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  • Building Economically Resilient Rural Communities

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    Sorte, Bruce Michael
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    Rural communities will continue to be disproportionately shocked by economic fluctuations. Market forces are likely to lead to the decline of many rural communities and they will need to be economically resilient to survive. This thesis draws on several social sciences and the natural sciences to develop ideas that communities...
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    Communities. Abstract approved Bruce A. Weber Rural communities will continue to be disproportionately

  • Ideology, reality, and rhetoric : Kenneth Burke's dramatism

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    Beach, Josh M.
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    The American philosopher and literary critic Kenneth Burke was an "ideologist" (although he never called himself this, and added to that, he spent most of his life avoiding the Marxist term of ideology to describe human "systems" of ideas). Burke instead used the terms "orientation," "rationalization," "perspective." "critical perspective," "way...
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    Ibid. 161. 4 Max Weber and John Dewey were contemporary cultural theorists working out of the same

  • Frank and Friendly Pressure : U.S. Liberal Interventionism in the Early Cold War

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    Fuller, Kevin J.
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    U.S. foreign policy during the period between World War II and the Vietnam War has been described as part of a “nation-­‐building” or “liberal” grand strategy. This thesis contends that understanding U.S. efforts to influence the internal affairs of sovereign states through the spread of liberal values and institutions during...
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    Frank and Friendly Pressure: U.S. Liberal Interventionism

  • Willamette Mission Archeological Project : Phase III Assessment

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    Weber, Mary K. (Mary Kathryn)
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    The Willamette Mission archeological project consists of a broad program of cultural research in the fields of archeology, history, and architecture. The study focuses on the first Methodist mission in the Pacific Northwest. Archeological excavations were conducted in 1980 to locate the site of the mission, to assess the site's...
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    assessment AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Uary Kathryn Weber for the degree of Master 21 Arts in

  • The Victory in Vietnam Committee's Manichean Rhetoric : An Analysis of the Campaign to Recall Idaho Senator Frank Church

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    Andrews, Cheri L.
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    The purpose of this study is to illuminate the role, the function, and the ironic outcome of the Victory in Vietnam Committee's campaign pamphlet to recall Senator Frank Church of Idaho in 1967. The VVC's political strategy was to build credibility with the media through the recall pamphlet. The analysis...
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    analysis of the campaign to recall Idaho Senator Frank Church AN ABSTRACT CF THE THESIS OF Cheri L

  • Change in some aspects of Chinese core values, 1978-1988

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    Qi, Xiaoping
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    Great change has taken place in China during the past decade. As core values represent the most basic aspects of social life, change in some aspects of Chinese core values indicates that China is moving rapidly from being an agricultural society toward becoming a modern industrial society. China today can...
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    Privacy r John A.C/Yotpg Great change has taken place in China during the past decade. As core values

  • British policies toward Palestine

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    Earl-Taylor, Michael A.
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    This study traces British government policies with regard to Palestine from the time the British Expeditionary Forces under General Allenby invested Jerusalem in December 1917 to the imposition of the Mandate with Britain as the Mandatory power, which came into effect on July 22, 1922. The first chapter provides an...
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    Campbell and the Graduate representative, Dr. Bruce Weber. I am particularly indebted to Professor

  • Words of Well-Being : The Relation of an Individual's Word Choice to their Social Well-Being

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    Krieger, Katy
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    The present research sought to investigate the relationship between an individual's word choice and their social well-being. In the present investigation, social well-being is a person's social health in relation to their social environment, social network, and ability to interact with others in a social context. This thesis was based...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Frank J. Bernieri The present research sought to investigate the relationship between

  • Personality Perception Accuracy Development within Newly Acquainted Groups

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    Brown, Jill A. (Jill Anne)
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    The present research sought to investigate the effect of acquaintance on the accuracy of personality judgments and extend results to groups resembling families. Participants were college students ranging from 18 to 54 years of age enrolled in a ten week long "Psychological Assessment" research practicum. The study was designed to...
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    approved: ____________________________________________ Frank J. Bernieri The present research

  • Reconsidering Openness : A Study of Relationships Between Personality Openness and Attitudinal Openness

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    Chang, I-Tung Joyce
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    This is an observational study concerning relationships between personality openness and attitudinal openness. 209 volunteers from two samples, participated in this study. The Ohio sample contained data from 36 self-identified feminists (age 18-65) at the Annual National Women Studies Conference in Akron, Ohio, 1990. The Oregon State university (OSU) sample...
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    Personality Openness and Attitudinal Openness _Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: Frank J. Bernieri