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  • Science Through the Lens of Art

    Creator:
    Garton, Elizabeth
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    There is a connection between science and art. This study is specifically looking at the connection between soil science, art, and biochemistry. The traditional display of research in the sciences is in a written form such as a manuscript or journal article. To challenge this traditional presentation of scientific knowledge...
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    remembered the soil column that I had worked on. This column was primarily created by looking at images of

  • Resisting Society’s Influence: Selling Sex in Women’s Professional Sports

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    Perry, Rodney C.
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    Title IX's passage into law in 1972 set women’s sports on a course toward gender equity with men's sports at the scholastic and collegiate levels, leading to a definitive growth in women’s professional leagues, corresponding athlete salaries, and athletic marketing and promotional prospects. However, disparities currently exist in the availability...
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    limitations of my study and offering suggestions toward the direction of future research in this field

  • Megascopic plant remains from three housepits along the Applegate River, southwest Oregon

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    Cole, Madeline L.
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    In 1982 a protohistoric archaeological site along the Applegate River in southwest Oregon was excavated by Oregon State University Department of Anthropology. Three housepits and a possible menstrual but were uncovered with lithic, faunal, and archaeobotanical elements recovered from house floors and hearths. Seven botanical taxa were represented by carbonized...
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    represented in 100% of the sample units. Data derived from analysis of macrobotanical remains supported

  • Museums and Tourism : On the Oregon Coast

    Creator:
    Pool, Marilen A.
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    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...
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    affected by the introduction of the automobile in that museums and resorts no longer had to be located

  • Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon

    Creator:
    Paullin, Pamela K.
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    Although the timber industry was the major economic force in the lives of several generations of Oregon families, very little archaeological investigation has been done on the dozens of abandoned logging camps that are scattered throughout the forests of the Pacific Northwest. This project focuses on Camp 1, a 1920s...
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    , the focus of this study, was built in 1923 by 2 Camp 2 Figure 1.1: Project area map

  • Peavy Arboretum : an archaeological and historical investigation of a Willamette Valley landscape

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    Hylton, Lindon B.
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    This thesis documents a period of ecological and cultural change on a Willamette Valley, Oregon landscape. In particular, this study examines the Peavy Arboretum area and the cultural changes that accompanied the transformation of the landscape from an oak savannah in the mid-nineteenth century to a dense Douglas-fir forest in...
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    compared against larger patterns in the history of the American West. Geographically, the study area was

  • An investigation of ethnocentrism, its elements, factors affecting its intensity, and implications for cross-cultural activities

    Creator:
    Olufson, Loreen C.
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    Ethnocentrism is a term for an attitude which causes individuals to place their culture at the center of the universe as they see it. Other cultures are evaluated in terms of the culture of the individual and are often valued less. Ethnocentrism and the behaviors associated with it have frequently...
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    resulted in this paper. The genesis of this project was, in actuality, a journey, a journey in which I