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  • Women's History Lessons for High School Social Studies Classes

    Creator:
    Mallery, Adah E.
    Abstract:
    Women’s history is often not included in K-12 classes. However, women are an essential part of American history and should be better represented in the K-12 curricula and classrooms. The purpose of this thesis is to both acknowledge that women’s history is often missing in K-12 classrooms and to provide...
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    , “The Big Tent of U.S. Women’s and Gender History: A State of the Field,” The Journal of American

  • History of Social Dancing at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Weymann, Davis
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    This paper presents a brief history of social dance at Oregon State University (OSU) and discusses its key elements and context. Social dance has been part of campus life at OSU since the university was founded. Initially, dance was a social activity and means to interact with others, but as...
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    History of Social Dancing at Oregon State University

  • Misgendering, Prejudice, & Attitudes Towards Transgender & Gender Diverse Individuals: The Role of Accents

    Creator:
    Lewis-Lopez, Azriella N.
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    One way to support the transgender and gender diverse (TGD) community is by calling out microaggressions. Bystander readiness to call out microaggressions may be influenced by a bystander’s perception of harm caused by the microaggression and stereotypes surrounding the identity of the microaggressor. In this study, I focused on the...
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    attitudes toward foreign accented speech. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 32(1), 3–20. https

  • The one-child policy and the empowerment of Chinese women

    Creator:
    Li, Yi
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    When people talk about the one-child policy in China, it always relates to topics like human rights violations or the population control dilemma. The one-child policy was published in the 1980s, around the same time as the Economic Reform, and these twin policies brought Chinese society tremendous changes. This paper...
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    Implications.” ​[J]. Journal of Chongqing University of Technology (Social Science)​, 9, 32 (September 2018

  • Militant and nonviolent social movements

    Creator:
    Robinson, Blake
    Abstract:
    While much has been written about why people join social movements in general, little has been written about why people specifically join either militant or nonviolent social movements. Using the Black Panther Party as an example of a militant social movement and the mainstream Civil Rights Movement as an example...
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    as an example of a militant social movement and the mainstream Civil Rights Movement as an example of

  • Germans and the Union: Immigrants' Struggle Against Assimilation in the Civil War Era

    Creator:
    Diebel, Nathan W.
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    The United States of America is founded upon immigration, and Germans are one of the first European ethnic groups to settle en masse in North America. The common narrative of immigration is that of the “melting pot”; characterized by assimilation of cultures into one ‘super’ culture. German immigration has often...
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    -1872,” Journal of American Ethnic History 28, no. 1 (2008): 34. else we can do if we want to

  • Paralympic athlete activism on social media

    Creator:
    Browning, Riley
    Abstract:
    Activism is the action of promoting and campaigning for political or social change and a growing concept in the United States for the past few decades. This has included a Civil Rights movement, a Disability Rights movement, gender equality movements, and other movements - activist groups have been pushing for...
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    , however, the first official Paralympic Games were not held until 1960 (The History of the Paralympic

  • Histories of Trauma, Futures of Identity, As Told by the Kitchens of the Polish Diaspora

    Creator:
    Wojtas, Miriam
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    A recipe as a piece of text can tell a variety of stories as well as any other. Using a feminist rhetorical analysis, I read my grandmother’s personal recipe journal to show that her writings contain valuable information about women’s lives in twentieth century Poland. Through the close examination of...
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    serve as a larger commentary on the social, political, and economic conditions of their lived

  • The Great Hall: A Story of Promise, Lost Opportunity, and the Value of the Liberal Arts

    Creator:
    Proctor, Jenna Marie
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    The liberal arts have always struggled to find their place in the technically oriented land-grant university. Land-grant universities were tasked by the 1862 Morrill Act with providing both a practical and liberal education for all students. The liberal arts, however, were quickly sidelined from this dual purpose with the increasing...
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    the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Arts in History (Honors Scholar) Presented

  • Melee at the Edge of Empire: The Manifestation of the Reservation System in Southwest and Western Oregon 1850-1875

    Creator:
    Alves, Richard W.
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    The purpose of this thesis is to explain why the reservation system manifested so disappointingly for the Native American groups of Southwest Oregon. It seeks to characterize the struggle that raged in Southwest Oregon from 1850 to 1856 between three main groups there: indigenous peoples, white squatters and miners, and...
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    the Thesis of Richard W. Alves for the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Arts in History presented