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Filtering by: Creator Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945 Remove constraint Creator: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945 Degree Name Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (M.A.I.S.) Remove constraint Degree Name: Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (M.A.I.S.) Non-Academic Affiliation Oregon State University. Graduate School Remove constraint Non-Academic Affiliation: Oregon State University. Graduate School

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  • Champoeg, a perspective of a frontier community in Oregon, 1830-1861

    Creator:
    Speulda-Drews, Lou Ann
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    Champoeg, located along the Willamette River, developed as a transportation center for both river and overland travel and as a shipping point for agricultural products. Retired employees of the Hudson's Bay Company were the first to settle in the area, in the 1830s. American settlers began arriving in large numbers...
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    , 1830-1861 AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Lou Ann Speulda Nicholls for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • Exile in one's homeland : Yung Wing and the Chinese Educational Mission

    Creator:
    Yao, Yingxia
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    This thesis examines the influence of Christian missions on Yung Wing (1828-1912) during the nineteenth century, when China was beginning to encounter the West. Yung was the first Chinese graduate student to enter an American institution of higher education (Yale College, 1854). As a Westernized Christian intellectual, he strove to...
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    self-strengthening movement (1861-1895), an experiment in America supported by the Chinese government

  • The Development of Astronomy in the United States Prior to 1900

    Creator:
    Harburg, William A.
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    From the earliest English colonization to the present day, there has been interest in astronomy in this country. The purpose of this thesis is to show how the science of astronomy developed in America from the earliest observations by educated colonists using imported instruments and publishing in European journals, to...
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    : Redacted for Privacy Robert J. Morris () From the earliest English colonization to the present day, there

  • Why we worship the economy : a Burkean analysis of South Park's "Margaritaville"

    Creator:
    Holderness, William Robert
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    The television show South Park, created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, is viewed by millions of people each week, regularly addresses a number of controversial issues and plays a major role in contemporary popular culture. Current academic research acknowledges Parker and Stone's willingness to attack the dominant views surrounding...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF William Robert Holderness for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • Theodore Dwight Weld's use of the judicial motif in American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses

    Creator:
    Trudeau, Justin Thomas
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    This thesis examines the rhetoric of Theodore Dwight Weld's American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. Published anonymously in 1839, Weld's publication became the longest antislavery tract in American history. It left its mark on the abolitionist movement itself and future antislavery literary works most notably Uncle...
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    Motif in "American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses". Abstract approved: Robert

  • Counseling

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    Burns, Robert N.
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    Counseling is a novel in three parts structurally and metaphorically comparing and contrasting the workings of the brain and mind. Through the story of a man recovering from a head injury I am creating a world in the text which equates the schizophrenia of postmodern criticism with the literal problems...
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    Counseling AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Robert N. Burns

  • Rural Philomath Oregon 1850-1930 : geography and economy in oral history

    Creator:
    Russell, John A.
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    Ranching and lumbering were two of the primary economic practices in a small rural study area south of Philomath Oregon (in Benton County), from first Euro-American settlement through 1930. Ranching was common but lumbering was restricted by geographical and market transportation problems until after 1900. Catalysts for change came in...
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    and diesel-powered donkeys and caterpillars were used to yard logs down the hillsides to a skidroad

  • The Maturest Deliberation : Colonial Pennsylvania Currency in Depression and War

    Creator:
    Borden, John F.
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    The purpose of this study is to review Pennsylvania's use of paper money through two distinct periods: the first seven years of currency issues starting in 1723 and concluding in 1730, and the second period encompassed by the French and Indian War in 1755-63. They represent two significant periods affecting...
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    E. Proclamation Money 8 F. Promissory Note 10 G. Sterling Bills of Exchange 11 H. Book

  • The cultural significance of mountain regions : implications for the Calapooya Divide, Oregon

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    Starr, Karen J.
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    Altitudinal variations in upland regions of the earth create variable climatic zones and conditions. Plant and animal communities must adapt to these conditions, and when they reach their tolerance limits for environmental conditions at the upper levels of a zone, they cease to exist in the environment. Humans also utilize...
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  • Of dragons, palaces, and gods : a mormon perspective on C. S. Lewis

    Creator:
    Garrett, Christopher Edward
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    During his lifetime C. S. Lewis chose to speak to Christians in plain and simple language that they could understand. Lewis taught and defended truths that he felt were discernible through reason. Morality, free will, and the divinity of Jesus Christ were fundamental to his core beliefs and teachings. His...
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    ofhis busy schedule to serve on my committee; Robert L. Millet; Tony Kimball; Joe Cannon, for