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Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul, Oregon, 1844-1852

Creator:: Poet, Rebecca McClelland
Abstract:: In 1986, researchers from Oregon State University, led by Dr. David Brauner, came to the small Catholic community of St. Paul, Oregon as part of ongoing research on the French-Canadian inhabitants of the Willamette Valley between 1829 and the mid-1860s. They were searching for the remains of the first Catholic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul

President Clinton's health care rhetoric : the role of anecdotal evidence in promoting identification

Creator:: Dahl, Nicholas D.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to illuminate the presence and rhetorical effect of anecdotes in President Clinton's major health care address. It is the health care debate that shows most clearly how Clinton tries to direct a multi-level campaign that attempts to identify his interests (passage of the Health...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Anectdotal Evidence in Promoting Identification AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nicholas D. Dahl for the

Irreconcilable differences : modernist representations of class and gender in the early work (1911-1936) of Rebecca West

Creator:: Pence, Peggy D.
Abstract:: This thesis on Rebecca West's writing (1911-1936) addresses the relationship between her polemical essays and her fiction, exploring modernist representations of class and gender differences and conflicts. West expresses a view of gender and class relations in early twentieth century Great Britain that is based on opposed and dichotomous pairs...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Peggy D. Pence for the

Environmental Regulations Reconsidered : Identifying Incentives and Barriers to Environmental Performance

Creator:: Craig, Kathleen D.
Abstract:: Attention has been drawn to the observation that environmental benefits under the current regulatory approaches are diminishing with respect to increased pollution control costs. Regulators have begun to appreciate that while environmental gains can still be achieved under the current command and control system, the most significant environmental gains have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: incentives and barriers to environmental performance AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kathleen D. Craig for

Brenda Ueland : Early Feminist and Writing Theorist

Creator:: Firmin, Mary Ann
Abstract:: Brenda Ueland is a writer whose most noted work is a book which explains her theory about how to write. She also published an autobiography and a co11ection of essays as well as achieving some notoriety as a magazine writer to the twenties and thirties. Ueland's writing theory is based...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Archaeological investigation and technological analysis of the Quartz Mountain Obsidian Quarry, central Oregon

Creator:: Hatch, John B.
Abstract:: The Quartz Mountain Obsidian Quarry is located in the Southeast corner of the Bend Fort Rock Ranger District in central Oregon, approximately forty-five miles southeast of Bend, Oregon. The research of the Quartz Mountain Obsidian Quarry began with a literature search of other quarry sites in the area and the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: May 13, 1998 Commencement June 1998 Masters d Arigjilinterslisciplinatyltags thesis of John B

The Works Progress Administration in Oregon : An Administrative Overview

Creator:: Butcher, Karyle S.
Abstract:: The depression of the 1930s had an early effect on the state of Oregon. A decline in timber and agricultural production resulted in severe unemployment in the late 1920s. State and local charitable organizations attempted to care for the unemployed but they did not have the financial resources to do...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Children and the communication of values through significant emotional events

Creator:: Biddle, Ronald Lon
Abstract:: This study addresses how parents communicate with their children about Significant Emotional Events (SEEs). A SEE is an experience that is so mentally engaging as to cause an individual to consider, examine, and possibly change one's initial values or value system. It examines parent's goals, concerns, and values related to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

Creator:: Streufert, Mary J.
Abstract:: Virginia Woolf was a self-proclaimed atheist, yet her fictional and personal writing reveal her ecstatic consciousness. Characters in Woolf s novels experience ecstasy, and her letters and diaries support the theory that she herself had experienced ecstatic consciousness. Major figures in the philosophy of religion assert that ecstatic consciousness is...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: sense of ultimate reality, to use theologian Paul Tillich's phrase for the sacred. This is evidenced

Transforming sectionalism to unity through narrative in John Brown Gordon's "The last days of the Confederacy"

Creator:: Acklin, David R.
Abstract:: John Brown Gordon was committed to the mission of national reconciliation. He knew that the South would have to embrace the North to repair the devastation of the Civil War. Driven by dedication to public service after the war, he worked through his positions in governmental offices to help the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , "The South as a Field for Fiction," The Forum, VI (December 1888), 404-7. In Paul M. Gaston, The New

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul, Oregon, 1844-1852

President Clinton's health care rhetoric : the role of anecdotal evidence in promoting identification

Irreconcilable differences : modernist representations of class and gender in the early work (1911-1936) of Rebecca West

Environmental Regulations Reconsidered : Identifying Incentives and Barriers to Environmental Performance

Brenda Ueland : Early Feminist and Writing Theorist

Archaeological investigation and technological analysis of the Quartz Mountain Obsidian Quarry, central Oregon

The Works Progress Administration in Oregon : An Administrative Overview

Children and the communication of values through significant emotional events

Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

Transforming sectionalism to unity through narrative in John Brown Gordon's "The last days of the Confederacy"

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