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  • Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion

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    Tatom, Simon K.
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    My thesis, entitled "Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion," argues that J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion shares distinct similarities in style and content with Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, primarily in the lack of detail in the descriptions of characters and events, as each attempts to create a...
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  • Some aspects of Western religious thought and man's use of land

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    Bryant, Robert Edman
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    This study examines a limited number of selected themes in Judeo-Christian, or Western, religious thought and their implications for man's use of land, with the objective of discovering the influence of Western religion on attitudes toward nature and land. Five themes are examined: dominion of man; stewardship; contempt for, and...
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    Abstract approved: Redacted for privacy Ronald O.'Clarke, Professor of Religious Studies This study

  • A Comparison of Client Follow-up and Selected Components of Weight Control Programs Managed by Dietitians and Nondietitians in Oregon

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    Leland, Ronald Wayne
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    Obesity affects one out of every four Americans and represents a serious health hazard in the United States. Serious chronic diseases associated with obesity include heart disease, cancer, and adult-onset diabetes mellitus. There has been a rapid expansion in the number of weight control centers since the 1970s, yet there...
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    THESIS OF Ronald Wayne Leland for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Exercise

  • Children and the communication of values through significant emotional events

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    Biddle, Ronald Lon
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    This study addresses how parents communicate with their children about Significant Emotional Events (SEEs). A SEE is an experience that is so mentally engaging as to cause an individual to consider, examine, and possibly change one's initial values or value system. It examines parent's goals, concerns, and values related to...
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    emotional events AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Ronald Lon Biddle for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • Differences Between Public Attention and Understanding of School Budget Formats Published in Newspapers

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    Mason, Sue Cockeram
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    This thesis study attempts to differentiate between attention and understanding as separate phases of communication theory. To do this, additional analysis was made of data already gathered from a random sample of Oregonians by the Survey Research Center at Oregon State University. An additional objective was to determine the role...
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    , Harold C. Dorn, for help and encouragement with this project. I appreciate, too, the cooperation shown

  • Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon

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    Paullin, Pamela K.
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    Although the timber industry was the major economic force in the lives of several generations of Oregon families, very little archaeological investigation has been done on the dozens of abandoned logging camps that are scattered throughout the forests of the Pacific Northwest. This project focuses on Camp 1, a 1920s...
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    Appendix C………………………………………………………..…………239 Appendix D…………………………………………………………………..243

  • Disputant storytelling in divorce mediation

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    Hansen, Alan R.
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    This paper investigates the nature of disputants' stories within the context of divorce mediation. Tapes and transcripts of actual mediation sessions from three different sources are scrutinized, utilizing a modified form of conversation analysis known as ethnography of speaking. Several themes emerge from this analysis of disputants' stories: the functions...
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    . Alan Acock, Bill Atkinson, and Ronald Miller, my committee members, whose time and constructive

  • Gender and Race Stereotypes in Advertisements in Science, 2004-2006

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    Atwood-Wheeler, Kathryn
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    This study documents the occurrence of stereotypical representations of gender, race, and other characteristics in individuals that appear in advertisements in the prestigious academic journal Science. It repeats and expands upon a study conducted by Mary Barbercheck (2001) that analyzed advertisements in Science between 1995 and 1997. In this study,...
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    professors Dr. Janet Lee, Dr. Ronald Doel, Dr. Lori Cramer, Dr. Susan Shaw and Dr. William Lunch. Thank

  • Erotic Capital and Women’s Online Sexual Marketing

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    Perkins, Abby M.
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    The purpose of this paper was to discuss the theory of erotic capital proposed by Catherine Hakim and how this theory affects online advertising done by sex workers. Through analyzing 29 different pages relating to the commercial sex industry, I observed how sexual capital is utilized in marketing strategies and...
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    Professors Melissa Cheyney and Ronald Mize, as well as my graduate representative Janet Nishihara, I cannot

  • Transactional analysis applied to a community development issue

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    Manolescu, Kathleen M.
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    Barth's theory of transactional analysis is applied to the community of Tiller, Oregon and its reaction to a development proposal. Community behavior patterns vis-a-vis the development proposal are examined from a processual point of view to determine how these patterns are generated. The community's history and contemporary situation are described....
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    COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ISSUE Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Thomas C. Hogg Lri Barth's theory of