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  • The Clerk’s Tale : literal monstrosities and allegorical problems

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    Brock, Christopher J.
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    My thesis, entitled “The Clerk’s Tale: Literal Monstrosities and Allegorical Problems,” argues that Chaucer’s Clerk is engaging both sides of a binary system. The Clerk has situated himself in a precarious position between two major schools of thought in the medieval culture, Franciscan and Dominican; the former promotes the will...
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    THESIS OF Christopher James Brock for the degree of Master of Arts in English, presented on June 4

  • Computer and internet usage in rural clubs : are members digitally divided?

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    Cassell, Christopher J.
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    Lower rates of computer adoption and usage in rural areas has been called a "digital divide." This work explores the current state of connectivity within a rural town of the Pacific Northwest with a quantitative and qualitative overview of computer usage and access within civic and activity clubs, ranging from...
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    activities. © Copyright by Christopher J. Cassell july 29, 2002 All Rights Reserved Computer and

  • Modern music and cultural identity in Corsica

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    Baldridge, Christopher M.
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    Music is one of the most important aspects of cultural identity in Corsica. Rooted in ancient history and revitalized in the revolutionary political climate of the 1960s and 70s, its popular choral form--the paghjella--has come to define modern music upon the island. Music, like language, has the ability to communicate...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher M. Baidridge for the

  • Local resilience, canola cropping, and biodiesel production

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    Bates, Christopher Allen
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    New technology may have negative, as well as positive, effects on a sociocultural system. Biodiesel is growing in popularity as a fuel alternative that addresses global warming and reduces dependency on petroleum. The biodiesel innovation fits well into the existing behavioral infrastructure of Linn and Benton Counties, Oregon. The introduction...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher Allen Bates for the

  • Fighting tradition : Hemingway’s Nick Adams and shell shock

    Creator:
    McGrath, Cole P.
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    In his Nick Adams stories, Ernest Hemingway traces the life of a single man as he moves from boyhood to adolescence to adulthood to fatherhood. From the beginning of Nick Adam’s life, it is clear that he does not fit into the role of the traditional hero. In addition, Nick...
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    helped shape the conversation regarding Hemingway and Nick Adams. As Christopher Schedler put it in his

  • Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels

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    Bacon, Julie M.
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    This thesis is arranged in three chapters which explore Wharton’s representations of nature in three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), and The Custom of the County (1913). This thesis contends that Wharton’s novels reveal changes in the interplay between representations of nature and...
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    overtones, were produced both in Europe and America. One French manuscript by J. J. Grandville, entitled

  • Reproductive decision-making in young women breast cancer survivors

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    Everson, Courtney Louise
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    The purpose of this study is to use an integrated biocultural perspective to examine the decision-making processes of young survivors as they navigate breast cancer treatment and reproductive health care options. This retrospective study utilizes a mixed-methods approach that integrates quantitative survey data (Phase I) with interview (Phase II) and...
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    Cancer Survivors Abstract approved: Melissa J. Cheyney The purpose of

  • Anthropological case studies of religious syncretism in Bolivia

    Creator:
    Lord, Jonathan
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    Religious histories have always appropriated pre-existing symbol systems of religion into newer forms, often with the goal in mind to acculturate a population into a new cultural setting to reach a desired status quo of society. The problem with acculturation theory is that it is filled with teleological and quantitative...
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  • From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

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    Breeden, Shobana L.
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    This thesis uses both feminist and new historic theories to argue that the women's romance novels The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen and The Country Girl's Trilogy (1960, 1962, 1964) by Edna O'Brien are tragic bildungsroman that subvert and challenge the Irish patriarchal marriage expectations of their respective time...
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    Mike of J. M. Synge's ''Playboy of the Western World.” O’Brien marks the literary fluctuation

  • "They called me the hyacinth girl" : T. S. Eliot, masculinity, and the Great War

    Creator:
    Query, Patrick
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    This thesis traces the relationship between the First World War, constructions of masculinity, and the life and poetry of T.S. Eliot. Central to this relationship is a study of homoeroticism, which the author characterizes as different from homosexuality but not exclusive of it, in late 19th and early 20th century...
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    , The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock which was published only shortly after the composition of