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  • Transforming sectionalism to unity through narrative in John Brown Gordon's "The last days of the Confederacy"

    Creator:
    Acklin, David R.
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    John Brown Gordon was committed to the mission of national reconciliation. He knew that the South would have to embrace the North to repair the devastation of the Civil War. Driven by dedication to public service after the war, he worked through his positions in governmental offices to help the...
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    this John Brown Gordon was committed to the mission of national reconciliation. He knew that the

  • RTFM NOOb: Criticizing Internet Based Instructional Documents as a Rhetorical Genre

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    Carlson, Gordon S. III
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    The purpose of this thesis is to aid in qualitative improvements to technical support documents on the Internet. By using a generic criticism this analysis will make substantive suggestions towards the improvement of this type of document by engaging the rhetoric employed by their authors. It will discuss the history...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Gordon S. Carlson III for the

  • An examination of terminal and instrumental values of selected Oregon State University students majoring in speech communication

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    Maier, Pamela M.
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    This study investigated terminal and instrumental value priorities of students in various majors within an academic department. The investigator tested a sample of 99 volunteers of both sexes from several classes in the department of Speech Communication at a major land grant university by use of the Rokeach Value Survey....
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    department of Speech Communication at a major land grant university by use of the Rokeach Value Survey. The

  • Salvage Archaeology of the Ritsch Site, 35304 : A Late Prehistoric Village Site on the Central Rogue River, Oregon

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    Wilson, Bart McLean
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    Site 35J04 is located on the south bank of the Rogue River, four miles west of Grants Pass, Oregon. Excavation of the site was conducted in 1976 by Oregon State University under contract to the Corvallis branch of CH2M/Hill. Eight artifact assemblages were distinguished during the analysis of the site....
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    an archaeological survey and test excavations of the Emi- grant Dam reservoir, located near Ashland

  • Processing of Indirect Requests : Use of a Secondary Task to Reveal Changes of Interpretation due to Context

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    Rachele, Ronni V.
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    Two primary categories of theories about how people process indirect requests such as "Can you tell me the time?" were discussed. 'Multiple-Meaning' theories propose that both the literal meaning of indirect requests ("Are you able to tell me the time?") and the conveyed meaning ("Please tell me the time.") are...
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    literal meaning of an indirect request is always interpreted prior to the conveyed meaning (Gordon

  • Beagle, Oregon, An Unknown Casualty of War: Camp White and the Destruction of a Farming Community During the Second World War

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    Shelnutt, Kay
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    This project examines the landscape of the farming community of Beagle, Oregon prior to and during the Second World War and the effect on it due to the construction of Camp White, a World War II training facility. The Beagle landscape is examined through the prism of current theory that...
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    Welcome Camp White" .67 23. War Department map 69 24. Gordon home, circa 1905 .72 25. Sign in

  • Racism and Bad Faith

    Creator:
    Jones, Gregory Alan
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    Human beings are condemned to freedom, according to Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. Every individual creates his or her own identity according to choice. Because we choose ourselves, each individual is also completely responsible for his or her actions. This responsibility causes anguish that leads human beings to avoid their...
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    potential middle class distinction of"African-Americans. " I follow the opinions ofLewis Gordon in this

  • A Qualitative Feminist Analysis of Welfare Mothers and Human Capital

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    Leer-Beyerlein, Amy L.
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    This thesis explores outcomes of women's participation in the American welfare system. The primary goal of this research was to determine the impact certain segments of the welfare system in the United States have on women's ability to obtain and retain human capital. The primary resources were formulated around participants...
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    reward mothers who stayed home with their children. Linda Gordon (1994) in Pitied But Not Entitled

  • Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

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    Streufert, Mary J.
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    Virginia Woolf was a self-proclaimed atheist, yet her fictional and personal writing reveal her ecstatic consciousness. Characters in Woolf s novels experience ecstasy, and her letters and diaries support the theory that she herself had experienced ecstatic consciousness. Major figures in the philosophy of religion assert that ecstatic consciousness is...
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    childhood home at 22 Hyde Park Gate and into their own residence at 46 Gordon Square. Although no longer

  • "The Grind" : MTV and female body image

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    Layport, Jill E.
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    This research addresses the relationship between television programming and body image. It specifically investigates what the Music Television network's (MTV) dance show, "The Grind," communicates about female body image. Two studies were conducted. Study one used seven coders from a western United States high school to record female body images...
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    ; Lundholm & Littrell, 1986; Gordon, 1989; Myers & Biocca, 1989; Silverstein, et al., 1986; Wiseman, et al