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Maurice Barre?s and French Traditionalism
Barre?s was a novelist who dabbled in the politics of the Chamber. His involvement with political organizations espousing a program of extraparliamentary action was considerable. Yet, he was first and foremost a novelist. ... -
A Meeting of Minds: Frederick the Great and Voltaire
Primary source material for this paper in addition to Frederick's and Voltaire's respective works was their correspondence which began in 1736 and ended in 1778. The original correspondence was exclusively written in French, ... -
"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 ... -
A Method of Estimating by Infrared Spectroscopy the Relative Abundance of Polymeric Components in Complex Polymer Blends
In this Honors Thesis, I describe a method created by Profesor Van Ness and myself which effectively differentiates regions of unique polymer composition within comingled products. My goals are two fold. First, in order ... -
Mexican Agrarian Reform and the United States
Fifty years of agrarian reform has brought many changes to Mexico, but it has by no means solved all her problems. The land was divided and given to the peon. This attack on the latifundia, the large land holding, was ... -
Microfacies of the Middle Ordovician New Market limestone in Rockbridge County, Virginia
Two� sections were measured and their microfacies defined macroscopically at two locations in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Nineteen microfacies are defined on the basis of detailed petrographic study of one section. Most ... -
Microstructural and Lattice-Preferred Orientation Analyses of Ductile Shear Zones: Maggia Nappe, Switzerland
Microstructures of 24 samples and quartz lattice-preferred orientations (LPO) of 13 samples from the crystalline Maggia Nappe, Switzerland were measured in order to assess the deformation history, mechanisms, and conditions ... -
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, ... -
The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Utility and the Just Allocation of Health Care Resources
The current American health care system is plagued by three main factors: out of control spending, allocation inequalities and profound scarcity. For example, the United States spend above 14% of its GDP on health care as ... -
Modern Methods of Highway Maintenance
The systematic maintenance of county roads only has been discussed, hovvever the genercl principals and methods outlined are applicable to city streets in many respects. The discussion has been outlined and classified so ... -
Modesty and excess in the philosophical critique of the idea of public justification
This essay is the outcome of personal reflection on procedural rationality in politics. Finding a rational and universal principle behind a liberal doctrine has been the ambition of many philosophers who have believed in ... -
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Lipid Bilayer with Dissolved Solutes
This paper considers a computer simulation of a lipid bilayer with solute particles dissolved between the monolayers. The objective is to examine the bilayer system and to determine what effect, if any, the solutes have ... -
Mondrian's Boogie Woogie Beat
Most art historians attribute Mondrian's stylistic changes in New York to New York: skyscrapers, people, lights, advertisements, and jazz. They also compartmentalize Mondrian's New York work from the rest of his career, ... -
Monopoly Power in the Peruvian Banking Industry: (1990-1995)
The core of the thesis tries to determine the extent to which oligopolization constitutes a problem in the determination of interest rates in Peru. To do this, it uses an econometric model to test the level of competition ... -
"More lively perceptions": Irony and Its Sources in Jane Austen's Novels of Impression and Persuasion
Irony comes from mainly from two sources in Jane Austen's writings: the juxtaposition of an impression or a persuasion with the truth of a situation. This can be seen most clearly in three novels: Lady Susan, which shows ... -
More Than an Image: A Portrait of Stonewall Jackson by William Garl Browne
With the possible exception of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall JacKson emerged from the American Civil War as the most popular and well-known Southern leader. An intense interest in his exploits and character created a demand for ... -
Music in the Chaos: A Theoretical Analysis of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
My goal in undertaking this analytical thesis is to isolate the symphony and analyze it entirely self-referentially -- with no outside influences or specific vantage points from which to decode the work. This does not mean ... -
Musico-Poetic Synthesis in Nineteenth Century Melodies
It strikes one indeed as noteworthy that the periods of greatest achievements in French lyric poetry should coincide with the periods of high development in the French chanson. In the sixteenth century the inspired lyricism ... -
Mussolini: From Power to Puppet
Modern dlctatorthips frequently display an impressive exterior: the facade wilI be showy and the ramparts apparently impregnable. Within, however, the structure often conceals weakness and even rottenness. In these ...