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Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

Creator:: Barbour, Nancy Staton
Abstract:: This thesis examines the convergence of neoliberal rhetoric across popular media, academic, and institutional discourses, and draws connections between contemporary women's travel literature and common scripts in study abroad promotion. Finding such narratives to be freighted with ethnocentric constructs and tacit endorsements of market-based globalization, I critique the mainstreaming of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: research that have framed various issues relevant to the discussion of women’s travel literature, higher

American identity at a crossroads : Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World

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
Full Text:: stronger ideals of service to God and man, of progress in science and so in the use of reason. This

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

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
Full Text:: narrative history using feminist qualitative research methodologies. In the writing of this paper, I was

Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

Creator:: Robinson, Tracy Ann
Abstract:: Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: face of everything else on their teaching (and research and service) plates can drag down even the

Finding Fantasy : Three Newspapers Tell the Story of Kip Kinkel and Thurston High School

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:: weaknesses of fantasy theme analysis are also discussed. Finally, a number of future research possibilities

An Inquiry into Attitudes Toward Professional Women : Rotary and Zonta Club Members

Creator:: Shearman, Nancy Walker
Abstract:: Over the past decade, federal as well as state legislation has been passed to eliminate discrimination and create equality in the workplace. However, the attitudes of professionals are not as easily changed. Many barriers still face female executives entering the corporate level. This study examined the attitudes of professionals in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the inter-library loan service. Also, male and female members of politics, corporate and business

Confessing Our Sims: The construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace

Creator:: Papaleo, November R.
Abstract:: MySpace is a social network phenomenon with over 100 million profiles and a strong presence in over 24 countries. As digital media become more commonplace, social networks are becoming sites where women create and manage relationships and identities. This thesis is a study of how women ages 18-22 are constructing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: features, and demographics makes the study of 3 this site a natural choice for my research. Social

When High School Teachers Teach College Writing : Oregon Approaches to Dual Credit Teacher Qualifications, Support, and Professional Development

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:: were published in the 2008 and 2010 studies conducted by the OUS Office of Institutional Research

The hand of humanity : Eliot's religious reformation in Middlemarch

Creator:: Peake, Natasha C.
Abstract:: As the embodiment of the religiously unsettled Victorian Era in which she lived, George Eliot sought to discover a system of belief that would allow her to reaffirm and maintain her feelings of faith and morality. She believed that the subjective nature of traditional Christianity needed to be replaced with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: when or where in the specific service the laying on of hands takes place (typically it occurs at the

A circle of response : addressing the tensions of teacher responseto student writing

Creator:: Carothers, April D.
Abstract:: What students need most from instructors’ written response on their texts is commentary that evokes a sense of exchange. Teachers often believe that their job is to point out the deficits in a student’s paper and help eliminate those deficits. While this is a part of the function of response,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of response would be most effective, I put my energy into research, trying to find answers to my

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

American identity at a crossroads : Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World

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

Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

Finding Fantasy : Three Newspapers Tell the Story of Kip Kinkel and Thurston High School

An Inquiry into Attitudes Toward Professional Women : Rotary and Zonta Club Members

Confessing Our Sims: The construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace

When High School Teachers Teach College Writing : Oregon Approaches to Dual Credit Teacher Qualifications, Support, and Professional Development

The hand of humanity : Eliot's religious reformation in Middlemarch

A circle of response : addressing the tensions of teacher responseto student writing

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