Index Catalog // ScholarsArchive@OSU

Writing against convention : Kate Chopin's short fiction in Vogue, 1893-1900

Creator:: VanKooten, Crystal
Abstract:: Kate Chopin, author of the proto-feminist novel The Awakening, was also a prolific writer of short stories. Nineteen of her stories were originally published in Vogue magazine between 1893 and 1900. This study looks at six of these stories, "The Father of Desiree's Baby," "A Respectable Woman," "The Dream of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: =:"" . . . . . . ewlwl 10 the eem,l,orrn,sed wwWle el/n . / tilrro C.11,,ur e111 SertlIntlr.mern. neolagoewner

Women's experiences of breastfeeding in an out-of-hospital birthing community

Creator:: Marshall, Lindsay J.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I examine the experiences of breastfeeding mothers who chose to give birth with Certified Professional Midwives at a free-standing birth center, and the factors that influence their known high rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration. Using grounded theory and data collected from participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Mitchell 1999). The perceived negative attitudes of family and friends, have also been found to have

Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

Creator:: McLemore, Emily C.
Abstract:: This project examines two understudied female characters from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales who emerge as subversive figures by striving to maintain control over their bodies and being. Through my analyses of the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales, I reveal how virginity correlates with bodily autonomy for the narratives’ respective protagonists,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Christian figures’ lives. 6 Sherry L. Reames describes the “pornographic” context that so

Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

Creator:: Leaver, Jennifer Jensen
Abstract:: In the United States during the last 30 years there has been a shift from extractive natural resource-based economies of the Old West to a New West defined by environmental protection. Over the past century, a growing national support for environmental protection has influenced a lengthening list of national and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: New West: Confronting Conservation, Conflict and Change on Utah's Last Frontier. Abstract approved L

What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

Creator:: Anderson, Jessica
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to understand the experiences that Nahua children, in rural Mexico, have as they attend schools that are primarily influenced by formal Western education in relation to their own ways of learning and knowing. This research took place over the course of three months within...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

What are the environmental, economic, and social barriers to achieving agricultural sustainability in the Ten Rivers region of western Oregon?

Creator:: Stanton, Michael
Abstract:: This ethnographic study examined some of the ways that global markets and the infrastructure of agribusiness affect local smallholder farmers in the Ten Rivers region who are transitioning toward more sustainable and traditional agricultural methods. The purpose of this research was to discover what barriers smallholder farmers face in developing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Urinary sodium in guinea pigs on diets deficient in anti-stiffness factor

Creator:: Davis, Darrell Lawrence
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: January l, 1950, and were returned to the standard stock diet on January 26, 19 0. Thus two of the

Unfinished work : reading Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth

Creator:: Ridinger, Angela F.
Abstract:: Ralph Ellison died without ever completing his second novel. After his death, the executor of his literary estate, John F. Callahan, edited Ellison's work into a novel published under the title Juneteenth. This thesis examines the problems posed by Ellison's posthumously released text, especially the issues of authorial intent and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: pressure to write an even better second book. Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee didn't even attempt to top

Twentieth century influences on public library service to certain adult groups

Creator:: Ashwell, Sara Elizabeth
Abstract:: The purpose of this study has been to develop insight into the aims and goals of public library service by considering one particular type of library activity--work with adult groups. To determine the influence of historical events on such service, consideration has been given to group work of the past...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: statement, Harold L. Hamill, librarian of Los Angeles Public Library, stated that his library was doing

Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

Creator:: Faris, Michael J.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Writing against convention : Kate Chopin's short fiction in Vogue, 1893-1900

Women's experiences of breastfeeding in an out-of-hospital birthing community

Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

What are the environmental, economic, and social barriers to achieving agricultural sustainability in the Ten Rivers region of western Oregon?

Urinary sodium in guinea pigs on diets deficient in anti-stiffness factor

Unfinished work : reading Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth

Twentieth century influences on public library service to certain adult groups

Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

Limit your search

Academic Affiliation

Advisor

Commencement Year

Committee Member

Creator

Date

Decade

Degree Field

Degree Level

Degree Name

File Format

Language

License

Location

Non-Academic Affiliation

Peer Reviewed

Resource Type

Rights Statement

Subject

Search Constraints

Search Results

Limit your search