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  • The problems [of Paul Ricoeur's symbols] of evil

    Creator:
    Ritenour, Karen E.
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    In the early part of his philosophical career, Paul Ricoeur worked out a general theory of symbols which he illustrated with the symbols of evil. He subsequently explained this theory in several essays (his final major statement on symbols can be found in Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of...
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    More than anyone else, I am deeply indebted to Professor Richard Daniels for his help in guiding me

  • Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

    Creator:
    Burke, Erik P.
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    Reinhabitation is an approach to building local cultures and economies within industrial society. The food system is a vital starting point. What are the principles of reinhabitory food systems? What are the possibilities for a locally adapted food system in the Marys River region of western Oregon? I describe past...
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    the region. AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Erik P. Burke for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied

  • Opposing worldviews : Cuicatec values of cultural and natural resources in a western paradigm

    Creator:
    Hearn, Kyle P.
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    Both conflicts and new identities result when indigenous' traditional values of landscape and resource management are superimposed with federal governments' management of archaeological and forest resources in federally designated protected areas. This thesis examines the relationship and discourse between two Cuicatec towns in Oaxaca, Mexico and three Mexican government agencies...
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    OF Kyle P. Hearn for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on June 8

  • Claire Lies and other stories

    Creator:
    Rosenberg, Valerie P.
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    The five short stories included in this thesis depict characters who struggle as they try to balance their responsibilities to each other, and their own independent desires. Whether those desires include personal freedom, another relationship, or self-protection, these characters are at least minimally aware that obtaining what they most want...
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    Valerie P. Rosenberg for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 22, 2000. Title

  • Oregon Health & Science University's understanding of cultural competency

    Creator:
    Racansky, Pamela A.
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    The United States population continues to increase and diversify. The cultural composition within the United States embodies a multitude of people from a variety of belief systems, religious backgrounds, and ethnicities. Within current biomedical practice, many of these differences are often marginalized, leaving populations with unsatisfactory experiences in seeking health...
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    my committee members br. Sunil Khanna, br. Judy Bowen, br. Loni Roberts and br. Richard Mitchell for

  • Advocacy travel, creating social and ideological change : a comparison of travelers to Cuba and Chiapas

    Creator:
    Donckers, Jana L.
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    As a result of academic research into the effects of mass travel, an industry of alternative tourism has emerged. Application of this research has resulted in myriad forms of tourism, two of these being ecotourism and educational travel. Ecotourism represents a response to what is the destructive nature of the...
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    thank Dr. Courtland Smith and Dr. Joan Gross of the Anthropology Department, Dr. Richard Clinton of the

  • 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

    Creator:
    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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    . Ede, and Dr. Anita P. Helle. Each of you has inspired me to reach your great standards of

  • Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

    Creator:
    Schefke, Brian R.
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    Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented power and prestige. The wartime alliance with the Soviet Union quickly collapsed amid mutual suspicion and fear, however, resulting in the Cold War. Science was a significant political component in that ideological conflict. In the United States, inspired by Franklin D....
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    Richard M. Weaver, the economist Friednch A. Hayek, and others attempted to criticize scientism, but

  • Scenes of language

    Creator:
    Duerst, Gretchen
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    In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when I wanted to draw people closer with language, but was unsuccessful. In the twelve stories, I discuss these issues in my interpersonal communication interwoven...
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    my father Jon and brother Joe for their support, love, and artistic inspiration; And to Richard for

  • Identical confusion : the history of twin studies on sexual orientation, 1952-1973

    Creator:
    Boltseridge, Nathan H.
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    In 1952, at the height of the McCarthy era, Franz Kallmann, a Jewish psychiatrist and eugenicist who fled the National Socialist regime in Germany, published a study, in which he claimed to have found a one hundred percent concordance rate for homosexuality among forty pairs of identical twins. From this...
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    Psychiatric Association 1952, p. 38. 2 For more on early treatments of homosexuality see Katz 1991, pp. 129