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  • “I Was That Student”: Exploring Instructor Experience of Empathy Amid Identities in the Classroom

    Creator:
    Anderson, Anna
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    This research is an exploration of empathy in the classroom from the standpoint of how instructors experience it and understand themselves to communicate it to their students, particularly students from different cultural backgrounds. The research method used was ethnographic analysis of a classroom observation and a one-hour semi-structured interview with...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Empathy Amid Identities in the Classroom AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Anna Anderson for the

  • Negotiating Social Identity within the Oregon State University Polo Club

    Creator:
    Hanna, Erika L.
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    The purpose of this study is to examine how members of the Oregon State University polo team negotiate aspects of their social identity. Over the course of the 2011-2012 school year, 15 interviews and 30 hours of observations were conducted. From the data, five overarching themes were identified: inclusion as...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : Elizabeth M. Root The purpose of this study is to examine how members of the Oregon State University

  • The Culture of Names – A Comparison between Vietnam and Denmark

    Creator:
    Ngo, Toan Tri Dung
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    This project discusses the topic of personal names and the cultures of different peoples and their particularities, specifically in Vietnam and Denmark. The first part of this paper gives a brief history of naming traditions (mostly relating to Western European traditions). The second part of the paper compares two families...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    in the U.S. Rank Males Females Males Females 1 John Mary James Mary 2 William Elizabeth John

  • Kinship, Environment and the Forest Service : Homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

    Creator:
    Prior, Jan M.
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    The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
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    Masters Thesis
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    make countless trips to Corvallis. These people are Sylvia Whitney, Ken Edwards, and Elizabeth Juker

  • Kinship, environment and the Forest Service : homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

    Creator:
    Prior, Jan M.
    Abstract:
    The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    make countless trips to Corvallis. These people are Sylvia Whitney, Ken Edwards, and Elizabeth Juker

  • Zooarchaeologjcal and Taphonomic Investigations of Site 35JA42, Upper Applegate River, Southwestern Oregon

    Creator:
    Schmitt, Dave N.
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    Site 35JA42 represents the first protohistoric village complex excavated in Southwest Oregon. Analyses of animal bones recovered from the site offer the first significant insights into human subsistence behaviors in this region. Although the faunal assemblage is extremely fragmented, detailed zooarchaeological analysis indicates that deer were the primary meat resource...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

    Creator:
    Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.
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    Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor population are hypothetically...
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    Masters Thesis

  • An evaluation of the archaeological potential of Riverfront Park in Corvallis, Oregon

    Creator:
    Littlefield, Steven W.
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    The archaeological resources contained in Corvallis Riverfront Commemorative Park (RCP) have a great potential to add to the historical record of the warehouse district of the original town of Marysville (Corvallis). The City of Corvallis' proposed Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) project and proposed changes to Riverfront Commemorative Park threaten to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . A sincere appreciation to Elizabeth Nielsen of the OSU archives and the many archivists that have

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    ’ ..................................................................................................... 66 Figure 28 – Miles and Anna McDonald grave marker, including the inscription ‘1847 Pioneers

  • Willamette Mission Archeological Project : Phase III Assessment

    Creator:
    Weber, Mary K. (Mary Kathryn)
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    The Willamette Mission archeological project consists of a broad program of cultural research in the fields of archeology, history, and architecture. The study focuses on the first Methodist mission in the Pacific Northwest. Archeological excavations were conducted in 1980 to locate the site of the mission, to assess the site's...
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    Masters Thesis
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    reinforcement of missionary personnel, requested by Lee, arrived at the mission in May 1837. Anna Maria