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  • Analysis of dredge tailings pile patterns : applications for historical archaeological research

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    Purdy, Sarah E.
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    For centuries humans have been searching for precious metals. The search for gold has greatly changed the landscape of the American West, beginning in the 1850s and continuing today. Various gold rushes around the country created mining colonies in remote areas, thereby connecting the frontier with the rest of America...
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    Microsoft Word - Sarah Purdy Thesis 3

  • Beyond Borders: Understanding the Interplay of Factors in Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border

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    De La Rosa, Sarah
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    This thesis explores the intricate issues surrounding migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, offering diverse perspectives and insights into its drivers, consequences, and ethical dimensions. Through three comprehensive papers, this research offers a nuanced analysis of the complex dynamics influencing the migration crisis. The first examines the historical and theoretical factors...
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    Sarah De La Rosa for the degree of Master of Arts in Environmental Arts and Humanities presented on

  • Just Beneath the Surface : Analysis of Excavations at 35WS453, The Dalles Chinatown

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    French, Jamie
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    In a mostly abandoned block, capped by concrete, the building at 210 East 1st Street, The Dalles, Oregon still stands as one of three remaining structures. This building housed the Wing Hong Hai Company, a mercantile store and Chinese laundry, from 1889 to 1926. Beneath the modern concrete that encircles...
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  • “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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    , Lauren Gwin, Sarah Cunningham, and Lisa Price for helping me hold my head up when I felt the weight of

  • Translingual Science Communication: From Local Publications to the STEM Writing Classroom

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    Werndli, Alexander J.
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    In order to assist WAC/WID practitioners and science writing faculty in incorporating translingual perspectives in disciplinary writing instruction, this study extends translingualism to language practice in the sciences by conducting a corpus study of Al-Awamia, a Moroccan agronomic journal. Mapping rhetorically significant changes across abstracts authored in English, French, and...
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    recognition: Dr. Ana Milena Ribero, Dr. Sarah Tinker Perrault, Dr. Vicki Tolar Burton, and Dr. Jacob Darwin

  • Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

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    Furman, Kali
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    Books and literature help children and young adults develop language, cognitive, and social skills. Additionally children's literature enables individuals to develop a deeper appreciation for their own, and others' cultures and histories. This thesis analyzes the young adult historical fiction series Dear America, published by Scholastic press, and examines how...
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  • Our “dead keep up the simple habits of the living”: Queer Digital Ephemerality in the Victorian Roman à Clef

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    Snyder, Christin
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    Many queer scholars have made the turn away from orientations that treat Victorian queerness as either “lost” or “hidden.” Adding more complexity to literary theories which center practices of “revealing” queer artifacts, Sharon Marcus, for instance, argues queer encounters exist at the surfaces of Victorian literature. In addition, Anjali Arondekar’s...
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    Aesthetes of the 1880s. The novel navigates London’s high society through the eyes of Anne Brown, a

  • Palynological Perspectives on Younger Dryas to Early Holocene Human Ecology at Paisley Caves, Oregon

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    Saban, Chantel V.
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    The Younger Dryas climatic event is a global phenomenon associated with a 1,000 year return to glacial conditions during the late Pleistocene period between 12,800 and 11,500 cal BP. Because of its significant effects on paleoenvironmental conditions in some parts of the world, archaeologists commonly seek to assess whether the...
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    history and prehistoric precipitation rates. A decade later, Henry Hansen sampled sediments from three

  • Gender, genre, and the canon : teaching Aemilia Lanyer

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    Jurgens, Jeremy
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    Traditionally, Renaissance studies have neglected or overlooked the contributions of early modern female poets, many of whom produced lively, engaging, and highly creative work despite the limitations imposed on them by a rigidly patriarchal society. In my thesis, I examine the life and work of Aemilia Lanyer, a 17th century...
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    ” 6); and the Queen of England herself, Anne of Denmark, ushered in a new era of English theater

  • Scenes of language

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    Duerst, Gretchen
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    In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when I wanted to draw people closer with language, but was unsuccessful. In the twelve stories, I discuss these issues in my interpersonal communication interwoven...
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    life, of ebb and flow, of intennittency." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh, G?fisfrom the Sea At recess, the