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The Nine Friends of Suzhou: A Study of Traditional Chinese Fan Painting from the Qing Dynasty in the Groke Mickey Collection at Washington and Lee University
The Groke Mickey Fan Collection at the Reeves Center of Washington and Lee University represents a variety of styles and trends during the closing years of the Qing Dynasty in China. By choosing to look at this selection ... -
No Child Left Behind and the Achievement Gap: Disadvantaged Students Are No Better Off Than Before. Now What?
It is clear that students are entering school with gaps, but from factors that are somewhat malleable. There is a potential for recovery from coming in with gaps, particularly related to health and nutrition. Tanner et al ... -
No Strings Attached: Fernando Botero's "Boy Playing Guitar" in Context
This thesis serves to expand upon our understanding of Fernando Botero's early career through the analysis of an undocumented work entitled "Boy Playing Guitar." This painting is a crucial work in Botero's early stylistic ... -
A Non-Invasive Method of Influencing the Distribution of Noise in Human Brain Activity (thesis)
While noise in brain activity has been studied for many years, new theoretical considerations suggest that this noise may be an important and even essential part of normal brain functioning. Here we describe a technique ... -
Normative Volume Development of the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract (poster)
Abundant research has shown that in most neural systems, mature synaptic relationships are fine-tuned during development. One correlate of such fine tuning is changes in axon termination patterns. Our lab has previously ... -
Norms of Composition Operators on the Hardy Space
This thesis covers Hilbert spaces, Hardy spaces, their properties, and composition operators. -
Not All African Women Want to be Saved: Examining Colonialism and Cultural Relativism in the Female Genital Cutting Discourse Using the Capabilities Approach
In this paper, I use Sen and Nussbaum's capabilities approach to examine the global female genital cutting debate. In doing so, I explore how and why African feminists protest the intrusion of Western feminism into this ... -
"Not sorry at all": Trump and Rockbridge County (thesis)
The documentary itself is set up in three sections. First, it examines the backstory of the three major characters, because Trump's election did not just happen because of current conditions. It was a product of years of ... -
Nutrient Investment in the Tissues of a Generalist Arthropod Predator
Whole-animal SIA is frequently used to study the ecological impact of insects and other small arthropods, but lumps together the carbon and nitrogen fractionation of an organism's tissues and can change the resultant ... -
Nutrition Effects on Health and Recidivism in the American Prison Complex
If food in prison was made more nutritious, would health outcomes improve, and recidivism be reduced? Using the Virginia State Department of corrections as my population, I explore this question in three parts; the existing ... -
Obeah Women, Mediums, and Witches: Spirituality in the Colonial and Postcolonial Gothic (thesis)
This thesis traces the evolution of Self versus Other in terms of religion throughout the colonial and postcolonial Gothic. I begin with an examination of colonial Gothic texts which function in the delegitimizing way that ... -
Obesity, Physical Activity, and Health Implications in the Low-Income Community
Tackling obesity related poverty, specifically found in rural communities, is a larger problem than simply increasing physical activity. However, starting at physical activity allows for an opportunity to tackle problems ... -
Obstacles to Rural Health and Current Directions in Overcoming Them
In the US, the rural elderly are of particular interest. People who are elderly make up a larger share of the population in rural communities than urban ones, while low population density is a major obstacle to efficient ... -
The Odyssey of Leopold Bloom: An Attempt to Find What Will Suffice
Standards of morality have changed to the extent that James Joyce's Ulysses is no longer condemned for being exceptionaIly obscene. Almost fifty years after its publication, however, Joyce's novel remains notorious for ... -
Of Human Identity: Deconstruction and its Discontents
Why would Jacques Derrida and deconstruction so often evoke baseless and sweeping objections like those in the epigraph? Many students and academics find Derrida's works incomprehensible and even contradictory at times. ... -
On Empathy in Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Its Role Within a Contractualist Framework (thesis)
In the eighteenth century, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers emphasized the importance of sympathy in the construction of the moral self. Among this group of philosophers, Adam Smith's moral account is especially astute. ... -
On Showing and Saying: An Analysis of Go?del 1931
In 1931 Kurt Go?del published a theorem demonstrating that many systems of formal logic capable of developing arithmetic possess major deficiencies. He shovs that such systems, if they are consistent, are powerless to ... -
On the Electrolytic Reduction of Tribromoresorcinol
In the studies of halogen substituted resorcinols conducted by the Chemistry Department at Washinton and Lee University, considerable work was done by Lewis Daniel Williams on the preparation of 2-substituted resorcinols ... -
On the Essay: A Gendered Evolution of Narrative Presence in the Personal Essay
The unassuming power behind the essay is what makes modern attempts so crucial. Overt forms, obvious attempts lend themselves to criticism and censorship. These are the violences that are often silenced by the oppressor, ...