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Movement for Orchestra

Description: The form of the movement is as follows: Slow introduction; forceful theme "A"; lyrical theme "B"; bridge between second theme and development section; development of theme "B"; another bridge developed from a fragment introduced immediately preceding the bridge which is used for a climax before theme "C" is introduced and developed. with the end of the development of theme "C", the development section ends, and thus begins the recapitulation of themes "B" and "A" in that order with little variā€¦ more
Date: August 1961
Creator: Powell, Morgan, 1938-
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The Keyboard Ricercare in the Baroque Era: Volume 2

Description: This study seeks to examine the history of the ricercare, specifically in the baroque era. In this work, all types of keyboard compositions that utilize imitative counterpoint have been examined. Late baroque fugues have been examined to determine which characteristics of the earlier ricercare remained in general use and which specific compositions contain elements causing them to resemble strongly the parent form. This volume is a musical supplement to the thesis.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Douglass, Robert S. (Robert Satterfield), 1919-
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The Monomythic Pattern in Three Novels by D. H. Lawrence

Description: Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Women in Love present sequentially in fictional version Lawrence's own personal journey into self-discovery in the form of a creation myth of sensual love which repeats the archetypal patterns of some of the great mythologies. It is the purpose of the following pages to show how these three novels reveal the major archetypal patterns of mythology as suggested by Joseph Campbell in his study, The Hero with A Thousand Faces.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Hoffmann, Dorothy A.
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Post-decision Selectivity in Exposure to Information

Description: The purpose of the present study was to determine if persons who had made a recent decision would be selective in seeking information related to their decisions. Also under consideration were the explanation for any selectivity exhibited, and the explanation for any variance in the degree of selectivity manifested.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Hubbard, Prevost
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Coverings of Topological Spaces and Paracompactness

Description: This paper will be devoted to an exposition of some of the basic properties of paracompact spaces. In particular, it will be shown that every pseudo-metrizable space is paracompact and countably paracompact.
Date: August 1968
Creator: King, Ronald Scott
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Unhappiness in Love and Marriage in the Fiction of Anton Chekhov

Description: This paper will examine Chekhov's attitudes toward love and marriage as revealed in his short stories. An attempt will be made to find certain themes which recur frequently and to discover the reasons for their recurrence.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Knieff, Nancy Jane Shumate
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Partially Ordered Groups and Rings

Description: This report presents both the most essential known results and new results in the theory of partially ordered groups and rings. This report deals with partially ordered groups and rings in an algebraic aspect because it is more important than partially ordered, fully ordered and lattice-ordered semigroup theory.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Lott, Kenneth L.
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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay

Description: Millay and Dickinson, born more than sixty years apart, were subject to vastly different influences and environments, although their homes were in the same geographic area. Their poetry reflects the difference of their times and their own temperament, but both wrote from a great depth and understanding of feeling and experience about subjects common to all mankind - death, love, anguish, the significance of nature.
Date: August 1968
Creator: McDonald, Henry Sue
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Symbolism in Coleridge's Minor Poetry

Description: In his minor poems, Coleridge applies symbolic techniques to embellish the poetry and satisfy his spiritual needs. His symbolism allows for a release of pent-up emotions and transmits philosophical ideas in "capsule forms" rather than in historical prose, making them relate to the poetic appeal.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Madewell, Viola D'Ann
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American Public Opinion During Crises in Japanese-American Relations in the Early Twentieth Century

Description: Throughout the period following Pearl Harbor, as one crisis in Japanese-American relations followed another, the American public opinion was divided. Some newspapers and personalities feared that there would be war over the San Francisco school board crisis, while others believed that talk of war was ridiculous. Partisan politics often affected the course of affairs on the Japanese question.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Nelson, Donald Fowler.
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Growing Earthworms in Artificial Environments

Description: This study is intended to investigate the artificial environment conditions that would favor the most effective propagation of the African night crawler.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Olaniran, David A.
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Cleopatra: A Comparative Critique

Description: Shakespeare's Cleopatra is a character of magnificent aspect, a puzzling paradox of magnetic intensity, an intensified diversity unmatched by any other Cleopatra in literary history. Although she was not his invention, Shakespeare made of her a living woman, believable in spite of her incredulous behavior.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Orcutt, Helen Jewell Smith
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Fatigue and Recuperation Curves under Varying Lengths of Intertrial Recovery Periods

Description: The purposes of this study were to investigate the effect that strength level had upon fatigue and recuperation under the two conditions of five- and thirty-second interval duration periods. Another purpose was to compare the results of this study to similar studies using male subjects in order to determine if women's response patterns to tests of strength were similar to those of men.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Osborne, Jacquelyn
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Language Drift in English : Gender Loss and Semantic Change

Description: In parallel passages from Old and Middle English and in noun cognates from Modern English, Old English, and Modern German, the most discernible elements of language drift are gender loss and word meaning change, respectively. They can be observed, discussed, and calculated to show a definite progression toward the development of Modern English.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Parker, Mary A.
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Bonding Studies on Organolithium Compounds

Description: This study is concerned with the nature of the relatively unusual bonding which occurs in organolithium compounds as a direct result of the oligomerization and possible explanations for that bonding.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Peyton, Gary
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Convergence Properties of Filters and Nets

Description: The development of the concept of a filter leads to a theory of convergence in topological spaces. There is a close relationship between the concept of a net and that of a filter.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Price, Joel D.
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Development of a Behavioral Rating Scale for Profoundly Retarded Children

Description: The purpose of this study was first to determine what criteria could be used on a behavioral scale to evaluate the profoundly retarded, and then to acquire some data bearing on the reliability and validity of a scale based on such criteria.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Rhoads, Paul A.
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A Study of the Availability of Industrial Arts Teachers and its Effects Upon the Industrial Arts Programs in the Public Schools of North Texas

Description: The purpose of this study was to determine the availability of qualified industrial arts teachers in the twenty-four North Texas area school districts surveyed; and to ascertain the effects of industrial arts teacher availability upon the status of the industrial arts programs in the school districts surveyed.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Rusk, Artre H., Jr.
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