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Horace Walpole as a Critic of British Public Address
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Design for a water supply, for the town of Walpole, Mass.
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1891
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A comparison of two lines for a railroad between Dedham and Walpole, Massachusetts
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1891
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Social Disruption in the Gothic Novels of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Austen.
… and its fragmentary style, the novels of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Austen reveal similar treatments of the sexuality of their characters. The implementation of key Gothic elements—such as the castle, tyrannical father, and distressed damsel—serve to propel the novels’ …
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A design for a sewerage system for a portion of the town of Walpole, Mass.
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1891
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The redevelopment of Bird Mill, East Walpole, Massachusetts : public/private profit from rehabilitation and reuse
Thesis (M.C.P. and M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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A Seat at the Table: A Nonconformist Approach to Grassroots Participation in the Articulation of Health Standards
… Ecosystem Health Team’s biomonitoring study of Walpole Island First Nation, which reveals that the absence of community input regarding health standards, combined with a fear of ecosystem toxicity, specifically methyl-mercury toxins in regional flora and fauna, has resulted in high stress and …
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Some Patterns of Imagery in Joseph Conrad's Typhoon
… for its exquisite balance and symmetry." Hugh Walpole, one of Conrad's early admirers, believes that Typhoon, is "poet's work at its finest," while R. L. Megroz, representing a period later than Walpole but earlier than the recent interest in Conrad, points out that "it is carried through by …
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Fashion & Folly: Developing a Site-Responsive Fashion Exhibition for Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill House
… an extra-illustrated book created in response to Walpole’s own extra-illustrated version of the guide to Strawberry Hill that he first published in 1774. The Fashion & Folly extra-illustrated proposal is a document of curatorial practice, a working proposal and an experiment in the revival and …
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The economic value of tourism and recreation in forested areas of Western Australia
… region, the Valley of the Giants, Tree Top Walk, Walpole, provides an estimate of the annual gross market value at between $27.8 million (intrastate market only) and $28.9 million (entire market) using an attribution factor of 70%. This calculation is based on all visitors to the site, with 70% of …
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Total Artifice: Neo-Gothic Literary and Visual Art in Britain 1750-1789
… In my first chapter I argue that Horace Walpole’s neo-Gothic style was not, as many scholars have suggested, informed by Burke’s concept of the sublime. Rather, I demonstrate that Walpole was critical of what he saw as Burke’s exaltation of a kind of ‘holy terror’. Walpole, I argue, was a …
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The artistic and literary career of Charles Jervas (c.1675-1739)
… to three distinct patron groups; Sir Robert Walpole and his fellow-Whigs; the royal family and court; and William Digby, 5th Baron Digby of Geashill. In spite of his successful artistic career in London and Ireland, Jervas has often been remembered primarily for his friendships with literary …
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A thematic plan to promote college and career aspirations for low socioeconomic status students
… Board of Education, 1954; Perna & Swail, 2001; Walpole, 2003; Wilt, 2006). While much has been written on the subject of higher education of low SES student, Hossler and Gallagher (1987) discuss a three-phase college choice model that precludes the higher education of low SES students. The …
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Negotiating the gothic in the fiction of Thomas Hardy
… texts form the heart of the thesis: Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, William Godwin, Caleb Williams, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer. This investigation has been instigated by three …
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East India patronage and the political management of Scotland 1720-1774
… and security of the fragile British state. Walpole believed the danger sufficient to warrant the strongest political management system possible there, using all the patronage that could be brought to bear. Through John Drummond, a Scottish East India Company Director, he was able to procure …
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Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… Manley, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Horace Walpole, Ann Yearsley, and Walter Scott alongside works of traditional historical and political discourse, this dissertation argues that that historical romance maintained a continuously evolving literary presence in eighteenth-century Britain. …
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Resource Selection, Survival, and Departure of Adult Female Mallards From The Lake St. Clair Region During Autumn And Winter
… season and post hunting season. Selection for Walpole Island water was related to an increase in mortality risk and departure probability across seasons. As mallards selected for private water, departure probability decreased during the second half of the hunting season, but increased during …
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As We Move Ahead Together: Foregrounding Reconciliating and Renewed First Nation/ Non-Aboriginal Relations in Environmental Management and Research
… doctoral researcher, in partnership with Walpole Island First Nation. The research served as an opportunity for co-producing knowledge on this subject across cultures and worldviews, and as an effort to build towards our shared aspiration of learning how distinct, yet inextricably linked, …
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Seeing With Two Eyes: Colonial Policy, the Huron Tract Treaty and Changes in the Land in Lambton County, 1780-1867
… This dissertation explores the histories of Walpole Island (Bkejwanong), Sarnia (Aamjiwnaang), and Kettle and Stoney Point (Wiiwkwedong and Aazhoodena) between 1790 and 1867 in what became Lambton County, Ontario. Anishinabe peoples faced tremendous challenges during this crucial period in …
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