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  • Justifications for K-12 education standards, goals, and curriculum

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    Creighton, Sean
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    In the contemporary U.S., the state, through the Legislative Assembly, the State Board of Education, and the Department of Education, sets policies for K-12 education. These include goals and standards that affect the kinds of influences local officials, parents, and students can have on various education programs, required and elective...
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    presented on January 7, 2013 Title: Justifications for K-12 Education Standards, Goals, and Curriculum

  • Anthropological case studies of religious syncretism in Bolivia

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    Lord, Jonathan
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    Religious histories have always appropriated pre-existing symbol systems of religion into newer forms, often with the goal in mind to acculturate a population into a new cultural setting to reach a desired status quo of society. The problem with acculturation theory is that it is filled with teleological and quantitative...
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    THE THESIS OF Jonathan Lord for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on

  • Chatting, cooking, curating : English language learners as sponsors of literacy in a multicultural literacy center

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    Saleh, Natalie K.
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    Drawing on Deborah Brandt’s “literacy sponsorship,” this thesis examines ways English language learners (ELLs) in the Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) act as literacy sponsors, sharing their expertise in language, textiles, and cooking, based on nine in-depth interviews with ELLs at the center. The findings of this thesis are presented...
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    the opportunity to have learned from you in these past two years. Thank you also Jonathan Katz for

  • Acculturation and food : a study of Vietnamese women in Portland, Oregon

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    Sarasin, Heather M.
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    This study is intended to provide information about the situation of first-generation Vietnamese women to the IRCO Parent and Child Program Department in Portland, Oregon. Nutrition intervention and food assistance currently offered to Vietnamese women enrolled in this program is the focus of the study. The women interviewed characterize themselves...
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    Rossignol, Dr. Jonathan Katz, and especially Dr. Sunil Khanna, thank you for your guidance and direction

  • Sound and death in John Haines's poetry

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    Noble, Darren L.
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    Poet John Haines is best known for his first book of poetry, Winter News, which was published in 1966. The book contains poems about the Alaskan landscape that surrounded Haines during his many years of living in Richardson, Alaska. The recurring motifs in his poems include hunting, trapping, the Arctic...
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    and Jonathan King of the Management, Marketing, and International Business Department I would also

  • Family dental care : perspectives from women recovering from methamphetamine addiction

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    Hanks, Melissa A.
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    This research focuses on the economic and social impacts to women’s and children’s dental health after methamphetamine abuse. Family oral health status, access to professional services, health literacy and home hygienic practices are evaluated in the frameworks of critical medical anthropology, applied anthropological praxis and matrix and bio-psycho-social addiction models...
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  • Current Use of Dietary Guidelines in Private Clinical Nutrition Practice and its Impacts on the Dietary Patterns of Office Workers in Mexico City

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    Grabinsky, Lisa
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    For the last 30 years, the population of Mexico has grappled with overweight, obesity, and associated chronic diseases, such as type-2 diabetes and hypertension. To standardize care among healthcare providers and dietitians, an official nutritional guideline was published in the early 2000s, which included a non-modifiable food-based dietary guideline in...
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    , Alan, Jonathan, Yvonne, Salo, Gina, Shai, Igal, Daniel, Mariana, León, and Chivis. To my friends

  • Toward a more ethical engineering : four habits of highly ethical engineering practice

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    Sugie, Masayuki Luke
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    In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of paradigmatic background assumptions deployed in engineering decision-making processes, in order to understand how these assumptions, operating tacitly and in tension with each other, contribute to decisions that are ethically less effective and less substantial than they would otherwise be. I do so...
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    production of this thesis, as well as Jonathan Kaplan, Rebecca Warner and Michelle Bothwell for their

  • "Her Hypnotic Eyes" : Reading the Optical in Aaron Douglas’s Aspects of Negro Life and Nella Larsen's Passing

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    Barkley, Charles K.
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    This thesis examines two cultural productions of the Harlem Renaissance: Aaron Douglas's mural series, Aspects of Negro Life, and Nella Larsen's novel Passing. I read these works together because, more than their shared time period, they showcase an attention to the visual. Both Larsen and Douglas's works are concerned with...
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    THE THESIS OF Charles K. Barkley for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 25

  • Building Resilient Oregon Coastal Communities: Reimagining Critical Facilities through Latinx Sense of Place

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    Stanton, Katherine A.
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    This paper examines equitability of critical facilities within resilience planning efforts and how it relates to accessibility and utilization for Latinx community members along the Oregon coast in relation to natural hazards including the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with emergency management personnel and Latinx coastal...
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    centers, police and fire stations, healthcare facilities, primary and secondary schools (K-12, College