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  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

    Creator:
    Wood, Amy
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    In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
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    , readers will find a discussion of the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the author’s concentration on

  • Electrode potentials of nickel and cobalt in a fused electrolyte

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    Hamby, Drannan Carson, 1933-
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    Electrode potentials of nickel and cobalt in a fused

  • "Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

    Creator:
    Horton, Kaely
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    This thesis examines depictions of medievalism in three central texts: Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Each of these texts provides an entry point for exploring the ways in which English and American writers have...
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    simultaneously associated with warfare and love. Chivalry, 6 according to Scott, was a singularly

  • The Anzick site : analysis of a Clovis burial assemblage

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    Jones, J. Scott
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    The Anzick Clovis assemblage was first discovered in the late 1960's near Livingston, Montana. More than 100 stone and bone artifacts were found in association with the remains of two subadults proven to be the earliest radiocarbon-dated human burial in North America. Although human remains are notoriously absent, similar artifact...
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  • The art of resisting the patriarch

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    Nasser, Aisha K.
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    This study examines the theme of power in Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy (1956/57). Contrasting my analysis with earlier review of the novel that emphasized a hegemonic patriarchal power, I argue that such power was constantly subverted by the dominated: family members of the patriarch. Using James C. Scott's notions...
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    is a model, Scott contends, that is applicable to serfdom in Europe, slavery in the US, peasants in

  • Possessed : embodiment, circulation, & subjectivity in Robinson Crusoe, Roderick Random, & Rob Roy

    Creator:
    Schneider, Rebecca
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    A majority of eighteenth-century novels remain in regular print over two hundred years since their inception. Yet with the possible exception of Robinson Crusoe, they have largely fallen out of popularity, rarely appearing on "The Summer's Hottest Reading" lists or receiving celebrity endorsement. I consider Ian Watt's foundational study, The...
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    Robinson Crusoe, Roderick Random, & Rob Roy by Rebecca Schneider A THESIS

  • Artificial intelligence and cyberpunk

    Creator:
    Scott, Ron
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    This thesis examines the ways in which cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series of relationships predicated on the way that corporate control of knowledge industries increased during the 1980s. The document begins by locating the means of corporate control in the...
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    means of future subversion. Artificial Intelligence and Cyberpunk by Ron Scott A Thesis Submitted

  • Renovations

    Creator:
    Gallagher, Scott V.
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    The six stories within, "Still and Silent," "Cold Comfort," "The King of Porn," "Miscuts," "In Between," and "Renovations," are part of a work in progress. They attempt to show how the characters, although they may seem to struggle for independence from the family unit, are in fact strengthening the bonds...
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    Scott V. Gallagher A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University In partial fulfillment of

  • Hannah of Troy, and other stories

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    Nadelson, Scott
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    The six stories in this collection center around an extended Jewish family in the New York Metropolitan area and the curse its members relentlessly wish upon themselves. The protagonist in four of the six stories is Daniel Brickman, younger brother in a very ordinary and chaotic household in suburban New...
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    , 1999 All Rights Reserved Hannah of Troy, and Other Stories by Scott Lewis Nadclson A Thesis

  • The benefits of diversified agricultural systems among Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize

    Creator:
    Hofbauer, Derek M.
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    Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize face socio-economic hardships, persisting environmental constraints, and an unfavorable political climate that has prevented land tenure stability on reservation lands. This thesis describes the agricultural practices of a group of Mopan farmers and examines farm-site diversification and its relationship to ecological knowledge, out-migration, agricultural...
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    lands. This thesis describes the agricultural practices of a group of Mopan farmers and examines farm