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.

In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber put forward the thesis that Calvinist ethic and ideas influenced the development of capitalism.

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.

It was Bukharin who formulated the thesis of " Socialism in One Country " put forth by Stalin in 1924, which argued that socialism ( in Marxist theory, the transitional stage from capitalism to communism ) could be developed in a single country, even one as underdeveloped as Russia.

In 1948, a paper put forward by Stone in support of Tawney's thesis was vigorously attacked by Trevor-Roper who, in a rancorous counter-essay, showed that Stone had exaggerated the debt problems of the Tudor nobility.

Hartmut Meyer and Annette von Lossau describe both sides of the issue, while saying " Among scholars, the thesis that the impetus to self-determined development and the protection of intellectual property go hand in hand is disputed – to put it mildly.

He then travelled to England to arrange the English publication of his book by Sampson Low, speaking at the Oxford ( and Cambridge ) Union after which his thesis " Resolved, that the works of William Shakespeare were composed by Francis Bacon " was put to an unsuccessful vote.

Adorno reassessed Spengler's thesis three decades after it had been put forth, in light of the catastrophic collapse of Nazi Germany ( although Spengler had not meant " Untergang " in a cataclysmic sense, this was how most authors after WWII interpreted it ).

He proved that his universal machine can compute any function that any Turing machine can compute ; and he put forward, and advanced philosophical arguments in support of, the thesis here called Turing's thesis.

According to another source, Haeckel put forward this thesis prior to Sclater ( but without using the name " Lemuria ").

However, when put to the test against detailed Ottoman archives, the decline thesis begins to unravel.

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.

Both Thespis and Thespiae, however, are cognate with the verb thespízein ( θεσπίζειν ), " to institute "; these words as well as the related thesmós ( θεσμός ), " institution ", and thesis ( θέσις ), " position ", are ultimately derived from the verb tithénai ( τιθέναι ), " to put in place ".

It is one explanation put forward for the periods of apparent stasis in the fossil record ( the punctuated equilibrium thesis ).

In his work Cunha put forward the revolutionary thesis that the Brazilian state was a violent and foreign entity, rejected ( but often tolerated ) by the vast majority of the illiterate and dispossessed population, some of whom preserved beliefs and behaviours that had not changed in a thousand years or more.

Two years later, Joseph Strauss, who went on to design over 400 bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge, put forward the first proposal for a Bering Strait railroad bridge in his senior thesis.

In recent years he has been investigating the phenomenon of evolutionary convergence, the main thesis of which is put forward in Life ’ s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe ( Cambridge University Press, 2003 ).

For example, he put forward the thesis that English foreign policy from 1514 to 1529 was motivated by Wolsey's desire to become Pope.

This was attacked by modern historians, and today he is identified with the traditionalist school of history, along with his student, J. E. Neale, who put forward the thesis of the Puritan choir in Elizabeth's parliament, which seems ungrounded in any real evidence.

Cramér writes that the thesis has a reputation for being impossible to understand but, that looked at now, " one cannot help being struck by his ability to deal intuitively with concepts and methods that would have to wait another thirty years before being put on a rigorous foundation.

The remaining chapters ( VI Rome the Suzerain, VII The Class Struggle on the Ideological Plane, and VIII &# 39 ; The Decline and Fall &# 39 ; of the Roman Empire: an Explanation ) focus primarily on Rome and put forth the thesis that it was the increasing dependence on slave labor and diminishment of what would be considered in a modern context the middle classes that was the actual cause of the collapse.

His thesis is that in primeval times, man needed such extraordinary powers in order to survive in the wilderness, and that all people can potentially develop these powers if they literally put their mind to it.

He put forth a thesis that the Etruscan language had links to the Albanian language with exuberant reconstructions.