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The effect of music in fashion video advertisements on attitude toward apparel brand

Creator:: Hennessy, Karen E.
Abstract:: Products as diverse as soda-pop, fashion and automobiles are selling to the tunes of classic and current pop and rock music. The combination of MTV (Music Television), the latest audio-visual technology, and the replacement of movie stars by rock stars as the idols of contemporary youth (Beckett, 1985; Hartman, 1987),...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: variance, paired t-test, unpaired .t -test, Pearson Correlation, and analysis of covariance were used to

Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

Creator:: Foster, Brad D.
Abstract:: This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: _____________________________________________________________________ Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my thesis will become part of the

The role(s) of literature in introductory composition classrooms

Creator:: Caster, Peter
Abstract:: First year college writing classes originated in the United States at Harvard University in 1874. Since then, theorizing such a course has proven a place of contention, as its purposes and subjects have proven difficult to sort and impossible to agree upon. When Harvard first began teaching introductory composition, literature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Chair of Department of English Dean of Grad e School I understand that my thesis will become part of

A second look at Alexander Pope and Newtonian science

Creator:: Reid, Tim S.
Abstract:: "This Long Disease, My Life": Alexander Pope and the Sciences by Marjorie Nicolson and G.S. Rousseau has been the standard work on Alexander Pope and Newtonian science ever since it was published in 1968. Literary scholars and biographers continue to be swayed by its influence. Unfortunately, the work they so...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Professor, representing General Science Chairman of the General Science Program Dean of G I understand

Reclaiming space for small scale agriculture in Lincoln County, Oregon

Creator:: Gossen, Kimberly A.
Abstract:: As recent interest has grown in the connections between how food is produced, distributed and consumed, and the overall health of food systems for people and the environment, a movement toward localizing food systems has emerged. In Lincoln County, Oregon, citizens, restaurateurs and university extension faculty, among others, have started...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ______________________________________________________________________ Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent

William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

Creator:: Taylor, H. Terry
Abstract:: In their modern context questions of heredity have come to be closely aligned with theories of evolution because all such theories require the presence of heritable variation. Thus the need for an understanding of a source of variation and a mechanism for its inheritance became very apparent with the general...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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The long and short of it : the reliability and inter-populational applicability of stature regression equations

Creator:: McCarthy, Donna
Abstract:: In this thesis, stature reconstruction of three prehistoric/protohistoric Native American populations (from Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and South Dakota) was performed using the Fully Anatomical method in order to formulate regression equations and analyze the ability of regression equations of other researchers to accurately estimate the statures within my study...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Anthropology ir of Department of A1thr,6 Dean of the/ate School I understand that my thesis will become part

The Listening Cure: Theorizing Gender Fluid Performance through Katharine Hepburn’s Transatlantic Accent

Creator:: Dawson, Katherine
Abstract:: My mother named me after Hollywood icon Katharine Hepburn, but what made a working-class girl grow to love this posh celebrity so much? The obvious answer is that my mother aspired to be posh herself; but lack of money or sophistication were not the only things impacting her potential— there...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Director of the School of Writing, Literature, and Film. Dean of the Graduate School

“Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

Creator:: Graham, Devon E.
Abstract:: This thesis focuses on performances of masculinity by British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) airmen in the charged landscape of the First World War prisoner of war (POW) camp. I examine how captive airmen coped with imprisonment by reasserting the familiar homosocial communities of pre-capture squadron life, particularly through practices associated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: & Society Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent

Embodying Gaia: Bruno Latour’s Gaia and the Earthboundedness of Contemplative Pedagogy (a snail’s view)

Creator:: Schindler, Jason A.
Abstract:: Bruno Latour’s Facing Gaia provokes us to embrace our Earthboundedness to approach the problematic political ecologies of the Anthropocene. Latour’s call for the Earthbound is to re-trace networks of society, institutions, and meaning and to challenge, as enemy, those that would continue to behave as if we lived on more...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Humanities Director of the Environmental Arts and Humanities Dean of the Graduate

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The effect of music in fashion video advertisements on attitude toward apparel brand

Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

The role(s) of literature in introductory composition classrooms

A second look at Alexander Pope and Newtonian science

Reclaiming space for small scale agriculture in Lincoln County, Oregon

William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

The long and short of it : the reliability and inter-populational applicability of stature regression equations

The Listening Cure: Theorizing Gender Fluid Performance through Katharine Hepburn’s Transatlantic Accent

“Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

Embodying Gaia: Bruno Latour’s Gaia and the Earthboundedness of Contemplative Pedagogy (a snail’s view)

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