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  • Saudi Arabian Women Pursuing Higher Education at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Al-Sheikhly, Nadya A.
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    Since 2005, the United States has experienced a significant influx of international students from Saudi Arabia, particularly women (Bollang, 2006). The American educational structure is something Saudi women have never experienced due to the vast differences between both cultures in all facets. There is very little to no research conducted...
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    cultures in all facets. There is very little to no research conducted on Saudi Arabian women pursuing

  • Immigrant encounters : film narratives of the modern immigrant

    Creator:
    Yeager, Angela L.
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    This thesis employs a narrative analysis of more than twenty-five films that are centrally concerned with immigrants and the immigrant experience. In Part One, drawing from the work of Yosefa Loshitzky, I will focus on films that feature an immigrant lead character. In Part Two, I will explore movies that...
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    in Guatemala, while dissonant horror movie-style music proclaims that for Enrique, there will be no

  • Truth, justice, and the American way : what Superman teaches us about the American Dream and changing values within the United States

    Creator:
    Karp, Lauren N.
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    This thesis is a study of the changes in the cultural definition of the American Dream. I have chosen to use Superman comics, from 1938 to the present day, as litmus tests for how we have societally interpreted our ideas of “success” and the “American Way.” This work is primarily...
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    the comic superhero, has shifted so much, he insisted, that a contemporary definition no longer

  • Literacy narratives across the curriculum

    Creator:
    Coffey, Marjorie D.
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    This thesis proposes expanding the locations where literacy narratives are currently used as readings and as writing assignments and considering broad conceptions of the types and uses of literacy narratives read in classrooms. In particular, this thesis asserts the value of expanding the literacy narratives read beyond the current canonical...
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    supplying me with thesis cookies, and for keeping my face from melting off this past year. It was no small