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Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Creator:: McHugh, Kathleen M.
Abstract:: Across from the Memorial Union on Oregon State University’s campus sits Milam Hall, the former site of the Department of Home Economics. The building is named for Ava Milam Clark, the dean of home economics for thirty-three years, from 1917 to 1950. I aim to understand Ava Milam’s early career...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kathleen M. McHugh for the

Farmers' markets and food access : Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) use at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon farmers' markets

Creator:: Finneran, Kathleen B.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon Farmers' Markets and its role in food access for SNAP participants. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach combining a farmers' market survey and household interviews, the study investigated who uses SNAP at the farmers'...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ______________________________________________________ AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kathleen B

Pregnancy, class and biomedical power : factors influencing the prenatal care experiences of low-income women in an Oregon community

Creator:: Pearce, Laurie Kathleen
Abstract:: Low-income women in an Oregon city of approximately 35,000 inhabitants have limited access to prenatal care services during their pregnancies. The purpose of this study was to uncover the impacts of several factors on the experiences of twenty-seven health department clients with public health department prenatal care practitioners and with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Laurie Kathleen Pearce for the degree

Hospice nurses as "midwives to the dying" : guiding life's important journeys

Creator:: Cox, Jessica C.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the metaphor of hospice nurses as "midwives to the dying" by applying philosophical inquiry to the field of hospice. I focus on the history of the movements, their professional approaches to caregiving, and the core commitments of both the modern midwifery and hospice movements. Although focused on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: numerous to count. I also thank the members of my master’s committee: Dr. Sunil Khanna, Dr. Kathleen

The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

Creator:: Schmuhl, Emily J.
Abstract:: This thesis is comprised of two articles that examine sympathy, material culture, and ownership in Victorian literature. In the first article, I explore the figure of the heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. George Eliot marked the heiress figure...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to connect Dickens to Miss Havisham as well. In particular, I am drawn to Deborah Wynne’s

Immigrant encounters : film narratives of the modern immigrant

Creator:: Yeager, Angela L.
Abstract:: This thesis employs a narrative analysis of more than twenty-five films that are centrally concerned with immigrants and the immigrant experience. In Part One, drawing from the work of Yosefa Loshitzky, I will focus on films that feature an immigrant lead character. In Part Two, I will explore movies that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

"Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

Creator:: Surface, Samara
Abstract:: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a multimodal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released from 2012-2013. As a media event, the show proved how effective transmedia storytelling can be, eventually winning an Emmy for Original Interactive Program. In creating an intensely immediate narrative world, the series adapted more than Jane Austen’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Kristeva’s intertextuality. Leitch, quoting Deborah Cartmell, explains that approaching adaptation as

"Present fears" and "Horrible Imaginings" : Gothic elements in Shakespearean Tragedy

Creator:: Appel, Ian S.
Abstract:: Gothic literary works are characterized as such by their ability to represent and evoke terror. The form this representation takes is varied; often terror originates in the atmospheric effects of settings, in the appearance of mysterious, supposedly supernatural phenomena, and, perhaps most significantly, in the behavior of villainous characters. Shakespearean...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The light within us : Quaker women in science

Creator:: McCabe, Leslie N.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the role of Quaker women in science in an attempt to arrive at some understanding of what motivated Quaker women in nineteenth century America to go into the sciences. George Fox founded the Society of Friends in the mid-seventeenth century in England and the Quaker theology centered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ' lives, even for those who were also scientists. For example, Kathleen Lonsdale was a prominent British

More than an Accommodation: Teaching in the Remote First-Year Composition Classroom

Creator:: Goicochea, Andrea R.
Abstract:: This thesis evaluates the contact zone of the remote composition classroom and offers mediations for leveling the authoritative powers by fronting disability studies in pedagogies. The purpose of this thesis is to create pedagogies from disability scholarship and real teaching experiences that can be implemented in the remote classroom to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: suggestions and comments through this process. I am grateful to Dr. Kathleen Bogart for agreeing to be my

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Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Farmers' markets and food access : Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) use at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon farmers' markets

Pregnancy, class and biomedical power : factors influencing the prenatal care experiences of low-income women in an Oregon community

Hospice nurses as "midwives to the dying" : guiding life's important journeys

The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

Immigrant encounters : film narratives of the modern immigrant

"Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

"Present fears" and "Horrible Imaginings" : Gothic elements in Shakespearean Tragedy

The light within us : Quaker women in science

More than an Accommodation: Teaching in the Remote First-Year Composition Classroom

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