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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Longfellow"”.
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Nature in Scott and Longfellow
Dame Nature, the beneficent genie, has in all ages, in all climes, in all vicissitudes of man’s life, held a powerful sway over his thoughts, his feelings, and his moods. In vain has he tried to subdue her. She has permitted him to control her resources; and these work for him, slave for him, serve …
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Seismic assessment of unreinforced masonry structures : an investigation of the Longfellow Bridge masonry piers
… of numerous structures that are decades old. The Longfellow Bridge is one of the oldest pieces of this infrastructure that is still in use and has become one of the most historic structures of the Boston area. Currently, the steel superstructure of the bridge is in poor condition while the masonry …
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The Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House of 1759: From Colonial America to the Colonial Revival and Beyond
The Longfellow House in Cambridge, Massachusetts is one of America’s best known historic homes. Built in 1759 by Major John Vassall, the grand house exemplified Colonial English tastes and was at the center of a cycle of Colonial Royalist mansions. After the American Revolution, however, the house …
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"The Best Soil of Their Hearts": Protestant Explorations of Catholic Spirituality in Cooper, Longfellow, and Hawthorne
… works of James Fenimore Cooper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, focusing upon their explorations of Roman Catholic spirituality, as reflected in their poetry, prose, and personal writings. Despite the anti-Romanism prevalent in nineteenth-century American political and …
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Finding the Self
… Brenda Hillman, Ted Kooser, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lynn McMahon, Mary Oliver, Charles Olsen, Theodore Roethke, and Wallace Stevens. Additionally, Mark Strand and Evan Boland are featured for their commentary on the work of Edna St. Vincent Milay which evened out and completed my …
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The Treatment of American Indians in Selected American Literature: A Radical Critique
… applying this approach to works of Cooper, Longfellow, Thoreau, Custer, Garland, Jackson, Sandoz, Corle, Manfred, Borland, and Momaday. I examine the following questions: What political statements explicitly or implicitly does a particular work make? Does a specific work reinforce or support …
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Continuity across scales in architecture : details and their relation to the whole in a Friends Meetinghouse
… the site of the present Cambridge Meeting on Longfellow Court, in Cambridge.
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“As if it had Growed There”: resort architecture and the New England landscape, 1875-1915
… 1887, the Boston architect Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr. proudly relayed comments he had heard about one of his recently realized designs. Admirers, he claimed, felt the new summer residence “kind of looked as if it had growed there.” With its rough stone chimney and olive-brown stain, the …
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Mythologies of an American everyday landscape : Henry Ford at the Wayside Inn
… inn associated with the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Over the next twenty years, his mission expanded to create an idealized New England landscape and a way of living on the land representative of an American identity. This study will demonstrate that this change of intention is one which …
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Story as a Weapon in Colonized America
… misrepresented Indian peoples. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?s piece, Song of Hiawatha, published in 1855 is an early example of this, and Ann Rinaldi?s children?s book, My Heart Is on the Ground, is a contemporary example. However, Indian peoples are not mere victims. Using story as a weapon for …
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Poe as a critic.
… with the works of such contemporary authors as Longfellow, Hawthorne, Dickens, Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Halleck, and Drake. In these critiques he enlarges upon his own principles of criticism. In the Literati he reveals literary America of this century. The Marginalia shows his …
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The use of turbulent jets to destratify the Charles River Basin
… the Lower Charles River Basin between the Longfellow and Craigie Bridges between Boston and Cambridge. The basin is currently filled with salt water that intrudes from the downstream dam and the resulting vertical density gradients inhibit mixing, leading to low levels of dissolved oxygen …
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The Impact of Technology on Parental Involvement: Perceptions of teachers and guidance counselors regarding the impact of a parent portal component of a student information system on parental involvement at the high school level
… all to actively engage in student achievement (Longfellow, 2004).
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Building the urban river edge : proposed connections to the water at the foot of Boston's Beacon Hill
… for this thesis. The project area runs from the Longfellow Bridge at Charles Circle to the Arthur Fiedler Footbridge near the Hatch Shell. The thesis investigates built provisions for public inhabitation of the water's edge. At the size of the full project area the work explores built connections …
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The effects of speech patterns on listening comprehension
… third, fourth, and fifth grades of the Lincoln, Longfellow, Blaine, and Garfield public elementary schools of Muncie, Indiana. The experimental group received compensatory treatment which consisted of remedial reading, tutorial aid, and counseling, while the control group received the standard …
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Mapping of complex marine environments using an unmanned surface craft
… Boston and Cambridge, MA. The Harvard and Longfellow Bridges, three sailing pavilions and a yacht club provide structures of interest, having both extensive superstructure and subsurface foundations. To quantitatively assess the mapping error, we compare against a georeferenced model of the …
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