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

    Creator:
    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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    formatting conventions) finally ended their near 50 year stance that technical writing had no place within

  • A Feminist Celebrates the Rediscovery of Immanence

    Creator:
    Lockhart, Janet L.
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    I offer a personal and prehistoric exploration of the concept of immanence, the principle of a divine force living, remaining, and operating within living creatures, inherent in the human, including the female; a unifying force that connects humans to each other, to nature, and to the earth. I examine the...
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    of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication

  • Traditions and changes in Chinese business organizations under the policy of economic reform

    Creator:
    Siu, Walsa
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    One of the motives of China's Economic Reform is to bring Western management techniques to China to further economic development. The miraculous success of the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Shenzhen, Guangdong has attracted many foreign investors who gladly bring their management expertise. This thesis looks at small, medium and...
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    June 19, 1995. Title: Traditions and Changes in Chinese Business Organizations under the Policy of

  • Stephen Biko's Rhetorical Vision of Black Consciousness

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    Fergusson, Julie K.
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    Stephen Biko was a black leader in South Africa who died in police custody on September 12, 1977. Biko's death echoed within the Republic of South Africa and around the world, showing that racial tensions in that country were severe. At his death he was a hero to the black...
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    in Speech Communication, History, and Sociology presented on March 19. 1996. Title: Stephen

  • Upper Deschutes River Basin Prehistory: A Preliminary Examination of Flaked Stone Tools and Debitage

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    Taggart, Michael W.
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    The prehistory of Central Oregon is explored through the examination of six archaeological sites and two isolated finds from the Upper Deschutes River Basin. Inquiry focuses on the land use, mobility, technological organization, and raw material procurement of the aboriginal inhabitants of the area. Archaeological data presented here are augmented...
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    on April 19, 2002. Title: Upper Deschutes River Basin Prehistory: A Preliminary Examination of Flaked

  • Metaphor and Bias : An In-Depth Look at CNN and Fox News Channel

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    Duncan, Sara R.
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    This study links together two very complicated, but very important subjects: media bias and metaphor. More specifically, this study investigates whether or not examining a media outlet's use of metaphor is an effective methodology for investigating media bias. Using cluster analysis, I identified the source metaphors most commonly used on...
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    Business Administration presented on September 19, 2005. Title: Metaphor and Bias: An In-Depth Look at CNN

  • Devil Dog Diplomacy and the abandonment of military tradition : United States Foreign Policy in Central America and the Caribbean, 1915-1934

    Creator:
    Geissler, Eric L.
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    During the U.S. military interventions in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti between 1915 and 1934, Washington equipped members of the its armed forces with civil and political powers that represented a radical departure from the North American military tradition. This abandonment of tradition decisively contributed to both the disappointments...
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    of political activism. Redacted for Privacy C Copyright by Eric L. Geissler May 19, 1995

  • The Schultz Fire: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on its History, Management, and Ecological Effects

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    Ranseen, Susanne N.
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    This thesis examines the Schultz Fire as a case study to explain the complex history of fire suppression management in America’s forests, and to gain further understanding of how management practices have affected the increase in fire severity levels and how forests respond to such a disturbance. The thesis objectives...
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    had little variation on percentage of cover by plants. No statistically significant relationship

  • Al Gore Jr. and the Rhetoric of Self-Disclosure

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    Palmer, Scott Aaron
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    Senator Al Gore Jr. was elected Vice-President of the United States on November 3, 1992. During many of his public speeches, Gore utilized a speaking style that differed radically from the style he used in other political campaigns of his life. This style, which will be called the "rhetoric of...
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    that no other young men would be forced to serve and die in his place. After he enlisted, Gore was

  • Descriptive Analysis of Human Remains from the Fuller and Fanning Mounds, Yamhill River, Willamette Valley, Oregon

    Creator:
    Stepp, David
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    The study presents the results of a descriptive analysis of the skeletal remains of 66 individuals recovered from the Fuller and Fanning Mound sites, located on the Yamhill River, Willamette Valley, Oregon, excavated in 1941-42 by W. T. Edmundson and William S. Laughlin. The literature and original field notes have...
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    cranial traits. 86 18. Comparison of non-metric trait frequencies to the Gold Hill population. 87 19