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  • Life in (an)other world : issues of otherness and magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

    Creator:
    Fennell, Dalicia K.
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    My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Journeying Through (An)Other World: Examining the Role of Magic and Transformational Otherness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Magic, Muggles, and Mudbloods: Examining Magical Otherness in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series." The introduction frames the thematic, theoretical, and critical connections...
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    Spell: The Meaning behind the Mania for J. K. Rowling's Bestselling Books. 3rd ed. Carol Stream, IL

  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

    Creator:
    Wood, Amy
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    In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
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    Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the

  • In Defense of the "Ringding Mukta" : The Later Work of J.D. Salinger

    Creator:
    Herb, Danielle Kristine
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    My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger, including two narratives featured in Nine Stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and "Teddy," and Franny and Zooey, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," and "Seymour: an Introduction." Through my analysis I argue that the religious nature of Salinger's fiction...
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  • “The System is F*cked. Everything needs to Change:” A Queer Feminist Pro-Sex Work Analysis of the Digital Age

    Creator:
    Barrett, Emerson LR
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    “The system is fucked. Everything needs to change” was stated by Ashley Paige, a professional dominatrix and author in We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, at a book launch event. Paige’s sentiments are poignant and a call to action to all of us. Through this thesis, I will...
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    , 2021. Title: “The System is F*cked. Everything needs to Change:” A Queer Feminist Pro- Sex Work

  • The extension problem for functions invariant under a group

    Creator:
    Chang, Bai-Ching
    Abstract:
    Consider a transformation group G operating on a space X and a G- invariant function f defined on a G- invariant subset of X. By imposing suitable conditions on X, G, f and A, the author derives sufficient conditions for extending f invariantly to the whole space, and thus generalizing...
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    f I 12 J. every T- closed A C X is also -closed. To this end let B denote the complement

  • 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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    hit song “You 10 Oughta Be in Pictures,” to F. Scott Fitzgerald, who worked “casting couch

  • A study of the animals inhabiting laminarian holdfasts in Yaquina Bay, Oregon

    Creator:
    Markham, John Charles
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    During the six-month period of July through December, 1966, a study of animals inhabiting laminarian holdfasts in Yaquina Bay, Oregon, was carried out to determine what animals live in this habitat and to gain some idea of the factors which influence their presence and distribution. This study deals with yet...
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    sample from Station I large enough for this type of analysis, and Stations F, G, H, J, and K had too few

  • A paleomagnetic study of Recent Cascade lavas

    Creator:
    McKnight, William Ross
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    Ninety-five oriented samples were obtained from nine Recent Cascade lava flows in Oregon. Directions and intensities of remanent magnetization were measured on a spinner magnetometer which measures directions of magnetization to within 1.2° s.d. Angle measurements were plotted graphically using an equal area projection. Mean directions and statistics were calculated...
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    : A PALEOMAGNETIC STUDY OF RECENT CASCADE LAVAS Abstract approved Donald F. Heinrichs Ninety-five

  • Carbonization products from Scholler lignin

    Creator:
    Kroll, Robert Louis
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    suggestions of Dr. E, F. Kurth throughout this work. Pg I NTRODUGTION

  • Queering Science Writing: Bringing Marginalized Perspectives to the Mainstream

    Creator:
    Goodfriend, Olivia F.
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    Within the field of science communication, the voices, perspectives, and experiences of the LGBTQ+ community have long been kept at the margins. This has led to a gap in material that recognizes queer individuals and communities as audiences, communicators, and stakeholders in STEM. I address this gap by generating a...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Olivia F. Goodfriend for the degree of Master of Arts in Environmental Arts