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Oregon's Death with Dignity Act : A Rhetorical Criticism of Narrative within Public Policy

Creator:: Townsend, Timothy F.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of narratives within public policy, surrounding the issue of doctor-assisted suicide. Specifically, this study attempts to examine the way(s) in which narratives both shape and influence public policy; pertaining to Measure 16, Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. Narrative communication involving...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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Creator:: Ramachandran, Shalini
Abstract:: 'Search engine for a book library section' was developed for the Philosophy department. This Search Engine is a user interface application used for the purpose of searching for words or phrases as the need may be from a directory of books in a section of the Philosophy department library. The...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: . Timothy Budd for being my major professor and directing me to choose this project and work under Prof

"My nonsense is only their own in motley" : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ware Jr., and the "nature" of christian character"

Creator:: Jensen, Timothy Ward
Abstract:: Recent changes in the historiography of American Transcendentalism have inspired a reappraisal of the relationship between the Transcendentalist movement in New England and the pietistic wing of the Unitarian church. This thesis explores this reappraisal through a close reading of selected writings by Henry Ware Jr. in juxtaposition to the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Timothy Ward Jensen for the degree

Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

Creator:: Bruno, Mark P.
Abstract:: This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mark P. Bruno for the

Prehistoric Land-Use Patterns in the North Santiam Subbasin, On the Western Slopes of the Oregon Cascade Range

Creator:: Kelly, Cara McCulley
Abstract:: This thesis examines prehistoric land use patterns of the entire North Santiam subbasin, located on the western slopes of the Oregon Cascade Range. The objective of this analysis is three-fold: 1) to contribute to reconstructing the cultural chronology of the area; 2) to address the use of raw material by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Historic Farm Structures As Material Culture : An Oregon Study

Creator:: Judge, Barbara C.
Abstract:: The thesis is a case study of two traditional family farms that were settled in Oregon in 1850 and 1915. The study embraces the theory that material culture reflects customs and values. The material culture indicators within the study are the architectural structures of the Oregon farms. The study filters...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Maria Susanna Cummins' "The Lamplighter" : a revisioning of a sentimental writer of the nineteenth-century United States as rhetor, social critic, and feminist

Creator:: Steinert, Laura
Abstract:: Within The Lamplighter, a novel written in 1854, Maria Susanna Cummins defines a version of the sentimental novel that significantly differs from the prescriptive analysis male critics have offered for the genre. This thesis argues that feminist theory and recent rhetorical theory have caused a critical paradigm shift that has...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: by Timothy Shay Arthur became the temperance novel of its day. These authors rely heavily on

Museums and Tourism : On the Oregon Coast

Creator:: Pool, Marilen A.
Abstract:: Museums and tourism have had a long and interrelated history. In this paper this relationship is reviewed in general, and the contemporary issues common to them both in the 1990's are discussed. This relationship is also explored in the context of the Oregon Coastal Zone. Two projects set on the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Guests, Max E. Stanton states that: The Center is basically an attempt to reconstruct lifestyles that

From sister to sister to woman : the role of sororities in the social transmission of gender

Creator:: Gilmore, Jennifer
Abstract:: Sororities play an important role in the process by which sorority women become gendered by influencing members' ideas about what it means to be a woman. Women and men become gendered through regular social interaction with other women and men, and sororities have a particularly strong impact on their members...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Influence of Wilderness Activity Portrayals on Individual Participation

Creator:: Kelley, Crystal Chorlton
Abstract:: Individuals in and around a small college town were asked to take part in an interview to study their perception of wilderness activities depicted on television and other forms of media and the potential impact of these depictions on an individual's willingness to participate in wilderness activities. This study linked...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ‐Morawitz, 2005, p. 111). Research on prime‐time and reality television consumption suggests that a

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Oregon's Death with Dignity Act : A Rhetorical Criticism of Narrative within Public Policy

Search engine for a book library section, Word/phrase search engine for a section of the Philosophy department library

"My nonsense is only their own in motley" : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ware Jr., and the "nature" of christian character"

Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

Prehistoric Land-Use Patterns in the North Santiam Subbasin, On the Western Slopes of the Oregon Cascade Range

Historic Farm Structures As Material Culture : An Oregon Study

Maria Susanna Cummins' "The Lamplighter" : a revisioning of a sentimental writer of the nineteenth-century United States as rhetor, social critic, and feminist

Museums and Tourism : On the Oregon Coast

From sister to sister to woman : the role of sororities in the social transmission of gender

The Influence of Wilderness Activity Portrayals on Individual Participation

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