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Ideology, reality, and rhetoric : Kenneth Burke's dramatism

Creator:: Beach, Josh M.
Abstract:: The American philosopher and literary critic Kenneth Burke was an "ideologist" (although he never called himself this, and added to that, he spent most of his life avoiding the Marxist term of ideology to describe human "systems" of ideas). Burke instead used the terms "orientation," "rationalization," "perspective." "critical perspective," "way...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: formal tensions a device for the artist to Wess, Robert. Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity

Mayan Bilinguality and Cultural Change in Ancient and Contemporary Mesoamerica

Creator:: Smith, William Hoyt
Abstract:: The importance of language and bilinguality in the development, perpetuation, and "degeneration" or change of culture is a central theme throughout this treatise. Original pictorial representations of Mayan hieroglyphic sculpture are included as examples, and represent artistic styles and language variations of written Cholan and Yucatec. Modern Cholan and Yucatecan...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Bilinguality and Cultural Change in Ancient and Contemporary Mesoamerica. Abstract approved Kenneth Beals

Guilt and Redemption on Wisteria Lane: A Burkeian Analysis of Desperate Housewives

Creator:: Huillet, Michelle M.
Abstract:: In 2004 after Desperate Housewives premiered, it was met with significant criticism condemning the lack of values and morals on the show, depicted through the pervasiveness of sinful and illegal behavior (Olsen & Morgan, 2010). However, Olsen and Morgan contend that sinful and illegal behavior is accompanied with attempts at...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Redemption on Wisteria Lane: A Burkeian Analysis of Desperate Housewives Abstract approved

Gandydancing : A Nebraska Education

Creator:: Loshbaugh, Robert B.
Abstract:: This thesis is a work of literary non-fiction. It is divided into six sections. The first, "A Sense of Place," and the last, "Pulling a Geographical," are collage essays which establish and then reiterate major themes in the work: movement, work, geography, climate, people, and education--some curricular, some not. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THESIS OF Robert B. Loshbaugh for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in the co

I. Direction of maximum horizontal compression in western Oregon determined by borehole breakouts. II. Structure and tectonics of the northern Willamette Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Werner, Kenneth Stefan
Abstract:: Elliptical borehole enlargements or "breakouts" caused by systematic spalling of a borehole wall due to regional maximum horizontal stresses were identified in 18 wells drilled in the Coast Range and Willamette Valley of western Oregon. The breakouts generally indicate a NNW to NNE orientation of maximum horizontal compression (oH[subscript max])...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Diversity and Impact of Soft Rot Pathogens of Potato in the Columbia Basin

Creator:: Brazil, Jessie A.
Abstract:: Bacterial soft rot of potato (Solanum tuberosum), caused by Pectobacterium and Dickeya species, is among the most common and destructive potato diseases in the United States. These pathogens cause a variety of vascular wilts, and in potato cause a disease complex that includes tuber soft rot, blackleg, aerial stem rot,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Kenneth Frost Bacterial soft rot of potato (Solanum tuberosum), caused by Pectobacterium

"We Lived It": Stories of Cultural Resilience, Dinék’ehgo Nanitiin (Diné-Based Instruction), and Navigating between University and Tribal Institutional Review Boards

Creator:: Tapaha, Oliver G.
Abstract:: This manuscript-style dissertation explores Diné (Navajo) education and teaching in the context of a research project that negotiated the demands of both Navajo Nation IRB and Oregon State University IRB. In the first manuscript, the researcher examines his journey of using cultural resilience strategies to succeed in the education system...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: University and Tribal Institutional Review Boards. Abstract approved: Kenneth J

Development and comparison of two alternate display formats for an AgendaManager interface

Creator:: Wilson, Robert B. (Robert Brian)
Abstract:: Modern commercial air travel is considered by most transportation specialists to be the safest of all forms of transportation. While safe, any loss of life is tragic and the only really acceptable state of commercial air transport safety is that of 'zero-tolerance' where no accident is acceptable. Research has demonstrated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for an AgendaManager interface AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Robert B. Wilson for the degree of

An ethnography of a rural elementary school district containing three types of minority students

Creator:: Jaffe, Clella Iles, 1944-
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Privacy_ Kenneth Ahrendt This study is a modified ethnography of a rural elementary school located in

A historical evaluation of high molecular weight glutenins and the dwarfing (Rht) gene in Triticum aestivum in selected genotypes grown in the United States

Creator:: Roseborough, Colleen
Abstract:: Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is an important crop worldwide, however, in recent years concerns have been raised regarding two health issues, celiac disease and gluten sensitivity, and their relationship to wheat consumption. This increase has led to questions regarding potential changes over time in the composition of gluten (glutenin and gliadin)...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: States Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________ Robert S

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Ideology, reality, and rhetoric : Kenneth Burke's dramatism

Mayan Bilinguality and Cultural Change in Ancient and Contemporary Mesoamerica

Guilt and Redemption on Wisteria Lane: A Burkeian Analysis of Desperate Housewives

Gandydancing : A Nebraska Education

I. Direction of maximum horizontal compression in western Oregon determined by borehole breakouts. II. Structure and tectonics of the northern Willamette Valley, Oregon

Diversity and Impact of Soft Rot Pathogens of Potato in the Columbia Basin

"We Lived It": Stories of Cultural Resilience, Dinék’ehgo Nanitiin (Diné-Based Instruction), and Navigating between University and Tribal Institutional Review Boards

Development and comparison of two alternate display formats for an AgendaManager interface

An ethnography of a rural elementary school district containing three types of minority students

A historical evaluation of high molecular weight glutenins and the dwarfing (Rht) gene in Triticum aestivum in selected genotypes grown in the United States

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