Military changes affected by acquiring the Phillipines

Citation: Montgomery, Charles Dudley. Military changes affected by acquiring the Phillipines. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1900.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: Possibly there is no other question now confronting our statesmen, that assumes such an unsolvable indetermined aspect, as that of “Expansion” and its effect on our military organization. The United States is unskilled in provincial rule. She has ever shunned aggressive warfare, while conquest is certainly beyond her well tried spheres of action. Her military force has ever been held to the minimum necessary for home defense. She now has adopted provincialism, without special preparation for the defense of the Province. She has planted the “Stars and Stripes” some ten thousand miles from home, without strengthening our defensive force for its protection. Where our flag goes, be the ethics what it may, our armies must go to protect. That our martial strength must be increased, is an obvious fact; but the manner of its increase and disposal of its newly organized forces are problems as yet unsolved. In treating this subject, the theories of the best tacticians, who have published articles within recent date, will be used as a back-ground. To these men the writer acknowledges his indebtedness. The reader is asked to accept only what seems logically deducted from the correlation of these theories, bearing in mind the fact that tacticians are at this date slow to publish their ideas or make conjectures on a subject that is effected by so many external forces as that of “Expansion” or extending territory

Sports column writing : a comparison of ten 1957 and five 1927 columnists

"It is the purpose of this study to: (1) Compare the sports column style of the 'Golden Era of Sports'(1927) with our modern (1957) columnists and (2) To analyze the content of the modern sports columns as exemplified in the ten writers selected."--Page

Differential Taste Patterns Encountered Among Negro Groups

These tests were designed to encompass three color gradients in respect to the individuals tested with the phenyl-thio-carbamide solutions. These were; whites, light-skinned Negroes (or Mulattoes), and dark-skinned Negroes. The whites tested, 102 in number, were to be used primarily as control. This group was considered in this study as being homogeneous for color, although, unquestionably, such an ideal situation is known not to exist. The next class to be considered was the fair-skinned Negroes. Individuals of this class were chosen with extreme care, the basis of their selection was along these general lines; extreme fairness of skin, miscegenetic background, and certain external features such as the texture of hair, facial features, etc. Accordingly, the number selected from this group was understandably small for both sexes tested, approximating 132 in number. The number of the largest class tested, the dark-skinned Negroes, was in excess of the two previously mentioned classes. There were 475 members of this class. The objectives of our study was to compare test results obtained from a study made of the observed differential taste patterns within these three populations and to compare the ratios of our findings for the three groups tested with the findings of other investigators. The following schools were included in the administration of these tests: Dunbar High School, Dickinson, Texas, Booker T. Washington High School, Texas City, Texas, Lincoln High School, La Marque, Texas, La Marque High School (white), La Marque, Texas, Central High School, Galveston, Texas, Loraine Crosby Junior High School, Hitchcock, Texas, and Prairie View A. & M. College, Prairie View, Texas

Using Libguides to Support Library Instruction

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TRL Assessment of Solar Sail Technology Development Following the 20-Meter System Ground Demonstrator Hardware Testing

The NASA In-Space Propulsion Technology (ISPT) Projects Office has been sponsoring 2 separate, independent system design and development hardware demonstration activities during 2002-2005. ATK Space Systems of Goleta, CA was the prime contractor for one development team and L'Garde, Inc. of Tustin, CA was the prime contractor for the other development team. The goal of these activities was to advance the technology readiness level (TRL) of solar sail propulsion from 3 towards 6 by the year 2006. Component and subsystem fabrication and testing were completed successfully, including the ground deployment of 10-meter and 20-meter ground demonstration hardware systems under vacuum conditions. The deployment and structural testing of the 20-meter solar sail systems was conducted in the 30 meter diameter Space Power Facility thermal-vacuum chamber at NASA Glenn Plum Brook in April though August, 2005. This paper will present the results of the TRL assessment following the solar sail technology development activities associated with the design, development, analysis and testing of the 20-meter system ground demonstrators. Descriptions of the system designs for both the ATK and L'Garde systems will be presented. Changes, additions and evolution of the system designs will be highlighted. A description of the modeling and analyses activities performed by both teams, as well as testing conducted to raise the TRL of solar sail technology will be presented. A summary of the results of model correlation activities will be presented. Finally, technology gaps identified during the assessment and gap closure plans will be presented, along with "lessons learned", subsequent planning activities and validation flight opportunities for solar sail propulsion technology