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  • Something mortal I could fall upon

    Creator:
    Roush, Stephanie Rae
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    Something Mortal I Could Fall Upon is a collection of poetry exploring geographical, emotional, and cerebral permutations of home. These poems ask: What is home? What does it mean to give up a place? How does, or can, one rebuild the home? Although it is clear the speaker loves the...
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Karen E. Holmberg Something Mortal I Could Fall Upon is a collection of poetry

  • Fiction's fatal flaw : misrepresentation of the average scientist

    Creator:
    Basler, Emily
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    Fiction facilitates the attribution of unrealistic character traits to scientists, and skews general understanding of the scientific process-- a fatal flaw resulting in self-doubt within undergraduate scientists, and apprehension and distrust in several communities. Misconceptions and the absence of significant ideas were identified by analyzing novels within the “Lab Lit”...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    story collection Corresponding e-mail address: baslere@oregonstate.edu

  • Decentering the Human in 12th Century Histories and Chronicles: Divine Nonhumans at the Center of the Itinerarium Cambriae and the Historia Anglorum

    Creator:
    Phelps, Nathan J.
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    This thesis primarily investigates nonhumans in the writings of 12th century historians. Where these writings may typically be seen as having little room for nonhuman agency, this thesis investigates how divinity, as an important part of medieval life, creates a space for nonhuman agency that is otherwise overlooked. In chapter...
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    office open for me, and who has always been a source of good advice; and Rebecca Olson, whose support

  • More than an Accommodation: Teaching in the Remote First-Year Composition Classroom

    Creator:
    Goicochea, Andrea R.
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    This thesis evaluates the contact zone of the remote composition classroom and offers mediations for leveling the authoritative powers by fronting disability studies in pedagogies. The purpose of this thesis is to create pedagogies from disability scholarship and real teaching experiences that can be implemented in the remote classroom to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    would also like to thank committee members Drs. Rebecca Olson and Ehren Pflugfelder, who created space

  • Words of Well-Being : The Relation of an Individual's Word Choice to their Social Well-Being

    Creator:
    Krieger, Katy
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    The present research sought to investigate the relationship between an individual's word choice and their social well-being. In the present investigation, social well-being is a person's social health in relation to their social environment, social network, and ability to interact with others in a social context. This thesis was based...
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    Masters Thesis
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  • Attentional Bias Toward Facial Emotion Expression : Orienting vs. Disengagement

    Creator:
    Martin, Nicole R.
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    The present study examined involuntary attentional bias toward facial emotion expression. Particularly, the study examined two different attentional components for emotional processing, namely, orienting vs. disengagement. A cueing paradigm using two cue presentation times (250ms and 350ms) was used to determine if attention would be involuntarily captured by an irrelevant...
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    thesis advisor, and Dr. Rebecca Olson, graduate committee representative, for their guidance, patience

  • On the Rhetorical Disability of Students with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Rhetorical Approach to the Trauma-Informed Teaching of College Composition

    Creator:
    McDowell, Amanda J.
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    Composition scholars who have written about trauma have typically focused on creating classrooms that are conducive to healing and learning. In doing this work, however, they have considered neither how PTSD nor other people’s responses to it can impact one’s perceived rhetoricity in the college classroom. In other words, they...
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    committee – Rebecca Olson, Anita Helle, and Tim Jensen – without whom I wouldn’t have survived this

  • Piers Plowman, Healthcare Praxis, and the Corporal Mercies

    Creator:
    MacDougall, Eric W.
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    I argue that Matthew’s seven acts of corporal mercies provide a means of reading Piers Plowman within a framework familiar to medieval audiences, but also exposes the different models of health that are at work within the poem and the soteriological significance of these healths. In chapter one, I focus...
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    Masters Thesis
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    thank Professor Rebecca Olson and Dr. Zachary Price for their patience and their criticisms in previous

  • Body of water

    Creator:
    Zellers, Michelle
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    Body of Water is a collection of short fiction about women navigating shifting relationships to their bodies; their bodies of memory and knowledge; their family histories; and their natural and cultural environments. Most of the stories depict girls and women beginning to perceive and push against the bounds of gendered...
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    place to develop as a writer. I’m grateful to Rebecca Olson and George Caldwell for their service on

  • "These Machines are Alive": An Oral History Exploration of Women Letterpress Printers of the West Coast

    Creator:
    Betts, Sophia
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    This project analyzes how women have radically changed the world of western print in the 21st century. To conduct this analysis, I examine a series of oral history interviews that I conducted in 2020 with women printers on the West Coast and employ a critical feminist methodology to study the...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Corresponding e-mail address: bettss@oregonstate.edu Betts 4 Betts 5

  • Coastal Soil and Structure Behavior during Earthquake-Tsunami Multi-Hazards

    Creator:
    Qiu, Yingqing
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    Coastal multi-hazards, i.e., earthquakes followed by tsunamis, induce severe damage to coastal infrastructure. The multi-hazards can cause soil liquefaction, which is one of the major concerns for evaluating sediments transport potential and structure failure mechanisms. The objectives for this work is threefold. First, to build and validate a soil numerical...
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    Dissertation
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    discover the behind scene and side scene of geotechnical earthquake engineering. Professor Rebecca Olson

  • An Assessment of the “Sweating Sickness” Affecting England During the Tudor Dynasty

    Creator:
    Wollert, Edwin Del
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    While historiography and interest in Tudor England at both the popular and specialist levels presents few signs of diminishing, there may nonetheless exist a sense that we have little left to learn about this period and its culture. A notable gap in our knowledge, however, remains regarding the mysterious disease...
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    Dissertation
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    approved: Paul E. Kopperman Abstract. While historiography and interest in Tudor

  • Faculty-Led Study Abroad as Social Justice Praxis: A Phenomenological Case Study

    Creator:
    Barbour, Nancy Staton
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    Faculty-led short-term programs are the most popular type of study abroad experience for undergraduate students in the United States. The rise of the FLST model has created new challenges for institutions and faculty. This study undertakes a critical analysis of the practice of faculty-led short-term (FLST) study abroad at U.S....
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    Dissertation
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    enthusiasm. I likewise thank the other members of my committee, Tom Scheuermann, Katie Hogan, Rebecca Olson