This thesis examined the movements of Rufus King's Federal division during a portion of the Second Manassas Campaign. With an emphasis on the role of John Gibbon's brigade, this study concentrated on the battle fought on the evening of August 28, 1862 near Groveton, Virginia between King's division and two Confederate divisions under Stonewall Jackson. Events leading up to file battle, poor cooperation between the Union generals and the faulty deployment by Jackson were stressed, as was the severity of the fighting.The withdrawal of King's division following the battle was portrayed as an important strategic error which allowed the two wings of the Confederate army to unite the following day. Although the Union troops fought Jackson's larger force to a draw, poor leadership by the Union generals resulted in tide loss of the advantages gained by the fighting. The Battle at Brawner Farm was an important event in the campaign, although it has generally been overlooked by historians.

The purpose of this report was to investigate the role of George Edward Kessler and the historical events which effected the development of the Indianapolis park system. Heretofore, this area of study has received little scholarly attention. Kessler has proven to be a significant figure in landscape architecture and city planning history; his landscape and planning philosophies profoundly restructured the urban fabric of Indianapolis and numerous other cities throughout America. As a result of Kessler's involvement, Indianapolis is heir to a sophisticated network of parks and boulevards representational of City Beautiful Era planning. This park system is an historically and a culturally valuable legacy as it has shaped the city's urban character.The study focused on the Indianapolis park system's developmental period, 1895-1915. Primary and secondary source material was researched in order to document the park system's initial beginnings during the Park Movement through its maturation during the City Beautiful Era.Kessler's original plan contemplated 175 miles of parkways along the city's river and stream corridors, and an additional 175 miles of connecting boulevards. The Kessler park system included a total of 12,000 acres for the city. It should be noted that the system fell short of this grandiose scheme, however, the study concluded that Kessler played a significant role in the development of the Indianapolis park system. By the close of the 1920's, much of the groundwork for the Kessler plan had been successfully implemented.In recent years, designed landscapes have gained considerable new attention from preservationists, landscape architects and allied professions. Kessler's visionary scheme for the Indianapolis park system is a significant layer of design upon the city's physical plan.In light of this growing appreciation of the nation's historic urban greenspaces and the events which shaped them, this study was undertaken. / Department of Architecture

The purpose of this study was to examine the causes and historical impact of the Armstrong investigation into the practices of the life insurance industry. As a long-time admirer of Charles Evans Hughes, and a serious student of the history of insurance, I found the opportunity of looking into an important part of Hughes's early career and the most significant event in the annals of insurance history to be especially compelling, particularly as my research came to show the need to re-assess much of what previously has been written about the episode.In addition to basic resource materials available at Bracken Library, I found that extensive use of contemporary newspaper accounts, principally those in the Chicago Tribune andNew York Times, revealed the vivid images that caught so well the attention and imagination of the American public in 1905. I also have made valuable use of James Hazen Hyde's personal papers in the archival section of Baker Library at Harvard University. This important collection of private correspondence and records has been largely overlooked by insurance historians writing about the period. Those who have written about the New York Times also have ignored the Hyde material, most significantly the items linking the financial condition of the New York Times with the Equitable Life Assurance Society, the principal firm in the great financial scandal. That embarrassing link explains the newspaper's restrained and even bland reporting and editorials concerning the unfolding events.Little mention is given the Armstrong investigation in the insurance textbooks used in American colleges and universities. The occasional references to the most important public investigative body of its time are limited to phrases beginning with "because of" or "prior to" and rarely provide more than a minimal amount of background explanation. Certainly more of the history of insurance needs to be taught.While institutions of higher learning offer students the opportunity to study the history of many subjects, such as art, music, medicine, law, and economics, none of the more than two hundred universities in the country offering insurance courses includes study of the history of insurance. Of the many rich and intriguing events in the realm of insurance, the story of the Armstrong investigation, with its startling findings and resulting widespread reform legislation, should serve well as the nucleus of an insurance history text. Completion of such a textbook indeed will finish the work started by this thesis. / Department of History

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The reputation given to Adolf Loos and Gustav Klimt as opposites, as well as the understanding of Loos's writings as supporting this reputation, correspond less to the works as such than to the general dichotomic mode of understanding that we inherited from the so-called platonic dichotomy of being and appearance. / Indeed, common to their respective work are the relationships in which stand the elements forever understood as antagonistic. Neither opposition nor transparency, their work bring forth an intermediary state, the state of coexistence of difference. / By questioning the relationships between elements taken as opposites, Loos and Klimt are challenging the secular dichotomy of being and appearance, and with it the whole understanding of artistic creation and of the work of art as such.

G. W. L. Marshall-Hall, 1862-1915, English-born musician who settled in Australia in 1891, is chiefly remembered as a pioneer teacher and conductor, founder of the Melbourne University Conservatorium and the Melba Memorial Conservatorium, Melbourne, propagator of the first orchestral subscription concerts in Melbourne, and founding Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne. An outspoken Bohemian, his book of poems Hymns ancient and modern (1898) was judged lewd and sacrilegious and led to his severance from the University in 1900. Marshall-Hall was also a composer of over 50 works, including operas, symphonies, overtures, string quartets, and numerous songs. The six extant operas are a representative sample of his creative work, exhibiting strong influence of Wagner and later Puccini, but flawed by the limits of a largely untutored technique. Most interesting is the effect on the composer's creative work of prolonged isolation from and occasional return-visits to Europe.

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2010. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iii, 55 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-55).

Thesis (M.A.)--B.Y.U. Dept. of Graduate Studies in Religious Instruction.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-01-11Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:14:13Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 garcia_lf_me_assis.pdf: 323721 bytes, checksum: 9bd74bc8753f7150e0821c2175512db5 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Não passa despercebido ao leitor das obras Amar, verbo intransitivo (1927) de Mário de Andrade, e Senhorita Else (Fräulein Else) (1924) de Arthur Schnitzler, que tanto Elza, protagonista da primeira, quanto Else, da segunda, ambas germânicas, representam uma mesma crise de identidade. Seja na sociedade austríaca ou na brasileira, ao final da leitura fica claro ao leitor que liberadas dos papéis e identificações que a sociedade lhes impôs, as protagonistas se revelam como mulheres que procuram alternativas para suas vidas, num processo de reformulação constante. As razões e justificativas que norteiam a elaboração desta pesquisa partem, de um lado, da constatação de semelhanças entre as protagonistas das duas obras, particularmente o fato das duas serem representantes femininos da sociedade de língua e cultura germânica da época, e de outro lado da justificativa para as maneiras distintas de como estas “estórias” são realizadas literariamente. A literatura comparada, ultrapassando os limites impostos pela simples identificação de fontes e influências, ocupa-se na contemporaneidade com a questão da compreensão e elucidação do texto literário através da justaposição de obras de um mesmo autor ou de obras de autores diferentes. Desta forma, o objetivo final deste trabalho não é a procura de “influências”, mas sim o esclarecimento de uma obra como resultado de sua aproximação à outra, neste caso, tanto do monólogo interior de Schnitzler ao idílio de Mário de Andrade quanto vice-versa / It is noticeable to the reader of Arthur Schnitzler’s Fräulein Else (1924) and Mário de Andrade’s Amar, verbo intransitivo (1927) that the principal characters in both works are representative of a similar identity crisis. If it happens in the Austrian or Brazilian society of the time makes no difference to the fact that at the end of the works the reader can clearly grasp that the two women have chosen alternative paths to their lives, liberating themselves from the constraints that their background imposed on them. The reasons and justifications that served as basis for this research are the facts that although the main characters of both works are feminine representatives of the German society and culture of the time and are faced with similar problems, their tales are told, literarily speaking, in completely different ways, for some reason. In keeping with the contemporary understanding of comparative literature, the final intention of the present work is not the search of “influences” as such, but to achieve a better understanding of a literary work by juxtaposing it to another, in this case Schnitzler’s interior monologue to Mário de Andrade’s idyll

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo estabelecer relações de natureza comparativa entre textos de áreas afins como Literatura e Psicanálise. Para tanto, parte-se do pressuposto de que a aproximação desses dois campos de conhecimento que têm em comum o texto possibilitam não só as naturais trocas, mas também o reconhecimento de atividades culturais que se complementam.A motivação é a relação textual estabelecida entre os trabalhos de Sigmund Freud e Arthur Schnitzler, intelectuais não só contemporâneos, mas patrícios - ambos austríacos - ligados pela etnia judaica cuja obra, produzida num momento de grande efervescência cultural, apresenta pontos comuns. Enquanto Freud estabelecia os pressupostos de uma nova ciência - a Psicanálise -, Schnitzler produzia sua obra de natureza estética na qual os aspectos de índole psicanalítica eram coincidentes não só quanto à ciência que seria sistematizada por Freud, mas mantinha com ela semelhantes preocupações, em relação à natureza humana, no tocante à transitoriedade. A metodologia do trabalho se baseia nas referências que faz Sigmund Freud, nos textos de divulgação de sua teorias, além de cartas, à obra de cunho estético de Arthur Schnitzler quanto a processos semelhantes de abordagem da prática psicanalítica: o estranho e o duplo, o tabu da virgindade, o ganho secundário e o chiste, assim como das afinidades de natureza estética - elementos analisados de modo a evidenciar o comparativismo no que respeita ao diálogo textual.