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Telling Stories (photographs)
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Tentative Guests to Reception, 1952
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Terrestrial Mercury Cycling in Northern Michigan: Honeysuckle Creek Watershed and Burt Lake (thesis)
Mercury (Hg), a potent environmental toxicant, affects the cognition and health of both human and aquatic ecosystem populations. Despite regulation-driven decreases in atmospheric mercury levels, Burt Lake is among the ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
The Birth of the Modern Book: Re-reading Vollard's Livres d'artistes
Ambroise Vollard certainly treated all his book projects as works of art. He was tremendously involved in all his book projects, from choosing the literary artist and visual artist to editing the final appearance of the ... -
The Cardboard Sublime: Novella and Postscript
Aristotle claimed that the purpose of art is to delight and to instruct. In dealing with the latter, it is necessary to consider the virtues advocated by a work of literature. At first glance of the opening chapters, it ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Fabrication of Antireflective Coatings by the Self-assembly of Silica Nanopartical and Polycation Bilayers
This study examines several factors that affect the quality of antireflective coatings created by the self-assembly of alternating layers of silica (Si02) nanoparticles and poly(allylamine hydrochloride) or poly(diallyld ... -
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 ... -
The Frescoes of Fra Angelico in the Chapel of Pope Nicholas V: Visual Persuasion in the Program of Nicholas' Pontificate
Nicholas' words, recorded, document his penchant for proclaiming the eminence of Rome and the primacy of the papacy through visual persuasion. His unprecedented declaration of religious authority on such a grand scale ... -
The Great Crusade: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Campaign of 1912
The year 1912 was an exciting one, and the Taft- Roosevelt feud that it symbolizes is complex and confusing. Allan Nevins, in his Gateway to History, has stated the problem succinctly: "We decide by preliminary survey ... -
The Great Mistake: The Dysfunctional Electoral College and the Direct-Vote Alternative
The need for electoral reform has been evident throughout Arnerican history, but the problem becomes more crucial as the responsibilities and powers of the Presidency increase more rapidly each decade. . . . The relevant ...