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  • An analysis of the relationship between corporate sponsorship and intramural event participation

    Creator:
    Tobery, James R.
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    More Americans are participating in sport every year and several organizations have made it their mission to provide the opportunity for organized sport participation. College and University intramural departments are one of those organizations. They provide participation opportunities on nearly every college campus. The review of literature identifies the sociological...
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    Masters Thesis
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    privacy Dow P. Poling More Americans are participating in sport every year and several organizations

  • A comparative analysis of aggression by active male participants in intramural and open recreation basketball at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Harty, Robert A. (Robert Alvin), 1962-
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    As an increase in Americans seek their leisure experience in rationalized forms of play, certain symptoms of non-enjoyment, non-flow achievement are present; i.e., aggression. This relationship between aggression and rationalized play has widely manifested in university intramural sports settings. The review of literature provides the logical development for this relationship...
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    at Oregon State University. Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy D6W P. Poling As an increase

  • Karmic Effects: How Aggressive Behavior Toward Important People Changes the Perception of Others

    Creator:
    Whitman, Frederick R.
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    Synthesizing perspectives from Bruner (1957), and the Mind Only School of Buddhism, the current study examined the effect of a persons’ own behavior on knowledge activation. Both social cognitive psychology and the Mind Only School posit that perception is based on previously learned knowledge. Knowledge is accumulated through an individual’s...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    . Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________________________ John Edwards

  • The Yakima Indians : study and analysis of the Yakima water rights

    Creator:
    Selam, Leroy Bennie
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    This thesis is an ethnohistoric study of the water rights of the Yakima Confederated Tribes. The study considers the water rights issues of the Yakimas from the cultural viewpoint at the time of European contact to the present legal and political situation. It traces the many obstacles the Yakimas have...
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    Yakima Indians: Study and Analysis of the Yakima Water Rights Abstract approved: (Signature) John Dunn

  • Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

    Creator:
    Bruno, Mark P.
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    This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mark P. Bruno for the

  • Cultural differences and business interaction : an analysis of conflicts between Chinese and American ways of life

    Creator:
    Chen, Yuejian, 1958-
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    This study uses an anthropological perspective to discuss the cultural differences between Chinese and Americans in business contexts. Through an analysis of case studies related by businesspersons involved in Sino-US trade, and by an analysis of literature on the subject, it describes how cultural differences contribute to the problems and...
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    Conflicts between Chinese and American ways of Life Abstract approved John A. Young This study uses an

  • Change in some aspects of Chinese core values, 1978-1988

    Creator:
    Qi, Xiaoping
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    Great change has taken place in China during the past decade. As core values represent the most basic aspects of social life, change in some aspects of Chinese core values indicates that China is moving rapidly from being an agricultural society toward becoming a modern industrial society. China today can...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Privacy r John A.C/Yotpg Great change has taken place in China during the past decade. As core values

  • Attitudes toward surrogate mothering theory and measurement

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    Vee, Regina M.
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    Surrogate motherhood is a very complex issue with many groups having vested interests. In order to measure attitudes specific to surrogacy a 20-item Likert Scale with high reliability was developed through item analysis (N=131, Part-whole correlation range 0.749-0.478). Correlation of surrogacy attitudes was subsequently related to six other instruments: AIDS,...
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    correlation (p=0.05) was demonstrated with Abortion Scale (0.486, p= 0.001), Dogmatism (-0.253, p= 0.048) and

  • Social Bonds Theory: Analyzing College Students' Mental Health

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    Eklund, Destiny S.
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    According to the World Health Organization (2019), every 40 seconds, approximately one person from around the world dies from suicide. The highest percentage of adults with major depression and serious thoughts of suicide are between 18 to 25 years of age (Shen & Millet 2003-2012, p. 31). Studies have indicated...
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    Masters Thesis
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    depression and serious thoughts of suicide are between 18 to 25 years of age (Shen & Millet 2003-2012, p

  • Guilt and Redemption on Wisteria Lane: A Burkeian Analysis of Desperate Housewives

    Creator:
    Huillet, Michelle M.
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    In 2004 after Desperate Housewives premiered, it was met with significant criticism condemning the lack of values and morals on the show, depicted through the pervasiveness of sinful and illegal behavior (Olsen & Morgan, 2010). However, Olsen and Morgan contend that sinful and illegal behavior is accompanied with attempts at...
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    immorality, lying, and manipulation can get you what you want, then it’s OK.’’ (p. 331) Despite the