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The Origin And Growth Of Parliament, Marie De Bolt

Bachelors’ Theses

The history of the growth of Parliament is a history of' the transformation of a merely advisory feudal body, composed of great lords and vassals, to a legislative assembly representing the entire nation.

Henrik Ibsen, And His Influence On English Drama, Helen Rose Dempsey

Bachelors’ Theses

There are a great number of dramatic critics who claim that all the most important dramatic work that is being done in the world or has been done in the last quarter of a century, bears the unmistakable impress of Ibsen's influence. The poetic change that Wordsworth and Coleridge inaugurated in 1798, was nothing they say, compared with the revolution in dramatic art that began when Ibsen produced his "Pillars of Society," the first of his purely sociological plays.

Lamartine, As Historian Of The French Revolution, Jane Devoy

Bachelors’ Theses

Any discussion of Lamartine as an historian necessitates a study of his political career. His "Histoire des Girondins" was the culmination of' his political career, it was the embodiment of the theories and principles which he had advocated all thru his speeches in Parliament. To understand these principles it is necessary to trace their growth from the time Lamartine entered politics. After tracing his political growth a discussion of the "Histoire des Girondins'' will show that its value lies not in its historical value but in the influence it had on the people of France.

Social Forces In Ludwig Anzengruber's Dramas, Theodore Charly

Bachelors’ Theses

In view of the fact that the various phases of life and culture of a people are reflected in its literature, the criterion upon which a correct and complete evaluation of any literary writer in any epoch is based must necessarily include the degree of truthfulness with which that epoch is represented in his works. Conversely, one of the essential prerequisites of a true and complete evaluation of the literary product-s of a writer is the study of the epoch in which his works were created, and of the problems which confronted this epoch. Such study is of even greater …

Free Will Versus Determinism, Alfred Joseph Biagi

Bachelors’ Theses

Philosophy stretching down from the time of Thales its father, who lived in the sixth century B.C. has continuously grappled with problems of man and the universe. Almost from its very beginnings speculation arose over the question of human freedom -- resulting in the overlasting contest between determinist and libertarian -- a contest which is becoming more and more acute with the modern developments in physical and mental science.

The Influence Of Seneca On The Elizabethan Tragedy, James Aloysius Bielefeld

Bachelors’ Theses

In the world of letters it was the fortune of Seneca like that of Banquo to beget a posterity greater than himself. Seneca is really more philosopher than dramatist, and his "Tenne Tragedies" are mainly unac­table closet-dramas. It seems unlikely that they were ever produced at Rome beyond being declamed before some select reading circle gathered by personal invitation. How the Elizabethans turned to Seneca rather than to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the giants of the Periclean age, is a problem we may take up later, but that Elizabethan tragedy is deeply indebted to Seneca will be made clear by …

Newspaper Fights And Campaigns For The Public Good, Matthew Jerome Berlowitz

Bachelors’ Theses

Many newspaper editors consider the newspaper merely as a business concern with news as the product. The newspaper is more than that. It is a sort of public utility and as such must function in the public interest other than getting out the various editions. It must aid in bettering the society that comes within its influence. There are two ways of doing this, internal and external. The internal method consists in the actual publication of both news and advertising. By following a strict ethical policy in its columns the newspaper can be of an infinite benefit to its readers.

The Treatment Of Nature Including The Indians In Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, Orvilla Adlgunde Beilfuss

Bachelors’ Theses

The first half of the Nineteenth Century is one of the most important, and of universal interest. It is notable for two very important events namely: the establishment of democracy in government, and the triumph of romanticism in literature.

Cooperative Advertising, Mary Ellenbecker

Bachelors’ Theses

Cooperative, group, or association advertising is the common effort of competitors to increase their sales, improve market conditions, combat a common enemy, or in other ways to improve the industry in which they have a mutual interest by advertising.

It is an economical, effective way of influencing a market. The greatest difficulty in the way of increasing group advertising is the difficulty of organizing. To present a program to which competitors will subscribe, for joint action by individuals or firms which have habitually been antagonistic, requires a high degree of organizing ability combined with a great abundance of tact.

The Religion Of William Shakespeare As Shown In His Plays, William G. Friar

Bachelors’ Theses

For over three hundred years, the plays, the life, and the character of William Shakespeare have been the subject of discussion wherever men of literary taste congregate. There have been thousands of volumes written about him; there has been argument pro and con concerning nearly every phase of his existence. Much is conjecture; much is theory; some is fact; nearly all is a matter of personal opinion. There is question even of the author­ ship of the works attributed to Shakespeare. Some say that a man with as little education as Shakespeare received could not have written the plays as …

The Religious Conceptions Of Lamartine In Les Permieres Mediatations Poetiques And Les Nouvelles Mediations, Anita Ewens

Bachelors’ Theses

Two main impulses discernible throughout French literature have been the inspiration of the greatest masterpieces of the French language, namely - love of diction and sound reason. These were the predominant characteristics of the litterati in the seventeenth century. With the advent of the Romantic move­ment we have a momentous reaction against the cold reason found rampant in the prose of Voltaire. In other words, Romanticism was a complete break from the artificial formal expression of the Classicists. Boileau's "Art Poetique" with its rigorous and exacting rules governed verse, structure and style. Now all was to change. Romanticists demanded of …

Favorable Cultural Conditions For Tuber Development In Nephrolepis Cordifolia (L.) Presl. (Nephrolepis Tuberosa (Bory.)Willd.), Hazel Mae Henderson

Bachelors’ Theses

Recently there has been brought to the attention of writers a number of plants that produce water-storing organs commonly known as tubers. Luerssen, (Campbell, 1905) refers to special reproductive bodies or tubers in Marsilia hirsuta. These tubers are thought to survive long periods of drought, and to germinate under favorable conditions. Nephrolepis cordifolia (L.) Presl., one of the Boston ferns, which produces tubers in large numbers has interested a number of investigators.

The Economic Value Of Advertising To The Manufacturer And The Consumer, Edward D. O'Keef

Bachelors’ Theses

Advertising is something that has not as yet been accurately defined. When a dictionary of recognized authority falls so short of defining the modern significance of advertising, it is not surprising that a careful analysis and summary of the economic functions fulfilled by advertising is needed at this time. The business man and the trained economist have frequently been misled in their efforts to classify and interpret this tremendous force which, despite the opposition of some powerful business factors, has grown into almost universal use within two centuries.

Is Death The End?, Edward T. O'Neill

Bachelors’ Theses

In asking the great question, Is death the end, I understand that I am entering upon the very specific inquiry at to whether death is the end of ourselves as separate and distinct individualities. In discussing immortality, I assume that I am discussing the survival of the human soul, after the dissolution of the body, in the full retention of its conscious identity. In this I follow the same interpretation of the essential problem involved that Professor Josiah Royce lays down in his "The Conception of Immortality."

The Norm Of Morality, Francis J. Laczniak

Bachelors’ Theses

Acts are termed human when they are proper to man as man,when on the contrary they are elicited by man but not proper to him as a rational agent, they are called acts of man. Human act is one that is accompanied with freedom and deliberation of the will. Some acts in the abstract are neither good nor bad for they are neither conformable nor contrary to a moral norm, and these are said to be indifferent. It is universally admitted that there are actions that are morally good and actions that are morally evil. We can bring that out …

The Aurora Borealis, Magdalen Kramschuster

Bachelors’ Theses

The Indians wondered if their beloved aurora would return. They watched and philosophized about the dawn, the twilight, the stars and all the phenomena of the heavens. They pondered the mysteries of lightening and thunder. Peoples down through the ages have written poetry about the mighty thunderhead and the lacy cirrus clouds. One by one these mysteries have been solved, but one still remains--the Aurora Polaris. Advances have been made in scientific fields so that we no longer worry whether or not the next day will come. Thunder, to us, is not the voice of an angry god. Rapid strides …

The Study Of The Curves Of Equations Having The Type Form Of Y=XN, Frank Kohn

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate those properties of curves having the general type form of y = xⁿ that will enable us to determine the graph of a particular curve of this type. The investigations will not only determine the graph as it appears in the finite region of the curve but its appearance in infinite regions as well.

What Did Irish Civilization Contribute To The Civilization Of Europe?, Emil A. Kuester

Bachelors’ Theses

It is with the greatest pleasure that I have attempted to answer this question. Much has been revealed that was hitherto unknown to me. I did not realize the importance of Irish civilization and its contributions to the entire world. Everywhere in Europe, it has left monumental evidence of this fact. The world does owe a debt to the Irish. Irish antiquity is the reverence of all Irish people and no small wonder when its true worth is made known. There may be many startling statements made in this thesis, but they can all be verified by sufficient evidence. Why …

Shakespeare's Delineation Of Criminal Characters, Herbert Lloyd Hinstorff

Bachelors’ Theses

We like what we are not, or we are not what we think we are. In no subject is this truism more evident than in the literature of a people. Literature reflects the taste of the time rather than the time itself, and of­ ten the two are widely different. Literature is, of course, not life, neither history nor material for history, but a scroll whereon are traced and charactered the unfettered thoughts of writer and reader, - a life within a life, fancy somewhat at odds with fact. fut by critics and historians this is often forgotten - "To …

The Attitude Of The Metropolitan Daily Toward Neighborhood Advertising, John William Conroy

Bachelors’ Theses

The material for this thesis has been gathered from personal letters, accompanied by a questionnaire, which were sent to the advertising managers of thirty-five newspapers throughout the country and Canada.

After a thorough investigation it was found that there are no books that dwell directly on the subject and the questionnaire and letter that follow directly after the bibliography were sent to gain the information.

Many of the advertising managers went to a lengthy discussion on the subject but the majority of answers were returned, written on the back of the questionnaire. These were very meager in the information that …

American Women In The Field Of Journalism, Dorothy Duffy

Bachelors’ Theses

The status of women in the field of Journalism today would scarcely indicate the long struggle and many rebuffs the early women writers were forced to undergo before they were accepted in the high position which wom­en now occupy in the sphere of newspaper writing.

Extra-Curricular Activities, Emma J. Dwyer

Bachelors’ Theses

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Epicureanism In The Georgics, Ruth Agnes Crawford

Bachelors’ Theses

Vergil, the Latin poet who has had more influence on literature throughout the ages than any other Latin writer, was born in 70 B.C . He lived during the reign of Augustus Caesar, which was a time of peace and great prosperity. Augustus, in furtherance of his country's prosperity, encouraged literature and raised it to a standard previously unknown in Roman history. Vergil, then, wrote under very favorable circumstances. This era which produced so much culture fostered three philosophies which naturally influenced all the writers of the time. It is only reasonable to suppose that Vergil was affected by one …

The Health Situation In North Dakota And A Proposed Program Of Health Education For The High Schools Of North Dakota, Edward W. Butler

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The School Newspaper In North Dakota, William E. Michaelsohn

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

History Of Albuquerque, Gladys Neel

Political Science ETDs

In the heart of New Mexico lies Bernalillo County, the smallest of all counties of the state. Its eastern half is covered by the Sandia and Manzano Ranges while the west is a high table land. The Rio Grande's course cuts almost through it center and it is this fertile river valley that furnishes ample resources for the metropolis of the state, Albuquerque.

Zechariah, The Prophet Of The Passion Week, Herbert Hellbush

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

Zechariah, The Prophet of the Passion Week

The Ethics Of St. Paul Concerning Sexual Morality, Alfred Faulstich

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

This thesis aims to picture the background of the age in which the Apostle was active, and to present his teaching of Christian purity both within and outside of the marriage relation.

The Synonymns Of Conversion, W H. Mclaughlin

Bachelor of Divinity

The over-systematization tendency in theology has had many sad consequences. Among these are not only the perverted harmonization efforts, which in the doctrine of election have led to the Calvinistic and the synergistic solutions of the “Cur alii prae aliis?" dilemma, and in the doctrine of justification have resulted in a lamentable confounding of Law and Gospel in quest of a "higher harmony”, but also certain subtly scholastic unscriptural distinctions which discriminate between the effect of the preached and of the written Word, endeavor to establish a different working for each of the sacraments, and have also borne fruit in …

Roman Judicial Procedure With Reference To The Trial Of Jesus Christ, A C. Hahn

Bachelor of Divinity

A concession of the greatest importance was this, that the Sanhedrin was permitted to continue and exercise its power in the internal government of Jewish affairs. In the days of Jesus, the Sanhedrin had legislative, executive, and judicial powers. It commanded a body of police for the purpose of making arrests, (Mat 26,47; Mark 14,43). It had the power to prefer charges and try cases of a religious nature, in which the procurator would not meddle. From its decision there could be no appeal; it was the highest court. In connection with the Great Sanhderin, there was an organized system …