The objective of this thesis is to develop criteria for a data
acquisition system for electrical machinery capable of sampling a
signal every 0.2 msec with a desired accuracy of 0.1%. The system to
be measured includes both AC and DC voltage and current signals from
several points. The main...
Reflecting an effort to broaden the scope of research concerning Mexican
migration, this thesis describes the experiences of monolingual Spanish-speaking
Mexican migrants in Corvallis, Oregon and explores the roles of language and culture
in shaping these migrants' experiences. Data were collected through intensive
participant observation and semi-structured interviews.
Migrants arrive...
The field of composition studies has concerned itself with the way in which people learn to write and the role schooling plays in writing development. Recently a trend has developed within the field towards exploring writing development outside of the classroom, termed the extracurriculum. Much of the scholarship thus far...
From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
Nathaniel Hawthorne lived and wrote in an age of reform efforts, and the progressive movement with which he was most familiar was Transcendentalism. However, he was not sympathetic with Emerson's idealism, a sentiment which comes out in his fiction in way of critique. Throughout Hawthorne's work there is an emphasis...
Eva Nightingale, an original screenplay, is a retelling of the Garden of Eden myth set in modern times and seen from Eve's point of view. The script centers on life after Eden, life after trespass and loss, when Eva (like Eve before her) must choose between despair and hope, self-destruction...
The six stories within, "Still and Silent," "Cold Comfort," "The King of Porn," "Miscuts," "In Between," and "Renovations," are part of a work in progress. They attempt to show how the characters, although they may seem to struggle for independence from the family unit, are in fact strengthening the bonds...