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  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

    Creator:
    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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    Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the

  • Writing against convention : Kate Chopin's short fiction in Vogue, 1893-1900

    Creator:
    VanKooten, Crystal
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    Kate Chopin, author of the proto-feminist novel The Awakening, was also a prolific writer of short stories. Nineteen of her stories were originally published in Vogue magazine between 1893 and 1900. This study looks at six of these stories, "The Father of Desiree's Baby," "A Respectable Woman," "The Dream of...
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    Dr. Michael Oriard, my thesis advisor, for all of the constructive criticism and time he has given

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

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    Barrett, Emerson LR
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    “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...
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    , 2021. Title: “The System is F*cked. Everything needs to Change:” A Queer Feminist Pro- Sex Work

  • Real roots of polynomials : an interactive computer approach

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    Moussaoui, Ahmed
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    This is an interactive, self explanatory computer program on real roots of polynomials with real coefficients. This program called POLYROOT has the double feature of tutoring and problem solving. It allows the user to enter on one line any polynomial with real coefficients. Then, the user can find : 1....
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    for Privacy Abstract approved : Michael Y. Shauessy 6 This is an interactive, self explanatory

  • Vicarious power : masculinity, access and the hard-boiled detective

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    Winsor, Shiloh
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    Dashiell Hammett's fiction and detective pulps generally, offered the reader a chance to participate in vicarious power, by giving them a sense of the profession of detection, both in and out of the stories. It was the realism of the detective figure that allowed the audience to relate to him....
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    for Privacy Redacted for Privacy Redacted for privacy ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To Michael Oriard: I would

  • This Earth Emanating Enchantment: What Wonder and Joy Can Teach Us Within Traditional Western Environmentalism

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    Ohotnicky, Colette E.
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    G.K. Chesterton once stated, “I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairytales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts….The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in the fairy book,...
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    : _____________________________________________________ Michael Paul Nelson G.K. Chesterton once stated, “I am concerned with a certain way of

  • The caller, and other stories

    Creator:
    Irwin, Keith F.
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    These five stories investigate characters who must deal with their unresolved, emotionally troubling pasts. The characters attempt to journey back to life having recognized that their isolation, safe and undisturbing as it is, is worse than a life in which the possibility of joy is mixed with the inevitability of...
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    Keith F. Irwin for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 31, 1994. Title: The

  • Is "Smart Growth" smart? : health effects of urban renewal in Portland, Oregon

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    Buerger, Catherine F.
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    This thesis examines the impact of urban renewal on individual health, specifically focusing on an urban planning model called Smart Growth that is being used in Portland, Oregon. Findings are based on qualitative and quantitative analyses of interview and survey data from study participants living in a community where renewal...
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    Catherine F. Buerger for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on April 27, 2007

  • Unfinished work : reading Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth

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    Ridinger, Angela F.
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    Ralph Ellison died without ever completing his second novel. After his death, the executor of his literary estate, John F. Callahan, edited Ellison's work into a novel published under the title Juneteenth. This thesis examines the problems posed by Ellison's posthumously released text, especially the issues of authorial intent and...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Angela F. Ridinger for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May

  • Requirement for the growth and maintenance of Alphanizomenon flos-aquae in culture

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    O'Flaherty, Larrance Michael
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    Aphanizomenon flos-aquae from Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon was introduced into culture in a precipitate -free medium developed by modification of McLachlan's ASM medium. This medium ASMT No. 8 contained no organic substances other than ethylendiaminetetraacetate (EDTA) and Trishydroxymethylamino methane (Tris), and was developed by modifying the concentrations of certain elements,...
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    Aphanizomenon flos-aquae in culture AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Larrance Michael O'Flaherty for the M. A