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Caught Between Nation And State: An Analysis Of Post-Cold War Military Intervention In Failed States, Christopher Liptak Jan 1997

Caught Between Nation And State: An Analysis Of Post-Cold War Military Intervention In Failed States, Christopher Liptak

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Women State Legislators And Political Culture, Diana Burghard West Jan 1997

Women State Legislators And Political Culture, Diana Burghard West

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Euro And African American Student Experiences And Perceptions Of Skill And Knowledge: A Comparative Analysis From The 1995 Senior Survey, Erica Mceachin Rhodes Jan 1997

Euro And African American Student Experiences And Perceptions Of Skill And Knowledge: A Comparative Analysis From The 1995 Senior Survey, Erica Mceachin Rhodes

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Religion And Resistance: African Baptist Churches In Virginia, Stephanie Rosel Reiss Jan 1997

Religion And Resistance: African Baptist Churches In Virginia, Stephanie Rosel Reiss

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"Recurring In This Body": James Dickey And The Quest For Transcendence, Stephen R. Hawkins Jan 1997

"Recurring In This Body": James Dickey And The Quest For Transcendence, Stephen R. Hawkins

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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"For Every Substance Is Conditioned To Change Her Hew, And Sundry Formes To Don": The Cultivation Of Chastity In Spenser's "Garden Of Adonis", Alyssa Jane Sveden Jan 1997

"For Every Substance Is Conditioned To Change Her Hew, And Sundry Formes To Don": The Cultivation Of Chastity In Spenser's "Garden Of Adonis", Alyssa Jane Sveden

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Celts In Hiding: The Search For Celtic Analogues In "Beowulf", Vincent Gabriel Passanisi Jan 1997

Celts In Hiding: The Search For Celtic Analogues In "Beowulf", Vincent Gabriel Passanisi

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


On The Wings Of The Wind: Changes In English Shipbuilding, Navigation And Shipboard Life, 1485-1650, Anna Gibson Holloway Jan 1997

On The Wings Of The Wind: Changes In English Shipbuilding, Navigation And Shipboard Life, 1485-1650, Anna Gibson Holloway

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Going Nowhere Fast: The Car, The Highway And American Identity In Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" And Robert Frank's "The Americans", Scott Patrick Moyers Jan 1997

Going Nowhere Fast: The Car, The Highway And American Identity In Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" And Robert Frank's "The Americans", Scott Patrick Moyers

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Spontaneous Feeling As Moral Power: The Role Of Sentimentality In "Our Mutual Friend", Robin L. Fetherston Jan 1997

Spontaneous Feeling As Moral Power: The Role Of Sentimentality In "Our Mutual Friend", Robin L. Fetherston

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Spiritual Quest As Poetic Sequence: Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence" And Its Relation To T S Eliot's "Four Quartets", Rebecca Eldridge Hurst Hurst Jan 1997

Spiritual Quest As Poetic Sequence: Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence" And Its Relation To T S Eliot's "Four Quartets", Rebecca Eldridge Hurst Hurst

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


What Our Seemers Be: Misreading Text, And Voice In "Measure For Measure", Thomas Lilly Jan 1997

What Our Seemers Be: Misreading Text, And Voice In "Measure For Measure", Thomas Lilly

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Tar Baby And The Black Feminist Literary Tradition, Priti Chitnis Gress Jan 1997

Tar Baby And The Black Feminist Literary Tradition, Priti Chitnis Gress

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Flannery O'Connor And The Reader, Kelly Lynne Haggard Beaty Jan 1997

Flannery O'Connor And The Reader, Kelly Lynne Haggard Beaty

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Virginia Party Politics And Texas Annexation, Margaret Carol Martin Jan 1997

Virginia Party Politics And Texas Annexation, Margaret Carol Martin

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The "War Between The Mind And Sky": The Poet, The Soldier, And The Centrality Of The Epilogue To "Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction", James Craig Yard Jan 1997

The "War Between The Mind And Sky": The Poet, The Soldier, And The Centrality Of The Epilogue To "Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction", James Craig Yard

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Authenticity And Blackness: Defining The Conflict In "Tar Baby", Kathy Nicole Meadows Jan 1997

Authenticity And Blackness: Defining The Conflict In "Tar Baby", Kathy Nicole Meadows

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Mistakes Of Yesterday, The Hopes Of Tomorrow: Prison, Pop Music, And The Prisonaires, John M. Dougan Jan 1997

The Mistakes Of Yesterday, The Hopes Of Tomorrow: Prison, Pop Music, And The Prisonaires, John M. Dougan

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Schoolhouses Remembered: The Story Behind The Nostalgic Image: An Active Pursuit Of The Truth, Michelle Dawn Cude Jan 1997

Schoolhouses Remembered: The Story Behind The Nostalgic Image: An Active Pursuit Of The Truth, Michelle Dawn Cude

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Between "Word-Play And Evasion": Reading And Writing Lily Bart In "The House Of Mirth", Atisaya Vimuktanon Jan 1997

Between "Word-Play And Evasion": Reading And Writing Lily Bart In "The House Of Mirth", Atisaya Vimuktanon

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Capturing Experience: Marlow's Narrative About Women In Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim" And "Chance", Susan Elizabeth Martin-Joy Jan 1997

Capturing Experience: Marlow's Narrative About Women In Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim" And "Chance", Susan Elizabeth Martin-Joy

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Crossing The Rubicon: Lbj And Vietnam 1963-1965, Rajarshi Roy Jan 1997

Crossing The Rubicon: Lbj And Vietnam 1963-1965, Rajarshi Roy

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Reception Of David Mamet's "Oleanna": The Politics Of Interpretation And Received Opinion, Emily Kathleen White Jan 1997

The Reception Of David Mamet's "Oleanna": The Politics Of Interpretation And Received Opinion, Emily Kathleen White

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"Pudd'nhead Wilson", Ambiguity, And Enslavement By Language, John Andrew Lyman Jan 1997

"Pudd'nhead Wilson", Ambiguity, And Enslavement By Language, John Andrew Lyman

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Lost Chances In Sino-American Relations: The Burden Of Myth, Culture, And Ideology, 1949-1953, Kai Yin Allison Haga Jan 1997

Lost Chances In Sino-American Relations: The Burden Of Myth, Culture, And Ideology, 1949-1953, Kai Yin Allison Haga

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Measure Of Their Devotion: Women And Gender In Civil War Virginia, Kate Fraser Gillin Jan 1997

A Measure Of Their Devotion: Women And Gender In Civil War Virginia, Kate Fraser Gillin

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


North Carolina Revolutionaries In Arms: The Battle Of King's Mountain, David Scott Dildy Jan 1997

North Carolina Revolutionaries In Arms: The Battle Of King's Mountain, David Scott Dildy

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


First Contact: Early English Encounters With Natives Of Russia, West Africa, And The Americas, 1530-1614, Melanie Lynn Perreault Jan 1997

First Contact: Early English Encounters With Natives Of Russia, West Africa, And The Americas, 1530-1614, Melanie Lynn Perreault

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

In recent years, the field of comparative history has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity as scholars attempt to understand the past in a global context. This study examines the early period of English exploration of the Atlantic world and the confrontation of English men and women with natives of geographically distinct regions. By comparing English interactions with Russians, West Africans, and North and South Americans during the contact period, this dissertation argues that the mutually constructed dialogue between the visiting English and the natives of each region was a struggle for power and control. In their efforts to construct the …


Studies In The Anticatholic Origins Of The Anglo-American Self, John Patrick Thaddeus Barrington Jan 1997

Studies In The Anticatholic Origins Of The Anglo-American Self, John Patrick Thaddeus Barrington

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Anticatholicism in the early modern, English-speaking world was far more than a crude prejudice. Instead, anticatholic ideas and rhetoric provided an important stimulus for public discussion of a wide range of theological, political, economic, and social issues. Hatred of the Catholic Church was a vital factor in the early development of the public sphere in the English Empire.;The question of English, Protestant identity was central to much of the discourse that took place in the public sphere. Although all participants in this discourse agreed about certain elements of what constituted "popery" and English Protestantism, there was wide disagreement about other …


The Relationship Between Parental Incarceration And African-American High School Students' Attitudes Towards School And Family, Willie Lee Stroble Jan 1997

The Relationship Between Parental Incarceration And African-American High School Students' Attitudes Towards School And Family, Willie Lee Stroble

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether African-American adolescent high school students who have (or have had) at least one parent incarcerated differed on several variables as compared to African-American adolescent high school students who lived with both parents and those who did not have an incarcerated parent but who lived with only one parent.;John Marshall High School in Richmond, Virginia was the institution studied for this project. John Marshall was chosen for several reasons: the student researcher had access to this population and it was believed that a majority of the students at this institution came from …