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Whitman and technology: a modern romance

Creator:: Turner, David N.
Abstract:: Walt Whitman looked to the natural world, which he considered an original example of divine creation, for insights into the methods and patterns of the Creative Force; the poet then intuited connections between these divine natural patterns and human existence and spirituality. Convinced of the divinity of the human body,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: occasional frustrations that can accompany an undertaking such as this. I would like to thank Dr. Kerry

Whisper Like Lovers: (Re)membering Story as Soul Retrieval, Susurrar Como Amantes: (Re)cordando Narraciones Como Recuperación del Alma

Creator:: Fertig, Mateo Rosales
Abstract:: In their master’s thesis, Mateo Rosales Fertig offers the framework of a Curanderismx soul retrieval ceremony as a method of grappling with queerness and multiraciality in anti-colonial border and Chicanx contexts. From the legacies of Chicana, women of color, and QTPOC feminisms, they write out of the works and theories...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and supportive committee. Thank you to Dr. Qwo-Li Driskill, Dr. Patti Duncan, Laurie Bridges, and to

Virtual virtuosos : cyborgs and integrative ethics in the intimate machine

Creator:: Clemenhagen, Ronda L.
Abstract:: Standard accounts of women's relationship with technology stress women's need to overcome anxiety to achieve competence with computers. Recent studies provide evidence that this woman-anxiety-technology connection is an oversimplification of the relationship between women and computers. New literature also suggests that making computers more appealing will help girls overcome computational...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: "tell a good story." Mina, for your flexibility, openness, and positive energy. And to Dr. James C

Using computers for reversing language shift : ethical and pragmatic implications from a Wasco case study

Creator:: Denis, Armelle
Abstract:: Indigenous languages worldwide are rapidly disappearing, forced out of use by the spread of dominant Western culture and its languages. On the Warm Springs reservation of Oregon, the Culture and Heritage department, the tribal agency in charge of language preservation, is offering instruction in all three languages of the reservation:...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: deeply thank my major professor and advisor, Dr. Joan Gross, for her numerous valuable suggestions and

Toxic politics at 64N, 171W : addressing military contaminants on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

Creator:: Henifin, Kai A.
Abstract:: St. Lawrence Island, Alaska is home to two Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) under remediation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1985. After more than two decades the local residents continue to be concerned about inadequate site characterization and cleanup. During the summer of 2005, I collected ethnographic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: academic experience. My appreciation to Dr. John Young for his unwavering patience with me, guidance

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

Creator:: Karnes, Daniel A.
Abstract:: 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,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of his family in this world, to Dr. Gross for orienting him and for both broadening and narrowing

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,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Dr. Michael Paul Nelson, my major advisor and the reason I discovered

Thinness in Asia : eating disorders in Singapore as seen through anthropological eyes

Creator:: Isono, Maho
Abstract:: There has been a growing interest in eating disorders among Singaporean medical professionals since the 1990s, and the Singaporean public is also starting to become aware of the risks of these conditions. This ethnographic research on eating disorders in Singapore, conducted in 2001, however, found that the majority of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: forbearance of many people. First of all, I wish to express my great appreciation to Dr. Nancy Rosenberger

The source and promotion of a fashion trend

Creator:: Runkle, A'Leen Elizabeth
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: The writer wishes to express her appre- ciation to Dr. W. Weniger for his assistance and. interest

The role of traditional ecological knowledge in understanding a species and river system at risk : Pacific lamprey in the Lower Klamath Basin

Creator:: Petersen, Robin S.
Abstract:: Pacific lamprey (Lampetra tridentata) have historically been considered by the Western scientific community as a "trash" fish and generally overlooked in West Coast fisheries management. Recent population declines in Pacific Northwest streams have triggered new research to understand the life history and ecological significance of this species. These new studies...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: my major advisor, Dr. Deanna Kingston, whose straightforward advice and support I could always

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Whitman and technology: a modern romance

Whisper Like Lovers: (Re)membering Story as Soul Retrieval, Susurrar Como Amantes: (Re)cordando Narraciones Como Recuperación del Alma

Virtual virtuosos : cyborgs and integrative ethics in the intimate machine

Using computers for reversing language shift : ethical and pragmatic implications from a Wasco case study

Toxic politics at 64N, 171W : addressing military contaminants on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

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

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

Thinness in Asia : eating disorders in Singapore as seen through anthropological eyes

The source and promotion of a fashion trend

The role of traditional ecological knowledge in understanding a species and river system at risk : Pacific lamprey in the Lower Klamath Basin

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