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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 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 ... -
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. ... -
The Role of Food Production in the Economic Development of West Africa's Sahel Region
One must not forget, therefore, that the Sahel comprises a fragile ecosystem within an area of scarce resources. Much care and understanding, that is to say "good government", is needed if these sparse , resources are to ... -
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. ... -
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 Story of Cleopatra in English Literature
Perhaps no story is better known than the story of Cleopatra. Even the ordinary child would have a pretty definite idea of beauty if someone would say to him that such and such a girl is as beautiful as Cleopatra. In spite ... -
The Stratigraphic Relationship of the Catoctin, Unicoi and Harpers Formations Within a Fault-bounded Rift Basin in Central Virginia
Sediments deposited within a rift basin that is now situated in the Blue Ridge region of central Virginia include spilitic metabasalt, which exhibit pillow structures, alluvial slump deposits, fluvial channel sands, deltaic ... -
The Stratigraphy and Structure of the Simsboro Gas Field, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Well logs have been used to interpret the structure and stratigraphy of the Simsboro Gas Field of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. A variety of subsurface maps have been constructed in an attempt to interpret the depositional ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Synthetic Imagination: An Approach to the Poetry of Thomas Hardy
A reading of Hardy's verse clearly illustrates the poet's tragic view of things and his longing and earnest search for a "cure," for something that would make man's life, in the face of the inevitable destruction wrought ...