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  • Lichen distribution in Oregon coastal dune communities

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    Leuthner, Shirley Mae
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    Distribution of lichens was studied at seven coastal dune sites in Oregon. Lichens were sampled in the dry stable, dry meadow, meadow, rush meadow, marsh, shrub and forest deflation plain communities. Observations were made of the standing water in the marsh community. Quantitative measurements were made of the percent organic...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF SHIRLEY MAE LEUTHNER for the in (Name of Student) Botany (Major) M

  • Artificial intelligence and cyberpunk

    Creator:
    Scott, Ron
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    This thesis examines the ways in which cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series of relationships predicated on the way that corporate control of knowledge industries increased during the 1980s. The document begins by locating the means of corporate control in the...
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    THESIS OF Ron Scott for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Presented on June 2, 1997. Title

  • Literacy narratives across the curriculum

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    Coffey, Marjorie D.
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    This thesis proposes expanding the locations where literacy narratives are currently used as readings and as writing assignments and considering broad conceptions of the types and uses of literacy narratives read in classrooms. In particular, this thesis asserts the value of expanding the literacy narratives read beyond the current canonical...
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    literacy more generally. J. Blake Scott, in "The Literacy Narrative as Production Pedagogy in the

  • Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

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    Foster, Emily S.
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    Celebrity culture is part of a long history of fame, but the modern celebrity individual came into focus in the nineteenth century. The first part of this thesis distinguishes modern celebrity – including its morality – from other types of fame, explores the intersection of celebrity and gender through the...
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  • Paxton : a cartography

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    Hogg, Charlotte
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    This thesis is a collection of essays about Paxton, a small town in western Nebraska, and an exploration of the contradictions and complexities found there. It is also a reflection on the layers of history and connections that exist not only among families that have lived in these towns for...
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    "Cyberpunk" Scott, and Sue Vega-Peters for their extensive and thoughtful feedback, and most importantly

  • "Style upon style": The Handmaid's Tale as a palimpsest of genres

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    Boulware, Taylor J.
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    This thesis undertakes an examination of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, as a layering of genres. A futuristic dystopia that imagines late twentieth-century America as having fallen into neo-Puritanism and totalitarianism following widespread infertility and violence, The Handmaid’s Tale invites contemplation of various forms of fundamentalism, radicalism, and...
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    criticism. Notable contributions to this field include Shirley Neuman’s “‘Just a Backlash’: Margaret

  • Crossing the Human: Posthumanist Deviations in Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy

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    Johnson, Anthony
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    This thesis argues that the first two novels of Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy mark a sharp turn from the antihumanism of his earlier ‘Southern’ novels to a more affective exploration of posthumanist subjectivity within a world dominated by social discourse and metanarratives. In my examination of All the Pretty...
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    trifles involving the marital status of Shirley Temple. Presented in McCarthy’s subtle prose, one can

  • “I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

    Creator:
    Baker, Carlee A.
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    In the months preceding the 2016 presidential election and during the Trump presidency, rhetoric, composition, and communications scholars expressed an urgent concern about the threat that Trump and his political affiliates posed to the status of truth in political life (McComiskey; Rice; Harsin; Cloud). However, the conversations surrounding the discipline’s...
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    to Dr. Kirk Branch and Dr. Beth Shirley, who both saw early potential in me. Thank you for giving

  • A rhetoric of transformation : the emergence of community literacy within composition studies

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    Vega-Peters, Susan T.
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    Within literacy and composition studies, writing, as a social act, is believed by many to have the potential to effect change in and transform situations of injustice. Community literacy, as an emergent practice within composition studies, embraces and stretches this notion of linking literacy to social change. Community literacy also...
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    Franks, Charlotte Hogg, and Ron Scott for sticking with me through the initial months when everything

  • Power and participation in urban planning : an ethnographic case study of Curitiba, Brazil

    Creator:
    Piel, Eric W.
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    This thesis examines the concepts of power and participation and how they are intertwined in the examination of the urban planning systems in Curitiba, Brazil. Power is identified as both the planning system's ability to affect the daily lives of the city's residents and the power of individuals and groups...
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    , according to Scott (1985), include foot dragging, dissimulation, feigned ignorance, false compliance