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  • “A Fool For His Client:” Religion, Law, and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century America

    Creator:
    Reck, Logan A.
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    When Charles Guiteau killed U.S. President James Garfield, he claimed that God had ordered him to do so. During his trial, Guiteau’s lawyers plead not guilty by reason of insanity, and the question of Guiteau’s innocence or guilt quickly became a question about the very nature of insanity itself. In...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Stacey Smith, Committee Member, representing the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion

  • Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul, Oregon, 1844-1852

    Creator:
    Poet, Rebecca McClelland
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    In 1986, researchers from Oregon State University, led by Dr. David Brauner, came to the small Catholic community of St. Paul, Oregon as part of ongoing research on the French-Canadian inhabitants of the Willamette Valley between 1829 and the mid-1860s. They were searching for the remains of the first Catholic...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Trials of form : two essays on various selves

    Creator:
    Price, Mark
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    TRIALS OF FORM: TWO ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SELVES: I. Letters from Ruth: Since the 1950s, my grandmother's children have been scattered across the nation from the family farm in Iowa. My family came to Oregon in the early '60s. Since then, my grandmother has kept track of all her children...
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    . They had one son, Arthur, who died of cholera when he not quite a year old. He is buried in Cherry

  • Women combatants in the United States Navy : a victory for equal opportunity

    Creator:
    Rosenberg, Holly A.
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    The issue of Navy women in combat has been widely discussed since women first served during World War I. In this paper I intend to present the political, philosophical, and historical reasoning behind the changing of the regulations to allow women in combat. History shows that the Navy has faced...
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    history, and in procedures and protocol. Training was conducted at Smith College in Northhampton

  • The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead : The Development of the Macabre in Late Medieval England

    Creator:
    Sandeno, Robin M.
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    Many authorities state that the development of macabre images were a result of the plague that first swept through western Europe 1347-1350. However, many aspects of the macabre were already in place prior to the plague. A more realistic explanation for the macabre is in the modification of religious belief,...
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    the physical body. Art 26Gatch, 67. 27A. Craiger-Smith, English Medieval Mural Paintings (Oxford

  • Technological progress, disacculturation, and our public schools

    Creator:
    Morita, Sally J.
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    The problems facing our nation's public schools today cannot be divorced from our enthusiasm for technology and the positive relationship we believe it shares with our perception of progress. Based on the second law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy, author Jeremy Rifkin argues that the development of increasingly "efficient"...
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    9 economist Adam Smith to biologist Henri Milne-Edwards to Darwin. In The Wealth of Nations, Smith

  • Fish Tales: Salmon Stories, 1945-1980

    Creator:
    Finley, Carmel
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    Approximately $1 billion a year is spent on salmon in the Pacific Northwest. Spending has escalated, yet the number of wild runs placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act has increased, creating social and political controversy. For more than 100 years, salmon management in the Pacific Northwest has...
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    by Arthur McEvoy in The Fisherman's Problem. And the habitat problems that have caused such havoc

  • Of dragons, palaces, and gods : a mormon perspective on C. S. Lewis

    Creator:
    Garrett, Christopher Edward
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    During his lifetime C. S. Lewis chose to speak to Christians in plain and simple language that they could understand. Lewis taught and defended truths that he felt were discernible through reason. Morality, free will, and the divinity of Jesus Christ were fundamental to his core beliefs and teachings. His...
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    , and Abraham Maslow than from the writings ofJoseph Smith, Brigham Young, or the scriptures. 12 It

  • The Works Progress Administration in Oregon : An Administrative Overview

    Creator:
    Butcher, Karyle S.
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    The depression of the 1930s had an early effect on the state of Oregon. A decline in timber and agricultural production resulted in severe unemployment in the late 1920s. State and local charitable organizations attempted to care for the unemployed but they did not have the financial resources to do...
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    program to deal with unemployment. Headed by Arthur Woods, the program called for the establishment of a

  • Reason as Race : Enlightenment Voyages of Discovery and their Effect on 18th Century Racial Discourse

    Creator:
    Parker, Katherine A.
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    The proper way to order knowledge and find truth about the natural world in the eighteenth century lay in one’s ability to correctly learn and employ the quality of reason. While all had the right to seek reason, only a privileged few achieved its proper use, creating an intellectual elite...
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    Enlightenment thinkers. As Adam Smith notes in his “The Theory of Moral Sentiments,” an “impartial spectator