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  • Food storage practices within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints : an ethnographic comparison of discourses

    Creator:
    Valora, Amanda
    Abstract:
    Personal preparedness and self-­‐reliance have been themes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-­‐day Saints since its early days as an organized religion. These themes are still strong and vibrant today and one of their key aspects is the practice of food storage. Personal and familial preparation for problems...
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    Masters Thesis
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    :       Dr.  Joan  E.  Gross         Personal  preparedness  and  self-­‐reliance

  • Queering Ever After: Temporality, Magic, and Endings in Victorian Fairy Tales

    Creator:
    Damschen, Kalli M.
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    This thesis analyzes two Victorian fairy tales that feature queer endings, or endings that offer alternatives to the heteronormative fairy-tale tradition that idealizes heterosexual marriage and the biological family. In both George MacDonald’s The Wise Woman (1875) and E. Nesbit’s “The Island of the Nine Whirlpools” (1901), I argue that...
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    Masters Thesis
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    heterosexual marriage and the biological family. In both George MacDonald’s The Wise Woman (1875) and E

  • Voices from the coast : drawing on family funds of knowledge to build ocean literacy and home school partnerships

    Creator:
    Roebber, Susan Merwin
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    In this qualitative study, ethnographic methods were used to identify parent funds of knowledge related to ocean literacy in a rural, coastal context. Participants included 16 parents of students in the teacher-researcher's third-grade classroom. Interactions between parent-child, parent-parent, and parent and the teacher-researcher were studied in order to determine factors...
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    Dissertation
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    . ......................................................................113  TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued) Page Focal parent #3 George

  • Taking a broader approach : longitudinal effects of personality on the physical health of spouse caregivers in two disease groups

    Creator:
    Hall, Brandi June
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    Caregiving circumstances frequently evoke high levels of stress for caregivers and have consistently been linked to adverse psychological and physical health consequences. Within the caregiving literature, researchers have sought to answer questions about why some individuals seem to be particularly vulnerable to the well-established deleterious consequences of caregiving stress. Several...
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    Masters Thesis
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    (George & Gwyther, 1986). The presence of Alzheimer’s Disease results in a slow deterioration of

  • A National Five-Year Exploratory and Descriptive Analysis of Two-Year Public College Graduation Rates at Branch Compared to Non-Branch Campuses

    Creator:
    Harrison, Faimous J. L.
    Abstract:
    Branch campuses play an important part in postsecondary degree attainment by providing place-bound students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds in different geographical regions access to education that is convenient. Their heterogeneousness structures, including enrollment size, communities, and populations served, are not accurately reflected in the majority of the research. Currently, there...
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    Dissertation
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    ) specifying and illustrating data results accessibility; and e) a system implemented where different state

  • Finding a Reason to Run: Examining Women's Experiences with a Running Program at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility

    Creator:
    Ward, Alicia
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    Bunk to 5K is a program designed to encourage and support new and experienced runners in custody at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF). CCCF is the only women’s prison in Oregon, housing around 1,200 women at any given time, at all levels of custody (ODOC, 2020). The non-profit which runs...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project

  • Creative Placemaking as a Composition Pedagogy

    Creator:
    Yerace, Marisa
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    This thesis explores the ways in which creative placemaking, a neighborhood-based practice for building community, can offer community-building and civic action wisdom as a model for composition. This model brings attention to spatial metaphors for rhetoric and teaching that have persisted for millennia; it re-focuses us on community; it encourages...
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    Masters Thesis
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    learning, collaboration, and other “high-impact practices” (per George Kuh). Creative placemaking is also

  • Mentorship and Student Self-efficacy

    Creator:
    Williams, MaryJean Harris
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    Background: The United States has been under-producing college graduates since at least 1980, with many challenges suppressing students’ self-efficacy. One approach to improving student outcomes is through mentorship. This dissertation applied Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and Kram’s Mentor Relationship Development Theory (MRD) to discover whether students’ campus mentorship experiences...
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    Dissertation
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    ……………………………..…………………………...…….…..51 E.1 Mother’s Education…………………..………………………………......….….204 E.2 Father’s Education

  • Case Study : Description of a Corporate University's Operational Factors

    Creator:
    Ewer, Gary
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    Corporate universities (CUs) have been in existence in the United States since the early 1900s. They are increasingly providing educational and developmental opportunities for workers; however, there is little empirical research on these types of organizations. This study examined a specific electrical distributor's CU using a theoretical framework as a...
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    Dissertation
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    .............................................................. 160 Appendix E: PLATT UNIVERSITY ORGANIZATIONAL CHART – 2015 .......................... 161

  • Where have all the women and children gone? An examination of domestic life at the Newell Farmstead (35MA41) in the early Oregon country

    Creator:
    Manion, Mollie Jo
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    The Newell Farmstead (35MA41) archaeological site lies in the heart of the French Prairie in the Willamette Valley in the Champoeg State Heritage Area, Oregon. The integrity and depth of deposition have made the Newell site a unique opportunity to look at activity areas and domestic life of early Euro-American...
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    Dissertation
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    George (Hussey 1964: 27: Brauner 1989: 11).  The North West Company soon established a post in the