The principles of justice developed by John Rawls and
articulated in his work A Theory of Justice, published in 1971, were
used as the evaluative tool in assessing health care distribution in
the United States. A model for using Rawls' theory was developed
emphasizing the role of the 'least advantaged'...
American women’s quest for equality came into focus in the early 1900s. Amidst the cultural and societal forces pushing for suffrage, some chose the mechanism of theater. This thesis is a work of rhetorical criticism. It applies Lloyd Bitzer’s situational approach to two suffrage theater artifacts: Mary Shaw's The Woman...
The Communication Decency Act became law in 1996 and was
immediately challenged on Constitutional grounds. It was subsequently declared
unconstitutional based on the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. Using
Fantasy Theme Analysis, an analysis of the dramatic elements of the key players
was accomplished. The dramatic elements of Overall...
Virginia Woolf was a self-proclaimed atheist, yet her fictional and personal writing
reveal her ecstatic consciousness. Characters in Woolf s novels experience ecstasy, and
her letters and diaries support the theory that she herself had experienced ecstatic
consciousness. Major figures in the philosophy of religion assert that ecstatic
consciousness is...
Between 1880 and 1900, the Oregon Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) significantly impacted the lives of Oregon women. Not simply an organization of middle class white women, the Oregon WCTU enlisted Native American and African American women, and persistently advocated for improved conditions for working women. The WCTU aspired to...
The purpose of this study is to examine how rhetoric functions in the
Alternative Birth Movement (ABM). In particular, communication published by
movement leaders will be examined to discover how rhetoric propels the movement from
one stage to the next as well as how rhetoric facilitates the goals of the...
This research is based on in-depth interviews with 20 women farmers and
ranchers from the state of Oregon. These women employ a variety of methods and
subscribe to a number of divergent philosophies regarding agricultural practices.
The intention of this study is to examine how women who are the primary...
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...
Located on the central Oregon coast, the Umpqua Eden site (35D083) yielded an artifact assemblage which is one of the five largest assemblages from the Oregon coast. The first aspect of the site that I looked at is the people who lived at the site, the ancestors of the Confederated...
The initial research question for this study asked whether single women were having their employment needs met by the union in a university setting. Twelve single women who were members of a union at a university participated in semi-structured interviews about their experiences with the union. To the surprise of...