Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / Was Henry James a religious man? There is today no debate among serious critics that moral crises are the central concern of James's fiction, but the obviously related question of the religious base of James's moral universe remains unexamined. In the course of this present study, it has been necessary to raise this question, and it has been possible to offer an answer to it. If by "religious" one means "adhering to a theologi cal credal construct," James was not a religious man; but if one means by the term, a man who denies materialism and aff irms not only the value but the reality of the spiritual realm, the super-natural realm, then Henry James was indeed a religious man. Furthermore, as this dissertation shows, his view of human nature approves the orthodox Christian perspective. And in his evaluation of the results of the dis integration of the religious center of Puritanism, James offered a critique of the modern a religious and irreligious mind as severe as that of his theologically oriented religious contemporaries [TRUNCATED] / 2031-01-01

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This thesis is a comprehensive study of the church buildings built between 1821 and 1910 in Henry County, Indiana. The dramatic transformation from wilderness to an agricultural landscape dotted with small towns is echoed in the pattern of churches constructed. From member homes, congregations next moved into hewn-log buildings, that were replaced by vernacular frame buildings, and sometimes later with architect-designed brick or stone edifices. Congregations of the many different denominations organized during this time period in Henry County (Quaker, Methodist, and Church of Christ were the most numerous ) followed this pattern, though at varying speeds. The result of this cycle of building replacement, as well as the decline of individual congregations and occasional natural disasters, is that the forty-two existing buildings represent only about a quarter of the total number of church buildings erected during these ninety years. A survey of these forty-two buildings can be found in Appendix B.The research focused on where congregations built, how they built-obtaining land, raising funds, and what they built-materials, forms, and architectural styles, such as Greek Revival, Italianate, and Gothic Revival. Possible sources of plans and designs, including architects and nineteenth-century pattern books are discussed, although the influence of these sources was difficult to determine based on the brief accounts usually found in original church records. The thesis concludes with an overview of what has happened to pre-1910 Henry County church buildings after they were completed. Case studies of eight structures, including frame gable-front churches and masonry auditoriumplan churches illustrate the life-cycles of these Midwestern church buildings, revealing that continuous change has been their fate. / Department of Architecture

Dissertation: Hamburg University, 2008 / Includes bibliographical references.

Dissertation: Hamburg University, 2008 / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Alberta, 2010. / "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta." Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on July 8, 2010). Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis examines the structures guiding and informing reading intrinsic to James's "late" style. It seeks to explore James's analogy between reading as an ethical activity and his own and his characters' acts of storytelling. It looks first at the necessities of reading as they are presented through the character of Isabel Archer in The Portrait of a Lady, to find that reading for James is itself a form of storytelling. James's concept of "revision," which replaces the concept of "re-writing," unites the activities of reading and storytelling because both activities, to be free, must be guided by the contingencies of experience. James's emphasis on the determinations of experience, which yields changing apprehensions of the same material, at once makes reading a test of the reader's resources in dealing with unexpected and complex situations, and storytelling an act of improvisation if it is to be faithful to the demands of its subject. The second half of the thesis examines Maggie Verver's command of storytelling in The Golden Bowl. It finds that ethical storytellers must have the same faith in their subject matter as ethical readers must have in the texts they engage. Finally, the thesis unites the study of reading with storytelling by examining the ways in which stories are exemplary performances whose the most significant subject is the audience. It is the forms of judgement that a work of art elicits which are essential to establishing alternative conceptions of the good and new modes of valuation in a community.

The thesis focuses on a variation of James's interest in the "international theme", the effect of transatlantic influences on the development of personality, culture and idea. In the context of this theme it seeks to understand the processes in the development of, and portrayal of change in, the identities of two central characters in the fiction of Henry James, Isabel Archer and Lambert Strether. The two novels analysed, The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors. have a strong contextual relevance to the ''international theme", and compass the span of James's career, providing some degrees of comparison. Beginning with a view of the preliminary vision that James had of the main elements of each central character, the thesis seeks to understand how Isabel Archer and Lambert Strether are subsequently shaped, and developed, by way of the incidents and experiences they meet, and what they make of them. Of primary importance amongst these are the relations they form with the other characters in the novel. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2000.

Emergency services are very important in every society and that is why their activities should not be impeded by any avoidable barrier, especially with regard to transportation. One problem that is affecting the smooth running of emergency services in Henry County, Indiana is train movement across the county. The train tracks run through the county preventing road traffic flow when a train is crossing or has stopped. As a result, ambulances, police, or fire service vehicles have to wait for minutes or travel long distances to go around the train. This thesis focuses on developing response service areas maps based on the current response time and two models to generate shortest route around train obstructions. The data used for this thesis was provided by Henry County GIS Department, including shape files of police stations, police service areas, ambulance stations, ambulance service areas, fire stations, fire service areas, railroad and streets. The response service areas were designed based on the current response time. This was accomplished using ArcGIS network analyst extension which provides tools to design series of concentric circles based on the distance from the common center. Apart from the service areas maps for the emergency services which provide an idea as to where the services need to be extended in the county, the results of this thesis also include two models designed to generate shortest possible route as well as selection of a closest emergency facility to an incident site. The thesis could help improve the transportation aspect of emergency services in the county. / Department of Geography

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