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Racism and Bad Faith

Creator:: Jones, Gregory Alan
Abstract:: Human beings are condemned to freedom, according to Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. Every individual creates his or her own identity according to choice. Because we choose ourselves, each individual is also completely responsible for his or her actions. This responsibility causes anguish that leads human beings to avoid their...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Alan Jones for the degree ofMaster ofArts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Philosophy, Philosophy and

Cued forgetting of tones : intentional forgetting of non-verbal items

Creator:: Jones, R. Alan (Richard Alan)
Abstract:: This experiment used a choice recognition time task. The subjects task was to decide whether a probe tone was or was not among a presented set of one to four tones. One of three cue conditions occured on each trial: the cue (a light) was presented immediately following the tone...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -verbal Items AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Richard Alan Jones for the Master of Arts (Name of student

ESPN and the Construction of Gay Identity

Creator:: Cook, Alexandra Cleo
Abstract:: On February 9th, 2014 Michael Sam stated in an interview with ESPN's "Outside the Lines" that he is gay. Since he was drafted, Sam will become the first ever openly gay player in NFL history. The following study aims to explore ESPN's coverage of Michael Sam, with a goal of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Evaluating the quality of teaching in art : a social judgment analysis

Creator:: Browne, Beverly Ann
Abstract:: This study, based on Brunswik's (1952, 1956) lens model, examined the judgment policies employed by 67 art students and faculty when they evaluate instruction. Four groups of subjects, non-art majors, undergraduate art majors, graduate and bachelor of fine arts students, and faculty members, judged a series of 35 hypothetical teacher...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: express my thanks to my committee: to Alan Munro as committee chairman, to Dr. John Gillis for the

Buddhist Theories of Karma and the Effect of Prosocial Behavior on Perceptions of Others

Creator:: Allen, Pamela M.
Abstract:: Psychological theory of social cognition and Buddhist philosophy of cognition suggest that people's actions should determine their impressions of future events. In psychology, several studies have shown that behavior can activate constructs and thereby influence one's perception. However, they do not address prosocial behavior, a specific concern of Buddhist philosophy...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the Effect of Prosocial Behavior on Perceptions of Others Abstract approved: Alan C

Disputant storytelling in divorce mediation

Creator:: Hansen, Alan R.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THE THESIS OF Alan Hansen for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in

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
Full Text:: Interdisciplinary Studies Program Jeffrey Stone, Major Professor in Botany and Plant Pathology Julia Jones

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:: writing AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Rex Alan West for the degree of Master of Arts in

Origin of the Tucannon phase in Lower Snake River prehistory

Creator:: Lucas, Steven W.
Abstract:: Approximately 5,500 years ago a discreet period of wetter and cooler environmental conditions prevailed across the southern Columbia Plateau. This period was marked by the first prominent episodes of erosion to occur along the lower Snake River following the height of the Altithermal and eruption of Mt. Mazama during the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

Creator:: Paullin, Pamela K.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and Pat Jones, who jump-started me when my battery was dead. Ann Rogers, Stacy Lundgren, and Kay

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Racism and Bad Faith

Cued forgetting of tones : intentional forgetting of non-verbal items

ESPN and the Construction of Gay Identity

Evaluating the quality of teaching in art : a social judgment analysis

Buddhist Theories of Karma and the Effect of Prosocial Behavior on Perceptions of Others

Disputant storytelling in divorce mediation

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

The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

Origin of the Tucannon phase in Lower Snake River prehistory

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

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