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  • A feminist love story : the cinematic possibilities of Shakespeare's Juliet

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    Faherty, Dionna E.
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    Literary and feminist theory have recently begun to recognize William Shakespeare's character of Juliet as a possible feminist heroine, but communicating this interpretation on film will be complicated. Not only will the film need to deal with the issues of adaptation that come with moving any play onto film, but...
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    begun to recognize William Shakespeare's character of Juliet as a possible feminist heroine, but

  • The accessible Chaucer

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    Luepke, Natasha M.
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    In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have access to Geoffrey Chaucer and his works. I look at issues surrounding Chaucer within the canon debate, high school history and literature textbooks, and Chaucer in popular culture, such as in movies like A Knight's Tale. I...
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    : ______________________________________ Tara Williams In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have

  • Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

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    McLemore, Emily C.
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    This project examines two understudied female characters from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales who emerge as subversive figures by striving to maintain control over their bodies and being. Through my analyses of the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales, I reveal how virginity correlates with bodily autonomy for the narratives’ respective protagonists,...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Tara Williams This project examines two understudied female characters from Geoffrey

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

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    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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    Integrative Ethics in the mt mate Machine. Abstract approved: William M. Keith Standard accounts of women's

  • "Born of ourselves" : gendered doubling and the femme fatale in Vernon Lee's ghost stories

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    Delf, Liz
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    This thesis examines the characterization of the femme fatale and the implications of this trope for late-Victorian gender and sexuality in the ghost stories of female aesthete Vernon Lee. In her treatment of the femme fatale figure, Lee both reinforces and complicates the image of the sexualized, often bestialized woman...
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    committee members Dr. Anita Helle and Dr. Tara Williams, whose advice and support have been a crucial

  • Literacy narratives across the curriculum

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    Coffey, Marjorie D.
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    This thesis proposes expanding the locations where literacy narratives are currently used as readings and as writing assignments and considering broad conceptions of the types and uses of literacy narratives read in classrooms. In particular, this thesis asserts the value of expanding the literacy narratives read beyond the current canonical...
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    become a better writer. I would also like to thank my committee members, Susan Meyers, Tara Williams

  • A settlement model at the Robert Newel Farmstead (35MA41), French Prairie, Oregon

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    Manion, Mollie Jo
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    This thesis is based on the excavations of the Robert Newell farmstead (35MA41), excavated in 2002 and 2003 by the Oregon State University Department of Anthropology archaeological field school. Robert Newell lived at this farm from 1843- 1854. Major architectural features, including a brick hearth and postholes were discovered at...
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    , Nathaniel Wyeth's farm workers and William Johnson occupied the site prior to Robert Newell's arrival in

  • "Flying the plane as we build it" : a qualitative study of an organization's goals and actions toward the prevention of exploited female youth

    Creator:
    Dubyak, Erin A.
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    Within the U.S. there is a growing interest in the case of female adolescents being coerced into the sex industry (Bernstein, 2010; Estes & Weiner, 2001; Soderlund, 2010; Williams and Frederick, 2009). This interest, which emerged due to U.S. involvement in the international trafficking phenomena and grassroots organizing, has resulted...
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    ; Williams and Frederick, 2009). This interest, which emerged due to U.S. involvement in the international

  • A Style Analysis of Army Doctrine Publications

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    Frier, Don
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    This project performs a style analysis of three sentences from three military manuals written across an 80 year time-period. I first discuss the history of style within academic discourse and how it has impacted the study of style within the field of writing and rhetoric. Using this background, I then...
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    use simpler sentences is one that is repeated in many circles, including by Joseph Williams

  • "It Brings You into the Fold": Understanding Patients' Experiences of Mobile Health Technologies

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    Lee, Jenney R.
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    Chronic disease is costly to treat and burdensome for those living with its impacts. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2017), 117 million Americans currently live with chronic disease, and one in four adults live with two or more chronic diseases. The burden placed on the U.S....
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