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Using stable-isotope analysis to obtain dietary profiles from old hair

Creator:: Roy, Diana Milantia
Abstract:: Stable isotope analysis of human tissue can provide information about diet independent of artifactual remains. Food is broken down and used in the synthesis of body tissue, so the isotopic composition of hair keratin reflects the isotopic composition of foods consumed. Therefore, the analysis of hair can provide a window...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Diana Milantia Roy for the degree

National lumber exchange in Portland

Creator:: Schmelzlee, Robert
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: '?';_.._/..,.Y. ___;y ? Typed by" Diana Woo • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Page I. Introduction

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:: would let Carol and Diana,5 the prenatal care practitioners, know that I had arrived. Diana and Carol

Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

Creator:: McLemore, Emily C.
Abstract:: This project examines two understudied female characters from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales who emerge as subversive figures by striving to maintain control over their bodies and being. Through my analyses of the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales, I reveal how virginity correlates with bodily autonomy for the narratives’ respective protagonists,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: by captivity in a foreign land, Emelye enters the temple of Diana in a desperate attempt to salvage

Imagining them, reimagining ourselves : a case study of cultural appropriation and the politics of identity

Creator:: Smith-Nolan, Mary K.
Abstract:: Several popular cultural movements emphasizing indigenous spirituality have arisen in the United States and Europe within the past thirty years. Spiritual discourses attributed to Native Americans, among other groups, are borrowed by Euro-Americans in search of alternatives to dominant ideologies. In such a circumstance, Native Americans become part of a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of the notion that there is a Spirit world and that prayer makes a difference (RCC Interview: Diana

"Justify[ing] the ways of God to man" : John Milton's Use of Satan to Promote a Christian Message in Paradise Lost

Creator:: Burkett, Kristen A.
Abstract:: This paper focuses on Satan as a sympathetic figure in Paradise Lost, and it argues that readers' sympathy for Satan drives them to pursue God's grace in order to avoid falling into the same fate as Satan. It uses Reader Response theory to show how readers connect with Satan, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: significant readings of Paradise Lost discuss the loss that comes from the fall. Diana Treviño Benet, in her

A Decolonial Option for Literary Criticism

Creator:: Bhogra, Siddharth
Abstract:: The ongoing “method war” in literary criticism that has manifested as the impasse between Critique and Postcritique, which are identified respectively with paranoid and reparative modes of reading, raises existential questions about criticism in the face of its declining social value under neoliberalism. This thesis enters that impasse to suggest...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Argument and common ground : scholarly research meets the common core state standards

Creator:: Clark, Jillian
Abstract:: This thesis examines the recent history of the teaching of argument and its implications in the face of new writing standards being implemented in K-12 classrooms under the Common Core State Standards. The new educational policies will shift the focus of writing instruction onto argument writing as part of students'...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Diana George, and Marilyn M. Cooper, describing their own classroom practices in a 1997 article

Women's experiences of breastfeeding in an out-of-hospital birthing community

Creator:: Marshall, Lindsay J.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I examine the experiences of breastfeeding mothers who chose to give birth with Certified Professional Midwives at a free-standing birth center, and the factors that influence their known high rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration. Using grounded theory and data collected from participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and...
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

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Using stable-isotope analysis to obtain dietary profiles from old hair

National lumber exchange in Portland

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

Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

Imagining them, reimagining ourselves : a case study of cultural appropriation and the politics of identity

"Justify[ing] the ways of God to man" : John Milton's Use of Satan to Promote a Christian Message in Paradise Lost

A Decolonial Option for Literary Criticism

Argument and common ground : scholarly research meets the common core state standards

Women's experiences of breastfeeding in an out-of-hospital birthing community

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

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