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James B. Dorman: Scholar, Politician, and Soldier (1823-1893)
James Dorman lived seventy years. His years of greatest accomplishment were between 18 and 40. After that point a decline set in. This is not to say his life in the last 30 years was not happy, but merely states the fact, ... -
Thesis on Concrete
The three investigations made are: 1. Effect of surface area on strength of concrete. 2. Consistency test: ie. Variable water ratio. 3. Density test. [From introductory section] -
Summer Soldier, Sunshine Patriot: Liberalism and the Crisis of Military Service in the United States
This paper is not about politics or military strategy. It is not about international relations or just war theory. This is a paper about America on the sidelines. This is a paper about a nation at the mall, even as a tiny ... -
Great Britain and the Bagdad Railroad (1888-1914)
In a study such as this, it is quite easy to over-estimate the importance of the Bagdad Railroad. Here the major events of the pre-war era have been mentioned only in the light of the railroad project. Yet when the subject ... -
"in the image of God...male and female he created them": Three Ancient Interpretations of Genesis 1:26-28
For Christians, nearly every influential religious writer from the first century onwards included scriptural interpretation in his/her philosophizing and apologetics. Thinking about the Church, about the Christian life, ... -
The Americanization of Immigrants as Expounded in the Biographical Material Relative to Aliens
Manifold are the reasons for the exodus of people from their native lands to emigrate to America. Many have come because of political suppression, many because of financial difficulties, many because of racial differences, ... -
Four Great Elegies of the English Language: The Book of the Duchess, Lycidas, In Memoriam, and Adonais; A Comparison and Study
. . . Having thus considered the general nature and something of the background of the elegy, let us enter upon I a more direct consideration of the four particular examples which we have taken as representing the ... -
Monopoly Power in the Peruvian Banking Industry: (1990-1995)
The core of the thesis tries to determine the extent to which oligopolization constitutes a problem in the determination of interest rates in Peru. To do this, it uses an econometric model to test the level of competition ... -
Automated Cross-section Construction and Forward Modeling of the Northern Terminus of the Sequatchie Valley Anticline
Producing a balanced cross-section is a very time and labor intensive process. Balancing of a section requires boundary conditions for both the deformed and undeformed state. A common boundary condition for the undeformed ... -
Direct Mono-Iodination of Phthalic Anhydride
This thesis had for its general purpose, then, the production of iodo-phthalic anhydride compounds by means of new and better methods. An extensive search of the literature was made as preliminary work on the subject, and ... -
Is Germany Still a Nation on Probation? Patriotism vs. Nationalism in 21st Century Germany
In the wake of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the international media were raving about the progress made by the host country Germany in its attitude toward national pride. Journalists emphasized that, although the specter of ... -
On the Electrolytic Reduction of Tribromoresorcinol
In the studies of halogen substituted resorcinols conducted by the Chemistry Department at Washinton and Lee University, considerable work was done by Lewis Daniel Williams on the preparation of 2-substituted resorcinols ... -
An Investigation of the Synthesis of [delta]9,10 Octal-1-one
The synthesis of [delta]9,10 octal-1-one has been begun in large quantities. The intermediate , methyl-[gamma]-(1-cyclohexenyl)-[gamma]-oxobutyrate has been obtained in workable amounts. A study of the use of semicarbazones ... -
Insights into the Factors Controlling the Distributions of the Narrow Endemic, Helenium virginicum and its Widespread Congener, H. autumnale, Through a Study of Their Relative Competitive Abilities and Growth Rates
We undertook a growth and competition study of H. autumnale and H. virginicum to gain insight into the causes of their distributions. We used a multiple de Wit replacement series to study competition, run concurrently with ... -
The Influence of Franz Liszt's Structural Style on the Music of Claude Debussy: An Analytic Comparison of the Anne?es de Pe?le?rinage and the Preludes
In spite of the fact that there is almost no written evidence to suggest it, it is the intention of this paper to show that the formal and structural styles employed by Liszt in Les Annees de pelerinage did indeed exert a ... -
The Amerasia Affair and John Stewart Service: Weighing the Evidence of History
Amerasia was a small, left-wing monthly magazine, now defunct, dedicated to the discussion of Asian political and cultural affairs. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, it was openly critical of the Chinese Nationalist ... -
An Attempt to Investigate the Reduction of Ruthenium Tetroxide by Potentiometric Methods
The titration curve for osmium tetroxide is similiar to the one obtained for ruthenium tetroxide becauee there is a minimum on each curve and the potential increases with each addition of HCl. . . . Another point of ... -
The Influence of Darwin's Origin of the Species on English Literature
In the study of five important writers of prose as well as verse in the Victorian Age, we can see how the impact of Evolution was reflected in literature. The work of Da rwin, especially with its connotations on man (we ... -
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Chaucer has given us an array of femininity unsurpassed by any other poet. From every walk in life he drew his heroines and in every conceivable color he painted them. . . . A comprehensive study of all of Chaucer's ...