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  • Fortunate son

    Creator:
    Bernard, Sean
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    The narrator of Fortunate Son is Jake, a 21 year-old who has recently arrived in Tucson, Arizona, after the death of his mother. He's spent his entire life on the road with his mother, possibly followed and antagonized by his father, whom Jake has never seen. He has come to...
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    with his only relative (aside from his father), a great-aunt Rosie, the owner of a trailer park. Jake

  • From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

    Creator:
    Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
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    The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
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    Mansfield Park, several relationships demonstrate the different ways a dissociation and relocation can

  • Chrysalis

    Creator:
    Harrison, S. S.
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    A creative work of literary fiction, Chrysalis is the story of Rachelle Long: a young woman who struggles to find her identity in a world marked by changing (and often, conflicting) ideas regarding sexuality, economics, gender roles and relations, and individual rights. Just one year into the workforce following her...
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    college, she already feels burned-out from an ill- fated career in social work -- but soon discovers that

  • Of mice and bunnies : Walt Disney, Hugh Hefner, and the age of consensus

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    Allen-Spencer, Patricia C.
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    Post World War II victory culture and its fallout-the consensus ideology-led to the creation of a middle class willing to conform to a prescribed set of ideals, safely removed from all danger, and enjoying the material benefits of a growing middle-class income bracket. Walt Disney and Hugh Hefner, two seemingly...
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    provided diversity, yet his theme park quickly began to reinforce societal conformity. Cultural critic

  • Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

    Creator:
    Drury, Adam Marshall
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    Asynthesis & Act is a significant intervention into the discourse of the sublime. Through a deep investigation of the critical metaphysics of Immanuel Kant, the first chapter of this thesis puts forth the claim that the sublime is a radical experience that occasions a possibility for the individual to commit...
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  • The Andy Stories

    Creator:
    Henkel, William B.
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    The four stories within, "Jim of India," "Shooting the Breeze," "Bridge," and "Point Reyes," are part of a longer work in progress, tentatively titled The Andy Stories. The stories follow Andy, a woman in her 50s, on a voyage across the continent and into herself. Of these, all are written...
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    face first into bed, Gert's comforter, only one pillow. Soon after, Gert was gone, Jim was still

  • Scripts and Minoritarian Subjectivity: Examining Ambivalence and Asian Diasporas in Kim Jee-woon’s The Good, The Bad, The Weird, Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy, and R. Zamora Linmark’s Rolling the R’s

    Creator:
    Son, Rachana C.
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    This thesis explores the roles of scripts in shaping minoritarian subjectivity through Kim Jee-woon’s film The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008), Kim Fu’s novel For Today I Am a Boy (2014), and R. Zamora Linmark’s novel Rolling the R’s (1995). In all three works, diasporic characters of Asian descent...
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    spaghetti western The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. This film features three Korean exiles, Park Do-won

  • To mend the walls of Babel : essays on identity and ethnicity

    Creator:
    Inoue, Asao B.
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    In this thesis, I explore experiences with my identity, looking at the identity people have seen me as, who I've thought I was, and the identities my mother's and father's different family backgrounds suggest I should be. I have divided this discussion into three main areas: my complexion, the first...
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    small salary. The only thing I remember about it was a large park across the street, and beyond it our

  • Omen of Mere Event : Vignettes in a Post-Wilderness Landscape

    Creator:
    Schultz, Aaron A.
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    This thesis uses a series of non-fiction vignettes to explore objects, agencies, and networks, applying theories of rhetoric and composition directly to experience and vise versa. Focusing on agency--as understood through sociology's actor-networks, post- humanism’s Object Orientated Ontology, and Ecocriticism's ecological approach--I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have...
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    education at OSU and I’ll soon discover if it is effective. However, I am also curious about how this work

  • Time to listen : an annotated bibliography of environmental readings, featuring Oregon writers, for middle school and high school students

    Creator:
    Crateau, Carole Ann
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    The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to guide middle school and high school students into critical thinking about environmental issues. Through keen observation of their bioregion and through an integration of interdisciplinary literature which focuses on Oregon writers, students will be challenged to think, write, and discuss current issues...
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    principle of civilization itself" (169). As a seasonal park ranger at Arches National Monument in