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Zora Neale Hurston : freedom from the inside out

Creator:: Rasmussen, Patricia Ann, 1947-
Abstract:: Zora Neale Hurston was a Black American writer during the period of the Harlem Renaissance. The purpose of this study is to show that three of her four novels form a protracted discussion of a particular type of freedom which was of especial interest to Hurston. The study seeks to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Writing (righting) the silences : "points of perspective" for texts and students

Creator:: Payne, Eva M.
Abstract:: The classroom practices discussed in this thesis come slowly and at a "slant" to feminism through critical reading of texts, a practice that I call a (re)presentation of the silent women in texts. Given our patriarchal western culture, making meaning, and especially making sense, of the role and representations of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Women's voices : the emergence of female identity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit

Creator:: Van Ras, Tamara L.
Abstract:: Dedicated to recording, portraying, and indicting the social inequities that he witnessed in nineteenth century Victorian England, one of Charles Dickens' many concerns was the roles assigned to women both in the public and private spheres. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the narratives of Amy Dorrit and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Where we are buried : a conversation of diaries

Creator:: Hill, Eric R.
Abstract:: This thesis is the first of three sections in what will be a book-long project of creative nonfiction essays. The book will parallel the author's diary with three other family diaries, spanning four generations. This thesis deals with the first of those diaries, written by Antonio Bonetti's, the author's great-grandfather....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

To mend the walls of Babel : essays on identity and ethnicity

Creator:: Inoue, Asao B.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I explore experiences with my identity, looking at the identity people have seen me as, who I've thought I was, and the identities my mother's and father's different family backgrounds suggest I should be. I have divided this discussion into three main areas: my complexion, the first...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Things not seen, and other stories

Creator:: Walsh, Amy M.
Abstract:: These six stories investigate characters who must begin to understand their own actions, which are often made in response to authority. In the lives of these characters, there are schemas which they believe they fit, certain rules placed on them by society that they each feel they must obey. It...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Theoretical perspectives on Latin American indigenous development, with reference to a case study of Cebadas, Ecuador

Creator:: Ocana, Juan Carlos
Abstract:: This thesis presents a discussion of the main materialistic theories proposed to explain the process of development among the indigenous population of Latin America. Four theoretical approaches are presented and discussed. The first one deals with the social group referred to as peasants. The second one explains the process of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The women's movement in Japan and its effect on the workplace

Creator:: Madden-Bethune, Gwyn D.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of women in the Japanese workplace. Data obtained from in-depth interviews and questionnaires, shows that the Japanese workplace is in a state of change moving toward a higher level of opportunity for female workers. While similar to the circumstances experienced...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The social dimension of Shakespeare's art : a Midsummer Night's Dream

Creator:: Schaefer, Mimi
Abstract:: The study of the social dimensions of Shakespeare's art is represented by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, C.L. Barber, Robert Weimann, Edward Berry, and Michael Bristol. Their work analyzes the background in Elizabethan social practices and popular dramatic traditions that contribute to the form, structure, and meaning of Shakespeare's comedies....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The similarity of texted musical grammar to oral communication : exploring grammar, text and content with examples from fieldwork with Grupo Kultura

Creator:: Herrera, Tere Lynn
Abstract:: The goal of this study is to elucidate the similarities between the grammar of oral folk music and oral language grammar through field examples from Grupo Kultura, a group of neo-Latin American musicians in the mid-Willamette Valley area of Oregon. The linguistic analysis of oral folk music explores textual and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The role(s) of literature in introductory composition classrooms

Creator:: Caster, Peter
Abstract:: First year college writing classes originated in the United States at Harvard University in 1874. Since then, theorizing such a course has proven a place of contention, as its purposes and subjects have proven difficult to sort and impossible to agree upon. When Harvard first began teaching introductory composition, literature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Night Before the Elections and other stories

Creator:: Clarke, Patrick J.
Abstract:: The stories here are stories of childhood. To me, they concern the shift between dependence to independence, comfort to instability, which is disastrous for the characters but also a point of awakening. The move from childhood to adulthood puts the characters in a world that is neither made for the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The marine biogeography of Ragay Gulf and Burias Pass, Philippines

Creator:: Jamir, Tomas Vergel C.
Abstract:: Ragay Gulf and Burias Pass are among the traditional fishing grounds of the country being considered by the government for an integrated approach to fishery management (Smith, et al., 1980; Samson, et al., 1977, World Bank, 1976). The Department of Marine Fisheries, College of Fisheries, University of the Philippines in...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

The magnitiseur and other stories

Creator:: van Belle, Christine E.
Abstract:: This thesis is a collection of three short stories and the beginnings of a novel. A similar thread is woven through all the stories: in the attempt to know spiritual truth, what it is to be a woman, and to know themselves, the various protagonists precariously oscillate between the seemingly...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The influence on Manchu women of changes in social institutions and the sinification of Manchu Society

Creator:: Fang, Jin-cai
Abstract:: Gender relations as well as the social situation of Manchu women have long been ignored in studies of the cultural evolution of the Manchu. By setting the discussion of Manchu women in the context of cultural adaptation, this study reintroduces gender and women's problems into the research on the Manchu...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The influence of worldview on second language acquisition : a study of the native English speakers acquiring the Chinese aspect marker -Le

Creator:: Yang, Li-qiong
Abstract:: Culture, thought worldview and language have been discussed for a long time in different fields from various perspectives. However, the basis of this study is the view of language as both the product and producer of people just as people are the producer and product of language. Each language requires...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

The fractal structure of surface water waves near breaking

Creator:: Munzenmayer, Katja
Abstract:: The goal of this research project is to determine the fractal nature, if any, which certain surface water waves exhibit when viewed on a microscopic scale. We make use of the mathematical formulation of non-viscous fluids describing their physical properties. Using these expressions and including boundary conditions for free surfaces...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The emergency department as a provider of nonemergent care

Creator:: Stiles, Catherine M.
Abstract:: Emergency departments (ED) provide access to care for large numbers of patients who have nonemergent medical needs. More than half of the patients presenting to the ED at Salem Hospital in Salem, Oregon, were found to be seeking care for nonemergent medical needs. In an effort to provide an alternative...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The effects of divorce and related stressors on early adolescents' self-esteem

Creator:: Moon, Christine Ellen
Abstract:: Divorce rates have increased in the past three decades. Much research has focused on the effects of divorce on children and adolescents' emotional adjustment. Measures of self-esteem are one way to determine emotional development. Less attention has been devoted to understanding the effect divorce has on another very important developmental...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The effect of void distribution on the Hugoniot state of porous media

Creator:: Creel, Emory Myron Willett
Abstract:: Shocked porous granular material experiences pressure dependent compaction. D. John Pastine introduced a model in which the degree of compaction is dependent on the pressure induced by the shock wave, the shear strength of the material, and the distribution of void sizes. In the past, the model could only be...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The culture of academia : authorizing students to read and write

Creator:: Mitchell, Danielle M.
Abstract:: Presenting and synthesizing several paradigms for the teaching of literature in American colleges, I investigate how definitions of reading, readers, texts, interpretations, and knowledge affect student acts of reading and writing. In addition, I draw upon specific examples of text-based, reader-based, and social-cultural based models for the teaching of reading...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The caller, and other stories

Creator:: Irwin, Keith F.
Abstract:: These five stories investigate characters who must deal with their unresolved, emotionally troubling pasts. The characters attempt to journey back to life having recognized that their isolation, safe and undisturbing as it is, is worse than a life in which the possibility of joy is mixed with the inevitability of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The body of a patient and rational treatment in the managed care era

Creator:: Sumii, Kensuke
Abstract:: This study aims to identify conceptions of the body, as well as "rational" treatment among primary care practitioners (PCPs) and emergency medicine practitioners (EMPs) dealing with managed care plans. I conducted ethnographic study throughout 1996, and interviewed six PCPs and four EMPs. In the course of my interviews, I discovered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The archaeology of the Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon

Creator:: Stone, Helen Delight
Abstract:: Site ORYA3, the Smith House, is located in Dayton, Oregon. The archaeological project originated because owners of this structure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, applied for a demolition permit. The 1859 home, first occupied by two early Oregon pioneers, Andrew and Sarah Smith, was considered architecturally significant,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Anzick site : analysis of a Clovis burial assemblage

Creator:: Jones, J. Scott
Abstract:: The Anzick Clovis assemblage was first discovered in the late 1960's near Livingston, Montana. More than 100 stone and bone artifacts were found in association with the remains of two subadults proven to be the earliest radiocarbon-dated human burial in North America. Although human remains are notoriously absent, similar artifact...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Andy Stories

Creator:: Henkel, William B.
Abstract:: The four stories within, "Jim of India," "Shooting the Breeze," "Bridge," and "Point Reyes," are part of a longer work in progress, tentatively titled The Andy Stories. The stories follow Andy, a woman in her 50s, on a voyage across the continent and into herself. Of these, all are written...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Slippery paths : connections and divergences between historic preservation and tourism in Micronesia

Creator:: Krause, Elizabeth L.
Abstract:: Micronesians are in the process of becoming independent nation-states after nearly a century of colonial rule, including four decades of U.S. administration as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Pressures to attain self-sufficiency have led many of these island nations to embrace tourism as an economic development strategy. Meanwhile,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Site ORBE2 : an archaeological analysis of a construction disturbed site

Creator:: Cromwell, Robert J.
Abstract:: This thesis describes investigations of archaeological materials recovered from Site ORBE2, an early-twentieth century historic site in Corvallis, OR. The archaeological materials were found only after construction workers had excavated trenches underneath the still-standing structure on the site in order to install a new foundation. Over 1500 artifacts were recovered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Sharing the past effectively : an evaluation of excavations in the Passport In Time program

Creator:: Dickson, Catherine E.
Abstract:: The United States Forest Service's Passport In Time program is designed to involve the public in archaeology on National Forest land. Three of the program's goals are: 1) allow archaeologists to conduct research they would not otherwise have the time or the budget to conduct; 2) teach the public about...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Search images

Creator:: Dunham, Karen L.
Abstract:: This thesis is a collection of six essays with interconnecting elements and themes. Two overriding themes which pervade the collection are the search for spiritual wholeness and the relationships between humans and their environments. The essays document my recent explorations of and experimentations with the "creative nonfiction" genre. have worked...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Right-wing youth violence in reunited Germany

Creator:: Derksen, Ulrike
Abstract:: Violent right-wing groups have emerged in the German youth scene since reunification in 1990. By the early 1990's, many groups of people have had to face racist violence and harassment as a threatening part of everyday life. With the social, political, economic, demographical and ideological changes which have taken place...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Renovations

Creator:: Gallagher, Scott V.
Abstract:: The six stories within, "Still and Silent," "Cold Comfort," "The King of Porn," "Miscuts," "In Between," and "Renovations," are part of a work in progress. They attempt to show how the characters, although they may seem to struggle for independence from the family unit, are in fact strengthening the bonds...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Reflections of Mormonism : the history and development of LDS meetinghouse architecture

Creator:: Newsome, Daniel K.
Abstract:: Perhaps more than any other building type, ecclesiastical buildings preserve a wealth of information about those who erected and used the structures. In terms of style, form, and function, religious architecture reflects a group's philosophies about the physical and metaphysical worlds, and the cultural traditions within their own community. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Real algebraic geometry and the Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture

Creator:: Klute, Annette
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Pregnancy, class and biomedical power : factors influencing the prenatal care experiences of low-income women in an Oregon community

Creator:: Pearce, Laurie Kathleen
Abstract:: Low-income women in an Oregon city of approximately 35,000 inhabitants have limited access to prenatal care services during their pregnancies. The purpose of this study was to uncover the impacts of several factors on the experiences of twenty-seven health department clients with public health department prenatal care practitioners and with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Power and participation in urban planning : an ethnographic case study of Curitiba, Brazil

Creator:: Piel, Eric W.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the concepts of power and participation and how they are intertwined in the examination of the urban planning systems in Curitiba, Brazil. Power is identified as both the planning system's ability to affect the daily lives of the city's residents and the power of individuals and groups...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Perception and action : an analysis on communication between U.S. sponsorship and Russian speaking immigrants

Creator:: Johnston, Candace G.
Abstract:: The problems of Russian speaking refugees from the Ukraine region of the former Soviet Union are the basis for ethnographic inquiry and the delineation of the role of voluntary agencies who assist their resettlement in Portland, Oregon. Interpretive methods are the foundation for an analysis of Ukrainians' perceptions of problems...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Paxton : a cartography

Creator:: Hogg, Charlotte
Abstract:: This thesis is a collection of essays about Paxton, a small town in western Nebraska, and an exploration of the contradictions and complexities found there. It is also a reflection on the layers of history and connections that exist not only among families that have lived in these towns for...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Pan, techo y libertad : women, gender and development in the Afro-Ecuadorian highlands

Creator:: Guerron-Montero, Carla Maria
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Nature and culture in two Pacific Northwest timber-dependent communities

Creator:: Six, Amanda
Abstract:: Timber-dependent, rural communities in the Pacific Northwest face dramatic economic, political, and cultural change. New philosophies of forest management, primarily formulated in urban communities, require new approaches to the use and extraction of resources. What are the roles of rural communities that wish to adapt and sustain themselves? Two rural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Narrative frames and the works of John Coltrane

Creator:: Duncan, James Bryan
Abstract:: In Culture and Imperialism, Said illustrates that we have no "autonomous cultural forms," but rather "impure" ones that are the products of historically "discrepant experiences." American culture has an interesting relationship with the history of imperialism. The Europeans that settled the U.S. imported slave labor to assist in the growth...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Morphological and cytological variation in Trillium albidum Freeman (Liliaceae)

Creator:: Bledsoe, Karen E.
Abstract:: This work was performed on Trillium albidum Freeman (Liliaceae), to clarify the pattern of morphological variation between the small-flowered populations at the northern limit of its range ( T. parviflorum Soukup) and the larger-flowered populations from southern Oregon and northern California. It was hypothesized that only a single species of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Mixed ethnic identity in the United States

Creator:: Lonergan, Courtney C.
Abstract:: In this paper I focus on the process of formulating an ethnic identity in the United States for individuals of mixed-ethnicity. My main question explores the complexities an individual with parents of separate and distinct ethnic heritages faces when constructing an ethnic identity in our society. American society is reaching...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Living with a military base : a study of the relationship between a US military base and Kin Town, Okinawa, Japan

Creator:: Yoshikawa, Hideki
Abstract:: This thesis is an exploratory and descriptive study of the relationship between a US military base and Kin Town, Okinawa, Japan, presented in the form of ethnography. Guided by James Scott's theory of "weapons of the weak," it explores the relationship between the two in terms of how the townspeople...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Literary proletarianism : a critical re-vision of the Gastonia novels

Creator:: Nieberding, Jon
Abstract:: My primary purpose in this thesis is to continue the refocused attention given to American "proletarian" fiction of the 1930's. Because of their politics and supposed artistic inferiority, many of these works have been marginalized by American literary critics. However, many contemporary scholars are reconsidering this genre and devoting more...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Life in railroad logging camps of the Shevlin-Hixon Company, 1916-1950

Creator:: Gregory, Ronald L.
Abstract:: Remnants of railroad logging camps, and their associated features, are perhaps some of the most common archaeological resources found on public lands in the Pacific Northwest. Many camps have already been located, their cultural materials inventoried, and networks of logging railroad grades mapped. Yet, despite these efforts, little can be...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Just do it : an analysis of cultural factors behind the growth of Nike, Inc.

Creator:: Chen, Roger L.
Abstract:: The success of NIKE, Inc. is deemed miracle by professionals on both Wall Street and Madison Avenue. Research done in the past tends to credit the growth of NIKE, Inc. to its marketing strategies. By placing the achievement of the company in the postmodern context, this study analyzes the cultural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

James Joyce's critique of "Faubourg Saint Patrice" : Ulysses, the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage

Creator:: Nelson, John C. M.
Abstract:: In his works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922), James Joyce demonstrates what he perceives to be the paralyzing effects of those institutionalized religions that sit at the center of cultures. Drawing on Michel Foucault's analysis of institutional dressage as well as his...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Invitations to the writing life : a study of popular writing books

Creator:: Finley, Devon
Abstract:: The field of composition studies has concerned itself with the way in which people learn to write and the role schooling plays in writing development. Recently a trend has developed within the field towards exploring writing development outside of the classroom, termed the extracurriculum. Much of the scholarship thus far...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Imagining them, reimagining ourselves : a case study of cultural appropriation and the politics of identity

Creator:: Smith-Nolan, Mary K.
Abstract:: Several popular cultural movements emphasizing indigenous spirituality have arisen in the United States and Europe within the past thirty years. Spiritual discourses attributed to Native Americans, among other groups, are borrowed by Euro-Americans in search of alternatives to dominant ideologies. In such a circumstance, Native Americans become part of a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Hannah of Troy, and other stories

Creator:: Nadelson, Scott
Abstract:: The six stories in this collection center around an extended Jewish family in the New York Metropolitan area and the curse its members relentlessly wish upon themselves. The protagonist in four of the six stories is Daniel Brickman, younger brother in a very ordinary and chaotic household in suburban New...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Hamlet's delay : an attempt at synthesis

Creator:: Cohen, Martin, 1943-
Abstract:: The study of the question of why Shakespeare's Hamlet delays killing Claudius in revenge for his father's murder is examined in light of the major critical theories from neo-classical to modern scholarship. An expanded treatment of the works of Fredson Bowers, Eleanor Prosser, Bertram Joseph, and Roland Frye, is provided...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

George Bernard Shaw's "Big Three" : an althusserian reading of Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara

Creator:: Kramer, Johanna I.
Abstract:: Traditional readings of George Bernard Shaw's texts suggest that he is not a pure Marxist socialist because of the spiritual and nationalist aspects of his vision. This thesis attempts to confront Shaw's politics in order to demonstrate that he indeed offers a viable socialist program. Overlaying his socialism with Louis...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geography and other stories

Creator:: Cook, Molly Larson
Abstract:: This thesis comprises a collection of six short stories written and developed in the Creative Writing program at Oregon State University and particularly in fiction workshops with Dr. Tracy Daugherty and Marjorie Sandor. These stories explore the human condition, and human connections, in contemporary society. The characters here are ordinary...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Full of his details and other essays

Creator:: Tuma, Teresa K. Easterling
Abstract:: This collection consists of autobiographical essays which center around my father, my first husband, and my backyard. All of the pieces are recollections, and most occur either from my study inside the house, or from the deck outside, looking at the yard. The Preface is the story of how I...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Frontier military medicine at Fort Hoskins, 1857-1865 : an archaeological and historical perspective

Creator:: Trussell, Timothy D.
Abstract:: Fort Hoskins, located in Kings Valley, Oregon, was a U.S. Army post established in 1856 and decommissioned in April 1865. In 1992, the site of Fort Hoskins went into the public trust as a Benton County Park. Developing an interpretive center for the park will necessitate ground disturbing activities on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

Creator:: Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
Abstract:: The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Eva Nightingale

Creator:: Chernik, Abra Fortune
Abstract:: Eva Nightingale, an original screenplay, is a retelling of the Garden of Eden myth set in modern times and seen from Eve's point of view. The script centers on life after Eden, life after trespass and loss, when Eva (like Eve before her) must choose between despair and hope, self-destruction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Environment, symbolism, and changing gender roles in Oregon's Santiam Canyon

Creator:: Gilden, Jennifer
Abstract:: In the early 1990s, a cutback in harvestable timber led to economic stress among the families and communities of Oregon's Santiam Canyon. This ethnographic study uses symbolic anthropology and cultural ecology to examine the changing relationships among the timber industry, timber communities, and gender roles. Timber-dependent economies have always struggled...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Empire and other stories

Creator:: Gelper, Cynthia H.
Abstract:: This is a collection of eight short stories, all of which deal on some level with alienation and the struggle to find meaning in one's life. Although most of the stories deal with issues related to women or feature female protagonists, I did not set out to create a political...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Effect of vitamin B-6 status on Selenium metabolism in the rat

Creator:: Beilstein, Michael A.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Duty and vice : the daily life of a Fort Hoskins soldier

Creator:: Schablitsky, Julie M.
Abstract:: Fort Hoskins, located in Kings Valley, Oregon, was established in 1856 as one of three forts to monitor the newly created Coastal Indian Reservation. Companies U and F of the 4th Infantry were assigned to Fort Hoskins until 1861 when they were transferred to the East with the outbreak of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Development and testing of a data collection instrument for boys' clothing 1867-1910 : an Oregon photographic study

Creator:: Gallett, Kelly S.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to develop and test a data collection instrument that would facilitate description of the clothing of Oregon school boys 1867-1910. In addition, the researcher attempted to describe Oregon school-aged boys' clothing and determine if fashion changes occurred in Oregon boys' clothing. The researcher also...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Defining oppression, demanding childhood : the vision and work of an Indian social action group

Creator:: Henderson, Laura A.
Abstract:: Mukti Ashram is a rehabilitation center in north India that works with ex-child laborer boys. Fieldwork completed at the ashram in 1997-98 centered around the issue of the organization's attempt to enact social change through the engineering of community within the ashram's walls. Several fundamental processes that contribute to this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Countering the subjugation of Indian women : strategies for adaptation and change

Creator:: Moyer, Dawn J.
Abstract:: This thesis outlines dominant ideologies and practices that affect women's authority in the urban social milieu of north India. Theories that consider the causes of social stratification by gender as well as social movement patterns are useful for understanding the durability of gender roles. The utility of these theories for...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Counterfeit arcadias : Nathaniel Hawthorne's materialist response to the culture of reform

Creator:: White, Andrew
Abstract:: Nathaniel Hawthorne lived and wrote in an age of reform efforts, and the progressive movement with which he was most familiar was Transcendentalism. However, he was not sympathetic with Emerson's idealism, a sentiment which comes out in his fiction in way of critique. Throughout Hawthorne's work there is an emphasis...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Composing ourselves : women's use of personal journals for freedom, creativity and autobiography

Creator:: Perkins, Audrey L.
Abstract:: Scholars are ushering autobiographical writing of all kinds into the world of literary and scholarly writing: in course titles and syllabi, in academic journals and on bookshelves, autobiographical writing is flourishing. People's real stories offer insights into how people really live and view this life. They offer perspectives which necessarily...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Circles in the sand

Creator:: Amsk, Allyn W.
Abstract:: The creative writing project Circles in the Sand began as a collection of interrelated short stories but is now the three opening chapters of a novel, a chapter and an early draft of what was originally the ending to a novella, and one short story. The landscape is the upper...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Chazzonos

Creator:: Rockler, Lyle
Abstract:: Chazzonos, as presented here for my thesis, represents three chapters of what will be a novel of the same name. Chazzonos is about Hal Perlmutter, a cantor, who at the outset of the novel, is resigning his position of twenty years. The novel progresses as Hal decides where he will...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Caught between two spheres : the relationship of Charles Dickens' street people to the Victorian concept of home

Creator:: Wylie, Lynne S.
Abstract:: Nineteenth-century England witnessed burgeoning urban growth and the resultant struggle of the poor to find adequate shelter. Against this backdrop, Charles Dickens was a fierce advocate for the rights of the street people of London to have sanitary and adequate housing, earning him the title of radical. By combining sentimentality...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Byron, Don Juan, and catharsis

Creator:: Greene, Wanda S.
Abstract:: This thesis seeks to explain how Lord George Gordon Byron achieves catharsis through the writing of his truth in Don Juan. In the poem the narrator expresses Byron's innermost emotion while at the same time the protagonist, Juan, relates to readers on a more conscious level. The ability that Byron...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Artificial intelligence and cyberpunk

Creator:: Scott, Ron
Abstract:: This thesis examines the ways in which cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series of relationships predicated on the way that corporate control of knowledge industries increased during the 1980s. The document begins by locating the means of corporate control in the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

An observation of the history and discrimination of the Buraku in modern day Japan

Creator:: Kawano, Mika
Abstract:: The Buraku people have been segregated, oppressed, and discriminated against throughout Japanese history. The Japanese can dismiss the Buraku issue because of assimilation theories, the belief in homogeneity, and passive attitudes by the Buraku people. The Buraku Liberation League (BLL), which has fought for equal rights on behalf of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

An exploration of people, culture and work organization across cultures : theoretical framework and case studies

Creator:: Heim, Erik A.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

An Ethnography of Mexican Migrants in Corvallis, Oregon : Linguistic and Social Isolation

Creator:: McArdle, Theresa M.
Abstract:: Reflecting an effort to broaden the scope of research concerning Mexican migration, this thesis describes the experiences of monolingual Spanish-speaking Mexican migrants in Corvallis, Oregon and explores the roles of language and culture in shaping these migrants' experiences. Data were collected through intensive participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Migrants arrive...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

An analysis of social relationships at a development site in Kenya

Creator:: Burke, Deborah A.
Abstract:: Both development and post-structuralist anthropologists have critiqued development. Development anthropologists are concerned that development does not take adequate account of the social and cultural factors of developing nations, while post structuralists question the ontology of development and assert that domination over developing nations is inherent in the concept of development....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Aliens and academics : how cultural representations of alien abduction support an entrenched consensus reality

Creator:: Bryan, Frederick Clark
Abstract:: The alien abduction phenomenon has garnered considerable media attention in the last fifteen years, including many representations in books, film, and television. An overview of significant abduction literature is presented. Contrasts and comparisons are noted between popular written accounts and both the visual representations they engender and reports outside the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

AIDS and Adolescents : perspectives by gender and class on sexual and drugs behavior

Creator:: Thianthai, Chulanee
Abstract:: Much-needed research on Thai adolescents (age 15-19), the fastest growing group of AIDS victims in Thailand, this study differentiates risk behavior among classes, unlike most AIDS research in Thai society, and focuses on how gender and economic factors among adolescents influence their risk-behavior patterns leading to the contraction of HIV/AIDS....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A second look at Alexander Pope and Newtonian science

Creator:: Reid, Tim S.
Abstract:: "This Long Disease, My Life": Alexander Pope and the Sciences by Marjorie Nicolson and G.S. Rousseau has been the standard work on Alexander Pope and Newtonian science ever since it was published in 1968. Literary scholars and biographers continue to be swayed by its influence. Unfortunately, the work they so...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A rhetoric of transformation : the emergence of community literacy within composition studies

Creator:: Vega-Peters, Susan T.
Abstract:: Within literacy and composition studies, writing, as a social act, is believed by many to have the potential to effect change in and transform situations of injustice. Community literacy, as an emergent practice within composition studies, embraces and stretches this notion of linking literacy to social change. Community literacy also...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A literary discourse on the evolution of gender & sexuality in the first & second waves of feminism : Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" deconstructs established gender roles as Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" reconstructs them

Creator:: Hotard, Tami
Abstract:: The two literary touchstones of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Willa Cather examined in this thesis anchored a larger discussion of the discourse about gender and sexuality during the First and Second Waves of feminism in America. "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Gilman deconstructed the notion of "femininity" manifested at the turn...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A houseboy's handbook

Creator:: Lubbock, Jay Erik
Abstract:: Past experiences have relevant truths for the present. An uncommon work and living situation from this writer's undergraduate days shows how prejudice and stereotype can be subtly arranged, and participated in, by the nature of his surroundings. This thesis explores, through the combination of related past events with an interspersed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

'That life of commonplace sacrifices' : representations of womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners

Creator:: McGrory, Suzette L.
Abstract:: Traditional interpretations of James Joyce's Dubliners have often focused on the pervasive "paralysis" of the city, covered in the stories' range of "childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life." However, these approaches have limited their focus on the women in the stories, often spotlighting the male characters--and the author--through a Freudian...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

"Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

Creator:: Hiatt, Bryan
Abstract:: Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth timber in the Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining interests, for instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64), individuals that possess very different sensibilities from a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

"'I wouldn't have believed it -- even of a white man'" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"

Creator:: Franks, Tricia May
Abstract:: In their respective novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and Passing (1929), both Charles Chesnutt and Nella Larsen utilize racial passing, the process of a mixed-race individual living as "white," to explore the relations between black and white people during early-twentieth century America. This thesis specifically argues that Chesnutt...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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