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  • The Value of New Technology : View Toward Reassessment

    Creator:
    White, Stephen J.
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    Abraham Heschel wrote that a philosopher's primary task was not merely to describe and judge the modes and facts of actual human behavior, but also to examine and understand the meaninq of those descriptions and judgements of modes and facts (Bella, 1978). Our values are critically tied to our structures...
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    Science internship for the Office of Technology Transfer at Oregon State University, in 1989, it occurred

  • Everyday Movement Against Capitalism : Prospects for a Prefigurative Strategy toward Open Utopia

    Creator:
    Riccio, Alexander
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    Across the U.S. social activism is on the upsurge, offering possibilities for a revolution against capitalism. However, these possibilities are potentially undermined by entrenched factionalism amongst the left. At root, such in-fighting is fostered by the creation of false dualistic frameworks on the transition out of capitalism and into the...
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    racially equitable way” (Nonsite 2016). Tough love, perhaps, but reviewing “A Vision for Black Lives

  • A Preliminary Archaeological Predictive Model for the US 30 Transportation Corridor, Portland, Oregon to Astoria, Oregon

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    Kachadoorian, Lydia A.
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    This thesis is a preliminary archaeological predictive model and project-planning tool created for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) as part of a statewide planning effort to enhance the agency's ability to assess the potential impacts of highway projects on archaeological resources. This model addresses the archaeological sensitivity of the...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Lydia A. Kachadoorian for the

  • An Inquiry into Attitudes Toward Professional Women : Rotary and Zonta Club Members

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    Shearman, Nancy Walker
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    Over the past decade, federal as well as state legislation has been passed to eliminate discrimination and create equality in the workplace. However, the attitudes of professionals are not as easily changed. Many barriers still face female executives entering the corporate level. This study examined the attitudes of professionals in...
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    and Zonta Club Members (Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved:' Patricia A. Wells Over the past

  • CommunityBridge: A Website for First-Generation and Underrepresented Student Success

    Creator:
    Marlen, Adrianna
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    Institutions of higher education are working to be more inclusive of underrepresented groups, including first-generation and low-income college students. Broadly, data show a significant population of diverse students are now entering higher education, but completion rates are comparatively lower than entry rates. To combat this, we need to evaluate ways...
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    belonging for underrepresented, first- generation student demographics at OSU. Kinzie et al. (2008

  • The Va : Traditional Culture and Modernization of a Minority Nationality in China

    Creator:
    Chiang, Hung-i and Jiang, Hongyi
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    The Va nationality, despite its small population compared to other nationalities in China, has preserved most of its traditions largely due to limits placed by historical circumstances and geographical isolation. To non-Chinese anthropologists, the Va people still remain unknown, as there is little or no information about them in English...
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    whole course of my study at OSU, and for his patience in directing my research and editing my thesis. I

  • Interpretations of reality : cross-cultural encounters of Asian students with healthcare at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Barclay, Julie Hanson
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    Enrollments of international students have increased dramatically in the last several decades. The delivery of health care to these students has become a topic of study for college health care providers and medical researchers across the country. The purpose of this study was to explore how Asian international students cope...
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    , and at the same time alleviates them from blame for failure. Furthermore, labeling a syndrome

  • Unpacking Success: Progressive Politics and Stalled Gender Equity at the Mitraniketan People's College

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    Glick, Stephanie Nahima
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    Founded over fifty years ago by K. Viswanathan, the Mitraniketan educational facility in Kerala, India provides literacy and vocational education to socially marginalized women, men, and children through nursery, elementary, high school and an educational preparatory program for young adults. Viswanathan founded the school on several ideals including Neo-Marxist, Quaker,...
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    at 7 the school. For example, a math teacher might have taught gardening and a music teacher

  • Rural Philomath Oregon 1850-1930 : geography and economy in oral history

    Creator:
    Russell, John A.
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    Ranching and lumbering were two of the primary economic practices in a small rural study area south of Philomath Oregon (in Benton County), from first Euro-American settlement through 1930. Ranching was common but lumbering was restricted by geographical and market transportation problems until after 1900. Catalysts for change came in...
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    features. The Kalapuyans called the high Peak, "Tcha Tee- manwi." It was a place to them for vision quests

  • Building Economically Resilient Rural Communities

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    Sorte, Bruce Michael
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    Rural communities will continue to be disproportionately shocked by economic fluctuations. Market forces are likely to lead to the decline of many rural communities and they will need to be economically resilient to survive. This thesis draws on several social sciences and the natural sciences to develop ideas that communities...
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    for developed and developing countries and both would stabilize at a zero growth rate. However, that