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  • "They called me the hyacinth girl" : T. S. Eliot, masculinity, and the Great War

    Creator:
    Query, Patrick
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    This thesis traces the relationship between the First World War, constructions of masculinity, and the life and poetry of T.S. Eliot. Central to this relationship is a study of homoeroticism, which the author characterizes as different from homosexuality but not exclusive of it, in late 19th and early 20th century...
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    "They called me the hyacinth girl" : T. S. Eliot, masculinity

  • Civic agriculture : the successes, trials, and future of the local food movement in the Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Klingensmith, Thomas S.
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    This study investigated the local and sustainable food movements in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The aim of the research was to better understand the current condition of the phenomenon, what it means to the communities studied and the future role it will play in the state. Other research objectives...
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    ABSTACT OF THE THESIS OF Thomas S. Klingensmith for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology

  • Conservation programs from the farmer's perspective : where is the greener grass?

    Creator:
    Gibson, Jennifer S.
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    On the national level, landowners demand for conservation programs like EQIP and WRP has far outstripped federal funding in 2001. Yet within Oregon's Willamette Valley, both EQIP and CREP have had a rough time gaining momentum. Much of the past research on rural landowners' conservation participation has relied on surveys...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jennifer S. Gibson for the degree

  • Colonization, Statemaking, and Development: A Political Ecology of the Saru River Development Project, Hokkaido, Japan

    Creator:
    Ioannides, Michael J.
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    Although dam construction has been an integral tool in development initiatives for nearly a century, dams can have significant negative impacts on local residents, particularly those who are permanently displaced from their homes and must be resettled elsewhere. Dams have unique impacts on indigenous peoples. As a result, many dam...
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    the Saru River Development Project, Hokkaido, Japan. Abstract approved

  • 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.
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    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...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Robin S. Petersen for the degree of Master of

  • Expanding the chemostratigraphic framework of the Cooper's Ferry site (10IH73) using portable x-ray fluorescence spectrometry

    Creator:
    Holcomb, Justin Allen
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    This thesis reports a study of pXRF chemostratigraphy at the Cooper's Ferry site, located in western Idaho’s Lower Salmon River Canyon. The author used portable x-ray fluorescence spectrometry (pXRF) in order to independently test and expand the current chemostratigraphic framework at the site. PXRF applications targeted two stratigraphic sections located...
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    mean annual discharge of the river is 302.7 cubic meters per second (m3/s) (10,690 cubic feet per

  • Water over stones : Oregon watershed stories

    Creator:
    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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    river returned to me how it joins other rivers as it flows to the ocean, how a thousand people may

  • Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

    Creator:
    Burke, Erik P.
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    Reinhabitation is an approach to building local cultures and economies within industrial society. The food system is a vital starting point. What are the principles of reinhabitory food systems? What are the possibilities for a locally adapted food system in the Marys River region of western Oregon? I describe past...
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    : CONCLUSIONS 103 REFERENCES CITED 106 APPENDICES 126 LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page MARY S RIVER REGION 2

  • Book of changes

    Creator:
    Fawbush, Vanessa
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    I have elected to write a creative nonfiction thesis because it serves to demonstrate my proficiency in the areas of rhetoric and composition. This thesis consists of a series of personal essays based on my effort to reclaim my voice as a writer. In order to organize these essays, I...
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    Master of Arts in English, presented April 23, 2003. Title: Book of Changes. Abstract approved: Lisa S

  • Fishing Guides in the Anthropocene

    Creator:
    Wind, Thad A.
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    How do fishing guides of the Cascade and Coast Range rivers negotiate the conflicting tensions between their client’s desire to experience the wild and the extractive nature based tourism of their role as fishing guides? How do they position their services relative to the environment and an imagined landscape that...
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    experience of place, the river. 10 These rivers provide ecological and economic services to the