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A Reconstruction of Plant Species Composition at the Devil's Kitchen Site (Southern Oregon Coast) using Plant Opal Phytoliths and Charcoal Macro-remains

Creator:: Bulder, Nicholas H.
Abstract:: Although plant remains, such as opal phytolith and charcoal analyses, have been used since the beginning of the 20th century to reconstruct past environments by ecologists and botanists, only recently have these techniques been considered by archaeologists in understanding the past at the site level. This study employs opal phytolith...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nicholas H. Bulder for the

¿Que es rico? In Support of the ¡Que Rico Es! 250mil Familias Campaña : Practice, Ideology, Rica, Sana, y De Nuestra Tierra

Creator:: Fisher, Nicholas A.
Abstract:: What does comida rica mean? In this thesis, I explore the meanings of comida rica, sana, and de nuestra tierra through the discourses, practices, and kitchen geographies in six urban, highland households in the Ecuadorean Andes. This research, as part of a larger investigation carried out by a team of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Campaña AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nicholas A. Fisher for the degree of Master of Arts

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

Creator:: Creighton, Sean
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: presented on January 7, 2013 Title: Justifications for K-12 Education Standards, Goals, and Curriculum

James Baldwin's Pedagogy of Love: A Method for Transforming American Political Thinking and Pedagogy in the Academy

Creator:: Saleem, Ikhzaan
Abstract:: My thesis examines how the American identity is constructed through thinking shaped by deception and domination, as James Baldwin argues in the corpus of his work. I rely on the work of Eddie Glaude Jr., Sean Kim Butorac, and Joel Schlosser to forward love in Baldwin’s political vision as being...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: conventional ideas of it in classical liberal thinking. I use Nicholas Buccola’s work as a foundation for my

Rural ceramic production, consumption, and exchange in late classic Oaxaca, Mexico : a view from Yaasuchi

Creator:: Pink, Jeremias
Abstract:: The Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico was home to one of the most intensively-studied archaic states in the New World. Centered at the hilltop city of Monte Albán, the Zapotec State first arose around 500 BC and eventually encompassed much of the present-day state of Oaxaca. But by the Late Classic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of 2014, I again took leave of my thesis research to work with Dr. Gary Feinman and Linda Nicholas

Pottery, Politics, and Trade Routes : Evaluating Independence in Late Classic Jalieza, Oaxaca

Creator:: Walker, Sarah T.
Abstract:: The Oaxaca Valley, located in the state of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico, was the site of the Zapotec civilization and its now famous capital, Monte Albán. This site, with political, military, and economic influence and control, helped to consolidate the three arms of the Oaxaca Valley, resulting in a state-level...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Ceramic Phases (1967) Blanton et al. survey – Phases (1978) Feinman and Nicholas Phase (2011

The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

Creator:: Koroloff, Rachel
Abstract:: Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 – 1755) was a successful early Russian naturalist whose professional and social destinies were linked to eighteenth-century Russia's nascent but growing naturalist tradition. During his own time Krasheninnikov bridged the gap that existed in Russia between a distinctly European scientific practice and a tradition of Russian...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ); Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, A History of Russia sixth edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000

(Com)Posing Rhetorical Ecology: Cultivating Phronesis via Permacultural Praxis

Creator:: Ferris, Ian
Abstract:: Contrasting the productive ground gained in ecological rhetorical theory through embedded fieldwork, composition as a discipline has yet to enact such transformative engagements with ecology. In this thesis, I put forward a praxis for ecological rhetoric and composition through permaculture design, utilizing the design framework’s system of ethics and principles...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: described by rhetorical ethnographers Michael K. Middleton, Samantha Senda-Cook, and Danielle Endres

"A Sea of Grief is Not a Proscenium": Claudia Rankine's Citizen and the Spectacle of Racist Violence in Cyberculture

Creator:: Lathos, Athena M.
Abstract:: In her 2016 article “Beyond Rights as Recognition, Black Twitter and Posthuman Coalitional Possibilities,” Pritha Prasad argues that the hashtag, one of the decade’s most omnipresent features of digital communication, functions as “a performative composing medium that not only demands relationality” and “call[s] for the recognition of both the Black...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: most famous of these affective narratives is Nicholas Powers’ “Why I Yelled at the Kara Walker

"Freedom from what?" : Iraqi women's narratives from the 2003 U.S.-led war

Creator:: Mohtashamipour, Sahar (Soudeh)
Abstract:: This research explores the experiences of Iraqi women during and after the 2003 U.S.-led war (2003-2011). The aim of the project was to provide an occasion for a group of Iraqi women to give voice to their lived experiences of war and to document these voices, adding their subjective perspectives...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

A Reconstruction of Plant Species Composition at the Devil's Kitchen Site (Southern Oregon Coast) using Plant Opal Phytoliths and Charcoal Macro-remains

¿Que es rico? In Support of the ¡Que Rico Es! 250mil Familias Campaña : Practice, Ideology, Rica, Sana, y De Nuestra Tierra

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

James Baldwin's Pedagogy of Love: A Method for Transforming American Political Thinking and Pedagogy in the Academy

Rural ceramic production, consumption, and exchange in late classic Oaxaca, Mexico : a view from Yaasuchi

Pottery, Politics, and Trade Routes : Evaluating Independence in Late Classic Jalieza, Oaxaca

The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

(Com)Posing Rhetorical Ecology: Cultivating Phronesis via Permacultural Praxis

"A Sea of Grief is Not a Proscenium": Claudia Rankine's Citizen and the Spectacle of Racist Violence in Cyberculture

"Freedom from what?" : Iraqi women's narratives from the 2003 U.S.-led war

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