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  • Leaving the Closet : Coming Experiences of Queer Chicanas and Latinas and Their Representation in Television

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    Crocker, Melissa R.
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    In the contemporary United States, the process of "coming out of the closet," or public disclosure of one's non-normative sexual orientation or gender identity, is ongoing and performative. Particularly within the context of dominant contemporary U.S. society, popular media favors a hegemonic set of defining characteristics, which thereby forces the...
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    Chicanas and Latinas and Their Representation in Television AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Melissa R

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

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    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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  • Finding Fantasy : Three Newspapers Tell the Story of Kip Kinkel and Thurston High School

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    Wood, Josie MaryAnne Soules
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    On May 21, 1998 Kip Kinkel drove to Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon. Kinkel killed two students and wounded another twenty-two students. He killed his parents the day before. The shootings at Thurston High School came on the heels of a number of prominent school shootings and Kip Kinkel...
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    researchers considered the campaign through fantasy theme analysis and a Q-sort' based on 'Q-Methodology was

  • Influence of Political Liberalism on Contracting Prison Health Care

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    Yarnall, Robert G.
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    Studies on prison contracting have typically focused on the privatization of entire facilities and carceral services offered to inmates. There has been limited research, however, as to how political ideology influences the extent to which state prisons contract out health care services. There also appears to be a need for...
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    making me question myself and my direction. To Dr. Melissa Santala, although we did not have much time

  • Pragmatism and Pain: the Melioristic Rhetoric of Mirror Box Therapy

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    Thompson, Anna F. B.
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    The phenomenon of phantom limb pain has been well documented for centuries, but little clinical work has been done to alleviate it. Physician and neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran began researching this condition nearly two decades ago, and has discovered a promising alternative treatment: mirror-box therapy. This therapy is not yet...
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    various parts of his body with a Q-tip, asking him to report what he felt, and where” (52). All of

  • Joy Production: Gender Euphoria in Trans University Student Lives

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    James, Gabs M.
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    Much of our knowledge about transgender (folks who identify as not cisgender) lives in universities centers around barriers experienced, feelings of exclusion, and being victims of harassment and violence. This thesis describes conversations regarding captured gender euphoric moments from five students at a large university. They came together through a...
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    , Nicole, Pamela, Jacob, Melissa, Jey, and Chris each of you were instrumental in encouraging and

  • An analysis of two post-Mazama prehistoric flaked stone scatters in the upper Deschutes River basin of central Oregon

    Creator:
    McFarland, Janine Ruth
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    During the summer of 1986, an archaeological testing project was completed at seven prehistoric campsites primarily located in the upper Deschutes River Basin of central Oregon. Testing was focused on two low-density "lithic scatters", an archaelogical site type which is especially abundant in this obsidian-rich region but which, to date,...
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    -appreciated maps. My Fall River assistants, Lynne Ertle and Melissa Anderson were supportive in every way and

  • Learning from Women of Color working within the United States Forest Service

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    Ramos, Jeanna A.
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    The purpose of this study is to analyze women of colors's (WOC) experiences working within the United States Forest Service (USFS) accessing the challenges of recruitment, retention, and promotional efforts. Using testimonios and Anzaldúa's theory of mestiza consciousness, I found three themes that included white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, presumed incompetence,...
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    ) between women of color(s) and the dominant culture. According to Melissa J. Lane and Ann K. Saki

  • The effects of the Mazama tephra-falls : a geoarchaeological approach

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    Matz, Stephan E.
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    About 7,000 years ago two major tephra-falls blanketed the Pacific Northwest in volcanic ash. These two tephra-falls, identified as the Llao and climatic tephra-falls, were a part of the eruptive events that led up to the collapse of Mount Mazama to form Crater Lake in the southern Oregon Cascades. The...
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    talents to the numerous drafts of this thesis. Both Doug Scott and Melissa Conner gave me a place to