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.

His thesis advisor in Cambridge was David Wheeler.

His master's thesis was entitled Flank Formation Football -- Stress :: Defense.

Although details remain disputed, the vast majority of recent studies agree with Martin Noth's thesis, published in 1943, that the book of Samuel was composed as part of the Deuteronomistic history, the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings.

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.

Later he returned to Egypt to complete his PhD in Islamic philosophy and his thesis was titled " The Philosophy and Teachings of Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Jami.

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.

NSC-68's principal thesis was that the Soviet Union intended to become the single dominant world power.

In 1934, then enrolled as a graduate student at King's College London, he wrote his Ph. D. thesis on Trade and War in the Eastern Seas, 1803-1810, which was awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History for 1935.

While most pre-Columbian historians believe that there was ritual cannibalism related to human sacrifices, they do not support Harris's thesis that human flesh was ever a significant portion of the Aztec diet.

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.

His thesis was published as The Grammar of the Lamba language.

for his doctoral thesis The Phonetics of the Zulu Language and was promoted to Senior Lecturer.

Thus Post in his 1936 was also discounting Kurt Gödel's suggestion to Church in 1934 – 5 that the thesis might be expressed as an axiom or set of axioms.

Plato was the starkest proponent of the realist thesis of universal concepts.

The traditional staples thesis, advocated by scholars such as S. A. Saunders, looks at the resource endowments of the Maritimes and argues that it was the decline of the traditional industries of shipbuilding and fishing that led to Maritime poverty, since these processes were rooted in geography, and thus all but inevitable.

Moreover, according to this thesis, a major motivational factor for Gorbachev was his realization that the Soviet Union could not compete economically with the USA However, if economic premises are taken into account, it is not clear why the Soviet leaders did not adopt the Chinese option — economic liberalization with preservation of political system.

Dialectical materialism is essentially characterized by the thesis that history is the product of class struggles and follows the general Hegelian principle of philosophy of history, that is the development of the thesis into its antithesis which is sublated by the Aufhebung (" synthesis "), although this three-part process was not explicitly characterized in terms of a thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in Hegel's writings.

Sapir's 1905 Master's thesis was an analysis of Johann Gottfried Herder's Treatise on the Origin of Language, and included examples from Inuit and Native American languages, not at all familiar to a Germanicist.

The thesis put forward by Henri Pirenne, while disputed widely, supposes that the Arab conquests forced the medieval economy into even greater ruralization and gave rise to the classic feudal pattern of varying degrees of servile peasantry underpinning a hierarchy of localized power centers.

For instance, the claim that people of the Middle Ages widely believed that the Earth was flat was first propagated in the same period that originated the conflict thesis and is still very common in popular culture.

The essay's central thesis is Raymond's proposition that " given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow " ( which he terms Linus ' Law ): the more widely available the source code is for public testing, scrutiny, and experimentation, the more rapidly all forms of bugs will be discovered.

It has been widely speculated that they made use of such a camera, but the extent of their use by artists at this period remains a matter of considerable controversy, recently revived by the Hockney – Falco thesis.

Although Gold won a prize fellowship from Trinity College for his thesis on the regeneration and obtained a junior lectureship at the Cavendish Laboratory, his theory was widely ignored by ear specialists and physiologists, such as future Nobel Prize winner Georg von Békésy, who did not believe the cochlea operated under a feedback system.

After reviewing criticisms from several authors, atheist philosopher Michael Martin said that although " Wells's thesis is controversial and not widely accepted ," his " argument against the historicity of Jesus is sound ".

D ' Souza's book caused a controversy in the conservative movement, invoking a barrage of attacks back and forth between D ' Souza and his conservative critics who widely mocked the thesis of his book, that the cultural left was responsible for 9 / 11.

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.

He passed special exams with top honors with a winning thesis titled Cheondochaek ( hangul: 천도책, hanja: 天道策, " Book on the Way of Heaven "), which was widely regarded as a literary masterpiece, displaying his knowledge of history and the Confucian philosophy of politics, and also reflecting his profound knowledge of Taoism.

Until recently, Fraccaro's thesis was not widely accepted because of the prevailing 1960s theory of Andreas Alföldi that Rome was an insignificant settlement until c. 500 BC and could not therefore have supported such a powerful army ( or cavalry ) in the regal era.

The thesis of the poem's being a complete forgery has been proposed in the past but is widely discredited ; the poem's language has been demonstrated to be closer to authentic medieval East Slavic than practicable by a late 18th-century forger.

The Singh Vaughan Williams classification, introduced in 1970 based on the seminal work of Bramah N. Singh in his doctoral thesis at Oxford where Vaughan Williams was his advisor and on subsequent work by Singh and his colleagues in the United States, is one of the most widely used classification schemes for antiarrhythmic agents.

Her theory has been widely disparaged and dismissed by scholars, and Thiering's thesis has received little support.

In 1990, The New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm published a widely read article, " The Journalist and the Murderer ", the thesis of which was that McGinniss committed a " morally indefensible " act in pretending that he believed MacDonald was innocent, even after he became convinced of his guilt.

Occasionally, his interpretations have been challenged, especially his widely copied thesis that British troops defeated their Napoleonic opponents by firepower alone.

In an earlier essay, Morris argues that in the wake of Larry Kramer's " outing " of Lincoln, the Lincoln Establishment engaged in " mnemonicide ", or the assassination of a threatening counter memory, including the methodologically flawed but widely appropriated case against the " gay Lincoln thesis " by David Herbert Donald in his book We Are Lincoln Men.

The articles were widely cited as showing definitively that increased voter turnout was not the solution to the Democrats ’ electoral woes — a hotly debated thesis at that time within the Democratic Party.

His thesis, The Effects of European Culture Contact upon the Economic, Social, and Religious Life of the Crow Indians, has become one of the most widely cited documents concerning Crow culture.

The latter embodies the thesis he had published the previous year arguing that the work was intended for the keyboard, a conclusion now widely accepted.

Its thesis, as discussed in the Author's Note-A Warning and Disclaimer in the beginning of the book, is that enough bullying, by what is widely perceived as a hostile occupation government, will inevitably end in revolt if the occupied area is large enough and has a culture that is significantly different from the occupying state, and that this revolt will be undefeatable if the rebels use very low-tech " leaderless resistance.

The rival thesis, psychologism, is not widely held amongst logicians, but it does have some high-profile defenders, for example Dov Gabbay.

Gardens in the sands: the notion of space in recent critical theory and contemporary writing from the French Antilles ( UCL: 2001 ) Coates devotes a chapter to Glissant's later fiction ( Mahagony, Tout-monde, Sartorius ), while the thesis is heavily indebted to Glissant's writings on space and chaos in particular in thinking about post-colonial treatments of space more widely.