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To mend the walls of Babel : essays on identity and ethnicity

Creator:: Inoue, Asao B.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I explore experiences with my identity, looking at the identity people have seen me as, who I've thought I was, and the identities my mother's and father's different family backgrounds suggest I should be. I have divided this discussion into three main areas: my complexion, the first...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: Wayne C. Anderson In this thesis, I explore experiences with my identity, looking at the

Life in railroad logging camps of the Shevlin-Hixon Company, 1916-1950

Creator:: Gregory, Ronald L.
Abstract:: Remnants of railroad logging camps, and their associated features, are perhaps some of the most common archaeological resources found on public lands in the Pacific Northwest. Many camps have already been located, their cultural materials inventoried, and networks of logging railroad grades mapped. Yet, despite these efforts, little can be...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Ronald L. Gregory for the degree

Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

Creator:: Foster, Brad D.
Abstract:: This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Wayne) recites his personal mantra numerous times in the film: “I won't be wronged. I won't be

Rational Madmen : Monomania in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Stedman’s “How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry”

Creator:: Green, Paisley
Abstract:: In this project, I explore the use of monomania as a literary and rhetorical device that pathologizes deviance from certain norms—in this case, sexual and political norms— and allows for contradiction, dissonance, and reform. Using Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” and Edmund Clarence Stedman’s poem “How Old Brown Took...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

Creator:: Wood, Amy
Abstract:: In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Patterns from the past : exploring gender and ethnicity through historical archaeology among fur trade families in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

Creator:: McAleer, Carolyn Patricia
Abstract:: This thesis examines archaeological material in order to explore gender and ethnicity issues concerning fur trade era families from a settlement in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Ethnohistorical information consisting of traders journals and travelers observations, as well as documentation from the Hudson's Bay Company, Catholic church records, and genealogical information...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The archaeology of the Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon

Creator:: Stone, Helen Delight
Abstract:: Site ORYA3, the Smith House, is located in Dayton, Oregon. The archaeological project originated because owners of this structure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, applied for a demolition permit. The 1859 home, first occupied by two early Oregon pioneers, Andrew and Sarah Smith, was considered architecturally significant,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: communication). In 1993 the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office (STiPO), by the authority of Dr. Leland

"We Share a Common Disinheritance": Subjectivity, Dispossession, and Antiblackness in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Paul Beatty's The Sellout

Creator:: Becker, Jade M.
Abstract:: Recent work in moral philosophy has displayed a renewed interest in ethics and ontology that consider the social constitution of the subject. However, these approaches to ethics, exemplified in Judith Butler’s work in Giving an Account of Oneself, often neglect the problem of antiblackness, which Afro-pessimist scholars argue operates at...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Political, economic and educational aims of the National Association of Manufacturers' public relationships program : a case study in opinion-molding

Creator:: Vogel, Barbara Ross
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Truth, justice, and the American way : what Superman teaches us about the American Dream and changing values within the United States

Creator:: Karp, Lauren N.
Abstract:: This thesis is a study of the changes in the cultural definition of the American Dream. I have chosen to use Superman comics, from 1938 to the present day, as litmus tests for how we have societally interpreted our ideas of “success” and the “American Way.” This work is primarily...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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To mend the walls of Babel : essays on identity and ethnicity

Life in railroad logging camps of the Shevlin-Hixon Company, 1916-1950

Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

Rational Madmen : Monomania in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Stedman’s “How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry”

Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

Patterns from the past : exploring gender and ethnicity through historical archaeology among fur trade families in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

The archaeology of the Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon

"We Share a Common Disinheritance": Subjectivity, Dispossession, and Antiblackness in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Paul Beatty's The Sellout

Political, economic and educational aims of the National Association of Manufacturers' public relationships program : a case study in opinion-molding

Truth, justice, and the American way : what Superman teaches us about the American Dream and changing values within the United States

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