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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Remembered: African-American Patterns of Adaptation to Plantation Life in the New World
The ultimate value of archaeology rests on the assumption that the material record is an inevitable reflection of past cultures' mental and spiritual lives. The material record should indicate the ways in which people ... -
Quantifying Love: Shakespeare's Comedies and Modern Adult Attachment Theory
By looking at Shakespeare's comedies within the framework of modem adult attachment theory, I hope to validate the practice of both psychological and psychoanalytic readings of his works; to provide a new way of doing so; ... -
Pollen Feeding and Its Effect on a Generalist Predator, the Chinese Praying Mantid, Tenodera sinensis
The Chinese praying mantid, Tenodera sinensis (Saussure), is a univoltine generalist predator that hatches early in the spring and must oviposit in the fall. At both crucial times of early nymph development and oogenesis, ... -
Wittgenstein on the Groundlessness of Our Fundamental Empirical and Religious Beliefs
This paper first examines Wittgenstein's treatment in On Certainty of the groundlessness of our fundamental beliefs. It then examines some 'groundless' aspects of religious (specifically Christian) beliefs, looking for ... -
A Study of the Progress of Pupils and of Their Ability in English Composition and Handwriting in the Public Schools of Lexington, Va.
The survey was carried out with a view to: (1) studying the schoolroom organization and classification of pupils i n the system, and (2) measuring the results of instruction in certain subjects of the curriculum by standard ... -
The Economics of Equal Education Opportunity
There are four primary objectives for this thesis. First, an economic model of learning behavior is developed combining microeconomic theories with economist Gary Becker's theory on the allocation of time. The economic ... -
Go Green: An Examination of Alternative Energy in Germany
This thesis examines the development of German alternative energy technology since the early 1990s. It explores the various motivating factors behind Germany's expansion of alternative energy, including the nation's growing ... -
The Synthesis of Certain Substituted Sym-Diphenylcarbazides
It is perhaps advisable here to give a complete resume of the reactions involved in these syntheses. In all cases, a substituted aniline was the starting product which was diazotized with NaN02 in acid solution at a ... -
What Happens to a Dream Deferred: The School Desegregation Crisis in Cleveland, Ohio and the Rise of Carl Stokes
School desegregation in the North was not as successful as the effort in the South. Civil rights activists in cities like Cleveland, Ohio, attempted to integrate the schools by applying the tactics of the Southern civil ... -
The Macedonian Question and Preventive Deployment: Lessons for US Foreign Policy
Preventive diplomacy and deployment are part of a larger policy debate. The desire to do something, the fear of doing it wrong, and the inertia of doing nothing at all have surfaced now that changes in the international ... -
The Use of Indicators for Determining the Relative Strength of Acids: A Class Demonstration Technique
This method, stated in a few words, c onsists in the comparison of the color given by the unknown acid containing a definite amount of indicator with the color given by the same amount of indicator in an equal volume of ... -
Pope Nicholas IV and the Feast of the Assumption: Style as Propaganda
In 1288, Pope Nicholas IV took advantage of the popularity of the Feast of the Assumption among pilgrims and centered his program of patronage on the two churches involved in the procession: St. John Lateran and Santa ... -
Microstructural and Lattice-Preferred Orientation Analyses of Ductile Shear Zones: Maggia Nappe, Switzerland
Microstructures of 24 samples and quartz lattice-preferred orientations (LPO) of 13 samples from the crystalline Maggia Nappe, Switzerland were measured in order to assess the deformation history, mechanisms, and conditions ... -
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 ...