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Eastward Routing of Glacial Lake Agassiz Runoff caused the Younger Dryas Cold Event

Creator:: Leydet, David J.
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to analyze an abrupt case of climate change in the past as a means to understand the mechanisms that force climate change. By looking to past analogs of climate change, we hopefully will gain an understanding of these events, which could be used to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and Dan Stephen – for being the best geography cohort a guy could ask for! I also would

Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

Creator:: Foster, Brad D.
Abstract:: This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Rodeo Cowgirls : An Ambivalent Arena

Creator:: Oliver, Audra Leah
Abstract:: The term "cowboy" was closely bound to American image long before the 1990s. Rodeo claimed the image of the cowboy from the earliest contests to the latest and pledged itself to patriotism almost as early. This historical study was conducted viewing rodeo as a subculture and relating women's role in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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To mend the walls of Babel : essays on identity and ethnicity

Creator:: Inoue, Asao B.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I explore experiences with my identity, looking at the identity people have seen me as, who I've thought I was, and the identities my mother's and father's different family backgrounds suggest I should be. I have divided this discussion into three main areas: my complexion, the first...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: "just another average guy," all the while assuming that what that meant was I was ''white." While at

West of Ellis

Creator:: Tafolla Young, Kathryne M.
Abstract:: Ellis, a booming mid-sized town in California's Central Valley, is packed with farmers and commuters, and plagued with a dwindling sense of itself and its history. Set against the backdrop of a failed murder-suicide, a secret affair and a wealthy local mogul's attempt to develop the town into something it's...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: guy. "America the Beautiful" was fast-forwarding through Ian's head, and it had no right to be; the

Willamette and associated soils on late Pleistocene geomorphic surfaces, Polk County, Oregon

Creator:: Gelderman, Frederick W.
Abstract:: The morphology and genesis of soils of the Willamette series and of some Willamette-associated soils and their relationships to geomorphic surfaces were studied in an area near McCoy, Polk County, Oregon. Influences of regional extent, such as climate and parent material, were related to the soils and landforms. The soils...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A study of text and reference material used for industrial arts metalworking, in the secondary schools of California

Creator:: Lane, Irving Eugene
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A physical science survey course for high schools

Creator:: Ziegler, Robert George
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Megascopic plant remains from three housepits along the Applegate River, southwest Oregon

Creator:: Cole, Madeline L.
Abstract:: In 1982 a protohistoric archaeological site along the Applegate River in southwest Oregon was excavated by Oregon State University Department of Anthropology. Three housepits and a possible menstrual but were uncovered with lithic, faunal, and archaeobotanical elements recovered from house floors and hearths. Seven botanical taxa were represented by carbonized...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Rural Philomath Oregon 1850-1930 : geography and economy in oral history

Creator:: Russell, John A.
Abstract:: Ranching and lumbering were two of the primary economic practices in a small rural study area south of Philomath Oregon (in Benton County), from first Euro-American settlement through 1930. Ranching was common but lumbering was restricted by geographical and market transportation problems until after 1900. Catalysts for change came in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Eastward Routing of Glacial Lake Agassiz Runoff caused the Younger Dryas Cold Event

Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

Rodeo Cowgirls : An Ambivalent Arena

To mend the walls of Babel : essays on identity and ethnicity

West of Ellis

Willamette and associated soils on late Pleistocene geomorphic surfaces, Polk County, Oregon

A study of text and reference material used for industrial arts metalworking, in the secondary schools of California

A physical science survey course for high schools

Megascopic plant remains from three housepits along the Applegate River, southwest Oregon

Rural Philomath Oregon 1850-1930 : geography and economy in oral history

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