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"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

Creator:: Horton, Kaely
Abstract:: This thesis examines depictions of medievalism in three central texts: Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Each of these texts provides an entry point for exploring the ways in which English and American writers have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: social structures, ideologies, and values. Gail Ashton and Daniel Kline describe the well-known tropes

A study of symmetric matrices and quadratic forms over fields of characteristic two

Creator:: Furcha, John Arthur
Abstract:: This thesis has four main results. First we find a reduction form for symmetric matrices over fields of characteristic two. This result parallels the diagonalization theorem for symmetric matrices over fields of characteristic not two. Secondly we reduce our reduction form to a canonical form in perfect fields of characteristic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Fields of Characteristics Two AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF JOHN ARTHUR FURCHA for the M. A. in

Academic preparation of American business executives for foreign service

Creator:: Goodearl, Arthur William
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: foreign service ACADEMIC PREPARATION OF AERICAN BUSINESS EXECUTIVT 1)k FO± IGN SERVICE by ARTHUR

Hannah of Troy, and other stories

Creator:: Nadelson, Scott
Abstract:: The six stories in this collection center around an extended Jewish family in the New York Metropolitan area and the curse its members relentlessly wish upon themselves. The protagonist in four of the six stories is Daniel Brickman, younger brother in a very ordinary and chaotic household in suburban New...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: members relentlessly wish upon themselves. The protagonist in four of the six stories is Daniel Brickman

“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:: . Mina Carson, and Dr. Daniel López-Cevallos, for your interest, encouragement, and your service

"I've lived on these streets, and these streets aren't pretty" : The Life Stories of Corvallis Homeless Women

Creator:: Koch, Elizabeth C.
Abstract:: Over two million people experience homelessness in the United States, but homeless people are often marginalized by invisibility and stigmas surrounding poverty within their local communities. This research seeks to amplify the voices of Corvallis area homeless women as a means to understand their everyday lived experiences. Six women residing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: complete this project. To my committee, Kryn Freehling-Burton, MAIS, Dr. Liddy Detar, and Dr. Daniel

Geography and other stories

Creator:: Cook, Molly Larson
Abstract:: This thesis comprises a collection of six short stories written and developed in the Creative Writing program at Oregon State University and particularly in fiction workshops with Dr. Tracy Daugherty and Marjorie Sandor. These stories explore the human condition, and human connections, in contemporary society. The characters here are ordinary...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Geography and Other Stories Moving to the Country They are happy to be leaving the city. Daniel is happier

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Oney, Celia E.
Abstract:: People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the Pacific Northwest, Daniel Pope has examined this shift, including the efforts to build

Palynological Perspectives on Younger Dryas to Early Holocene Human Ecology at Paisley Caves, Oregon

Creator:: Saban, Chantel V.
Abstract:: The Younger Dryas climatic event is a global phenomenon associated with a 1,000 year return to glacial conditions during the late Pleistocene period between 12,800 and 11,500 cal BP. Because of its significant effects on paleoenvironmental conditions in some parts of the world, archaeologists commonly seek to assess whether the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Arthur Cronquist and others (1972) compiled the Intermountain Flora: Vascular Plants of the

Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

Creator:: Schefke, Brian R.
Abstract:: Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented power and prestige. The wartime alliance with the Soviet Union quickly collapsed amid mutual suspicion and fear, however, resulting in the Cold War. Science was a significant political component in that ideological conflict. In the United States, inspired by Franklin D....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Brace, & Co., 1929). On government expenditures for defense, Daniel Kevles notes that by 1949, the

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"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

A study of symmetric matrices and quadratic forms over fields of characteristic two

Academic preparation of American business executives for foreign service

Hannah of Troy, and other stories

“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

"I've lived on these streets, and these streets aren't pretty" : The Life Stories of Corvallis Homeless Women

Geography and other stories

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

Palynological Perspectives on Younger Dryas to Early Holocene Human Ecology at Paisley Caves, Oregon

Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

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