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  • Femslash Fanfiction as a Reparative Practice of Critique

    Creator:
    Johnson, Colleen E.
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    Ever since Henry Jenkins’ groundbreaking _Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture_ (1992), fan studies has slowly worked its way further into mainstream academia. However, particular practices and cultures of femslash fandom, and the contribution of queer women to fandom archives and circulation have, in many ways, been neglected. In...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Colleen Johnson for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on

  • A settlement model at the Robert Newel Farmstead (35MA41), French Prairie, Oregon

    Creator:
    Manion, Mollie Jo
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    This thesis is based on the excavations of the Robert Newell farmstead (35MA41), excavated in 2002 and 2003 by the Oregon State University Department of Anthropology archaeological field school. Robert Newell lived at this farm from 1843- 1854. Major architectural features, including a brick hearth and postholes were discovered at...
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    , Nathaniel Wyeth's farm workers and William Johnson occupied the site prior to Robert Newell's arrival in

  • 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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    . A. Van Dorsten. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 27. Johnson, Ben. "Timber, or Discoveries

  • Cooperation and small to medium sized enterprises in Oregon's forest product industry

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    Brown, Nicole A.
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    This thesis examines perceptions of cooperation among small to medium sized enterprises (SME) in western Oregon's forest products industry. Recent changes in the industry, such as corporate consolidation, global marketing, and government regulations have created an environment in which many SMEs find it difficult to stay competitive. Cooperation among SMEs...
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  • Behavior during rest and the eating patterns of children at nursery school

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    Fernandes, Afra Margaret
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    and/or other persons in their .nviromnent (7), (8), (13), (17). o rtudy. however, has ben found

  • 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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    poetry such as John Donne, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and John Milton. However, since the

  • Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

    Creator:
    McLemore, Emily C.
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    This project examines two understudied female characters from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales who emerge as subversive figures by striving to maintain control over their bodies and being. Through my analyses of the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales, I reveal how virginity correlates with bodily autonomy for the narratives’ respective protagonists,...
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    Desire to ben a mayden al my lyf, Ne nevere wol I be no love ne wyf. I am, thow woost, yet of thy

  • Narrative frames and the works of John Coltrane

    Creator:
    Duncan, James Bryan
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    In Culture and Imperialism, Said illustrates that we have no "autonomous cultural forms," but rather "impure" ones that are the products of historically "discrepant experiences." American culture has an interesting relationship with the history of imperialism. The Europeans that settled the U.S. imported slave labor to assist in the growth...
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    changed."37 James Weldon Johnson later remarked that performers reclaiming this cultural form as an

  • Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Oney, Celia E.
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    People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
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    Center Records. 25 T. V. Anderson, J. C. Ringle, and A. G. Johnson, “Detailed Disassembly Procedures

  • Some digenetic trematodes of Oregon's tidepool cottids

    Creator:
    Hall, James Raymond
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    The host fish for this study were collected from January through June of 1965. Tidepools were selected at Bar View, Cape Arago, Neptune State Park, Seal Rock, and Yaquina Head. Of the 187 fish examined, 132 were infected. The following host fishes yielded the following parasites. New Host records are...
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    fishes of the West Coast of North America, only three works (Park, 1936, 1937, and Johnson, 1949) were