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  • Zooarchaeologjcal and Taphonomic Investigations of Site 35JA42, Upper Applegate River, Southwestern Oregon

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    Schmitt, Dave N.
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    Site 35JA42 represents the first protohistoric village complex excavated in Southwest Oregon. Analyses of animal bones recovered from the site offer the first significant insights into human subsistence behaviors in this region. Although the faunal assemblage is extremely fragmented, detailed zooarchaeological analysis indicates that deer were the primary meat resource...
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    its archaeological excavation, an archaeological site is an extremely dynamic 1 c 2 R 2 ) 0 0

  • Worldminded Attitudes of Japanese College Students in Japan and in the United States

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    Ishida, Etsuko
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    This study focused on the worldminded attitudes of Japanese college students in Japan and in the United States. The effects of studying abroad and the change in attitudes between Japanese college male students and female students were examined in terms of worldmindedness, which is defined as a frame of reference,...
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    worldminded views after returning to Japan. Longitudinal studies could resolve this issue. c Copyright by

  • Women: Pregnancy and Sexual Activity

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    Kilkenny, Michelle
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    The perception of the self as a sexual being is challenged by the experience of pregnancy. Included in the experience of pregnancy are issues with perceptions of the self, body image, transition into motherhood, and reconciliation of the self as a sexual being during pregnancy. Through a review of the...
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    cycle. Richard P. Perkins in, "Sexuality During Pregnancy" (1984), asserts that due to the importance

  • Women Farmers and Ranchers and Agricultural Knowledge: Gender. Experience, and Connection

    Creator:
    Filan, Trina Robin
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    This research is based on in-depth interviews with 20 women farmers and ranchers from the state of Oregon. These women employ a variety of methods and subscribe to a number of divergent philosophies regarding agricultural practices. The intention of this study is to examine how women who are the primary...
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  • Women combatants in the United States Navy : a victory for equal opportunity

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    Rosenberg, Holly A.
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    The issue of Navy women in combat has been widely discussed since women first served during World War I. In this paper I intend to present the political, philosophical, and historical reasoning behind the changing of the regulations to allow women in combat. History shows that the Navy has faced...
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    set of instructions for the assignment of women members. 1 McDonald, Richard, "Women in Combat

  • Why we worship the economy : a Burkean analysis of South Park's "Margaritaville"

    Creator:
    Holderness, William Robert
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    The television show South Park, created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, is viewed by millions of people each week, regularly addresses a number of controversial issues and plays a major role in contemporary popular culture. Current academic research acknowledges Parker and Stone's willingness to attack the dominant views surrounding...
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    . Richard Dalton (2007) contends that South Park espouses a philosophy of pluralism in which "no single

  • Whose community is it anyway? : the CDA and cultural conflicts over speech and pornography

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    Christian, Mary Ann
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    The Communication Decency Act became law in 1996 and was immediately challenged on Constitutional grounds. It was subsequently declared unconstitutional based on the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. Using Fantasy Theme Analysis, an analysis of the dramatic elements of the key players was accomplished. The dramatic elements of Overall...
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    .................................................................. 78 Appendix B Supreme Court Opinion Reno v. ACLU ................................... 81 Appendix C

  • Who We Are and Will Be

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    Jackson, Linda Carol, 1949-
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    The protagonists in the fiction of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison illuminate American cultural perceptions of black women and illustrate how the creators of these characters hope to change those perceptions. I studied Paule Marshall's Daughters, Alice Walker's Meridian and The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest...
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    Linda C. Jackson for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in English, English, and

  • When she was bad : framing female killers in contemporary film

    Creator:
    Finch, Kurstin
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    This thesis presents an analysis of seventeen contemporary blockbuster films in which women kill people. The purpose of the analysis is to discover the "frames" with which film producers, directors, scriptwriters and actors portray women in film. The thesis first establishes the model in use in the analysis: Entman's model...
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  • When Celilo was Celilo : an analysis of salmon use during the past 11,000 years in the Columbia Plateau

    Creator:
    Thomison, Patrick
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    The presence and significance of salmon for prehistoric and aboriginal people of the Columbia Plateau is a matter of considerable debate among anthropologists, archaeologists and historians. Data from over 100 archaeological sites are scrutinized in the light of an example salmon fishery developed from ethnographic and archaeological information on aboriginal...
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