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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:: represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in

The Influence of Wilderness Activity Portrayals on Individual Participation

Creator:: Kelley, Crystal Chorlton
Abstract:: Individuals in and around a small college town were asked to take part in an interview to study their perception of wilderness activities depicted on television and other forms of media and the potential impact of these depictions on an individual's willingness to participate in wilderness activities. This study linked...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: on humorous sitcoms, such as Will & Grace, to use their timeslot as a means of social reform (Hays

The Works Progress Administration in Oregon : An Administrative Overview

Creator:: Butcher, Karyle S.
Abstract:: The depression of the 1930s had an early effect on the state of Oregon. A decline in timber and agricultural production resulted in severe unemployment in the late 1920s. State and local charitable organizations attempted to care for the unemployed but they did not have the financial resources to do...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Donald Howard notes that the majority of projects were sponsored by municipal (39.3 percent), county

The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead : The Development of the Macabre in Late Medieval England

Creator:: Sandeno, Robin M.
Abstract:: Many authorities state that the development of macabre images were a result of the plague that first swept through western Europe 1347-1350. However, many aspects of the macabre were already in place prior to the plague. A more realistic explanation for the macabre is in the modification of religious belief,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Cecily Howard, died 1499 ................................... 84 11. Transi of Richard Fox, Bishop of

The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

Creator:: West, Rex Alan, 1967-
Abstract:: A number of thinkers are becoming increasingly persuaded that our anthropocentric view of nature is inadequate, that we need a "new morality" with regard to the environment. In this essay, I argue that an alternative to anthropocentricism is available to us now-and has been since at least 1836. I look...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: The Wheel, Berry quotes Sir Albert Howard: "[We] need a more refined perception to recognize

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

Creator:: Riccio, Alexander
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Claude McKay's Vision of Community in the African Diaspora : A Fresh Take on Home to Harlem and Banjo

Creator:: De Jesus, Michael A. (Michael Anthony)
Abstract:: This research examines the literary and philosophical dimensions of the African American Harlem Renaissance, beginning with the historical milieu of the early twentieth century. A social movement that became known as Uplift and the so-called Cabaret Movement emerged as important, competing literary and social ideologies within the Renaissance. W.E.B. Du...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Locke was assistant professor of philosophy at the historically black college Howard University in

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:: . 19 9Garth Lean, God's Politician (Colorado Springs: Helmer's and Howard, 1987) 6. "Coup land, Anti

Rodeo Cowgirls : An Ambivalent Arena

Creator:: Oliver, Audra Leah
Abstract:: The term "cowboy" was closely bound to American image long before the 1990s. Rodeo claimed the image of the cowboy from the earliest contests to the latest and pledged itself to patriotism almost as early. This historical study was conducted viewing rodeo as a subculture and relating women's role in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Robert West Howard and Oren Arnold, however, argued that the sport has Eurasian roots reaching back to

Institutionalizing Science in Oregon : The Role of the Oregon State Academy of Sciences, 1905-1914

Creator:: Read, Richard Thomas
Abstract:: In February 1905 the Oregon State Academy of Sciences formed in Portland to promote scientific research and diffusion of scientific knowledge in Oregon. The founders also planned to assist in the discovery and development of the state's natural resources. The Academy was the first scientific society in Oregon with professional...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: exploited by eastern and European scientists. Specimens of the greatest value grace their museums, whilst

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Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

The Influence of Wilderness Activity Portrayals on Individual Participation

The Works Progress Administration in Oregon : An Administrative Overview

The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead : The Development of the Macabre in Late Medieval England

The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

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

Claude McKay's Vision of Community in the African Diaspora : A Fresh Take on Home to Harlem and Banjo

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

Rodeo Cowgirls : An Ambivalent Arena

Institutionalizing Science in Oregon : The Role of the Oregon State Academy of Sciences, 1905-1914

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