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  • 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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Colette E

  • 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

  • “Gold Dirt:” An Exploratory Study of Beginner Women Farmers’ Experiences with Farmland Tenure Mediating Care for Soil in Willamette Valley, Oregon

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    Christophel Michaels, Rosa J.
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    This thesis investigates how beginning, women farmers, within in a women farmers’ network in the Willamette Valley, Oregon are accessing land and farming information. Using ethnographic, community-based research methods, I ask how land access mediates their ability to care for their land and soil. Are these farmers interested in fostering...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Joan E. Gross This thesis investigates how beginning, women farmers, within in a women

  • 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

  • David Foster Wallace's communal middle ground

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    Randlemon, Daniel E.
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    Throughout the course of this thesis, I argue that the prose of David Foster Wallace, specifically his posthumously published novel The Pale King, inhabits a middle ground between universal sincerity and the particularized authenticity of postmodern irony. I examine Lionel Trilling's definitions of sincerity and authenticity before moving toward an...
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    Daniel E. Randlemon for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 25, 2012. Title

  • The wild flesh of Gary Snyder's "natural language"

    Creator:
    Hanson, Michael (Michael Edward)
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    This paper explores the language theories of Gary Snyder, an important modern environmental author whose early work was associated with the Beat movement of the early 1950's. I am particularly interested in Snyder's thoughts on how language relates to nature. I focus primarily on Snyder's prose in attempts to understand...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael Hanson for the degree of

  • 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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    approved: ______________________________________________________________ Joan E. Gross Food

  • Size structure and growth rate of Euphausia pacifica off the Oregon coast

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    Smiles, Michael Charles Jr
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    Euphausia pacifica lives for a period of approximately one year, disappearing from the catches at a size of about 22-24 mm. Spawning, which occurs mainly inshore, extends from June through December but generally is most prominent in the autumn months. Average growth is calculated to be approximately 2.0 mm per...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF MICHAEL CHARLES SMILES, JR. for

  • 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