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  • The Works Progress Administration in Oregon : An Administrative Overview

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    Butcher, Karyle S.
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    The depression of the 1930s had an early effect on the state of Oregon. A decline in timber and agricultural production resulted in severe unemployment in the late 1920s. State and local charitable organizations attempted to care for the unemployed but they did not have the financial resources to do...
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    despite the worsening social conditions. When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president he initiated a

  • Catching up with a WAVE : a multiscalar anthropological study of the Navy's women in blue of World War II

    Creator:
    Federico, Julie
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    The purpose of this study is to educate adults and later generations on the experience of women of the Navy who worked behind the scenes in World War II and helped win the war. The efforts and experiences of these pioneering women will be lost at a rate of 1,700...
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    after. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed that legislation into law and was true to his word

  • Caution – ideological mechanisms at work : interpellation and the melancholic turn in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden

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    Travers, Jessica D.
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    In this thesis I examine the ideological mechanisms that work to constitute, construct, and maintain subject identity. Such mechanisms include repetition, performativity, identification, and interpellation. I incorporate structuralist, post-structuralist, and psychoanalytic theories as a means to discuss the ways in which gender, sexuality, and identity are performative masquerades. Furthermore, these...
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    compares Dean to both FDR and God: “In that moment, too, he looked so exactly like Franklin Delano

  • Alaska Native Education : Sheldon Jackson to Paul Jensen 1884-1984

    Creator:
    Martain, Jacqueline
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    This thesis will look at Paul Jensen while he was an education professor at Western Oregon State College in Monmouth, Oregon, and his role in Alaska Native education while working with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Dr. Jensen's work coincided with the last twenty-five years of Bureau of Indian Affairs...
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    to intrusion. John Collier, appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs by Franklin Delano

  • In the midst of a revolution : science, fish culture, and the Oregon Game Commission, 1935-1949

    Creator:
    Hahn, Linda
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    This thesis will address the transformation of biological sciences during the 1930s and 1940s and it effects on fisheries science. It will focus on Oregon State College and specifically the Department of Fish and Game Management and the interaction with the Oregon Game Commission. Support for mutation theory and neo-...
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    Oregon State College from 1920- 1945, shows how one unexceptional person interpreted the debate

  • Una Perspectiva Etnica de la Sociedad Americana

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    Perez, Alfred F.
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    The existence of the ethnic "barrios" (ghettos) across American society is proof of the legacy of racism, injustice and inequality in society today. In this thesis, the human experiences of Native, African, Mexican, and Asian people, are presented to contradict the notion that the "American Dream" is for all. In...
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    , Benjamin Franklin, y los otros escritores de Ia constitución de los Estados Unidos. Una de las obras más

  • A Narrative Analysis of Captain America’s New Deal

    Creator:
    Ledbetter, Forest L.
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    In response to the events on September the Eleventh, various media attempted to make sense of the seemingly radical altered political landscape. Comic books, though traditionally framed as low brow pulp, were no exception. This thesis is a work of rhetorical criticism. It applies Walter Fisher's Narrative Paradigm to a...
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    not named but who resembles Franklin Delano Roosevelt, reveals to his advisors that he has already

  • Pandemic Narratives Navigating Pregnancy and Social Services in the Time of COVID

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    Ketsdever, Michael James
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    This creative writing project employs the use of ethnographic fiction to position the voices of newly mothering women within the literature surrounding gender inequality, access to social services, and pregnancy while being situated during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The voices of four women are brought to life within a broader...
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    ., Raphael, D., & Rioux, M. H., 2006) with mothers and babies being disproportionately affected. Structural

  • What Lies Below: Options to Improve Sustainable Management of U.S./Mexico Transboundary Aquifers

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    Welch, Christina, N.
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    Globally, as surface water quality and quantity diminishes there is increasing reliance on groundwater to buffer water demands of growing populations. Today in many arid regions around the world aquifer pumping rates far exceed recharge rates. Often the groundwater is nonrenewable, or thousands of years old. Despite the known hydrologic...
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    ............................................................................................... 132 APPENDIX D. List of Interviewees