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  • Metaphor and Bias : An In-Depth Look at CNN and Fox News Channel

    Creator:
    Duncan, Sara R.
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    This study links together two very complicated, but very important subjects: media bias and metaphor. More specifically, this study investigates whether or not examining a media outlet's use of metaphor is an effective methodology for investigating media bias. Using cluster analysis, I identified the source metaphors most commonly used on...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Sara R. Duncan for the

  • The Internet Usage Habits of Young Women with ADHD : Insights and Implications

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    Dakessian, Drew R.
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    Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the most common childhood neurological disorder in the United States, also affects grown women. But girls with ADHD, who tend towards symptoms of inattentiveness, often go undiagnosed until young adulthood. This is because (a) their symptoms are less obvious than the hyperactivity common in ADHD boys, and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Jenkins, Janet Lee, Mehra Shirazi, Sara Jameson, and above all, my chair, Patti Duncan. I cannot

  • Curandera feminism : tracing the possibilities of healing institutional harm

    Creator:
    Buzo Tipton, Carina M.
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    This dissertation develops a framework for Curandera feminism, informed by familial healing practices, women of color feminisms, and institutional critique. My research centers my family’s generational Curandera practices. As I honor the call to be critical of the master’s tools, I seek possibilities for institutional change through Curandera feminism. Institutions...
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    Dissertation
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    Patti Duncan This dissertation develops a framework for Curandera feminism, informed by

  • Shifting Roots: Reimagining the Genealogical Roots of Disability Studies and Mad Studies through Women of Color Feminisms

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    Johnk, Lzz
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    This dissertation argues for rooting genealogies and origin stories of Disability Studies and Mad Studies in women of color feminist scholarship-activism. Turning to women of color feminist work as “alternative origin stories” shifts Disability Studies and Mad Studies away from limiting and often racist eurowestern models of Madness/disability. Women of...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Patti L. Duncan This dissertation argues for rooting genealogies and origin stories

  • Alternative Carrier Solvents for Use with Resolubilized Fungal Pigments to IncreaseInternal Color Coverage in Wood Substrates

    Creator:
    Pittis, Lauren
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    Five solvents were used to resolubilize the fungal pigments of Chlorociboria aeruginosa and Scytalidium cuboideum, two common fungi used in the spalting of wood pieces. These solvents were tested as a replacement for dichloromethane in the pigment application process, via analysis of their ability to increase internal color coverage inside...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Sara Robinson Abstract: Five solvents were used to resolubilize the fungal pigments of

  • Distribution of Chlorociboria species in riparian forests of Western Oregon

    Creator:
    Kramer, Olivia E.
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    Transects were run at five locations in the Benton County area searching for samples of Chlorociboria spp. on dead wood, with fifteen total samples found. Of these samples, eight samples had the wood species identified, with the majority found on Acer macrophyllum and one on Salix spp. The density of...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Abstract approved:_____________________________________________________ Sara Robinson Abstract

  • Modalities of responding to student writing : how the medium shapes the message

    Creator:
    Mosser, Sarah E.
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    With the rapid development of new computer mediated technologies, instructors have more options of the modalities of responding to student writing. Whereas traditionally, responses have been written by hand, technological developments allow responses to take very different forms. Some of these technologies, such as word processing, mimic the text-on-page techniques...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Sara E. Jameson With the rapid development of new computer mediated technologies, instructors

  • The Sweet Roll : A Project in Podcasting Gaming News, Discussions and Reviews

    Creator:
    Wallace, Kenneth LaVond
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    This thesis – “The Sweet Roll: A Project in Podcasting Gaming News, Discussions and Reviews” – assesses the current gaming scene, including games, gamers, news, and reviews of gaming, and creates a pilot podcast The Sweet Roll as a demonstration and discussion of what could be done better. Through a...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Abstract Approved: ______________________________________________________ Sara Jameson This thesis

  • Sites of Memory : Black Women's Geographies, #SayHerName, and Black Hair Politics

    Creator:
    Adkins, Daryl
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    According to Katherine McKittrick, black women’s geographies reveal and confront geographies of domination that have been erased or considered unworthy of analysis. This thesis positions #SayHerName protests and natural kink/coiled hair within a black women’s geographic analysis suggesting that both body and hair politics provide historical and contemporary geographic clues...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Patti L. Duncan According to Katherine McKittrick, black women’s geographies reveal and

  • Transnational feminism and the microfinance (r)evolution : excavating microlending from neoliberalism

    Creator:
    Ireland, Heather Montes
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    This study employs interdisciplinary methods to make transnational feminist sense of the microfinance phenomenon. Drawing upon a combination of discourse approach, textual analysis, political economics and critical theory construction, I fused a feminist critical discourse approach to excavate microfinance from neoliberalism. I designed an economic justice framework and executed an...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Studies presented on June 16, 2011. Title: Transnational Feminism and the Microfinance (R)evolution