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  • Factors influencing the use of complementary and alternative medicine by Korean American women

    Creator:
    Skidmore, Jennifer M.
    Abstract:
    This study examines the utilization of health care by Korean American women in Pierce County, Washington. Pierce County, with its large population of Asian Americans, offers a variety of health care options, everything from biomedicine to acupuncture and herbal remedies. Regarding the multitude of options available, I asked the question...
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  • "They called me the hyacinth girl" : T. S. Eliot, masculinity, and the Great War

    Creator:
    Query, Patrick
    Abstract:
    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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  • Dark Yolk: Decolonial Two-Spirit Storytelling

    Creator:
    Hall, Tiramisu D.
    Abstract:
    This work examines the decolonial potential of queer and Two-Spirit Indigenous storytelling by telling stories using graphic novel chapters, literary analysis, and graphic analysis. I explore the importance of stories in defining us as individuals, as peoples, and as humans. As a mixed-race Indigenous (unregistered Cherokee) transwoman, I engage with...
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    would sprout into the massive world trees ancient humanity once knew of, but had long-since forgotten

  • A Therapeutic Model: Yogacara and Psychotherapy

    Creator:
    Trejo, Ricky W.
    Abstract:
    The Buddhist discipline known as Yogacara can complement the practice of Psychotherapy by virtue of the former’s concepts that allow individuals to examine their minds in a way that produces beneficial insights regarding one’s mental health problems. Yogacara contains the idea of a storehouse consciousness that is similar to the...
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    , these seeds eventually sprout into fruits and Yogacara equates these fruits to the impressions we have

  • Full of his details and other essays

    Creator:
    Tuma, Teresa K. Easterling
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    This collection consists of autobiographical essays which center around my father, my first husband, and my backyard. All of the pieces are recollections, and most occur either from my study inside the house, or from the deck outside, looking at the yard. The Preface is the story of how I...
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    next spring. Perhaps we'll plant zinnias again. More likely, the volunteers will sprout and grow

  • Eva Nightingale

    Creator:
    Chernik, Abra Fortune
    Abstract:
    Eva Nightingale, an original screenplay, is a retelling of the Garden of Eden myth set in modern times and seen from Eve's point of view. The script centers on life after Eden, life after trespass and loss, when Eva (like Eve before her) must choose between despair and hope, self-destruction...
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    ; enormous vegetables sprout everywhere; tall flowers on skinny stalks sway in the breeze. Michael's

  • Book of changes

    Creator:
    Fawbush, Vanessa
    Abstract:
    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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    Bow and bend My tender twigs And sprout a springtime simile Like pencils budding words I'm always in

  • An autumn journey : time, place, and pattern in Henry David Thoreau's later work

    Creator:
    Dotterman, Anthony Matthew
    Abstract:
    This thesis situates a discussion of Thoreau's later natural history essays in the context of the author's other writings. Beginning with an examination of the writings of Thoreau's friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, this paper examines Thoreau's relation to and departure from Emerson's understanding of time, place, and pattern...
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  • The relationship of non-recovered rodent caches to the natural regeneration of ponderosa pine

    Creator:
    Saigo, Barbara Woodworth
    Abstract:
    Studies were conducted within a 12-mile radius of Camp Sherman, Oregon, in the Deschutes National Forest during the spring and summer of 1965 and the spring of 1966, with one follow-up visit in the summer of 1967. The feeding and foraging activities of Eutamias amoenus and Citellus lateralis were observed,...
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    carry- ing tree seeds into burned areas and forgetting some caches which sprout and grow. " In

  • The benefits of diversified agricultural systems among Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize

    Creator:
    Hofbauer, Derek M.
    Abstract:
    Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize face socio-economic hardships, persisting environmental constraints, and an unfavorable political climate that has prevented land tenure stability on reservation lands. This thesis describes the agricultural practices of a group of Mopan farmers and examines farm-site diversification and its relationship to ecological knowledge, out-migration, agricultural...
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