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A Family Affair: The Pre-Kansas Saga of James Henry Lane
… weird and manic figures of Kansas history stands James Henry Lane, formerly a U.S. congressman from Indiana, and destined to become one of Kansas' first pair of senators. Writing at the midpoint of the twentieth century, Albert Castel pronounced Jim Lane "the most colorful and fascinating …
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The Apologist Tradition: A Transitional Period in Southern Proslavery Thought, 1831-1845
… organization. Thomas R. Dew, William Harper, and James Henry Hammond each expressed a social philosophy in which slavery had a crucial role in preserving social order. They argued from the basis of social organicism, the idea that society should have an elite that controlled the masses. For all …
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Failure to engage : the Breasted-Rockefeller gift of a new Egyptian Museum and Research Institute at Cairo (1926)
In 1926, the United States' first Egyptologist James Henry Breasted and the philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr., proposed to build a New Egyptian Museum and Research Institute in Cairo. The Egyptian government ultimately rejected the proposal and the museum was never built as suggested. The …
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HENRY JAMES AND ROMANTIC REVISIONISM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAN OF IMAGINATION IN THE LATE WORK
This study situates the late work of Henry James in the tradition of Romantic revisionism. In addition, it surveys the history of James criticism alongside the academic critique of Romantic-aesthetic ideology. I read The American Scene, the New York Edition Prefaces, and other late writings as a …
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Stop-Out Factors For Nontraditional Students In Online Competency-Based Education Programs
<p>The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the phenomenon of nontraditional students in online competency-based education (CBE) degree programs taking enrollment breaks known as “stop-outs” between college semesters or terms. Online programs and CBE programs have grown at a pace …
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Dating_MissRepresentation.Com: Black Women's Lived Love-Hate Relationship With Online Dating
<p>The increased use of online dating sites has further encouraged corporations’ attempts to capitalize on these mate-seeking trends. Match.com, eHarmony, and OkCupid are primary competitors in a growing market of individuals seeking out potential romantic partners. They offer several mainstream …
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Sport, Kul’turnost, and Physical Culture in the Khrushchev Era Soviet Union, 1953-1964
<p>Sport served many purposes in the Soviet Union, as it has in most modern societies. This study examines the relationship between state-sponsored imperatives for citizens to engage in sport and exercise and cultural norms in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev years, 1953-1964. It also …
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A Comparative Investigation of the Effects of Precision of Response in Two Ninth Grade Algebra Classes
One of the areas of concern in mathematics education is that of communication of ideas and procedures. Since language plays the key role in the communication process, it is of value to examine its effect in the mathematics learning situation. The particular topic discussed in this paper concerned …
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Reappraising the Land Behind Baghdad: Using CORONA Satellite Imagery to Reassess the Archaeological Landscape of the Diyala Plain, Iraq
<p>High-resolution low-cost declassified CORONA spy satellite imagery is used to detect archaeological sites and relict canals in the Diyala Plain to the east of Baghdad, Iraq. This project seeks to improve upon the ground survey conducted there in the 1950s by providing better geographic control …
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Numerical and Laboratory Studies of Ultrasonic Anderson Localization
A numerical study of Anderson localization in two dimensions and a laboratory study of weak localization in three dimensions are presented. The two-dimensional study was performed by mathematically modelling a system of masses connected to a rigid base by springs of random stiffness. The masses …
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Evaluation of Single-Ear and Multiple-Ear Corn Types With Respect to Plant Population, Plant Competition, and Light on Agronomic Characteristics and Utilization of Stalk Soluble Solids
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T00:17:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114792.pdf: 8221020 bytes, checksum: 0d205742caf7b44f6125fc4276b491ef (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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"A statistical analysis of undergraduate readers' responses to selected characters in Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"""
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405552.pdf: 9554835 bytes, checksum: b23bcd6828e285c4f84287c2850fe35f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Sliding Resistance Along Discontinuities in Rock Masses
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:56:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6503699.pdf: 3957997 bytes, checksum: 21b5df6c8b55a3d9fe8d2156964d33a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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Principles for General Music in Secondary Schools
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T17:33:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5801732.pdf: 10175086 bytes, checksum: d843d6d713f65402130c0e01b40a6c28 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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Optically induced metastable defect states in amorphous silicon dioxide
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 1986.
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