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  • Genres at Play : History, Tragedy, and Comedy in Shakespeare's Richard II

    Creator:
    Wiley, Marie
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    This thesis examines a range of generic influences in William Shakespeare's Richard II. By exploring the play's references to conflicting interpretations of history from different generic perspectives, I hope to advance a more nuanced reading of the play's dynamic staging of history. In Chapter One, I suggest that Richard II...
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    , 2016. Title: Genres at Play: History, Tragedy and Comedy in Shakespeare’s Richard II

  • Justifications for K-12 education standards, goals, and curriculum

    Creator:
    Creighton, Sean
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    In the contemporary U.S., the state, through the Legislative Assembly, the State Board of Education, and the Department of Education, sets policies for K-12 education. These include goals and standards that affect the kinds of influences local officials, parents, and students can have on various education programs, required and elective...
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    compatible with the state’s education policies. I draw upon the works of Richard Rorty, John Dewey, and

  • The problems [of Paul Ricoeur's symbols] of evil

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    Ritenour, Karen E.
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    In the early part of his philosophical career, Paul Ricoeur worked out a general theory of symbols which he illustrated with the symbols of evil. He subsequently explained this theory in several essays (his final major statement on symbols can be found in Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of...
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    More than anyone else, I am deeply indebted to Professor Richard Daniels for his help in guiding me

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Generalization of the Ostrowski-Schneider main inertia theorem

    Creator:
    Hill, Richard David
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    As indicated by the title, this thesis generalizes the Main Inertia Theorem of Ostrowski and Schneider [8]. The first three results concern the formation of a polynomial function f(A, A*, H) so that the existence of an hermitian H for which f(A, A*, H) is positive definite is a necessary...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Richard David Hill for the M

  • Making ends meet : hunger survival strategies in two rural Oregon communities

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    Abel, Talya Shuler
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    Food insecurity and hunger have become persistent problems resulting from an increase in impoverished segments of populations worldwide. For those not affected, the problem seems unnoticeable – it is happening somewhere else far away from them. However, in the United States, the number of people living below the poverty level...
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  • The Federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) in relation to higher education students and their eligibility for the program

    Creator:
    Stone, Vesna Grace
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    Food insecurity is a widely researched global public health issue, but students in higher education are frequently omitted from the data and are not widely recognized as a population that faces hunger. This thesis explores the college student population in relation to food insecurity and, in particular, their attempt to...
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  • Lamarck's approach to an understanding of man

    Creator:
    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