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  • Oregon Health & Science University's understanding of cultural competency

    Creator:
    Racansky, Pamela A.
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    The United States population continues to increase and diversify. The cultural composition within the United States embodies a multitude of people from a variety of belief systems, religious backgrounds, and ethnicities. Within current biomedical practice, many of these differences are often marginalized, leaving populations with unsatisfactory experiences in seeking health...
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    my committee members br. Sunil Khanna, br. Judy Bowen, br. Loni Roberts and br. Richard Mitchell for

  • The culture of academia : authorizing students to read and write

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    Mitchell, Danielle M.
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    Presenting and synthesizing several paradigms for the teaching of literature in American colleges, I investigate how definitions of reading, readers, texts, interpretations, and knowledge affect student acts of reading and writing. In addition, I draw upon specific examples of text-based, reader-based, and social-cultural based models for the teaching of reading...
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    Mitchell, Danielle M. AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF

  • Requirements for vitamin C as affected by exercise

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    Carpenter, Phyllis May
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    REQUIREMENTS FOB VITAMIN C AS AFFECTED BY EXERCISE by

  • The light within us : Quaker women in science

    Creator:
    McCabe, Leslie N.
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    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...
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    , astronomer Maria Mitchell, naturalist Graceanna Lewis, and medical doctor Ann Preston, were all truth

  • Scenes of language

    Creator:
    Duerst, Gretchen
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    In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when I wanted to draw people closer with language, but was unsuccessful. In the twelve stories, I discuss these issues in my interpersonal communication interwoven...
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    : Wayne C. Anderson In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that

  • Mixed ethnic identity in the United States

    Creator:
    Lonergan, Courtney C.
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    In this paper I focus on the process of formulating an ethnic identity in the United States for individuals of mixed-ethnicity. My main question explores the complexities an individual with parents of separate and distinct ethnic heritages faces when constructing an ethnic identity in our society. American society is reaching...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Courtney C. Lonergan for the

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

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    McLemore, Emily C.
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    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,...
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  • Late Pleistocene Lithic Technological Organization on the Southern Oregon Coast : Investigations at Indian Sands (35-CU-67C)

    Creator:
    Willis, Samuel C.
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    Excavations conducted at Indian Sands (35-CU-67C), located along Oregon's southern coast, during 2002 and 2003 identified two discreet, artifact-bearing stratigraphic units. The uppermost unit is a deflated surface containing burnt shell and lithic artifacts associated with early Holocene ¹⁴C dates, while the underlying unit contained only lithic tools and debitage,...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Samuel C. Willis for the degree of

  • Geoarchaeology at Tseriadun (35CU7), Curry County, Oregon

    Creator:
    Anderson, Frederick C.
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    The continuation of geoarchaeological investigations at Tseriadun (35CU7) contributes to the understanding of the site's depositional history and the associated environments, thereby identifying the long term geomorphic change in the area and providing the environmental context for local human activity as it is reflected in the archaeological record. Meeting this...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Frederick C. Anderson for the

  • "All the things you ask of me" : Law Enforcement Experiences of Infant Death Investigation

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    Schindell, Jennifer R.
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    The sudden and unexpected death of a seemingly healthy infant sets in motion a number of linked processes with potentially complex and far-reaching ramifications. While individuals, families and communities grapple with the shock and heartbreak associated with the loss of a young life, a chain of multidisciplinary investigative responsibilities is...
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