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Mixed ethnic identity in the United States

Creator:: Lonergan, Courtney C.
Abstract:: In this paper I focus on the process of formulating an ethnic identity in the United States for individuals of mixed-ethnicity. My main question explores the complexities an individual with parents of separate and distinct ethnic heritages faces when constructing an ethnic identity in our society. American society is reaching...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The postwar novel as postmodern : revisiting Catch-22 & Slaughterhouse-five

Creator:: Spreitzer, Peter
Abstract:: This thesis is an exploration of Catch-22 (1961) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), two early documents of American postmodern literature. In particular, this thesis attempts to present the critical discussions surrounding each novel as parallel to the broader theoretical discussions surrounding the concept of postmodernism. My contention is that, in both of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text::  anti‐war  messages, Catch22 (1961) by Joseph Heller and SlaughterhouseFive (1969) by Kurt  Vonnegut

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: University. Special thanks goes to Roberta Hall, Garry Stephenson, Kurt Peters, and Scott Reed, who are all

Who's afraid of a little nitrate? : discovering impediments and incentives in following best management practices related to water quality within the southern Willamette Valley groundwater management area

Creator:: Rolston, Irene
Abstract:: Thesis summarizes interviews with growers residing within the Groundwater Management Area (GWMA) in the Southern Willamette Valley of Oregon. Informal and semi-structured interviews were used to identify perceived impediments and incentives perceived by local farmers in following best management practices related to water quality. Results from the interviews were coded...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thank my other committee members, Kurt Peters, Garry Stephenson, Gail Glick- Andrews, and Jennifer

Blood, bondage and chains : a legacy of kinship between black-red people

Creator:: Bertha, Clarissa
Abstract:: My research is looking at the cultural and kinship ties of African and Native peoples and how our worlds were forged together by colonization, bonded during the institutionalize state of shackles and slavery and how the legacy of these tools of genocide are now tearing us apart. Being of mixed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: never have imagined. Dr. Kurt Peters, my minor advisor, uncle, and mentor, your quiet but steadfast

David Foster Wallace's communal middle ground

Creator:: Randlemon, Daniel E.
Abstract:: Throughout the course of this thesis, I argue that the prose of David Foster Wallace, specifically his posthumously published novel The Pale King, inhabits a middle ground between universal sincerity and the particularized authenticity of postmodern irony. I examine Lionel Trilling's definitions of sincerity and authenticity before moving toward an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Daniel E. Randlemon for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 25, 2012. Title

Organic oxidations with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of molybdates

Creator:: Raacke, Ilse Dorothea, 1925-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (1907). 27 19. E. Elarlich, i,tonatsiiefte Q, 115 (1889). 20. Kurt Brass arid Robert Patzelt

The problems [of Paul Ricoeur's symbols] of evil

Creator:: Ritenour, Karen E.
Abstract:: In the early part of his philosophical career, Paul Ricoeur worked out a general theory of symbols which he illustrated with the symbols of evil. He subsequently explained this theory in several essays (his final major statement on symbols can be found in Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Karen E. Ritenour for the degree

The objects within : an applied OOO literary criticism

Creator:: Dodson, Matthew J.
Abstract:: For centuries, continental philosophy has clung to the belief that the world only meaningfully exists through human perception--that, in other words, when a tree falls in the forest, it does not make a sound. Literary theory, which has strong roots in continental philosophy, followed suit, remaining tied to humanism even...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Bluebeard and Joel and Ethan Coen’s film Burn After Reading to show examples of

A preliminary study of expressed preferences and task efficiency in differing communication networks

Creator:: Weimer, Robert Edward, II
Abstract:: The present study is an attempt to investigate some of the relationships between certain personality characteristics and expressed preferences for various communication structures; it is also an examination of the relative efficiency of the networks used. Subjects drawn from the university population participated in experimentally formed five-person groups. These groups...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: extremes and the median on a continuum of structure (i. e. from highly structured to unstructured) (6, 49

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Mixed ethnic identity in the United States

The postwar novel as postmodern : revisiting Catch-22 & Slaughterhouse-five

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

Who's afraid of a little nitrate? : discovering impediments and incentives in following best management practices related to water quality within the southern Willamette Valley groundwater management area

Blood, bondage and chains : a legacy of kinship between black-red people

David Foster Wallace's communal middle ground

Organic oxidations with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of molybdates

The problems [of Paul Ricoeur's symbols] of evil

The objects within : an applied OOO literary criticism

A preliminary study of expressed preferences and task efficiency in differing communication networks

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