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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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    Pardoner asks the other pilgrims to buy relics, after mentioning earlier that they were fake. 13

  • 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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    levels and included the fourth level of anagogical. 13 These levels were applied to texts as varied

  • 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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    ). Perhaps Salinger‘s experiences mirrored Seymour‘s, though the connection 13 between the two is

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

    Creator:
    Morris, C. Gordon
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  • Interconversions of monoterpenes in peppermint

    Creator:
    Burbott, Alice Joyce
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    The analysis of the distribution of monoterpenes through the leaf pairs of a single shoot of Mentha piperita supports Reitsema's contention that the first terpenes formed are unsaturated ketones and that saturated terpenes are produced from these. The growth of Mentha piperita under varying conditions of temperature and the leaf-by-leaf...
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    May 13, 1963 Title Interconversions of Monoter enes in Pe ermint Abstract approved The analysis

  • The relationship of some family background variables to college graduation

    Creator:
    Ghaffari, Rose Marie Hughes
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    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...
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    ) (Degree) in GENERAL STUDIES presented on August 13, 1970 (Major) (Date) Title: THE RELATIONSHIP OF SOME

  • A program for the fundamental theorum on symmetric functions

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    Upatisringa, Visutdhi
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    The computation of symmetric functions can be tedious. For this reason, the object of this paper is to devise a computer program so that these symmetric functions can be handled automatically. The contribution of this investigation is a heuristic for finding the polynomials proved to exist by the Fundamental Theorem...
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    ) END K(1) =N -d r =1 13 :IF L(R) -K(R) NL go to 14 if p -r neg go to 15 gc to 13 14:IF -K(R

  • Dissolved silicate in waters offshore Oregon and in four adjacent rivers

    Creator:
    Matson, Adrian Luther
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    ................................. 36 13. Yaquina Bay Samples, 20 DEC 63, 4 JAN 64. Non-frozen Dissolved Silicate

  • A piezoelectric thin-sectioning attachment for a standard microtome

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    Ronne, James Sayre
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