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

Creator:: Cassell, Christopher J.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Internet Usage in Rural Clubs: Are Members Digitally Divided? by Christopher J. Cassell A THESIS

International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

Creator:: Visconti, Lauren A.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: students in the United States are undergoing a transformative educational migration. Moving away from the

An exploration of people, culture and work organization across cultures : theoretical framework and case studies

Creator:: Heim, Erik A.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Erik A. Heim for the degree of

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

Creator:: Sugai, Taichi
Abstract:: 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,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: January 8, 2007 Title: A Public Elementary School as a Cultural Context: Japanese Children Learning to

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

Creator:: Montañez, Morgan
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Microsoft Word - A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out.docx AN

Development projects and questions of empowerment: a Salvadorean women's cooperative

Creator:: Hannigan-Luther, Kristen L.
Abstract:: Many development organizations now recognize the importance of culturally sensitive project design and implementation. Unfortunately most of these groups continue to disregard the significance of gender. This qualitative research examines a women's cooperative in rural El Salvador which formed in order to find a means of generating income and to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Projects and Questions of Empowerment: A Salvadorean Women's Cooperative. Abstract approved: Many

The emergency department as a provider of nonemergent care

Creator:: Stiles, Catherine M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: EmergençyDepaent as a Provider of Nonemergent Care. Abstract approved: Emergency departments (ED) provide access

Japanese animation in America and its fans

Creator:: Davis, Jesse Christian
Abstract:: This research covers Japanese animation and its popularity in the United States. It focuses on hardcore fans for whom this animation has become part of their lives. Using interviews of self-identified anime fans, this research explores how anime fandom has become a part of American life despite originating in a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Using interviews of self-identified anime fans, this research explores how anime fandom has become a

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

Creator:: Takahashi, Tokiko
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: explains a cultural process of the local people's synthesis of the values they place on nature and their

Latinos, loggers and old hippies : rural revitalization in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Kubein, Adele
Abstract:: This ethnography looks at the processes a rural Oregon community is undergoing as some members attempt to re-animate the community by creating a community center after the loss of its school and market, two vital services that provided venues for social interaction and engagement. The methodology for this research includes...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Nancy Rosenberger ABSTRACT This ethnography looks at the processes a rural Oregon community is

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

An exploration of people, culture and work organization across cultures : theoretical framework and case studies

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

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

Development projects and questions of empowerment: a Salvadorean women's cooperative

The emergency department as a provider of nonemergent care

Japanese animation in America and its fans

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

Latinos, loggers and old hippies : rural revitalization in the Pacific Northwest

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