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The Parties Quarrae, Michael E. Malone

Institute for the Humanities Theses

During Thomas Jefferson's educational days in Williamsburg, Virginia, he was fortunate to have the association with three learned men, William Small, George Wythe, and Lt. Governor Francis Fauquier. The men met often at the governor's palace during the years 1760-64. Jefferson referred to their association as the "parties quarrae."

Most historians agree that the time spent with Small, Wythe, and Fauquier had profound influence on the establishment of Jefferson's "enlightenment" philosophy. Little, however, is known about the details of the regular meetings in the palace.

The focus of this creative project is the fictional discovery of Jefferson's "lost" Autobiography, finished …

Racism, Sexism And Ageism In America, Bobbie Alexander Lyons

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Beneath The Umbrellas Of Benevolent Men: Validation Of The Middle-Class Woman In "Little Women" And "Five Little Peppers And How They Grew", Sandra Burr

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Springing From The Same Root: Religion And Art In The Fiction Of Willa Cather, Christopher Richards Carter

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Broken Branches: The Search For Ancestry In Toni Morrison's Novels "Song Of Solomon" And "Beloved", Joan Potter Thomas

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Freedom And Association In The Poetry Of Robert Frost, Adrian Marcus Thirkell

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Finding A Sense Of Ease In The Creation: Or, Pynchon's Disinformational Map To The Stars, Gregory Lee Kenyon

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Middlesex County, New Jersey Gravestones 1687-1799: Shadows Of A Changing Culture., Richard Francis Veit

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Americans Define Themselves In The New World, Judith Richards

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study is to show how the different groups who settled in the English American colonies which later became the United States described themselves during the colonial period. The focal work is Letters from an American Farmer by Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. In his chapter "What is an American?" Crevecoeur goes into detail in his descriptions of settlers living in the American colonies just before the Revolutionary War.

Crevecoeur's descriptions are compared with those of earlier writers who wrote at the time of settlement. These writers are selected to be representative of their colony or region. …

Killer Trees And Homicidal Grass: The Anthropomorphic Landscape In The American Prose Narrative Of The Vietnam War, Timothy F. Poremba

Masters Theses

Reading the landscape of Vietnam (the climate, the jungle, the topography) as an anthropomorphic character in the American prose narrative of the war provides a unique insight into the inner landscapes of the men who fought there and now write about it. William V. Spanos writes that the urge to name--to anthropomorphize--is man's method for dealing with the existential nothingness of being. Zohreh T. Sullivan, in discussing the landscape of Joseph Conrad, perceives landscape as a projection of the author's own psychic turmoil. Furthermore, Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space recognizes the imaginative value that man places on space, …

The Perpetual Journey: Jonathan Edwards' "Personal Narrative" And Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Pamela A. Masden

Masters Theses

Scholarly readers seem to have avoided a comparison of the writings of Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) and Benjamin Franklin (1706-90). Although they were born three years apart, they are rarely represented in anthologies as having been contemporaries, primarily because Edwards was a Puritan preacher and Franklin was an "Enlightenment" politician and inventor. However, when we disregard these critical constraints and assumptions, we find that as writers and thinkers, they have a great deal in common.

In my thesis, I have examined the autobiographies of these contemporary works: Edwards' "Personal Narrative" (c. 1739-42) and Franklin's Autobiography (1771-88). The theoretical approaches of Jane …

Simply Shaker: The Rise And Development Of Popular Images Of The Shakers, Scott F. De Wolfe Ma

All Student Scholarship

Generations of Americans have been fascinated by a small religious group known as the Shakers. This thesis traces the evolution of the Shaker image through time. Much of the paper centers on the current view of the Shakers as a simple agrarian and non technological movement whose members live a stress free life.

Debate, Social Criticism And Rhetoric In The Left Hand Of Darkness: An Analysis Of Strategy, Ellen Irene Elfstrom

Theses Digitization Project

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Artisans In The Carolina Backcountry: Rowan County, 1753-1770, Johanna Carlson Miller Lewis

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Artisans played an important role in the social and economic life of Rowan County, North Carolina beginning with its creation in 1753. Whether they came individually with their families to obtain land and establish new lives, or they were chosen by the Moravian Church to settle the 100,000 acre Wachovia Tract, all of these artisans were part of the huge wave of immigration to the backcountry of North Carolina which occurred during the third quarter of the eighteenth century.;The development of the artisan population paralleled the growth of Rowan County. In the early 1750s a handful of artisans produced objects …

Japanese Business In The United States: Unintentional Definition Of The Other, Yujin Yaguchi

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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A Proud Crow In A Pigeon's Nest: The Independent Zora Neale Hurston In "Mules And Men", Olivia T. Lo

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