Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 339-365).

The paleomagnetic history of the volcanic rocks of Easter Island was investigated using standard paleomagnetic techniques. The remanent magnetization of 673 specimens from the three volcanic episodes recognized on the island were measured using a spinner magnetometer. Inclinations, declinations and virtual geomagnetic poles were calculated for each flow. The majority of the samples were collected from the youngest episode, the Terevaka volcanics, which represents activity from the last 200, 000 years. The 65 flows from the Terevaka episode were used to study the Brunhes epoch on Easter Island. A mean geomagnetic pole was located at 87.4°N latitude and 204.2°E longitude. With its oval of 95% confidence, this includes the present geographic pole, as expected for such young rocks. Secular variation, expressed by the angular deviation of the mean virtual geomagnetic pole, was obtained for the Terevaka samples, This value, 12.8° with 95% confidence limits of 14.9° and 11.2°, is compared to other values for Brunhes age rocks. It appears to fit well onto a calculated model for the variation of angular dispersion with site latitude. It also can be related to an anomalously low region of secular variation found in the central Pacific. / Graduation date: 1974

Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-100).

Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-100).

Inaug.-Diss.--Breslau. / Vita. Bibliography: p. vii-viii.

Abstract of Thesis--Catholic University of America. / Bibliography: p. 75-79.

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The 1916 Easter Rising was the watershed political moment of the modern Irish Nation. Padraig Pearse, along with his co-conspirators, initiated an event that dramatically affected the Celtic Revival literary movement. Prior to the rebellion, Pearse left a calculated literary legacy through pamphlets, broadsides, and poems. His most notable contribution to print nationalism was the text of The Easter Proclamation, but the poems he wrote prior to his execution are important contributions to the modern Irish elegiac tradition. Poets took to their work with renewed political fervor and used elegiac forms to mourn the dead and subvert the rhetoric of imperialism. This study focuses on the modern Irish elegy, but also records the creation and reception of Pearse’s documents and actions. Beginning with his political pamphlets, speeches, and poetry, this paper examines how Pearse’s legacy in print impacted the elegiac tradition in Ireland. While it would be impossible to examine every elegy directly influenced by the Easter Rising in this short paper, it is useful to examine disparate elegiac viewpoints on this historical event. Initially tracing the historical production of The Easter Proclamation and Pearse’s series of separatist pamphlets, this exploration shifts to Pearse’s self-elegies and the elegies written by his acquaintances and contemporaries. Yeats is the obvious starting point for Republican elegies, but I will also explore the shifting poetics and elegiac tropes present in the poems of AE (George Russell), and Francis Ledwidge. This paper does not seek to ignore or discredit the print legacy of the other leaders of the Rising (notably Connolly, MacDonagh, and Markiewicz), but focuses on Pearse because of his print legacy and political importance. / text

As the COVID-19 pandemic brought fear and anxiety to people around the world, the Christian community is called to give witness to her hope in the risen Lord. Preaching is a major channel of this witness. The analysis of five Easter sermons, preached in April 2020 by pastors of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, brings to the fore how an alarming contextual situation weighs in on the tone and content of Easter preaching in local churches. A lamenting mode of preaching was found, that voices local communities’ distress and strengthens hope, repeating the salvific message of Easter in the face of bewilderment and suffering. The analysis underscores and adds to homiletical theory on lament in preaching.