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Thomas Jefferson: Life lines
Thomas Jefferson: Life Lines is a five movement composition based on excerpts from Thomas Jefferson's personal letters. The material presented focuses on the intimate, human qualities of the man. The musical treatment of this material illuminates and amplifies different aspects of the inner …
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Barbary Pirates: Thomas Jefferson, William Eaton, and the Evolution of U.S. Diplomacy in the Mediterranean
… or ransom to free Americans held captive, Thomas Jefferson proposed several solutions as a diplomat, vice president, and as president when he authorized the Tripolitan War (1801-1805). Thus, this look at U.S. relations with the Barbary States focuses on Jefferson’s evolving foreign policy …
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Measured shadows of Thomas Jefferson: A transit from amateur landscape gardening to professional landscape architecture
This dissertation considers Thomas Jefferson’s accomplishments and importance in an overlooked and misunderstood field—landscape gardening and its successor profession, landscape architecture. Jefferson’s design work and his writing and philosophy provide a foundation not only for what would become …
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“Emancipation from that Degrading Yoke”: Thomas Jefferson, William Eaton and “Barbary Piracy” from 1784 to 1805
… created by two prominent political figures, Thomas Jefferson and William Eaton, and by the American public from 1784 to 1805, and how those images shaped the policy of the American-Barbary War. Eaton‟s Orientalist approach to describing piracy and the North African population limited his …
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Thomas Jefferson and the Founding of the University of Virginia: An American Age of Reason, Religion, and Republicanism
… a close look at the religious proclivities of Thomas Paine and offers some insight into Thomas Jefferson's antisectarian reform recommendations, particularly noting the degree to which the elder statesman's attempts to promote universal Christian values, can be misinterpreted in such a way that …
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The lawn and the forest : architecture and landscape in the work of Thomas Jefferson and Frank Lloyd Wright
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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Measurement Of Neutron Radius In Lead By Parity Violating Scattering Flash ADC DAQ
… <sup>208</sup>Pb. PREx is performed in hall A of Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility from March 19th to June 21st. Longitudionally polarized electrons at energy 1 GeV scattered at and agnle of θ<em>l<sub>ab</sub></em> = 5.8° from the Lead target. Beam corrected pairty violaing counting …
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Musical attitudes and activities of representative American statesmen
… Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Thomas Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams.
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William Small 1734-1775: Teacher, Mentor, Scientist
… of his life, particularly Small's connections to Thomas Jefferson, James Watt, or the Birmingham Lunar Society. In 1758 William Small was recruited for the post of professor of mathematics at the College of William and Mary. From 1760 through 1762, he was Thomas Jefferson's only professor at the …
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The Primacy of the Individual: Its Affirmation in the Declaration of Independence and in the American Scholar
… have examined The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson and discussed endlessly the principles which it contains. Innumerable educators and sociologists have concerned themselves with the ideas in The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Indeed, thinkers of every variety have …
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An Historical Inquiry into Thomas Jefferson's Influence on the American Educational System
… of an important American historical figure, Thomas Jefferson, on the institution of the American Educational System. Thomas Jefferson was involved in many decisions involving the traditions, practices and institutions of many educational establishments of his time period. His writings have …
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POPULAR GEOGRAPHY WRITING IN AMERICA, 1783–1888
… the published geographies of Jedidiah Morse, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Arnold Guyot, William Gilpin, George Perkins Marsh, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Albert Richardson, Clarence King, and John Wesley Powell created a popular discursive sense of equivalency between the physical …
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Of Mammoths, Mastodons, Megalonyxes, And The Nation: Jefferson And The Question Of American Degeneracy, 1780-1812
<p>Thomas Jefferson ranks among the most famous and most studied presidents, but few historical studies have focused on his scientific endeavors, particularly his work in natural history. By analyzing several of his writings, including the <em>Notes on the State of Virginia</em> and letters that …
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Topics on electron,neutrino and axion scattering
… at the Compton Polarimeter located in Hall-C at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The Mississippi State Axion Search, an axion search experiment which uses light shining through a wall technique is described in detail, including its instrumentation, initial tests and future impact. …
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Search for the onset of color transparency through neutral rho meson electroproduction on nuclei
… rho0 electroproduction with the CLAS detector at Thomas Jefferson Laboratory. This experiment used two different targets simultaneously to reduce the systematic error and achieve a more precise measurement.The Nuclear Transparency was measured as a function of Q2 and Coherence Length (l c), and …
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The young Thomas Jefferson's geographic thought, 1743 - 1784
Thomas Jefferson has long been admired for his influence in many arenas in the colonial era of American history; however, his collection of writings has not been closely scrutinized for his geographic thought. This thesis will look at Thomas Jefferson's early life and his writings until 1784, to …
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Jeffersonianism and 19th Century American Maritime Defense Policy.
… For fear of economic debt and foreign wars, Thomas Jefferson and his Republican party, opposed the construction of a formidable blue water naval force. Instead, they argued for a small naval force capable of engaging the Barbary pirates and other small similar forces. For protection of the …
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William Henry Harrison's Indiana: Paternalism and Patriotism on the Frontier, 1795--1812
… attributed much of this attitude to President Thomas Jefferson and other national leaders, key figures on the frontier, like Indiana Governor William Henry Harrison, have received less credit for their impact on these issues. Governor Harrison, his free citizenry, and those excluded from …
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