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  • Lamarck's approach to an understanding of man

    Creator:
    Dobson, Christopher Michael
    Abstract:
    Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) is considered here in the context of the Enlightenment effort to develop a science of man. His Philosophie zoologique (1809) and the Systeme analytique (1820) are the two principal relevant works examined in depth to discover how he meant to base a science of man on...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher Michael Dobson for

  • Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

    Creator:
    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF J. Christopher Jolly for the

  • Computer and internet usage in rural clubs : are members digitally divided?

    Creator:
    Cassell, Christopher J.
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    Lower rates of computer adoption and usage in rural areas has been called a "digital divide." This work explores the current state of connectivity within a rural town of the Pacific Northwest with a quantitative and qualitative overview of computer usage and access within civic and activity clubs, ranging from...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher I. Cassell for the

  • Modern music and cultural identity in Corsica

    Creator:
    Baldridge, Christopher M.
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    Music is one of the most important aspects of cultural identity in Corsica. Rooted in ancient history and revitalized in the revolutionary political climate of the 1960s and 70s, its popular choral form--the paghjella--has come to define modern music upon the island. Music, like language, has the ability to communicate...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher M. Baidridge for the

  • The Clerk’s Tale : literal monstrosities and allegorical problems

    Creator:
    Brock, Christopher J.
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    My thesis, entitled “The Clerk’s Tale: Literal Monstrosities and Allegorical Problems,” argues that Chaucer’s Clerk is engaging both sides of a binary system. The Clerk has situated himself in a precarious position between two major schools of thought in the medieval culture, Franciscan and Dominican; the former promotes the will...
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    THESIS OF Christopher James Brock for the degree of Master of Arts in English, presented on June 4

  • "Sorrow's springs are the same" : synoeciosis in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins

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    Adamson, Christopher
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    Tennyson and Hopkins scholarship is dominated by a focus on antithetical dichotomies. Tennyson's speakers are fractured selves focused on the gap between matter and spirit, faith and reason, solitude and community. Likewise, Hopkins' doubled vocation as priest and poet is presented as a contradiction to the point that the transition...
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    ______________________________________________________ AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher

  • The cage has two sides : an ethical perspective of prison abolition

    Creator:
    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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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher Lenn for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Ethics

  • Local resilience, canola cropping, and biodiesel production

    Creator:
    Bates, Christopher Allen
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    New technology may have negative, as well as positive, effects on a sociocultural system. Biodiesel is growing in popularity as a fuel alternative that addresses global warming and reduces dependency on petroleum. The biodiesel innovation fits well into the existing behavioral infrastructure of Linn and Benton Counties, Oregon. The introduction...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher Allen Bates for the

  • Fighting tradition : Hemingway’s Nick Adams and shell shock

    Creator:
    McGrath, Cole P.
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    In his Nick Adams stories, Ernest Hemingway traces the life of a single man as he moves from boyhood to adolescence to adulthood to fatherhood. From the beginning of Nick Adam’s life, it is clear that he does not fit into the role of the traditional hero. In addition, Nick...
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    THESIS OF Cole P. McGrath for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 29, 2007

  • This Earth Emanating Enchantment: What Wonder and Joy Can Teach Us Within Traditional Western Environmentalism

    Creator:
    Ohotnicky, Colette E.
    Abstract:
    G.K. Chesterton once stated, “I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairytales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts….The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in the fairy book,...
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    Jones, Professor Jennifer Richter, and Dr. Christopher Dunn, for their encouragement and enthusiasm