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On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

Creator:: Stoller, Kevin R.
Abstract:: William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kevin R. Stoller for the degree of

Why they volunteer : a study of participants at nature conservancy work parties

Creator:: Hastings, Kevin L.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the motivations of ecological restoration volunteers with the Oregon chapter of The Nature Conservancy. This study helps fill in voids left by a lack of research on the motivations of ecological restoration volunteers. Studies that have explored restoration volunteer motivation relied largely on surveys that revealed altruistic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: committee, Bryan Tilt, Jeff Hale, and Stephanie Bernell, for their flexibility and guidance during this

Re-viewing the canon : using film and critical pedagogy in the standards-based classroom

Creator:: Divelbiss, John D.
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes the efficacy of emancipatory (critical) pedagogical practices in an educational climate of standards-based reform. Using two films noir of the blacklist era--Body and Soul and Crossfire--as the core texts of a unit in a secondary school curriculum, I argue that an emphasis on student agency and a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Critical Pedagogy in the Standards-based Classroom Abstract approved: Jon R. Lewis This thesis

Hitchcock in Hollywood: Examining the Master of Suspense’s Career with Rebecca and Psycho

Creator:: Flanagan, Matthew S.
Abstract:: This project examines the production histories of two films that Alfred Hitchcock directed, his Hollywood debut Rebecca (1940) and the memorable Psycho (1960). The first chapter explores how Hitchcock succeeded and failed at influencing the picture as he, despite directing the movie, had to follow the vision that his producer,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Jon R. Lewis This

Immigrant encounters : film narratives of the modern immigrant

Creator:: Yeager, Angela L.
Abstract:: This thesis employs a narrative analysis of more than twenty-five films that are centrally concerned with immigrants and the immigrant experience. In Part One, drawing from the work of Yosefa Loshitzky, I will focus on films that feature an immigrant lead character. In Part Two, I will explore movies that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ____________________________________________________________________ Jon R. Lewis This thesis employs a narrative analysis of more than twenty-five films that

The soul announces itself : Terrence Malick's Emersonian cinema

Creator:: Fech, Bill
Abstract:: This thesis takes an auteurist approach to the films of director Terrence Malick by reading them through the spiritual philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I establish Malick's thematic concern with the human struggle to achieve better existences in a broken material world, a concern buoyed by his signature aesthetic that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Announces Itself: Terrence Malick’s Emersonian Cinema Abstract approved: Jon R. Lewis This

English placement procedures in land-grant colleges

Creator:: Ireland, Margaret Jane
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Graduate Committee Dean of Graduate School ACKNOWLEDGIVIENT To Dr. R. J. Clinton the writer wishes

James Joyce's critique of "Faubourg Saint Patrice" : Ulysses, the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage

Creator:: Nelson, John C. M.
Abstract:: In his works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922), James Joyce demonstrates what he perceives to be the paralyzing effects of those institutionalized religions that sit at the center of cultures. Drawing on Michel Foucault's analysis of institutional dressage as well as his...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Neil R. Davison In his works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922

"They called me the hyacinth girl" : T. S. Eliot, masculinity, and the Great War

Creator:: Query, Patrick
Abstract:: This thesis traces the relationship between the First World War, constructions of masculinity, and the life and poetry of T.S. Eliot. Central to this relationship is a study of homoeroticism, which the author characterizes as different from homosexuality but not exclusive of it, in late 19th and early 20th century...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the Great War. Abstract approved: Neil R. Davison This thesis traces the relationship between

The Grizzly Bear and the Deer : the history of Federal Indian Policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877

Creator:: Van Laere, M. Susan
Abstract:: The Coast Reservation of Oregon was established under Executive Order of President Franklin Pierce in November, 1855, as a homeland for the southern Oregon tribes. It was an immense, isolated wilderness, parts of which had burned earlier in the century. There were some prairies where farming was possible, but because...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Oregon, 1856-1877. Abstract Approved David R. Brauner The Coast Reservation of Oregon was established

ScholarsArchive@OSU

On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

Why they volunteer : a study of participants at nature conservancy work parties

Re-viewing the canon : using film and critical pedagogy in the standards-based classroom

Hitchcock in Hollywood: Examining the Master of Suspense’s Career with Rebecca and Psycho

Immigrant encounters : film narratives of the modern immigrant

The soul announces itself : Terrence Malick's Emersonian cinema

English placement procedures in land-grant colleges

James Joyce's critique of "Faubourg Saint Patrice" : Ulysses, the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage

"They called me the hyacinth girl" : T. S. Eliot, masculinity, and the Great War

The Grizzly Bear and the Deer : the history of Federal Indian Policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877

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