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  • Investigating the Structural Barriers to Equal Education in Oregon - How Laws, Rhetoric & Values Translate into Practice

    Creator:
    Ludvik, Tracey L.
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    This study helps to answer the broader question of why Latino students across the U.S. persistently drop out of school at the highest rates compared to students of other racial groups by focusing on the institutional workings of the various levels of the Oregon school system. Latino students have the...
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    Privacy Abstract approved: Rebecca L. Warner This study helps to answer the broader question of why

  • “Avoidable Suffering” : Analyzing Healthcare Providers’ Perceptions of Climate Change Impacts

    Creator:
    Goodman, Rebecca M.
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    Recent scientific studies show that framing climate change as a health issue rather than an environmental issue were more persuasive with American audience members (Maibach et. al., 2010; Maibach et. al. 2014). Also in 2014, a survey on respiratory healthcare providers and found that a large percentage believed that climate...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Rebecca M. Goodman for

  • Attentional Bias Toward Facial Emotion Expression : Orienting vs. Disengagement

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    Martin, Nicole R.
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    The present study examined involuntary attentional bias toward facial emotion expression. Particularly, the study examined two different attentional components for emotional processing, namely, orienting vs. disengagement. A cueing paradigm using two cue presentation times (250ms and 350ms) was used to determine if attention would be involuntarily captured by an irrelevant...
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    thesis advisor, and Dr. Rebecca Olson, graduate committee representative, for their guidance, patience

  • Perspectives from the Ranching Culture in the 1990's : Addressing Mythological and Environmental Concerns

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    Steward, Judith A.
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    Ideals of freedom, independence, and land ownership helped form and perpetuate the mythology of ranching in the United States. However, stereotypes emerged as a result of distortion from the media and the move away from the land. Social philosophies changed regarding the environment, land use, and the health and safety...
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    Mythological and Environmental Concerns. Abstract approved: Courtland L. Smith Ideals of freedom

  • Mother's Choices

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    Dietz, Amy L.
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    A memoir is variously defined as an abbreviated autobiography; a record of events based on the writer's personal observation or knowledge; and the written story of one's own life. I set out to do those things. But when I sat back to read the first of many drafts, I discovered...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Amy L. Dietz for the degree of

  • The Blessingway : A Woman's Birth Ritual

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    Biddle, Jeanette M.
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    This study examines participants' perceptions of the significant messages and meanings communicated to them through the ceremony of the Blessingway (a ritual titled after the Navajo Blessingway), a contemporary women's birth ritual performed by midwives. A narrative approach was used for data gathering based on Fisher's rationale that meaning emerges...
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    Communication Redacted for Privacy Committee Member, representing Anthropology Redacted for Privacy/ 4/1.," L

  • When she was bad : framing female killers in contemporary film

    Creator:
    Finch, Kurstin
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    This thesis presents an analysis of seventeen contemporary blockbuster films in which women kill people. The purpose of the analysis is to discover the "frames" with which film producers, directors, scriptwriters and actors portray women in film. The thesis first establishes the model in use in the analysis: Entman's model...
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    killers in Scream and a second set in Scream 2. Claire pushes the evil nanny, Payton (Rebecca De

  • RTFM NOOb: Criticizing Internet Based Instructional Documents as a Rhetorical Genre

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    Carlson, Gordon S. III
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    The purpose of this thesis is to aid in qualitative improvements to technical support documents on the Internet. By using a generic criticism this analysis will make substantive suggestions towards the improvement of this type of document by engaging the rhetoric employed by their authors. It will discuss the history...
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    , Massachusetts: Pearson Education, 2005. Benoit, William L. "Topic of Presidential Campaign Discourse and

  • Torn : A Cluster Analysis

    Creator:
    Mulatero Ferrando, Oriana
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    Pornography remains one of the most controversial topics in our culture. Politicians, religious groups, and special interest organizations tend to focus on the ‘effects’ pornography has on those who consume it, and fear that pornography is a threat to public health. The general discourse surrounding pornography is that men produce...
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    . More specifically, I would like to thank Rebecca Goodman and Monica Couvrette for sticking with me

  • Get off the Couch and Move! A Rhetorical Analysis of American Idle

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    Cluster, Melodee A.
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    Mary Collins composed the award-winning book American Idle in 2009 after her recovery from an awful bicycle accident. This bicycle accident inspired Mary Collins to take a trip of discovery. Mary Collins visited historical locations to see changes in peoples’ physical activity over time. Collins interviewed individuals whose professions varied...
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    everything! Chelsey, thank you for your listening ear and friendship. Thank you, Monica and Rebecca, for