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  • American ideology and the atomic bomb

    Creator:
    Swartz, Scott E.
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    On August 6, 1945 the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The events that led up to the United States' decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japanese...
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    Atomic Bomb. Abstract approved William M. Keith On August 6, 1945 the United States of America

  • Mayan Bilinguality and Cultural Change in Ancient and Contemporary Mesoamerica

    Creator:
    Smith, William Hoyt
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    The importance of language and bilinguality in the development, perpetuation, and "degeneration" or change of culture is a central theme throughout this treatise. Original pictorial representations of Mayan hieroglyphic sculpture are included as examples, and represent artistic styles and language variations of written Cholan and Yucatec. Modern Cholan and Yucatecan...
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    contemporary Mesoamerica AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF William H. Smith for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • 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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    , I wish to thank committee members William G. Robbins, Barbara Roth, Richard E. Ross, and Mina

  • A Mystical Metamorphosis: Conceptualizing the Extraordinary in the Mundane Through Land Art

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    McClarence, Shoshana H.
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    Mystical experiences are ineffable, thus defining mysticism itself is a difficult feat. To aid in the construction of a definition of mysticism it is imperative to break down the unique elements of a mystical experience and try to give examples of where we can see all of these elements interacting....
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    that can be identified through the secular. This thesis utilizes William James’ definition of

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

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    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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    Valley, Oregon, excavated in 1941-42 by W. T. Edmundson and William S. Laughlin. The literature and

  • 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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    Dr. Thomas C. Hogg, William D. Honey, Barry B. Frost, and my colleagues at the Oregon State

  • Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

    Creator:
    Hagerty, Dorothy Dean
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    The research examines the reasons for and value of both deliberate and amorphous mutual-aid societies that influenced the life and success of an individual who lived in seventeenth-century Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Information is developed to allow a contextual comparison of life in both areas. The mutual-aid...
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    regressive act as opposed to an evolutionary one (Boas 1940). The most fervent anti-evolutionists were W. J

  • 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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    with a friend, Margaret Stuart, at the Settlement House in New York (tie 103). At this time in her

  • Megascopic plant remains from three housepits along the Applegate River, southwest Oregon

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    Cole, Madeline L.
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    In 1982 a protohistoric archaeological site along the Applegate River in southwest Oregon was excavated by Oregon State University Department of Anthropology. Three housepits and a possible menstrual but were uncovered with lithic, faunal, and archaeobotanical elements recovered from house floors and hearths. Seven botanical taxa were represented by carbonized...
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    aboriginal people of present-day southwest Oregon and northern California (Aikens 1984, Drucker 1940, Gould

  • Exiles and rebels : women in the American left 1900-1920

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    Cummings, Katherine H.
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    Between 1900 and 1920 women were responsible for much of the social and political activity in the United States. Recent work by feminist historians has revealed that women were interested in a broad range of issues at the turn of the twentieth century. The American Left addressed such issues as...
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    , New York. In 1901 Margaret met William Sanger, an architect who was immediately and totally devoted