Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Criticism and interpretation
This thesis proposes the Samuel Coleridge's poetry attempts to forge an interdependent relationship between imagination and faith. In the Biographia Literaria Coleridge suggests that the imagination is an entity separate from man and similar to the...
Water quality--Connecticut--Eightmile River (New London County and Middlesex County); Eightmile River (New London County and Middlesex County, Conn.)
"Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Biology."; Thesis advisor: Clayton Penniman.; M.A.,Central Connecticut State University,,2012.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-72).
Women in literature -- 18th century; Women in literature -- 19th century
The purpose of this thesis is to chart the development of marriage as seen in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century British literature. The domestic fiction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries clearly shows a shift from marriage as an...
American literature -- Hispanic American authors; Masculinity
This thesis focuses on how the male-male relationships in contemporary Latino novels by Piri Thomas, Abraham Rodriguez, Jr., Junot Díaz, Arturo Islas, and John Rechy help or hurt the protagonists’ developing masculinity and overall sense of...
Catalonia (Spain) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements; Catalonia (Spain) -- Politics and government
The topic of research in this paper, "The future of nationalities and regions in an integrating Europe: The Case of Catalonia", involves all aspects of Catalan life in order to develop and understand their particular and separate nationality. With...
The primary objective of this study was to test the effects of caffeine on cigarette smoking. Two hundred male and female smokers who were customers of Sullivan Banquet Hall and Bar, a drinking establishment, were asked to drink one of five...
Scotland -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Home rule -- Scotland
The democratic way in which the Scots pressed for more say in their own affairs is an object lesson in constitutional politics. On September 11, 1997 the voting booth and ballot box were the weapons the Scots used to attain Home Rule and the return...
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 -- Political and social views; Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 -- Political and social views; Ellison, Ralph -- Political and social views; African Americans -- Race identity -- 20th century;...
Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, African-American literature not only explored the influence of racism on the African-American psyche, but it also strove to convey the desire for a political and social identity within a...
In Alfred Chandler's The Visible Hand, written over two decades ago, the author answers a simple question, how best to explain the rise of the modern business in the United States? While regarding new technologies and burgeoning markets as...
The purpose of this thesis is to explore images of imprisonment and escape within selected poems by Sylvia Plath. The causes of imprisonment are complex, and it is my intention to relate imprisoning features in Plath's poetry to Plath's family,...
Mental illness -- Public opinion; Mental illness -- Social aspects
Individuals with mental illness are often the victims of stigmatization and discrimination from others, which may have severe negative consequences on treatment outcomes, recovery success, and perceived quality of life for such individuals. Such...
Historic preservation -- Brazil -- João Pessoa (Paraíba); Historic preservation -- Connecticut -- Guilford
The process of historic preservation is complicated by a variety of factors. Given the economic and political exigencies that often exist it is necessary to develop means of effectively managing historic districts. The arguments for historic...
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 -- Criticism and interpretation
What is predominant among Theodore Dreiser's works is "chemism" (Spiller, Literary Theory 1201). We see such terms as "chemic" (Dreiser, Best 51), "chemical" (Dreiser, Myself 51), "chemistry" (Dreiser, Genius 689), and "chemical affinity"...
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Russia; Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- United States
This study describes the difference between elementary mathematics education in Russia and the United States. What can we learn from Russian mathematics education? The thesis presents that the main source of Russian achievements in mathematics...
Communication in learning and scholarship; Education -- Demographic aspects
As interactions between people from different cultures increase, the need to understand and accept communication styles which sharply contrast with our own, becomes more evident. One individual characteristic that affects substantially the...
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France; World War, 1939-1945 -- France
The Christian resistance in France fought an energetic and indispensable struggle against Nazism in a variety of ways. It is the purpose of this thesis to illuminate this struggle in its uniqueness of origin, and in its silent legacy. This...
This thesis explores the idea of the "artist" as a figure of self-creation in the
development of identity (both in and through literature) using a number of Shakespeare's
protagonists to exemplify the different stages of evolution, especially...
The story of the Golden Fleece is one of the oldest stories in Europe. The episode
of Jason and Medea, their passionate love transformed into fierce hate and destructive
desire of vengeance has been a theme of many literary, cinematographic and...
In the tragic drama Samson Agonistes, John Milton transforms the protagonist
from a defeated hero in the Homeric tradition to a suppliant yet conquering hero in the
Hebraic tradition. Milton's source is the Old Testament book of Judges. W. H....
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Characters -- Women; Eliot, George,1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation; Women in literature -- 19th century
The reception of George Eliot’s female protagonists has undergone dramatic transformation in the wake of feminist criticism. Feminists tend to reproach Eliot for a depiction of women that did not demonstrate Eliot’s own social...
