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  • The Way In: Interviews with Evangelical Christians

    Creator:
    Williams, B. Patrick
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    The purpose of this study is to examine the most significant reasons evangelical Christian faith is compelling to its adherents. Through the interviews of nineteen Evangelical Christians, it becomes clear that evangelicals see the Bible and Christian theology in a literal and factual way. Thus, contrary to some strains of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    at the time of Christ's Second Coming would be 'taken up in the clouds.. .to meet the Lord in the air

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

    Creator:
    Garrett, Christopher Edward
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    to explain the LDS perspective ofLewis: "For behold, the Lord doth grant unto all nations, of their

  • Brenda Ueland : Early Feminist and Writing Theorist

    Creator:
    Firmin, Mary Ann
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    Brenda Ueland is a writer whose most noted work is a book which explains her theory about how to write. She also published an autobiography and a co11ection of essays as well as achieving some notoriety as a magazine writer to the twenties and thirties. Ueland's writing theory is based...
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    Masters Thesis
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    .. ..Lord, I don't know how I can live this way--it cuts my heart in two with division. Every other night

  • Disney and Virtue Ethics: Understanding Disney Film through Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

    Creator:
    Painter, Stephanie L.
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    The purpose of this thesis was to develop an analytical framework based in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and to apply this framework to Disney films in order to broaden the current discussion and analysis of Disney films. The first portion of this thesis was an overview of the most common critiques...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    . Elizabeth Bell, “Somatexts at the Disney Shop,” analyzes the presentation of women’s bodies in six

  • Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

    Creator:
    Summers, Stephen James
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    Thomas Stearns Eliot’s 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land presents itself as an alternative to the decaying society Eliot found himself inhabiting. It begins as a personal means of pulling together one’s fragmented consciousness, but in doing so Eliot manages to present a solution to a world of selfishness—looking beyond...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    lives. Later Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Joseph Conrad will also make use of it before Eliot does here

  • To Express the Inexpressible: Poetry as Philosophy within Mystical Discourse

    Creator:
    Hyam, Jarrod
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    Within this thesis, I posit that poetry, rather than philosophical argument, is a more effective means of expressing and understanding the nature of mystical experiences. William James’ analysis of mysticism inspires the theoretical approach utilized in this thesis. An analysis of the unique qualities of poetic language within mystical discourse...
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    Masters Thesis
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    grateful to my family, Arnold Hyam, Elizabeth Lopez-Hyam, and Jessica Hyam, for their constant support

  • "Wars Do Not Make One Great": Race, Empire, and Orientalism in Star Wars: The Clone Wars

    Creator:
    Shakibnia, Mohammed H.
    Abstract:
    This project explores how science fiction can be used to examine social justice issues in our contemporary world. I will explore two case studies from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series through a framework of race, empire, and orientalism. Walidah Imarisha’s notion of “visionary fiction” is utilized as...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Elizabeth Barstow, Committee Member, representing Religious Studies

  • Abraham's daughter

    Creator:
    Melton, Barbara
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    This thesis is a series of personal essays that explore themes of fundamentalism, family, loss, personal growth and the question of free will. The work reflects my study of the written word, of language, and of how people have tried to define, or have experienced, the numinous. The essays are...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Elizabeth gave me leave, I hopped on my bike and rode to Woody's Market three blocks away. I would plunk

  • Plenty & paucity in the ethics of argumentation : a rhetorical critique of eight argumentation textbooks for ethical propositions and corresponding support, reasons and evidence

    Creator:
    Roberts, James Nolan
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    Some argumentation texts require additional evidentiary support to uphold their ethical propositions. A rhetorical critique of eight argumentation textbooks for ethical propositions and corresponding support, reason and evidentiary materials reveals that some texts advance ethical claims without providing sufficient backing. Inadequate support for an ethical proposition decreases the likelihood of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , whether given knowingly or unknowingly. I thank the Lord of the church, Jesus Christ, for mercy from

  • Nine Native Mexicans families in the Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Cervantes, Willan A.
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    The Mixteco primarily reside in the Mexican State of Oaxaca in Southwestern Mexico. They have been arriving in larger numbers then ever before to this part of the North American continent in the last twenty years.Their experience is composed of different dynamics compared to those of their mainstream Mexican counterpart....
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    Masters Thesis