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

    Creator:
    Inoue, Asao B.
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    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...
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    approved: Wayne C. Anderson In this thesis, I explore experiences with my identity, looking at the

  • Nature and culture in two Pacific Northwest timber-dependent communities

    Creator:
    Six, Amanda
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    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...
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    Courtland L. Smith Timber-dependent, rural communities in the Pacific Northwest face dramatic economic

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

    Creator:
    Finley, Devon
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    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...
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    behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. - Anne

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

    Creator:
    Vega-Peters, Susan T.
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    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...
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    listened to Anne Ruggles Gere speak at the Oregon Conference on Rhetoric and Composition about the

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

    Creator:
    Sumii, Kensuke
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    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...
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    . C Copyright by Kensuke Sumii December 9, 1997 All Rights Reserved The Body of A Patient

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

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    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    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...
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    eggs, &c. And I am happy to observe some of these titles in the syllabus of your lecture. I hope you

  • 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...
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    their ignorance, and c) contributing to the inhibition of reporting. . . In the third and final stage

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

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    Madden-Bethune, Gwyn D.
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    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...
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    Questionnaire Informed .......................... 129 Consent Letter Appendix C: Research Interview Informed

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

    Creator:
    Thianthai, Chulanee
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    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....
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    Appendix B Questionnaire 2 159 Appendix C Questionnaire 3 161 LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 1

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

    Creator:
    Smith-Nolan, Mary K.
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    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...
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    120 Appendix B: Announcements of Red Cedar Circle Events 122 Appendix C: The Red Cedar Bark 127