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The objects within : an applied OOO literary criticism

Creator:: Dodson, Matthew J.
Abstract:: For centuries, continental philosophy has clung to the belief that the world only meaningfully exists through human perception--that, in other words, when a tree falls in the forest, it does not make a sound. Literary theory, which has strong roots in continental philosophy, followed suit, remaining tied to humanism even...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ontology (Graham Harman, Timothy Morton, and Ian Bogost), vibrant materialism (Jane Bennett), and actor

"The life of things" : weird realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

Creator:: England, Saara Amelia
Abstract:: My thesis explores the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as emblematic of Western philosophy and literature's longstanding preoccupation with the relationship between mind and matter. The poets' attempts to mediate their languages and sensibilities with "real nature" have a complicated legacy for today's readers, as Romantic literature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: implications of their work (theorists like Timothy Morton are concerned with what he calls “hyperobjects” and

Towards meaningful intercultural interactions: a case study of service-learning in a business writing classroom

Creator:: Sprague, Allen
Abstract:: The following thesis presents a case study analyzing a service-learning project implemented in a second-year level Writing in Business course at Oregon State University. The classroom project required business writing students to serve as cultural ambassadors and conversation partners with international students through INTO OSU's Cultural Ambassador Conversant Program. Relying...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Russell’s synthesis of Yrjo Engeström’s activity theory and Charles Bazerman’s genre systems theory, I

Solidarity’s Last Stand: Rudi Nussbaum and the Hanford Downwinders

Creator:: Vitale, Anthony
Abstract:: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation drew public ire during the 1980s and 1990s when activist groups forced the declassification of 19,000 documents and discovered proof of accidental and intentional releases of radioactive materials into the environment. These releases had been kept from the public. Although many locals had for decades wondered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Public Proof : Science Communication, Weak Theory, and the Nonrational

Creator:: Snyder, Wesley M.
Abstract:: A 2014 Pew Research poll revealed large gaps between public opinion and scientific opinion over environmental and biomedical issues (Funk and Rainie). Similarly, a number of recent popular books have described a growing public mistrust in scientific expertise (Mooney; Storr; Specter). Why is it, then, that so much of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Prelli, Charles Bazerman, and many others. Rhetoric of science has been, for the most part, critical of

Nuclear Imperialism: Examining Atomic Test Reactions and UN Intervention in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, 1957-1966

Creator:: Bremigan, Shelby R.
Abstract:: France’s decision to test their nuclear weapons program in the Sahara in 1960 wholly reshaped how the Cold War infiltrated into West Africa. During a time of nation building, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah urged Ghana and Africa, more broadly, to break ties with colonial powers and rebuke further attempts of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Tiah Edmunson-Morton, not only for being a flexible and understanding supervisor, but also for

Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

Creator:: Jameson, Sara
Abstract:: Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Culture built upon the land : a predictive model of nineteenth-century Canadien/Métis farmsteads.

Creator:: Hebert, James Michael
Abstract:: The objective of this thesis is to provide a predictive model for the archaeological investigation of the first farmsteads in the Pacific Northwest, established in the early- and mid-nineteenth century by Canadien and Métis families retiring from their service in the fur trade. Past studies of this population have either...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

"Walloped" by the weather? Deflections, diversions, and dubious representations of women in climate change discourse

Creator:: Brinker, Rachel K.
Abstract:: Research shows that women's lives are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. While the topic of women is largely absent from climate discourse overall, the representations of women that occur reveal underlying structures of power rooted in imperialism and colonial dominance. This thesis presents an analysis of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: your inspiration, encouragement, support, and mentorship: Kathleen Dean Moore, Charles Goodrich

Thinness in Asia : eating disorders in Singapore as seen through anthropological eyes

Creator:: Isono, Maho
Abstract:: There has been a growing interest in eating disorders among Singaporean medical professionals since the 1990s, and the Singaporean public is also starting to become aware of the risks of these conditions. This ethnographic research on eating disorders in Singapore, conducted in 2001, however, found that the majority of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: partial symptom of other disorders, by Richard Morton, a British physician (Vandereycken 2002a). He

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The objects within : an applied OOO literary criticism

"The life of things" : weird realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

Towards meaningful intercultural interactions: a case study of service-learning in a business writing classroom

Solidarity’s Last Stand: Rudi Nussbaum and the Hanford Downwinders

Public Proof : Science Communication, Weak Theory, and the Nonrational

Nuclear Imperialism: Examining Atomic Test Reactions and UN Intervention in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, 1957-1966

Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

Culture built upon the land : a predictive model of nineteenth-century Canadien/Métis farmsteads.

"Walloped" by the weather? Deflections, diversions, and dubious representations of women in climate change discourse

Thinness in Asia : eating disorders in Singapore as seen through anthropological eyes

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