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  • Weaving Walt : A rhetorical exploration of narrative techniques within Walt: The Man Behind the Myth

    Creator:
    Seuser, Christina N.
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    The Disney Company is an inescapable force in American life that is often detached from the stigma of big business and instead viewed as something particularly valuable, the United States’ foremost storyteller. In addition to the stories that the Disney Company produces through its animated and live-action productions, there is...
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    analysis of the documentary that is influenced by the works of Fisher (1987), Barthes (1966) and

  • Iroquois of the Pacific Northwest fur trade : their archaeology and history

    Creator:
    Jameson, Jennifer E.
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    During the early 19th Century, the fur trade brought many Iroquois to the Pacific Northwest as working primarily as voyageurs for the North West Company. When the North West Company merged with the Hudson's Bay Company, the Iroquois employees merged as well. After retirement, some settled in the Willamette Valley...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

    Creator:
    Boulware, Brooke L.
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    A cultural landscape analysis of two historic cemeteries in St. Paul, Oregon demonstrates that the residents of this early community were unknowingly using grave markers to express their worldview and the identities that they felt were most important. Because of the historical and cultural development of this community as the...
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    over a larger geographical region. An early example of this type of work is Price (1966). Analyzing

  • 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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    appliances and devices, as explained by Ann Oakley (1974) in Housewife, they also caused as much, if not

  • Ku on the Columbia : Hawaiian laborers in the Pacific Northwest Fur Industry

    Creator:
    Rogers, Donnell J.
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    Archaeological investigations can reveal persistent traditions of ethnic groups. Hawaiians were employed in the fur trade of the Columbia River from 1810 through 1850. The Hudson's Bay Company employed them at Ft. Vancouver, Washington from 1825 through the end of this period. Data from the excavations of the servant's village...
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    and material culture of the commercial enterprise (e.g. Caywood 1948, 1953; Larabee 1966