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

Creator:: Tatom, Simon K.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: similarities in style and content with Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, primarily in the lack of detail in

Community perceptions of flooding, water quality, and riparian habitat in Thomas Creek watershed of Oregon

Creator:: Doolittle, Lisa
Abstract:: The complexity of human/riverine systems has led to an increasing focus on land use patterns and policy. My goal is to understand the dynamics of a coupled human and natural system. The central question is how people in the community of Scio, Oregon perceive flooding, water quality, and riparian habitat....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Habitat in Thomas Creek Watershed of Oregon. Abstract approved: The complexity of human/riverine systems

The natural history of public works development

Creator:: Robertson, Robert A.
Abstract:: A case study of the Eugene Water and Electric Board's planning for the Minto Hydroelectric is examined in terms of social movement theory. It is hypothesized that public works projects have a significant likeness to a social movement and they conform in their essential ingredients to social movement explanations. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : The Natural History of Public Works Development Abstract approved: Thomas C. -Ho A case study of the

The Willamette River greenway : environmental and attitudinal considerations

Creator:: Honey, William D.
Abstract:: The Willamette River Basin, Oregon, viewed in terms of a cultural-ecological system, has been subject to three phases of cultural development: hunting and gathering, agrarian, and industrial-urban. Each population base has employed a technology to exploit the environment to the extent that its patterns of culture would allow. This technology...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A Rhetorical Analysis of William Wilberforce's First Official Proposal for the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Creator:: Zach, Anne M.
Abstract:: The abolition of the Atlantic slave trade was a long struggle in British Parliament between the slave trade defenders and the abolitionists. The Act of 1807 officially abolished the Atlantic slave trade, eighteen years after the initial abolition proposal to Parliament. William Wilberforce was a member of a committee that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: A rhetorical analysis of William Wilberforce's first

Extension orientations toward poverty : bootstrap, culture of poverty, systemic : an empirical study

Creator:: Fletcher, Roger LeRoy
Abstract:: This study describes Extension field staff orientations toward poverty. Expressions on origins, solutions and definitions of poverty were elicited from informants. Responses were then classified by categories, coded and analyzed using the Statistical Interactive Programming System (SIPS). Orientations were then measured by identifying modal categories. A category was identified as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Professor Thomas 118W This study describes Extension field staff orientations toward poverty. Expressions

Oregon's early peoples and their relation to the environment : an interpretive approach

Creator:: Possiel, William John
Abstract:: The dramatic upsurge of contract-supported archaeological activity, generated by legislative action, has precipitated an increase in information about Oregon's prehistoric peoples. This information, however, has not been presented in a format which can be easily understood by the general public. This study presents an account of early peoples in Oregon,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: environment : an interpretive approach AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF William John Possiel for the degree of

Efficiency in Oregon's commercial salmon fisheries : a historical perspective

Creator:: Hatley, Thomas Alfred
Abstract:: Historic changes that have taken place on Oregon's commercial salmon fisheries are described in terms of their effects on the efficiency of fishermen. This historical analysis provides a background for comparative efficiency studies of Columbia River gillnetters and ocean trollers with the objective of determining which harvester group was more...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: historical perspective AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF THOMAS ALFRED HA TLEY for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS

The cultural significance of mountain regions : implications for the Calapooya Divide, Oregon

Creator:: Starr, Karen J.
Abstract:: Altitudinal variations in upland regions of the earth create variable climatic zones and conditions. Plant and animal communities must adapt to these conditions, and when they reach their tolerance limits for environmental conditions at the upper levels of a zone, they cease to exist in the environment. Humans also utilize...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Dr. Thomas C. Hogg, William D. Honey, Barry B. Frost, and my colleagues at the Oregon State

Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

Creator:: Hagerty, Dorothy Dean
Abstract:: The research examines the reasons for and value of both deliberate and amorphous mutual-aid societies that influenced the life and success of an individual who lived in seventeenth-century Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Information is developed to allow a contextual comparison of life in both areas. The mutual-aid...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , AND THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY - 1650 Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: v v Thomas C. Hogg

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

Community perceptions of flooding, water quality, and riparian habitat in Thomas Creek watershed of Oregon

The natural history of public works development

The Willamette River greenway : environmental and attitudinal considerations

A Rhetorical Analysis of William Wilberforce's First Official Proposal for the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Extension orientations toward poverty : bootstrap, culture of poverty, systemic : an empirical study

Oregon's early peoples and their relation to the environment : an interpretive approach

Efficiency in Oregon's commercial salmon fisheries : a historical perspective

The cultural significance of mountain regions : implications for the Calapooya Divide, Oregon

Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

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