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  • An Exploration of Scholarship on Peer Review in Composition Studies : Looking to the Future with Replicable, Aggregated, and Data-Supported Research Methodologies

    Creator:
    Day, Jacob E.
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    This thesis examines the nature of evidence in scholarship on peer review in composition studies. I argue that the nature of evidence present in scholarship on peer review over the past three decades is typically anecdotal, theoretical, and based on limited case studies. I argue that peer review research in...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF 
 Jacob E. Day for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on July 6

  • An observation of the history and discrimination of the Buraku in modern day Japan

    Creator:
    Kawano, Mika
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    The Buraku people have been segregated, oppressed, and discriminated against throughout Japanese history. The Japanese can dismiss the Buraku issue because of assimilation theories, the belief in homogeneity, and passive attitudes by the Buraku people. The Buraku Liberation League (BLL), which has fought for equal rights on behalf of the...
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    Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on December 8, 1999. Title: An Observation of the

  • A literary discourse on the evolution of gender & sexuality in the first & second waves of feminism : Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" deconstructs established gender roles as Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" reconstructs them

    Creator:
    Hotard, Tami
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    The two literary touchstones of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Willa Cather examined in this thesis anchored a larger discussion of the discourse about gender and sexuality during the First and Second Waves of feminism in America. "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Gilman deconstructed the notion of "femininity" manifested at the turn...
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    of Master of Arts in En lg ish presented on May 28; 1999. Title: A Literary Discourse on the

  • Search images

    Creator:
    Dunham, Karen L.
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    This thesis is a collection of six essays with interconnecting elements and themes. Two overriding themes which pervade the collection are the search for spiritual wholeness and the relationships between humans and their environments. The essays document my recent explorations of and experimentations with the "creative nonfiction" genre. have worked...
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    . Dunham for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on December 1, 1999. Title: Search Images

  • 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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    of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on June 7, 1999. Title: Defining Oppression

  • An analysis of social relationships at a development site in Kenya

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    Burke, Deborah A.
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    Both development and post-structuralist anthropologists have critiqued development. Development anthropologists are concerned that development does not take adequate account of the social and cultural factors of developing nations, while post structuralists question the ontology of development and assert that domination over developing nations is inherent in the concept of development....
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    Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on March 16. 1999. Title: An Analysis of Social

  • Countering the subjugation of Indian women : strategies for adaptation and change

    Creator:
    Moyer, Dawn J.
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    This thesis outlines dominant ideologies and practices that affect women's authority in the urban social milieu of north India. Theories that consider the causes of social stratification by gender as well as social movement patterns are useful for understanding the durability of gender roles. The utility of these theories for...
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    Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on June 8, 1999. Title: Countering the Subjugation of

  • Where we are buried : a conversation of diaries

    Creator:
    Hill, Eric R.
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    This thesis is the first of three sections in what will be a book-long project of creative nonfiction essays. The book will parallel the author's diary with three other family diaries, spanning four generations. This thesis deals with the first of those diaries, written by Antonio Bonetti's, the author's great-grandfather....
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    OF THE THESIS OF Eric Hill for the degree of Master of Arts in ENGLISH presented on May 5. 1999

  • Narrative frames and the works of John Coltrane

    Creator:
    Duncan, James Bryan
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    In Culture and Imperialism, Said illustrates that we have no "autonomous cultural forms," but rather "impure" ones that are the products of historically "discrepant experiences." American culture has an interesting relationship with the history of imperialism. The Europeans that settled the U.S. imported slave labor to assist in the growth...
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    3, 1999. Title: Narrative Frames an e Works of John Coltrane. Abstract approved: Linc Kesler In

  • From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

    Creator:
    Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
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    The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
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    Arts in English presented on February 24, 1999. Title: From Weakness to Wisdom: Jane Austen Transforms