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  • International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

    Creator:
    Visconti, Lauren A.
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    Projected to reach one million people next year, international students in the United States are undergoing a transformative educational migration. Moving away from the existing study abroad paradigm is the first step to more accurately understand the lived experience of an educational migrant. Discovering the perceptions of what value an...
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  • Ecuador's informal sector : an analysis of gender and empowerment programs

    Creator:
    Ota, Brandy
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    Over the last 25 years structural adjustment programs have challenged Ecuador's ability to provide adequate social services and employment opportunities. In the wake of these policies, many women have turned to non-governmental agencies for possible solutions and assistance. Empowerment programs as a form of development work in particular have been...
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    ................................................................... 85 Appendix A: Demographics ....................................... 85 Appendix B: Themes

  • An observation of the history and discrimination of the Buraku in modern day Japan

    Creator:
    Kawano, Mika
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    The Buraku people have been segregated, oppressed, and discriminated against throughout Japanese history. The Japanese can dismiss the Buraku issue because of assimilation theories, the belief in homogeneity, and passive attitudes by the Buraku people. The Buraku Liberation League (BLL), which has fought for equal rights on behalf of the...
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    Buraku and the non-B uraku were categorized into two age groups: parents and young adults. Redacted for

  • Defining the gap : a case study of the on campus residential options at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Nelson, Rachel C.
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    The decision to attend a university creates many important decisions for a young adult, with one of the most important being the choice of where to live while they make the transition into independent adults. Many choose to live on campus during this critical time. The differences that exist, and...
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    anthropology, academia, 22 psychology, etc (Pascarella 2006, Astin 1993, Li et al. 2005). One university

  • Perception and action : an analysis on communication between U.S. sponsorship and Russian speaking immigrants

    Creator:
    Johnston, Candace G.
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    The problems of Russian speaking refugees from the Ukraine region of the former Soviet Union are the basis for ethnographic inquiry and the delineation of the role of voluntary agencies who assist their resettlement in Portland, Oregon. Interpretive methods are the foundation for an analysis of Ukrainians' perceptions of problems...
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    fourth stage marks the beginning of the resettlement process (Williams 1990). Bernard (1977 b

  • Computer and internet usage in rural clubs : are members digitally divided?

    Creator:
    Cassell, Christopher J.
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    Lower rates of computer adoption and usage in rural areas has been called a "digital divide." This work explores the current state of connectivity within a rural town of the Pacific Northwest with a quantitative and qualitative overview of computer usage and access within civic and activity clubs, ranging from...
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    123 Appendix B: Mini Survey 124 Appendix C: Script 125 LIST OF TABLES Table Page 1. Typology of

  • Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

    Creator:
    Takahashi, Tokiko
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    Based on the author's ethnographic research at the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan, this thesis explains a cultural process of the local people's synthesis of the values they place on nature and their everyday behavior in a modern industrial world. Explicated by ethnographic narrative, this study focuses on a revitalization...
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    on Mr. Hatakeyama' s reforestation activities ------------------------------------------------- 72

  • A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

    Creator:
    Montañez, Morgan
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    The Linn and Benton County Gleaner network has helped the low-income families of urban and rural Oregon reclaim moral, social and cultural capital that is lost in the act of being poor in America. Rather than participating solely in government safety nets, these people reject “hand-outs” in favor of exchanging...
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    1960’s. In 1964 Lyndon B Johnson signed the Food Stamp Act into law that provided aid primarily to

  • A Public Elementary School as a Cultural Context : Japanese Children Learning to Perceive their Environment

    Creator:
    Sugai, Taichi
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    This thesis examines the cultural context in which Japanese children are constructing their own perspective of the environment because in the development of environmental education in Japan, the perspectives of children and teachers have not been taken into consideration. Although educators have made efforts to give direction to environmental education,...
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    ..................................................................... 48 4.3.1 Origin of Japanese environmental education: between the 1960’s and the late 1970’s48

  • The emergency department as a provider of nonemergent care

    Creator:
    Stiles, Catherine M.
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    Emergency departments (ED) provide access to care for large numbers of patients who have nonemergent medical needs. More than half of the patients presenting to the ED at Salem Hospital in Salem, Oregon, were found to be seeking care for nonemergent medical needs. In an effort to provide an alternative...
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    Health Care Payment ......................................... S The Oregon Health Plan and Cost