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Thesis in Chemistry [Double Cesium and Rubidium Salts of Lead Tetrabromide]
Salts in which lead is quadrivalent are comparatively unstable and usually they readily pass over into the corresponding compounds in which the lead is divalent. Salts of Hexa-chloroplumbic acid 2Hcl. Pb cl4 are known and ... -
Creativity Under Fire: Effects of Exaggerated Time Restrictions and High Standards of Criteria on Creative Production
Investigates how two psychological stressors -- exaggerated time restrictions and high standards of criteria -- affect the creative performance of 44 8th and 48 11th grade students and alludes to the relation between ... -
Justice John Marshall Harlan and the "Color-Blind Constitution"
Mr. Justice Harlan was the "Great Dissenter" to the complacent attitudes of The Gilded Age. His opinions ran against the attitudes held by his contemporaries: laissez-fair in economics; imperialism in international ... -
The Environment, Future Generations, and John Rawls
I would like to note that my thesis's main point is not to present an entirely new and complete argument as to why we should preserve the environment, and more importantly, I do not argue that the only reason we should ... -
Tchaikovsky's Ballets
Because of Tchaikovsky's influence, people listen to a ballet score just as they would listen to a symphony. It is doubtful that anyone would want to do the same with the ballet music by Minkus or even Adam. Today, ... -
On the Theory of Action
This paper concerns several points of action theory. I begin with a discussion of Arthur Dante's thesis on basic and nonbasic action, clarifying and differentiating between, the two. While Danto advances the notion of ... -
The Synthesis and Investigation of Hydrazidomalonic Acid
Hence there were t wo unfinished steps in a total investigation of hydrazidomalonic acid as an resolving reagent for optically active c arbonyls, namely; the isolation and identification of hydrazidomalonic acid, and the ... -
Reinforced Concrete Arch
Reinforced concrete has been used for only a fev years, but the law governing the combination of concrete and steel, although not absolutely fixed, is known with sufficient exactness to permit the design of nearly all ... -
An Elementary Theorem-Proving Program
My goal is to write a theorem-proving assistant that can , to s ome extent, take a hypothesis (that works on IF-THEN rules) and make some progress toward a realizable goal. However, since I need a more concrete problem ... -
The Washington and Lee University Price Index
Past expenditure patterns for Washington and Lee (fiscal years 1978-1981) are described through the use of price indexes. The expenditures included are a representative sample of total spending at Washington and Lee. The ... -
The Sedimentology of the Snowden Member of the Late Precambrian-Early Cambrian (?) Harper's Formation in Central Virginia
The Snowden Member is the thickest and most mappable of the quartzose sandstone units of the heterogeneous Harpers Formation, the middle unit of the late Precambrian-early Cambrian(?) Chilhowee Group in central Virginia. ... -
Sex, Guns, and Theorems; The Legacy of Evariste Galois
Only ignorance of history can allow one to see mathematicians as those who lead boring, uneventful lives, and a brief look at the career of the French mathematician Evariste Galois (1811 - 1832) will put any skeptic to ... -
The Benson Project: Urban Economic Renewal Strategies in Practice
Efforts to stimulate economic renewal should include a consideration of renewal strategies to ensure their effectiveness and ultimate success. The following study presents four tenets of economic renewal, developed from ... -
Chaos and Linearity
Mathematically, one may define chaos in relation to the behavior of discrete dynamical systems, i.e., the behavior of operators (functions) under iteration. R. Devaney, in his book An Introduction to Chaotic Dynamical ... -
Journalism: Craft or Profession?
This paper was undertaken to summarize some of the important thoughts on journalism and professionalism and to accumulate a list of reference materials which, hopefully, will prove helpful to anyone wishing to pursue the ... -
"A Crippled Trust": The Wounded Body in Irish Drama
The recurring use of the wounded body by Irish dramatists throughout the twentieth century begs the student of Irish literature to question how these authors are using this image to debate national character. Because of ... -
Religion as an Empowerer of the Oppressed: A Study of Liberation Theology, Engaged Buddhism, and Pentecostal Serpent Handlers
Liberation theology, "engaged Buddhism" (specifically the movement started by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar), and the Pentecostal serpent handling faith all share one commonality: they appear to empower the oppressed of their ... -
Ordinary Sins
I chose to write Ordinary Sins as short stories rather than a novel, but also made the decision to deny the reader any central narration. The opening story introduces readers to the four central characters: Andy, Linda, ... -
The Serpentine Idol: Worme Imagery in Book I of Spenser's Faerie Queene and John Donne's Funeral Sermons
In this Thesis, I will not speculate about what English literature would have looked like if Donne's poem had superceded The Faerie Queene, but I will investigate the topic of immediacy through an analysis of the worme ... -
The Military Campaigns of the Russian Civil War of 1917-1925
Throughout the chaos of war and the turmoil of life in Russia during the Civil War the visionaries of the party had kept their goals clear and baserd their plans on their ultimate victory. Now that this military victory ...