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  • The Writer’s Path: Exploring the Writing Studio Through the Lens of Activity Theory

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    Sylvester, Ruth E.
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    This thesis explores the potential applications for 3rd generation activity theory in writing studio spaces, using the Undergrad Research and Writing Studio at Oregon State University as a focal point. David R. Russell, Nedra Reynolds, and Deborah Brandt have all investigated systemic and communal elements in student writing processes, while...
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    , while Cydney Alexis and Hannah J. Rule have focused on the material culture of writing as the context

  • Heat energy exchange between the Killdeer, its eggs, and the environment

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    Cronan, James Zan
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    The vegetation surrounding a nest shades and insulates the incubating bird in addition to concealing it. The vegetative material that makes up a nest insulates the eggs from its warmer or cooler surroundings. Since a Killdeer builds a stone-lined nest on barren ground, both egg and adult are subject to...
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    , Its Eggs, and the Environment Abstract Approved: Redacted for privacy Dennis L. McDonald The

  • Ecology of Pinus albicaulis on Bachelor Butte, Oregon

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    Lueck, Dennis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF DENNIS LUECK for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in BOTANY AND PLANT

  • 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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  • Feedback as Critical Care: An Antiracist, Feminist Praxis for Composition

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    Rowland, Olivia A.
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    Feminist compositionists have long argued for addressing the feminization of composition, or its association with low value “women’s work,” by revaluing caring labor (Enos; Heinert and Phillips; Tuell). However, this argument assumes that writing teachers’ care work is beneficial for all students and teachers. Focusing on responding to student writing...
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    committee: Ana Ribero, Kristy Kelly, and Dennis Bennett. Ana, thank you for your steadfast support and for

  • American identity at a crossroads : Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World

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    Evans, Laura A.
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    Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) has traditionally been dismissed as a failed missive attempting to defend the controversial Salem Witch Trials. What is missing from this characterization is an analysis of the degree to which the text, written at a moment of crisis in Puritan culture, actually...
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    Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________________________ Peter J

  • Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

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    Davis, Caryn M.
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    At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...
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    of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland Abstract approved: Peter J. Betjemann At first glance, Edgar

  • The Bachman Cave (10-OE0565) point typology, Owyhee County, southwestern Idaho

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    Chavarria, Juan C.
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    In the past, archaeological investigations have recovered material culture that have often been stored as museum property without a focused analysis or written report of the results. This study focuses on one such assemblage ofchipped stone projectile points from the Bachman Cave locality of southwestern Idaho that has been stored...
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    -OE-565) Point Typology, Owhee County, Southwestern Idaho. Abstract approved: Barbara J. Roth In the

  • Anthropological case studies of religious syncretism in Bolivia

    Creator:
    Lord, Jonathan
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    Religious histories have always appropriated pre-existing symbol systems of religion into newer forms, often with the goal in mind to acculturate a population into a new cultural setting to reach a desired status quo of society. The problem with acculturation theory is that it is filled with teleological and quantitative...
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  • Ascocarp development in Anthracobia melaloma

    Creator:
    Larsen, Harold J.
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    Cultural and developmental characteristics of a collection of Anthracobia melaloma with a brown hymenium and a barred exterior appearance were examined. It grows well in culture on CM and CMMY agar media and has a growth rate of 17 mm in 18 hours. It is heterothallic and produces asexual multinucleate...
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    European and other world authorities on discomycetes (Moser, 1963; Dennis, 1968; Rifai, 1968