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  • The Culture of Names – A Comparison between Vietnam and Denmark

    Creator:
    Ngo, Toan Tri Dung
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    This project discusses the topic of personal names and the cultures of different peoples and their particularities, specifically in Vietnam and Denmark. The first part of this paper gives a brief history of naming traditions (mostly relating to Western European traditions). The second part of the paper compares two families...
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    ) and their naming strategies as they immigrated to the United States. By looking at the names given

  • The Evolution: Electric Vehicles and the End of Oil Addiction

    Creator:
    Donahue, Cory
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    The world is currently using an unsustainable system of meeting its transportation needs with oil. This system is taking a toll on the world environment and on global politics. The physical availability of oil is the system’s most immediate problem and will most likely bring about a transition away from...
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    was a just war, nor whether or not the United States started the war for access to more oil. While

  • The Impact of World Literature in Secondary Schools in Oregon and Chile : A Comparative Case Study

    Creator:
    McFarland, Annette Catherine
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    The reading of world literature, literary works from cultures other than one’s own, offers an effective means of creating greater awareness and sensitivity towards others. Research on the subject makes it clear that world literature can help lay the groundwork for a sense of world citizenship in students. To what...
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    it. In reference to citizens of the United States of America, I refrain from using the term

  • Understanding Oppression

    Creator:
    Clark, Dean Allen
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    Institutionalized oppression is a large multifaceted system that is regularly unrecognized and misunderstood. Marilyn Frye’s birdcage analogy of oppression (1983) demonstrates why this complex system is often invisible, yet always immobilizing. In this analogy, Frye relates the various manifestations of oppressions to the wires of a birdcage, demonstrating that it...
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    , and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010 (Washington, DC, 2011), 12. by cab

  • Empowering pedagogy : a case study of non-traditional teaching methods and philosophy at the Centro de Educación Creativa

    Creator:
    Sansone, Sophia Vosburg
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    Empowering pedagogy (also know as “transgressive,” “emancipatory,” or “democratic” forms of education) seeks to challenge the historically oppressive tendencies of traditional education. As a student of Social Justice and International Studies, I approach the topic of empowering pedagogy through a case study. My research explored this non-traditional educational philosophy and...
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    organization was founded in the United States; the school now relies largely on the contributions from donors

  • The Doctor-Patient Relationship: How a Physician Navigates Clinical Empathy and Patient Death

    Creator:
    Smith, Hannah R.
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    As the importance of empathy in medicine has become more understood the dynamic of the patient-doctor relationship has changed. However, how to properly incorporate empathy into a healthcare relationship has not been thoroughly investigated. There is also continued disagreement on how to appropriately define empathy in a healthcare setting. The...
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    (Siegler & Entralgo, 2011, p. 14). In the United States, the cost of care was typically covered by third

  • Softly to the East

    Creator:
    Hector, Rachel Claus
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    Growing up on a ranch in eastern Oregon, life is hard. Adelaide Stevens knows this at sixteen, when her father shoots her wounded horse and her mother divorces him. Five years later, Addie returns from college to her small town to take care of her ailing mother, and over the...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    A PROJECT submitted to Oregon State University University Honors College in

  • Backpacking Through the Canon

    Creator:
    Sauter, Megan E.
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    During summer and fall 2007, I traveled across Europe and studied in Spain. My experiences abroad shaped my reading of certain literary texts as I gained insight into the cultures and settings in which they were produced. In my thesis, I recount some of these experiences and show how my...
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    cathedral I attended in Santander was older than the United States of America. 18. No one wears insignias