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Filtering by: Creator Goldbogen, Jeremy A. Decade 1980-1989 Degree Field Anthropology

Technological progress, disacculturation, and our public schools

Creator:

Morita, Sally J.

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The problems facing our nation's public schools today cannot be divorced from our enthusiasm for technology and the positive relationship we believe it shares with our perception of progress. Based on the second law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy, author Jeremy Rifkin argues that the development of increasingly "efficient"...

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Masters Thesis

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- A New World View, contemporary author Jeremy Rifkin writes that energy is the basis of human
Factors in the Selection of Home Birth : A Comparative Study of Birthing Alternatives in Western Oregon

Creator:

Fuhr-Dunn, Susan D.

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Increasing demand for home birth has created an upheaval in the American medical profession and, is a controversial political and legal issue as well. This research, utilizing ethnographic, historical, and survey data analyzes contemporary home birth. A review of the so called "medicalization" of childbirth is presented noting that the...

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Masters Thesis

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Factors in the selection of home birth : a comparative
Log cabin construction techniques in western Siskiyou County, 1850-1935 : their function and ethnic origins

Creator:

Abusaidi, Ali

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Under the sponsorship of the Klamath National Forest, 25 log cabins which were built in western Siskiyou County between 1850 and 1937 were located and studied. First, 11 exterior dimensions of these cabins were selected, measured and recorded. Then 26 building elements were identified for the purpose of finding whether...

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Masters Thesis

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of finding whether there was a relationship between the exterior attributes of these structures and