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18th Century Political Satire As Exemplified By Jonathan Swift Through "Gulliver's Travels", Carol Hargis

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During the seventy-eight years of Jonathan Swift's life, from 1667 to 1745, English satire was in its heyday. The stinging bit of the pen became recognized as one of the strongest political weapons, and those who possessed the natural gift of creating this weapon were sought high and low by those who desired to sway public opinion. There are really three main reasons why this period, in particular, was an age of satire. "First, it was a time of radically changing values, when intensely held convictions were in conflict with each other, and a new world order was emerging. Second, …

Eugène Ionesco Et "Rhinoceros", Judy Grider

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Written in French, this paper gives a short biography of Eugene Ionesco and describes his first works. Then explores Ionesco's inspiration for his play "Rhinoceros" and gives a summary of the work.

The Treatment Of Orval Faubus By Five Publications During The 1957 Little Rock School Integration Crisis, Bobby Shepherd

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The following research paper is the result of many hours of research into the events of September and early October 1957, the height of the Little Rock School Integration Crisis, as recorded by the nations' press.

This paper is concerned, in particular, with the treatment in the news reporting and editorial comment which Governor Orval E. Faubus received during this period from five publications, three newspapers and two news magazines. These publications are: The New York Times, The Arkansas Gazette, The Arkansas Democrat, Time, and Newsweek magazines.

The objective of this paper is to determine to what extent, if any …

The Use Of The Trombone In The Orchestra, Joe Kirby

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The trombone, perhaps the earliest of the instruments i contemporary orchestral use to develop and retain a fundamental regularity of form, is based in principle upon the utilization of a telescopic slide in the production of chromatic tones.

The characteristics of the construction of a trombone are basically, and broadly, the same as for the modern trumpet: A mainly cylindrical body-tube, narrow in relations to its length; a bell section expanding in a gentle curve to a wide terminal flare; and a deep mouthpiece with a well-developed throat. The essential difference between the two instruments lies in a different arrangement …

Stability Of 1-Substituted Adenines, Walter Frederick Floser

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1-β-Hydroxyethyladenine was prepared by the reaction of ethylene chlorohydrin with adenine at 76° C. It was separated from the reaction mixture by use of a Dowex 50W-X8 cation exchange chromatography column and a linear gradient elution system. I was placed in aqueous alkaline solution for two weeks and checked at different intervals to determine its stability. I was also refluxed in an aqueous alkaline solution for 70 min. and its stability was checked. I proved to be stable under all conditions.

Photochemical Reduction Of Benzophenone By 2-Butyne-L, 4-Diol And Photochemical Solvolysis Reactions Of Beta-Phenethyl Compounds, Kenneth Lawrence Gordon

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The irradiation of a dioxane solution of benzophenone in the presence of 2-butyne-1, 4-diol leads to reduction of the ketone rather than addition across the triple bond of the alkyne. However, great difficulty was encountered in identifying the product due to the formation of an organic complex involving benzopinacol and the dioxane. Nuclear magnetic resonance and ultraviolet spectral data confirm the presence of the complex. An attempt was made to induce a known ground state reaction by photochemical means. This ground state reaction is known to proceed through an ethylene phenonium ion intermediate. Both β-phenethyl bromide and β-phenethyltrimethylammonium tetrafluoroborate were …

Determination Of Ring Orientation In Diphenylmethane And Derivatives, Patrick Michael Comi

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry, like infrared, visible, and ultraviolet spectrometry is a form of absorption spectrometry. Certain nuclei can absorb electromagnetic radiation in the radiofrequency range. These nuclei are able to absorb this energy because they “spin” about their center axis generating a dipole along it. Protons are among those nuclei that absorb radiofrequency energies. If a proton is placed in a magnetic field its dipole can be in one of two possible orientations. It can be in a low energy state aligned with the field, or a high energy state, a spinning proton will process about an axis at …

Synthesis Of N-Methyl-N-Phenylaminomethyltrimethylsilane And N, N-Dimethylanilinomethyltrimethylsilyl Iodide, Mark Stuart Lichtenstein

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N-Methyl-N-Phenylaminomethyltrimethylsilane (I) has been prepared by heating an ethereal solution of lithium N-Methyl-anilide and chloromethyltrimethylsilane in a sealed flask for two days at 110°. The peak ratios in the NMR spectrum of the product did not correspond to these expected for I but suggested a different product, N-Methyl-N-Trimethylsilylaniline (II). Elemental analysis favored II although it could also be interpreted to support I. The spectra of derivatives, and the substance’s stability to hydrochloric acid were characteristic of I. Tentative identification of ethylene as a by-product, and a small degree of reaction with hydrochloric acid support the presence of II, but only …

Halogenated Helicenes, Richard Wilbert Heiden

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Attempts at synthesizing certain halohelicenes for studies in the following areas are described: 1) the testing of a new method of resolving 2) electron spin resonance (ESR). Since the purpose of the study was twofold, the decision to synthesize monochloro derivatives of hexahelicene was based on the time element and the comparative ease in which these particular compounds were thought to have been brought about (i.e. in direct comparison to polyhalo and higher order helicenes). In addition to the traditional historical, theoretical, and experimental sections, an appendix contained a few suggestions relative to helicene research is included.

Calculations Of Total Energies For Neon Atom, Argon Atom And Neon Ion, Joseph Patrick Minehan

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This work shows that is is very difficult to guess the proper configuration of the spheres for most atoms. This is clearly shown in the argon calculations, where Bent suggested a configuration that would have lowest energy, but it turned out to have the highest energy of those calculated. This shows the need to have a method to give the configuration of the lowest energy that depends very little on human insight.

Synthetic Approaches To Tris (1-B, 8-B'-Naphthyl) Diboron, William Karl Goerich

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The purpose of this project was the synthesis of tris(l-B, 8-B'­naphthyl)diboron. The synthesis route attempted was the preparation of 1,8-dibromonaphthalene from 1,8-diaminonaphthalene by tetrazotization followed by a Sandmeyer reaction, treatment of the dibromo compound with n-butyllithium to give 1,8-dilithionaphthalene and subsequent addition of boron trifluoride to give the product.

An Introduction To And Discussion Of Automata And Sequential Machines, Joseph Philip Seab

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No abstract provided.

Richmond's Reaction To The Depression Of 1837, Barbara Cahoon

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Depressions affect people and institutions in a variety of ways, from leveling the wealth until a recovery is impossible to showing the weaknesses inherent in the system, thus enabling workable solutions to be a result. The economic emergency of 1837 was such a phenomenon. Much has been written about its effects on a national and state level, but localities have been slighted. All do not necessarily react the same, and consequently the aim of this paper is to show Richmond’s particular response to her poor market conditions, and the political developments of the havoc that occurred from 1837-1842.

The bulk …

The United Nations: Its Successes, Failures, And Future, John Finley

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Organization for peace, avoidance of war, freedom from invasion, universal brotherhood of all nations and peoples--these have been the hopes and dreams of the peoples of the world for centuries. But not until the 20th century have these goals been both far away and yet so near. This century has witnessed the most horrible wars of mankind's history and the greatest advances in the organization for universal peace. But which has gathered the most support? Does the world have protection from another major war? Perhaps, an understanding can be obtained through the following examination of the successes, failures, and future …

Readers Theater, Sherry Gail Reynolds

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Readers Theater or Theater of the Mind, as it is sometimes called, has a varied nature and a dual origin. Basically, Readers Theater is a medium in which two or more oral interpreters through their oral reading cause an audience to experience literature. Definitions of Readers Theater vary somewhat, yet agree on basic principles. Johnny Akin of Denver University has called it "a form of oral interpretation in which all types of literature may be projected by means of characterized readings enhanced by theatrical effects." Keith Brooks of Ohio State University has said, "Readers Theater is a group activity in …

The Home Economist In The Business Field, Mary Moyers

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Business firms have two main purposes in hiring home economists: home economics women interpret the needs and desires of homemakers to the company and they increase consumer demand for their company's product. Trained home economists hold a wide variety of positions in business, including work with foods, equipment, clothing, textiles, and home furnishings. In carrying out their work they use such media as magazines and newspapers, radio, television, advertising, home service, and public relations. Business is a relatively new but expanding field in which graduate home economists are employed.

The business field has such a variety of positions that persons …

The Causes Of Student Unrest, Sandra Lee Sawyer

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Protest is not a new invention of the 1960's. Protest has always been the normal apparatus to initiate change in human societies. College students can no longer be taken for granted. Though the great majority of them remain largely content, conservative, and apathetic, a determined minority of restless ones have forces other to examine and sometimes to change institutions, rules, and values that were once considered inviolate.

The Rhetoric Of Reader's Theatre, Tom Roberts

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Mr. Johnny Aiken of Denver University has called it "A form of oral interpretation in which all types of literature may be projected by means of characterized readings enhanced by theatrical effects." Among the myriad of definitions of theatre's estranged art known as Reader's Theatre, this one seems to sum up my philosophy of what it actually is. In this paper, I propose to take three steps in establishing what I believe is the true rhetoric of Reader's Theatre. Firstly, I want to enhance an agreeable definition which I have partially done thus far. Secondly, I want to discuss the …

The Unity Of A Shropshire Lad, Robert B. Brown

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To understate the case, one might point out that there are those readers whose initial reaction to A Shropshire Lad is that it is a disunified bundle of poems. I assert, however, that this judgement should not endure, for when this volume of poetry is viewed in a more critical perspective there arises a deeper understanding and, consequently, a more rewarding appreciation. Moreover, I assert that it is in this final analysis alone that A Shropshire Lad emerges in its proper perspective.

In addition, it is the contention of this thesis that this unity may be viewed through at least …

Dairy Farms And Agricultural Prosperity In Virginia, 1890-1915, Harold E. Conover

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In the two-hundred-fifty plus years from the Jamestown landing to the first shots of the Civil War a careless, staple crop agriculture wrought havoc on thousands of acres in Tidewater and Piedmont Virginia. A Virginian looked around him in the Spring of 1859 and was moved to write: "Every county of Virginia from the Seaboard to the head of tidewater now present a standing monument against the ruthless destroyer tobacco, in a wilderness of piney old fields and gullied hillsides..."

Richmond And Virginia In The 1867 Election For A Constitutional Convention, Nelson Lankford

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The purpose of this paper is to present the reaction of Richmond's conservative white newspapers to the election in October 1867 for a constitutional convention. The three papers include the overtly racist Enquirer, the moderate Whig, and the Dispatch, which claimed a larger circulation than the other papers combined. All three newspapers, however, considered the Negro to be inferior and feared radical reconstruction as the ultimate disaster for Virginia. The press unanimously favored maintaining white supremacy and editorialized for the organization of conservative white opposition to the radical party in the October election.

Robert Penn Warren's Brother To Dragons : A Poem To Fit Its Theme, Marjorie Scott

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Robert Penn Warren is a writer obsessed with ideas, to the extent of spending most of his literary life searching for a form that would enable him to express them. Most of his searching has taken place within the framework of the novel form: in fact, within that form he has tried eight different combinations of characters, plot, and point of view in an effort to find an arrangement that would say what he so urgently wanted to say. Judging from the results, however, it was always what he wanted to say that interested him more than the actual mechanics …

Virginia's Dissension Toward The Mexican War, Angela Lilly

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The Mexican War was not a nationally popular war. Dissent came in various forms from opposition to extension of slave territory through the annexation of Texas, to fear of increased Executive power. The majority of dissension in Virginia came from the Whig party as the largest anti- administration faction.

Thus, I trie dto measure popular dissent by examining the "mouthpiece" of this opposition party, the Richmond Daily Whig. In trying to narrow my topic, I chose for the limits of my paper the period from Fall, 1845 to the war declaration of May 11, 1846 and the repercussions immediately following …

The Electoral College: Retention, Reform, Or Abolition?, Gary E. Brown

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Several Presidential elections during our history have shown that the electoral college machine is a crude invention that has never been "well-oiled" and two elections within the last decade are vivid proof of this problem.

Fourteenth Century Normans In West Africa, Kaye Louise Centers

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During the seventeenth century, a legend grew among the French which claims that during the reign of Charles V of France, a group of industrious and daring sailors of Normandy sailed to northwest Africa and then into the unknown waters of West Africa. By 1383 these Normans had reached the Gold Coast and had established a flourishing trade with the people there. This story seems very remarkable because it was not until the mid-fifteenth century that the Portuguese,under the direction and guidance of Prince Henry, ventured for the first time into West African waters and not until 1*4-86 that they …

Factors Influencing American Opinion For And Against Recognition Of The Soviet Union, 1928-1933, Nelson Lankford

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The purpose of this paper is to present the reaction of Richmond's conservative white newspapers to the election in October 1967 for a constitutional convention. The three papers include the overtly racist Enquirer, the moderate Whig, and the Dispatch, whcih claimed a larger circulation than the other papers combined. All three newspapers, however, considered the Negro to be inferior and feared radical reconstruction as the ultimate disaster for Virginia. The press unanimously favored maintaining white supremacyand editorialized for the organization of conservative white opposition to the radical party in the October election.

The Star Equilibrium: A Question Of Balance, Renee Herbert

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Tobacco And Soil Relationships In Tidewater Virginia To 1670, Harold E. Conover

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The seventeenth century was the golden age of Virginia's Tidewater tobacco industry. The virgin soils had not yet been exploited by a careless agriculture. Before 1670, adventurous men had not planted west of the Fall Line, where superior tobacco land waited quietly. The shadow of chronic debt to his English factor had not yet fallen on the Virginia planter. Fortunes were still to be drawn from the rich earth; there was promise in the golden leaf for ambitious pioneers. The tobacco kingdom was young, and it was Spring in Tidewater.

The Agony Of Lindsay Almond : Virginia's Transition From "Massive Resistance" To "Freedom Of Choice", John G. Mizell Jr

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An analysis of the events in Virginia resulting from the Brown desegregation decision of 1954 has justifiably been the subject of considerable study. The importance of this period of "massive resistance" to integrated schools should not be minimized because the South looked primarily to the Old Dominion for leadership. However, studies undertaken thus far have concentrated principally on the initial reaction of Virginia to the decision and the formation of the maze of obstructionist measures contrived to prevent integration, while largely neglecting the important aspect of the state's use of the "freedom of choice" policy in Virginia's schools.

An examination …

The Journeyman Program, Sheryl Lathrop

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