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Interpretation Of The Social Tendencies Found In Arnold Bennett, Agnes Laye Babcock

Master's Theses

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The Tirty Years' War And Its Influence On Later History, William P. Kingston

Bachelors’ Theses

Many historians have taken it upon themselves to defend either the Catholic or the Protestant faction between the Peace of Augsburg(1555) and the Peace of Westphalia (1648). The majority defend the Protestants with no real justification, thus making an unprejudiced and reliable source of information difficult to find. These authors, who defend the Protestants and oppose the Catholics, naturally denounce all the imperialistic policies of the Habsburgs and their House of Austria. All Habsburgs are tyrants, according to many of these historians. In the past few years, there has been an historic revival in Germany which has done much to …

The Political Ideas In Colonial Literature, 1607-1800, Alberta J. Mckenna

Bachelors’ Theses

Over three centuries ago at Jamestown, Virginia, a group of Englishmen settled and erected a few rude huts on the edge of the primeval forest. Here one must go to find the beginning of English occupancy in America, and since it proved to be a permanent occupancy one must of necessity find the early beginning of literature - American literature.

Rosas; A Complete Picture, Ruth Taylor Westfall

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Rosas is considered the greatest enigma of Latin American history. To some he was a monster; to others and idol. By his persecution of the cultured classes, he made his enemies famous; A gaucho and a federalist, he destroyed his own world, created a nation, and delivered Argentina to his foes. No man was more bitterly hated; nor has any other tyrant been given more attention in literature. Many South American poets in authors or remember solely for their bitter denunciations of the Rosas regime.

To get a complete picture of Rosas it is necessary to take both the contemporary …

Anti-Romantic Attitudes In The Novels Of Jane Austen, Mildred T. Faris

English Language and Literature ETDs

It is the purpose of this paper to discuss the anti-romantic attitudes of Jane Austen. Her novels are realistic, almost wholly free of the element of Romanticism which claimed so large a part of the literature of the period (late eighteenth and early nineteenth century). It is obvious at the first casual reading of Jane Austen that, although she lived during the period of the great Romantic movement and was writing Northanger Abbey at the same time that Wordsworth was writing "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads," there is no suggestion that she knew or cared to know the impulse that …

Comparison Between Shakespeare's Richard Iii And The Historical Richard Iii, M. De Lourdes Foy

Bachelors’ Theses

The end and aim of the writer of this thesis is to make a study of Shakespeare's Richard III as well as the historical Richard III. The point at issue is to see wherein and how far Shakespeare has disregarded historical facts and personages.

In order to carry out a work of this nature it is necessary to make a thorough study and analysis of the vast drama that completes a series of historical plays written by the "Bard of Avon". It is not only necessary to have a thorough understanding of the play but 1a also expedient to become …

Social Conditions Of Territorial Kansas, Clifford Dwight Miller

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Who were the people making up Kansas Territory, or simply “K.T.”, as correspondence was addressed from everywhere? Coming to Kansas from New England and the Middle Atlantic states through the agency of the Emigrant Aid Company, from the Middle and Western states, from the Southern states, and from foreign countries, they had a variety of folk lore and pioneer technique they could put to work. It seems that they would constitute an extremely chaotic society when viewed from this standpoint; yet, they were all sired by progressive peoples, and, if we consider them from the viewpoint of culture and social …

The Principal Women Of Barrie's Plays, Mary Flavia Hale

Bachelors’ Theses

Quite frequently in history, a playwright - like Sophocles, or Shakespeare, or Moliere - has become a man of letters; but not often has the process been reversed and an instance been revealed of a man of letters who has become a playwright. Nearly all of the great English poets of the nineteenth century tried to write plays - Scott, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Browning, Tennyson; and there is not a good playwright among them. Browning, of course, affords us the most striking instance in the nineteenth century of the failure, as a dramatist, of a really great man of …

A Comparative Study Of Two Groups Of Graduates Of Garfield High School Over A Period Of Years, From 1924 To 1934, Nelle Ageng

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Thoreau And Gandhi: A Study In Contrasts And Comparisons, Stewart W. Smith

Bachelors’ Theses

The present study is an attempt to indicate, through an examination of the sources, the extent of Gandhi’s indebtedness to Thoreau for the ideas and principles involved in the formers revolutionary programs both in Africa and India. The fact that Gandhi is indebted to Thoreau is readily admitted by most scholars who have written on Gandhi. How¬ ever, until the present study, no attempt has been made to examine and coordinate such material as is available. It is unfortunate that not all of Gandhi’s writings have been collected and translated into English. Until such time as this is done no …

Some Catholic Contacts In Colonial New England, Mary Margaret Luettgen

Bachelors’ Theses

In the early seventeenth century the steep, austere hills of New England provided a stage set for the enactment of one of the most inspirational dramas that that portion of the New World and yet beheld. In a certain sense it might be termed a tragic-historical drama - a series of successes and reversals in the church in pioneer America. The protagonist was faith; that deep, all absorbing and potent factor that created such eminent actors as Father Thury, Bigot, and Rasle - a diminutive host of chosen soldiers mustered under Christ's banner, true builders of a nation. their zeal, …

The Crusades And Their Results On Civilization, Mary Eulalia

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim of this thesis is to discuss the results of the Crusades, undertaken, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Saracens and Turks, by the Western Nations of Europe. Though the conventional dates, (1095-1291), include the most active period of the Crusades, it is best to consider them as the medieval period in the long conflict between East and West. Most historians distinguish eight Crusades, four in the Holy Land, two against Egypt, one against Constantinople, and one against the Moslems in North Africa. However, we must think of these as simply high spots in one broad …

Joseph Hilaire Belloc's Poetry, M. Clementia Schueler

Bachelors’ Theses

No one who knows modern literature will deny that Hilaire Belloc is one of the greatest of the English writers of today, and will give due honor for the excellent prose of his essays, biographies, and novels; but, undoubtedly, only a few will associate his name with modern poetry or accredit to him any poetical contribution of literary value. Why should this be so? Why should it seem strange to speak of Belloc as a poet? Is it because his poetry is inferior, obscure, or in any way new; or, is it not rather because his small collection of verse …

Club Work In The High School, Burlin F. Downing

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A Study Of Scholarships Offered To Secondary School Graduates By Colleges And Universities, William F. Summerville

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Extra-Curriculum Activities Of Garfield High School Of Terre Haute, Indiana, Homer Powell

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A Socio-Economic Study Of The Marital Status Of Teachers In Terre Haute And Vigo County, H. W. Fontaine

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The Council Of Colonial Virginia : 1700-1750, Esther Campbell Walsh

Honors Theses

1660 is the date conveniently accepted as marking the turn of Virginia society away from its early democratic character. After that date, colonial society became clearly stratified, and by the turn of the century had received its set firmly in the mold of aristocracy. The institution in which all the elements of aristocracy concentrated was the Governor's Council, which exhibited social, political, and economic power centered in the hands of a ruling few. The period from 1700 to 1750 is the high tide of councillor power. In the years before 1700, the steady rise of its power was interrupted by …

A Study Of Certain Comparable Data Concerning Salaries Of Principals And Coaches In City, Town, And Township High Schools Of Indiana For The School Years 1930-31 And 1934-35, Marcus Williams

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A Critical Analysis Of Jonathan Edwards' Treatise On The Freedom Of The Will, Ralph Harold Metcalfe

Bachelors’ Theses

The subject of the Freedom of the Will has appealed to me from the first time I began studying it. I have always regarded the faculty of volition in man as a fundamental reason why man is as he is. It is enough to study what man really is rather than what he might be, for man with hie many intracies has been the object of study since he was first conceived on this earth furthermore man will be studied as long as there is time.

I have chosen as my thesis, A Critical Analysis of Jonathan Edwards’ Treatise on …

Franz Werfel's "Barbara Oder Die Frommigkeit", Emma Marie Jungton

Bachelors’ Theses

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Irving Babbitt As Critic And Humanist, C. Carroll Hollis

Bachelors’ Theses

To become legendary while living is, generally speaking, unfortunate. Such as Irving Babbitt's lot. Probably his death will gradually evoke a legend of a more accurate and objective kind. He was by many regarded as a conscientious pedant, and was never what might be called "popular". It must be admitted that his gift was of a nature that has always made for unpopularity.

William Dean Howells, His Realism And Relation To Our Contemporaries, Joseph Dzwinel

Bachelors’ Theses

In Howells novels v,e find liberalism, a deep sympathy with the "little man", hatred of plutocracy, and abundance of esthetic virtue, and a critique of industrial capitalism by which we are coming to test Howells mental calibre. The novels with all their virtues, ease of style, urbanity, irony, humanity, sharp dissent from the ideas and practices of our commercial world, lend themselves very gracefully to study of their influence on contemporary literature and contemporary reading tastes. The purpose of this study is to show these influences.

Geneva Thorne : A Narrative Poem And A Picture Of Pioneer Life Revealing The Grave Foundations Of Culture In Kansas And The Slight Structure Built Thereupon, Olive Van Metre

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

This thesis is a narrative poem about frontier life in Kansas. This thesis is not submitted with the thought that it will add one jot to the known facts of Kansas history; but it is offered in the hope of stirring appreciation for a type of pioneer who helped to lay the corner stone of Kansas. This type has always, in the telling of old tales, been left unsung; the still and even tenor of their lives does not attract attention. Yet they were here. and the contributed the richest blood that Kansas boasts today. To the youngest generation of …

A Refutation Of Modern Higher Critical Arguments Against The Authenticity Of The Davidic Psalms, W C. Koester

Bachelor of Divinity

Setting out to inspect literary productions, the higher critics seek to ascertain their dates, their authors and their value "as they themselves may yield the evidence." It is our purpose here, however, to deal only with their considerations advanced in opposition to the conservative view, that David is the author of those Psalms ascribed to him in their titles (seventy-three in all), and in favor of the critical view, advocating a late origin in either exilic or post-exilic times. In classifying their arguments we find that there are essentially three modes of attack used against the authenticity of the Davidic …

An Investigation Of Molech And Recent Theories Concerning The Term, Herbert C. Albrecht

Bachelor of Divinity

The influence of mechanistic, materialistic science, through Evolutionism, has in recent centuries shaped men's theories regarding the origin and development of the religions of mankind. Since the universe was conceived to be the direct result of vast eras of development by a simple process of cause and effect, it had to follow that religion was also an outgrowth of the same lines of cause and effect. Deistic speculation, indeed, made God the primal cause of this development, insofar as he set the universe in motion, leaving it to evolve in its own way, but Deism thought of religion as being …

Oratio Et Philosophia, Robert James Casper

Bachelors’ Theses

In the modern trend to disparage the acts and truths of revealed religion, discerning Catholic Apologists find that so-called rationalist thinkers fail to focus the spotlight of reason on the religious question which otherwise causes them such great interest.

Oratio Et Philosophia, Robert James Casper

Bachelors’ Theses

In the modern trend to disparage the acts and truths of revealed religion, discerning Catholic Apologists find that so-called rationalist thinkers fail to focus the spotlight of reason on the religious question which otherwise causes them such great interest. The reason opponents of religion avoid conflict on these grounds is suggested by the following words of Arnold Lunn in the chronicle of his recent conversion.

Friedrich Wilhelm Koenig: A Study In Biography And Background Based On Documentary Evidence And Family Tradition, Paul King

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

It was my first intention to write a biography of my grandfather. This was to be an entirely creative piece of work, based on his Army discharge, an account of his death and burial in the local paper, and the traditions of the family. Because his life after 1875-when he left the 5th Cavalry was so closely connected with the history of Hays, the biography was to stop short, twenty-three years before his death. Hays City from 1875 to 1898, the people, the colorful English colonists east in Victoria, the Russian-Germans, the change of troops at the fort, the fort …

The Resumption Of Protestantism Under Queen Elizabeth, A O. Gebauer

Bachelor of Divinity

The subject which we are about to discuss is of vital interest to the student of English Church History. If it is important for him to know the early phases and developments of that history reaching down into the Roman period of English History; if it is necessary for him to observe the tendencies, persuasions, and movements during the subsequent centuries; then it is truly essential for him to be acquainted with the lace-work of causes, events, and personalities out of which grew the pattern known to us as the Anglican Church.