Important as was Mr. O'Donnell's essay, his thesis is so restricting as to deny Faulkner the stature which he obviously has.

Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.

An equally tenable thesis is that the dearth of new thought was created by the Senate's own penchant for crucifying anyone whose ideas seem unorthodox to the next generation.

Sprinkel strongly refuted the current neo-stagnationist thesis that we are facing a future of limited and slow growth, declaring that this pessimism `` is based on very limited and questionable evidence ''.

It will be recalled from the discussion in Section 7 that the position of the `` right '', as represented by Barth, rests on the following thesis: The only tenable alternative to Bultmann's position is a theology that ( 1 ) rejects or at least qualifies his unconditioned demand for demythologization and existential interpretation ; ;

The embarrassment of these theories over the naturalness of death is an illustration of the thesis that death cannot be only a punishment, for some termination seems necessary in a life that is lived within the natural order of time and change.

A related concept in descriptive ethics is psychological egoism, the thesis that humans always act in their own self-interest and that true altruism is impossible.

Gurevich: "... Turing's informal argument in favor of his thesis justifies a stronger thesis: every algorithm can be simulated by a Turing machine ... according to Savage, an algorithm is a computational process defined by a Turing machine ".

True to his empirical thesis, Hume tells the reader that, though testimony does have some force, it is never quite as powerful as the direct evidence of the senses.

The Pilgrim's reference is a basis for the Church of Zion, Jerusalem thesis of Bagatti ( 1976 ) and Testa, though the archeological evidence may suggest only a later Crusader church.

The letter is influential in supporting the thesis of the early-modern Military Revolution.

*# The second basic thesis is that intellectual freedom is essential to human society — freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices.

This work is rooted in the thesis that Judaism is a religion of time, not space, and that the Sabbath symbolizes the sanctification of time.

For each of these a thesis is contradicted by an antithesis.

This is a manifest contradiction because infinity cannot, by definition, be completed by " successive synthesis " -- yet just such a finalizing synthesis would be required by the view that time is infinite ; so the thesis is proven.

The “ north-bank ” thesis of F. L. Lucas, based on his 1921 solo field-trip to Thessaly, is now, however, broadly accepted by historians.

Graduate students in turn compete for acceptance into a BTP ; if accepted then stipend, tuition and health insurance support is provided for two or three years during the course of their Ph. D. thesis work.

This thesis is supported by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, explaining that the Turko-Mongol name Timur underwent a similar evolution, from the Sanskrit word cimara (" iron ") via a modified version * čimr to the final Turkicized version timür, with-ür replacing-r due to the Turkish vowel harmony ( hence babr → babür ).

The thesis of type physicalism consists in the idea that mental event types ( e. g., pain in all individual organisms of all species at all times ) are, at least contingently, identical with specific event types in the brain ( e. g., C-fibre firings in all individual organisms of all species and at all times ).

Many examples from politics and theology, e. g. the claim that the Roman Emperor was in fact a " god ", demonstrate that this principle was known by effective propagandists from early times, and continues to be applied to this day, e. g. the propaganda model of Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, which supports the ' big lie ' thesis with more specifics.

Nicholas Hammond is a graduate of Princeton University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the " Great Odes of John Keats " at the same time that he was appearing eight times a week as the lead in a play on Broadway.

The computing pioneer Charles Babbage then published his unofficial Ninth Bridgewater Treatise in 1837, putting forward a thesis that God had the omnipotence and foresight to create as a divine legislator, making laws ( or programs ) that then produced species at the appropriate times, rather than continually interfering with ad hoc miracles each time a new species was required.

The computing pioneer Charles Babbage published his unofficial Ninth Bridgewater Treatise in 1837, putting forward the thesis that God had the omnipotence and foresight to create as a divine legislator, making laws ( or programs ) which then produced species at the appropriate times, rather than continually interfering with ad hoc miracles each time a new species was required.

The basic thesis was that the gap between rich and poor countries ( with the wealthiest roughly 13 times richer than the poorest ) was intolerable and the situation was inherently unstable, and that ways should be searched for to try to reduce the gap to 6: 1 over the next 15 to 30 years.

) Sailer argues that the end of the crack wars was more significant than abortion -- and that, contrary to what Levitt's thesis would suggest, " the murder rate for 1993's crop of 14-to 17-year-olds ( who were born in the high-abortion years of 1975 to 1979 ) was a horrifying 3. 6 times that of the kids who were 14 to 17 years old in 1984 ( who were born in the pre-legalization years of 1966 to 1970 ).

Complexion, in its original sense, engaged the attention of philosophers and musical theorists from ancient times right through to the Renaissance and beyond, in relation to the most favourable balancing of the ' qualities ' or elements in order to heal and invigorate the soul: from Pythagoras and the musical theorist Aristoxenus, through Plato's dialogue Phaedo, Aristotle, Saint Augustine in his thesis on music, and Aquinas ; and in the Florentine Renaissance, Marsilio Ficino in his work on the immortality of the soul, the Theologia Platonica.

In his Maurice Ravel: A Life, published in 2000, biographer Benjamin Ivry presents evidence in support of his thesis that Ravel's lack of known intimate relationships may be explained if he was a " very secretive " gay man.

Biologists sometimes regard a charge of biological determinism as a straw man, as there is currently no support for strict biological determinism in the field of genetics or development, and virtually no support among geneticists for the strong thesis of biological determinism.

Furthermore, he criticized Feuerbach's conception of human nature in his sixth thesis on Feuerbach as an abstract " kind " which incarnated itself in each singular individual: " Feuerbach resolves the essence of religion into the essence of man ( menschliche Wesen, human nature ).

This man was C. J. Bearman, who in 2001 completed his Ph. D. thesis, " The English Folk Music Movement 1898-1914 ".

It follows Apted's thesis that the British class system remains largely in place, and is premised on the Jesuit motto " Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man.

Another important work was Critique of Herbert Marcuse: The one-dimensional man in class society, in which Mattick forcefully rejected Marcuse's thesis that the proletariat, as Marx understood it, had become a mythological concept in advanced capitalist society.

When he arrives in the boiler room, he sees a disheveled man reading it, then burning the thesis page by page.

Asking only for his thesis back, the homeless man demands compensation for not burning it.

A brilliant, albeit cynical, young man that has gotten himself into Harvard without any money ties and is about to graduate as a government student with honors if he can put the finishing touches on his senior thesis.

Edith Hall compares Bernal's thesis to the myth of the Olympian gods overwhelming the Titans and Giants, which was once thought of as a historical recollection of Homo sapiens taking over from Neanderthal man.

Cvijić's thesis on the effects of climate and relief on the human morphology is the basis in his scientific approach in the anthropogeographic studies, where he practically stresses that a man is an eco-sensible being.

As a young man of letters, Pavese had a particular interest in English-language literature, graduating from the University of Turin with a thesis on the poetry of Walt Whitman.

The next day, Amy is preparing the shooting of her thesis film but is deserted by the assigned camera man, Toby Belcher ( Anson Mount ), who accuses Amy of stealing his thesis idea.

While at Columbia working on an idea for her thesis film about a female soldier in drag during the American Civil War, Peirce read a Village Voice article about the life and death of Brandon Teena, a transgender man from Nebraska who was brutally raped and murdered when his gender history was discovered.

He took his thesis of taste as an economical factor and merged it with the neoclassical hypothesis of nonsatiety, which states that no man can ever be satisfied with his fortune.

* With Honors ( 1994 ) With Brendan Fraser & Joe Pesci, about a Harvard student ( Fraser ) who loses the only copy of his thesis, traces it to a basement where it has been found by a homeless man ( Pesci ) who trades pages of the thesis for food and shelter

Rousseau's thesis is that the twain are incompatible because they make different demands upon the virtuous man.