W&L University Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
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Chaucer's Pardoner and the Tyranny of Penance
In the context of the tale-telling game that frames the Canterbury Tales, the reader anticipates a wide variety of different stories and forms as each pilgrim takes his or her tum. What we do not anticipate, however, is ... -
The Relationship Between Morphology and Mechanical Properties for Viscoelastic Polymer Composites
Advancement in the extrusion and molding techniques of polymers has spawned an increase in applications of polymeric materials. While previously polymers have been confined to nonstructural applications, development of new ... -
Preparation and Analysis of the Aquo Salts of Ruthenium
The purpose of this work was to determine the water or the -OH content of the rubidium pentachloro hydroxy and the aquo salts of ruthenium, and also to acquire the technique of handling ruthenium, especially the analysis ... -
Key Expansionist Journey
The purchase by the United States Government from the Republic of Mexico of territory south of Arizona's Gila River, and a narrow strip along the southern most part of present day New Mexico, cannot be viewed as merely an ... -
Preparation and Physical Constants of Higher Straight Chain Ethers: Butyl Hexyl Ether
Many of the simpler organic compounds, whose formulas can be so easily written, have never actually been prepared. The literature is as yet imoomplete regarding their physical constants and exact methods of preparation. ... -
A Southern Intellectual Community: A Sociological Inquiry
The immediate pupose of this thesis is to make a sociological analysis of Washington and Lee University as a Southern intellectual community during the first three decades of the present century. It is not here suggested ... -
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's Descriptive Technique: The Grand Style, Mannerism and External Characterization
In these four works description of fictional personalities and the settings in which the author places them is very important, much more so, in fact, than in the works of most writers. There are several reasons for this, ... -
Initial Public Offerings Across Business Cycles
A vast literature exists pertaining to the prediction of stock performance, though a consistent pattern has yet to be found. The efficient market hypothesis provides one possible explanation. IPOs are different, however, ... -
The Effects of Bilateral Stimulation of the Hippocampus on Persevarative Neural Processes
In recent years there has been a significant amount of' work done in the f ield of memory and the physiological processes that are involved. One main area of research has been connected with perseveration theory. The ... -
"The memory of the landscape": An Ecocritical Analysis of Seamus Heaney's Bog Poems
What is the relation between the poet and nature? How is the inspired linked to this natural inspiration? These are among the questions that brought forth the creation of Ecological Criticism, or ecocriticism, a theory of ... -
Journeys of Shakespearience: Fathers and Daughters in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1993 Productions of The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, and The Tempest
Three of the plays in the RSC's 1993 Stratford-upon-Avon season fortuitously fit the paradigm of a journey by exploring the journey towards maturation of fathers and daughters. These three plays are The Merchant of Venice ... -
Aeschylus' Erinyes: Tragedy's Muses
The over-arching theme of Aeschylus' trilogy, the Oresteia, is the emergence of law from vengeance, but does the author also address the nature of tragedy through an innovative treatment of song and the Erinyes? Peter ... -
The Lee Memorial Journalism Foundation: Its History
Following the War Between the States and as the South began to rebuild there came to Lexington, Virginia, the leader of the Confederate cause, General Robert E. Lee. He came to assume the presidency of a little college ... -
Wordsworth's Philosophy of Nature and Mind
Although not designedly schematic Wardsworth's poems composed between 1798 and 1807 reveal certain principles and ideas which, when taken together, may be said to constitute a definite philosophy concerning nature and the ... -
The Effects of the Windfall Profits Tax on American Crude Oil Production
The windfall profits tax itself is of some value in the fight against wasteful petroleum production, but it must be considered a third-line choice at best. It is of no use in encouraging investment in unrestrained petroleum ... -
Discovering F. Scott Fitzgerald's Wise and Tragic Sense of Life
The youthful illusions Fitzgerald alludes to in This Side of Paradise exist in both Amory Blaine, the novel's protagonist, and in Fitzgerald himself speaking through the novel's omniscient narrator. With an attitude of ... -
Missing Mom: The (Re-)Assessment of Gender and Motherhood in Richard Wright's Black Boy, Toni Morrison's Sula and Jazz, and Audre Lorde's Zami
This paper will examine the dynamics of mother-child relationships within African American literature and the ways in which children internalize socially constructed gender roles within not just a male-dominated society, ... -
A Study of the Proceedures [sic.] for a Laboratory Course in General Organic Chemistry
This Thesis is a study of certain organic reactions with a view of adapting them to use in the laboratory instruction in a course in general Organic Chemistry. P:roject No.1, pages 1 thru 5, deals with the formation of a ... -
Edith Wharton's Evolutionary Monster; Undine Spragg of The Custom of the Country
In Wharton's own words she describes her intent for the book, "I argued that in The Custom of the Country I was chronicling the career of a particular young woman, and that to whatever hemisphere her fortunes carried her, ... -
Justice and Immortality: Platonic Reflections on Interview With the Vampire
The relationship between human conceptions of justice and morality, encompassing both their similarities and differences, lies at the foundation of political philosophy and political society. The horizon of death constitutes ...