This dissertation examines the life and conflicted career of Sir James Wright (1716-1785), in an effort to better understand the complex struggle for power in both colonial Georgia and eighteenth-century British Empire. Specifically, this project will highlight the contest for autonomy between four groups: Britains and Georgians (core-periphery), lowcountry and backcountry residents, whites and Natives, and Rebels and Loyalists. An English-born grandson of Chief Justice Sir Robert Wright, James Wright was raised in Charleston, South Carolina following his father’s appointment as that colony’s chief justice. Young James served South Carolina in a number of capacities, public and ecclesiastical, prior to his admittance to London’s Gray’s Inn in London. Most notably, he was selected as their attorney general and colonial agent prior to his appointment as governor of Georgia in 1761. Wright collected more than public offices in his endless quest for respect and social advancement. He also possessed a voracious appetite for land and became colonial Georgia’s largest landowner, accumulating nearly 26,000 acres, worked by no less than 525 slaves. As governor, he guided Georgia through a period of intense and steady economic and territorial growth. By the time of the American Revolution, Georgia had become fully integrated into the greater transatlantic mercantilist economy, resembling South Carolina and any number of Britain’s Caribbean colonies. Moreover, Governor Wright maintained royal authority in Georgia longer and more effectively than any of his North American counterparts. Although several factors contributed to his success in delaying the seemingly inexorable revolutionary tide, his patience and keen political mind proved the deciding factor. He was the only of Britain’s thirteen colonies to enforce the Stamp Act of 1765 and managed to stay a step or two ahead of Georgia’s Sons of Liberty until the winter of 1775-1776. In short, Sir James Wright lived a transatlantic life, taking advantage of every imperial opportunity afforded him. He earned numerous important government positions and amassed an incredible fortune, totaling over £100,000 sterling. His long imperial career delicately balanced dual loyalties to Crown and colony and offers important and unique insights into a number of important historiographic fields.

Australia in the early 50s followed a decade or so of frenzy activities in the visual arts. This resurgence of Australian art which led to its recognition in the UK and the United States also brought about a renewed recognition in the quality of domestic architecture. New boundaries in the design of the Australian home were being redefined, both in theory as well as in practice. Although the decades between the two Great Wars saw the importation of such influences as the Californian Bungalow and Art Deco styles (shades of Dudok, Mendelsohn etc.), it was during the post-war years that the term organic architecture that was much discussed by a wide range of practitioners of the time. This research aims to trace the journey of organic architecture from its origin to Australia and provide some insight into the workings of those who claimed to have practiced it.

Thesis (MA(N.T.))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-217) Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2008. / Includes vitae. Department of Philosophy, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Advisor(s): Peter H. Schwartz. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-66)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-200).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 260-265). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

This diploma thesis deals with the criticism of communism in the novels of three African-American writers: Richard Wright Native Son and The Outsider, Chester Himes Lonely Crusade and Ralph Ellison Invisible Man. The main characters of their novels, mainly African-Americans, were directly confronted with racial prejudices, injustice during the Great Depression. These unfavorable living situations brought them to the Marxist Ideology. The Communist Party in USA was attractive for African-Americans because their program included the fight for racial equality. After the initial excitement of Marxist Ideology came indignation and disappointment.

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The concept of distorting the line between fiction and reality appears to be one of the main themes in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) as well as in Joe Wright’s screen adaptation of the novel, released in 2007. With the focus on the main character Briony Tallis this essay explores the influence that literature and fiction have on her, how they bring her to blur the line between them and reality and, to a lesser extent, the different ways in which the novel and its screen adaptation address this issue. Briony is first introduced as an author, underlining the importance that imagination holds for her, and it is this overactive imagination that causes her to misinterpret real events and thus accuse Robbie Turner for a crime he did not commit. To redeem herself Briony turns to fiction in an attempt to re-write the past; by blurring the line between fiction and reality, as defined by the restrictions of her novel, Briony gives Robbie and Cecilia a future within the pages of her book. The literary motifs and symbols, that are present within her novel, enhance the influence fiction and literature have on her. This is also emphasized by her characters’ relationship with literature, their use of literary works, and their characters.  Briony, the character, strives to become Briony the author, thus emphasizing the importance that literature holds for her. Because Briony is trapped within the boundaries of her own imagination she has, in writing her novel, managed to hold Robbie and Cecilia captive in her imaginative world. Thus, finally achieving what she has been striving to do for during the greater part of her life: Briony, the author, can atone for the terrible ordeals that she caused decades previously.

Memoria (licenciado en ciencias jurídicas y sociales) / No autorizada por los autores para ser publicada a texto completo / En esta memoria se establecen las conexiones existentes, entre dos destacados exponentes de la llamada filosofía analítica: G.H. von Wright y Ludwig Wittgenstein. Un primer nivel de aproximación a las conexiones entre ambos filósofos está dado por los componentes institucionales y políticos que ambos comparten al interior de la tradición analítica de la filosofía. Respecto al componente institucional, ambos autores están conectados por el hecho de provenir de una misma red de formación (Universidad de Cambridge), producción y difusión (revista Mind) y círculos de discusión. En cuanto al componente político, von Wright tuvo como ‘programa’ extender el dominio de sus investigaciones lógicas, fuertemente influidas por Wittgenstein, hacia otros ámbitos tales como las ciencias sociales y el Derecho. El segundo nivel de conexiones son las que se presentan respecto de las concepciones filosóficas de cada uno. Al respecto, entre ambos filósofos se observan las siguientes conexiones: ambos filósofos comparten una perspectiva crítica de las teorías generales como un método de explicación de los fenómenos; las investigaciones conceptuales de las normas de von Wright se fundamentan en la concepción del significado como uso de Wittgenstein; finalmente, los dos coinciden en que la lógica tiene un ámbito que va más allá del cálculo de las funciones de verdad (tesis que fundamenta la posibilidad de existencia de una lógica de normas). Sin embargo, von Wright fundamenta esta última tesis en el presupuesto ideal de una voluntad racional del legislador, asumiendo un costo argumentativo que, aplicando las ideas de Wittgenstein, no es necesario asumir. En efecto, siguiendo a Wittgenstein, la racionalidad mínima que permite la posibilidad de una lógica de normas no está en el ámbito de lo ideal, sino que en la racionalidad con la que actúan los hombres en diversas prácticas, su acuerdo en juicios y conceptos que en el tiempo conforman una forma de vida, un sistema de certezas al que Wittgenstein se refiere como una imagen del mundo compartida por los miembros de una misma comunidad lingüística.