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Peter Taylor's Fictional Memoirs, Scott Peeples Jan 1989

Peter Taylor's Fictional Memoirs, Scott Peeples

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Regionalism In India: Two Case Studies, Tehnaz Jehangir Dastoor Jan 1989

Regionalism In India: Two Case Studies, Tehnaz Jehangir Dastoor

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Rise Of The Socialist Party In France: A Study Of The National Relevance Of Local Elections As Illustrated By Lyon, Nantes And Rennes, Heather Allison Lehr Jan 1989

The Rise Of The Socialist Party In France: A Study Of The National Relevance Of Local Elections As Illustrated By Lyon, Nantes And Rennes, Heather Allison Lehr

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Factors Affecting Persistence Of Re-Entry Women At An Urban State University, Carolyn Sheriff Mayfield Jan 1989

Factors Affecting Persistence Of Re-Entry Women At An Urban State University, Carolyn Sheriff Mayfield

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that affect the persistence of re-entry women over age twenty-five at an urban state university using Vincent Tinto's academic-social fit theory of retention and persistence which posits that once this fit is achieved, persistence and retention will be positively affected.;The re-entry women's population at Urban State University, an historically black university, was studied. It was chosen because of its mission of serving special populations, its size, its historical prominence, and its location in an urban community.;Urban State University had an available pool of eighty-eight women over age twenty-five who were …


Anglo-Siouan Relations On Virginia's Piedmont Frontier, 1607-1732, Joseph Benjamin Jones Jan 1989

Anglo-Siouan Relations On Virginia's Piedmont Frontier, 1607-1732, Joseph Benjamin Jones

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Merchants Of Curacao In The Early 18th Century, Nadia Francisca Brito Jan 1989

Merchants Of Curacao In The Early 18th Century, Nadia Francisca Brito

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Augustus Carmichael: A Metaphor Of The Artist, Mary Beverly Adams Jan 1989

Augustus Carmichael: A Metaphor Of The Artist, Mary Beverly Adams

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"In A Language Not His": Reader-Response Criticism And "Light In August", Kathy Lynn Pippert Jan 1989

"In A Language Not His": Reader-Response Criticism And "Light In August", Kathy Lynn Pippert

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Women, Work, And The Civil War: The Effect Of The Civil War On The Women Working In Richmond, Virginia, Between 1860 And 1870, Elizabeth Ann Holmes Jan 1989

Women, Work, And The Civil War: The Effect Of The Civil War On The Women Working In Richmond, Virginia, Between 1860 And 1870, Elizabeth Ann Holmes

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Tanner And Boundary Maintenance: Determining Ethnic Identity, William James Sheppard Jan 1989

The Tanner And Boundary Maintenance: Determining Ethnic Identity, William James Sheppard

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"Song Of The Husbandman": A Critical Edition, Patricia Louise Hintz Jan 1989

"Song Of The Husbandman": A Critical Edition, Patricia Louise Hintz

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Calvinism Revisited: Predestination And Sterility In William Styron's "Sophie's Choice", Reba Carol Dismukes Jan 1989

Calvinism Revisited: Predestination And Sterility In William Styron's "Sophie's Choice", Reba Carol Dismukes

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Blindness And Vision In "Middlemarch", Sarah Ellen Arnold Jan 1989

Blindness And Vision In "Middlemarch", Sarah Ellen Arnold

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Private Land Development In Williamsburg, 1699-1748: Building A Community, Cathleene Betz Hellier Jan 1989

Private Land Development In Williamsburg, 1699-1748: Building A Community, Cathleene Betz Hellier

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Restoring Silence: Samuel Beckett's "Molly" Viewed As A Parody Of James Joyce's "Ulysses", George Mciver Steele Jan 1989

Restoring Silence: Samuel Beckett's "Molly" Viewed As A Parody Of James Joyce's "Ulysses", George Mciver Steele

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Life In Williamsburg, Virginia: 1891-1921, Kari Lauralyn Sessoms Jan 1989

Life In Williamsburg, Virginia: 1891-1921, Kari Lauralyn Sessoms

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Horace Mann: A Comparison Of A Traditional And A Revisionist Biography, George C. Whiting Jan 1989

Horace Mann: A Comparison Of A Traditional And A Revisionist Biography, George C. Whiting

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to compare a traditional biography, Burke A. Hinsdale's Horace Mann and the Common School Revival in the United States (1900), and a revisionist biography, Jonathan Messerli's Horace Mann: a Biography (1972), within a "neutral" frame of reference to determine which author made the more logical use of evidence to support his argument.;David H. Fischer's Historians' Fallacies (1970) and Richard E. Neustadt & Ernest R. May's Thinking in Time (1986) were used to formulate a "neutral" frame of reference within which to analyze the two biographies.;Hinsdale's explanation was found to consist of a series of …


A Descriptive Study Of Sex-Trait Stereotypes Of Lay Church Members For Women Clergy, Loretta A. Mueller Jan 1989

A Descriptive Study Of Sex-Trait Stereotypes Of Lay Church Members For Women Clergy, Loretta A. Mueller

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to investigate the sex-trait stereotype church lay people had of women clergy. Two groups of lay people were studied, those who had and had not had a woman clergy as either pastor or assistant pastor of a church to which they belonged. Data was also obtained from women clergy.;Gough's Adjective Check List was used to determine a stereotype that the above described lay people had of women clergy. The goal was to determine if there were differences between lay men and women in the way they described women clergy and if there were differences …


Joseph E Johnston And The Defense Of Richmond, Steven H. Newton Jan 1989

Joseph E Johnston And The Defense Of Richmond, Steven H. Newton

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This study examines Confederate military operations in Virginia from February 17-May 31, 1862, focusing specifically on the role of Joseph E. Johnston as commander of the Department of Northern Virginia. It includes a detailed consideration of Confederate grand strategy, Johnston's withdrawal from the Potomac River, the redeployment of the army to Yorktown, the siege of Yorktown, and the Battles of Williamsburg and Seven Pines.;In February, 1862, following the surrender of Fort Donelson, President Jefferson Davis reoriented strategy in Virginia from a defense of the frontiers to a closer defense of Richmond; he also recalled General Robert E. Lee from South …


Heraldic Symbolism And Color Imagery In William Morris's "The Defence Of Guenevere And Other Poems", June Graybeal Lubowinski Jan 1989

Heraldic Symbolism And Color Imagery In William Morris's "The Defence Of Guenevere And Other Poems", June Graybeal Lubowinski

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Privateering In The Colonial Chesapeake, David Alan Lester Jan 1989

Privateering In The Colonial Chesapeake, David Alan Lester

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Historic Archaeology Of Jamaican Tenant-Manager Relations: A Case Study From Drax Hall And Seville Estates, St Ann, Jamaica, Kenneth Goodley Kelly Jan 1989

Historic Archaeology Of Jamaican Tenant-Manager Relations: A Case Study From Drax Hall And Seville Estates, St Ann, Jamaica, Kenneth Goodley Kelly

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Who Controlled Cruise?: The 1983 Deployment Of Cruise Missiles In The United Kingdom And The Post-1945 Anglo-American Special Relationship In Defense, Colin James Donald Jan 1989

Who Controlled Cruise?: The 1983 Deployment Of Cruise Missiles In The United Kingdom And The Post-1945 Anglo-American Special Relationship In Defense, Colin James Donald

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Peopling The Power Structure: Urban Oriented Officeholders In York County, Virginia 1699-1780, Linda Hunter Rowe Jan 1989

Peopling The Power Structure: Urban Oriented Officeholders In York County, Virginia 1699-1780, Linda Hunter Rowe

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Inter-Colonial Trade Of Domestic Earthenwares And The Development Of An American Social Identity, Carl R. Steen Jan 1989

The Inter-Colonial Trade Of Domestic Earthenwares And The Development Of An American Social Identity, Carl R. Steen

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Spatial Analysis Of Sugar Plantations On St Eustatius N.A, James A. Delle Jan 1989

A Spatial Analysis Of Sugar Plantations On St Eustatius N.A, James A. Delle

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Delftware Chronology: A New Approach To Dating English Tin-Glazed Ceramics, Ellen Shlasko Jan 1989

Delftware Chronology: A New Approach To Dating English Tin-Glazed Ceramics, Ellen Shlasko

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Cabinetmakers And Related Tradesmen In Norfolk, Virginia: 1770-1820, Ronald Leroy Hurst Jan 1989

Cabinetmakers And Related Tradesmen In Norfolk, Virginia: 1770-1820, Ronald Leroy Hurst

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Milk For Babes: The Catechism In Reformation England 1550-1640, William Howard Dannemaier Jan 1989

Milk For Babes: The Catechism In Reformation England 1550-1640, William Howard Dannemaier

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


White Democracy, Racism, And Black Disfranchisement: North Carolina In The 1830'S, Elizabeth Hathhorn Mcgehee Jan 1989

White Democracy, Racism, And Black Disfranchisement: North Carolina In The 1830'S, Elizabeth Hathhorn Mcgehee

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.