The Poplar Hill area lies in the southwest corner of Giles County, Virginia and contains marine sedimentary rocks that range in age from Middle Cambrian to Middle Bilurian. The formations trend northeast in narrow outcrop belts. The summit of Walker Mountain is the southeastern boundary of the area and the southern slopes of Brushy and Buckeye Mountains form the northwestern boundary. Nineteen different rock formations are recognized and are mapped, measured, and described in detail. The geologic structure of the area is described and includes a major thrust fault, a homocline, two synclines, and two anticlines, all illustrated on the geologic map (P1. 1). The geologic history of the area is briefly discussed and several possible localities for limestone and dolomite quarries are described. / Master of Science

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THESIS ABSTRACT This thesis deals with the problematics and the role of American frontier and American West in Cormac McCarthy's border trilogy consisting of All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994) and Cities of the Plain (1999). The reading proper focuses mainly on the second novel of the trilogy, making frequent references to both the other two volumes of the trilogy and to Blood Meridian (1985), a novel directly preceding the trilogy itself. The main goal of the thesis is to demonstrate that the trilogy not only critically engages with the American nationalist ideology represented by a nostalgically conceptualized myths of the American frontier, but that it also offers its own alternative vision of the concept of the frontier and of American national identity. The thesis further claims that McCarthy's critical approach to the mythical representations of the American history bears strong resemblance to the philosophy of American pragmatism as defined by a French philosopher Giles Deleuze in his works dedicated to American thinking and culture. In his pragmatic view of American identity the frontier ceases to function in its traditional, nationalistic sense as a line of separation that divides the social and political space into binary categories, and instead it is understood as an open and...

Nous dégageons dans ce mémoire les limites de l'utilisation du concept de narcissisme au sein de la sociologie et plus particulièrement dans les livres La culture du narcissisme de Christopher Lasch et L'ère du vide de Gilles Lipovetsky. Pour ce faire, nous avons retracé l'évolution du concept de narcissisme dans la psychanalyse freudienne ainsi que la psychanalyse américaine s'inspirant de la réforme hartmannienne. Nous sommes parties du fait qu'il existe une certaine méprise concernant l'acception de ce concept au sein de thèses sociologiques et avons illustré cela par une analyse des auteurs précités. Que ce soit dans la conceptualisation freudienne du phénomène du narcissisme; l'encadrant d'abord par du sexuel, ensuite dans les avatars que le moi subit ou bien les thèses hartmanniennes, kernbergiennes et kohutiennes mettant l'accent sur le soi, le concept de narcissisme demeure un concept fortement déterminé par la psychanalyse et en conséquence exige que l'on s'y réfère adéquatement. Nous avons ainsi découvert que Lasch opère plusieurs glissements conceptuels entre l'acception freudienne et l'acception postfreudienne, rendant sa thèse confuse. Quant à Lipovetsky, nous avons montré que parce qu'il occulte le dispositif psychanalytique, il ne peut comprendre la portée même de sa thèse sur le narcissisme de l'individu postmoderne. Ce mémoire parcourt ainsi le concept de narcissisme dans le cadre du premier et du deuxième dualisme pulsionnel, de la réforme hartmannienne mettant l'accent sur le narcissisme comme investissement libidinal du soi, du narcissisme tel que Green le conçoit et finalement, ce voyage conceptuel culmine dans une analyse des thèses laschiennes et lipovetskiennes sur le narcissisme de l'individu du 20ième siècle. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Narcissisme, Premier dualisme pulsionnel, Deuxième dualisme pulsionnel, Postmodernité, Freud, Hartmann, Kernberg, Kohut, Green Lasch, Lipovetsky.

From 1930 to 1955, Amon Carter, publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, exerted his power to create modern Fort Worth. Carter used his stature as the publisher of the city's major newspaper to build a modern city out of this livestock center. Between 1930 and 1955, Carter lobbied successfully for New Deal funds for Fort Worth, persuaded Consolidated Aircraft to build an airplane plant in the city, and convinced Burlington Railways to stay in the city. He also labored unsuccessfully to have the Trinity River Canal built and to secure a General Motors plant for Fort Worth. These efforts demonstrate that Carter was indeed the founder of modern Fort Worth.

Comment parler de « la femme » ? En effet, ce thème sollicite bon nombre de discours qui n’appartiennent pas au même domaine scientifique et n’ont pas la même méthode. Quelle science doit donc être employée pour déterminer la hiérarchie des discours qui ont la différence sexuelle pour objet ? Quelle est la place de la philosophie dans la constellation des savoirs que le XIIIème siècle a vu se croiser à l’occasion d’un tel « thème » ? Que ce soit dans les discours universitaires d’Albert le Grand, de Thomas d’Aquin, de Bonaventure ou de Gilles de Rome, il appert que l’objet d’étude qu’est la « femme » est épistémologiquement cohésif. Les autorités comme Aristote, Galien, Avicenne et Averroès sont confrontées à Augustin, Pierre Lombard, Paul de Tarse et aux « Saintes Ecritures ». Est-ce donc à la Révélation de donner les principes des discours sur « la femme », ou bien à la médecine de discriminer ou de prouver les thèses morales et politiques concernant la différence sexuelle ? Chaque auteur semble avoir une réponse qui témoigne de son épistémologie sous-jacente et c’est la cohérence scientifique pour parler de la sexuation et, en définitive, de la femme, qui est visée par ces auteurs du Bas Moyen-Age. / How can we speak about « woman »? Indeed, many discourses refer to this subject without belonging to the same scientific field and without sharing the same methodology. Which science should be selected to determine the hierarchy of the discourse about sexual difference? What part did philosophy play in this subject among the manifold fields of knowledge of the 13th century? In the academical corpus of Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, Giles of Rome and many others, the study of woman looks epistemologically cohesive. Authoritative voices such as those of Aristotle, Galen, Avicenna and Averroes are confronted with those of Augustine, P. Lombard, Paul, and with the “Holy Scriptures”. Is it hence up to the Book of Revelation to provide the principles underpinning the discourses on “woman”, or up to medical authorities to distinguish between or prove the moral and political theses on sexual difference? Each author’s answer to this question seems to testify to his underlying epistemology and it is the scientific consistency which characterizes the talk about the gender, and ultimately about the woman, which is targeted by these Late Middle Ages authors.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This is the study of Engelbert of Admont's unique and practical take on Aristotelian political theory post-rediscovery of Aristotle's ethico-political works. Through the methods of reception theory and a comparative analysis of his first major political treatise, De regimine principum, with those of his contemporaries similar political treatises (i.e., St. Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, and Marsilius of Padua) and their use of Aristotelian sources and concepts--e.g. lex animata--I have shown not only Engelbert's more original, unique, and practical approach to political philosophy within the Aristotelian political tradition of the later Middle Ages, but also a more comprehensively eclectic nature of this tradition. Engelbert's political philosophy as espoused in his De regimine principum is thus a watershed in the development of the use of practical political science.

The intent of this project was to develop a method of making architecture which incorporates into its design the unique features of the site and region. The site was chosen because of its unique physical features and strong regional character. The ideas of the layering of the walls was derived from the strata of a nearby bluff. The form of the building, a series of parallel walls, was an interpretation of the natural architecture of the region and the site. The curved wall that terminates the path through the building originated as a response to the meeting of a stream and the river. Out of this project came a building design that developed from the site in an incremental way. The architectural elements respond to the site through their individual form and structure, then as a collective whole. / Master of Architecture

Architecture cannot target only a particular age group or type of person worthy of its attention, but rather must respond to the entire human condition. I chose to design a project that would allow me to consider architecturally the span between birth and death, with both segregated and interactive spaces for the various age groups. The site echoes the human condition in complexity—a steep, wooded slope partially encircling a flat open area, separated by a large, flat stream, further disrupted by a tiny, steeply falling stream. Located on the outskirts of Newport Virginia, the project is a small, self-contained community intended to relate to the existing town in spirit as Le Corbusier’s La Tourette relates to the nearby town of Eveaux—felt and glimpsed but not seen. The building is organized around a series of major concrete walls, paired for circulation and containing volumes between the pairs, spaced in multiples of two and three. These walls are oriented to the geologic strike of the rock beds, perhaps the most permanent of all site qualities. Bridges link portions of the project on both sides of the stream, and the center is carved out to form an open plaza; a microcosm of the valley and surrounding ridges which make up the landscape. / Master of Architecture