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

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    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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    literacy within composition studies AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Susan T. Vega-Peters for the degree of

  • Hamlet's delay : an attempt at synthesis

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    Cohen, Martin, 1943-
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    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...
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    literary critics) is: Why does Hamlet delay?" (164). Edmund Wilson declares, "The problem of delay is a

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

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    Johnston, Candace G.
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    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...
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    directly 14 participate in American life except in the economic sense. Samuel (1984) and Bernard (1977

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

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    White, Andrew
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    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...
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    articulated in his "Letter to the Church at Purchase Street" (1840): "[T]tle true followers of Jesus are a

  • The fractal structure of surface water waves near breaking

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    Munzenmayer, Katja
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    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...
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    at t = 1 43 15. Wave for t = 0 to t = 3 46 16. Wave for t = 0 to t = 10 46 17. Solution of ut uux

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

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    Gregory, Ronald L.
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    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...
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  • A second look at Alexander Pope and Newtonian science

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    Reid, Tim S.
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    "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...
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    was the position that Samuel Clarke defended in his famous correspondence with Wilhelm Leibniz

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

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    Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
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    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....
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    commonly portray males desiring delicate, and most often sickly, females. For example, Samuel

  • Site ORBE2 : an archaeological analysis of a construction disturbed site

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    Cromwell, Robert J.
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    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...
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    E______________ 1XIj DI xl ____________ lix__I [T BOARD RM2X H I lrJJ 1j [115 IDxl xJ_ 2X'A IIii D II

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

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    Krause, Elizabeth L.
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    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,...
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    NIPUSUC OF THE MAESNAI.L ISLANOS QP so - N. 'N -T 'N N -. N - N"' N N "F" / / OF MICRONLSIA I