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The Dynamic Interaction Between the Poet and the People in Slam Poetry
Slam is a revolutionary force in contemporary American poetry, and, increasingly, in global poetry. Much of the power of this movement harkens from its ability to draw upon ancestral memories, restoring poetry to its roots ... -
Evolved Recursive Distributed Representations
Computer Science has become increasingly biologically inspired, with neural networks and evolutionary computing gaining increased prominence in the field. Recently, several difficulties with modeling connectionist networks ... -
Margaret Junkin Preston: Virginia's Poetess of the Old South
The title of this dissertation is: "Margaret Junkin Preston, Virginia's Poetess of the Old South." . . . It is the purpose of this work to disc:iss her life as it throws light upon her works, and to evaluate her works by ... -
Beorhtric Meaw: A Biographical Study Set in Anglo-Saxon England
Having completed my research, a portrait of Beorhtric finally emerged in which he appeared as a powerful and wealthy thegn descended from a family tracing its descent to the Wessex royal line. He and his family appear to ... -
Size Matters: Anion Influences on Hamster Chorda Tympani Responses to Na+ Salts
Over the past two decades, researchers have shown repeatedly that salt taste reception depends, in numerous mammals, on the passive diffusion ofNa+ ions through apical, Na+selective ion channels that can be blocked by the ... -
A Search for Tragedy in American Drama
Eric Bentley says: "Observers from every point of view would agree that the theater at the moment is in a more than usually uncertain and disordered state." [3] Mr. Bentley is not one known for compromise. He does not ... -
Religious Education in the Virginia Public Schools
Considering that the control and support of the schools are becoming more and more centralized and that the local community is fast losing control and responsibility for the support and administration of the local school, ... -
Rawlsian Liberalism and Its Moral Support for Gay Rights
In this paper, I will examine the various objections to same-sex marriage and homosexuality. I will include traditional moral arguments against rights to homosexual marriage and other family rights denied to homosexuals. ... -
The Problem of Arbitrariness in American Jurisprudence
The debate over how to interpret the United States Constitution continues to be the most controversial one in the area of constitutional law. In recent years, with the rise of the New Right and its so-called original intent ... -
Nietzsche, Personal Honor, and the Concept of Honor at Washington and Lee University
Having spent four years at Washington and Lee University, I have been and continue to be impacted by our Honor System daily in both subtle and explicit ways. As a freshman, I heard the "Leave Now" speech in Lee Chapel and ... -
The Elizabethan Succession Crisis 1558-1600: Dynastic Conflict and Parliamentary Power
It is not generally known that a crisis surrounding the succession to the English throne occurred during Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603). The overwhelming majority of historians of the Elizabethan period, in fact, do not ... -
An Introduction to the Epistemology of Immanuel Kant: With Special Consideration of Transcendental Aesthetic
In the Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant attempts to resolve the problem of how it is possible for men to make synthetic a priori judgments. This was a problem which had been developing in his thinking for many years. ... -
A History of the Franklin Society and Library Company of Lexington, Virginia
To the compiler of any sort ot history the greatest task is the unearthing of source material, whether that history be the narrative of a nation's progress through the centuries or an humble account ot the deeds of an ... -
Curious Reversals and Marvelous Wounds: Metamorphosis and Identity in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber
Though The Bloody Chamber undeniably supports a feminist reading, ultimately her vision of the wise child encompasses both sexes and provides a meeting ground between them. Elaine Showalter insists that in '"the purest ... -
Unilateral Lesions of the Hippocampus Result in Circling Behavior: Effects on the Dopamine System
Rotational behavior, induced by unilateral lesions of a number of brain regions has long been studied as a model of various dopamine- (DA) related diseases. The hippocampal formation is interconnected with many of the ... -
Verdi in Politics
Guiseppe Verdi, one of Italy's famous historical figures, was ironically born a Frenchman. At the time of his birth on October 9 or 10, 1813, Napoleon's administration controlled much of what we now call Italy. Napoleon ... -
International Commodity Agreements: Key to Development?
This paper has attempted to bring the methods and purposes of international commodity agreements into focus and to thus discover whether they are worth the energy which the poor countries might exert to form them. I have ... -
Rotation Remainders
An object in mathematics that first appears for the sake of amusement can demonstrate deep connections with well-known questions about numbers. Consider an array of numbers formed by a rotating queue: starting with just ...