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Playwriting and Authority : Collaborative Art and Feminine Production

Creator:: Brown, Colleen Karen
Abstract:: In that the concept of authority in terms of the creation of a literary work of art indicates a single creator or controller of a literary work, a delineated inscriber of the text who initiates the act of communication, writing for theatrical production can be described as a feminized art...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: straightforward. Katie King in "Producing Sex, Theory, and Culture," has challenged the conceptualization of

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

Creator:: Crocker, Melissa R.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: style of Sandra K. Soto, who explains that the “queer performative ‘Chican@’ signals a conscientious

Wedding Bells, Binaries and the Heterosexual Menace

Creator:: McNeill, Elizabeth
Abstract:: This research explores and aligns a postmodern method in line with a theoretical lens of "strategic political queer/feminism" to understand the construction and positioning of the issue/ problem of same-sex marriage. The method takes shape through a theoretical framework that leads to a political maneuver opening access to the rights...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

Creator:: Morales-Warming, Melissa
Abstract:: White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . I also would like to thank Crystal, Kevin, Monica, Anna, Katie, Kristin, and my many friends over

An Interdisciplinary-Botanical Perspective for Cultural Resource Management: A Definition and the Application of Culturally Significant Plants in Identification, Interpretation, and Evaluation for the National Register of Historic Places

Creator:: Burk, Rene F.
Abstract:: Cultivated plants are often living artifacts that can aid in evaluation of historic or cultural landscapes. However, a working definition for “culturally significant plant” is currently lacking in the guidance literature for the cultural resource management practitioners. Based on a review of the literature on cultivated plants as indicators of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Promoting progress : a rhetorical analysis of college and university sexual harassment codes

Creator:: Porrovecchio, Mark J.
Abstract:: This thesis is a rhetorical analysis of sexual harassment codes on college and university campuses. The situational model proposed by Lloyd Bitzer is used to examine representative artifacts from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, so as to determine whether they operate as "fitting"...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: University Sexual Harassment Codes' Chapter I: Introduction Imagine a world without sexual craving. Katie

Time to listen : an annotated bibliography of environmental readings, featuring Oregon writers, for middle school and high school students

Creator:: Crateau, Carole Ann
Abstract:: The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to guide middle school and high school students into critical thinking about environmental issues. Through keen observation of their bioregion and through an integration of interdisciplinary literature which focuses on Oregon writers, students will be challenged to think, write, and discuss current issues...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: instincts, and write with confidence. I worked closely with Katie Kohl, Crescent Valley High School

The Enerience of Women's Higher Education at Oregon Agricultural College 1870-1916

Creator:: Knewtson, Katrina Anne
Abstract:: This study addresses women's experiences in higher education at Oregon Agricultural College between 1870 and 1916. The experiences of these women illustrate how they were affected by society's beliefs and values, and further, how their education encouraged them to develop skills necessary to transform their role in society. Education has...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

Creator:: McClarence, Shoshana H.
Abstract:: 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....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A Pentadic Analysis of Tropico : Dramatism and Digital Games

Creator:: Shields, Matthew J.
Abstract:: How do digital games convey meaning? Academic studies of video games seem concerned with creating discipline-specific new methodologies for examining the medium. From the standpoint of the rhetorical critic, however, new forms of communication can still be examined with traditional techniques. This paper analyzes the 2001 video game Tropico using...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Playwriting and Authority : Collaborative Art and Feminine Production

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

Wedding Bells, Binaries and the Heterosexual Menace

Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

An Interdisciplinary-Botanical Perspective for Cultural Resource Management: A Definition and the Application of Culturally Significant Plants in Identification, Interpretation, and Evaluation for the National Register of Historic Places

Promoting progress : a rhetorical analysis of college and university sexual harassment codes

Time to listen : an annotated bibliography of environmental readings, featuring Oregon writers, for middle school and high school students

The Enerience of Women's Higher Education at Oregon Agricultural College 1870-1916

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

A Pentadic Analysis of Tropico : Dramatism and Digital Games

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