy and the ramparts apparently impregnable. Within, however, the structure often conceals weakness and even rottenness. In these ... -
Bread and Circuses: The Cult of Antiquity in the French Revolution
The Roman Juvenal wrote that the best way to quell civic unrest was to give the people what they want: bread and circuses. This thesis will explore Harold T. Parker's Cult of Antiquity in the French Revolution. Parker's ... -
The Renaissance of a River: An Historical Description Concerning the Development and Construction of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System
The purpose of this paper is to give, in as much detail as possible, a complete historical description of the development and construction of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. Due to the fact that the ... -
Production Control
Production control is that technique employed in manufacturing whereby the production facilities of a plant are coordinated through the advanced planning, routing, scheduling, dispatching, and follow-up of each individual ... -
Maruja Mallo: Lost at Sea
Like many female artists, Maruja Mallo has been "written out of history." Standard texts treating Surrealism generally exclude female Surrealist artists, and Mallo is no exception. However, she is also seldom included even ... -
Albert Taylor Goodwyn: An Adamistic Look at the South
In this paper I have attempted to tell the story of the life of one man, Albert Taylor Goodwyn, and by doing so shed a small ray of light on the history of the South. Albert Goodwyn lfved from 1842 until 1931. His life ...