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  • Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

    Creator:
    Faris, Michael J.
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    In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
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    blog. New London Group researcher and author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and

  • Commodification in an Ersu Tibetan village of Sichuan, China

    Creator:
    Schmitt, Edwin Anton
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    This ethnographic research aims to discover the implications of the commodification of production processes amongst the Ersu Tibetans of Sichuan, China. This thesis examines the commodification of Ersu agriculture and ethnic identity in the historical context of both China and the world-system. Ethnohistorical and ethnoecological methodologies are utilized to answer...
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    level throughout rural China. What we can learn from this though is that each village in China

  • Food Insecurity Among Oregon College Students : Their Experiences and Perspectives

    Creator:
    Sutton, Juliet
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    This thesis examines the food insecurity experiences of student clients of the Oregon State University Emergency Food Pantry. Utilizing semi‐structured interviews and participant observation at the food pantry, this study investigated who is using the food pantry, the forms of food insecurity they experience, how they cope with it, and...
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     the clients at the  food pantry who allowed me to record their experiences in what can be a difficult

  • Educational Migration in Indonesia : An Ethnography of Eastern Indonesian Students in Malang, Java

    Creator:
    Foertsch, Christopher R.
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    This research explores the experience of the growing number of students from Eastern Indonesia who attend universities on Java. It asks key questions about the challenges these often maligned students face as ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities exposed to the dominant culture of their republic during their years of education....
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    Indonesia who attend universities on Java. It asks key questions about the challenges these often maligned

  • Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

    Creator:
    Pajak, Zachary E.
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    My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Interpreting Britomart's Encounters with Art: The Cyclic Nature of Ekphrasis in Spenser's Faerie Queene III," and "Picture This, Imagine That: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Disciplines." The purpose of my first article is to argue that Edmund Spenser uses ekphrasis in his...
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    artist and his audience. The storyteller can only do so much to make us see his pictures, and the rest

  • Defining the gap : a case study of the on campus residential options at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Nelson, Rachel C.
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    The decision to attend a university creates many important decisions for a young adult, with one of the most important being the choice of where to live while they make the transition into independent adults. Many choose to live on campus during this critical time. The differences that exist, and...
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    started working with and hearing about the program within the building, I was curious as to what a

  • The Yellow House: Stories of Place, Space and Community

    Creator:
    Gann, Tamara S.
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    This thesis is an IRB-exempt oral history focused on the non-profit Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) in Corvallis, Oregon. The CMLC, formerly on 9th Street, was known to many community members as the Yellow House. The Yellow House was a dedicated community-based space where people of all cultures could come...
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    Native people but non-Native peoples as well…I don't think that any of us can heal, and I don't think

  • Virtual virtuosos : cyborgs and integrative ethics in the intimate machine

    Creator:
    Clemenhagen, Ronda L.
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    Standard accounts of women's relationship with technology stress women's need to overcome anxiety to achieve competence with computers. Recent studies provide evidence that this woman-anxiety-technology connection is an oversimplification of the relationship between women and computers. New literature also suggests that making computers more appealing will help girls overcome computational...
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    ............................................................. 36 Techs-Mechs: From Can Openers to Computers, It's About Control ................ 37 Hands-On

  • Using computers for reversing language shift : ethical and pragmatic implications from a Wasco case study

    Creator:
    Denis, Armelle
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    Indigenous languages worldwide are rapidly disappearing, forced out of use by the spread of dominant Western culture and its languages. On the Warm Springs reservation of Oregon, the Culture and Heritage department, the tribal agency in charge of language preservation, is offering instruction in all three languages of the reservation:...
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    rest of the gathering for what he was about to say. "Who do we think we are kidding? These young people