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Background To The Second Amendment, John Thomas Nichols

Dissertations and Theses

Research into the background of the Second Amendment is hampered by its relationship to the current highly emotional debate over gun control. Many otherwise useful secondary sources either ignore the issue completely or give accounts which reflect the controversies of the twentieth century rather than those of the eighteenth. Fortunately, however, the Americans of the revolutionary era wrote extensively about the subject.

With independence, the Americans were faced with the problem of organizing and controlling a defense establishment. The new nation was virtually defenseless: the

Continental Army was disbanded and the militia, after years of neglect, emasculated. During the decade …

Photonuclear Activation At The Pantex Plant, Gilbert L. Rendon

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

This is a structuralist reading of the theatrical works of Henry de Monther­lant. The genera I approach incorporates the theories of Claude Levi-Strauss, Ro land Barth es, Jean Piaget, Jean Rousset, and Leo Spitzer. Two major types of structure are examined: the interrelationship of characters and the interrelationship of ideas. Two theoretical mode Is are constructed. The first is a triadic mode I of the relationships among characters in tightly-knit communities, based upon the sociological theories of Georg Simmel and Theodore Cap low. The second is a semiotic model of the relationships between opposing ideas, based upon the carré sémiotique …

The Function Of Biblical Sources In The Structure And Meaning Of Blake's Milton, Donna Standfier Rix

English Language and Literature ETDs

This study takes seriously the claim made by William Blake in his epic poem Milton that the model for his art was the Bible, especially the works of those "more ancient & consciously & professedly inspired Men," the Hebrew prophets. Through an examination of circumstances surrounding the composition of Blake's "first Vision of Light," and through analysis of the poem itself, it is shown not only that Blake was acquainted with certain conventional patterns and formulae from the biblical prophetic tradition, but also that he drew upon his knowledge of such strategies in this short poem enclosed in a letter …

Cumulo Nimbus, Jon Jeffrey Grier

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Ecclesiastics Of The Crown Under King Edgar: A Prosopographical Study Of Bishops And Abbots In Anglo-Saxon England, 959-975, Valerie Catherine Hauch

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Kilburn Brothers Stereoscopic View Company, Thomas W. Southall

Art & Art History ETDs

In 1865 in the small northern New Hampshire town of Littleton, Edward and Benjamin West Kilburn founded the Kilburn Brothers Stereoscopic View Company. Stereoscopic photography is the process whereby mounted pairs of slightly different photographs give the illusion of three dimensionality when viewed through a stereoscope. Stereography had been introduced to America over ten years before the Kilburns began publishing views, but it became an especially popular form of parlor entertainment in the decade following the Civil War.

Particularly noted for their stereographs of the White Mountains, the Kilburn Company also published quantities of views of national and international subjects. …

English Renaissance Humanist Education, Lori Ann Bjornstad

Dissertations and Theses

The following examines the historical development of English education available prior to university entrance in order to discover the impact of humanist ideas on the educational system. The survey of the structure and theory of pre-university English education begins in the early Middle Ages and continues through the Elizabethan period.

After examining the Medieval background, there follows a discussion of the political and religious settlement of the Reformation, and the basic programme of humanist reformers. Individual humanist writers are then studied, followed by a discussion of schools planned on humanist lines. With this, however, is contrasted a picture of English …

Lebendiger Klang Der Natura Herders Begriff Des "Primitiven" In Der Literatur, Judy A. Lorenz

Dissertations and Theses

Johann Gottfried Herder, ein Vorromantiker, fuhrte eine neue Bewegung, eine Volksbewegung, in Deutschland ein. Herder interessierte sich fur die Sprache im Allgemeinen und insbesondere fur die "primitiven" Elemente in der deutschen Sprache, die am besten in Volksliedern il erscheinen. Seine Bedeutung liegt in der Umwertung des Wortes "primitiv" durch seine Sammlung von nationalen und internationalen Volksliedern.

Hunter S. Thompson: Moralist Or Second-Rate Accountant, Charles W. Seefeldt

Culminating Projects in English

Many critics saw Hunter Thompson's work as little more than the ravings of a vicious misanthrope, and he was often written off as a drug-crazed lunatic. But, as an examination of his work shows, Thompson was really concerned with what he saw as a growing amorality in America. He should be read as a moralist, not as a maniac.

And, his effectiveness as ·a moralist ls largely determined by a unique style he developed--Gonzo. Thompson, himself, referred to this style as "bursts of madness and filigree," and it is, perhaps, this Gonzo style that brought critical attention to Thompson in …

A Chapbook Of Poetry And Prose, Robert Post

Honors Theses

No abstract available.

Fondling The Brave Hello: Selected Poems Of William Pearlman, William Pearlman

English Language and Literature ETDs

Fondling the Brave Hello is a collection of poems covering the poet's experience in four distinct regions of the country. California, the poet's place of birth, is the lead section, with athletics the prime concern of the poems. Oregon, the place of the poet's marriage and the place where his daughter was born, is the second zone. Louisiana, where the poet and his family settled, is the third energized region explored. And lastly, the special place where the poet returns for spiritual nutrition, New Mexico, is brought to light in all its radiant possibility. There is a kind of exuberance …

A Translation Of The Novel Al-HarāM By YūSuf Idrs̄ With A Critical Introduction, Kristin Peterson

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Mexican Woman: A Study Of Her Participation In The Revolution, 1910-1940, Shirlene Ann Soto

History ETDs

The Mexican Revolution produced far-reaching changes in the lives of women. Spurred by advances in industrialization which provided a host of new jobs and by the activities of feminists in the United States and Europe, Mexican women demanded full participation in national affairs. During the Revolution, they assumed new responsibilities, traveled to other parts of the Republic and acquired a sense of nationalism. Unfortunately, women revolutionaries did not receive proper recognition for their sacrifices. After participating in the fighting, plans and attempts to implement the goals of the Revolution, women were not rewarded for their efforts nor were they granted …

A Translation Of The Sections Of Al-BalāDhurī'S AnsāB Al-AshrāF On ʻAbd Al-Malik, Al-WalīD, SulaymāN, YazīD And HishāM Followed By Brief Critical Studies, Richard T Mortel

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Art Therapy With Institutionalized Adult Mental Patients: A Four-Week Study, Margaret E. Goodwin

Theses

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Report On Play Production Of Puppet Show "Ananse's Trick Does Double Work", Dietlinde Hibben

Theses

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Landscape Painting In The Secondary Classroom, Margaret Shirley

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis attempts to demonstrate an approach to secondary art education which will emphasize the student's own experience as the basis of his art work. Furthermore, the students' learning activities are given a broader context by the inclusion of material from the history of art within the framework of the studio course. Such an integrated approach can give meaningful insight to the adolescent as he deals with experience in a visual form.

This orientation to art education has evolved through the writer's own teaching experience and from reading the works of art educators. In preparation for the thesis, I researched …

Educational, Sociocultural, And Phonological Obstacles For The Japanese Learner Of English, David Howard Waterbury

Dissertations and Theses

Every Japanese high school student studies English for at least six years. However, the results of this study, especially in speaking, are poor. In the present study, educational, sociocultural, and linguistic obstacles to learning for the Japanese student are considered.

An educational system oriented toward passing college and university entrance examinations has distorted English curriculum. Furthermore, English teachers in Japan lack proficiency in the language. The teaching staffs and materials of language schools are poorly regulated.

Concern with relative status, group identification, and loss of face acts as a deterrent to learning. For many learners the wrong type of motivation …

The American Whig Review, 1845-1852: Its History And Literary Contents, Donald Frank Andrews

Doctoral Dissertations

Although the American magazine market was fairly glutted in late 1844, there was room for The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science since it was the official organ of the Whig party as well as a literary review. In spite of the fact that most magazines of the period perished within one or two years, the American Whig Review (a more characteristic name adopted in 1850) served as the political journal of the conservative Whigs and as a competent literary review during eight of America's critical growing years, 1845-1852. During these years, the magazine underwent …

Regional Fiction As A Source Of Michigan History: A Collection Of Readings, Larry B. Massie

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Methodist Circuit-Riders In America, 1766-1844, William A. Powell Jr.

Master's Theses

The Methodist Episcopal Church became the largest religious denomination in the United States during the 1820's. Local expressions of the national body were established in nearly every American community. Methodist expansion was largely a result of the activity of circuitriders. These itinerants traveled and proclaimed the gospel to citizens, many of whom joined the Church and became part of a religious movement which influenced the l development of culture in the United States.

The traveling minister in the Methodist Church was noted for his self-sacrificing spirit. He endured hardships in the ministry which few men of the present age can …

The Design And Execution Of The Costumes For "The Eumenides", Donald Edward Lillie

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Division of Communications at Morehead State University by Donald E. Lillie in August in 1977.

A Survey Of The Relationship Between Rhetoric And Music, Robert Stephen Brown

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Church Growth Study Of Churches In North East India, Clinton Brazle

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Church of Christ in North East Indian began as an indigenous movement among the Khasi tribe as an effort to restore New Testament Christianity. The movement is under fifty years old. It grew normally and rapidly until division occured among the leaders in 1963, when the growth rate dropped drastically. The movement has spread now to the Garos, Mizos, Mikirs, Nagas, Assamese, Kukis, and especially the Paites and Manipuree. There is a growing ethusiam among a few Christians which may eventually spread through many of the tribes of North East India and beyond.

Examination of the above-mentioned tribes of …

The New Deal Public Works Programs And Mexican-Americans In Mcallen, Texas, 1933-36, Irene Ledesma

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

In an area like the Rio Grande Valley of Texas with a majority population of unskilled Mexican-Americans who generally worked for another group in trouble, the farmer, there was bound to be a high rate of unemployment during the Great Depression of the 1930's. Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration responded to unemployment with the several New Deal public works acts in 1933. The question then arises: what effect would such acts have on a majority group in an area where the minority population had political power?

Extensive use of county and city newspapers, a number of interviews, a short survey, and …

Culminating Project, David R. Johnston

Theses

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A Study Of The Relationship Between Genesis, Chapters One And Two, And Isaiah, Chapters Forty Through Sixty-Six On The Basis Of Bara', 'Asah, Yatzar, John Brandt

Master of Divinity Thesis

This paper will attempt to put forth the close relationship between the account of creation as recorded in Genesis, chapters one and two, and the references to creation as recorded in Isaiah, chapters forty through sixty-six. This paper will deal with this relationship on the basis of the three verbs used in the first two chapters of Genesis to relate the creative activity of God: bara', 'asah, and yatzar.1 Also included will be those verbs which are apparent synonyms used by the author of Isaiah, chapters forty through sixty-six, for the three basic verbs in question.

Music Publishing In New Orleans In The Nineteenth Century, Peggy C. Boudreaux

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

New Orleans was, in the nineteenth century, a cultural center without equal in the South. As such it supported many businesses closely connected to music. This study is focused upon music publication in New Orleans in the nineteenth century. Included are a history of the major establishments operating throughout the century and a survey of extant music published by these firms. In Chapter I, are included introductory material and a brief survey of the major music publishers of New Orleans. In Chapters II, III, and IV, the activities of three important publishers from the first half of the century are …

Edgar Allan Poe: As A Comic Writer, Mabel W. Jackson

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Efficiency In Elementary Art Instruction: Advanced High School Students As Auxiliary Personnel, Daniel Lee Crusie

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Humanities School at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Art Education by Daniel Lee Crusie on July 15, 1977.