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  • 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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Katherine H. Cummings for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • The natural history of public works development

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    Robertson, Robert A.
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    A case study of the Eugene Water and Electric Board's planning for the Minto Hydroelectric is examined in terms of social movement theory. It is hypothesized that public works projects have a significant likeness to a social movement and they conform in their essential ingredients to social movement explanations. The...
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    Project data were scrutinized in terms of the elements of social movement theory developed by C. W. King

  • An attempted standardization of a reading and writing skills test used at Oregon State University's Communication Skills Center

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    Carman, Betty Lou
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    The objective of the investigator in carrying out this study is: to evaluate the reliability and validity of the ENGLISH SKILLS TEST-REVISED (EST-R); to construct local norms based on a small sample of subjects from Oregon State University's WR. 40X; to investigate the statistical terms and methods used in educational...
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    JOURNAL, XXVI (March, 1956), 395-99. 3King, "Notes on Remedial English," pp. 245-50. 4 Grace W. Welch

  • Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rhetorical Strategy : A Case for the Functional Role of Narratio

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    Bruno, Edward Louis
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    The purpose of this study is to investigate the rhetorical strategies used by Reverend Jesse L. Jackson from the 1970's to the 1990's. Specifically, this study examines Jackson's use of narrative to empower himself, his constituency, and his political ideologies without possessing a traditional political platform. Jackson raised political and...
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    Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. (1985) probed the ways in which ideological constraints affected coverage of

  • Both Ways

    Creator:
    Gonzalez, J. Lorenzo Shadow Sky
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    Both Ways is a collection of essays, prose, poetry, and "proems" which attempts to investigate the phenomena of multirace and multisexuality issues in greater detail. These works particularly explore questions of liminality and marginalization within American culture as it relates to characters who are experiencing anomie and alienation because of...
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    awareness was sparked in Native American Art class as we studied an artist named Oscar Howe. This

  • Education, community development and cultural resistance in rural Nepal

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    Shrestha, Ava
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    In 1974 Tribhuvan University implemented the National Development Service (NDS) program as part of the graduate curricula. The program required all the graduate students to serve ten months in the rural areas of Nepal, helping in the on-going projects related to agriculture, health, education, and social sciences. This study describes...
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  • Fish Tales: Salmon Stories, 1945-1980

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    Finley, Carmel
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    Approximately $1 billion a year is spent on salmon in the Pacific Northwest. Spending has escalated, yet the number of wild runs placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act has increased, creating social and political controversy. For more than 100 years, salmon management in the Pacific Northwest has...
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    Oregon. June 1986. 32. 16. Bowler, Peter J. The Environmental Sciences. New York: W. W. Norton & Co

  • Worldminded Attitudes of Japanese College Students in Japan and in the United States

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    Ishida, Etsuko
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    This study focused on the worldminded attitudes of Japanese college students in Japan and in the United States. The effects of studying abroad and the change in attitudes between Japanese college male students and female students were examined in terms of worldmindedness, which is defined as a frame of reference,...
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    much they know. Japanese schools are rela- tively weak in this regard (Cummings, Beauchamp, Ichikawa

  • Weaving Walt : A rhetorical exploration of narrative techniques within Walt: The Man Behind the Myth

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    Seuser, Christina N.
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    The Disney Company is an inescapable force in American life that is often detached from the stigma of big business and instead viewed as something particularly valuable, the United States’ foremost storyteller. In addition to the stories that the Disney Company produces through its animated and live-action productions, there is...
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  • Perceptions on informal performance feedback in Japanese subsidiary organizations : Japanese supervisors and U. S. subordinates

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    Kinefuchi, Etsuko
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    This study explored perceptions of performance feedback communicated by Japanese supervisors to their U.S. subordinates in Japanese subsidiaries in the U. S. Individual face-to-face interviews were conducted with both Japanese supervisors and U.S. subordinates and their responses were tape-recorded. The purpose of the study was to assess perceptual similarities and...
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