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  • Get off the Couch and Move! A Rhetorical Analysis of American Idle

    Creator:
    Cluster, Melodee A.
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    Mary Collins composed the award-winning book American Idle in 2009 after her recovery from an awful bicycle accident. This bicycle accident inspired Mary Collins to take a trip of discovery. Mary Collins visited historical locations to see changes in peoples’ physical activity over time. Collins interviewed individuals whose professions varied...
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    take a trip of discovery. Mary Collins visited historical locations to see changes in peoples

  • An Analysis of Visitor Awareness of Avalanche Danger at Three Areas - Mt. Hood, Oregon

    Creator:
    Couche, Stephen W.
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    Use of backcountry areas in winter by crosscountry skiers, snowshoers, climbers, snowmobilers and others has increased rapidly in the Mt. Hood area of Oregon in recent years. With this increase in use a larger segment of the user population is being exposed to potential a.,pl.H11 Winger. purpose of this study...
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    field of signing and gives a slightly differ- ent approach to designing the effective sign. The first

  • An Examination of Historical and Archaeological Evidence of Possible Trans-Pacific Contact in Pre-Columbian America

    Creator:
    Schaefer, Roger Glen
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    The purpose of this paper is the statement and examination of relevant data pertaining to the subject of trans-Pacific pre- Columbian contact. The paper's contents will be organized in to five major areas: oceanography, ship building, archaeology, religion and history, plus an introduction and conclusion. Each of these chapters will...
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  • Tales from the trenches : the people, policies, and procedures of cultural resource management

    Creator:
    Wilson, Michele L.
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    Since the late 1970s, archaeology has grown into an industry whose practitioners work in both public and private sectors. As an industry, modern archeology is commonly known as Cultural Resources Management, or CRM. CRM emerged from a surplus of employment opportunities made available to archeologists after the passing of National...
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    . Primarily, the role and contribution of field technicians to CRM is being debated by many CRM practitioners

  • Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul, Oregon, 1844-1852

    Creator:
    Poet, Rebecca McClelland
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    In 1986, researchers from Oregon State University, led by Dr. David Brauner, came to the small Catholic community of St. Paul, Oregon as part of ongoing research on the French-Canadian inhabitants of the Willamette Valley between 1829 and the mid-1860s. They were searching for the remains of the first Catholic...
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    reveal about the texture of their lives. The research was divided into three phases: field archaeology

  • Transactional analysis applied to a community development issue

    Creator:
    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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    are described. Data derived from bibliographic and field research are presented to illustrate

  • Underrepresentation of minorities in natural resource professions : an examination of African Americans

    Creator:
    Ponds, Phadrea D.
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    The fact that African Americans are under represented in the natural resource professions is well known and commonly acknowledged. Terms such as conspicuously absent, manifest imbalance and zero representation have all been used to describe the current status of African American natural resource professionals. The data suggests that in the...
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    . There is no clear understanding as to why there are so few African Americans in this field, moreover

  • "Pushing for the Highline" : The Diffusion of Innovations in the Oregon Otter Trawl Fishery

    Creator:
    Stephenson, Garry Owen
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    Implementation of. the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 affords opportunities for fishery expansion and economic development in the Oregon otter trawl fishery. The changes stimulated by the Act should occur, according to social science theorists, by the diffusion of innovations from innovative fishermen to less innovative fishermen, with...
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    , supported by the field data gathered on the fishery. Most importantly the investiga- tion revealed a high

  • The Takelma and their Athapascan kin : an ethnographic synthesis of southwestern Oregon

    Creator:
    Gray, Dennis J.
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    This study is a synthesis of the available ethnographic and relevant archaeological data pertaining to the Native American groups who formerly occupied the upper Rogue River drainage of southwestern Oregon. The information presented in this synthesis concerns the material, social and religious aspects of aboriginal life as practiced by the...
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    the field notes of J. P. Harrington, Melville Jacobs and P. E. Goddard, adds to what has already

  • Resisting Society’s Influence: Selling Sex in Women’s Professional Sports

    Creator:
    Perry, Rodney C.
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    Title IX's passage into law in 1972 set women’s sports on a course toward gender equity with men's sports at the scholastic and collegiate levels, leading to a definitive growth in women’s professional leagues, corresponding athlete salaries, and athletic marketing and promotional prospects. However, disparities currently exist in the availability...
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    general objective of this study is to contribute to the field of critical race theory, particularly in