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  • Community perceptions of flooding, water quality, and riparian habitat in Thomas Creek watershed of Oregon

    Creator:
    Doolittle, Lisa
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    The complexity of human/riverine systems has led to an increasing focus on land use patterns and policy. My goal is to understand the dynamics of a coupled human and natural system. The central question is how people in the community of Scio, Oregon perceive flooding, water quality, and riparian habitat....
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    Committee was no longer representative of the public interest." Although a storage facility on Thomas

  • Theodore Dwight Weld's use of the judicial motif in American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses

    Creator:
    Trudeau, Justin Thomas
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    This thesis examines the rhetoric of Theodore Dwight Weld's American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. Published anonymously in 1839, Weld's publication became the longest antislavery tract in American history. It left its mark on the abolitionist movement itself and future antislavery literary works most notably Uncle...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Justin Thomas Trudeau

  • Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion

    Creator:
    Tatom, Simon K.
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    My thesis, entitled "Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion," argues that J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion shares distinct similarities in style and content with Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, primarily in the lack of detail in the descriptions of characters and events, as each attempts to create a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Thomas Malory wrote in his Morte Darthur. Malory's pseudo-historical romance is, of course, a classic

  • The natural history of public works development

    Creator:
    Robertson, Robert A.
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    A case study of the Eugene Water and Electric Board's planning for the Minto Hydroelectric is examined in terms of social movement theory. It is hypothesized that public works projects have a significant likeness to a social movement and they conform in their essential ingredients to social movement explanations. The...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : The Natural History of Public Works Development Abstract approved: Thomas C. -Ho A case study of the

  • Extension orientations toward poverty : bootstrap, culture of poverty, systemic : an empirical study

    Creator:
    Fletcher, Roger LeRoy
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    This study describes Extension field staff orientations toward poverty. Expressions on origins, solutions and definitions of poverty were elicited from informants. Responses were then classified by categories, coded and analyzed using the Statistical Interactive Programming System (SIPS). Orientations were then measured by identifying modal categories. A category was identified as...
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    : Professor Thomas 118W This study describes Extension field staff orientations toward poverty. Expressions

  • Analysis of the United States demand for Ghanian cocoa beans

    Creator:
    Bigsby, Fatu Gbama
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    The intent of this paper is to determine the characteristics of the demand of United States consumers for Ghanian cocoa beans. Knowledge of the characteristics of this demand is important because cocoa is the major export commodity of Ghana and because the United States is the largest market for Ghanian...
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    Capstone Project

  • Efficiency in Oregon's commercial salmon fisheries : a historical perspective

    Creator:
    Hatley, Thomas Alfred
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    Historic changes that have taken place on Oregon's commercial salmon fisheries are described in terms of their effects on the efficiency of fishermen. This historical analysis provides a background for comparative efficiency studies of Columbia River gillnetters and ocean trollers with the objective of determining which harvester group was more...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Perspective by Thomas A. Hat ley A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of

  • Transactional analysis applied to a community development issue

    Creator:
    Manolescu, Kathleen M.
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    Barth's theory of transactional analysis is applied to the community of Tiller, Oregon and its reaction to a development proposal. Community behavior patterns vis-a-vis the development proposal are examined from a processual point of view to determine how these patterns are generated. The community's history and contemporary situation are described....
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    Masters Thesis
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    Economics, and Political Science presented on December 16, 1976 Title: TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS APPLIED TO A

  • Community planning and adaptation : a case study at Corvallis, Oregon

    Creator:
    Eshbaugh, Dorothy L.
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    Three kkeeyy variables are examined to determine their influence on the process of community planning at Corvallis, Oregon. These are (1) the setting of priorities, (2) organization and (3) external reference. Interactions of goals program participants were recorded as the community responded to comply with Oregon Senate Bill #100's requirement...
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    Community Planning and Adaptation: A Case Study at

  • Factors in the Selection of Home Birth : A Comparative Study of Birthing Alternatives in Western Oregon

    Creator:
    Fuhr-Dunn, Susan D.
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    Increasing demand for home birth has created an upheaval in the American medical profession and, is a controversial political and legal issue as well. This research, utilizing ethnographic, historical, and survey data analyzes contemporary home birth. A review of the so called "medicalization" of childbirth is presented noting that the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Factors in the selection of home birth : a comparative