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  • The accessible Chaucer

    Creator:
    Luepke, Natasha M.
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    In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have access to Geoffrey Chaucer and his works. I look at issues surrounding Chaucer within the canon debate, high school history and literature textbooks, and Chaucer in popular culture, such as in movies like A Knight's Tale. I...
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    the New York Times Bestseller list. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/books/bestseller

  • The Clerk’s Tale : literal monstrosities and allegorical problems

    Creator:
    Brock, Christopher J.
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    My thesis, entitled “The Clerk’s Tale: Literal Monstrosities and Allegorical Problems,” argues that Chaucer’s Clerk is engaging both sides of a binary system. The Clerk has situated himself in a precarious position between two major schools of thought in the medieval culture, Franciscan and Dominican; the former promotes the will...
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    sentence.” 11 12 Origen described the three levels as: historical, moral, and allegory, 12

  • Water over stones : Oregon watershed stories

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    Oberst, Gail D.
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    The 13 personal essays in Water over Stones: Oregon Watershed Stories explore the author's experiences in dozens of Oregon watersheds. Using the genre of the personal essay, the author, a fifth-generation Oregonian and amateur ecologist, writes about her life and family relationships in stories that are saturated with the waters...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Gail D. Oberst for the degree of

  • In Defense of the "Ringding Mukta" : The Later Work of J.D. Salinger

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    Herb, Danielle Kristine
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    My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger, including two narratives featured in Nine Stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and "Teddy," and Franny and Zooey, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," and "Seymour: an Introduction." Through my analysis I argue that the religious nature of Salinger's fiction...
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    or linearity‖ (Posnock par. 12). This, cites his harshest of critics, was Salinger‘s ultimate

  • Justifications for K-12 education standards, goals, and curriculum

    Creator:
    Creighton, Sean
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    In the contemporary U.S., the state, through the Legislative Assembly, the State Board of Education, and the Department of Education, sets policies for K-12 education. These include goals and standards that affect the kinds of influences local officials, parents, and students can have on various education programs, required and elective...
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    presented on January 7, 2013 Title: Justifications for K-12 Education Standards, Goals, and Curriculum

  • A study of the differential equation d²w/dz² + (m + z²)w=0

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    Morris, C. Gordon
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    ( %' ) 1 . o(i-'±ti')+ zi (o-T) UG (_) % O.:»lD uoTnb [UO ULütX OJOf D SOJGZ -[4T UO4flOS UJJJÇp

  • Exploring Embodied Gender Identities in Steven Universe

    Creator:
    Painter, Stephanie
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    Steven Universe, a relatively new show from Cartoon Network, explores an unexpectedly complex understanding of gender through their main protagonists. Utilizing Judith Butler’s work on gender performativity and doing gender, as well as Daniel Dennett’s conception of the self as a theorist’s fiction, and Alexander Weheliye’s understanding of power and...
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    ....................................................................................................9 2.2 Gender Representation in Children’s Animation .......................................12

  • Effect of vitamin B-6 status on Selenium metabolism in the rat

    Creator:
    Beilstein, Michael A.
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    \ Philip D. Whanged The trace mineral nutrient, selenium, occurs mostly as selenoamino acids in

  • The Space Between: How We Understood, Valued, and Governed the Ocean Through the Process of Marine Science and Emerging Technologies

    Creator:
    Newton, Samantha
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    Ian Angell, in the New Barbarian Manifesto, said “A ‘brave new world’ is being forced upon unsuspecting societies by advances in information technology.” It would seem then, that technological advances happen automatically and have a life of their own. There is a logic to technological advancements that is outside human...
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    ...................................................................... 45 Figure 12: Ringman's photo on the cover of pH

  • Colonization, Statemaking, and Development: A Political Ecology of the Saru River Development Project, Hokkaido, Japan

    Creator:
    Ioannides, Michael J.
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    Although dam construction has been an integral tool in development initiatives for nearly a century, dams can have significant negative impacts on local residents, particularly those who are permanently displaced from their homes and must be resettled elsewhere. Dams have unique impacts on indigenous peoples. As a result, many dam...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Bryan D. Tilt Although dam construction has been an integral tool in development initiatives