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Grove, Angela Nicole. "Thomas Johnson: Gentleman, Vermonter, Patriot." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2015. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/403.

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This thesis is a micro-history of the formation of the various identities that shaped the Revolutionary War experiences of one eighteenth-century Vermonter (Thomas Johnson) whose life is documented in a manuscript collection at the Vermont Historical Society. I break down Johnson's identities into three levels: social class, state, and national. My argument is that what it meant to be a provincial gentleman, to be a Vermonter, and to be an American were still being constructed at the time of the Revolution and were therefore in a state of flux. The fluid nature of these identities shows us how America's founding fathers' generation was full of ambiguity and a multiplicity choices. The first section of my thesis analyzes how Johnson's identity as a gentleman officer influenced his experience as a prisoner-of-war. I argue that Johnson's identity as an American patriot and his role as a double-agent can only be understood in relation to his conflicted identity as a provincial gentleman. The second section, on the identity of Vermont in the context of a new American nation, starts with historical background on the formation of Vermont first as part of New Hampshire, then as part of New York, and, finally, in negotiations with the British in Canada to rejoin the British empire, with which Johnson participated. In this section I argue that the shifting identities of colonial and revolutionary Vermont provided a backdrop of fluidity and change, as well as animosities between eastern and western residents, which influenced the identities of individual Vermonters during the war, including Thomas Johnson. For the national level, I look at how European Americans had divided loyalties during the war, with an emphasis on the Revolution as a civil war. My thesis departs from most historiography on the Revolution as a civil war, though, by examining it as a war with gray area - not just black and white, or Patriots versus Loyalists. I use this analysis to examine how Johnson's community was divided and why Johnson's neighbors reacted so diversely to the possibility that he was working with the British. In a last and brief section of my thesis, I look at how Johnson has been memorialized in his town's history, and how doubts of his American loyalty have all but disappeared over time, regardless of the intense debates they provoked during his lifetime. I aim to show that despite the consensus view that has shaped much of the historical memory of the American Revolution, the actual process of revolution was full of disorientation and turbulence.

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Bird, Barbara. "The Victorians and role performance : the middle class gentleman in John Halifax, gentleman and Great expectations." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1221277.

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This project investigates the social role of gentleman in Victorian England as defined in two Victorian novels, Dinah Maria Mulock's John Halifax, Gentleman and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Mulock and Dickens promote the middle-class gentleman as a role that prioritizes the fulfillment of duty. Mulock's protagonist, John Halifax, displays this gentlemanliness throughout his social and economic rise. He bridges the upper and lower classes and embodies both a model and a pathway to middleclass gentlemanliness. Dickens's protagonist, Pip, develops this middle-class gentlemanliness as he learns from his own and four other characters' experiences. Dickens separates the inward, duty-focused gentleman and the outward, appearance-focused gentleman in the four characters that influence Pip, thus emphasizing their relationship and the power of social role encoding. These two novels reveal the performances of roles as social constructions that utilize the power of group definitions and the role writers play in shaping those definitions.
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Brown, David Andrew. "Nathaniel Richmond (1724-1784) : 'gentleman improver'." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342565.

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Denton, Jon. "The East-Midland gentleman, 1400-1530." Thesis, Keele University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443617.

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Nascimento, Christian Lindberg Lopes do. "Locke e a formação do gentleman." Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 2010. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/4647.

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The main goal of this research is to analyze the concept of formation within John Locke's work. But this debate is inserted on the moral perspective defended by the philosopher in his work's set. On another hand, we realize that the formation intended by the author has in the gentleman, its main target. This discussion involves, besides the philosopher's educational texts, the theoretician contributions within the Essays on the Law of Nature, Essays Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration. Although, we don't excuse the adoption of other manuscripts from his own and from the commentators we judge pertinent. Once we conclude it, we will reinforce the arguments shown, demonstrating the relevance of the philosopher's educational thought. At last, as a methodological procedure we adopt the reading, analysis and the interpretation of the selected texts.
O objetivo principal desta pesquisa é analisar o conceito de formação contido na obra educacional de John Locke. Mas este debate está inserido na perspectiva moral defendida pelo filósofo no conjunto de sua obra. Por outro lado, percebemos que a formação pretendida pelo autor tem no gentleman, o seu alvo central. Esta discussão envolve, além dos textos educacionais do filósofo, as contribuições teóricas contidas nos Ensaios sobre a lei de natureza, Ensaios sobre o entendimento humano, Dois tratados sobre o governo e as Cartas sobre a tolerância. Entretanto, não dispensamos a adoção de outros manuscritos do próprio e dos comentadores que julgamos pertinentes. Ao concluirmos, reforçaremos os argumentos apresentados, demonstrando a relevância do pensamento educacional do filósofo. Por fim, como procedimento metodológico adotamos a leitura, análise e interpretação dos textos selecionados.

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Hosking, Sarah Lucy. ""Dear James ..." : London life as revealed through the letters of Jane Lowther, an English gentlewoman, written from 1700-1730 /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arh826.pdf.

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Williamson, Jonathan Paul Allan. "Cognitive Neuropsychological Investigations of Letter-by-Letter Dyslexia." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522055.

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Cooper, M. L. "William Robert Grove (1811-96) : Gentleman of science." Thesis, Open University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379415.

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Ma, Hong Newman Harvey B. "Experimental tests of electroweak theory with [Greek letter mu]+[Greek letter mu]- and [Greek letter mu]+[Greek letter mu]-[Greek letter gamma] final states from e+e- annihilation /." Diss., Pasadena, Calif. : California Institute of Technology, 1988. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-12072006-093947.

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De, Bruijn Oscar. "The exterior-letter advantage in linear multi-letter arrays." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14596.

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When linear arrays of unrelated letters (e.g., 'sfdthnc') are presented tachistoscopically centred across a fixation point, letters presented at exterior positions (e.g., 's----c') aregenerally reported more accurately than letters presented in interior positions. This "exterior-letter advantage" suggests that processing is more efficient for exterior letters than for interior letters. Previous researchers have argued that the exterior-letter advantage can be fully accounted for by the influences of lateral interference and mask configuration. However, the processes responsible for the exterior-letter advantage are far from resolved, despite the robustness of the phenomenon and its occurrence in numerous investigations into visual information processing. The experiments reported in this study investigated the role of lateral interference and backward pattern masking in the exterior-letter advantage. To investigate the role of lateral interference, performance was compared across complete 7-letter arrays and arrays in which the presence and proximity of flanking letters was varied by (i) presenting only exterior letters and their immediately flanking interior letter, (ii) varying the number blank letter-spaces by which these letter-pairs were separated, (iii) varying the nature of the characters presented in these displays, and (iv) presenting each exterior/interior letter-pair in isolation. The role of backward pattern masking was investigated (i) using different mask configurations which either matched or exceeded the left and right boundaries of complete letter arrays, and (ii) using masks which overlay only the positions of each exterior/interior letter-pair. The findings indicate that while lateral interference and mask configuration each played a part, neither an imbalance in the number of immediately flanking letters for interior and exterior letters nor mask configuration can entirely account for the exterior-letter advantage.

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Block, Alvina. "George Flett, Native Presbyterian missionary, old philosopher/rev'd gentleman." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0006/MQ32058.pdf.

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Henry, Dorothée. "Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur : un nouveau type de personnage?" Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030160.

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Arsène Lupin, héros de Maurice Leblanc, né en 1905, est la figure du gentleman-cambrioleur. Mais, cette expression, créée par l’auteur, est-elle la seule propriété du personnage ou recouvre-t-elle un nouveau type littéraire ? En observant les origines littéraires du personnage, les potentielles aspirations de l’auteur, puis en se tournant vers les héritiers qu’a engendré Lupin, je vais essayer de définir si le personnage de Leblanc est un nouveau type, inédit, et en allant plus loin, mettre en évidence l’originalité profonde d’Arsène Lupin. Cent ans d’existence n’ont pas essoufflé l’intérêt du public pour le gentlemen-cambrioleur, et à travers l’étude du personnage, de ses prédécesseurs (Raffles de Hornung, Georges Randal de Darien), de ses héritiers (entre autre, Samson Clairval de Roger-Francis Didelot, le Baron Stromboli et John Strobbins de José Moselli, Silas Lord de Stanislas-André Steeman), je veux souligner que Lupin est unique, puissant, un mythe en devenir
Arsène Lupin, Maurice Leblanc’s character born in 1905, is the figure of the gentleman-thief. But, is this expression, create by the author, the own property of the character or is it a new term for a new literary type? By the observation of the literary origins of the character, of the authors potential inspiration ; by the study of Lupin’s heirs, I try to define if the Leblanc’s character is a new type, original, and, further, underscore the deep originality of Arsène Lupin. An existence of hundred years cant have tailing off the audiences interest for the gentleman-thief, and through the study of the character, of his predecessors (Hornung’s Raffles, Darien’s George Randal), of his heirs (Roger-Francis Didelot’s Samsom Clairval, José Moselli’s baron Stromboli and John Strobbins, Stanislas-André Steeman’s Silas Lord), I want to underline that Lupin is unique, powerful, a myth constantly evolving

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Poulet, Georges. "The quiet gentleman de georgette heyer, etude et traduction." Lille 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993LIL30023.

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Roman historique, the quiet gentleman est aussi, dans une certaine mesure un roman policier. L'auteur a tente et semble-t-il, reussi une reconstitution historique de la vie de l'aristocratie provinciale a l'epoque de la regence. L'intrigue policiere qui reste confinee a l'interieur de la famille de saint-herth s'analyse en termes judiciaires plus que policiers, bien que les magistrats soient tout autant absents du roman que les policiers. Le comte de saint-erth (personnage de fiction) a le costume et les manieres d'un dandy, mais son dandysme est de pure facade, que l'on se refere aux dandys rencontres dans les romans publies entre 1820 et 1830 ou aux dandys historiques. Par certains aspects, le roman est aussi un roman feministe, car l'on y voit l'heroine miss morville affirmer au fil des chapitres son intelligence et son esprit de decision, tandis que s'etend progressivement son pouvoir sur les autres personnages. Si le recit s'acheve par le mariage de celle-ci et du comte de saint-erth, on ne peut dire que l'atmosphere soit euphorique, bien au contraire. Les figures dominantes sont celles de la chute, de l'enfermement et du contrat singulier. L'influence de jane austen est nettement perceptible dans de nombreux episodes, l'on retrouve chez miss morville des traits qui appartiennent a elinor, l'heroine de sense and sensibility; des points de comparaison sont egalement possibles avec northanger abbey. Les valeurs vehiculees dans le roman font l'objet d'un chapitre, de meme que le style et la langue de l'auteur, un interet particulier etant accorde a l'argot de l'epoque de la regence
Mainly a historical novel, the quiet gentleman is also, to some extent, a detective story. The writer has attempted (successfully it seems) a historical reconstruction of the landed gentry's daily life at the time of the regency. The detective story which remains enclosed in the st erth family is to be analysed in judicial rather than in police terms although magistrates are as totally absent as detectives in the novel. The earl of st erth (an imaginary character) is dressed and behaves as a dandy, but his dandyism is mere pretence if the readers refers to historical dandies or to dandies portrayed in novels published between 1820 and 1830. In certain aspects, the novel is also a feminist novel as we see miss morville, the heroine, assert her personality and her spirit of decision throughout the story, whereas her power progressively extends on the other characters. Even if the fiction ends with the amouncement of st erth and miss morville's wedding, the prevailling atmosphere of the novel cannot be qualified as euphoric, on the contrary. Fall, confinement and single combat are the major figures. The influence of jane austen is clearly visible in numerous episodes, the reader finds in miss morville features which belong to elinor the heroine of sense and sensibility: points of comparison are also possible with northanger abbey. The study includes a chapter on the values carried by the novel and a chapter on the writer's style and language, a special interest being attached to the slang of the regency period

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Nehring, Wendy, Jacek Smurzynski, and Lisa Haddad. "Letter from Editors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol2/iss2/1.

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Haddad, Lisa, Jacek Smurzynski, and Kenneth D. Phillips. "Letter from Editors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol3/iss1/1.

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Ike, Obiora Uzukwu Elochukwu Eugene. "Letter from Editor." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, 1997. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/bet,578.

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Schmitt, Andreas [Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Lachmann. "What makes a letter a letter? – New evidence for letter-specific processing strategies / Andreas Schmitt ; Betreuer: Thomas Lachmann." Kaiserslautern : Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1122110987/34.

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Ingles, Janet L. "Cognitive mechanisms underlying a case of letter-by-letter surface alexia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ57347.pdf.

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Cullen, Doug. "Focussing selection to the letter level : Understanding the letter search task." Thesis, Bangor University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.505988.

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Meng, Helen M. "Phonological parsing for bi-directional letter-to-sound/sound-to-letter generation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11413.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-195).
by Helen Mei-Ling Meng.
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Nehring, Wendy M., and Jacek Smurzynski. "Letter from Co-Editors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol1/iss1/1.

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Nehring, Wendy, and Jacek Smurzynski. "Letter from Co-Editors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol2/iss1/1.

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Haddad, Lisa, Kenneth D. Phillips, and Jacek Smurzynski. "Letter from the Editors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol4/iss2/1.

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Haddad, Lisa, Jacek Smurzynski, and Kenneth D. Phillips. "Letter from the Editors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol5/iss1/1.

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Haddad, Lisa. "Letter from the Editor." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol6/iss1/1.

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Lewis, Colin A. "A Scottish bellfounder (letter)." The Ringing World, 2000. http://www.ringingworld.co.uk.

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Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.

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Lewis, Colin A. "Eastern Cape bells (letter)." The Ringing World, 1997. http://www.ringingworld.co.uk.

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Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa. This correspondence was sparked by the author's article: "Bells and Bellfounders of the Eastern Cape, South Africa" which appeared in The Ringing World No. 4477. 14th February 1997, pp. 161-162.

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Disque, J. Graham. "Letter to the Editor." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2796.

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Bitter, James. "Letter for a Change." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2001. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6066.

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Still, Mary Lynn. "Identifying the contributions of letter identity and relative letter position to orthographic priming." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009.

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Banks, Stephen. "Killing with courtesy : the duel and the English gentleman 1785-1850." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445887.

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Beckman, Marta Kaye. "The remains of the Victorian gentleman in James, Conrad, and Wharton /." Connect to Digital dissertations. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2002. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Vrtis, Catherine Ann Peckinpaugh. "Gentleman Johnny Plays War: John Burgoyne and The Blockade of Boston." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1151.

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John Burgoyne, a British general during the American Revolution, is best known for his defeat by the Continental Army at Saratoga. In addition to serving as a general,Burgoyne was a playwright. While in Boston during the blockade following the Battle ofBunker Hill Burgoyne combined his interests, writing a satire of the war. The Blockade of Boston, Burgoyne's play, was first presented as an afterpiece to a production of The Busybody on January 8, 1776 (Silverman 292).Accounts of the performance differ in detail, but the central event is consistent: during the performance a soldier walked out on stage and announced that the rebels were attacking a British position. The audience of British military personnel, believing the statement to be a part of the performance, stayed in their seats to enjoy the show, only to then realize their mistake a moment later and rush off in great confusion. Most of the surviving records of this event are from the view of the delighted revolutionaries, who published accounts of it in their newspapers and pamphlets, to the lasting humiliation of the men involved with the production.I first encountered the story of Burgoyne's Blockade of Boston while working as a teaching assistant in an undergraduate theatre history class. The professor, Noreen Barnes, was lecturing on American theatre in the eighteenth century when she told the story of the interrupted first performance. I was intrigued by the story, and so when I wrote a paper on a disrupted performance for a historiography class, I chose to research the topic. I discovered that The Blockade of Boston, in addition to being a great story in its own right, could serve as a lens to examine the history of the period, opening questions of race, gender, and just what it means to be an American.

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Poston, Sarah E. "Unitization of familiar letter patterns." Connect to resource, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6006.

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Thesis (Honors)--Ohio State University, 2006.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formattted into pages: contains 23 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-23). Available online via Ohio State University's Knowledge Bank.

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Smith, Grace Elizabeth. "The Opened Letter: Rereading Hawthorne." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278343/.

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The recent publication of the bulk of Hawthorne's letters has precipitated this study, which deals with Hawthorne's creative and subversive narration and his synchronic appeal to a variety of readers possessing different tastes. The author initially investigates Hawthorne's religion and demonstrate how he disguised his personal religious convictions, ambiguously using the intellectual categories of Calvinism, Unitarianism, and spiritualism to promote his own humanistic "religion." Hawthorne's appropriation of the jeremiad further illustrates his emphasis on religion and narration. Although his religion remained humanistic, he readily used the old Puritan political sermon to describe and defend his own financial hardships. That jeremiad outlook has significant implications for his art.

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Findlay, Kellyanne. "Letter recognition and categorical perception." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395788.

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Oakes, Peter. "Philippians : from people to letter." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307477.

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Walter, Helen. "Artist, professional, gentleman : designing the body of the actor-manager, 1870-1900." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2015. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/1698/.

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In the historical record of British theatre in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the figures of London’s actor-managers are constantly present. As such, over the intervening century, they have been subjected to detailed historical enquiry by any number of different scholars in terms of their theatrical achievements, management styles, and their role in the changing nature of theatre in this period. However, despite the vast amount of extant visual material pertaining to these individuals in British, and other, collections, little attention has been paid to the image of the actor-manager in this period, and still less to the role of the body in the legacy of such figures. Given the nature of the actor’s craft as body-orientated, the explicitly visual nature of theatre in this period, and a burgeoning mass-media industry intent on the dissemination of such images, from a design history perspective this historiographical gap is surprising. Taking as its starting point the contention that the primacy of London’s actor- managers in this period was not, despite the claims of some contemporaries, an inevitable result of natural talent, but rather the outcome of carefully mediated verbal and visual discourses of theatrical and social achievements, this thesis examines how the framing of the body in such texts and images contributed to the legacy of the actor-manager as the central figure of late-Victorian theatre for a number of different audiences. It does this by using a synthetic approach which encompasses a number of distinct disciplines, including theoretical perspectives on the body, theatre historical scholarship that informs the context of the primary material, and design historical narratives of production and consumption. Ultimately, however, it is led by the depiction of actor-managers in the late nineteenth century, and the manifestation of multi-valent identities through the body, which constructed them for popular and critical consumption as artists, professionals and gentlemen of the late-Victorian era.

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O'Hallahan, Ryan C. ""Our Captain is a Gentleman”: Officer Elections among Virginia Confederates, 1861-1862." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4869.

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Enlisted soldiers preferred to elect company- and regimental-level officers during the first year of the American Civil War. This thesis explores how early Confederate mobilization, class conflict between elites and non-elites, and Confederate military policies affected officer elections from spring 1861 to spring 1862 among Virginia Confederates. Chapter 1 explores how the chaotic nature of mobilization and common soldiers' initial expectations regarding their military service influenced elections from April 1861 until late July 1861. Chapter 2 details the changing nature of elections as elite officers faced challenges from non-elites and Confederate policies regarding furloughs and conscription forced officers to reconcile their men’s expectations of loose discipline with directives from senior commanders.

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Mycroft, Rachel Helen. "Causes and mechanisms of letter-by-letter reading : the roles of visual and language processing." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391887.

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White, Teresa. "The effects of mnemonics on letter recognition and letter sound acquisition of at-risk kindergarten students." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1100.

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Lindin, Carl-Hampus. "Letter of intent - ett avtalsrättsligt janusansikte?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-201177.

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Troolin, Eric Calvin James H. "A seven-letter word for art." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5921.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (February 26, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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Daybell, James. "Women letter-writers in Tudor England." Oxford [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259915.001.0001.

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Reynolds, James H. "Spoken letter recognition with neural networks." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b30872a7-7bd8-437f-bd3a-649de981d352.

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Neural networks have recently been applied to real-world speech recognition problems with a great deal of success. This thesis developes a strategy for optimising a neural network known as the Radial Basis Function classifier (RBF), on a large spoken letter recognition problem designed by British Telecom Research Laboratories. The strategy developed can be viewed as a compromise between a fully adaptive approach involving prohibitively large amounts of computation, and a heuristic approach resulting in poor generalisation. A value for the optimal number of kernel functions is suggested, and methods for determining the positions of the centres and the values of the width parameters are provided. During the evolution of the optimisation strategy it was demonstrated that spatial organisation of the centres does not adversely affect the ability of the classifier to generalise. An RBF employing the optimisation strategy achieved a lower error rate than a multilayer perceptron and two traditional static pattern classifiers on the same problem. The error rate of the RBF was very close to the theoretical minimum error rate obtainable with an optimal Bayes classifier. In addition to error rate, the performance of the classifiers was assessed in terms of the computational requirements of training and classification, illustrating the significant trade-off between computational investment in training and level of generalisation achieved. The error rate of the RBF was compared with that of a well established method of dynamic classification to examine whether non-linear time normalisation of word patterns was advantageous to generalisation. It was demonstrated that the dynamic classifier was better suited to small-scale speech recognition problems, and the RBF to speaker-independent speech recognition problems. The dynamic classifier was then combined with a neural network algorithm, greatly reducing its computational requirement without significantly increasing its error rate. This system was then extended into a novel system for visual feedback therapy in which speech is visualised as a moving trajectory on a computer screen.

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Dwyer, Edward J. "Developing Writing Skills Through Letter Writing." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1996. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3391.

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Intended specifically for tutors who want to use proven teaching techniques but who have limited time and resources, this book offers dozens of teaching ideas as well as useful information on curriculum development, instruction and appropriate reading materials.

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Zhang, Jie M. Arch Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Diplomatic : letter from the architectural enclave." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97279.

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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2015.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-149).
Seeing Architecture as a political art, this thesis concerns itself with boundaries: those of regimes, of culture, of law, and of social strata. In a silent crisis where sustained inscription of physical and social boundaries evacuate urban space into archipelagos of enclaves, Architecture with only ambiguous claims of public space is rendered both accomplice and victim, impotent against forces of capital and concerns of security. Exposing the absurdities in urban geopolitics and persistent spatial logics of exclusivity is as important as proposing to hack into them. Critical of the innocence of so-called public space and the underlying architectural impasse, the thesis offers an investigative commentary on the state of urban enclaves, while speculating on alternative strategies by designing an embassy, a bounded pseudo-extraterritory and the epitome of an enclave. Through absurd couplings and blatant image-making, a seemingly open US embassy is proposed for Beijing as an imploded fragment of a boundary, its incompleteness buttressed by territories of privilege and its disparate barriers articulated as a mechanism of filtration. Away from popular strategies of conceptual and spatial blurring, the thesis defines an architectural porosity to orchestrate spaces of varying openness, as a nuanced response to both the embassy's double identities and schizophrenic agendas of city building. With an architecture that is diplomatic by function and diplomatic by disposition, one experiments with an agency beyond the single pursuit of public-ness and an escape from the ideological enclave of positivism. Ultimately, the goal is to suggest and develop a methodology of designing with oppositions, irony and latency.
by Jie Zhang.
M. Arch.

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Bergvall, Ellen. "Fastighetstransaktioner- Innebörden av Letter of intent." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22955.

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Carpenter, Oliver. "Gentleman of the sea : the rise of the ocean tramp shipowner c.1870-1939." Thesis, University of Kent, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633820.

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This thesis tracks the rise of some British tramp shipowners and their experiences during the period c.1870-1939. Three case studies have been chosen to bring focus to the investigation - those being the tramp shipping companies owned and managed by Joseph Robinson (Stag Line), Walter Runciman (Moor Line) and James Knott (Prince Line). This thesis follows a chronological structure and is split into three divisions. Part I: Local (c.1870-1890), places the shipowners within their local communities, touching on topics such as religion (specifically Wesleyan Methodism), the construction of technology, the familial business of ship owning and the importance of trust. Part II: Local to National (c.1890-1914), explores public spectacles, aggrandisement, credibility, publicity and political associations in order to understand these shipowners' transition to the national 'public stage'. Part III: National (1914-1939), looks at the First World War and the interwar period, times that saw these shipowners firmly established in the national sphere. The social networks, expertise, growing authority and increased control of tramp shipowners are central to the analysis, in accordance with the approach drawn on from the historian of technology Thomas Hughes. Research questions relating to the shipowner's rise, his distinctiveness and his desire to control his environments are answered throughout this thesis. I reveal the direction, influences, aims and ambitions of these shipowners, in the context -of the broader themes of the changing makeup of British society in this period. I conclude that these shipowners did take control of their environments in local, national and even global contexts. Moreover, they engineered their elevation from local to national stages and they were a distinctive group of individuals. This thesis contributes to the scholarship on British history, maritime history and the cultural history of technology by placing the tramp shipowner at the heart of the analysis, rather than subsuming him behind company economics or ship specifications.

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Simpson, Magaret Susan. "Sir Henry Lee (1533-1611) : the life and career of an Elizabethan courtier gentleman." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494968.

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Despite a long and active career as Elizabeth I's tournament champion, instigator of the Accession Day tournaments, Steward of the Queen's manor at Woodstock, Master of the Armoury and Knight of the Garter, Lee remained a gentleman, howbeit one of the elite courtier gentlemen who served Elizabeth I. The only studies of Lee's life are the brief monograph produced by his descendant, Viscount Dillon of Ditchley in 1906, and E.K. Chambers' Sir Henry Lee: an Elizabethan Portrait (1936). Lee's name frequently appears in major works on Elizabethan England, yet despite its dated nature and factual errors, Chambers' work remains the sole secondary source of reference for Lee's life. A new study of Lee's long life offers an opportunity to examine the values, hopes, expectations and frustrations of an elite Elizabethan gentleman, with others of his social class. Sir Henry Lee also had talents that singled him out from his counterparts. His contemporary fame was based upon his performance in the tournaments, an activity that was becoming outmoded as training for war, but still, in the eyes of the public, represented the best of chivalric virtues. This study will attempt to analyse how tournaments developed in late Elizabethan England, the uses to which they could be put, and how Lee saw the role of chivalric values they embodied. This study seeks to describe and appraise Lee's life and career in its entirety, using a wide range of primary sources, many not available to Chambers. These sources will be used in the context of recent scholarship on Elizabeth's England as well as what remains of Lee's material culture, in an attempt to understand the life of an understudied and underrated Elizabethan gentleman.

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