This collection of personal essays, inspired by Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory, raises questions about the separation that becomes apparent through writing, education, and transitions between class. The author uses her personal experience of writing in, and attending a private university to explore the interactions of class, literacy, and education....
My thesis explains the several problems that arise when a person from a Western English speaking country goes to work as an English teacher at private institutes in South Korea. It is based on my own experiences when I worked as an English teacher at private institutes in South Korea...
The perception of the self as a sexual being is challenged by the
experience of pregnancy. Included in the experience of pregnancy are
issues with perceptions of the self, body image, transition into
motherhood, and reconciliation of the self as a sexual being during
pregnancy. Through a review of the...
Habitat loss causes a reduction in available resources for wildlife, alters the configuration of remaining habitat, and may isolate wildlife populations. White-breasted nuthatches (Sitta carolinensis) are experiencing long-term population declines in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, where they are historically associated with oak woodlands. As secondary cavity-nesters, white-breasted nuthatches may...
We have developed a framework for Web-based GIS/database (WebGD) applications
that allow users to insert, query, and delete data with map interfaces displayed by Web
browsers. The framework uses such open source software packages as Minnesota
MapServer, PostGIS, and PostgreSQL. With this framework, we can create the map
interface of...
Runoff from agricultural lands into Upper Klamath Basin rivers and lakes can
cause water quality problems affecting fish and wildlife. Excessive eutrophication
in Upper Klamath Lake is linked to high nutrient input (particularly phosphorus)
stemming from both lake sediments and watershed tributaries.
On a unit area load basis the Wood...
In deciduous species, water exits stems mainly through leaf traces
attached to the outer growth ring and yet we know that water ascends
throughout the entire cross-section of the sapwood. There is an increasing
amount of information on sap flow and sapwood hydraulic properties from
separate studies, but little information...
Many studies have looked at human settlements around individual volcanoes for
volcanic risk analyses, but few have done a comparative study to identify possible global
patterns. With the use of Landsat ETM+ data, this study identifies and compares urban
proximity to the Decade Volcanoes to identify volcanic settlement patterns. These...
With an increasing number of wireless applications at microwave frequencies, the frequency spectrum is becoming quite crowded. Due to this congestion, the current state of technology is leading towards upper microwave and millimeter wave spectra as they also offer other distinct advantages such as larger bandwidth and smaller component footprint....
The Normalized Burn Ratio and Composite Burn Index were used to classify burn severity in three sites that experienced lightning-ignited wildfire in the year 2000. The effect of burn severity (unburned, low, moderate, and high severity classes) was investigated on vegetation and soil microbial community composition. Vegetation communities showed a...