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Determining the essential elements of golf swings used by elite golfers

Creator:: Fujimoto-Kanatani, Koichiro
Abstract:: The golf swing involves a complex sequence of body movements which adjust according to the demands of a given shot. The purpose of this study was to determine common characteristics and essential elements of the golf swing under various conditions. The swing patterns of thirteen elite professional golfers were analyzed...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of Golf Swings Used by Elite Golfers Abstract approved: Gerald A. Smith The golf swing involves

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

Creator:: Travers, Jessica D.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: Evan Gottlieb In this thesis I examine the ideological mechanisms that work to

A vacant industrial site survey for the Corvallis, Oregon urban area

Creator:: Elliott, Gerald E.
Abstract:: There is a considerable amount of vacant land zoned for industrial use within the Corvallis Urban Growth Boundary. A detailed investigation of the area reveals a total of 632.98 acres of such land. However, when closely scrutinized, it appears that the total number of acres is misleading, as only 77.50...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: AREA by GERALD E. ELLIOTT A RESEARCH PAPER submitted to THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY in partial

The acquisition of nonverbal behaviors by preservice science teachers and their application during student teaching

Creator:: Raymond, Anne Dawley
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: TEACHING Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Thomas P. Evans This investigation was designed to

The relationship between the cerebral lateralization for Arabic language and achievement in science

Creator:: Hafez, Abdullah Ibrahim M.
Abstract:: The major purpose of this study was to test the relationship between students' cerebral lateralization for the Arabic language and their achievement in science. A secondary purpose was to investigate handedness as a factor in that relationship. The experiment was conducted in the City of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, using dichotic...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: approved: Redacted for privacy Thomas P. Evans The major purpose of this study was to test the

The effect of PACE on self-reported anxiety and performance in first year nursing students

Creator:: Irving, Jan Louise
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was (a) to determine the effect of a four-step learner readiness profile: positive, active, clear, and energetic (PACE) on self-reported anxiety in first year nursing students before skill performance tests, and (b) to determine the effect of PACE on the performance of first year nursing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: -Reported Anxiety and Performance in First Year Nursing Students. Abstract approved: Thomas P. Evans

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Creator:: Foster, Emily S.
Abstract:: Celebrity culture is part of a long history of fame, but the modern celebrity individual came into focus in the nineteenth century. The first part of this thesis distinguishes modern celebrity – including its morality – from other types of fame, explores the intersection of celebrity and gender through the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Deronda. Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Evan

Truth, justice, and the American way : what Superman teaches us about the American Dream and changing values within the United States

Creator:: Karp, Lauren N.
Abstract:: This thesis is a study of the changes in the cultural definition of the American Dream. I have chosen to use Superman comics, from 1938 to the present day, as litmus tests for how we have societally interpreted our ideas of “success” and the “American Way.” This work is primarily...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ____________________________________________________________________ Evan Gottlieb This thesis is a study of the changes in the cultural definition of the

Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

Creator:: Drury, Adam Marshall
Abstract:: Asynthesis & Act is a signiﬁcant intervention into the discourse of the sublime. Through a deep investigation of the critical metaphysics of Immanuel Kant, the ﬁrst chapter of this thesis puts forth the claim that the sublime is a radical experience that occasions a possibility for the individual to commit...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Evan Gottlieb Asynthesis & Act is a significant intervention into the discourse of the

Our Moral Educators : Educational Debate and Representations of Teachers in the Mid-Century Victorian Novel

Creator:: Taylor, Corey
Abstract:: In this thesis, I read the teachers in four mid-century Victorian novels--Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850) and Hard Times (1854), Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857) and Charlotte Brontё's Villette (1853)-- within the context of mid-century English educational debate in an effort to explicate the ways in which these characters...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: —Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield (1850) and Hard Times (1854), Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown’s Schooldays

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Determining the essential elements of golf swings used by elite golfers

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

A vacant industrial site survey for the Corvallis, Oregon urban area

The acquisition of nonverbal behaviors by preservice science teachers and their application during student teaching

The relationship between the cerebral lateralization for Arabic language and achievement in science

The effect of PACE on self-reported anxiety and performance in first year nursing students

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Truth, justice, and the American way : what Superman teaches us about the American Dream and changing values within the United States

Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

Our Moral Educators : Educational Debate and Representations of Teachers in the Mid-Century Victorian Novel

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