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Orwell's Warnings : A Study Of George Orwell's Purpose In Writing, Ruth Anne Kurani Nuwayser

Master's Theses

Although George Orwell requested that no books be written about him, it is not difficult to glean a considerable amount of autobiographical material from his novels. His autobiographical works and several essays shed much light on his life and personality.

He was born in Motihari, Bengal, in 1903, of Scottish parents and christened Eric Blair. His father was a minor official in the Indian Civil Service and retired to England before his only son was eight years old.

At the age of eight, Orwell received a scholarship to study at a preparatory school, St. Cyprian's, on the south coast of …

County Government In Colonial Louisa County, Virginia, Rudolph Stone Rangel

Master's Theses

Over one hundred years ago Joseph Martin, describing Louisa County, wrote, "This county has been the scene of no important historical incident." This may well be true. Incidents, however, are not the only factors to be taken into consideration in determining the relative historical importance of a people or locality. A historical incident is usually the culminative crisis of a series of formative experience in the lives of the members of a community. "Important historical incidents" may come to a climax at a given time and place, as in a military or parliamentary conflict, but their roots are to be …

Dr. Edward Maynard, Progenitor And Inventor, Blanton Bowles Allen

Master's Theses

This thesis is concerned with the two most notable aspects of the career of Dr. Edward Maynard; his efforts to bring about the use of professional dentists in the U.S. armed forces; and his contributions to the development of modern firearms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Concept Of Skepticism And His Doctrine Of The Infinitude Of The Private Man, Donal Francis Mahoney

Master's Theses

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Important Developments In The Grand Jury System In Virginia During The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries, Melvin Dean Snead

Master's Theses

By March of 1658 tho grand jury system in Virginia was found to be sadly lacking. It had scarcely lasted ten years. Probably the reason for this failure was that the county justices failed to carry out the details of establishing grand juries. Because or Virginia's rural setting, this system would surely have been a worthwhile one. It seems to be quite evident that here we had a powerful instrument for aiding in criminal detection, and at the same time an instrument for protecting the innocent. However, it was not used to its best advantage and as a result it …

Through A Glass Darkly : The Literary Reputation Of Henry James, Linda Goodman Lewis

Master's Theses

In the course of any artist's career there usually are changes in the attitudes towards him. If he is developing, the changes should be a fact, especially if the times are changing also. If the artist does not show any differences during his career, there is little point in his creating the first product.

The Public Career Of Robert Carter Nicholas, Robert Miller Saunders

Master's Theses

Although time has obscured his reputation, Robert carter Nicholas exercised considerable influence in pre-Revolutionary Virginia. Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Washington and other familiar revolutionary figures knew him well and respected both his ability and integrity. In fact, Nicholas had already established himself as a power in Virginia politics when the men mentioned above were just stepping onto the stage of Virginia history.

William Butler Yeats' Contribution To The Celtic Renaissance In Ireland, Marian Marsh Sale

Master's Theses

The story of Ireland's Literary Revival is the story not only of the life and death of the Gaelic language in Ireland and the attempt to revive it as the national medium of speech, but also of the rise, during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, of modern Anglo-Irish literature, which gave to Irish letters the right to be judged independently of English literature. The formation of this new medium of national literary expression was the result of the interaction of the work of certain translators and folklorists with that of those writers who sought to restore the Gaelic …

Clerical Portraits In The Nineteenth Century British Novel, Doralee Forsythe Richardson

Master's Theses

Because there were only four recognized professions which a nineteenth century respectable English gentleman could enter and still maintain his family reputation--the army, the navy, and church, and the bar-- it is natural that clergymen should appear frequently in the novels of the period. Through the eyes of numerous novelists one can come to understand better the roles and the personalities of the men of cloth during the 1800's.

By way of limiting myself to a reasonable amount of material, I have chosen to concentrate on those novels in which a clerical scene provides the major characters and action. In …

Cabell's Rational Morality As Expressed Through The Dream-Vision Technique In Jurgen, Ruth Macdonald Stevenson

Master's Theses

The various parts of this study deal with various episodes in Jurgen, episodes in which Jurgen progresses from one region to another and from one set of circumstances to another with no very immediately apparent relationship between any two of his adventures. This apparent lack of unity is deceiving. What witness, if we are perceptive, is not an aimless progression to region after region but a series of related allegories, each of which concerns it­self with some aspect of reality, the moral values involved therein, and man's "reasonable" adjustment to these realities. The unity of this thesis rests upon the …

Pereda Y Galdos, Las Dos Caras De Una Medalla, Adriana Teresa. Bo'

Master's Theses

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William James On Free Will: A Personal Response To The Dilemma Of Determinism, Robert Michael Buren

Master's Theses

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The Reaction Of The British Press To Pius Ix: 1846-1850, Gerald L. Bristow

Master's Theses

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T.S. Eliot: A Study Of His Dramatic Theory, Jeanne A. Flood

Master's Theses

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An Historical Survey And Annotated Bibliography Of Studies In Periodical Articles On The English Mystery Cycles, Mary Charles Kielpinski

Master's Theses

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Susanne K. Langer's General Theory Of Art, Francis Vincent Hillebrand

Master's Theses

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A Study Of The Aeschylean And Pre-Aeschylean Myth Of Orestes, Richard Thomas Lambert

Master's Theses

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Theodore Roosevelt, Antagonistic Peacemaker, Allan Francis Kirk

Master's Theses

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The Problem Of Evil In The Anti-Manichean Works Of Saint Augustine, Herbert Heinrich Meyer

Master's Theses

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The Attitude Of The Department Of State To The Japanese Exclusion Clause In The Immigration Act Of 1924, Carl Edward Meirose

Master's Theses

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Mrs. Gaskell's Cranford: "The Importance Of Living The Truth" As Its Unifying Theme, Donald Joseph Racky

Master's Theses

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The Critical Orientation Of T. S. Eliot, Honora Remes

Master's Theses

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The Purchase Of Alaska: The Reasons Offered By Representative Nathaniel P. Banks Examined, With Special Emphasis On The Interest Of William H. Seward In The Far East, John Wayne Witek

Master's Theses

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Teilard De Chardin: On The Meaning Of Consciousness, Richard James Vorwerk

Master's Theses

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The Social Debate In The French Constituent Assembly, 1848, Thomas P. Anderson

Master's Theses

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