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  • Geographers of writing : the authorship of Aphra Behn and Daniel Defoe in Oroonoko and Robinson Crusoe

    Creator:
    Klinikowski, Autumn
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    Themes of authorship in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe highlight locations in the stories that expose the author's concerns with their responsibilities and contributions to society. In order to frame a discussion of authorship in Oroonoko and Robinson Crusoe, it is essential to position Behn and Crusoe...
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    Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe highlight locations in the stories that expose the author's

  • Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

    Creator:
    Foster, Emily S.
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    Celebrity culture is part of a long history of fame, but the modern celebrity individual came into focus in the nineteenth century. The first part of this thesis distinguishes modern celebrity – including its morality – from other types of fame, explores the intersection of celebrity and gender through the...
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    18, 2017. Title: Reasserting Moral Boundaries: Representations of Fame in George Eliot’s Daniel

  • Possessed : embodiment, circulation, & subjectivity in Robinson Crusoe, Roderick Random, & Rob Roy

    Creator:
    Schneider, Rebecca
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    A majority of eighteenth-century novels remain in regular print over two hundred years since their inception. Yet with the possible exception of Robinson Crusoe, they have largely fallen out of popularity, rarely appearing on "The Summer's Hottest Reading" lists or receiving celebrity endorsement. I consider Ian Watt's foundational study, The...
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Evan M. Gottlieb A majority of eighteenth-century novels remain in regular print over two

  • The relationship of some family background variables to college graduation

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    Ghaffari, Rose Marie Hughes
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    The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships that were hypothesized to exist between the variables birth order, family size, and parents college attendance and the dependent variable, college graduation. The three general hypotheses tested were: 1. A positive relationship exists between a given position in birth order...
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    for Privacy Theodore Madden Redacted for Privacy Daniel Hodges The purpose of this study was to

  • The problems [of Paul Ricoeur's symbols] of evil

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    Ritenour, Karen E.
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    In the early part of his philosophical career, Paul Ricoeur worked out a general theory of symbols which he illustrated with the symbols of evil. He subsequently explained this theory in several essays (his final major statement on symbols can be found in Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of...
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  • Making a New Mexican Cuisine: An Exploratory Study of Food Security and the Cultivation of Culinary Subjectivities in a First-generation Mexican Immigrant Community

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    Esteban, Emily E.
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    In 2010, Mexican cuisine was declared as intangible cultural heritage, integral to Mexican identity and necessary to preserve for the good of humanity. Despite this recognition, first-generation Mexican communities in the United States face an exacerbated likelihood of experiencing food insecurity. In most United States studies, understanding the relationship between...
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    thank the members of her committee, Dr. Kenneth Maes, Dr. Daniel López-Cevallos, and Dr. Mary

  • Exploring Embodied Gender Identities in Steven Universe

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    Painter, Stephanie
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    Steven Universe, a relatively new show from Cartoon Network, explores an unexpectedly complex understanding of gender through their main protagonists. Utilizing Judith Butler’s work on gender performativity and doing gender, as well as Daniel Dennett’s conception of the self as a theorist’s fiction, and Alexander Weheliye’s understanding of power and...
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    Judith Butler’s work on gender performativity and doing gender, as well as Daniel Dennett’s conception

  • To grow or to buy : food staples and cultural identity in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes

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    Karnes, Daniel A.
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    In this era of free trade and globalization, food is traveling greater and greater distances to its consumers. This is causing small farms and small farmers all over the world to protest as their livelihood is being undercut by cheap agricultural commodities from outside their communities. In the Ecuadorian Andes,...
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    Version Inshallah.\205) AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Daniel A

  • Food for Axiology : Acknowledging Relationships

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    Piquette, Daniel S.
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    An overarching explanation for environmental degradation has been humans' disconnection from the natural world. Utilizing Whiteheadian theory, I offer that there is no disconnection. Rather, I propose that there is a dearth of relational acknowledgement. I suggest that the Cartesian dualism and modern science led to an illusory belief that...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Daniel S

  • Public perceptions of wave energy on the Oregon coast

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    Hunter, Daniel A.
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    Oregon’s coastal communities grew from the booming logging and fishing industries of the 19th century, but in recent decades have faced not only major declines in both timber and fish resources but also an increasing reliance on tourists and retirees and the resultant glut of seasonal service-sector jobs. As a...
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    THESIS OF Daniel Hunter for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on May