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  • A revision of the North American species of Pactopus Leconte and Trixagus Kugelann (Coleoptera: Throscidae)

    Creator:
    Yensen, Arthur Eric
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    This study was undertaken to find means of separating the morphologically similar species of North American Trixagus and to bring together information on Trixagus and Pactopus. A key to separate the world's eight genera of extant Throscidae is presented for the first time. A key to the five species of...
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    Leconte and Trixagus Kugelann (Coleoptera: Throscidae) AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF ARTHUR ERIC YENSEN

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

    Creator:
    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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    . Eric Gleason and Jacquie Cheng, owners of 210 East 1 st Street, set about restoring the Wing Hong

  • Expression & identity : the word made flesh

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    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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    , Samuel Taylor. Biographia Literaria. Ed. James Engell & W. Jackson Bate. Bollingen Ser. LXXV. Princeton

  • Urban residents and non-point source pollution : an examination of practices, influences, and values in the Tualatin watershed

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    Nielson, Lisa M.
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    In July of 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) activated the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDLs) provisions of the Clean Water Act. As the first river in Oregon to implement TMDL regulations, people and agencies in the Tualatin basin face many challenges. Non-point source pollution affects water quality in the...
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    disciplines (Granzin and Olsen, 1991; Jackson et al., 1993, McCarty and Shrum, 1993/1994). These studies

  • Composing for Social Change : Clashes of Ideographs and Ideology in the Composition Classroom

    Creator:
    Gasser, Chris
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    Clashes of ideology are all around us, from our computer and television screens to our composition classrooms, and they merit attention within the composition classroom. This thesis examines the justifications and pedagogies that scholars in rhetoric and composition use to infuse issues of ideology and social ethics into writing instruction...
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    from personal experience. In her reflection on her critical classroom, Karen Keaton Jackson writes

  • The effect of music in fashion video advertisements on attitude toward apparel brand

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    Hennessy, Karen E.
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    Products as diverse as soda-pop, fashion and automobiles are selling to the tunes of classic and current pop and rock music. The combination of MTV (Music Television), the latest audio-visual technology, and the replacement of movie stars by rock stars as the idols of contemporary youth (Beckett, 1985; Hartman, 1987),...
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    products through song include music superstar Michael Jackson promoting Pepsi-Cola, Whitney Houston

  • Codified into the word : the intersections of language and violence in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

    Creator:
    Hagan, Matthew T.
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    In this thesis I argue that Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian serves as a critique of the American Western mythos by collapsing aspects of myth, ideology, and the sublime into the question of violence's relationship to language. In explicating the novel, I demonstrate how the ironies staged between the...
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    violence and ideological function of Frederick Jackson Turner‘s thesis of Manifest Destiny. 7

  • 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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    ) and the spruce Picea critchfieldii (Jackson and Weng 1999; Jackson and Overpeck 2000: 210). The

  • Feedback as Critical Care: An Antiracist, Feminist Praxis for Composition

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    Rowland, Olivia A.
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    Feminist compositionists have long argued for addressing the feminization of composition, or its association with low value “women’s work,” by revaluing caring labor (Enos; Heinert and Phillips; Tuell). However, this argument assumes that writing teachers’ care work is beneficial for all students and teachers. Focusing on responding to student writing...
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  • Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

    Creator:
    Burke, Erik P.
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    Reinhabitation is an approach to building local cultures and economies within industrial society. The food system is a vital starting point. What are the principles of reinhabitory food systems? What are the possibilities for a locally adapted food system in the Marys River region of western Oregon? I describe past...
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    Shepard, Wendell Berry, and Wes Jackson. Jessyca Burke made this work possible, and she inspires and