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Many Supreme Court followers contended that Judge John Roberts entered his Supreme Court confirmation hearings as a "stealth candidate" who lacked a paper trail the Judiciary Committee could vet to discern the interpretive approach, or judicial philosophy, to which Judge Roberts' subscribed. This dissertation used rhetorical criticism as a methodological approach for examining this claim. A close-reading of Roberts' law journal articles, his writings from his service during the Reagan and Bush (41) administrations, the text of his appellate court confirmation testimony and published opinions, and the text of his Supreme Court confirmation testimony and published opinions reveals that Roberts was not a "stealth candidate" but instead a jurist who resolved constitutional, judicial, political, and statutory issues by incorporating components of originalism and positivism into his prudentialist judicial philosophy. The first two chapters of the dissertation provide the requisite background for the study. Chapter I discusses the challenges of the nomination and confirmation processes for Supreme Court Justices, and the chapter discusses the crucial powers that the Chief Justice possesses. Chapter II introduces readers to legal arguments, argument modalities, and judicial philosophies, and the chapter offers a new definition for the terms "legal rhetoric" and provides a new methodology for studying judicial discourse. The subsequent chapters comprise the core of the study. Chapter III examines Roberts' law review articles and the letters, memoranda, and position papers he wrote while working for the Reagan and Bush administrations, Chapter IV investigates Roberts' appellate court confirmation testimony and his published opinions, and Chapter V investigates Roberts' Supreme Court confirmation testimony and his published opinions. Following a chronological approach reveals that Roberts consistently used certain argument types within corresponding argument modalities to formulate his argumentative strategies, and each chapter demonstrates that Roberts' adhered to a prudentialist interpretive approach to resolve constitutional and statutory questions. Finally, Chapter VI argues that scholars should examine judicial discourse from an interdisciplinary perspective and reevaluate their conceptions about legal rhetoric and rhetorical criticism.

Thesis (M.A.)--Western Seminary, 1993. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-73).

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2004. / Advisor: Dr. Daniel J. Pullen, Florida State University, College of Visual Arts and Dance, Dept. of Art History. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Jan. 18, 2005). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Western Seminary, 1993. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-73).

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia Southern University, 2008. / "A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts." Directed by James Woods. ETD. Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-92)

Thesis (M.A.)--Western Seminary, 1993. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-73).

Inaug.-diss.--Berlin. / Lebenslauf. "Bücherangabe": p. [6]-[8].

Originally an online masters thesis from Marshall University, 2004. / Includes abstract. Verso of title page is signed by the author. Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-114).

Orientador: Alexandre César Rodrigues da Silva / Banca: Aledir Silveira Pereira / Banca: Almir Rogério Camolesi / Resumo: O processamento de imagens é uma área promissora na automação, por poder ser aplicado nas mais variadas atividades da tecnologia como, por exemplo, na medicina, na agricultura de precisão, dentre muitas outras. Este trabalho consiste na aplicação da área de processamento de imagens, voltada a área de segmentação, com os operadores de bordas Roberts, Prewitt e Sobel. Tendo também muita contribuição na área de processamento de imagens e sistemas embarcados, implementando os detectores de bordas na placa FPGA (Field Programmable Gate. Array), por meio de software e de simulações do hardware. A configuração do processador NIOS permitiu a instalação do sistema operacional uClinux e de um software descrito na linguagem C ANSI com a imagem em níveis de cinza particionada em quatro sub- imagens. O hardware gerado, foi modelado com a linguagem de descrição de hardware VHDL (VHSIC - Hardware Description Language). Para serem comparadas às imagens geradas, detectores de bordas no ambiente MATLAB foram aplicado por ser uma ferramenta conhecida, usual, com funções para aplicações na área de processamento de imagens. Para ter um melhor entendimento sobre os algoritmos de detecção de bordas, foram criados algoritmos na linguagem C ANSI / Abstract: Image processing is a promising area for automation, because it can be applied in a variety of technology activities, for example, in medicine, precision agriculture, among many others. This work is the application of image processing area, facing the segmentation area, with the operators of edges Roberts, Prewitt and Sobel. Also having a lot of contribution in the field of image processing and embedded systems, implementing the edge detectors in the FPGA board by means of simulation software and hardware. The NIOS processor configuration allowed the installation of the uClinux operating system and software described in the ANSI C language with the image in grayscale partitioned into four sub-images. The hardware generated, was modeled with the hardware description language VHDL (VHSIC - Hardware Description Language). To be compared to the images generated, edge detectors were implemented in MATLAB, a tool known, usual, with functions for applications in image processing. To get a better understanding of the edge detection algorithms were created algorithms in ANSI C language / Mestre