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  • 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

  • Exile in one's homeland : Yung Wing and the Chinese Educational Mission

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    Yao, Yingxia
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    This thesis examines the influence of Christian missions on Yung Wing (1828-1912) during the nineteenth century, when China was beginning to encounter the West. Yung was the first Chinese graduate student to enter an American institution of higher education (Yale College, 1854). As a Westernized Christian intellectual, he strove to...
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    his class will, I believe, benefit me for the rest of my life. I also thank Jack Higginbotham for

  • The natural history of public works development

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    Robertson, Robert A.
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    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...
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    Issue 103 Marion County Board's Decision and Background 106 4th of July Activities 111 EWEB Justifies

  • Work pants worn by loggers in Western Oregon, 1920-1970

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    Gullickson, Mark A.
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    With the arrival of European settlers to Western Oregon nearly 150 years ago came new methods of forest management. Early settlers' forest practices consisted of little more than harvesting what seemed an endless supply of timber. Forestry in the 20th century eventually incorporated such management concerns as re-forestation, biodiversity, wildlife...
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    Officer, Carhartt, Inc.; Jack Abercrombie and Terri Young, C. C. Filson Company; Jerry Probst, Archivist

  • Champoeg, a perspective of a frontier community in Oregon, 1830-1861

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    Speulda-Drews, Lou Ann
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    Champoeg, located along the Willamette River, developed as a transportation center for both river and overland travel and as a shipping point for agricultural products. Retired employees of the Hudson's Bay Company were the first to settle in the area, in the 1830s. American settlers began arriving in large numbers...
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    , Range 2 West, Willamette Meridian, Marion County, Oregon. The present condition of Champoeg closely

  • Generativity During Preretirement : Motivation and Actions of Pre-Retirees

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    Hatlen, Andrew James
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    This thesis examines the role of Erikson’s (1950) theory of generativity in facilitating knowledge transfer during the preretirement transition. McAdams and de St. Aubin’s (1992) updated framework for generativity is used as a theoretical foundation to explain motivation and actions during this period. Through the use of multiple-case studies, twenty-one...
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    my parents James and Lori; my grandparents Jack, Betty, Janice, and Warren; and to all of the

  • Impact of Federal Policies on the Health of the Coquille Indians

    Creator:
    McCanna, Michael
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    This paper examines the effects of federal policies on the health and health care system of the Coquille Indian Tribe. A historical framework is provided within which the nature and magnitude of these effects can be assessed. This paper provides a discussion of the effects of federal termination policy on...
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    , the upper Coquille who spoke Tututni, a language in the Athapaskan family (Miller and Seaburg 1990

  • Willamette Mission Archeological Project : Phase III Assessment

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    Weber, Mary K. (Mary Kathryn)
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    The Willamette Mission archeological project consists of a broad program of cultural research in the fields of archeology, history, and architecture. The study focuses on the first Methodist mission in the Pacific Northwest. Archeological excavations were conducted in 1980 to locate the site of the mission, to assess the site's...
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    Section 67, Township 6 South, Range 3 West, Marion County (Figure 1). The Willamette Valley is

  • Willamette Mission archeological project : phase III assessment

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    Chapman, Judith Sanders
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    The Willamette Mission archeological project consists of a broad program of cultural research in the fields of archeology, history, and architecture. The study focuses on the first Methodist mission in the Pacific Northwest. Archeological excavations were conducted in 1980 to locate the site of the mission, to assess the site's...
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    the NW 1/4 of Section 67, Township 6 South, Range 3 West, Marion County (Figure 1). The Willamette

  • Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

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    Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.
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    Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor population are hypothetically...
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    prostitution (West 1981; Stoeltje 1975; Mann 1972; Davis 1967; Brown 1958; Miller 1964; Mazzulla 1966; Gentry