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

    Creator:
    Brock, Christopher J.
    Abstract:
    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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    THESIS OF Christopher James Brock for the degree of Master of Arts in English, presented on June 4

  • Computer and internet usage in rural clubs : are members digitally divided?

    Creator:
    Cassell, Christopher J.
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    Lower rates of computer adoption and usage in rural areas has been called a "digital divide." This work explores the current state of connectivity within a rural town of the Pacific Northwest with a quantitative and qualitative overview of computer usage and access within civic and activity clubs, ranging from...
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    activities. © Copyright by Christopher J. Cassell july 29, 2002 All Rights Reserved Computer and

  • Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

    Creator:
    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF J. Christopher Jolly for the

  • Lamarck's approach to an understanding of man

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    Dobson, Christopher Michael
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    Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) is considered here in the context of the Enlightenment effort to develop a science of man. His Philosophie zoologique (1809) and the Systeme analytique (1820) are the two principal relevant works examined in depth to discover how he meant to base a science of man on...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher Michael Dobson for

  • Modern music and cultural identity in Corsica

    Creator:
    Baldridge, Christopher M.
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    Music is one of the most important aspects of cultural identity in Corsica. Rooted in ancient history and revitalized in the revolutionary political climate of the 1960s and 70s, its popular choral form--the paghjella--has come to define modern music upon the island. Music, like language, has the ability to communicate...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher M. Baidridge for the

  • The cage has two sides : an ethical perspective of prison abolition

    Creator:
    Lenn, Christopher
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    Current calls for prison abolition have been met with major public resistance. It is time for movements for prison abolition to engage with these questions: How have contemporary people of the United States come to accept mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex, and, what is the impact? Using an...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher Lenn for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Ethics

  • "Sorrow's springs are the same" : synoeciosis in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Creator:
    Adamson, Christopher
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    Tennyson and Hopkins scholarship is dominated by a focus on antithetical dichotomies. Tennyson's speakers are fractured selves focused on the gap between matter and spirit, faith and reason, solitude and community. Likewise, Hopkins' doubled vocation as priest and poet is presented as a contradiction to the point that the transition...
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    ______________________________________________________ AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher

  • Local resilience, canola cropping, and biodiesel production

    Creator:
    Bates, Christopher Allen
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    New technology may have negative, as well as positive, effects on a sociocultural system. Biodiesel is growing in popularity as a fuel alternative that addresses global warming and reduces dependency on petroleum. The biodiesel innovation fits well into the existing behavioral infrastructure of Linn and Benton Counties, Oregon. The introduction...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher Allen Bates for the

  • Educational Migration in Indonesia : An Ethnography of Eastern Indonesian Students in Malang, Java

    Creator:
    Foertsch, Christopher R.
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    This research explores the experience of the growing number of students from Eastern Indonesia who attend universities on Java. It asks key questions about the challenges these often maligned students face as ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities exposed to the dominant culture of their republic during their years of education....
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    Christopher R. Foertsch for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on June 3, 2016

  • (Mis)representation & Postcolonial Masculinity : The Origins of Violence in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh

    Creator:
    Evans, Nicolas M. J.
    Abstract:
    This thesis examines the postmodern confrontation of representation throughout the oeuvre of Martin McDonagh. I particularly look to his later body of work, which directly and self-reflexively confronts issues of artistic representation & masculinity, in order to gain a more nuanced understanding of his earliest and most controversial plays. In...
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    my writing. Thanks also to Dr. Peter Betjemann, Dr. Jon Lewis, and Dr. Christopher Higgins for