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Evil And The Role Of Evil In The Book Of Revelation, Elizabeth Alger Pugh

Honors Theses

The symbolism of evil as used in the Book of Revelation portrayed God's response through the personal revelation of the author to the wickedness of humanity. The purpose of this focus on evil was to instill obedience and faith of the early church community as it held to strong messianic expectations.

"What's A Few Secrets Among Friends", William M. Nichols

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by William M. Nichols on April 1, 1986.

Kate Chopin : A Different Look, Kimberly Ann Francis

Honors Theses

Kate Chopin? Who is she? This is a common resonse of many people who are not familiar with this outstanding woman writer of the late 1800's and early 1900's. In fact, this same question would more likely have gone unanswered then than today. For the most part, many of her contemporaries are prominently discussed and read today because they enjoyed popularity while they were alive. They not only established literary voges; in many cases they gave the public what it wanted to read. Such writers include Mark Twain and Stephen Crane as well as Edith Wharton and Ellen Glasgow. Kate …

Alice Walker: An Interpretation Of Her Works, Niamh Walsh

Honors Theses

In summary, I feel as if Alice Walker has used her literature for far more than mere literary entertainment. I believe that she wrote with a very strong message for both blacks and women. To both minorities, of which she herself is proud to belong, she calls for acknowledgmetn of their attirubutes, their worth and their limitations: she calls for reclamation of the many positive attributes that have, for too long, been derided as insignificant: and she calls for a loud, joyous celebration of all the many defining aspects of womanhood and blackness. I see this evident in most, in …

Walk Naked In The Garden, Gale Coffin Arnoux

English Theses & Dissertations

Writing is an act of survival for the person who must live an examined life. The process of writing is surrounded with such private ritual as laying claim to a quiet niche in the house that will become one's place for writing, and with reading from sources deeply significant to the writer before beginning with one's own writing. Only then is the writer ready to look out at the world from his or her study window, or as Flaubert preferred, from the landscape of a wall to create a new landscape.

The landscape of most of my poems in this …

Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Struggle For Poetic Vision, Kathryn M. Fessler

Honors Theses

In this study, I will trace the developmetn and history of Hopkins' struggle to realize and live by a vision of an immanent God, using as the gauge of his progress the poems, which are the celarest expressions of Hopkins' heart. I will illustrate the chronological progression of this vision in the poetry, and discuss specific poems in terms of their places in the history of Hopkins' life as a poet and a priest. I will also pay some degree of attention to linguistic innovations in the poetry, since these are manifestations of Hopkins' liberation from certain formal constraints made …

Toni Morrison's Approach To Understanding, Joyce Dorris

Honors Theses

Toni Morrison tackles the problems for which she does not have resolutions. In order to make an impact on readers and achieve a meaningful understanding, Morrison manipulates readers' emotions. She says, "My writing expects, demands participatory reading. The reader supplies the emotions. Then we (you, the reader, and I, the author) come together to make this book, to feel this experience" (Tate, 125). Morrison carefully positions her readers to see what her characters see and react as they would. Morrison feels if the readers can see the person experiencing the thing, they do not need an explanation. The illustration will …

Truth Lifting Up Its Head Above Scandals : The New Law Of Righteousness Proposed By Gerrard Winstanley And The Diggers, John Cook

Honors Theses

In the beginning of 1649 a group of landless people began to build houses and plant crops on the common lands at George Hill in Surrey, England. However these were not ordinary squatters for the Diggers also had a program which declared "freedom to the creation, and that the earth must be set free of the entanglements of lords and landlords, and that it shall become a common treasury to all, as it was first made and given" to men by God. (p.128) Sometime just before this the Diggers' leading spokesman, Gerrard Winstanley, had begun to claim "that many things …

The Fleet Landing Exercises And The Development Of Modern American Amphibious Doctrine, W. Howard Meissel Jr.

History Theses & Dissertations

The Fleet Landing Exercises conducted by the United States Marine Corps in conjunction with the Navy and Army were some of the most significant military exercises conducted in American history. This thesis analyzes the seven exercises conducted between 1935 and 1941 to see how field testing affected amphibious doctrine, organization, and equipment development. This study summarizes the successes and failures of each exercise in regard to the evolution of a strong tactical doctrine, the training of a cadre of officers and men, and the development of the equipment vital to perform the amphibious mission. Primary information is largely drawn from …

Frances E. Willard's Southern Tours For Temperance: 1881-1883, Charles Jeffrey Shelton

History Theses & Dissertations

Frances E. Willard (1839-98) was the president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1879 until her death and one of the foremost temperance advocates of her time. This study explores the impact of Willard's first three tours of the South on that region's temperance movement and southern women, as well as on inter-sectional reconciliation after Reconstruction. The study concludes that Willard's efforts to organize W.C.T.U. chapters in the South were largely successful. Willard and her southern collaborators contributed greatly to a resurgence of the southern temperance movement and the involvement of southern women in community activities, but temperance advocacy …

The Remarkable John Bigelow, Jr.: An Examination Of Professionalism In The United States Army, 1877-91, Howard K. Hansen Jr.

History Theses & Dissertations

This thesis describes the military career of John Bigelow, Jr. , with emphasis on the professional development of United States Army officers. It questions the role Bigelow played in the formation of army professionalism, a sense of corporate responsibility to exercise military expertise correctly. A focus on Bigelow to delineate professionalism in the army provides a fresh perspective of a pivotal period in American military history in the aftermath of the Civil War and before the United States started to build a colonial empire. Bigelow articulated a comprehensive concept of total^ar as he perceived its development in the United States. …

The Troubadour Poets: Their Influence On Their Times, Georgia M. Jarrell

Institute for the Humanities Theses

Troubadour poetry was a phenomenon which occurred in the South of France during the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries. The style was one of political and social invectives and panegyrics, as well as a sophisticated love poetry. The tradition flourished and then died with direct relations to the political and religious events of the era. Through this poetry, the modern reader can not only understand the feelings of the individual poets but also gain insights on the lifestyles of the period and the events which had a bearing on the history of the period. The troubadours were truly mirrors of …

This Blood In All Of Us, Dorothy Roberta Tobe

English Theses & Dissertations

The payment for my mortality is love and this contract ties in heavily with the poems of This Blood in All of Us. These poems attempt to yield moments of what I love and value most--rural Ohio life, my experiences with places and people in death and love--that have made me see my relationship with a world in which we are transient, passing through it from one place or time or person to another.

The Ohio poems attempt to make sense of a changing landscape and its people. The persona of the poems changes as she grows from a "Big …

Language Situation And Language Planning In The Southern Region Of The Sudan, Arop Yor-Ayik

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Justification In The Eastern Orthodox Churches (A Comparative Study), Eshetu Abate

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The topic of this Thesis, Justification in the Eastern Orthodox Churches, is prompted by the document which recently came out of the U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue on the doctrine of Justification by faith alone, work which took more than five years ending in September 1983. To one who comes from the East, especially from Ethiopia, a country where half of the population is Orthodox, the reading of the publicity on this dialogue and its outcome raised the question: "How do the Orthodox Churches in the East think about justification by faith alone?" The incubation of this idea yielded the present …

The New Mexico Territorial Penitentiary: A Political History To 1899, Lee Donohue Hilley

History ETDs

Until 1885 the territory of New Mexico lacked a penitentiary to house its criminal population. Neither years of harrowing frontier violence nor the problem of notoriously inadequate county jails provided sufficient incentive to bring such an institution to fruition. Only when political and economic self-interest coalesced among a group of highly placed public figures in Santa Fe in the mid-1880s did the penitentiary become a reality. The political alignments forged during that time continued to influence the prison's operation, usually to its detriment, from then on.

This study examines the long-standing obstacles to the creation of a penitentiary, the circumstances …

Hop Agriculture In Oregon: The First Century, Kathleen E. Hudson Cooler

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis was written to document, through both primary and secondary sources, the history of hop growing as it was in Oregon between 1850 and 1950. In those years, hop growing was most often a speculative venture. Growers could be rich one year and bankrupt the next due to the uncertainties of marketing.

A Biblical/Clinical Introduction To The Disease Of Chemical Dependency, Charles Smith

Master of Art Theology Thesis

Medicine and magic in the Bible.-- The disease concept.-- A look at commonly misused drugs. A. Alcohol in the Bible. B. Drug use in the Old Testament.-- Intervention and treatment for chemical dependency.-- A Biblical approach to the psychology of treatment.

An Appeal For Racial Justice : The Civic Interest Progressives' Confrontation With Huntington, West Virginia And Marshall University, 1963-1965, Bruce A. Thompson

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In 1963, the shock waves of the sit-in movement and the growing black unrest throughout the country reached Huntington. This growing discontent with the status quo of segregation and racial discrimination and the impulse from the sit-in movement for direct, non-violent protest combined to mobilize several students at Marshall University who formed the Civic Interest Progressives (CIP), a biracial civil rights group.

Spanish Homiletics Course, Wayne R. Chapman

Western Evangelical Seminary Theses

HOW THE COURSE WAS WRITTEN

The beginning point for me in writing this course was the interest and knowledge given to me from the times I watched my father write other extension courses. After classroom as well as independent study at W.E.S. in the area of Theological Education by Extension, , I became interested in the direct application of the material learned through the teaching of Extension courses in Peru. Northwest Yearly of Friends Mission in Bolivia and Peru has been involved in TEE since the first days of its conception in the early 60's. There is currently a curriculum …

Writer's Block: A Crisis In Business Writing, Pat Reed

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Reading And Listening Enrichment For Esl Students, Karen Aili Liu Lo

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

"Are You Speaking?": A Speech Act Analysis Of Pinter's A Kind Of Alaska And No Man's Land, Brian M. Britt

Honors Papers

My purpose, however, lies not only in a desire to contribute insight to the critical canon on Pinter. I also wish to offer some insight into the literary application of speech act theory. Among the writers I will discuss are Austin, Searle, Altieri, Pratt, Derrida, and Fish. This application leads to my belief that drama is the literary genre to which speech act theory is most appropriate and applicable (in much the same way as the poem serves as the New Critical model). I will begin with a brief introduction to speech act theory, move on to my analysis of …

A Study Of The Teaching Methods Of Comprehension Through Isolation And Context, Mahlon A. Smith

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Reading Can Be Fun Again: A Supplementary Reading Program For Grades 4-6 Using Picture Books, Timothy C. Van Dusen

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Alternatives To Round Robin Oral Reading, Linda June Cree

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

An Alternative Approach To Spelling Instruction, Mary E. Nugent

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Joan Didion And The New Journalism, Jean Gillingwators

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

A Program For Teaching Advanced Composition And Test Taking Strategies In The Eleventh Grade English Curriculum, Ada Pfohl

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Internalizing The Literary Experience Through A Whole Language Literature Program Designed For The Kindergarten Level, Carrie Richter-Jung

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.