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  • Water over stones : Oregon watershed stories

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    Oberst, Gail D.
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    The 13 personal essays in Water over Stones: Oregon Watershed Stories explore the author's experiences in dozens of Oregon watersheds. Using the genre of the personal essay, the author, a fifth-generation Oregonian and amateur ecologist, writes about her life and family relationships in stories that are saturated with the waters...
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    Stories Abstract approved: Lisa S. Ede The 13 personal essays in Water over Stones: Oregon Watershed

  • Rethinking autonomy in group home policy

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    Gaddis, Matthew A.
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    In this thesis I argue that in contemporary Oregon, the policies and design of group homes for individuals with developmental disabilities emphasizes an ineffective conception of autonomy, and this emphasis should be shifted to provide better opportunities for the growth of individuals both within the homes and in their communities....
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    individuals with disabilities a chance at personal growth. I argue that by shifting the focus towards what I

  • Steps and Strikes

    Creator:
    Scopatz, Shane
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    Steps and Stikes is an Environmental Arts and Humanities capstone thesis project taking the shape of an art film. The video layers contemporary dance with natural and industrial imagery on a foundation of personal narrative. It engages with contemporary environmental discourse as a choreographed essay, questioning why the environmental movement...
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    imagery on a foundation of personal narrative. It engages with contemporary environmental discourse as a

  • Recognizing and overcoming the critical cultural barriers to progress in the sustainability movement : from a human perspective

    Creator:
    Bestvina, Bodarc
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    This thesis seeks to better understand the most pressing cultural barriers to progress in the sustainability movement, and to offer suggestions for overcoming barriers. This research includes a two-year long case study of the sustainability movement at OSU, where the researcher coordinated projects encouraging behavior change. Despite increasing severity and...
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    notion that progress in the movement will be defined by a focus on creative, personal, and spiritual

  • Defining oppression, demanding childhood : the vision and work of an Indian social action group

    Creator:
    Henderson, Laura A.
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    Mukti Ashram is a rehabilitation center in north India that works with ex-child laborer boys. Fieldwork completed at the ashram in 1997-98 centered around the issue of the organization's attempt to enact social change through the engineering of community within the ashram's walls. Several fundamental processes that contribute to this...
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    processes that contribute to this goal have been identified: the construction and presentation of personal

  • Advocates Empowered : Queering the Contemporary Movement Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.

    Creator:
    Shelton, Samuel Z.
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    While the contemporary movement against sexual and domestic violence has roots in radical, feminist theory and anti-state, community-based modes of resistance, over the past several decades, advocates and activists have increasingly turned to corporations and the state for support through the non-profit, prison, and medical industrial complexes. This acceptance of...
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    normativity that make personal and social transformation less feasible. This thesis also offers useful

  • “The System is F*cked. Everything needs to Change:” A Queer Feminist Pro-Sex Work Analysis of the Digital Age

    Creator:
    Barrett, Emerson LR
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    “The system is fucked. Everything needs to change” was stated by Ashley Paige, a professional dominatrix and author in We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, at a book launch event. Paige’s sentiments are poignant and a call to action to all of us. Through this thesis, I will...
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    Page 1. Image of United Nations’ Webpage for Human Trafficking……………………15 2. Image from Enough is

  • Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

    Creator:
    Furman, Kali
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    Books and literature help children and young adults develop language, cognitive, and social skills. Additionally children's literature enables individuals to develop a deeper appreciation for their own, and others' cultures and histories. This thesis analyzes the young adult historical fiction series Dear America, published by Scholastic press, and examines how...
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    “Teaching with Dear America” webpage which features

  • The Internet Usage Habits of Young Women with ADHD : Insights and Implications

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    Dakessian, Drew R.
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    Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the most common childhood neurological disorder in the United States, also affects grown women. But girls with ADHD, who tend towards symptoms of inattentiveness, often go undiagnosed until young adulthood. This is because (a) their symptoms are less obvious than the hyperactivity common in ADHD boys, and...
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    for psychic self- preservation and the reduction of personal subordination, hinges on the fact that

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

    Creator:
    Faris, Michael J.
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    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...
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    an academic and as a personal blogger) and my experience using classroom blogs in a mixed graduate