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  • The Impact of Internet and Videogame Use on College Student Development

    Creator:
    Calhoun, Benjamin W.
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    In recent decades, there has been a tremendous change in the college student experience. In many ways this change has been driven by developments in technology, which have in turn changed the way students conduct research, socialize, and recreate. This thesis seeks to gain an understanding as to how Internet...
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    students conduct research, socialize, and recreate. This thesis seeks to gain an understanding as to how

  • Gender bias & teachers : college students' perceptions of sexual discrimination in their high school

    Creator:
    Hostetler, Catherine L.
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    The field of gender bias indicates that teachers are a significant source of gender-role socialization for students. This study focuses on post hoc recollections of college students' perceptions of gender bias exhibited by their high school teachers. Specifically, this study asks students to define sex discrimination, as well as describe...
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    sex discrimination. Consequently, one hypothesis and five research questions are posed to

  • An examination of terminal and instrumental values of selected Oregon State University students majoring in speech communication

    Creator:
    Maier, Pamela M.
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    This study investigated terminal and instrumental value priorities of students in various majors within an academic department. The investigator tested a sample of 99 volunteers of both sexes from several classes in the department of Speech Communication at a major land grant university by use of the Rokeach Value Survey....
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    administrators in general in postsecondary education, as well as for others who have interest in values research

  • Quintilian's influence on Obadiah Walker

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    O'Rourke, Kathryn Ann
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    The nature and extent of classical rhetoric's influence on subsequent ages has been the focus of much recent study. Scholars have been concerned with how classical authors, particularly Cicero and Quintilian, emerged in educational and rhetorical theories of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and later centuries. Despite this flurry of...
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    centuries. Despite this flurry of research, a great deal of Quintilian's enduring legacy remains unknown

  • Tragedy at Sandy Hook and the National Rifle Association's Propaganda Response

    Creator:
    Gundlach, Andrew
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    This research examines the response from the National Rifle Association (NRA) to the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. Specifically, the research seeks to conclude whether the NRA engaged in propaganda, and if so, what the ethical implications of such use are. Using literature from...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Robert S. Iltis This research examines the response from the National Rifle Association

  • An evaluation of using the spiral model to teach media at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Piepmeier, Karen Swanson
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    A decade after the School of Education at Oregon State University adopted a spiral model of curriculum for teacher education, a study was conducted to determine if Instructional Media, one thread of that model, was spiralled in the curriculum. A survey was conducted of graduating seniors, using a questionnaire to...
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    University that have shared their knowledge, time and energy helping me with my work and research

  • "The Grind" : MTV and female body image

    Creator:
    Layport, Jill E.
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    This research addresses the relationship between television programming and body image. It specifically investigates what the Music Television network's (MTV) dance show, "The Grind," communicates about female body image. Two studies were conducted. Study one used seven coders from a western United States high school to record female body images...
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    . Abstract approved : This research addresses the relationship between television programming and body

  • Promoting progress : a rhetorical analysis of college and university sexual harassment codes

    Creator:
    Porrovecchio, Mark J.
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    This thesis is a rhetorical analysis of sexual harassment codes on college and university campuses. The situational model proposed by Lloyd Bitzer is used to examine representative artifacts from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, so as to determine whether they operate as "fitting"...
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    analysis develops in eight stages: an introductory discussion of sexual harassment and research conducted

  • 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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    landscape of the Pacific Northwest, with its winter rains and summer droughts. From California to Alaska

  • Fraternity Exit Process: A Look At Fraternity Members Moving Out of the Chapter House

    Creator:
    Later, William J.
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    The process of leaving a work organization is difficult. Leaving an organization that you are part of as a volunteer is just as difficult. In fraternities, upperclassmen members tend to move out one year before they graduate. This is a problem that can create a leadership gap in the chapter...
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    either negative or neutral. The results of this thesis add to the growing research area of volunteer