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Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : hermeneutics and epistemology in Ishmael's seafaring

Creator:: Goodrum, Emily A.
Abstract:: This paper defends a reading of Hennan Melville's Moby-Dick that elevates Ishmael's status from mere narrator of Ahab's tragedy to that of protagonist of his own story, a novel of epistemological seafaring. As a metaphysical quester, Ishmael provides the novel's only reliable and complex vision of the condition of man...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Melville. David guided this study from start to finish, critiqued early drafts, and motivated much of the

Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

Creator:: Martin, Brian D.
Abstract:: This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , AND STONE: IMAGES AND MEANING IN MELVILLE Brian D. Martin

Redefining the past : essays in diplomatic history in honor of William Appleman Williams

Creator:: Williams, William Appleman and Gardner, Lloyd C., 1934-
Abstract:: The essays in this collection do not cluster about a specific theme, nor do they present a single unified interpretative approach to issues in the history of American foreign policy. Above all, William Appleman Williams is a teacher. And good teachers are disappointed with conformity. No one would ever come...
Resource Type:: Book
Full Text:: ofWilliam Applemanlliams William Appleman Williams REDEFINING THE PAST [ssdys in Diplomdtic History

Space and movement : dance, art, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams

Creator:: Hoch, Jamie
Abstract:: The Modern era, roughly the time between 1860-1930, brought about a significant restructuring of artistic mediums. From the canvas to the page, artists of the twentieth century turned towards collaboration as a means by which they could reconfigure their works. Painters, writers, and dancers, borrowed aesthetic techniques from one another...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Poetry of William Carlos Williams. Abstract approved: Tracy The Modern era, roughly the time between

Cardiovascular disease risk in adults with mental retardation and Down syndrome

Creator:: Draheim, Christopher Charles
Abstract:: Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) have less atherosclerosis than others with and without mental retardation (MR). Why individuals with DS do not develop atherosclerosis similarly to others is not known. The insulin resistance syndrome (IRS), a common neuroendocrine disorder underlying cardiovascular disease, has not been investigated in adults with DS...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

E+A galaxy and spiral E+A galaxy candidates in the Hercules supercluster

Creator:: Williams, Rosemary H.
Abstract:: E+A galaxies represent an important niche in galaxy evolution as a subset of post-starburst galaxies. Set apart from other post-starburst galaxies by their rapid quenching of star formation, E+As are thought to have started their formation outside a galaxy cluster's center and have fallen inward due to gravity; the star...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: . _____________________________________________________________________ Rosemary Williams, Author 7 I would like to thank Dr. Charles Liu

An Investigation of Photographic Band-Ratioing

Creator:: Fisher, Scott William
Abstract:: A photographic band-ratioing technique was investigated. The data source consisted of 70 mm Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) negatives. The process would require combining registered positive and negative transparencies to achieve a ratio modulation in the resulting print. This would also require compensation for atmospheric effects on the original negatives by...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: WILLIAM FISHER A RESEARCH PAPER submitted to THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY in

Seismicity at the Cascadia plate boundary beneath the Oregon continental shelf

Creator:: Williams, Mark Charles
Abstract:: Since 2003, 39 small earthquakes have been detected offshore central Oregon in the nominally locked part of the Cascadia subduction zone, where very little seis- mic activity has been recorded in spite of a paleo-seismic record of great subduction events. Although the regional earthquake bulletin reports depths of 29 and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mark Charles Williams for the

Sequent occupance study in Fauquier County, Virginia

Creator:: Finkl, Charles William
Abstract:: The problem of this thesis is the existence of an anomalous manorial landscape in northern Fauquier County, Virginia. The county is about 45 miles southwest of Washington, D. C. The thesis seeks to develop a hypothesis to explain the existence of this landscape so different from surrounding areas in a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Remote sensing applications in hydrogeothermal exploration of the northern Basin and Range province

Creator:: Hodler, Thomas William, 1944-
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : hermeneutics and epistemology in Ishmael's seafaring

Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

Redefining the past : essays in diplomatic history in honor of William Appleman Williams

Space and movement : dance, art, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams

Cardiovascular disease risk in adults with mental retardation and Down syndrome

E+A galaxy and spiral E+A galaxy candidates in the Hercules supercluster

An Investigation of Photographic Band-Ratioing

Seismicity at the Cascadia plate boundary beneath the Oregon continental shelf

Sequent occupance study in Fauquier County, Virginia

Remote sensing applications in hydrogeothermal exploration of the northern Basin and Range province

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