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Oregon outdoor garments : outdoor garments worn in the Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon regions between 1880 to 1920

Creator:: Mower, Jennifer M.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to describe women's outdoor garments worn in Oregon from 1880 to 1920 to determine whether there were garment differences between the Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon. The question addressed was: can garment differences be explained by the different Oregon climates, geographic locations, and availability...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jennifer M. Mower for the degree

The influence of worldview on second language acquisition : a study of the native English speakers acquiring the Chinese aspect marker -Le

Creator:: Yang, Li-qiong
Abstract:: Culture, thought worldview and language have been discussed for a long time in different fields from various perspectives. However, the basis of this study is the view of language as both the product and producer of people just as people are the producer and product of language. Each language requires...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Second Language Acquisition: A Study of Native English Speakers Acquiring the Chinese Aspect Marker -Le

"Walloped" by the weather? Deflections, diversions, and dubious representations of women in climate change discourse

Creator:: Brinker, Rachel K.
Abstract:: Research shows that women's lives are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. While the topic of women is largely absent from climate discourse overall, the representations of women that occur reveal underlying structures of power rooted in imperialism and colonial dominance. This thesis presents an analysis of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Rachel K

Twentieth century influences on public library service to certain adult groups

Creator:: Ashwell, Sara Elizabeth
Abstract:: The purpose of this study has been to develop insight into the aims and goals of public library service by considering one particular type of library activity--work with adult groups. To determine the influence of historical events on such service, consideration has been given to group work of the past...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Bostwick, librarian of the St. Louis Public Library, foresaw the need of reaching groups which had not

Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels

Creator:: Bacon, Julie M.
Abstract:: This thesis is arranged in three chapters which explore Wharton’s representations of nature in three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), and The Custom of the County (1913). This thesis contends that Wharton’s novels reveal changes in the interplay between representations of nature and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: make his attempt at acquisition. This attempt and the consequences it sets in motion press Lily to

The development of the health program in the schools of Marion County, Oregon

Creator:: Fisher, Alice Bates
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , vigor of body, virtue in soul, and knowlede or mental acquisItions (13). About one-third of the book

Instrumentation system for high speed data sampling of electrical machinery

Creator:: Brisbine, Glen Edward
Abstract:: The objective of this thesis is to develop criteria for a data acquisition system for electrical machinery capable of sampling a signal every 0.2 msec with a desired accuracy of 0.1%. The system to be measured includes both AC and DC voltage and current signals from several points. The main...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: Gerald C. Alex.nder The objective of this thesis is to develop criteria for a data acquisition

Central place foraging and the winter village: a settlement pattern analysis in the lower Salmon River Canyon in Idaho

Creator:: Carlisle, Kendra
Abstract:: Hunter-gatherers depend on naturally occurring resources and, in order to survive, must overcome resource procurement challenges inherent in their environment. One challenge relates to the temporal and spatial availability of resources, which hunter-gatherers address, in part, through the strategic use of space to position themselves for optimal access to necessary...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ________________________________________________________________________ AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kendra Carlisle for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied

Giving Birth to Reality : Experiences of Motherhood in the Stories of Eminent Tibetan Buddhist Practitioners

Creator:: Gallagher, Katelin
Abstract:: Tibetan Buddhism has offered two distinct, seemingly dichotomous perspectives about motherhood as it relates to traversing the spiritual path. In the first, mothering is the antithesis to spiritual development and realization, as it tethers a practitioner to the mundane duties of saṃsāra, the cycle of rebirth and suffering, propelling her...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: a role that can lead to the acquisition of tremendous spiritual merit, as a practitioner shepherds

Literacy politics and literacy education : thematic perspectives in contemporary Chicana/o narrative

Creator:: Bowman, Christine D.
Abstract:: Literacy is often considered to be a basic set of skills to be mastered by the student; the conventional wisdom maintains that the individual who has mastered these skills is then literate. Scholars in the field of literacy studies, however, argue that such assumptions about literacy fail to take into...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: assumptions about literacy fail to take into account the social nature of literacy acquisition. Because

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Oregon outdoor garments : outdoor garments worn in the Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon regions between 1880 to 1920

The influence of worldview on second language acquisition : a study of the native English speakers acquiring the Chinese aspect marker -Le

"Walloped" by the weather? Deflections, diversions, and dubious representations of women in climate change discourse

Twentieth century influences on public library service to certain adult groups

Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels

The development of the health program in the schools of Marion County, Oregon

Instrumentation system for high speed data sampling of electrical machinery

Central place foraging and the winter village: a settlement pattern analysis in the lower Salmon River Canyon in Idaho

Giving Birth to Reality : Experiences of Motherhood in the Stories of Eminent Tibetan Buddhist Practitioners

Literacy politics and literacy education : thematic perspectives in contemporary Chicana/o narrative

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