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"All the things you ask of me" : Law Enforcement Experiences of Infant Death Investigation

Creator:: Schindell, Jennifer R.
Abstract:: The sudden and unexpected death of a seemingly healthy infant sets in motion a number of linked processes with potentially complex and far-reaching ramifications. While individuals, families and communities grapple with the shock and heartbreak associated with the loss of a young life, a chain of multidisciplinary investigative responsibilities is...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

“Gold Dirt:” An Exploratory Study of Beginner Women Farmers’ Experiences with Farmland Tenure Mediating Care for Soil in Willamette Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Christophel Michaels, Rosa J.
Abstract:: This thesis investigates how beginning, women farmers, within in a women farmers’ network in the Willamette Valley, Oregon are accessing land and farming information. Using ethnographic, community-based research methods, I ask how land access mediates their ability to care for their land and soil. Are these farmers interested in fostering...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

Creator:: Baker, Carlee A.
Abstract:: In the months preceding the 2016 presidential election and during the Trump presidency, rhetoric, composition, and communications scholars expressed an urgent concern about the threat that Trump and his political affiliates posed to the status of truth in political life (McComiskey; Rice; Harsin; Cloud). However, the conversations surrounding the discipline’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: informed by the scholarship of Dana Cloud, David Backer, Robert Mejia, Kay Beckermann, and Curtis

“I Was That Student”: Exploring Instructor Experience of Empathy Amid Identities in the Classroom

Creator:: Anderson, Anna
Abstract:: This research is an exploration of empathy in the classroom from the standpoint of how instructors experience it and understand themselves to communicate it to their students, particularly students from different cultural backgrounds. The research method used was ethnographic analysis of a classroom observation and a one-hour semi-structured interview with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to understanding.’ (DeTurk, p. 240, emphasis in the original) Inspired in part by physicist David

"I've lived on these streets, and these streets aren't pretty" : The Life Stories of Corvallis Homeless Women

Creator:: Koch, Elizabeth C.
Abstract:: Over two million people experience homelessness in the United States, but homeless people are often marginalized by invisibility and stigmas surrounding poverty within their local communities. This research seeks to amplify the voices of Corvallis area homeless women as a means to understand their everyday lived experiences. Six women residing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

"Instant orchard" : technique for the production of ready-to-bear temperate zone fruit trees

Creator:: Kent, Jeffrey A.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Horticulture H /WT Y^ L.' fV YY\f^ raduatfe School A Dean of G Date thesis is presented August 3

"Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

Creator:: Surface, Samara
Abstract:: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a multimodal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released from 2012-2013. As a media event, the show proved how effective transmedia storytelling can be, eventually winning an Emmy for Original Interactive Program. In creating an intensely immediate narrative world, the series adapted more than Jane Austen’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

"Justify[ing] the ways of God to man" : John Milton's Use of Satan to Promote a Christian Message in Paradise Lost

Creator:: Burkett, Kristen A.
Abstract:: This paper focuses on Satan as a sympathetic figure in Paradise Lost, and it argues that readers' sympathy for Satan drives them to pursue God's grace in order to avoid falling into the same fate as Satan. It uses Reader Response theory to show how readers connect with Satan, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Satan as a hero. William G. Riggs notes that Satan “impresses not just the romantic imagination and

"Labor Market Situation for Syrian Refugees in Iraq" Case Study Arbat Refugee Camp - Kurdistan Region

Creator:: Mahmood, Aram
Abstract:: The Syrian civil war generated waves of refugees who flow into neighboring countries. These refugees have been creating excess supply of labor in host countries. This study involves a series of interviews in which respondents shared their perceptions of their involvement in the labor market in Iraq. These interviews provide...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

Creator:: Horton, Kaely
Abstract:: This thesis examines depictions of medievalism in three central texts: Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Each of these texts provides an entry point for exploring the ways in which English and American writers have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

"All the things you ask of me" : Law Enforcement Experiences of Infant Death Investigation

“Gold Dirt:” An Exploratory Study of Beginner Women Farmers’ Experiences with Farmland Tenure Mediating Care for Soil in Willamette Valley, Oregon

“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

“I Was That Student”: Exploring Instructor Experience of Empathy Amid Identities in the Classroom

"I've lived on these streets, and these streets aren't pretty" : The Life Stories of Corvallis Homeless Women

"Instant orchard" : technique for the production of ready-to-bear temperate zone fruit trees

"Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

"Justify[ing] the ways of God to man" : John Milton's Use of Satan to Promote a Christian Message in Paradise Lost

"Labor Market Situation for Syrian Refugees in Iraq" Case Study Arbat Refugee Camp - Kurdistan Region

"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

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