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  • Teaching business to the poor : the effectiveness of business development services within microenterprise development

    Creator:
    Wilson, Taylor Anne
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    Many economic development methods over the years have tried to solve the problem of poverty with varied success. Microenterprise development is a method that works with the poor to create small self-run businesses to increase their income, and therefore bring more freedom from disease illiteracy and discrimination. Within microenterprise development...
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    Sarah Henderson Many economic development methods over the years have tried to solve the problem of

  • The People's band: U2 and international activism

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    Peterson, Maxie Jean
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    The end of the Cold War brought about changes within international political relations that resulted in expanded interest in global civil society. Such developments, like globalization and democratization, have encouraged the growth of social and political organizations. Political scientists have found that these inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations have a significant...
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    movements. “I like this idea that rock ‘n’ roll is politics,” Bono admitted (“Rattle”). Politics has

  • The Emotional Consequences of Activism

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    Robertson, Sydney
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    This thesis investigates the effect of participating in political activism on mental health. Participants (N = 187, 72% female, N = 135, 77% female) from an Oregon university were randomly assigned to one of three or four conditions (depending on the study) in which they participated in activism related to...
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    activism on mental health. Participants (N = 187, 72% female, N = 135, 77% female) from an Oregon

  • Reverence for Rock: The Effect of Institutionalized Modalities on the Motility of Women in Rock Climbing

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    Settimo, Sarah S.
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    This thesis begins with an overview of the history of rock climbing that presents the opportunity to evaluate rock climbing as a religion/religious act in Section 2. Then, Section 2 delves into alternative spaces where religion exists beyond mainstream institutions, in order to build upon some themes of religious experience...
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    Modalities on the Motility of Women in Rock Climbing by Sarah Settimo A

  • Winning through Compromise? An Examination of Bipartisanship and Electability

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    Ellingson-Cosenza, Elena J.
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    In America’s polarized politics, the language that congresspeople use matters. This thesis examines the use of bipartisan communications—in tweets and press releases—of members of the US House of Representatives as an electoral strategy for representatives in districts of varying competitiveness. A linear regression was conducted to analyze the relationship between...
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Sarah Henderson, Committee Member, representing Political Science

  • Recreating the Past: A Look at Colonial Latin America

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    Vandetta, Crystal N.
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    Court cases, wills, and letters are common examples of surviving primary texts from colonial Latin America. These documents are important to historians because they provide a unique glimpse into the lives of ordinary people who lived hundreds of years ago. This thesis is a recreation of these types of primary...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Crystal N. Vandetta for the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Arts

  • Language as a barrier of teaching mathematics to English language learners

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    Sechrist, Josephine
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    In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the number of English Language Learners (ELL) in the United States. According to the Education Commission of the States, ELLs have significantly lower achievement levels than their non-ELL peers. Further, numerous research studies report that teacher education programs lack ELL...
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    ). 7 Figure 3: Native Spanish Students vs. Total number of students in Spain Source: Zinovyeva, N

  • The Impact of World Literature in Secondary Schools in Oregon and Chile : A Comparative Case Study

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    McFarland, Annette Catherine
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    The reading of world literature, literary works from cultures other than one’s own, offers an effective means of creating greater awareness and sensitivity towards others. Research on the subject makes it clear that world literature can help lay the groundwork for a sense of world citizenship in students. To what...
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    anthology has its limitations, Sarah Lawall chooses to focus on what anthologies accomplish, rather than

  • “My Whole World”: Teen Moms Navigating Identity and Social Discourse

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    Tanner, Laura C.
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    Social discourse presents teenage childbearing as a “serious problem” that results in significant harm and expense to teenage mothers, their children, and society. Although the discourse of teenage childbearing has been multiple, overlapping, and contested, it has resulted in negative stereotyping and stigmatization of teenage mothers. Much of these stereotypes...
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  • OSU LGBTQ+ Community Film

    Creator:
    McConnell, Kiah
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    Traditional archives have excluded marginalized people (women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people) from sharing their histories through socially just representations. Portrayals of oppressed people that do exist in traditional archives are from the lens of the white cis-heteronormative patriarchy, and justify a narrative of colonialism, oppression, and injustice. This...
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     stories often fade into invisibility through the  marginalization of queer and trans people. Sarah Dyer