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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:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Heather M Sarasin for the degree

Independent Volunteer Travelers in Nepal

Creator:: Douglas, Heather F.
Abstract:: The objective of this research is to shed light on the phenomenon of independent volunteer traveling. It represents a form of tourism in which travelers independently organize their own volunteer efforts and typically provide assistance to local people in return for room and board. Travelers operate outside the confines of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Heather F. Douglas for the degree

Patriarchal power and punishment : the trickster figure in the short fiction of Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates

Creator:: Strempke-Durgin, Heather D.
Abstract:: This thesis is an exploration of how male trickster figures operate in the Gothic fiction of 20th century American female authors. Specifically, I look at the short stories “The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson, “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Heather D. Strempke

Of mice and bunnies : Walt Disney, Hugh Hefner, and the age of consensus

Creator:: Allen-Spencer, Patricia C.
Abstract:: Post World War II victory culture and its fallout-the consensus ideology-led to the creation of a middle class willing to conform to a prescribed set of ideals, safely removed from all danger, and enjoying the material benefits of a growing middle-class income bracket. Walt Disney and Hugh Hefner, two seemingly...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: led Disney to recognize the need for television to finance the construction of his theme park. John M

Certain ecological aspects of cultivated hill pastures in Kings Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Miller, Bonita June
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: by Bonita June Miller A THESIS submitted to OREGON STATE COLLEGE in partial f'flflflment of

Cosmic Heritages: Multiraciality and Epistemologies of Black and Native Storytelling

Creator:: Miller, Gabrielle
Abstract:: This thesis thinks through the ways in which Black and Native storying offer epistemological interventions on neoliberal formations of multiracial identity. I argue that Black and Native storytelling methods and methodologies facilitate rethinking and re/unlearning relationships to the racial and ethnic categories of mixed-race, biracial, and multiracial, as well as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Gabrielle Miller for

The size of the chromosome segment transduced by phage Pl.

Creator:: Cowan, Judith Harmon Miller
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to determine whether the transducing phage Pl picks up original bacterial chromosome segments and whether these segments are always the same size. The plan of approach was to grow the donor bacteria Escherichia coli C600 gal⁺ (galactose) in minimal media containing the heavy isotopes...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Judith Harmon Miller Cowan for the M. A. in Microbiology (Degree

Chronic low back pain : patient perceptions and treatment trajectories in Australia's medical system

Creator:: Miller, Carissa (Carissa Marie)
Abstract:: The perplexing condition of chronic pain, particularly low back pain, is the catalyst for interest in this research project. It is specifically focused on treatment trajectories of individuals experiencing chronic low back pain. The predominant interest is the utilization of alternative treatments and that of mainstream medicine (also referred to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: OF THE THESIS OF Carissa Miller for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented

Feedback as Critical Care: An Antiracist, Feminist Praxis for Composition

Creator:: Rowland, Olivia A.
Abstract:: Feminist compositionists have long argued for addressing the feminization of composition, or its association with low value “women’s work,” by revaluing caring labor (Enos; Heinert and Phillips; Tuell). However, this argument assumes that writing teachers’ care work is beneficial for all students and teachers. Focusing on responding to student writing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: discipline. As Susan Miller writes, the term “‘feminization’ calls to mind both positive new moves in

"No one cared we was just Indian women" : plants as a catalyst to Eastern Shawnee women's identity change

Creator:: Osborne-Gowey, Cathleen
Abstract:: Being an Eastern Shawnee Tribal member I understand the importance of documenting oral histories of Tribal elders to ensure that our cultural history is passed on to future generations. Therefore, the focus of this project is the collection, of oral histories and folklore in order to document traditional knowledge and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Signature redacted for privacy. Deanna M. Kingston Being an Eastern Shawnee Tribal member I understand the

Farmers' markets and food access : Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) use at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon farmers' markets

Creator:: Finneran, Kathleen B.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon Farmers' Markets and its role in food access for SNAP participants. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach combining a farmers' market survey and household interviews, the study investigated who uses SNAP at the farmers'...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and Albany, Oregon Farmers’ Markets Abstract approved: Lisa M. L. Price This thesis explores the

Urban residents and non-point source pollution : an examination of practices, influences, and values in the Tualatin watershed

Creator:: Nielson, Lisa M.
Abstract:: In July of 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) activated the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDLs) provisions of the Clean Water Act. As the first river in Oregon to implement TMDL regulations, people and agencies in the Tualatin basin face many challenges. Non-point source pollution affects water quality in the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT FOR THE THESIS OF Lisa M. Nielson for the degree of

Counterfeit arcadias : Nathaniel Hawthorne's materialist response to the culture of reform

Creator:: White, Andrew
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Materialist Response to the Culture of Reform. Abstract approved: David M. Robinson Nathaniel

Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

Creator:: Martin, Brian D.
Abstract:: This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: ____________________________________________________________________ David M. Robinson

Generalized deformation-rates in secondary flows of viscoelastic fluids between rotating spheres

Creator:: Knoshaug, Ronald Norman
Abstract:: By various experiments, it has been found that the response of real materials to external forces is, in general, nonlinear in character. In classical continuum mechanics, the use of ordinary measures of strain have forced the constitutive equations to take complex forms and since the orders of these measures are...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: when m = 1/6. 49 4.8 The projections of the particle path on any plane containing the axis of rotation

A survey of the resources of Union County

Creator:: Richards, Wayne Elliott
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: extended to ialter . Fergerson, James M. Trappe, and Paul Anderson for their technical assi s tance

Beyond Borders: Understanding the Interplay of Factors in Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Creator:: De La Rosa, Sarah
Abstract:: This thesis explores the intricate issues surrounding migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, offering diverse perspectives and insights into its drivers, consequences, and ethical dimensions. Through three comprehensive papers, this research offers a nuanced analysis of the complex dynamics influencing the migration crisis. The first examines the historical and theoretical factors...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Miller for their support and expertise during the process of growing the kernel of an idea into a

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
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Susan M. Shaw This thesis on online communities for sex buyers seeks to understand

"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:: Evan M. Gottlieb My thesis explores the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William

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
Full Text:: Integrative Ethics in the mt mate Machine. Abstract approved: William M. Keith Standard accounts of women's

“The System is F*cked. Everything needs to Change:” A Queer Feminist Pro-Sex Work Analysis of the Digital Age

Creator:: Barrett, Emerson LR
Abstract:: “The system is fucked. Everything needs to change” was stated by Ashley Paige, a professional dominatrix and author in We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, at a book launch event. Paige’s sentiments are poignant and a call to action to all of us. Through this thesis, I will...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: lasted 24 days in Philadelphia (Miller). Sonya Aragon speaks to this brief halt in arrests by stating

"A Sea of Grief is Not a Proscenium": Claudia Rankine's Citizen and the Spectacle of Racist Violence in Cyberculture

Creator:: Lathos, Athena M.
Abstract:: In her 2016 article “Beyond Rights as Recognition, Black Twitter and Posthuman Coalitional Possibilities,” Pritha Prasad argues that the hashtag, one of the decade’s most omnipresent features of digital communication, functions as “a performative composing medium that not only demands relationality” and “call[s] for the recognition of both the Black...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: This term is attributed to M. Sloop and J. Gunn. However, Cisneros and Nakayama defer to Jessica

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:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Wesley M. Snyder for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on

Cosmovisions and Farming : An Investigation of Conventional and Alternative Farmers' Environmental Values along the Willamette River

Creator:: French, Melissa M.
Abstract:: Understanding which factors motivate farmers to adopt certain practices is an important part of helping to solve many agri-environmental issues. This study uses 19 interviews with farmers along Oregon’s Willamette River, a statewide producer survey, and select interviews with organizations and agencies active in the farming community to examine the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Melissa M. French for the degree of

The use of a technical library

Creator:: Jorgensen, William Ernest, 1913-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: acknowledgement is due to Miss Lucy M. Lewis, Director of Libraries, for her enthusiasm and gen- erous support

Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels

Creator:: Bacon, Julie M.
Abstract:: This thesis is arranged in three chapters which explore Wharton’s representations of nature in three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), and The Custom of the County (1913). This thesis contends that Wharton’s novels reveal changes in the interplay between representations of nature and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Julie M. Bacon for the degree of

Writing (righting) the silences : "points of perspective" for texts and students

Creator:: Payne, Eva M.
Abstract:: The classroom practices discussed in this thesis come slowly and at a "slant" to feminism through critical reading of texts, a practice that I call a (re)presentation of the silent women in texts. Given our patriarchal western culture, making meaning, and especially making sense, of the role and representations of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: texts and students AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Eva M. Payne for the degree of Master of Arts in

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

Creator:: Davis, Caryn M.
Abstract:: At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: _________________________________________________________ AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Caryn M. Davis for the degree of Master of Arts in

Cape Scene & the path to a conscientious tourism product

Creator:: Sykes, Kimberly M.
Abstract:: Many countries around the world are looking to tourism as a sustainable solution for economic development and many individuals seek business opportunities in the tourism industry. Researchers in the field of anthropology and other disciplines alike have recorded findings of the environmental, economic and cultural impacts of tourism development that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF KIMBERLY M. SYKES Kimberly M

Factors influencing the use of complementary and alternative medicine by Korean American women

Creator:: Skidmore, Jennifer M.
Abstract:: This study examines the utilization of health care by Korean American women in Pierce County, Washington. Pierce County, with its large population of Asian Americans, offers a variety of health care options, everything from biomedicine to acupuncture and herbal remedies. Regarding the multitude of options available, I asked the question...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Jennifer M. Skidmore for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on April 27, 2006

From teacups to lumber : archaeological site content and integrity of the Copeland Site (35BE90), Corvallis, Oregon

Creator:: Kanaby, Kara M.
Abstract:: This thesis describes the archaeological site content and integrity of the Copeland site (35BE90) in Corvallis, Oregon. The Copeland site is owned by the Benton County Historical Society and is the future home of the Benton County Historical Museum. In 2001, an Oregon State University archaeological field school was conducted...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kara M. Kanaby for the degree of

A classification of determinants whose evaluations have appeared in periodical literature

Creator:: Liebetrau, Albert M.
Abstract:: This paper is a classification of 181 problems, each of which involves the evaluation or application of determinants. The problems are those which have appeared in the "Problems and Solutions" sections of the American Mathematical Monthly, Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung Jahresbricht, Mathematics Magazine, and School Science and Mathematics. The problems are classified,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (Miller, 1930). Vanderrnonde (1771) rnay be considered the formal founder of determinant theory (Srnith

The benefits of diversified agricultural systems among Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize

Creator:: Hofbauer, Derek M.
Abstract:: Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize face socio-economic hardships, persisting environmental constraints, and an unfavorable political climate that has prevented land tenure stability on reservation lands. This thesis describes the agricultural practices of a group of Mopan farmers and examines farm-site diversification and its relationship to ecological knowledge, out-migration, agricultural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF: Derek M. Hofbauer for the degree

Believing details

Creator:: Harrell, Anna M.
Abstract:: In this creative non-fiction thesis, the author reads her own life, suggesting that she believes in the details of experience and knows truth in and through experience even though the truth is not always clear. The first chapter includes several narratives from her childhood experience. In the second chapter, the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Anna M. Harrell for the degree of

Archaeological Textile Fragments Present an Opportunity In the Study of Social and Landscape Interactions

Creator:: Lopez, Kirsten M.
Abstract:: Textiles (including basketry, cordage, woven, knotted, or plaited products) make up a considerable portion of the perishable archaeological record in dry caves of the northern Great Basin region, much of which is created from plants and plant fibers. The archaeological study of precontact textiles greatly informs our understanding of how...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The emergency department as a provider of nonemergent care

Creator:: Stiles, Catherine M.
Abstract:: Emergency departments (ED) provide access to care for large numbers of patients who have nonemergent medical needs. More than half of the patients presenting to the ED at Salem Hospital in Salem, Oregon, were found to be seeking care for nonemergent medical needs. In an effort to provide an alternative...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF II IF. THESIS OF Cathenne M. Stiles for the

Vibrant colors, transient shadows : woman artists and the brushstrokes of impressionist sensibility in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

Creator:: Kondrack, Kayleen Rose
Abstract:: This thesis explores the artistic imperatives and internal struggles of women painters in two novels, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927). I identify Chopin's Edna Pontellier and Woolf’s Lily Briscoe as painters who exhibit Impressionist strains, both in how they paint and how they...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: painting focused on natural environments. As Joe Houston, Dominique H. Vasseur, and M. Melissa Wolfe

"They said I would never amount to anything" : the life of a Kootenai woman

Creator:: Wheaton-Abraham, Jyl M.
Abstract:: There is a fundamental distortion in our understanding of Native people, especially Native women. This distortion is rooted in imperialism and the colonization of Native lands and has created a dominant/subordinate relationship between Non-Native/Native people. Anthropological life history research has traditionally reflected this relationship. As a Native woman, the author...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jyl M. Wheaton-Abraham for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied

Latino youth, gangs, and community activism : a case study of advocacy anthropology

Creator:: Kabarec-Quiroz, Tina M.
Abstract:: A social issue of great importance in contemporary society is the involvement of youth in gangs. Youth involvement in gang activity has dominated the national media and the minds of public policy makers in contemporary society. In this thesis I examine how Latino and Chicano youth sub-culture, language, dress, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Tina M. Kabarec-Quiroz for the

James Joyce's critique of "Faubourg Saint Patrice" : Ulysses, the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage

Creator:: Nelson, John C. M.
Abstract:: In his works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922), James Joyce demonstrates what he perceives to be the paralyzing effects of those institutionalized religions that sit at the center of cultures. Drawing on Michel Foucault's analysis of institutional dressage as well as his...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: outward manifestations" (Miller 1). Or, as Joyce himself would relate before the same Triestian audience

The Grizzly Bear and the Deer : the history of Federal Indian Policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877

Creator:: Van Laere, M. Susan
Abstract:: The Coast Reservation of Oregon was established under Executive Order of President Franklin Pierce in November, 1855, as a homeland for the southern Oregon tribes. It was an immense, isolated wilderness, parts of which had burned earlier in the century. There were some prairies where farming was possible, but because...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF M. Susan Van Laere for the degree

Rhetorical Arrangement and the Digital Archive : Finding Women’s Voices in the Linus Pauling Papers

Creator:: Boardman, Colleen
Abstract:: The common imagining of archives characterizes these spaces as monolithic, hallowed sites of preserved truths, carefully catalogued and stored, static and frozen in history and waiting to be uncovered. My thesis works to dispel this myth and identify rhetorical elements of the archive’s structure in order to assess how the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: practices are an ongoing feminist issue (Moseley & Wheatley, Eichhorn, Birmingham, Allard & Ferris, Miller

Allocation in Health Care : Antecedent Conditions and Catholic Insights

Creator:: Hosford, Laura L.
Abstract:: This research was aimed at providing the foundation for changing standards of care in a critical care setting using Catholic concepts of respect for human dignity, subsidiarity, common good, and solidarity as a matter of social justice. I first unpacked the nature of ICU care and the inevitability of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Richard Miller and Thomas Nagel as an antecedent condition to allocation decisions. Finally I

The study of fluo-tantalum species by solvent extraction

Creator:: Coker, Marjory Carol
Abstract:: The extraction of tantalum fluoride complexes by large cationic extractants (tetraphenylarsonium ion, TPA, and crystal violet) and by methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK) has been investigated as a function of fluoride concentration using ¹⁸² Ta as tracer. Extractions by the cationic extractants into chloroform were carried out in the absence of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ) presented on (Major) M. A. (Degree) au is, / (Date) Title: THE STUDY OF FLUO- TANTALUM SPECIES BY SOLVENT

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:: major vegetation units: (1) low elevation Siskiyou stands (300-600 m), characterized by a conifer

Eva Nightingale

Creator:: Chernik, Abra Fortune
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: so 1975. So like m dad. (glancing at her, she's not amused) 'Course I'm gonna turn him down

Fostering a Multidimensional, Metacognitive Landscape Through Rhetorical Narrative Analysis

Creator:: Breeden, Regan
Abstract:: Close reading has long been favored as an interpretative framework within those classrooms commonly united under the umbrella of English studies. This thesis explores the role of a particular brand of close reading—one often assessed through text-dependent questions—and critiques its centrality within assessment and curriculum materials for the AP Program...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: close reading, Heather Love’s close but not deep 5 approach, reader-response theory, and what I

Animals of the subalpine forest of the McKenzie Pass area

Creator:: Yancey, Robert Maxwell
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: shallow pOflds are found beds of motirtain heather (Phyllodoce empetriforinis). Mountain mecdows are

Religion in the writing classroom : toward a pedagogy of possibility

Creator:: May, Laura D.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I examine composition scholarship on the intersections of religious faith and writing pedagogy over the past twenty years, tracing the origins of compositionists' discomfort with religion and focusing on pedagogical approaches for working with religiously-committed students. In particular, I emphasize the way in which these approaches are...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Risk Perceptions in the Oregon Hazelnut Growing Industry: An Exploratory Study of a Recovering Industry

Creator:: Harrison, Darin L.
Abstract:: This paper is an exploratory study of the risk perceptions in the Oregon Hazelnut growing community. The study takes place at a time when the industry as a whole has begun to stabilize from the effects of Eastern Filbert Blight, a fungal pathogen that infects hazelnut trees which had devastated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: investigation of the relationship between farmers and other species is Heather Paxson’s (2013) The Life of

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