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  • Rural Latinas/os of the Pacific Northwest: College and the Experience of Self- Identification

    Creator:
    Zaragoza, Mariana C.
    Abstract:
    There is an ever growing number of Latinas/os who reside and have settled permanently in rural America. Unbeknownst to most, rural Latinas/os face adversities unfamiliar to those living outside of this scope. As it stands, the barriers urban Latinas/os students face when transitioning to college has been well documented. However,...
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    Juana 56 Jose 57 Coding Process 58 Common Themes 58 Theme One: "Othering" 59 Theme Two

  • Contrastive Analysis in Second-Language Teaching : Spanish Suprasegmentals

    Creator:
    Hart, Dianne Walta, 1939-
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    Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this exploratory study is to find an accepted methodology for teaching second-language suprasegrnentals by investigating the question of whether or not the use of contrastive analysis is superior to another method that does not use contrastive analysis. Specifically, the comparison of methods is...
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  • Nine Native Mexicans families in the Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Cervantes, Willan A.
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    The Mixteco primarily reside in the Mexican State of Oaxaca in Southwestern Mexico. They have been arriving in larger numbers then ever before to this part of the North American continent in the last twenty years.Their experience is composed of different dynamics compared to those of their mainstream Mexican counterpart....
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ometeotl! This work is dedicated to Manuel Pacheco who empowered and changed our lives to

  • Nine native Mexicans families in the Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Cervantes, Willan A.
    Abstract:
    The Mixteco primarily reside in the Mexican State of Oaxaca in Southwestern Mexico. They have been arriving in larger numbers then ever before to this part of the North American continent in the last twenty years.Their experience is composed of different dynamics compared to those of their mainstream Mexican counterpart....
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ometeotl! This work is dedicated to Manuel Pacheco who empowered and changed our lives to

  • Devil Dog Diplomacy and the abandonment of military tradition : United States Foreign Policy in Central America and the Caribbean, 1915-1934

    Creator:
    Geissler, Eric L.
    Abstract:
    During the U.S. military interventions in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti between 1915 and 1934, Washington equipped members of the its armed forces with civil and political powers that represented a radical departure from the North American military tradition. This abandonment of tradition decisively contributed to both the disappointments...
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    initiated by those in uniform, for as Jose Nun reminds contemporary observers, "all classes have courted

  • Rosa Gonzalez Gomez : a Mexican woman's story

    Creator:
    Browning, Richard L.
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    Using an oral history method, the author has recorded the life history of Rosa González Gómez, a Mexican woman who spends part of each year in the United States and part in Mexico. Comparing the story of Rosa's life, as told in her own words, with literature in the social...
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    . Rosa was born in 1943 in the middle of the presidency of Manuel Avila Camacho. Although he had served