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Creator:: Rost, Coral
Abstract:: Online fanfiction communities have received attention for providing spaces of creativity and individual empowerment. Yet as critics have sought to establish fanfiction as a worthy object of study, many have not grappled with the ways that fanfictions not only trouble, but also reinforce various discourses and ideas of gender and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan

Creator:: Wood, Josie MaryAnne Soules
Abstract:: On May 21, 1998 Kip Kinkel drove to Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon. Kinkel killed two students and wounded another twenty-two students. He killed his parents the day before. The shootings at Thurston High School came on the heels of a number of prominent school shootings and Kip Kinkel...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: contention is backed up by research conducted by Robert Putnam that finds that Americans are less involved

Creator:: Terriere, Jordan E.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the challenging situation high school dual credit teachers in Oregon face teaching first-year composition in the high school location. I argue that thorough training, support, and professional development are vital for high school teachers teaching dual credit writing courses, who without it may find themselves faced with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: location, the course, the 22 academic discipline, etc. In Edward M. White’s chapter “Defining

Creator:: Steuben, Marieke L.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Melton, Barbara
Abstract:: This thesis is a series of personal essays that explore themes of fundamentalism, family, loss, personal growth and the question of free will. The work reflects my study of the written word, of language, and of how people have tried to define, or have experienced, the numinous. The essays are...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: down my quarter and buy five packages of plain M&Ms. Then I'd find somewhere quiet, somewhere private

Creator:: Evans, Laura A.
Abstract:: Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) has traditionally been dismissed as a failed missive attempting to defend the controversial Salem Witch Trials. What is missing from this characterization is an analysis of the degree to which the text, written at a moment of crisis in Puritan culture, actually...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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