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  • Internal Migration : The Role of Discrimination and Regionalism in Southern Italians' Self Construction of Identity

    Creator:
    Spiese, Caroline E.
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    Italian nationalism and an ‘Italian’ identity were constructed during Italy’s unification movement in the mid 1800’s. However, consensus on a national identity is still weak across Italy today. Instead, a polarization of Northern and Southern regions have contributed to discrimination, institutional racism and exclusion. This thesis demonstrates the multifaceted aspects...
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    Anthropology presented on June 8, 2016 Title: Internal Migration: The role of discrimination and

  • Expression & identity : the word made flesh

    Creator:
    Beach, J. M.
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    This essay is an exploration of identity formation and expression. Humanity's identity formations create the orientations and languages with which we use to create our knowledge and understanding of the surrounding external environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the sources of identity formation...
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    environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the

  • Understandings of sustainability and the contributions of non-governmental organizations : a case study of Toledo, Belize

    Creator:
    Rosien, Jessica
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    This thesis reviews theoretical and local understandings of sustainability and examines the contributions which the NGO, the Toledo Institute for Development and Environment (TIDE), makes to achieving sustainability in the district of Toledo in Belize, Central America. The study focuses mainly on the Port Honduras Marine Reserve, which TIDE manages...
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    Reserve. In addition, TIDE's dysfunctional internal management style, such as lack of communication

  • The electrification of Mexico

    Creator:
    Gill, Andrew Douglas
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    This research paper is an analysis of the electric energy industry in Mexico since its inception in 1879. The research is based entirely on library sources plus documents secured from the Federal Electricity Commission of Mexico. Only minimal documentary evidence is available in English, consequently the Oregon State University library...
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    Hydroelectric No. 1000 Kw. No. Thermal 1000 Kw. Internal Combustion No. 1000 Kw. No. Total 1000 Kw 1000 Kw

  • Aliens and academics : how cultural representations of alien abduction support an entrenched consensus reality

    Creator:
    Bryan, Frederick Clark
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    The alien abduction phenomenon has garnered considerable media attention in the last fifteen years, including many representations in books, film, and television. An overview of significant abduction literature is presented. Contrasts and comparisons are noted between popular written accounts and both the visual representations they engender and reports outside the...
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    legend is formed."' Though by no means convinced that UFOs are extraterrestrial in nature, Jung

  • Defining oppression, demanding childhood : the vision and work of an Indian social action group

    Creator:
    Henderson, Laura A.
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    Mukti Ashram is a rehabilitation center in north India that works with ex-child laborer boys. Fieldwork completed at the ashram in 1997-98 centered around the issue of the organization's attempt to enact social change through the engineering of community within the ashram's walls. Several fundamental processes that contribute to this...
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    becomes codified in the dominant ethos of the institution, presents an internal contradiction that is

  • Challenges to re-embedding food systems : tracing the decline and revival of a farmers’ market on the edge

    Creator:
    Murray, Mary K.
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    A number of researchers view farmers’ markets as an appropriate vehicle for re-embedding food markets into communities (O’Hara & Stagl, 2001, Feenstra, 2002, Lyson, 2005). Amidst astounding growth in the number of farmers’ markets in the United States in recent decades, many markets struggle and fail. Recent research suggests that...
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    ’ market, which lacked it for a variety of reasons relating to regional, community-level, and internal

  • The women's movement in Japan and its effect on the workplace

    Creator:
    Madden-Bethune, Gwyn D.
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    The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of women in the Japanese workplace. Data obtained from in-depth interviews and questionnaires, shows that the Japanese workplace is in a state of change moving toward a higher level of opportunity for female workers. While similar to the circumstances experienced...
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    was determined that cultural relativism, internal labor market theory, and human capital theory are

  • An investigation into the ecology and distribution of Kalmiopsis leachiana (Hend.) Rehder

    Creator:
    Marquis, Robert John
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    Ecological factors associated with the relictual distribution of the endemic shrub Kalmiopsis leachiana (Ericaceae) were investigated. A prostrate evergreen species with small coriaceous leaves, K. leachiana is restricted to two disjunct populations in the Siskiyou Mountains and southern Cascade Mountains of southwestern Oregon, USA. Exact distributions of individual populations were...
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    discussed. Measurements of internal moisture stress were taken in the Siskiyou Mountains on Kalmiopsis and

  • Ecotourism, community development, and local autonomy : the experience of Shan-Mei aboriginal community in Taiwan

    Creator:
    Lee, Pei-Yao
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    Shan-Mei, a Tsou aboriginal village in Taiwan, is widely known as a legend of environmental conservation, where ecotourism has been successfully combined with integrated community development. Indigenous knowledge containing "ecological wisdom" and decision-making based on consensus are perceived to be the greatest contributors to this achievement. I conducted three months...
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    inappropriate government intervention, declining local participation in the project, and internal conflicts of