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Exploration Of Watercolor And Elmer's Glue Combined As A Painting Media, James L. Ponti

All Master's Theses

In my study, an overt attempt was made to alter the relationship (or reaction) between myself and my paintings through various means. This was achieved by manipulating surfaces painted on, materials used, and varying selection of subject matter, or content, from a wide range of possibilities.

A Survey Of Saxophone Literature, John A. Johnson

All Master's Theses

In preparing a graduate recital the writer had to select a variety of music for his program. In reviewing several small lists of saxophone music, one comprehensive collection would have been more helpful. Many hours of research in comparing smaller catalogues could have been spared the writer, if one complete survey had been available. Music teachers, students and professional musicians also could use one comprehensive list extensively and from it obtain the needed music more quickly and efficiently.

Characteristics Of Style In On The Beach At Fontana, Jeffrey Lloyd Mitchell

All Master's Theses

An investigation of this contemporary vocal composition has revealed many unusual features. To accomplish a competent performance these features should be examined and understood.

Hemingway's Key West Women: A Study Of The Female Characterizations Of To Have And Have Not, Nancy Glover Lobaugh

English Theses & Dissertations

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American Press Reaction To Intervention In Nicaragua, Raymond O. Eason

History Theses & Dissertations

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Methodist Missions To The Plantation Slaves Of The South Carolina Conference, Dale E. Henderson

History Theses & Dissertations

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Reformers And Bosses In The Progressive Era: The Changing Face Of Norfolk Politics, 1890-1920, James Sidney Kitterman Jr.

History Theses & Dissertations

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The Christian Socialist Movement In England, 1848-1854, Elizabeth Burton Morley

History Theses & Dissertations

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The Commercial Development Of Ante-Bellum Elizabeth City, Wayne H. Payne

History Theses & Dissertations

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The Influence Of The South On United States China Policy, 1946-49, Arnest Clayton Thompson

History Theses & Dissertations

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Hemingway's Key West Women: A Study Of The Female Characterizations Of To Have And Have Not, Nancy Glover Lobaugh

English Theses & Dissertations

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The Theme Of Despair In The Short Poems Of Thomas Hardy, Janet Yarbrough Meyer

English Theses & Dissertations

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Hawthorne's Obsessed Characters, Peggy Diane Wagner

English Theses & Dissertations

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An Analysis Of Byron's Attempt To Reform The English Stage Through His Venetian Plays, Linda J. Fuller

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

Rilke Und ValéRy: Eine Wahlverwandtschaft, Anne Marie Roehr

Dissertations and Theses

The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke was proficient in languages, and his favorite one was French. He had lived in Paris and had many friends in French literary circles. He exchanged letters with some of them before he even met them personally; such was the case with the French poet and writer Paul Valéry. However, before the two poets met, a “meeting of the minds” had taken place in the year 1921.

In the spring of 1921, after a lengthy period of silence, Rilke came across a copy of the Nouvelle Revue Française, a famous literary review, where Valèry had …

Misery Of Birth And State Essays On The Tragedies Of James Shirley., Elaine Bush Kalmar

English Language and Literature ETDs

Of Shirley's almost forty extant plays, five are tragedies. They can be examined fruitfully as windows to their time, as documents in the history of ideas and as literary works of art. The tragedies reveal Shirley's continuing interest in the theme of enforced marriage. That Shirley views parental and royal control of women in courtship and marriage as tragic can perhaps be explained by the unique circumstances of the Caroline years. When Shirley wrote, two puritan doctrines, election for love in marriage, and the social contract in politics, were eclipsing the medieval and Tudor notions that marriage was merely a …

A Cross-Disciplinary Study Of The European Immigrants Of 1870 To 1925, Loretta Matulich

American Studies ETDs

Both native-born and foreign-born Americans throughout the twen­tieth century have written about the European immigrants who came to American shores between 1870 and 1925. Many of the social science accounts and fiction works about these newcomers centered on one im­plicit question: How could these immigrants become Americans? Two views of assimilation into American society are presented in this study: Henry Pratt Fairchild's static definition of the goal of Ameri­canization and Jane Addams' dynamic definition of American cultural growth. Rejecting Fairchild's view that immigrants must lose all traces of their foreign origin in order to become real Americans, this study adopts …

Recent Sculpture, Joseph A. Chavez

Art & Art History ETDs

This thesis will attempt to focus upon the purpose behind my recent work by examining in general, and then individually, five sculptural projects. Two of these are ceramic stoneware sculptures, and three are alabaster stone sculpture.

Luther And Calvin On Human Reason, Young Ik Kim

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

My purpose in writing this thesis is not to offer a total discussion of every aspect of Luther's or Calvin's views on human reason and its powers and functions, but rather to compare the positions or the two Reformers after presenting an adequate summary or the position or each.

The Role Of The Old Testament In High School Level Curricula Of The American Lutheran Church, The Lutheran Church In America, And The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod 1964-1970, Harold W. Rast

Doctor of Theology Dissertation

The aim of this study is to determine how the various curriculum materials present Word of God in the Old Testament. Accordingly, topics or categories to be dealt with include revelation, Bible, the unity of the testaments, salvation, morality, and historical-critical exegesis.

In a general way, then, this study proposes to engage in what educators would call descriptive research. One type of descriptive research is content analysis, the use of a set of techniques to determine certain specified characteristics of verbal communication. According to Gephart and Ingle, education professors at Indiana University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the purpose of …

A Study Of The Hermeneutical Principles Involved In The Interpretation And Use Of Psalm 22 In Biblical And Extra-Biblical Sources, Harvey Donald Lange

Doctor of Theology Dissertation

This study seeks to answer the specific question: what principle or principles of interpretation--philological, historical, theological--guide ancient interpreters as they used Psalm 22? The writer does not propose to discuss in depth the theology of any particular writing except to indicate its significance for the question of hermeneutics. There will be no extensive exegesis of every passage which either quotes or alludes to Psalm 22. A complete exegesis of Psalm 22 will not even be undertaken except on those points which seem most pertinent to the objective of this dissertation. This study will consider the nature of midrash and its …

A Systematic-Historical Study Of The Policy Of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod With Respect To Fraternal Organizations In The Past Fifty Years, George F. Lobien

Doctor of Theology Dissertation

The purpose of this research was to accurately ascertain the policy and practice of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod with respect to fraternal organizations-usually called lodges or secret societies in its literature-at specific times throughout its history. If any changes in policy or practice were discovered, these were to be noted so that trends might become apparent and causes for change might be discovered.

Furthermore, it was the intention of the author to reach a judgment as to why The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is as concerned with the issue of fraternal organizations as its literature demonstrates it to be. Conclusions also …

The Implications For Christology Of The Idenity Of The Poor Man In The Teaching Of Jesus, Adrian Max Leske

Doctor of Theology Dissertation

Studies have been carried out in times past on the poor man motif in the Old Testament. The results of these have varied and few have deemed it necessary to suggest any implications their conclusions might have for the Gospels. Consequently, investigations of the motif in the New Testament area have been negligible and generally disappointing. For this reason, I have undertaken this study of the poor man motif, particularly as it appertains to the Messianic role as Jesus himself understood it.

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg And The American Revolution, Michael Volk

Bachelor of Divinity

It will be the major purpose of this paper to examine the evidence available in such a way that the reader may recognize the various tensions with which Muhlenberg had to struggle as he attempted to cope with the war in whose midst he found himself. Then recognizing these tensions, it is hoped that the reader will have a clearer understanding of the position or positions which Muhlenberg took.

Mrs. Gaskell's Industrial Novels: Mary Barton And North And South, Yvette D. Marambaud

Master's Theses

Since 1910, when Mrs. Gaskell's centenary was celebrated, few articles have been written about her. Except for her Life of Charlotte Bronte, she is not really well known in America. Few people read her tales or her short stories, and her novels are quite neglected. Yet her industrial novels, Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855), were very successful when they were first published. Mary Barton was an immediate success - perhaps in part because of the controversies it aroused.

Harry F. Byrd And The Democratic Presidential Nomination Of 1932 : Party Politics And The Byrd Campaign, Tyson Van Auken

Master's Theses

The topical order of the thesis was selected to give the clearest portrayal of Harry Byrd's role in Democratic politics for the period immediately preceding the Democratic presidential nomination of 1932. The first chapter of the thesis explains some of the background of Byrd's political position in Virginia and the national Democratic party. The pre-convention maneuvers of Byrd in the national party are the subject of the second chapter. The third chapter is an analysis of Byrd's own campaign for the presidential nomination in 1932. In the fourth chapter, the activities of the Byrd forces at the Democratic National Convention …

Existentialism As Reflected In The Imagery Of William Styron's Work, Sally Yates Wood

Master's Theses

In Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March and Set This House on Fire. William Styron studies the modern condition of man and his world. Styron describes this situation according to an existential definition of existence. The world of his novels is depicted as a lonely and bleak realm where man finds no external means of support. As a result of these conditions, man flounders aimlessly. The reason for this erratic behavior is that man relies too heavily on finding guidance from the outside world. Styron contends that man will continue to stumble so miserably, until he realizes that he …

Λοτική Λατρειά The Dedication Of The Body To The Will Of God, Aaron L. Uitti

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The purpose of this study is to ascertain what Paul, means by the phrase λοδικὴ λατρεία and what its implications are for the worshiping Christian community. This phrase occurs only once in Paul, but at an important transitional point in the epistle to the Romans (12:1). Nowhere else in the New Testament or the Greek translation of the Old Testament does this phrase appear. In fact the combination logikȇ latreia did not appear in any of the literature or material investigated.

The Understanding Of The Polity Regarding Ordination In The Lutheran Church In America, The Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod, And The American Lutheran Church, George C. Weinman

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The scope of this study is to identify the positions or the three major Lutheran synods in America regarding their understanding of ordination. They are the Lutheran Church in America, The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and The American Lutheran Church. An important part of the study is an assessment of the positions held by the antecedent synods that merged to form the present. synodical alignments.

Images And Content, Robert C. Ellis Jr.

All Master's Theses

My primary purpose in this study was to explore the relationship of symbolism, imagery, and concept as they relate to printmaking and drawing. The techniques used in my work were collagraph printmaking, drawing, "painting-drawing", and three-dimensional construction. These works represent my development over a period of five quarters. As a result of this study, I expect that my perception and use of imagery, concepts and technique will continue to develop.