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Yoga Philosophy as a Framework for Ethical Yoga Tourism: Avoiding Harm and Traveling Responsibly in the Era of the Anthropocene

Creator:: Mylan, Jessica A.
Abstract:: Contemporary spiritual tourism impacts many stakeholders including environmental ecosystems, tourists, tourist operators, and community members. Increasingly, in the era of the Anthropocene, there is a need for ethical guidance to inform spiritual tourism so as to mitigate social injustice and environmental degradation. This research project investigates the potential for the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jessica A. Mylan for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Ethics

Secrets of the North Staffordshire ceramic recipes : identifying chemical variation and uniformity using an archaeometric approach

Creator:: Hale, Jessica A.
Abstract:: The present thesis chemically examined 174 industrial North Staffordshire pottery fragments from an archaeological context, using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA). In an integrated effort to combine an archaeometric approach with archival research and traditional analysis methods, the purpose of the thesis was to link industrial pottery manufacturers recipes to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Microsoft Word - Hale, Jessica A. Final Thesis july 7.doc

Investigating Sexual and Gender-Based Violence as a Weapon of War and a Tool of Genocide against Indigenous Yazidi Women and Girls by ISIS in Iraq

Creator:: Hassen, Suha Hazeem
Abstract:: In the current armed conflicts that have become known to the international community since the sweeping attacks on northern Iraq on Aug. 3, 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS) perpetrated extreme forms of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against a small ancient ethno-religious conservative Yazidi group. ISIS has used SGBV against...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: appreciation also goes to Dr. Janet Lee and Dr. Jessica White for supporting me in achieving my trip to Iraq

Geoarchaeological Investigations at the Devils Kitchen Site (35CS9), Southern Oregon Coast

Creator:: Curteman, Jessica Ann
Abstract:: A geoarchaeological investigation was conducted at the Devils Kitchen archaeological site, located in the Devils Kitchen State Park along the southern Oregon coast. In this thesis research, the author paired previous and recent excavated stratigraphy profiles to define culturally significant deposits. These stratigraphic units were defined further geochemically using a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (35CS9), Southern Oregon Coast AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jessica Ann Curteman for

Furthering Rhetorical Genre Studies Within the Context of Identity and Transfer in First Year Composition

Creator:: Alfaqih, Jessica
Abstract:: Within composition studies, rhetorical genre studies (RGS) and labor-based grading (LBG) are engaged in similar projects that consider students not only as individuals but also as always part of a community; as such, both have worked to understand how students learn, how students value themselves and their work, and how...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Collected Works of Jessica Alfaqih's Master's Thesis (Edited

Understandings of sustainability and the contributions of non-governmental organizations : a case study of Toledo, Belize

Creator:: Rosien, Jessica
Abstract:: This thesis reviews theoretical and local understandings of sustainability and examines the contributions which the NGO, the Toledo Institute for Development and Environment (TIDE), makes to achieving sustainability in the district of Toledo in Belize, Central America. The study focuses mainly on the Port Honduras Marine Reserve, which TIDE manages...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jessica Rosien for the degree of

Hospice nurses as "midwives to the dying" : guiding life's important journeys

Creator:: Cox, Jessica C.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the metaphor of hospice nurses as "midwives to the dying" by applying philosophical inquiry to the field of hospice. I focus on the history of the movements, their professional approaches to caregiving, and the core commitments of both the modern midwifery and hospice movements. Although focused on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jessica C. Cox for the

Caution – ideological mechanisms at work : interpellation and the melancholic turn in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden

Creator:: Travers, Jessica D.
Abstract:: In this thesis I examine the ideological mechanisms that work to constitute, construct, and maintain subject identity. Such mechanisms include repetition, performativity, identification, and interpellation. I incorporate structuralist, post-structuralist, and psychoanalytic theories as a means to discuss the ways in which gender, sexuality, and identity are performative masquerades. Furthermore, these...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jessica D. Travers for the degree of Master of Arts in English

What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

Creator:: Anderson, Jessica
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to understand the experiences that Nahua children, in rural Mexico, have as they attend schools that are primarily influenced by formal Western education in relation to their own ways of learning and knowing. This research took place over the course of three months within...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Jessica Anderson for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on October 28, 2016

From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

Creator:: Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
Abstract:: The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: sensibility tradition AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jessica M. Mosher-Knoshaug for the degree of Master of

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Yoga Philosophy as a Framework for Ethical Yoga Tourism: Avoiding Harm and Traveling Responsibly in the Era of the Anthropocene

Secrets of the North Staffordshire ceramic recipes : identifying chemical variation and uniformity using an archaeometric approach

Investigating Sexual and Gender-Based Violence as a Weapon of War and a Tool of Genocide against Indigenous Yazidi Women and Girls by ISIS in Iraq

Geoarchaeological Investigations at the Devils Kitchen Site (35CS9), Southern Oregon Coast

Furthering Rhetorical Genre Studies Within the Context of Identity and Transfer in First Year Composition

Understandings of sustainability and the contributions of non-governmental organizations : a case study of Toledo, Belize

Hospice nurses as "midwives to the dying" : guiding life's important journeys

Caution – ideological mechanisms at work : interpellation and the melancholic turn in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden

What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

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