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Creator:: Herb, Danielle Kristine
Abstract:: My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger, including two narratives featured in Nine Stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and "Teddy," and Franny and Zooey, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," and "Seymour: an Introduction." Through my analysis I argue that the religious nature of Salinger's fiction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ David M. Robinson My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger

Creator:: Wangsgard, David B.
Abstract:: Street children are a significant presence in Hue, Viet Nam's tourist center, where they eat, sleep, work, and play. Utilizing ethnographic methods, this study examines how tourism impacts the lives of street children involved in the industry. The street children have generally been compelled to leave home because of adverse...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF David B. Wangsgard for the degree

Creator:: Elliott, Braden T.
Abstract:: This thesis merges the fields of Ecology and Anthropology by applying Habitat Suitability Modeling to the relationship between people and plants in the Pacific Northwest. In it, I create and optimize two Maxent habitat suitability models for camas (Camassia spp.) in Oregon. The first model describes the physical environment of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: oldest camas bulb to 1280 B.P. for the oldest site feature (Sanford 1975:238-271). Kramer (2000:32-39

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:: started me on this journey, in particular Dr. Amna Khalid, Dr. Susannah Ottaway, Dr. David Tompkins, Dr

Creator:: Newton, Samantha
Abstract:: Ian Angell, in the New Barbarian Manifesto, said “A ‘brave new world’ is being forced upon unsuspecting societies by advances in information technology.” It would seem then, that technological advances happen automatically and have a life of their own. There is a logic to technological advancements that is outside human...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ocean conditions. I am grateful to Amy Maas, the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science, David Murphy, and

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

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