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  • Kinship, Environment and the Forest Service : Homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

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    Prior, Jan M.
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    The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
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    the homesteads. They are great stewards of these important resources. Phyllis Steeves, the Siuslaw's

  • Kinship, environment and the Forest Service : homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

    Creator:
    Prior, Jan M.
    Abstract:
    The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
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    the homesteads. They are great stewards of these important resources. Phyllis Steeves, the Siuslaw's

  • In Pursuit of Literacy

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    Freemole, George Maynard
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    My teaching experiences raised questions about the nature of literacy, especially about its relationship with education and schooling. Common sense, straightforward definitions of literacy failed to address those questions adequately, and that inadequacy led to the study which culminates in this thesis. In Pursuit of Literacy focuses on literacy in...
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    read and write" (10). By contrast, Phyllis Schlafly's "Education, The Family, and Traditional Values

  • Visitor Behavior at the Mark O. Hatfield Marine Science Center Aquarium

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    Tissot, Susan Gaughan
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    Visitor behavior research has become an essential component to many museum programs. Since its opening to the public in 1965, Oregon State University's Mark O. Hatfield Marine Science Center Aquarium in Newport, it has been visited by millions of people. A clear understanding of who this audience was and what...
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    Schlueter, and Phyllis Tolstoy. I would like to thank my childhood mentors, Pauline Michanco and Ruth

  • Re-Viewing Literacy : A Language Arts Teacher's Perspective

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    Van Develder, Pamela A.
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    A controversy regarding literacy lies at the heart of debates over the current state of American education. In response to the debate, this study reviews and analyzes the literacy theories of E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Walter Ong, Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole, Shirley Brice Heath, and Paulo Freire. The author presents...
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    , University of Arizona, and Oregon State University, especially Dick Adler, Ruth Gardner, Dennis Evans, Sean

  • A Qualitative Study of Women in Modern Day Polygamous Households in the United States

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    Wilson, Suzanne M.
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    This study will show that polygamy is not a religious freedom protected under the U.S. Constitution, but a power system in which men use economic, political, social and physical force to control the behavior of others. This thesis will use a feminist perspective theory to provide a theoretical outline for...
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    (Watt, Zimmerman, 2002) Learned helplessness, low self-esteem, depression, fear of reprisal

  • Oral histories concerning early electric lighting in Oregon communities

    Creator:
    Hardy, Channing C.
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    One of the greatest technological breakthroughs of humanity was the ability to construct a device and eventually a system which would provide a more efficient, safe, clean, convenient and relatively inexpensive form of illumination than ever used previously electric light. The introduction of this new technology into Oregon communities in...
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    ). In essence, electric devices broadened the gap between housework and other work in the home. Ruth

  • Counseling

    Creator:
    Burns, Robert N.
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    Counseling is a novel in three parts structurally and metaphorically comparing and contrasting the workings of the brain and mind. Through the story of a man recovering from a head injury I am creating a world in the text which equates the schizophrenia of postmodern criticism with the literal problems...
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  • Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

    Creator:
    Hagerty, Dorothy Dean
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    The research examines the reasons for and value of both deliberate and amorphous mutual-aid societies that influenced the life and success of an individual who lived in seventeenth-century Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Information is developed to allow a contextual comparison of life in both areas. The mutual-aid...
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    , 15 Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Melville Herskovits are among the better-known of Boas's