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Advertising strategy and anthropology : a focused look at consumers and their organizing devices

Creator:: Whiddon, Jeremiah J.
Abstract:: This thesis was designed and written with advertising stakeholders in mind. The aim of my thesis is to illustrate how listening to and understanding the behavior and voices of consumers from the perspective of a trained anthropologist can improve advertising strategies. My instruments for conducting this research include an in-depth...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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"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
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Queering Science Writing: Bringing Marginalized Perspectives to the Mainstream

Creator:: Goodfriend, Olivia F.
Abstract:: Within the field of science communication, the voices, perspectives, and experiences of the LGBTQ+ community have long been kept at the margins. This has led to a gap in material that recognizes queer individuals and communities as audiences, communicators, and stakeholders in STEM. I address this gap by generating a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: step of the way. Abuelita, te agradezco, y te quiero con todo mi corazón. Eres una luz en mi vida

An analysis of the drop-outs of Oregon secondary school students from the first-year Gregg shorthand simplified classes

Creator:: Spitznogle, Lee Ray
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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"A fragile job" : Haitian traditional midwives (matwons) and the navigation of clinical, spiritual and social risk

Creator:: Watson, Annaliese
Abstract:: Haiti's political and economy history has led to a maternity care system that lies out of reach, geographically and financially, of most Haitians, resulting in excessively high maternal and infant mortality. The most common birth practitioners are homebirth midwives (matwòns), who attend roughly three-fourths of all births in Haiti (UNICEF),...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: focus on TBAs is fraught with problems. Anthropologist Stacy Leigh Pigg (1997), who worked in both

"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
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A proposed farmstead plan for an irrigated area in central Oregon

Creator:: Yang, Edith Leong
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Neolithic man easily traveled great distances in his sim- pie dugout to barter his produce. Prerequisites

"All the things you ask of me" : Law Enforcement Experiences of Infant Death Investigation

Creator:: Schindell, Jennifer R.
Abstract:: The sudden and unexpected death of a seemingly healthy infant sets in motion a number of linked processes with potentially complex and far-reaching ramifications. While individuals, families and communities grapple with the shock and heartbreak associated with the loss of a young life, a chain of multidisciplinary investigative responsibilities is...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Pregnancy, class and biomedical power : factors influencing the prenatal care experiences of low-income women in an Oregon community

Creator:: Pearce, Laurie Kathleen
Abstract:: Low-income women in an Oregon city of approximately 35,000 inhabitants have limited access to prenatal care services during their pregnancies. The purpose of this study was to uncover the impacts of several factors on the experiences of twenty-seven health department clients with public health department prenatal care practitioners and with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Community Abstract approved:__ a y osenberger Low-income women in an Oregon city of approximately 35,000

Problems of German youth since World War I

Creator:: Naumann, Theodor
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Youth or of one of its branches, There were not many- y-outh who resisted, indeed resistance seemed to

Geography and other stories

Creator:: Cook, Molly Larson
Abstract:: This thesis comprises a collection of six short stories written and developed in the Creative Writing program at Oregon State University and particularly in fiction workshops with Dr. Tracy Daugherty and Marjorie Sandor. These stories explore the human condition, and human connections, in contemporary society. The characters here are ordinary...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Who's afraid of a little nitrate? : discovering impediments and incentives in following best management practices related to water quality within the southern Willamette Valley groundwater management area

Creator:: Rolston, Irene
Abstract:: Thesis summarizes interviews with growers residing within the Groundwater Management Area (GWMA) in the Southern Willamette Valley of Oregon. Informal and semi-structured interviews were used to identify perceived impediments and incentives perceived by local farmers in following best management practices related to water quality. Results from the interviews were coded...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: probability of nitrate contamination, see USGS Scientific Investigations Map 2881 at http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim

Dissolved silicate in waters offshore Oregon and in four adjacent rivers

Creator:: Matson, Adrian Luther
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Oceanography Dean of the Graduate School Date thesis is presented 7/ /( Typed by Jane Sim Redacted for

Dust storm transport of pathogenic microbes to Viking Scandinavia : a query into possible environmental vectors or disease pathogenesis in a closed biological and ecological system

Creator:: Boling, David Carter
Abstract:: This thesis is an integrated study that links several disciplines-archaeology, anthropology, geography, atmospheric sciences, and microbiology. It attempts to generate an argument that central to climate change is disequilibrium in human ecologies- in my case, disease ecologies in Iceland during the 15th century. This thesis investigates the environment's effect on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A contribution to the paleontology of the Palezoic faunas of central Oregon

Creator:: Gonzales, B. Norman
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: characteritica. y that develoled in ormatioi:s of' uniform hardness, the dissection is su'ùorciinatecL by the

Virtual virtuosos : cyborgs and integrative ethics in the intimate machine

Creator:: Clemenhagen, Ronda L.
Abstract:: Standard accounts of women's relationship with technology stress women's need to overcome anxiety to achieve competence with computers. Recent studies provide evidence that this woman-anxiety-technology connection is an oversimplification of the relationship between women and computers. New literature also suggests that making computers more appealing will help girls overcome computational...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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The histology of the male and female reproductive tracts of nutria Myocastor coypus (Molina)

Creator:: Stanley, Hugh Palmerlee
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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The source and promotion of a fashion trend

Creator:: Runkle, A'Leen Elizabeth
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: followed. Designers in the ready-to-wear industry created sports wear of sim;lo and functional design

Acculturation and food : a study of Vietnamese women in Portland, Oregon

Creator:: Sarasin, Heather M.
Abstract:: This study is intended to provide information about the situation of first-generation Vietnamese women to the IRCO Parent and Child Program Department in Portland, Oregon. Nutrition intervention and food assistance currently offered to Vietnamese women enrolled in this program is the focus of the study. The women interviewed characterize themselves...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: identity (Ogden & Elder, 1998), or multiple acculturation indicators (Kim & Sim, 2001). Some of these

The Yellow House: Stories of Place, Space and Community

Creator:: Gann, Tamara S.
Abstract:: This thesis is an IRB-exempt oral history focused on the non-profit Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) in Corvallis, Oregon. The CMLC, formerly on 9th Street, was known to many community members as the Yellow House. The Yellow House was a dedicated community-based space where people of all cultures could come...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Certain ecological aspects of cultivated hill pastures in Kings Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Miller, Bonita June
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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An illustrated key to the ferns of Oregon

Creator:: Pembrook, Helen Patricia O'Donahue
Abstract:: The purpose of the work is to enable students of botany to identify accurately Oregon ferns, both as living plants and as dried specimens. Therefore, it provides vegetative keys to the families, genera and species of the ferns (Class FILICINAE) found in Oregon. Correct names have been determined using the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Behavioral characteristics reported by teachers in referring problem children to the Multnomah County Juvenile Court

Creator:: Schmurr, Leonard William
Abstract:: This study is an attempt to discover (1) the types of behavior problems school people report, (2) whether these reports contain information which reliably indicates serious psychological disorders, and what might be expected as a result of proper definition and recognition of these problems. In addition, the findings of experts...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Audio-visual aids in the library

Creator:: Smith, Xenophon Palmer
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: used on!y on premises ( Does library own a projector ( ) More than one ( ) How many ( Are projectors

William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

Creator:: Taylor, H. Terry
Abstract:: In their modern context questions of heredity have come to be closely aligned with theories of evolution because all such theories require the presence of heritable variation. Thus the need for an understanding of a source of variation and a mechanism for its inheritance became very apparent with the general...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The growth and development of practice-teaching facilities at the Oregon Normal school

Creator:: Wall, Lucille Eugenie
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Act of 183e (,tasachusetts) rovided for the establishment of prao- tioe soho1s. Although origin1).y

A Queer Feminist Interpretation of Selected Narratives from the Mahabharata : An Analysis of Alternate Paradigms of Gender and Sexuality within the Epic

Creator:: Gharti Chhetri G. C., Sanju
Abstract:: Informed by feminist and queer theories, this thesis provides an alternate reading of selected narratives from the Hindu epic “Mahabharata”. By queering the narratives from the epic, this thesis highlights the existence of fluid notions of sexuality and gender present within Hindu religious texts. In doing so, the study aims...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The relationship of some family background variables to college graduation

Creator:: Ghaffari, Rose Marie Hughes
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships that were hypothesized to exist between the variables birth order, family size, and parents college attendance and the dependent variable, college graduation. The three general hypotheses tested were: 1. A positive relationship exists between a given position in birth order...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The effect of void distribution on the Hugoniot state of porous media

Creator:: Creel, Emory Myron Willett
Abstract:: Shocked porous granular material experiences pressure dependent compaction. D. John Pastine introduced a model in which the degree of compaction is dependent on the pressure induced by the shock wave, the shear strength of the material, and the distribution of void sizes. In the past, the model could only be...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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An investigation into the ecology and distribution of Kalmiopsis leachiana (Hend.) Rehder

Creator:: Marquis, Robert John
Abstract:: Ecological factors associated with the relictual distribution of the endemic shrub Kalmiopsis leachiana (Ericaceae) were investigated. A prostrate evergreen species with small coriaceous leaves, K. leachiana is restricted to two disjunct populations in the Siskiyou Mountains and southern Cascade Mountains of southwestern Oregon, USA. Exact distributions of individual populations were...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ordination of sampled Kalmiopsis stands with end stands computer-picked and dependent mode of Y-end stand

The Norwegian-Swedish crisis of 1905

Creator:: Fedde, Gabriel Bernhard
Abstract:: The Norwegian-Swedish Crisis of 1905 is unique because the two kingdoms, united in a dual monarchy, separated peacably. The thesis raises three questions: why did Norway want independence at all, why was the secession peacable, and can any of the factors which solved the Crisis of 1905 be injected or...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: with Karl Y. Gustaf of Sweden to regain supremacy in the North went badly for Denmark- Norway,13

Democracy as exemplified by the western powers and by the Soviet Union in the reorientation of youth in occupied Germany

Creator:: Cate, Donald Francis
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Construction of Masculinity in the Online Communities Where Men Talk About Their Experiences as Buyers in the Sex Trade

Creator:: Rosario Sanchez, Raquel
Abstract:: This thesis on online communities for sex buyers seeks to understand questions such as “what can we learn from online communities for sex buyers?” We explore these issues with the framework of Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis and through the use of qualitative research of both the review boards at Punternet...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Double exposure

Creator:: Raleigh, Elisabeth A.
Abstract:: DOUBLE EXPOSURE is a novel concerned with the phenomenon of memory. The story explores such questions as: To what extent does "memory" (and the narratives we construct from it) explain who we are? How is memory influenced by others-and does it matter if it is? Can a memory that is...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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