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James Breckinridge
James Breckinridge, frontier aristocrat, was active in the Virginia House of Delegates during the formation of the United States under the new Constitution. He was a member of Congress from 1809-1817, a time when the young nation was beginning to stand on its own and develop internally and …
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James, The Lord's Brother
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William James and pragmatism
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James Alexander Walker: a biography
James Alexander was born on August 21, 1832. Raised in Augusta County, Virginia, he was an active youth. In 1848, he entered the Virginia Military Institute. Though a fine student, in 1852, he was dismissed for his poor conduct in the class of Major Thomas J. Jackson. In the years before the Civil …
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Performance portfolio : Matthew James McKay
This folio brings together four projects that are representative of the practice-basedactivities I have undertaken while studying for the DMA.My first studio recording project aims to demonstrate how the flute can be used toreinterpret a vocal line in the context of a modern deep funk track. My …
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James Boswell: Writer and Advocate
Although the picture that we have of James Boswell has been constantly changing in recent years, many students retain the impression that the great biographer was something of a fool or a buffoon who hovered at the coattails of the great, taking down their conversations, noting their gestures and …
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James Joyce, Music, and Narrative
… reevaluates the function of music in James Joyce's major prose works. Previous scholarship from Matthew Hodgart and Mabel Worthington's landmark Songs in the Works of James Joyce (1959), to Zack Bowen's Musical Allusions in the Works of James Joyce (1974), and Ruth Bauerle's Picking up …
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James E. Murdoch: American Actor
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T17:03:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6500807.pdf: 8391898 bytes, checksum: e9bac510d0e6609f21a5bca51bbcd754 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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Henry James and "Coterie-Literature"
Henry James is often regarded as an author of ‘coterie-literature’: someone who wrote only for and about elites. This dissertation argues that such interpretations neglect some of the complexities and ambivalences within his attitudes towards exclusion and exclusivity. My first chapter analyses the …
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Brigadier General James Dearing, C.S.A
James Dearing was born on April 25, 1840, at ""Otterburne"" near Altavista, Virginia. When his father died in 1843, Dearing was adopted by his uncle. In 1858, after graduating from Hanover Academy, a classical school near Richmond, Dearing entered the United States Military Academy. In 1861, …
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James Hogg's Ambiguously Justified Sinner
This thesis explores Hogg's interpretation of indeterminacy both throughout his career and in Justified Sinner, especially in the character Gil-Martin. Hogg seems to reject the tradition of choosing one side over another in such a dichotomy, and instead chooses to look at both extremes as equally …
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The apologetic of James P. Boyce
… of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, James P. Boyce. Chapter 1 begins with a brief biographical sketch of the life of Boyce, a statement on apologetics in the nineteenth century, the dissertation thesis and the method and scope of research. The chapter demonstrates that work has been …
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The New American Book of James
The New American Book of James, told through the comic first-person perspective of Dickie James, explores a world where the mythic elements of Christianity become hyperbolically realized as an extension of Dickie’s tormented psyche. As he grows larger, hungrier, and more desperate, his sins never …
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James Edwin Horton, Jr.: Scottsboro Judge.
… expressed by a Southerner. The decision of Judge James Edwin Horton, Jr., to overturn the guilty verdict of a jury, thereby decreeing a new trial for a Negro accused of raping a Southern white woman, required not only personal courage, but deep love and understanding of the South. This example of …
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Henry James and the moral will
… to contribute still another treatise on Henry James to the profuse analyses which already exist might seem sheer arrogance. I am not, however, so bold as to claim that the following study blazes with originality. It does offer, I think, more precise insights into James’s moral discriminations …
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The Theatre Criticism of James Agate
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Robert Greene's James IV : a historical approach
… to point to significant historical elements of James IV that appear to be characteristic of the plays of the late sixteenth century. One major characteristic of the plays of this period is the interest shown in historical events, current and. past. Other characteristics such as the use of …
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The theatrical strategies of James Robinson Planché
The work of James Robinson Planché, prominent in English theater from 1818 to 1856 and closely associated with Eliza Vestris, Charles James Mathews, and J. B. Buckstone, has been all but neglected by scholars. However, examining his career yields a wealth of insight into the social, theatrical, and …
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