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Creator:: Bryan, Frederick Clark
Abstract:: The alien abduction phenomenon has garnered considerable media attention in the last fifteen years, including many representations in books, film, and television. An overview of significant abduction literature is presented. Contrasts and comparisons are noted between popular written accounts and both the visual representations they engender and reports outside the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: kind of being. This one was approximately six foot two inches tall, very muscular, with blondish brown

Creator:: Knotts, L. William
Abstract:: In a story of his life Les reflects on what he has gained and what he has lost while seeking success in the moving and shifting of military and academic life through homes and schools all over the United States. He describes himself as between races, languages, and cultures.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (with the pot of water which had originated there) and part way down the tramped- down brown Texas

Creator:: Coneybeer, Jane K.
Abstract:: The National Pygmy Goat Association is a hobby livestock organization founded in 1975. Over the past five decades, it has grown in size and importance, occupying a niche role as the primary breed registry and certification authority for the smallest domestic ruminant. This history attempts to capture the scope of...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis

Creator:: Duerst, Gretchen
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: from school together. She had long brown hair and big, wet eyes, and hardly said a word when we played

Creator:: Loshbaugh, Robert B.
Abstract:: This thesis is a work of literary non-fiction. It is divided into six sections. The first, "A Sense of Place," and the last, "Pulling a Geographical," are collage essays which establish and then reiterate major themes in the work: movement, work, geography, climate, people, and education--some curricular, some not. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: cinnamon, the brown sugar, the oodles of raisins; roll the whole mess up like a sleeping bag and slice off

Creator:: Cook, Molly Larson
Abstract:: This thesis comprises a collection of six short stories written and developed in the Creative Writing program at Oregon State University and particularly in fiction workshops with Dr. Tracy Daugherty and Marjorie Sandor. These stories explore the human condition, and human connections, in contemporary society. The characters here are ordinary...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: by sheer granite. The brown carpet is as drab as she remembers from the day they first looked at it

Creator:: Oberst, Gail D.
Abstract:: The 13 personal essays in Water over Stones: Oregon Watershed Stories explore the author's experiences in dozens of Oregon watersheds. Using the genre of the personal essay, the author, a fifth-generation Oregonian and amateur ecologist, writes about her life and family relationships in stories that are saturated with the waters...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Iowa-born, San Francisco Bay-area- raised handsome man with long lashes, dark brown eyes, a deep voice

Creator:: Steuben, Marieke L.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the nature of publishing as a political endeavor through a detailed investigation of the feminist publishing movement in the U.S. since the 1970s. Feminist publishers emerged from an activist context of feminist struggle, and they evolved within changing political and social climates, facing ideological and economic challenges...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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