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  • Stephen Biko's Rhetorical Vision of Black Consciousness

    Creator:
    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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    Stephen Biko's rhetorical vision of black consciousness AN

  • Re-Viewing Literacy : A Language Arts Teacher's Perspective

    Creator:
    Van Develder, Pamela A.
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    A controversy regarding literacy lies at the heart of debates over the current state of American education. In response to the debate, this study reviews and analyzes the literacy theories of E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Walter Ong, Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole, Shirley Brice Heath, and Paulo Freire. The author presents...
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    Privacy Dr. Cheryl' Glenn A controversy regarding literacy lies at the heart of debates over the current

  • Time to listen : an annotated bibliography of environmental readings, featuring Oregon writers, for middle school and high school students

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    Crateau, Carole Ann
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    The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to guide middle school and high school students into critical thinking about environmental issues. Through keen observation of their bioregion and through an integration of interdisciplinary literature which focuses on Oregon writers, students will be challenged to think, write, and discuss current issues...
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    possibilities. Professor Cheryl Glenn was not only my main professor in this project but also introduced me

  • The Value of New Technology : View Toward Reassessment

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    White, Stephen J.
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    Abraham Heschel wrote that a philosopher's primary task was not merely to describe and judge the modes and facts of actual human behavior, but also to examine and understand the meaninq of those descriptions and judgements of modes and facts (Bella, 1978). Our values are critically tied to our structures...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Stephen J. White for the degree of Master of Arts in Inter

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

    Creator:
    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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    . First, thankyou to the members of my graduate committee, Dr. Cheryl Glenn, Dr. Steve Stoynoff, and

  • Teacher-Researchers in Composition Studies : Subverting Education's Political Hierarchy

    Creator:
    Hardin, Holly E.
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    This study focused on composition teachers in elementary and secondary schools who researched their own teaching practices. Specifically, it examined political implications of their work within the larger context of the education hierarchy. Central to this examination were teacher-researcher (t-r) perceptions of and interactions with other members of the education...
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    would like to thank professors Cheryl Glenn and Chris Anderson who listened to me early in the project

  • Quintilian's influence on Obadiah Walker

    Creator:
    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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    Moore, Glenn, List, Watson, and Mcllvenna. Thanks also to the Rose McGill Fund of Kappa Kappa Gamma

  • The Roles and Responsibilities of Museum Boards of Directors, and an Investigation of the Perceptions of these Roles in Small History Museums in Oregon

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    Brookhyser, Ann L.
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    For the type of museums discussed in this paper, the nonprofit organization type, the board of directors is the governing body. The board approves the policies that guide the staff in administering the museum. The relationship between the board and the staff should be one of respect and cooperation; but...
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    amending the bylaws are included. (Conrad and Glenn, 1983, 202; Ullberg, 1987, 41-47) After the initial

  • The Impact of a Relaxation Exercise on Communication, Apprehension in the Classrogm

    Creator:
    Hitchcock, Romi C.
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    The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a deep breathing and stretching exercise on communication Apprehension, Cohesiveness and Attentiveness. An empirical method was used in this study. All of the subjects involved in the study were students in beginning public speaking courses, Speech 112, at Oregon...
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    . Hitchcock Acknowledgements My most important thank you goes to my husband Glenn whose assistance

  • Oral histories concerning early electric lighting in Oregon communities

    Creator:
    Hardy, Channing C.
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    One of the greatest technological breakthroughs of humanity was the ability to construct a device and eventually a system which would provide a more efficient, safe, clean, convenient and relatively inexpensive form of illumination than ever used previously electric light. The introduction of this new technology into Oregon communities in...
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