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  • Queering Science Writing: Bringing Marginalized Perspectives to the Mainstream

    Creator:
    Goodfriend, Olivia F.
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    Within the field of science communication, the voices, perspectives, and experiences of the LGBTQ+ community have long been kept at the margins. This has led to a gap in material that recognizes queer individuals and communities as audiences, communicators, and stakeholders in STEM. I address this gap by generating a...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Olivia F. Goodfriend for the degree of Master of Arts in Environmental Arts

  • The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

    Creator:
    Swanner, Leandra
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    This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the discovery of the tau lepton by physicist Martin Perl between 1973- 1977. Perl became interested in searching for heavy leptons through positron-electron collision experiments using the...
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  • The light within us : Quaker women in science

    Creator:
    McCabe, Leslie N.
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    This thesis explores the role of Quaker women in science in an attempt to arrive at some understanding of what motivated Quaker women in nineteenth century America to go into the sciences. George Fox founded the Society of Friends in the mid-seventeenth century in England and the Quaker theology centered...
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  • The infinite margin : living in reading

    Creator:
    Kleiman, Alicia J. Alicia J.
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    This thesis, a collection of creative non-fiction essays, explores the nature and influence of reading and school in the author's life. After a brief introduction explaining the title, part one describes the sensory dimensions of reading. Part two discusses the author's work as a student and teacher and the contradictions...
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  • Making & finding childhoods : forest schooling in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Bustamante, Stephanie
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    East School is a private, forest schooling program in the Pacific Northwest. This ethnography focuses on student engagement with teacher led efforts to "educate" them within an emergent social system depending on new subjectivities. I ground this premise in a reflexive analytical framework, unpacking an implicit ethnotheory of perception as...
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    -fulfilling prophecy” explains that “[i]f men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences

  • Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

    Creator:
    Martin, Brian D.
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    This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
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    Melville’s symbology. My understanding of the symbol begins with readings in F. O. Matthiessen: “symbolism

  • Three measures of similarity in values

    Creator:
    Hofstetter, Merlin Ivan
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    The study is based on a frame of reference for comparing characteristics of ordered pairs of members of small groups ("relators" in relation to "co-relatives"). An attempt is made to replicate selected findings from a study of the acquaintance process reported by Theodore Newcomb. The effectiveness of three measures of...
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    value-ranking. Herbert F. Wright (13, p. l14) states that applications of sirnple trait-rating scales

  • James Joyce's critique of "Faubourg Saint Patrice" : Ulysses, the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage

    Creator:
    Nelson, John C. M.
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    In his works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922), James Joyce demonstrates what he perceives to be the paralyzing effects of those institutionalized religions that sit at the center of cultures. Drawing on Michel Foucault's analysis of institutional dressage as well as his...
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  • Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : hermeneutics and epistemology in Ishmael's seafaring

    Creator:
    Goodrum, Emily A.
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    This paper defends a reading of Hennan Melville's Moby-Dick that elevates Ishmael's status from mere narrator of Ahab's tragedy to that of protagonist of his own story, a novel of epistemological seafaring. As a metaphysical quester, Ishmael provides the novel's only reliable and complex vision of the condition of man...
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    Melville during the writing of MD are too abundant to list here, the work of Merton Sealts (Melville's

  • Oregon Health & Science University's understanding of cultural competency

    Creator:
    Racansky, Pamela A.
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    The United States population continues to increase and diversify. The cultural composition within the United States embodies a multitude of people from a variety of belief systems, religious backgrounds, and ethnicities. Within current biomedical practice, many of these differences are often marginalized, leaving populations with unsatisfactory experiences in seeking health...
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    great bunch of people. I wish to thank Can Gondrud, br. Jessica Gregg, Barbara Glidewell, Amanda Hayman