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A Canadian frontier thesis was developed by Canadian historians Harold Adams Innis and J. M. S. Careless.
Some criticized Turner's frontier thesis and the theme of American exceptionalism.
Turner's sectionalism thesis had almost as much influence among historians as his frontier thesis, but never became widely known to the general public as did the frontier thesis.
Moos ( 2002 ) shows that the 1910s to 1940s black filmmaker and novelist Oscar Micheaux incorporated Turner's frontier thesis into his work.
Slatta ( 2001 ) argues that the widespread popularization of Turner's frontier thesis influenced popular histories, motion pictures, and novels, which characterize the West in terms of individualism, frontier violence, and rough justice.
Radical historians of the 1970s who wanted to focus scholarship on minorities, especially Native Americans and Hispanics, disparaged the frontier thesis because it did not attempt to explain the evolution of those groups.
Moos ( 2002 ) shows that the 1910s to 1940s black filmmaker and novelist Oscar Micheaux incorporated Turner's frontier thesis into his work.
Slatta ( 2001 ) argues that the widespread popularization of Turner's frontier thesis influenced popular histories, motion pictures, and novels, which characterize the West in terms of individualism, frontier violence, and rough justice.
The frontier thesis is one of the most influential documents on the American west today.
" This was a challenge to the frontier thesis of his Harvard colleague Frederick Jackson Turner.
Asimov describes the vision of his character Ted Long for the Martians ' future in terms of the frontier thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner and the idea of a creative minority expounded by Arnold Joseph Toynbee.
The thesis shares his views on how the idea of the frontier shaped the American being and characteristics.
In 1942, in " The Frontier and American Institutions: A Criticism of the Turner Thesis ," Professor George Wilson Pierson debated the validity of the Turner thesis, stating that many factors influenced American culture besides the looming frontier.

thesis and established
In 1964, he established his own firm to undertake Habitat 67, an adaptation of his McGill thesis.
Nonetheless, his central thesis that the Buddha was of Classical origin has become established.
The thesis has also been criticized from within the fields of tourism, leisure and hospitality studies where theories as to the role of experiences in the economy were already well established prior to the work of Pine and Gilmore but were not acknowledged by Pine and Gilmore in their work.
The thesis of the absolute unity of God is established by a refutation of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, which arises, in Saadia's opinion, from a misinterpretation of the three attributes of God already named: life, power, and knowledge.
This thesis firmly established in algebraic topology the use of spectral sequences, and clearly separated the notions of fiber bundles and fibrations from the notion of sheaf ( both concepts together having been implicit in the pioneer treatment of Jean Leray ).
Dr. William J. Barry established transpersonal psychology as a valid action research method in the field of education through his Ph. D. thesis and development of Transformational Quality ( TQ ) Theory.
Equipment used by Joseph Priestley in his experiments on gasesThis " miracle birth " has traditionally been seen as a result of Birmingham's status as a stronghold of religious Nonconformism, creating a free-thinking culture unconstrained by the established Church of England, and according with wider historical theories such as the Merton thesis and the Weber thesis, that see Protestant culture as a major factor in the rise of experimental science and industrial capitalism within Europe.
By the mid-1960s several disciplines at Union had established a senior research thesis requirement, and in 1978 the College began funding faculty-mentored student research in all disciplines.
Her thesis thus established that hydrogen was the overwhelming constituent of the stars ( see Metallicity ).
An early system of asteroid taxonomy was established in 1975 from the doctoral thesis work of David J. Tholen.
It grew out of FTP Search, Tor Egge's doctorate thesis at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, which he started in 1994, which in turn resulted in the formation of Fast Search & Transfer ( FAST ), established on July 16, 1997.
Perhaps the leading exponent of an earlier dualistic theory of body and mind was René Descartes, the 17th century French philosopher best known for his statement " I think, therefore I am ", who established as his deepest and most lasting philosophical legacy the thesis that mind and body are really distinct — a thesis still called " mind-body dualism ".
The village has been twinned with the German town of Selsingen since Klaus Bruno Pape's visit to Sawston in 1984, as a result of a link being established between the two in Walther Piroth of Frankfurt University's PhD thesis.
The thesis, published as British Incomes and Property, became a standard work on the subject and established his academic reputation.
Fort established his thesis for this particular book early on — that some sort of mysterious force, known as the " cosmic joker " ( in his words ), is responsible for the teleportation of people, animals, and materials.
His Ph. D. thesis established a chronology of Mayan ceramics.
According to Lerman's thesis, the year-count " from Creation " was established around the same time ( see Birkat Hachama ).
The Kohnfelder thesis introduced the terms Certificate and Certificate Revocation List as well as introducing numerous other concepts now established as important parts of Public Key Infrastructure.

thesis and liberty
Chase articulated the " slave power conspiracy " thesis well before Lincoln, devoting his energies to the destruction of what he considered the Slave Powerthe conspiracy of Southern slave owners to seize control of the federal government and block the progress of liberty.
On the other hand, Costanzo Preve ( 1990 ) has assigned four " masters " to Marx: Epicurus ( to whom he dedicated his thesis, Difference of natural philosophy between Democritus and Epicurus, 1841 ) for his materialism and theory of clinamen which opened up a realm of liberty ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from which come his idea of egalitarian democracy ; Adam Smith, from whom came the idea that the grounds of property is labour ; and finally Hegel.
In recent years this thesis has been challenged, and Philip Pettit argues that republican liberty is based upon " non-domination " while liberal freedom is based upon " non-interference.

thesis and by
The primary reason for the abandonment of the `` shore occupied by '' thesis has been the assimilation and accumulation of archaeological evidence, the most striking feature of early English studies in this century.
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.
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 ; ;
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 ".
Structured programming, canonical structures: Per the Church-Turing thesis any algorithm can be computed by a model known to be Turing complete, and per Minsky's demonstrations Turing completeness requires only four instruction types — conditional GOTO, unconditional GOTO, assignment, HALT.
Between 1949 and 1953 he worked on his doctoral thesis in this subject at Nancy, supervised by Jean Dieudonné and Laurent Schwartz.
*# 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.
For each of these a thesis is contradicted by an antithesis.
For example: in the First Antinomy, Kant proves the thesis that time must have a beginning by showing that if time had no beginning, then an infinity would have elapsed up until the present moment.
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.
This was followed independently by Louis Bachelier in 1900 in his PhD thesis " The theory of speculation ", in which he presented a stochastic analysis of the stock and option markets.
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 that the Third Reich went to war on the basis of " blitzkrieg economics " was criticized by Richard Overy in the 1980s and Historian George Raudzens highlighted the many, somewhat conflicting, senses in which historians have used the word.
Francis Jennings noted that the statement made by Benjamin Franklin frequently quoted by proponents of the thesis does not support for this idea as it is advocating for a union against these " ignorant savages " and called the idea " absurd ".
Arens bases his thesis on a detailed analysis of numerous " classic " cases of cultural cannibalism cited by explorers, missionaries, and anthropologists.
The completeness of quantum mechanics ( thesis 1 ) was attacked by the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen thought experiment which was intended to show that quantum physics could not be a complete theory.
Early landmarks of the secondary literature include the monographs by Buchler ( 1939 ), Feibleman ( 1946 ), and Goudge ( 1950 ), the 1941 Ph. D. thesis by Arthur W. Burks ( who went on to edit volumes 7 and 8 ), and the studies edited by Wiener and Young ( 1952 ).

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