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  • A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

    Creator:
    Bullock, Claude George, III
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    This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction process through a pluralistic philosophical approach. Rather than defending traditional values in nature, such as intrinsic value, I defend a metaphilosophical pragmatism centered on policy implications. I argue that different philosophical positions will, most of the time,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Thompson This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction

  • Veteran Student Success : An Evaluation of Veteran Students' Perceptions of a Cohort Learning Model

    Creator:
    Campbell, Edward J.
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    In 2010 the American taxpayers spent $697 million educating veterans under the provisions of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (commonly referred to as the GI Bill). Most veterans begin their college education at a community college. However, the number of veterans succeeding in community colleges is exceedingly low. Based...
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    Dissertation
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    : ______________________________________________________ Earl P. Johnson In 2010 the American taxpayers spent $697 million educating veterans under the

  • Organizational Transformation and Social Construction : How Community College Faculty Make Meaning of the Completion Agenda

    Creator:
    Moore, Sally Widenmann
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    How do organizational members socially construct the shared meaning of a mandated change in the external environment? The opportunity to address this question presented itself when President Barack Obama set forth a goal for American community colleges to increase the number of students completing certificates and degrees by 5 million...
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    Dissertation
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    : Earl P. Johnson How do organizational members socially construct the shared meaning of a mandated

  • Everyday Movement Against Capitalism : Prospects for a Prefigurative Strategy toward Open Utopia

    Creator:
    Riccio, Alexander
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    Across the U.S. social activism is on the upsurge, offering possibilities for a revolution against capitalism. However, these possibilities are potentially undermined by entrenched factionalism amongst the left. At root, such in-fighting is fostered by the creation of false dualistic frameworks on the transition out of capitalism and into the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Robert D. Thompson, Jr. Across the U.S. social activism is on the upsurge, offering

  • The Design of Good Work

    Creator:
    Hattrup, Steven H.
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    Work occupies a considerable amount of time in most peoples’ lives and can be a source of great pleasure or a source of pain. To enhance peoples’ experience at work, we must first understand how to measure and improve the design of work. This research sought to do just that,...
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    Dissertation
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    : ______________________________________________________ Kenneth H. Funk II Work occupies a considerable amount of time in most peoples’ lives and

  • Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue: from Public Service Announcement to Program- Length Commercial

    Creator:
    Seiber, Rich
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    Animation has long been a staple of children's television programming As public service announcements (PSA5) have become an important part of children's television programming, cartoon characters have started to appear in this form of nonprogram material. By standard definition, PSAs are usually a 15 to 60-second spot that promote education...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad methodology, this thesis will explore the potential for competing

  • Mayan Bilinguality and Cultural Change in Ancient and Contemporary Mesoamerica

    Creator:
    Smith, William Hoyt
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    The importance of language and bilinguality in the development, perpetuation, and "degeneration" or change of culture is a central theme throughout this treatise. Original pictorial representations of Mayan hieroglyphic sculpture are included as examples, and represent artistic styles and language variations of written Cholan and Yucatec. Modern Cholan and Yucatecan...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Bilinguality and Cultural Change in Ancient and Contemporary Mesoamerica. Abstract approved Kenneth Beals

  • Toward An Academic Theory of Social Justice Judgment and Decision-Making : Rights, Justice, and Legal Ideology

    Creator:
    Werner, Michael W.
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    This dissertation serves a threefold purpose: 1. identify the principles, practices and assumptions implicated in an academic theory of social justice; 2. continue moving towards articulating a theory of social justice judgment and decision making; and 3. develop a model of social justice judgment and decision making that will assist...
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    Dissertation
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    : ___________________________________________________ Kenneth J. Winograd Abstract: This dissertation serves a threefold purpose: 1. identify

  • About good work

    Creator:
    Lee, Wei-Tau
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    This research is an effort to explore the nature of good work, a concept that describes work that is beneficial to the physical, psychological, and social dimensions of its stakeholders, including and especially the worker. This effort is divided into four distinct parts. First, the construct of good work is...
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    Dissertation
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    : ________________________________________________________ Kenneth H. Funk II This research is an effort to explore the nature of good work

  • Isolated Youth : An Exploration of Solitary Confinement in Juvenile Correctional Facilities

    Creator:
    Thompson, Kristin L.
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    The purpose of this thesis is to provide an overview of the use of solitary confinement and related techniques of isolation in juvenile correctional facilities in the United States. Given that scholars, correctional employees, incarcerated youth, and activists define solitary confinement in varied ways, this thesis attempts to synthesize those...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Thompson A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University Honors College