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  • Bonds Across Divides: Track III Diplomacy in Environmental Peacebuilding Projects A case study of EcoPeace Middle East in the Jordan Basin

    Creator:
    Mathieu, Laura J.
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    This research explores the mechanisms of Track III diplomacy employed by EcoPeace Middle East, in the context of environmental peacebuilding within the Jordan Basin region. Focusing on how these mechanisms contribute to improving water quality and quantity, the study delves into their processes in facilitating cooperation among conflicting parties—Israelis, Palestinians,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Laura J

  • Where's the ground surface? Elevation bias in LIDAR-derived digital elevation models due to dense vegetation in Oregon tidal marshes

    Creator:
    Ewald, Michael J.
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    Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is a powerful resource for coastal and wetland managers and its use is increasing. Vegetation density and other land cover characteristics influence the accuracy of LIDAR-derived ground surface digital elevation models; however, the degree to which wetland land cover biases LIDAR estimates of the ground...
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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Laura S. Brophy

  • The Impact of World Literature in Secondary Schools in Oregon and Chile : A Comparative Case Study

    Creator:
    McFarland, Annette Catherine
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    The reading of world literature, literary works from cultures other than one’s own, offers an effective means of creating greater awareness and sensitivity towards others. Research on the subject makes it clear that world literature can help lay the groundwork for a sense of world citizenship in students. To what...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Dr. Laura Rice The reading of world literature, literary works from cultures other than one’s

  • Writing Rhodesia : young girls as narrators in works by Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga

    Creator:
    Thomas, Jane McCauley
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    Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga write fiction set in Zimbabwe, the former Southern Rhodesia. Although Lessing grew up as a white settler and Dangarembga, a generation later, as part of the colonized African population, the women sometimes address similar issues. Both write of young girls trying to find a speaking...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Tsitsi Dangarembga. Abstract approval: Laura Rice Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga write fiction

  • Imagining Kenya in Ngugi's fiction

    Creator:
    Prasansak, Ram
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    The relationship between literature and nation-building has been one of the most crucial issues in postcolonial studies. The novel in particular is regarded as a means by which writers forge national consciousness among the colonized during the time of colonization. Many African writers themselves, for example, conceive of their work...
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    approved: /-( Laura Rice The relationship between literature and nation-building has been one of the

  • The influence of imperialist ideology on the dichotomy of passion and reason in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

    Creator:
    Dietrich, Rhonda
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    A prevalent belief during the Victorian age was that the world was divided between inferior beings governed by passion and superior reasoning beings. On the political level, this idea separated inferior passion-driven natives from superior reasoning Europeans. This division contributed to the maintenance and expansion of imperialist rule in distant...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Passion and Reason in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Abstract approval: Laura Rice A prevalent belief

  • Evaluating the efficiency of the Washington State Ferry routes using data envelopment analysis

    Creator:
    Owen, Alyce L.
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    This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to examine the relative technical efficiency of the Washington State Ferry (WSF) routes operating in Puget Sound. This is the largest ferry system in the country. It is publicly operated and does not face direct competition from any other agency, public or private....
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    Masters Thesis
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    using data envelopment analysis AN ABSTRACT OF TIIE THESIS OF Alyce L. Owen for the degree of Master

  • Voices of CALYX: Narratives of Feminist Publishing Activism, 1976-2006

    Creator:
    Steuben, Marieke L.
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    This thesis examines the nature of publishing as a political endeavor through a detailed investigation of the feminist publishing movement in the U.S. since the 1970s. Feminist publishers emerged from an activist context of feminist struggle, and they evolved within changing political and social climates, facing ideological and economic challenges...
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    CHAPTER 4 AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Marieke L

  • The Eyes of Tunis

    Creator:
    Van Bossuyt, Douglas L.
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    People often grow increasingly culturally confused when spending significant amounts of time in a foreign land. Identity can become lost only to reform in the image of the host society. This thesis presents a creative nonfiction series of essays that explore the author’s loss of self and contextual identity, the...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    OF THE THESIS OF Douglas L. Van Bossuyt for the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Science in

  • Headwater

    Creator:
    Martens, Jacob L.
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    These essays are an attempt to rebuild memories that explore the nature of work and family. They explore how work knocks against the joints of the body and against the joints between family members, and, as time passes, how the next generation inherits the family line of work only to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jacob L Martens for the degree of