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

Creator:: Martin, Brian D.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , AND STONE: IMAGES AND MEANING IN MELVILLE Brian D. Martin

Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

Creator:: Schefke, Brian R.
Abstract:: Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented power and prestige. The wartime alliance with the Soviet Union quickly collapsed amid mutual suspicion and fear, however, resulting in the Cold War. Science was a significant political component in that ideological conflict. In the United States, inspired by Franklin D....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Brian R. Schefke for the degree of

Archaeological Textile Fragments Present an Opportunity In the Study of Social and Landscape Interactions

Creator:: Lopez, Kirsten M.
Abstract:: Textiles (including basketry, cordage, woven, knotted, or plaited products) make up a considerable portion of the perishable archaeological record in dry caves of the northern Great Basin region, much of which is created from plants and plant fibers. The archaeological study of precontact textiles greatly informs our understanding of how...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: support allowed the analysis possible: Jesse Muriatli, Chris Russo, Alyssa Shiel, Brian Haley, and

Independent Volunteer Travelers in Nepal

Creator:: Douglas, Heather F.
Abstract:: The objective of this research is to shed light on the phenomenon of independent volunteer traveling. It represents a form of tourism in which travelers independently organize their own volunteer efforts and typically provide assistance to local people in return for room and board. Travelers operate outside the confines of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Heather F. Douglas for the degree

Prehistoric patterns of economic and technological behavior reflected in the 2004 lithic assemblage of site J69E, Espiritu Santo Island, Baja California Sur

Creator:: Ferrell, Luanne R.
Abstract:: The La Ballena #3 site J69E is a shell midden located on Espiritu Santo Island in Baja California Sur. Archaeological excavations conducted in the summer of 2004 investigated a midden containing lithic and shell artifacts as well as faunal and human remains. Analysis of the debitage and formed lithic tool...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: process; Anne Nolin, Carol Caughey, and Brian Tilt. I would like to say thank you from the bottom of my

The extension problem for functions invariant under a group

Creator:: Chang, Bai-Ching
Abstract:: Consider a transformation group G operating on a space X and a G- invariant function f defined on a G- invariant subset of X. By imposing suitable conditions on X, G, f and A, the author derives sufficient conditions for extending f invariantly to the whole space, and thus generalizing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: transformation group G operating on a space X and a G- invariant function f defined on a G- invariant subset of

Endocrine regulation of male sexual behavior in rough-skinned newts, Taricha granulosa : role of neurohormones

Creator:: Zoeller, Robert T.
Abstract:: To determine whether a homologous neurohormone, arginine vasotocin (AVT), can elevate the occurrence of clasping behavior in male rough-skinned newts (Taricha granulosa), intact, sexually inactive males were injected with either AVT or saline. The incidence of courtship was elevated in the group of males injected with AVT, but not in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: a less complex nervous system and a less 2 complex behavioral repetoire (Kelley, 1978

A generalized procedure for defining quotient spaces

Creator:: Lawrence, Harold G.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: will be given. 2 Chapter II ORIGIN OF PROBLEM Let X and Y be sets and f: X-7 Y be a

Angel of Tough Love and other stories

Creator:: Wells, Jerome B.
Abstract:: The overarching theme of these stories is the relationship between love and hate, especially the connection between kindness and violence. In this fictional world, love often begets hate, and hate, love: a man's capacity for empathy serves as the catalyst for an act of brutality; a character's loneliness, his desire...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the opposite of remaining a bystander--antithesis; he emerges whole and yet changed, at peace f or

“The Struggle Continues”: An Analysis of the Concerned Student 1950 Demands at the University of Missouri

Creator:: Larkins, Emma L.
Abstract:: In the fall 2015, students at the University of Missouri embarked upon an extended series of protests aimed at calling out the University’s failure to address recent racist incidents against Black students and a larger oppressive campus culture. The protests prompted the creation of a student group led largely by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

Archaeological Textile Fragments Present an Opportunity In the Study of Social and Landscape Interactions

Independent Volunteer Travelers in Nepal

Prehistoric patterns of economic and technological behavior reflected in the 2004 lithic assemblage of site J69E, Espiritu Santo Island, Baja California Sur

The extension problem for functions invariant under a group

Endocrine regulation of male sexual behavior in rough-skinned newts, Taricha granulosa : role of neurohormones

A generalized procedure for defining quotient spaces

Angel of Tough Love and other stories

“The Struggle Continues”: An Analysis of the Concerned Student 1950 Demands at the University of Missouri

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