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Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

Creator:: McLemore, Emily C.
Abstract:: This project examines two understudied female characters from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales who emerge as subversive figures by striving to maintain control over their bodies and being. Through my analyses of the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales, I reveal how virginity correlates with bodily autonomy for the narratives’ respective protagonists,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: attention, but as Carolyn Dinshaw argued in one of the first feminist studies of Chaucer, “literary

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

Creator:: Davis, Caryn M.
Abstract:: At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: _________________________________________________________ AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Caryn M. Davis for the degree of Master of Arts in

Who Are You Calling Old? Negotiating Old Age Identity in the Elderly Consumption Ensemble

Creator:: Barnhart, Michelle and Peñaloza, Lisa
Abstract:: As the elderly population increases, more family, friends, and paid service providers assist them with consumption activities in a group that the authors conceptualize as the elderly consumption ensemble (ECE). Interviews with members of eight ECEs demonstrate consumption in advanced age as a group phenomenon rather than an individual one,...
Resource Type:: Article

What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

Creator:: Anderson, Jessica
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to understand the experiences that Nahua children, in rural Mexico, have as they attend schools that are primarily influenced by formal Western education in relation to their own ways of learning and knowing. This research took place over the course of three months within...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Water Usage and Human Health: A Preliminary Study in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Creator:: Alamri, Ashwaq S.
Abstract:: Saudi Arabia is one of the most arid countries worldwide with limited surface water sources. In most areas of the country, there are no natural rivers or lakes and precipitation is unpredictable and low. The entire region is susceptible to climate change, especially considering that the country is experiencing unprecedented...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Carolyn Fonyo, the director of the Environmental Science Graduate program, for her unconditional support

Water Governance Process Assessment : Evaluating the Link between Decision Making Processes and Outcomes in the Columbia River Basin

Creator:: Ogren, Kimberly
Abstract:: Academics and practitioners agree that in water governance, the quality of a decision making process should influence the quality of the outcome and the degree to which it is accepted by interested parties. However, finding a feasible way to evaluate and then improve the quality of a decision making process...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: grandparents (Barbara Fricker and Ted and Carolyn Ogren) for their unconditional love. Whatever I needed

Vulnerability and adaptation of US shellfisheries to ocean acidification

Creator:: Ekstrom, Julia A., Suatoni, Lisa, Cooley, Sarah R., Pendleton, Linwood H., Waldbusser, George G., Cinner, Josh E., Ritter, Jessica, Langdon, Chris, van Hooidonk, Ruben, Gledhill, Dwight, Wellman, Katharine, Beck, Michael W., Brander, Luke M., Rittschof, Dan, Doherty, Carolyn, Edwards, Peter E. T., and Portela, Rosimeiry
Abstract:: Ocean acidification is a global, long-term problem whose ultimate solution requires carbon dioxide reduction at a scope and scale that will take decades to accomplish successfully. Until that is achieved, feasible and locally relevant adaptation and mitigation measures are needed. To help to prioritize societal responses to ocean acidification, we...
Resource Type:: Article

Voter Displeasure: The Role of Dislike For the Opposition In the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Creator:: Schiek, Andrew
Abstract:: One of the surprising things about the 2016 presidential election was how much each presidential candidate was disliked. In this historic election, questions about whether voters made their decisions by supporting their candidate or voting against another have arisen. Studies have been done in the past that examine which traits...
Resource Type:: Research Paper
Full Text:: 1 Bonneau, Chris W., and Damon M. Cann. "Party Identification and Vote Choice in Partisan and

Utopia and Facebook : unsettling the perception of an ideal arrangement

Creator:: Rider, Cassandra
Abstract:: Thomas More’s text, Utopia, introduces the word “utopia” in conjunction with an ideal society, prodding readers to think of “utopia” as synonymous with “ideal.” Indeed, Utopia is structured as an egalitarian and communal place, rendering it highly ideal to those wishing for equality in their own worlds. However, More overturns...
Resource Type:: Research Paper
Full Text:: . Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. EBSCO. Web. 14 Nov. 2009. Timm, Dianne M., and Carolyn J

Use Your Heart: Understanding Street-Level Discretion in the Emergency Food Network

Creator:: Precious, Cheryl L. M.
Abstract:: Hunger is among the greatest contemporary social problems in the United States. An incredible 48 million people, or 14% of households, experienced food insecurity during 2014. At the same time, public responses to food insecurity, such as the Emergency Food Assistance Program, have increasingly relied on the “emergency food network,”...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

Who Are You Calling Old? Negotiating Old Age Identity in the Elderly Consumption Ensemble

What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

Water Usage and Human Health: A Preliminary Study in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Water Governance Process Assessment : Evaluating the Link between Decision Making Processes and Outcomes in the Columbia River Basin

Vulnerability and adaptation of US shellfisheries to ocean acidification

Voter Displeasure: The Role of Dislike For the Opposition In the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Utopia and Facebook : unsettling the perception of an ideal arrangement

Use Your Heart: Understanding Street-Level Discretion in the Emergency Food Network

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