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  • A second look at Alexander Pope and Newtonian science

    Creator:
    Reid, Tim S.
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    "This Long Disease, My Life": Alexander Pope and the Sciences by Marjorie Nicolson and G.S. Rousseau has been the standard work on Alexander Pope and Newtonian science ever since it was published in 1968. Literary scholars and biographers continue to be swayed by its influence. Unfortunately, the work they so...
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    Master of Arts in General Science presented on July 6, 1995. Title: A Second Look at Alexander Pope and

  • A provenance study of crypto-crystalline silicates at the Cooper's Ferry site : a geochemical approach

    Creator:
    Nyers, Alexander John
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    A provenance study of crypto-crystalline silicates was performed at the Cooper's Ferry archaeological site in west-central Idaho on the Columbia Plateau. In this research, the author used instrumental neutron activation analysis as well as portable x-ray fluorescence to examine and characterize the geochemistry of 300 geologic samples of crypto-crystalline silicates...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Alexander John Nyers for

  • Biological activities of the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex owyheei Cole, in central Oregon

    Creator:
    Willard, John Royal Alexander
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    The mound-building harvester ant, Pogonmyrmex owyheei Cole, (formerly included in the species occidentals) is widely distributed on the semi-arid rangeland east of the Cascade mountains in Oregon. Because of its seed foraging and vegetation clearing habits, this ant has been considered as a possible competitor with livestock and wildlife for...
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    AgrIvITrEs 0F ttr8 HARVESTER ANt, PlqauluIEuEE q{rHEgI coLE, rN CENTRAL OREGoN by John Royal Alexander l

  • Translingual Science Communication: From Local Publications to the STEM Writing Classroom

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    Werndli, Alexander J.
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    In order to assist WAC/WID practitioners and science writing faculty in incorporating translingual perspectives in disciplinary writing instruction, this study extends translingualism to language practice in the sciences by conducting a corpus study of Al-Awamia, a Moroccan agronomic journal. Mapping rhetorically significant changes across abstracts authored in English, French, and...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Alexander J. Werndli

  • "Otherwise I hear riffs and drones": Sound and Decoloniality in Contemporary Latinx Poetics

    Creator:
    Diaz-Hui, Alexander
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    This thesis examines Latinx poetry in relation to the September 11th attacks and the reconfigurations of racial structures and the American empire that followed, most notably through the Department of Homeland Security and their agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE politically characterizes immigrants as anti-American to perpetuate stereotypes against...
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    ).docx AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Alexander Diaz-Hui for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • 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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    of the self as a theorist’s fiction, and Alexander Weheliye’s understanding of power and oppression

  • Toxic politics at 64N, 171W : addressing military contaminants on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

    Creator:
    Henifin, Kai A.
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    St. Lawrence Island, Alaska is home to two Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) under remediation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1985. After more than two decades the local residents continue to be concerned about inadequate site characterization and cleanup. During the summer of 2005, I collected ethnographic...
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    Abstract approved: John A. Young St. Lawrence Island, Alaska is home to two Formerly

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

    Creator:
    Nelson, John C. M.
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    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...
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    , the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF John C.M. Nelson for

  • Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

    Creator:
    Burke, Erik P.
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    Reinhabitation is an approach to building local cultures and economies within industrial society. The food system is a vital starting point. What are the principles of reinhabitory food systems? What are the possibilities for a locally adapted food system in the Marys River region of western Oregon? I describe past...
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    needed to hear until it sank in. I am deeply grateful for his help. Dr. John Young made thoughtful

  • Beckett, Barthelme, and Vonnegut : finding hope in meaninglessness

    Creator:
    Britten, Alex M.
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    This thesis is a study of the shifting philosophical trends in the works of Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, and Kurt Vonnegut as representations of a greater shift from modernism to postmodernism. I have chosen to explore Beckett's plays Waiting for Godot and Krapp's Last Tape, Barthelme's short stories "Nothing: A...
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