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  • Casting Call: A Female Actor's Struggle to Stardom

    Creator:
    Schiller, Dawn S.
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    In the era of #MeToo, we have learned more about the plight of women in Hollywood as they seek employment as actors. While the recent public conversation about gender and sexualization in Hollywood is robust, few peer-reviewed academic articles examine the actor’s personal experiences of gaining meaningful employment in television...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Dawn Suzanne Schiller

  • Countering the subjugation of Indian women : strategies for adaptation and change

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    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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Dawn J.Moyer for the degree of

  • Toxic politics at 64N, 171W : addressing military contaminants on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

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    Henifin, Kai A.
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    St. Lawrence Island, Alaska is home to two Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) under remediation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1985. After more than two decades the local residents continue to be concerned about inadequate site characterization and cleanup. During the summer of 2005, I collected ethnographic...
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    helped me process and present my research. To my professor from the Department of Geosciences Dr. Dawn

  • Religion in the writing classroom : toward a pedagogy of possibility

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    May, Laura D.
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    In this thesis, I examine composition scholarship on the intersections of religious faith and writing pedagogy over the past twenty years, tracing the origins of compositionists' discomfort with religion and focusing on pedagogical approaches for working with religiously-committed students. In particular, I emphasize the way in which these approaches are...
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    tots at McMenamin‟s; Julie Bacon for helping me in a thousand “little” ways; Sara Jameson for her

  • 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

  • Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

    Creator:
    Faris, Michael J.
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    In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
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    . Abstract approved: Lisa S. Ede In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to

  • Wendy Bishop : a feminist voice at the intersections of composition, creative writing, and ethnography

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    Rosman, Alice L.
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    Wendy Bishop's lively voice and scholarly contribution continue to resonate and be important in composition studies. Bishop--poet, scholar, feminist, teacher, ethnographer, and compositionist--sought to blur the lines between creative writing and composition. This thesis argues that in challenging the boundaries that exist between creative writing and composition, Bishop also challenged...
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    of Composition, Creative Writing, and Ethnography Abstract approved: Lisa S. Ede Wendy

  • Narratives of Motherwork, Agency, and Resilience: An Oral History of Afghan Immigrant Mothers in the Pacific Northwest Diaspora

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    Rezai, Fatima
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    Using intersectional, matricentric feminist of color approaches, this study interrogates the particularities of Afghan immigrants' mothering experiences—as one of the hidden facets of their lived experience—in the United States from a life-course perspective. Using a combination of feminist oral historical approaches, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation, this thesis explores the...
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    Cari S. Maes Using intersectional, matricentric feminist of color approaches, this study

  • 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

  • Sound scattering by marine organisms in the northeastern Pacific Ocean

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    Donaldson, Henry Adam
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    Sound scattering by marine organisms was studied off the Oregon coast and between Hawaii and Adak, Alaska. Variations in scattering were observed over a period of several hours, over did (24-hour) periods, from month to month, from inshore to offshore, in relation to biomass of midwater animals, and temperature and...
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    at dusk and dawn respectively. At times reflectors migrated between surface waters and upper