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  • The relationship between sibling status and sex-role preference among preschool-aged children

    Creator:
    Easton, Linda
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    The primary purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between the variables of sex, age, sibling status, age relationship of sibling, age spacing between siblings and sex-role preference among preschool-aged children. Seventy-one children, 32 boys and 39 girls, ranging in ages from two-years-eleven-months to five-years-seven-months, served as subjects....
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    ARTS (Name) (Degree) in Family Life (Child Development) presented on March 15, 1974 (Major) (Date

  • Symbols of trauma: A mythological view on Toni Morrison's Beloved

    Creator:
    Tollbom, Camille J.
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    The purpose of this paper is to engage in a mythological discussion which enriches current scholarship regarding the title character of Toni Morrison’s Beloved. While major scholars suggest that Beloved as a character is either a solid ghost or—as Zora Neale Hurston suggests based on the quote “people who die...
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    Morrison's Beloved By Camille J. Tollbom Abstract The purpose of this paper is to engage in a

  • Phospholipids of Tenebrio molitor larvae

    Creator:
    Kamienski, Francis Xavier
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    Phospholipids of Tenebrio molitor larvae were separated on columns of DEAE-cellulose and silicic acid-Hyflo Super Cel. The major phosphatide components were identified by various analytical procedures. Phosphatidyl choline was demonstrated to be the predominant phospholipid with a high percentage of phosphatidyl ethanolamine. A small amount of inositol-containing phosphatides were present....
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    Science Research Institute for their assistance. I would like to thank Oregon State University for

  • A provenance study of crypto-crystalline silicates at the Cooper's Ferry site : a geochemical approach

    Creator:
    Nyers, Alexander John
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    A provenance study of crypto-crystalline silicates was performed at the Cooper's Ferry archaeological site in west-central Idaho on the Columbia Plateau. In this research, the author used instrumental neutron activation analysis as well as portable x-ray fluorescence to examine and characterize the geochemistry of 300 geologic samples of crypto-crystalline silicates...
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    research, the author used instrumental neutron activation analysis as well as portable x-ray fluorescence

  • Living between two cultures : an ethnographic study of American women converts to Islam

    Creator:
    Fisher, Dianna M.
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    This thesis explores the reasons for conversion to Islam for ten well-educated, Caucasian, American born women of European descent in a small, relatively affluent college town in Oregon, United States. It follows their process of constructing a new identity with their families, with friends, within the Muslim community and within...
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    made the decision after careful research and despite some problems, would make the same decision

  • Oregon outdoor garments : outdoor garments worn in the Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon regions between 1880 to 1920

    Creator:
    Mower, Jennifer M.
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    The purpose of this study was to describe women's outdoor garments worn in Oregon from 1880 to 1920 to determine whether there were garment differences between the Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon. The question addressed was: can garment differences be explained by the different Oregon climates, geographic locations, and availability...
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    Welters, "Historical Research in Textiles and Clothing: A Position Paper," International Textile and

  • 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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    assistance of Dr. Sunil Khanna was essential in my research in India, and without his expert motorcycle

  • Courting Elizabeth : the virgin queen and Elizabethan literature

    Creator:
    Zinck, Jaime
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    Sixteenth century Elizabeth I of England has long been a figure of interest to Renaissance scholars, and their work largely focuses on how her gender impacted the power, politics, and culture of her day. Many have perceived her to be a heroine whose ingenuity and determination circumvented the limitations imposed...
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    recently in graduate school, I took to the databases and library to research how she was talked about in

  • Rhetorical Arrangement and the Digital Archive : Finding Women’s Voices in the Linus Pauling Papers

    Creator:
    Boardman, Colleen
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    The common imagining of archives characterizes these spaces as monolithic, hallowed sites of preserved truths, carefully catalogued and stored, static and frozen in history and waiting to be uncovered. My thesis works to dispel this myth and identify rhetorical elements of the archive’s structure in order to assess how the...
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    disciplinary research I love. I am extremely grateful for my thesis committee readers, Anne Bahde and

  • The wild flesh of Gary Snyder's "natural language"

    Creator:
    Hanson, Michael (Michael Edward)
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    This paper explores the language theories of Gary Snyder, an important modern environmental author whose early work was associated with the Beat movement of the early 1950's. I am particularly interested in Snyder's thoughts on how language relates to nature. I focus primarily on Snyder's prose in attempts to understand...
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    Master of Arts in English presented on June 15, 2006. Title: The Wild Flesh of Gary Snyder's "Natural