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  • Byron, Don Juan, and catharsis

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    Greene, Wanda S.
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    This thesis seeks to explain how Lord George Gordon Byron achieves catharsis through the writing of his truth in Don Juan. In the poem the narrator expresses Byron's innermost emotion while at the same time the protagonist, Juan, relates to readers on a more conscious level. The ability that Byron...
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    approved: This thesis seeks to explain how Lord George Gordon Byron achieves catharsis through the

  • George Bernard Shaw's "Big Three" : an althusserian reading of Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara

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    Kramer, Johanna I.
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    Traditional readings of George Bernard Shaw's texts suggest that he is not a pure Marxist socialist because of the spiritual and nationalist aspects of his vision. This thesis attempts to confront Shaw's politics in order to demonstrate that he indeed offers a viable socialist program. Overlaying his socialism with Louis...
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    of Master of Arts in English presented on June 11, 1998. Title: George Bernard Shaw's "Big Three

  • The Norwegian-Swedish crisis of 1905

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    Fedde, Gabriel Bernhard
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    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...
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    -w a , 26 was founded in 1811. (17,p. 339 -343) Toward the end of the century the movement

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

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    Taylor, H. Terry
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    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...
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    William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case

  • Slippery paths : connections and divergences between historic preservation and tourism in Micronesia

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    Krause, Elizabeth L.
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    Micronesians are in the process of becoming independent nation-states after nearly a century of colonial rule, including four decades of U.S. administration as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Pressures to attain self-sufficiency have led many of these island nations to embrace tourism as an economic development strategy. Meanwhile,...
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    the thesis. Historian and committee member William Robbins' editing suggestions refined the

  • The effect of music in fashion video advertisements on attitude toward apparel brand

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    Hennessy, Karen E.
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    Products as diverse as soda-pop, fashion and automobiles are selling to the tunes of classic and current pop and rock music. The combination of MTV (Music Television), the latest audio-visual technology, and the replacement of movie stars by rock stars as the idols of contemporary youth (Beckett, 1985; Hartman, 1987),...
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    , especially my father James W. Hennessy, without whose support my graduate study would not have been possible

  • A contribution toward a bibliography of Oregon botany with notes on the botanical explorers of the state

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    Osborn, Katherine H., 1906-
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    : Cryptogamia, Musei, William Sullivan, p.1-112; Lichenes, Edward Tuckerman, p.113-152; Algae, J. W. Bailey

  • The archaeology of the Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon

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    Stone, Helen Delight
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    Site ORYA3, the Smith House, is located in Dayton, Oregon. The archaeological project originated because owners of this structure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, applied for a demolition permit. The 1859 home, first occupied by two early Oregon pioneers, Andrew and Sarah Smith, was considered architecturally significant,...
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    preservationist Mike Byrnes. The March 1993 crew consisted of: Robert Cromwell, George Wisner, Joy Hagler, Mary

  • "Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

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    Hiatt, Bryan
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    Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth timber in the Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining interests, for instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64), individuals that possess very different sensibilities from a...
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    in America in 1888 (Engels 1). The Enlightenment and Romantic minds sensed the changes that the new

  • Artificial intelligence and cyberpunk

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    Scott, Ron
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    This thesis examines the ways in which cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series of relationships predicated on the way that corporate control of knowledge industries increased during the 1980s. The document begins by locating the means of corporate control in the...
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    Research," 197) "The street finds its own use for things." (William Gibson, Count Zero, 69) In Darkness