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Re-sounding Harlem Renaissance narratives : the repetition and representation of identity through sound in Nella Larsen's Passing and Toni Morrison's Jazz

Creator:: Aragon, Racheal
Abstract:: The cultural and historical construction of African American identity in the United States has been closely tied to the dialectical relationship formed between sound and silence. This thesis examines the modernist and postmodernist representation of sound and silence in the African American novels Passing (1929), by Nella Larsen, and Jazz...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Bull and Less Back, editors of the Auditory Culture Reader (2003), a collection of essays that

Shattered lives : understanding obstetric fistula in Uganda

Creator:: Ruder, Bonnie J.
Abstract:: In Uganda, there are an estimated 200,000 women suffering from obstetric fistula, with 1,900 new cases expected annually. These figures, combined with a persistently high maternal mortality rate, have led to an international discourse that claims the solution to improving maternal health outcomes is facility-based delivery with a skilled birth...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (Jokhio and Kelly 2006; Jokhio, et al. 2005; Sibley and Ann Sipe 2004; Sibley and Sipe 2006) along with

The Space Between: How We Understood, Valued, and Governed the Ocean Through the Process of Marine Science and Emerging Technologies

Creator:: Newton, Samantha
Abstract:: Ian Angell, in the New Barbarian Manifesto, said “A ‘brave new world’ is being forced upon unsuspecting societies by advances in information technology.” It would seem then, that technological advances happen automatically and have a life of their own. There is a logic to technological advancements that is outside human...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

Creator:: Davis, Caryn M.
Abstract:: At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Relationships, communication, and power in Willamette Valley watershed councils : toward building resilient collaborative pathways

Creator:: Myhre, Andrea L.
Abstract:: The purpose of this research is to investigate how stakeholders involved in collaborative watershed groups in Oregon work with each other to form ideas and take action. Most collaboration efforts include encouraging a high level of trust with a great value placed on relationships and partners, being open and flexible,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

Creator:: Burke, Erik P.
Abstract:: Reinhabitation is an approach to building local cultures and economies within industrial society. The food system is a vital starting point. What are the principles of reinhabitory food systems? What are the possibilities for a locally adapted food system in the Marys River region of western Oregon? I describe past...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Designed to fit : tailored technologies for medical practitioners

Creator:: de Brum, Silvina
Abstract:: Although electronic medical records systems (EMR) present promising benefits, they have not yet been widely adopted. A problem facing many EMR are that they are disruptive technologies; their complex hardware and software are not designed to account for the clinicians' characteristics and needs, thus, demanding a steep learning curve and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Literacy politics and literacy education : thematic perspectives in contemporary Chicana/o narrative

Creator:: Bowman, Christine D.
Abstract:: Literacy is often considered to be a basic set of skills to be mastered by the student; the conventional wisdom maintains that the individual who has mastered these skills is then literate. Scholars in the field of literacy studies, however, argue that such assumptions about literacy fail to take into...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in the world, Ann Yee, who has been a steadfast supporter in all things through this long process

Omen of Mere Event : Vignettes in a Post-Wilderness Landscape

Creator:: Schultz, Aaron A.
Abstract:: This thesis uses a series of non-fiction vignettes to explore objects, agencies, and networks, applying theories of rhetoric and composition directly to experience and vise versa. Focusing on agency--as understood through sociology's actor-networks, post- humanism’s Object Orientated Ontology, and Ecocriticism's ecological approach--I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Deepening: Place Relationship in the Valley of Lake Creek, Oregon

Creator:: McCumber, Elisabeth Carol Harvey
Abstract:: This is an IRB-exempt thesis exploring place relationship in the valley of Lake Creek, Oregon, at Triangle Lake. An interdisciplinary ethnography of place, it involves a synthesis of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic literature; an analysis of nineteenth-century Coos, Alseya (Alsea), and Kalapuya myth-texts from Native oral tradition; a history of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Re-sounding Harlem Renaissance narratives : the repetition and representation of identity through sound in Nella Larsen's Passing and Toni Morrison's Jazz

Shattered lives : understanding obstetric fistula in Uganda

The Space Between: How We Understood, Valued, and Governed the Ocean Through the Process of Marine Science and Emerging Technologies

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

Relationships, communication, and power in Willamette Valley watershed councils : toward building resilient collaborative pathways

Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

Designed to fit : tailored technologies for medical practitioners

Literacy politics and literacy education : thematic perspectives in contemporary Chicana/o narrative

Omen of Mere Event : Vignettes in a Post-Wilderness Landscape

Deepening: Place Relationship in the Valley of Lake Creek, Oregon

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