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  • 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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    : ______________________________________________________ Gloria Crisp Much of our knowledge about transgender (folks who identify as not

  • Off-shore oil exploration in the Arctic Ocean a comparative analysis of newspaper information and public attitude

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    Tombropoulos, Charles B.
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    This research questions the effectiveness of newspapers as a vehicle of environmental information by determining whether the public attitude in Alaska towards off-shore oil exploration was consistent with that expressed in the local newspapers. All newspaper articles about off-shore oil exploration published in Alaska between 1980 and May 1987 were...
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    :_Redacted for Privacy Dr. Lloyls1, Crisp \I This research questions the effectiveness of newspapers as a

  • The Impact of a Relaxation Exercise on Communication, Apprehension in the Classrogm

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    Hitchcock, Romi C.
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    The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a deep breathing and stretching exercise on communication Apprehension, Cohesiveness and Attentiveness. An empirical method was used in this study. All of the subjects involved in the study were students in beginning public speaking courses, Speech 112, at Oregon...
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    difficult. I also wish to thank the members of my committee: Dr. Lloyd Crisp, Dr. Ed Strowbridge, Dr

  • An Exploratory Study of Social and Personal Identity of Selected Anglo-American, Mexican-American, and Mexican National College Students

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    Espinosa M., Jorge E.
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    Social and personal identities were examined for samples of college graduate students in three culturally different groups: Anglo-American, Mexican-American, and Mexican National. Four identities were explored in terms of salience, frequency, and valence: religious, family, gender, and peer. No differences were found between the groups on religious and gender identities....
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    particularly indebted to Dr. Lloyd Crisp, who inexhaustibly gave direction and careful consideration to every

  • 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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    Crisp, Dr. Stanley Shively, Dr. James Folts and Dr. Michael Scanlan for their support and time they

  • Bildungsroman in contemporary black women's fiction

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    Carey, Cecelia V.
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    Bildungsroman in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction is a study of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Both of these writers implement a newer version of the genre of Bildungsroman to reveal the complexities involved in coming of age for a young woman of color. Both...
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    29. 2001. Title: Bildungsroman in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction. Abstract approved: David M

  • "Labor Market Situation for Syrian Refugees in Iraq" Case Study Arbat Refugee Camp - Kurdistan Region

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    Mahmood, Aram
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    The Syrian civil war generated waves of refugees who flow into neighboring countries. These refugees have been creating excess supply of labor in host countries. This study involves a series of interviews in which respondents shared their perceptions of their involvement in the labor market in Iraq. These interviews provide...
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    conclude despondently that it is the only practical way to control refugees’ ordeals (Black, 1998; Crisp

  • Claude McKay's Vision of Community in the African Diaspora : A Fresh Take on Home to Harlem and Banjo

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    De Jesus, Michael A. (Michael Anthony)
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    This research examines the literary and philosophical dimensions of the African American Harlem Renaissance, beginning with the historical milieu of the early twentieth century. A social movement that became known as Uplift and the so-called Cabaret Movement emerged as important, competing literary and social ideologies within the Renaissance. W.E.B. Du...
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    discriminatory laws. Rather, these writers highlighted cultural products such as poetry and literature. David

  • The rhetorical dynamics of culture : an interdisciplinary approach to a synthesis between rhetoric and culture

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    Tobey, Toni K.
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    The frame of reference for understanding the rhetorical significance of cultural acts lies in the identification and explication of the diversity of theories which encompass sociological and anthropological definitions of culture. The paradigms presented in this thesis range from unilinear evolution, biological and environmental determinism, materialism, historical ethnology and reductionism...
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    than financial disbursements. To Dr. Lloyd Crisp, and Dr. Thurston Doler, who provided the opportunity

  • Both Ways

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    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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    I ain't looked into his eyes once. When I finally do, I notice he's got these crisp baby blues