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Reverend William Graham, Presbyterian Minister And Rector Of Liberty Hall Academy, Robert Goggin Gillespie

Master's Theses

During the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the Reverend William Graham, a Presbyterian Minister, became noted as an educator and minister in Virginia. His dedicated teaching and deep concern for education insured the creation and preservation of Liberty Hall Academy during and after the Revolution; and his devout ministry resulted in revivals which strengthened Presbyterianism in Virginia.

In addition to teaching and preaching, William Graham was a lso interested in the political affairs of the time. He was vitally concerned with the establishment of representative democracy. He felt that through the constitutions and laws which were then being adopted …

The Barren Soul : A Study Of Ellen Glasgow's Religious Revolt, Reva May Jenkins

Master's Theses

He stared in amazement. "You're writing on Ellen Glasgow, on her religious beliefs! Did she have any?"

The time, the speaker, and the words changed but never the question. This paper is my answer. It is the study of five rather different aspects of a religious philosophy. All of Miss Glasgow' s writings were examined. However, since all the fictional writings could not be properly studied in a paper of this size, examples were taken mainly from seven novels selected as representative. These include the following: the first two published novels, The Descendant and Phases of an Inferior Planet; …

James Branch Cabell : Laughing Existentialist, George R. Hazelton

Master's Theses

In the history of American literature, there have been numerous authors whose popularity and critical acclaim were long in coming often delayed long past their deaths. Melville, for example, comes immediately to mind. Others have enjoyed a brief notoriety and have then slipped into oblivion for years until their "rediscovery."

One of the prime vehicles for renewed interest in ignored American authors has been the critical consideration of American humorous literature that has flowered during the 1940's, 50's and the 60's, This criticism, given impetus by Walter Blair's Native American Humor (1937)has made Seba Smith, Edgar Wilson Nye, and Finley …

Attitudes And Beliefs Of Chesterfield County Students Concerning All Police Officials, Benjamin Franklin Lewis

Master's Theses

The problem of this investigation was:

1. What was the attitude of school-age children towards the police and their law enforcement duties?

2. How did these children react towards the police as individuals and to the image they projected?

3. Did the investigator find any change in the attitudes and beliefs of the students as he progressed from one grade or age level to another one and , if so, was the change or difference significant?

4. Was there a difference in the responses of boys as compared to those of girls and , if so, was the difference significant?

A Historical Survey Of Changes In Education In Madison County 1792-1970, John Edward Dwyer

Master's Theses

The author 's purpose for writing this thesis is to show certain changes in the educational development in Madison County from 1792 to 1970.

The Thematic Relationship Of Laurence Sterne To David Herbert Lawrence, Frederick Thornett Hardy

Master's Theses

Among the pioneer novelists of the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne stands out as an unexplained curiosity. In many ways the most modern of the early novelists, he is regarded as the first stream-of-consciousness author, and thus the forerunner of the most significant school in today's fiction. Sterne constructed his original style from ideas derived from the seventeenth century philosopher, John Locke, in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding. A less obvious but equally defendable fact is that this philosophical work provided Sterne with a thematic as well as stylistic bridge into the twentieth century. The clearest illustration of this relationship is …

Colores In Cicero's Philippics I And Ii, And In Pliny's Panegyricus, Marilyn Jacke Smart

Master's Theses

Color, as a figure of speech, is a small part of the art of rhetoric. The various definitions and uses of color in a selection of ancient writers form the subject of this thesis. The purpose is to present examples of col'o'r'es found in· Philippics I and II of Cicero, and in the·Panegyricus of Pliny the Younger. These examples will be correlated to the demands of the situation of each speaker. Cicero's speeches represent free oratory during the period of the late Republic; Pliny's speech represents epideictic oratory during the Empire. The first chapter of this thesis will serve as …

Proudhonism And The French Working Class, Joan Batten Wood

Master's Theses

Conquering causes and dominant trends attract the attention of many historians while unsuccessful movements are neglected or forgotten. Such is unfortunate in the extreme, for these vanquished ideas are often but submerged in the prevailing trends to emerge in the shape of subtle, formative influences on human psychology and the structuring of society. As socialist thought and movements developed in the latter half of the nineteenth century, two diverging currents were readily distinguishable. One, evolving from the teachings of Karl Marx, moved toward increasing centralization and authoritarianism and has become associated in the public mind with the emergence of the …

Shakespeare's Treatment Of Kingship In The Lancastrian Tetralogy, June Stemen Allman

Master's Theses

The English history play reached its highest peak of development between 1595 and 1599, for it was during these years that Shakespeare wrote the set of four plays covering the historical period from Richard II to Henry V. Each of the plays is a single entity, but in their entirety, they constitute a unified tetralogy concerning the rise of the house of Lancaster. Through the illegal seizure of the crown by Bolingbroke from Richard II to the glorious reign of Henry V, Shakespeare, as an intensely political writer, examines the facets of kingship and its inherent power and authority.

The Role Of The Peripheral Narrator In Moby-Dick, Heart Of Darkness And The Great Gatsby, Erana Leiken

Master's Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the unique role of the peripheral narrator in Moby-Dick, Heart of Darkness and The Great Gatsby. Each narrator's point of view is unique in that, though he is a character within the story, his participation in the action is restricted by his peripheral status which allows him to witness and evaluate the other characters, particularly the pro­tagonlst. The distinguishing characteristic of this narrative frame necessitated by the use of such a narrator is that the author surrenders his omniscience regarding his other characters by letting his narrator tell the reader only what …

A Resolution Of The Political Activities Of Philo With The Politico-Messianic Ideas Expressed In His Works, Leonard Jay Greenspoon

Master's Theses

The study of ancient literature and society is a dynamic one. As each age brings its unique experience and understanding to this study, new explanations,interpretations end insights are developed. However, each age also tends to impose its own likes and dislikes on works and events of a prior time, with the result that the same personality, event, or piece of literature may be praised in one age and damned in the next, interpreted in one way in a particular century- and in quite the opposite way in succeeding ones, adopted as its own by one society and shunned.

We may …

The Effectiveness Of Teacher Attention As A Reinforcer In The Conditioning And Extinction Of Classroom Behaviors Of Delinquent Girls, Mary Fulcher Geis

Master's Theses

The present study was designed to assess the effectiveness of a combination of teacher approval for appropriate behavior and teacher ignoring of inappropriate behavior in modifying the classroom behavior of institutionalized juvenile delinquents.In a classroom at a residential facility for female juvenile offenders, baseline recordings of student and teacher behaviors were collected. After baseline, the teacher introduced three rules specifying appropriate student behavior. Next , in a multiple baseline procedure, the teacher approved of the students' appropriate interrupting and ignored their inappropriate interrupting; later, she also approved of the students not engaging in inappropriate talking and ignored their inappropriate talking.The …

The "Detotalization" Of A Teaching Sisterhood And Some Analogous Processes Of Change, Brendan. O'Dowd

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Changes In The Maxillary Arch Length Accompanying Rapid Palatal Expansion, Kenneth H. Peterson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Correlation Matricies Of Nine Socio-Demographic Variables For The Bronx And For Seattle, 1960: An Empirical Test Of The Generality Of Schmid And Tagashira's Variables As Revelatory Of The Structure Of The Large Urban Community, Terrence R. Mcgovern

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Common Sense Philosophy Of G. E. Moore, Mark A. Phillips

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Robert S. Abbott's Chicago Defender: A Study In Negro Journalism And Reform, 1910-1920, Henry C. Vander Voort

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Sequential Processing Deficits In Reading Retardation, Sara Gambrell Tarver

Master's Theses

Doehring (1968) hypothesized that a basic sequential processing deficit underlies specific reading disability. To investigate sequential processing deficits in reading retardation, four tasks involving the reproduction of stimuli in a particular sequence were administered to a group of retarded readers and a group of normal readers matched on age, sex, race, educational opportunity, sociocultural environment, and Non-Language IQ on the CTMM. The normal readers were significantly superior to the retarded readers on the four sequential processing tasks and on two other tests, vocabulary and rhyming. The two groups did not differ significantly on reversals discrimination, perceptual speed, or cumulative learning. …

Chronic Infections By Human Herpesviruses, Diane Claire Halstead

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Radiographic Interpretation And Cephalometric Analysis Of The Human Fetus In A Posteror-Anterior View: A Pilot Study, O. Richard Infield

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Cephalometric Comparison Of Vertical And Horizontal Growth Trends, Relating Dental And Certain Anatomical Structures, In Manibular Centric And Rest Positions, Of Angle Class I, Ii, And Iii Malocclusions, Raymond Donald Karka

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Short Forms Of The Wppsi For Screening And Research, Richard J. Delaney

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Histologic Study Of Two Technics Of Autogenous Bone Grafts On Monkeys, Aime F. Rivault

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Insulin Complexes And The Radioimmunoassay Of Insulin, Ronald Joseph Przybyla

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Changes In The Inter Molar Width And Facial Tilting Of The First Permanent Maxillary Molars Induced By Opening The Midpalatal Suture In Rapid Palalatal Expansion, Wallace J. Connell

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Cephalometric Changes Induced By Splitting Of The Midpalatal Suture On A Lateral Cephalometric Roentgenogram, Steven James Decoite

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Free Gingival Grafts: A Histological Evaluation In Humans, Robert Cannon Bracket

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Cephalometric Study Of Mechanico-Therapeutic Anterior Repositioning Of The Maxillae, Garret Frank Harnett

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Lateral Cephalometric Analysis Of Changes In The Position Of The Maxillary Incisors Induced By Rapid Separation Of The Midpalatal Suture, Roy L. Grob Jr.

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Preliminary Growth Study Of Embryonic A/Jax Mouse Palatal Shelves In Vitro, Gerald A. Lamberti

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.