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The Geography Of Marlboro Town, Vermont, Ethel A. Frank

Honors Papers

Green, forest-covered mountains and hills, winding valleys with farmhouses surrounded by boulder strewn hayfields, cattle scattered upon the rocky slopes and in woodland pastures, boulder laden streams- this is the picture which Marlboro Town, in Windham County, Vermont conveys to one who surveys its landscape from any hilltop site. It is a typical New England town, located in southeastern Vermont, in the midst of the Green Mountains.

Physiographically Marlboro Town is located in the "Appalachian Highland Division in the New England Province, and the Green Mountain Section, which consists of linear ranges of old subdued mountains", long and severely deformed, …

The Mexican Colony In South Lorain, Ohio: An Exploratory Study, Robert W. O'Brien

Honors Papers

The object of this thesis is to show the process of adjustment which the Mexican faces when he leaves his less competitive physical and social environment in Mexico and lives in a typical steel city of the Northern section of the United States. This study is sociological, rather than economic in its approach. It is an attempt to get at the way in which these people live, and the attitudes which they have toward themselves and other groups.