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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

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

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    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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    Charlie Miller. I could only wish that another graduate student could be so lucky to have the combination

  • Both Ways

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    Gonzalez, J. Lorenzo Shadow Sky
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    Both Ways is a collection of essays, prose, poetry, and "proems" which attempts to investigate the phenomena of multirace and multisexuality issues in greater detail. These works particularly explore questions of liminality and marginalization within American culture as it relates to characters who are experiencing anomie and alienation because of...
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    Both ways AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF J. Lorenzo Shadow

  • Erotic Capital and Women’s Online Sexual Marketing

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    Perkins, Abby M.
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    The purpose of this paper was to discuss the theory of erotic capital proposed by Catherine Hakim and how this theory affects online advertising done by sex workers. Through analyzing 29 different pages relating to the commercial sex industry, I observed how sexual capital is utilized in marketing strategies and...
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    Abstract approved: _________________________________ J, Nicole

  • The Development of Astronomy in the United States Prior to 1900

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    Harburg, William A.
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    From the earliest English colonization to the present day, there has been interest in astronomy in this country. The purpose of this thesis is to show how the science of astronomy developed in America from the earliest observations by educated colonists using imported instruments and publishing in European journals, to...
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    : Redacted for Privacy Robert J. Morris () From the earliest English colonization to the present day, there

  • Words of Well-Being : The Relation of an Individual's Word Choice to their Social Well-Being

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    Krieger, Katy
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    The present research sought to investigate the relationship between an individual's word choice and their social well-being. In the present investigation, social well-being is a person's social health in relation to their social environment, social network, and ability to interact with others in a social context. This thesis was based...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Frank J. Bernieri The present research sought to investigate the relationship between

  • Upper Deschutes River Basin Prehistory: A Preliminary Examination of Flaked Stone Tools and Debitage

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    Taggart, Michael W.
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    The prehistory of Central Oregon is explored through the examination of six archaeological sites and two isolated finds from the Upper Deschutes River Basin. Inquiry focuses on the land use, mobility, technological organization, and raw material procurement of the aboriginal inhabitants of the area. Archaeological data presented here are augmented...
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    Department of Dean of Gradàt'Schoo1 )j,ology I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent

  • Mother's Choices

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    Dietz, Amy L.
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    A memoir is variously defined as an abbreviated autobiography; a record of events based on the writer's personal observation or knowledge; and the written story of one's own life. I set out to do those things. But when I sat back to read the first of many drafts, I discovered...
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    dying for them. The portrait of J. B. Smith, propped on my desk, shows an unsmiling man with a deeply

  • Frank and Friendly Pressure : U.S. Liberal Interventionism in the Early Cold War

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    Fuller, Kevin J.
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    U.S. foreign policy during the period between World War II and the Vietnam War has been described as part of a “nation-­‐building” or “liberal” grand strategy. This thesis contends that understanding U.S. efforts to influence the internal affairs of sovereign states through the spread of liberal values and institutions during...
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                                                                                      AN  ABSTRACT  OF  THE  THESIS  OF     Kevin   J.   Fuller   for   the

  • North Umpqua end scrapers : allometry, discard, and residual utility

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    Kelly, Christopher J.
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    End scrapers were an "all purpose" tool that have been associated with processes such as planing or shaving vegetal resources, shaping bone or antler implements, and to render hide into usable fabric. Examining end scrapers from four different archaeological sites on the North Umpqua River of southwestern Oregon provided interesting...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher J. Kelly for the