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  • 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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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jeremy Jurgens for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on

  • Learning to Care : Applied Ethics for Improving Farmed Animal Welfare

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    Zarajczyk, Katie MaryRuth
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    This thesis seeks to explore how an ecofeminist lens is currently the most useful approach for improving farmed animal welfare. Through examining Western conceptions of non-human animals, I seek to shed light upon the inconsistent treatment of domestic species. Species that are dependent upon us deserve, at a minimum, not...
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    Kant, Jeremy Bentham, and John S. Mill, I explore the foundational history of perspectives on

  • Classified bodies : disability, identity, and the technological classroom

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    Iwertz, Chad E.
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    This thesis pursues a flexible understanding and definition of dis/ability as a broadly and liberally applied mark of stigma. It asks questions that develop a deeper understanding of how disability influences mētis, a knowledge or cunning use of the body. Through this framework of mētis, this thesis explores technologies as...
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  • Colonization, Statemaking, and Development: A Political Ecology of the Saru River Development Project, Hokkaido, Japan

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    Ioannides, Michael J.
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    Although dam construction has been an integral tool in development initiatives for nearly a century, dams can have significant negative impacts on local residents, particularly those who are permanently displaced from their homes and must be resettled elsewhere. Dams have unique impacts on indigenous peoples. As a result, many dam...
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  • The cage has two sides : an ethical perspective of prison abolition

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    Lenn, Christopher
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    Current calls for prison abolition have been met with major public resistance. It is time for movements for prison abolition to engage with these questions: How have contemporary people of the United States come to accept mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex, and, what is the impact? Using an...
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    and I-Thou and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ethical demands for integration, this thesis shows that

  • Violence and voice

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    Dahlin, Angela
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    Violence and voice seem to be related. In this thesis I detail personal experiences with violence, and then put them into the context of research done about the ways in which violence affects the writing voice, as well as the speaking voice. Helene Cixous' writings about the writing voice and...
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    friends over to our house, and of course, Jeremy, my younger sister's boyfriend and my former friend, was

  • The accessible Chaucer

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    Luepke, Natasha M.
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    In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have access to Geoffrey Chaucer and his works. I look at issues surrounding Chaucer within the canon debate, high school history and literature textbooks, and Chaucer in popular culture, such as in movies like A Knight's Tale. I...
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    Lost. McDougal Littell, a large textbook publisher, has published a variety of titles dealing

  • Dig Sites and Domesticity: Jessie Camp and the 1947 University of California Africa Expedition

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    Fraas, Picabo K.
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    In 1947, scientists from the University of California departed for a fifteen-month expedition to Africa. Jessie Camp, wife of the head paleontologist Dr. Charles L. Camp, had no official position on the expedition. Yet in performing her traditional domestic duties, she greatly contributed to the overall success of the expedition....
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    labor based on gender. 14 Jeremy Vetter et al., Knowing Global Environments: New Historical

  • Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Farms in the Willamette Valley

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    Loewenstern, Eli
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    This thesis examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on farms in the Willamette Valley. Using semi-structured interviews, this study analyzes the economic and social challenges created by the pandemic and the adaptation strategies farmers employed to build resilience within the food system. This study found that the farmers experienced...
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    et al. 2019). Meuwissen et al.’s framework to assess the resilience of farming systems uses five

  • Double exposure

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    Raleigh, Elisabeth A.
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    DOUBLE EXPOSURE is a novel concerned with the phenomenon of memory. The story explores such questions as: To what extent does "memory" (and the narratives we construct from it) explain who we are? How is memory influenced by others-and does it matter if it is? Can a memory that is...
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