This study Is a rhetorical analysis of ten documents of Joseph
Smith, Jr's. early revelations spanning the period of 1829 to 1831
to determine the extent to which he used demagogic rhetoric in pursuit
of his goals. A definition of demagoguery is provided and is
applied in an analysis of...
Currently, the Port of Portland is developing a 9, 410 acre area
at the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers in Multnomah
County, Oregon. This area will be developed for industrial, commercial,
and recreational use. The recreational development in the
North Portland Peninsula area, including the Rivergate Industrial
District,...
The study of the question of why Shakespeare's Hamlet delays killing
Claudius in revenge for his father's murder is examined in light of the major
critical theories from neo-classical to modern scholarship. An expanded
treatment of the works of Fredson Bowers, Eleanor Prosser, Bertram Joseph,
and Roland Frye, is provided...
Site ORYA3, the Smith House, is located in Dayton, Oregon. The archaeological project originated because owners of this structure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, applied for a demolition permit. The 1859 home, first occupied by two early Oregon pioneers, Andrew and Sarah Smith, was considered architecturally significant,...
These studies are concerned with the forced motion of a two-degree-of-freedom system consisting of a "flexible beam" supported
by pendulum type hangers.
Using an asymptotic method, an approximate solution to the
nonlinear equations of motion was found. The solution takes the form
of a series in powers of the amplitude...
An inexpensive method for calibrating an infrared analyzer to measure varying ranges of carbon dioxide partial pressures (Pco₂) is described. A discussion is made of the hydrographic (temperature, salinity, and sigma-t) and chemical (dissolved oxygen, AOU, Pco₂ pH, and nutrients) variables that were observed along the Newport hydrographic line in...
The literature asserts that both the medical and educational
communities have forecast a potential for an AIDS
epidemic on college and university campuses. The experts
warn that without either a cure or a vaccine for AIDS, it
is only through education of "risk behaviors" that
devastation can be avoided.
A...
On September 12th 1960, just two months prior to one of the closest
Presidential elections in American history, John F. Kennedy faced the Houston
Ministerial Association and delivered a powerful speech on religion and
Americanism. The "religious issue" of the 1960 campaign drew immense interest
and trumped other issues pertinent...
Implementation of. the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of
1976 affords opportunities for fishery expansion and economic development
in the Oregon otter trawl fishery. The changes stimulated by the
Act should occur, according to social science theorists, by the
diffusion of innovations from innovative fishermen to less innovative
fishermen, with...