Piano Sonatas Six, Seven and Eight of Prokofiev (open access)

Piano Sonatas Six, Seven and Eight of Prokofiev

The Sixth, Seventh, and E Piano Sonatas of Prokofiev illustrate the composer's more mature style. In these works there is a definite return to the classic forms and contrapuntal devices which have been called Neo-classicism. Prokofiev, himself, has said that form is one of the basic elements of his style. It is the purpose of this thesis to discover the' formal organization and make a comparison of these sonatas with the works of Beethoven and his contemporaries.
Date: January 1956
Creator: Allen, Daniel Joseph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nitrogen Derivatives of I-phenylazimidoquinone (open access)

Nitrogen Derivatives of I-phenylazimidoquinone

A series of analogous reactions employing as a nucleus I-phenylazimidoquinone has been investigated.
Date: 1956
Creator: Armistead, John Wilson
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Family-size Farm and Agricultural Price Supports (open access)

The Family-size Farm and Agricultural Price Supports

This thesis is a study of the family farm, the authority of government as it relates to agriculture, the background of agriculture price support programs, agriculture price supports, the effects of agriculture price support, subsidy payments by the United States government, and the present trends.
Date: 1956
Creator: Ayres, Ray
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Local Law Enforcement Agencies in Dealing with Juvenile Delinquency (open access)

The Role of Local Law Enforcement Agencies in Dealing with Juvenile Delinquency

This thesis discusses the history of law enforcement and the role of local law enforcement agencies dealing with juveniles and juvenile delinquency.
Date: June 1956
Creator: Beckham, Harold Grady
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Wordsworths' Scottish Tour (open access)

The Wordsworths' Scottish Tour

Together Dorothy and William translate. a simple tour into aesthetic loveliness To his sister the journey was the juxtaposition of impoverished society and pastoral elegance. To Wordsworth the tour was a reawakening of poetic Impulse. Through his intense feeling for natural beauty, Wordsworth became the poet of all mankind..
Date: August 1956
Creator: Bingman, Marilyn L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Selection Practices in a Selected Number of Secondary and Junior High School Libraries (open access)

Book Selection Practices in a Selected Number of Secondary and Junior High School Libraries

The purposes of this study are to make an investigation of practices used in a number of selected schools in selecting library materials for the school libraries and to evaluate these practices against criteria developed from a study of recommended standards and practices in the fields of library science and education.
Date: 1956
Creator: Blair, Leta Earline
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modern Trends in the Interpretation of Falstaff (open access)

Modern Trends in the Interpretation of Falstaff

The different interpretations of the character of Sir John Falstaff have been so controversial that at no time since the presentation of the Henry IV plays have critics been able to agree as to his precise qualities. He has been called the greatest humorous character in all literature by even those critics who have spoken adversely of his other traits. George Bernard Shaw called him "a besotted and disgusting old wretch," an opinion added to those of others who have seen him as a coward, liar, cheat, thief, glutton, and rogue. There is no denying that he is one of the most captivating and controversial of all characters in English literature.
Date: August 1956
Creator: Boswell, Fred Page
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guerilla Warfare in the Borderlands During the Civil War (open access)

Guerilla Warfare in the Borderlands During the Civil War

This thesis is a study of the nature of guerilla activity, guerilla tactics in the lower North, guerillas on the middle southern border (Kentucky and Tennessee), guerilla war in Kansas and Missouri, and the guerilla in the Southwest.
Date: 1956
Creator: Boykin, Robert M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mercury-sensitized Photochemical Reactions of Isopropyl Alcohol (open access)

Mercury-sensitized Photochemical Reactions of Isopropyl Alcohol

The nature and scope of this problem is to determine from the irradiation of isopropyl alcohol with 2537 A, the behavior and mechanism of the reaction, since it is known that a reaction does occur.
Date: 1956
Creator: Brady, William Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Follow-Up Study of Seventy-Nine Maladjusted Boys who Received Treatment at Camp Woodland Springs, Dallas, Texas (open access)

A Follow-Up Study of Seventy-Nine Maladjusted Boys who Received Treatment at Camp Woodland Springs, Dallas, Texas

This research problem concerns a follow-up study of seventy-nine boys who have undergone extensive therapy and supervised training in group-living over an extended period of time at Camp Woodland Springs, Dallas, Texas. The problem under consideration is one of determining the operating efficiency of this institution in its main purpose of rehabilitating boys who have generally lacked the social and personal skills necessary to satisfactory adjustment in their respective environments.
Date: 1956
Creator: Breining, Wilbur Clarence, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Treatment of Women in the Restoration Comedy of Manners (open access)

The Treatment of Women in the Restoration Comedy of Manners

Reflecting the real beau monde of Restoration London, the treatment of women in the comedy of manners was the best and most unusual characteristic of this dramatic type. With the first gay reaction against the past, the independent ladies demanded complete equality with men; intellectually, they gained that equality. To the gay belles, no less than to the beaux, wit was the passport to society. The truewit had everything; the witwould was social refuse, marked for that worst of all punishment--ridicule.
Date: August 1956
Creator: Brock, Dorothy Sala
System: The UNT Digital Library
The French Element in the English Language (open access)

The French Element in the English Language

The present study has been undertaken in order to create an informative presentation of the scope of French influence throughout the development of English. With this goal in mind a word list has been compiled and arranged by historical periods to show to what extent the language of each period has benefited from its borrowing.
Date: 1956
Creator: Brooks, Herbert Frank
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Analysis of the Development of High School Library Standards and Certain Associated Factors (open access)

A Comparative Analysis of the Development of High School Library Standards and Certain Associated Factors

The purpose of this study is to make a comparative analysis of the development of high school library standards since 1918 by taking into consideration the factors of rapid growth of high school enrollments, modifications of the basic philosophy of education, and the development of secondary school libraries.
Date: 1956
Creator: Callaway, Ruthie Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Southern Unity Movement (open access)

The Southern Unity Movement

This thesis describes the history of the Southern unity movement beginning in the mid nineteenth century, with a focus on the legal and political conflicts that surrounded it.
Date: 1956
Creator: Chappell, Ben A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Types of Home Repairs and Improvements Made by People Who Maintain a Home and the Factors Influencing the Selection, Use, and Care of Tools and Equipment (open access)

Types of Home Repairs and Improvements Made by People Who Maintain a Home and the Factors Influencing the Selection, Use, and Care of Tools and Equipment

Home repairs and maintenance are a necessary responsibility of any person who maintains a home. This responsibility can usually be met in one of two ways: first, someone can be hired to do the maintenance, or the person can do it himself. However, home repairs are costly and at times prohibitive to the average person who maintains a home. Then, too, there have been times in the past, especially during the war years, when it was next to impossible to secure the services of trained mechanics for home maintenance. During such time, and out of such necessity, many people began to make their own repairs and other improvements and, as a result, a gradual "do-it-yourself" movement has invaded all sections of the country. With the changing of times, with money a little more plentiful and manpower back in civilian life, do people who maintain their homes continue to make their own home repairs?
Date: August 1956
Creator: Clark, Robert J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mechanization of Aircraft Performance (open access)

Mechanization of Aircraft Performance

The purpose of this paper is to describe the mechanization of the basic equations of motion for the performance and maneuver characteristics of an airplane with some simplifications which render solutions more practicable. The results of a study made to program these equations for calculation by the IBM MODEL 650 digital computer are presented as well as the steps to be taken in using this method of calculation.
Date: 1956
Creator: Cotten, Frances Patterson
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Arithmetical Achievement Made by Boys and Girls of the Seventh Grade of Ozona Junior High School, Ozona Texas (open access)

A Comparative Study of the Arithmetical Achievement Made by Boys and Girls of the Seventh Grade of Ozona Junior High School, Ozona Texas

The primary purpose of the study was to determine, scientifically, if there is any significant difference between the ability of boys in the seventh grade and the ability of girls in the same grade to retain arithmetical ideas, facts, and processes. A second purpose was to investigate the causes of differences that were found to exist.
Date: 1956
Creator: Cushing, J. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Treatment of the Leading Soprano Roles in Selected Operas of Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Albert Herring, and Gloriana (open access)

Treatment of the Leading Soprano Roles in Selected Operas of Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Albert Herring, and Gloriana

Benjamin Britten is one of the foremost contemporary English composers. He has successfully revived English opera, dead since Purcell, and this is one of his most significant contributions to the contemporary music world. Therefore, the purpose of this document is to give the reader some insight into Britten' s operatic style. The first chapter contains a sketch of Britten's life with particular reference to his operas, along with general characteristics of his writing. The following chapter has been devoted to a closer consideration of four of his2 operas: Peter Grimes, ;Theof. Lueretia, Albert Herring, and Gloriana. Since an analysis of entire operas would exceed the limitations of this paper, the soprano role has been selected as representative of Britten's operatic style. The vocal score of Turn of the Screw was not available for this study, and his other operas do not contain soprano roles. With each analysis a brief synopsis of the plot is included as a background for the musical analysis. Following the plot is a general treatment of the outstanding style features of the role. In order to present another facet of Britten's writing, the specific analysis of each soprano role is handled from a thematic standpoint. That …
Date: August 1956
Creator: Davis, Dolores Su
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Angular Distribution and Total Flux of Neutrons Obtained from the Deuterium-Tritium Reaction (open access)

The Angular Distribution and Total Flux of Neutrons Obtained from the Deuterium-Tritium Reaction

Mono-energetic neutrons have been produced with the low-voltage Cockroft-Walton accelerator at North Texas State College using two different reactions. It is the purpose of this paper to report the angular distribution and total flux of the neutrons obtained from the T(D,n) reaction.
Date: 1956
Creator: Duggan, Jerome L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pyridinium and Pyrazinium Derivatives of 2,3-Dichloro-1,4-Naphthoquinone (open access)

Pyridinium and Pyrazinium Derivatives of 2,3-Dichloro-1,4-Naphthoquinone

This investigation deals with the synthesis of 2-alkylpyridine and 2-alkylpyrazine derivatives of 2,3-dichloro-1,4-naphthoquinone. These compounds will be tested for physiological activity by Parke-Davis and Company.
Date: 1956
Creator: El-Eris, Talib Mihsin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Growth Based on Corporate Profits for Selected Periods, 1925-1954 (open access)

Growth Based on Corporate Profits for Selected Periods, 1925-1954

This study is one of five such studies dealing with the general subject of growth which have been undertaken recently in the School of Business of North Texas State College. This study is the third in the series and is concerned, as were the previous studies, with the general subject of growth. However, this third study is concerned with the compound annual rates of growth, during definite economic epochs, of net profit after taxes for more than 150 prominent corporations. The problem involved in this study is threefold: (1) to determine what constitutes growth, (2) to determine which corporations are growing, and (3) to determine as nearly as possible the growth characteristics of the corporations employed.
Date: 1956
Creator: Eldridge, Thomas Edwin
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Journalism on Modern American Writing (open access)

The Effect of Journalism on Modern American Writing

This paper is an analysis of the relationship between journalism and formal literary usage in America. It is the purpose of this study to define and illustrate characteristics of modern journalese and to make a comparison of standards of correct usage advocated by recent textbooks in English composition and journalism. Particular attention will be given to diction, structure and length of sentences, capitalization, abbreviation, and punctuation. The conclusion will be a brief evaluation of modern journalism, a succinct resume of its impact on modern language and literature, and a simple prediction of future tendencies in journalistic and literary language. And to give a better perspective to the analysis of journalism and American English, the paper begins with a description of the American linguistic heritage.
Date: August 1956
Creator: Estes, Dorothy Southerland
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of Women in the Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne (open access)

Characterization of Women in the Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne

While his Transcendentalist contemporaries were expounding their optimistic philosophy of natural goodness, progress, and perfectibility, Hawthorne probed into the human heart, recording the darkest motives of his characters and writing bitter criticism of life. Around him men were declaring that scientific inventions, political organizations, and religious reforms were ushering in a new era; but Hawthorne viewed the new society as a probable continuation of old evils and a manufacturer of new ones. His fiction has been called "an elaborate study of the centrifugal, . . . a dramatization of all those social and psychological forces that lead to disunion, fragmentation, dispersion, incoherence. Critics generally comment on Hawthorne's obsession with guilt. His pessimistic analysis of the mind, his somber outlook on living, and his personal tendency to solitude are frequently credited to his Puritan ancestry; yet as Arvin points out, "He had no more Puritan blood than Emerson and hundreds of other New Englanders of his time: and who will say that they were obsessed with the spectral presence of guilty. One must go beyond Calvinist theology to comprehend the source of guilt that hovers over the pages of his fiction. His religious, moral, educational, and economic background was so typical …
Date: August 1956
Creator: Estes, Emory Dolphous, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Industrial Arts Program in the Van Independent School District, Van, Texas and Other Adjoining Schools (open access)

A Study of the Industrial Arts Program in the Van Independent School District, Van, Texas and Other Adjoining Schools

The purpose of this study is to ascertain the extent to which the present industrial arts program of the Van Independent School District of Van, Texas, serves the needs and interests of the students and school community.
Date: 1956
Creator: Evans, Roy G.
System: The UNT Digital Library