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  • Crossing the Human: Posthumanist Deviations in Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy

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    Johnson, Anthony
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    This thesis argues that the first two novels of Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy mark a sharp turn from the antihumanism of his earlier ‘Southern’ novels to a more affective exploration of posthumanist subjectivity within a world dominated by social discourse and metanarratives. In my examination of All the Pretty...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Anthony Johnson

  • Solidarity’s Last Stand: Rudi Nussbaum and the Hanford Downwinders

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    Vitale, Anthony
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    The Hanford Nuclear Reservation drew public ire during the 1980s and 1990s when activist groups forced the declassification of 19,000 documents and discovered proof of accidental and intentional releases of radioactive materials into the environment. These releases had been kept from the public. Although many locals had for decades wondered...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Anthony Vitale for the degree of Master of Arts in Environmental

  • An autumn journey : time, place, and pattern in Henry David Thoreau's later work

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    Dotterman, Anthony Matthew
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    This thesis situates a discussion of Thoreau's later natural history essays in the context of the author's other writings. Beginning with an examination of the writings of Thoreau's friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, this paper examines Thoreau's relation to and departure from Emerson's understanding of time, place, and pattern...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Anthony Matthew Dotterman for the

  • "It was on the tip of everyone's tongue, Tyler and I just gave it a name" : Fight Club's representation of consumer culture

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    Wicks, James Anthony
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    This thesis examines the representation of consumer culture in Fight Club within the context of Frederic Jameson's theory of postmodernism. I propose that the film represents consumer culture as a totalizing system. This representation is evident in the setting of the film and in the Narrator's attempt to escape from...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF James Anthony Wicks for

  • The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

    Creator:
    Swanner, Leandra
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    This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the discovery of the tau lepton by physicist Martin Perl between 1973- 1977. Perl became interested in searching for heavy leptons through positron-electron collision experiments using the...
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    ‘Fundamental’ Particles,” in Science in the Twentieth Century, ed. John Krige and Dominique Pestre (Amsterdam

  • Invitations to the writing life : a study of popular writing books

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    Finley, Devon
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    The field of composition studies has concerned itself with the way in which people learn to write and the role schooling plays in writing development. Recently a trend has developed within the field towards exploring writing development outside of the classroom, termed the extracurriculum. Much of the scholarship thus far...
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    , Ralph Rodriguez, and Anthony Wilcox - thank you for all of your time, support, and feedback. I could

  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

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    Wood, Amy
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    In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
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  • An analysis of social relationships at a development site in Kenya

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    Burke, Deborah A.
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    Both development and post-structuralist anthropologists have critiqued development. Development anthropologists are concerned that development does not take adequate account of the social and cultural factors of developing nations, while post structuralists question the ontology of development and assert that domination over developing nations is inherent in the concept of development....
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    Relationships at a Development Site in Kenya. Abstract approved: John Young Both development and post

  • Shifting the scholarly conversation : a rhetorical reading of Peter Elbow's work

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    Slaton, Dorothy N.
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    Shifting the Scholarly Conversation: A Rhetorical Reading of Peter Elbow's Work explores Peter Elbow's contributions to the field of writing and rhetoric. Over the course of his long career, Elbow’s scholarly and pedagogical work has been much praised and much criticized. Elbow's work has influenced generations of teachers and writers,...
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    interview with John Boe for Writing on the Edge, Elbow describes this struggle: It wasn’t just that I

  • Theoretical perspectives on Latin American indigenous development, with reference to a case study of Cebadas, Ecuador

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    Ocana, Juan Carlos
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    This thesis presents a discussion of the main materialistic theories proposed to explain the process of development among the indigenous population of Latin America. Four theoretical approaches are presented and discussed. The first one deals with the social group referred to as peasants. The second one explains the process of...
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    here. The members of my committee, Dr. John Young, my major professor, Dr. Court Smith, and Dr