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Portent And Providence- An Investigation Of The Puritan Habit Of Deciphering The Will Of God In The Natural And The Preternatural With Special Reference To "The Scarlet Letter" By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Milton Sernett

Master of Divinity Thesis

This paper has something to do with both Puritan history and Nathaniel Hawthorne. As originally conceived it was entitled The Puritan Prolapsis: A Study in the Conception and Collapse of the "Holy Commonwealth," with Special Reference to the Interpretation of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was to have been an attempt to isolate the basis, both experiential and theological, for the "Holy Commonwealth" and to determine what undermined the colony, especially as to the tension between the individual and the society in New England. However, after a good deal of research, it was found that such a problem would force a consideration …

A History Of Medicine And Health In Kansas: Ottawa County, 1860-1900, Linda Ann Mckee

History ETDs

The trials and sufferings of American pioneers have been a favorite subject for writers of frontier history and frontier novels. Stories of extreme hardships caused by Indian raids, drouths, floods, blizzards, swollen streams, and grasshopper and locust infestations have made most Americans aware that their forefathers had hard lives on the frontier. But a fallacy has distorted the picture: Many people believe that pioneers were sturdy and strong and in such good health that they were able to overcome obstacles with relative ease. Such was not the case. Those who first inhabited the unsettled regions of the country did not, …

Falstaff, A Product Of Historical And Moral Traditions, Emily Stacy Apelt

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

An Investigation Of The Structural Qualities Of Certain Technical Elements In A Series Of Oil Paintings Related To The Figure, Gretchen Hartsock Teague

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study is (1) to investigate structural qualities of certain technical elements of oil painting, (2) to apply these qualities and means to a series of oil paintings related to the figure, (3) to evaluate the quality of structure achieved by these means, and (4) to arrive at conclusions and suggestions for future modifications of the candidate's paintings techniques.

Carlos Sabat Ercasty Y La Poesia Uruguaya Del Siglo Xx., Gary Lewis Haws

American Studies ETDs

No abstract provided.

A Manual And Checklist For Planning And Construction Of Secondary School Music Facilities, Jimmy D. Edmondson

Music ETDs

In the development of todays music programs in the secondary school, constant and dedicated thought to aims, objectives, and the need for the improvement of the physical plant have been stressed by music educators and school administrators. Much has been done in the areas of aims and objectives. Improvement of the physical plant has been limited in written and resource material and also in experience for the planning and development of the music plant. The results of these limitations have been poorly planned, designed, and constructed facilities.

The Satire Of Sinclair Lewis, Jack Laverne Davis

American Studies ETDs

Sinclair Lewis was the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his acceptance speech Lewis characterized himself as "a writer whose most anarchistic assertion has been that America, with all her wealth and power, has not yet produced a civilization good enough to satisfy the deepest wants of human creatures.” And this assertion underlies most of Lewis's satiric attack upon a wide range of American middle-class values. These attacks were quite often contained in passages which are memorable today for their satiric brilliance. No doubt Lewis chose satire for his principal weapon because it permitted him to …

Ratios Among Sensorial, Intellectual, And Attitudinal Elements In Eudora Welty's Short Stories, Jean Dillon Johnson

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Morehead State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Jean Dillon Johnson in August of 1967.

Das Satirische Element In Den Werken Nestroys, Walter Pauler

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis proposes to show the satirical element in the works of Nestroy. Nestroy was playwright and actor, producer and director. His dramatic art represents the highest development in the three hundred year tradition of the "Wiener Volkstheater". For this reason, the thesis begins with a summary of the evolution of the "Wiener Volkstheater".

Following a brief chapter appraising comedy, various definitions of satire have been summarized. The theories have been examined with the intention of finding a general definition of the genre. It has been concluded that each author of satire has an individualized style and use of satire, …

The Individual And The Problem Of Self-Definition In Faulkner : Isolation And Gesture In Light In August, The Sound And The Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, And As I Lay Dying, Betty Jean Seymour

Master's Theses

Perhaps the primary task of the writer is the communication of that which is most significant in human experience. This paper has grown out of an interest in contemporary literature as an expression of this function. Literature, like other art forms, can appraise, analyze, reflect, and, sometimes, provide direction for, the plight of modern man.

A Survey Of Kenneth B. Keating's Legislative Image Relative To The Domestic Issues During The Years 1947-1958, Carl C. Moore Jr

Master's Theses

Upstate New York, a term commonly used to denote that area outside the environs of Metropolitan New York City, could have boasted of many favorite sons over the years. A current example, Kenneth B. Keating, is the topic of this survey.

Essentially this work was meant as a record of characteristic legislative commitments made by the Congressman relative to domestic concerns during his years of service in the House of Representatives. However, since the initial efforts were motivated by the author's interest in discovering the basis for Mr. Keating's continuing success at the polls, it was determined that the actual …

Characterization Of Stephen Dedalus In James Joyce's Stephen Hero And A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Reuben L. Musgrave

Master's Theses

Our main interest is in showing the new light given Joyce's works by the study of Stephen Hero, the new light in particular on the character of Stephen Dedalus.

Sherwood Anderson, Dramatist, Brenda H. Renalds

Master's Theses

Sherwood Anderson published only a few plays and, beside his lasting contributions to American literature (such as Winesburg, Ohio), these plays are of little literary value. To the student of Anderson, however, they are important not only because they reflect one of the many facts of Anderson's interest in literature but also because, near the end of his life, his dramatic attempts reflect concern for his literary career. Although his interest in the theater began early, he turned to the writing of plays later when suffered through long periods of time in which he could not crate the kind of …

Landscape And Figure Composition In Relation To Space, Color, And Line, Perry Theo Carandanis

Dissertations and Theses

The thesis is an empirical analysis of eight paintings in which the problems to be examined are the relationships of the expressive visual elements of composition with the subject matter. An attempt will be made to examine some specific problems encountered with individual works, which will include emotional involvement as well as aesthetic, and arrive at some generalizations. The paintings selected to comprise this thesis are four figure compositions and three landscapes. The medium used to execute the paintings is Acrylic-Polymer, a Hyplar Product, and they are painted on Upsom Board, for which considerations are given.

A Creative Project In Printmaking Dealing With The Production Of A Series Of Original Prints Using Multiple Plates Printed In Relief And Intaglio Techniques, Gregory Wallace Hawkins

All Master's Theses

It was the purpose of this study to explore and develop technical and aesthetic possibilities resulting from the use of multiple plates in printmaking: 1. by relating the content of separate plates through the combination of shape, color and implied narrative qualities; 2. by developing the contour of the total composition as a secondary visual effect of the multiple plates with no limitation as to media, material, or color within the production of the print.

An Analysis Of The Styles Of C. Saint-Saëns And W. A. Mozart With Emphasis On Their Clarinet Compositions, Gerald Kenneth Steele

All Master's Theses

This paper has represented an effort by the writer to learn something about two major clarinet compositions and about their composers, and to provide for the readers of this paper a means of better understanding Wolfgang Mozart and Camille Saint-Saëns and their clarinet compositions. The study of these compositions has been in connection with the preparation for their performance in a Graduate Recital by the writer. The two composers studied in this project represent two periods of music history, two different styles of composition and two different personalities.

Creating An Aesthetic Construct Drawing From Contemporary American Behavior And Borrowing Characteristics From Persian Paining Of The Fourteenth, Fifteenth And Sixteenth Centuries, Peter Christian Wesley Jorgensen

All Master's Theses

It is the purpose of this study to develop an aesthetic construct by selecting aspects of our contemporary society appropriate to the rather elegantly ornamented expression of fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth century Persian painting.

A Study Of The Comparisons Between The Academic Achievements In Byu Religion Courses Of Lds Students Who Graduated From Lds Seminaries And Lds Students Who Had Not Attended Lds Seminaries, John K. Child

Theses and Dissertations

This study attempted to find if there were a significant difference in the academic achievement in B.Y.U. religion courses between L.D.S. seminary graduates and students who had not attended L.D.S. seminaries.

Historiography In India: A Study Of The Muslims As The First Historiographers In India, Judith L. Clawson

Honors Theses

Prior to my visit last summer, I was virtually unacquainted with India. Granted, when India was mentioned a few general images would come to mind: world's largest democracy, partition, Gandhi, yoga, population and starvation, Hinduism, no history. The seminar afforded an opportunity to look into these vague ideas of mine.

A Chemist In The Senate: Edwin Fremont Ladd, 1921-1925, Alfred C. Melby

Theses and Dissertations

Edwin Fremont Ladd, a native of :Maine, migrated to North Dakota in 1890 to join the chemistry faculty of the Agricultural College. In the following three decades, his work in the pure-food crusade and in the fight for fair grain grading and reasonable rail rates earned him a reputation for personal courage and devotion to agriculture. His reputation led the Nonpartisan League to endorse him for the United States Senate in 1920. Following his victory over Senator Asle J. Gronna in the Republican primary, Ladd defeated his Democratic opponent in the general election.

From his entry into the Senate in …

Die Moabiter Sonette; Letzte Gedichte Und Gedanken Albrecht Haushofers, Richard S. Kemmler

Dissertations and Theses

Albrecht Haushofer wrote the Moabiter Sonette while confined in a Nazi prison in Berlin during the last months of World War II. His arrest resulted from his indirect involvement in the resistance movement which culminated with the July 20, 1944 attempt on Hitler’s life.

From 1933 to his arrest Haushofer was directly and indirectly involved in work aimed at overthrowing Hitler’s regime and forming a new government. Through his father’s friend, Rudolf Heß, Haushofer was ‘inofficially’ appointed in 1933 to the Foreign Office under Ribbentrop. His effect on German government policies was however nil. In 1937 he left the Foreign …

The Image Of The Habsburg Empire In Joseph Roth's Radetzkymarsch And Die Kapuzinergruft, Deborah O'Dell

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis explores Joseph Roth's image of the Habsburg Empire es depicted in two of his works, namely Radetzkymarsch (1932) and Die Kapuzinergruft (1938).

Joseph Roth is perhaps the chronicler par excellence of the Habsburg Empire. Among the authors who have attempted, through their works, to come to grips with fin de siecle Austria, he has remained relatively unknown. However, Roth was keenly aware of the Monarchy's ultimate decline and fall. Losing the Monarchy was his most intense experience and his personal involvement with the Empire plays a dominant role in these novels. Hence, Chapter I provides a biographical sketch. …

Plutchik's Emotive Theory As Applied To Eschatological Elements In Key Works Of Graham Greene, Joseph L. Mills

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

An abstract 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 Joseph L. Mills Summer of 1967.

Iron Vs. Gold : A Study Of The Three Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652-1674, William Terry Curtler

Master's Theses

The purpose of this paper is to show that, as the result of twenty-two years of intermittent warfare between England and the Netherlands, the English navy became established as the primary naval power of Europe. Also, I intend to illustrate that, as a by-product of this naval warfare, Dutch trade was seriously hurt, with the·major benefactors of this Dutch loss of trade being the English.

This paper grew out of a seminar paper on the first Anglo-Dutch war for a Tudor and Stuart English History graduate seminar class taught in the fall of 1966 by Dr. John R. Rilling …

History Of Richmond Baptists, 1780-1860, Roland Stuart Carlton

Master's Theses

Organized Baptist work began in Richmond in June, 1780. Several families belonging to the Boar Swamp Baptist Church in Henrico County had moved into the Richmond area. The distance, the road conditions, and the modes of travel made it difficult for these people to worship regularly at their church. Their pastor, Joshua Morris, also realized their problem, During the month of June, 1780, he met with these folks at the home of Mr. John Franklin, located on the northeast corner of Carrington and Pink Streets in the east end of Richmond. There were fourteen in attendance. Together they had prayer …

Jane Austen's Use Of The Epistolary Method, Barbara Tavss Bender

Master's Theses

There is . . . a prominent use of letters within the novels of Jane Austen. It has been shown that she wao influenced by Samuel Richardson and Fanny Burney and that she had a long experimental period of almost exclusive use of the epistolary method. It is from their influence and from her experimentation that the six major novels evolved; this supreme achievement was to give their creator a prominent place in the history of the English novel. No one factor can be cited as Miss Austen 's outstanding contribution, for each novel is a synthesis of many superior …

Chaucer's Pandarus : A Character Study, Phillip Valentine Daffron

Master's Theses

Chaucer 's Pandarus has been an intriguing character for me ever since my first exposure, as an undergraduate, to Troilus and ­Criseyde. Pandarus interests me because he is true to human nature in that he is not consistently one way all of the time. Like most human beings, Pandarus has many facets to his nature; therefore, I find it distressing that many critics and students of Chaucer will not acknowledge this complexity but rather tend to want to stereotype him. If Pandarus were a simple, transparent character, then his rank in English literature would be considerably less significant. It is …

Sayler's Creek : A Battlefield, A Park, Peter Warren Eldredge

Master's Theses

The significance in history of the land area known as Sayler's Creek is derived from the fact that the last major conflict between Union and Confederate forces was fought there on April 6, 1865. The battle has been neglected because it immediately precedes the surrender; however, the engagement does contain valuable historical information.

The New British Drama 1956-1966 : A Critical Study Of Four Dramatists: John Osborne, Brendan Behan, Arnold Wesker, And John Arden, Jeanne Fenrick Bedell

Master's Theses

In the history of England, as well as in the history of the English stage, 1956 was a momentous year. It was the year of the Suez, the year that saw the destruction of the myth of the British empire. And it was the year of the Hungarian Revolution, which crushed liberal illusions about Soviet Russia. In 1956 the old idols were crumbling fast, and defense of tradition was fast becoming not only impossible but ludicrous. The bankruptcy of the older generation was apparent; it was time for the new to speak out.

William Roane Aylett, 1833-1900, Joseph P. Harahan

Master's Theses

This thesis grew out of a paper presented in Dr. Joseph C. Robert's Civil War Seminar in January, 1967. At that time the topic was limited to a study of the subject with only a cursory narrative of his life.

The decision to expand this topic into a full biography was based on two factors. First, the need for such a study was pointed out by military historian Theodore Ropp in an article in the South Atlantic Quarterly on the Civil War. The second factor involved the material available for this biographical study. In 1966, a large manuscript collection (approx. …