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  • Stephen Biko's Rhetorical Vision of Black Consciousness

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    Fergusson, Julie K.
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    Stephen Biko was a black leader in South Africa who died in police custody on September 12, 1977. Biko's death echoed within the Republic of South Africa and around the world, showing that racial tensions in that country were severe. At his death he was a hero to the black...
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    themes, I argue, emerge from a study of his rhetoric. They are Black Humanity, Black Unity, Black

  • Peavy Arboretum : an archaeological and historical investigation of a Willamette Valley landscape

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    Hylton, Lindon B.
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    This thesis documents a period of ecological and cultural change on a Willamette Valley, Oregon landscape. In particular, this study examines the Peavy Arboretum area and the cultural changes that accompanied the transformation of the landscape from an oak savannah in the mid-nineteenth century to a dense Douglas-fir forest in...
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    industry personnel, and Euro-American settlers. As a student of history and archaeology, I have used a

  • Brenda Ueland : Early Feminist and Writing Theorist

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    Firmin, Mary Ann
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    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...
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    came from Norway to Minnesota when he was eighteen. Andreas' father, Ole Gabriel Ueland, a farmer and

  • Differential Processing of Emotionally Laden Cues in Adult Children of Alcoholics and Controls

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    Zimmerman, Anne H.
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    The primary purpose of the present study was to investigate a specific area of cognitive functioning to determine if any differences exist between adult children of alcoholics and controls in the processing of emotionally laden word cues. Of secondary importance was the investigation of group differences in self-esteem, extroversion, neuroticism,...
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    Controls Abstract approved: I Redacted for Privacy Donna Cruse The primary purpose of the present study

  • Chrysalis

    Creator:
    Harrison, S. S.
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    A creative work of literary fiction, Chrysalis is the story of Rachelle Long: a young woman who struggles to find her identity in a world marked by changing (and often, conflicting) ideas regarding sexuality, economics, gender roles and relations, and individual rights. Just one year into the workforce following her...
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    Department of English Dean of Gra ate School I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent

  • The Consequences of Infelicity : The Effects of Unhappiness on Biological and Social Evolution

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    Martinez, Jorge R.
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    In social and biological evolution, infelicity can operate as a driving motor to force change. In this essay, for life other than human, infelicity is equated with physical unfitness to compete for the resources of a specific niche. For humanity it is defined as the result of an incongruity between...
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    BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL EVOLUTION INTRODUCTION I will proceed with my history, telling the story as I go

  • Cultural differences and business interaction : an analysis of conflicts between Chinese and American ways of life

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    Chen, Yuejian, 1958-
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    This study uses an anthropological perspective to discuss the cultural differences between Chinese and Americans in business contexts. Through an analysis of case studies related by businesspersons involved in Sino-US trade, and by an analysis of literature on the subject, it describes how cultural differences contribute to the problems and...
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    United States. Regretfully, it is impossible to acknowledge them all here. I can only single a few out

  • Form Fits Content in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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    Hogan, James Joseph
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    In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce used the form or structure of his language to connote a meaning which supported the content of the text. The elements of form he used most often were sentence and paragraph structure, punctuation, rhythm, and classical rhetorical schemes....
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    April 26, 1995 Commencement June 1995 Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies thesis of lames I

  • The decision to pursue education in an Oregon community college : a study of Latino credit and non-credit students

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    Daniels, Rachelle E.
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    A historical overview of Latino enrollment in the community college is resented. Thirty Latino occupational, transfer, and non-credit students attending an Oregon college were interviewed, examining educational and familial background, and college services as indicators of their decision to pursue postsecondary studies at the two-year institution. Results are analyzed, supplemented...
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    research on which it is based, many people provided assistance. I am especially appreciative to the

  • Quintilian's influence on Obadiah Walker

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    O'Rourke, Kathryn Ann
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    The nature and extent of classical rhetoric's influence on subsequent ages has been the focus of much recent study. Scholars have been concerned with how classical authors, particularly Cicero and Quintilian, emerged in educational and rhetorical theories of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and later centuries. Despite this flurry of...
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    Dean of Gduate School I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent collection of