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Systems evaluation of the Guatemalan eye care project – Enfoque Ixcan : barriers and avenues for providing eye care services to rural Guatemala

Creator:: Terhes, Amanda Foshay
Abstract:: This thesis evaluates the programs, activities, and relationships of Enfoque Ixcan, a non-profit eye care project providing services to a rural area of Guatemala. I conducted ethnographic interviews with key stakeholders of the organization and carried out participant observation in the Ixcan region of Guatemala in February 2006. The research...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: on March 12, 2007. Title: Systems Evaluation of the Guatemalan Eye Care Project – Enfoque Ixcan

Analysis of dredge tailings pile patterns : applications for historical archaeological research

Creator:: Purdy, Sarah E.
Abstract:: For centuries humans have been searching for precious metals. The search for gold has greatly changed the landscape of the American West, beginning in the 1850s and continuing today. Various gold rushes around the country created mining colonies in remote areas, thereby connecting the frontier with the rest of America...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: .......................................................................................................... 58 4.5 Elk Creek

Fighting tradition : Hemingway’s Nick Adams and shell shock

Creator:: McGrath, Cole P.
Abstract:: In his Nick Adams stories, Ernest Hemingway traces the life of a single man as he moves from boyhood to adolescence to adulthood to fatherhood. From the beginning of Nick Adams life, it is clear that he does not fit into the role of the traditional hero. In addition, Nick...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: clear that he does not fit into the role of the traditional hero. In addition, Nick has difficulty

Imagining Kenya in Ngugi's fiction

Creator:: Prasansak, Ram
Abstract:: The relationship between literature and nation-building has been one of the most crucial issues in postcolonial studies. The novel in particular is regarded as a means by which writers forge national consciousness among the colonized during the time of colonization. Many African writers themselves, for example, conceive of their work...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . The clear-cut class divisions engendered by neocolonialism indicates that Ngugi's imagined "Kenya

Is "Smart Growth" smart? : health effects of urban renewal in Portland, Oregon

Creator:: Buerger, Catherine F.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the impact of urban renewal on individual health, specifically focusing on an urban planning model called Smart Growth that is being used in Portland, Oregon. Findings are based on qualitative and quantitative analyses of interview and survey data from study participants living in a community where renewal...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: flexibility during the course of this project. Thank you to my parents who always taught me to study what

Central place foraging and the winter village: a settlement pattern analysis in the lower Salmon River Canyon in Idaho

Creator:: Carlisle, Kendra
Abstract:: Hunter-gatherers depend on naturally occurring resources and, in order to survive, must overcome resource procurement challenges inherent in their environment. One challenge relates to the temporal and spatial availability of resources, which hunter-gatherers address, in part, through the strategic use of space to position themselves for optimal access to necessary...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 3. Photo taken in summer 2005, downstream of China Creek in lower sample section

Toxic politics at 64N, 171W : addressing military contaminants on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

Creator:: Henifin, Kai A.
Abstract:: St. Lawrence Island, Alaska is home to two Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) under remediation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1985. After more than two decades the local residents continue to be concerned about inadequate site characterization and cleanup. During the summer of 2005, I collected ethnographic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: unburied by the local clean-up project……………. 46 7. In Gambell, a military tank unburied by NALEMP

A Public Elementary School as a Cultural Context : Japanese Children Learning to Perceive their Environment

Creator:: Sugai, Taichi
Abstract:: This thesis examines the cultural context in which Japanese children are constructing their own perspective of the environment because in the development of environmental education in Japan, the perspectives of children and teachers have not been taken into consideration. Although educators have made efforts to give direction to environmental education,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: project provided me with the motivation to complete this study. I would like to thank Dr. Nancy

"It was on the tip of everyone's tongue, Tyler and I just gave it a name" : Fight Club's representation of consumer culture

Creator:: Wicks, James Anthony
Abstract:: This thesis examines the representation of consumer culture in Fight Club within the context of Frederic Jameson's theory of postmodernism. I propose that the film represents consumer culture as a totalizing system. This representation is evident in the setting of the film and in the Narrator's attempt to escape from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: help was crucial at every stage of this project. It has been a pleasure and an honor to work with him

Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

Creator:: Robinson, Tracy Ann
Abstract:: Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: individuals whose support and assistance have made this thesis project both possible and pleasurable. First

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Systems evaluation of the Guatemalan eye care project – Enfoque Ixcan : barriers and avenues for providing eye care services to rural Guatemala

Analysis of dredge tailings pile patterns : applications for historical archaeological research

Fighting tradition : Hemingway’s Nick Adams and shell shock

Imagining Kenya in Ngugi's fiction

Is "Smart Growth" smart? : health effects of urban renewal in Portland, Oregon

Central place foraging and the winter village: a settlement pattern analysis in the lower Salmon River Canyon in Idaho

Toxic politics at 64N, 171W : addressing military contaminants on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

A Public Elementary School as a Cultural Context : Japanese Children Learning to Perceive their Environment

"It was on the tip of everyone's tongue, Tyler and I just gave it a name" : Fight Club's representation of consumer culture

Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

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