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  • Underneath Our Feet: A Critical Discourse Analysis of an Underground Museum Tour

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    Sokoloski, Taryn Leigh
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    This study explores an underground museum located in Pendleton, Oregon. Using the method of Critical Discourse Analysis, I identify the ways Whiteness and Chinese as “the Other” are visually and verbally depicted. This study uses a qualitative approach to identify the ways both groups are presented on the tour. The...
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    Analysis, I identify the ways Whiteness and Chinese as “the Other” are visually and verbally depicted

  • 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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    themes, I argue, emerge from a study of his rhetoric. They are Black Humanity, Black Unity, Black

  • Morrison’s Magical Reality: Disrupting the Politics of Memory

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    Littke, Amanda L.
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    Novelist Toni Morrison is well-known for using the concept she calls rememory, or the process of actively revisiting and reconstructing a cultural past. Many critics agree that Morrison uses rememory in a strategic way, so that it provides sturdy framework for a larger discussion of issues of race, class, and...
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    this thesis I argue that Morrison’s strategies of rememory and magical realism serve the dual purpose

  • Peavy Arboretum : an archaeological and historical investigation of a Willamette Valley landscape

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    Hylton, Lindon B.
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    This thesis documents a period of ecological and cultural change on a Willamette Valley, Oregon landscape. In particular, this study examines the Peavy Arboretum area and the cultural changes that accompanied the transformation of the landscape from an oak savannah in the mid-nineteenth century to a dense Douglas-fir forest in...
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    industry personnel, and Euro-American settlers. As a student of history and archaeology, I have used a

  • Brenda Ueland : Early Feminist and Writing Theorist

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    Firmin, Mary Ann
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    Brenda Ueland is a writer whose most noted work is a book which explains her theory about how to write. She also published an autobiography and a co11ection of essays as well as achieving some notoriety as a magazine writer to the twenties and thirties. Ueland's writing theory is based...
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    came from Norway to Minnesota when he was eighteen. Andreas' father, Ole Gabriel Ueland, a farmer and

  • Differential Processing of Emotionally Laden Cues in Adult Children of Alcoholics and Controls

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    Zimmerman, Anne H.
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    The primary purpose of the present study was to investigate a specific area of cognitive functioning to determine if any differences exist between adult children of alcoholics and controls in the processing of emotionally laden word cues. Of secondary importance was the investigation of group differences in self-esteem, extroversion, neuroticism,...
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    Controls Abstract approved: I Redacted for Privacy Donna Cruse The primary purpose of the present study

  • Prehistoric Culture Diffusion in the Gran Chichimeca

    Creator:
    Lee, Eugene C. (Eugene Carlton)
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    The Gran Chichimeca is a North American area extending from the Tropic of Cancer to the south to the thirty-eighth parallel in the north, thus embracing northern Mexico and the American Southwest. The rise of the great mesoamerican civilizations to the south of the Gran Chichimeca and the consequent pressure...
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    , 1985 Typed by Sue Ferdig for Eugene C. Lee Acknowledgements I wish to thank Dr. Richard E. Ross

  • Chrysalis

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    Harrison, S. S.
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    A creative work of literary fiction, Chrysalis is the story of Rachelle Long: a young woman who struggles to find her identity in a world marked by changing (and often, conflicting) ideas regarding sexuality, economics, gender roles and relations, and individual rights. Just one year into the workforce following her...
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    Department of English Dean of Gra ate School I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent

  • Some aspects of Western religious thought and man's use of land

    Creator:
    Bryant, Robert Edman
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    This study examines a limited number of selected themes in Judeo-Christian, or Western, religious thought and their implications for man's use of land, with the objective of discovering the influence of Western religion on attitudes toward nature and land. Five themes are examined: dominion of man; stewardship; contempt for, and...
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to express sincere appreciation to Drs. Ronald 0. Clarke,' J. Granville Jensen, and

  • The Consequences of Infelicity : The Effects of Unhappiness on Biological and Social Evolution

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    Martinez, Jorge R.
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    In social and biological evolution, infelicity can operate as a driving motor to force change. In this essay, for life other than human, infelicity is equated with physical unfitness to compete for the resources of a specific niche. For humanity it is defined as the result of an incongruity between...
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    BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL EVOLUTION INTRODUCTION I will proceed with my history, telling the story as I go