Traditional interpretations of James Joyce's Dubliners have often focused on the pervasive "paralysis" of the city, covered in the stories' range of "childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life." However, these approaches have limited their focus on the women in the stories, often spotlighting the male characters--and the author--through a Freudian...
Ireland's Catholic Church played an important role in the turn-of-the-century nationalism that shaped James Joyce's identity and writing; yet it also played an important part in preventing that nationalism from achieving its goals of autonomy and cultural independence. For Joyce, this was particularly evident in the dialects and
thought structures...
William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
In his works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses
(1922), James Joyce demonstrates what he perceives to be the paralyzing effects of
those institutionalized religions that sit at the center of cultures. Drawing on Michel
Foucault's analysis of institutional dressage as well as his...
This thesis will explore the architectural material culture excavated at the Robert Newell Homestead (35MA41), currently located in Champoeg, Oregon. Specifically, the research focuses on the vernacular architecture or the features and construction methods used that both reflect the environment and the cultural traditions of the dwellings occupants. The Robert...
This thesis is based on the excavations of the Robert Newell farmstead (35MA41), excavated in 2002 and 2003 by the Oregon State University Department of Anthropology archaeological field school. Robert Newell lived at this farm from 1843- 1854. Major architectural features, including a brick hearth and postholes were discovered at...
Phytophthora infestans is a destructive plant pathogen best known
for causing the disease that triggered the Irish potato famine and
remains the most costly potato pathogen to manage worldwide.
Identification of P. infestan’s elusive center of origin is critical to
understanding the mechanisms of repeated global emergence of
this pathogen....
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...
The purpose of this research was to see if there were technological differences in ground stone manufacturing and use from a single site that had been occupied for over 600 years, A.D. 550-A.D. 1150, and had multiple occupations that evolved over time (Late Pithouse Phases, Georgetown, San Francisco, and Three...
This thesis uses both feminist and new historic theories to argue that the women's romance novels The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen and The Country Girl's Trilogy (1960, 1962, 1964) by Edna O'Brien are tragic bildungsroman that subvert and challenge the Irish patriarchal marriage expectations of their respective time...
A statistical description of the deep ocean internal wave field is presented using measurements from the Midocean Acoustic Transmission Experiment, conducted near Cobb Seamount in the NE Pacific (46°46'N, 30°47'W) during June–July 1977. The unique feature of this experiment is the variety of data obtained simultaneously from the same location:...
My thesis examines a total of fourteen characters from The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw. Primarily, I have discovered an overwhelming pattern in these two works by Henry James; when characters make direct entrances--that is when they are not described or discussed in absentia by...
My thesis examines how the American identity is constructed through thinking shaped by deception and domination, as James Baldwin argues in the corpus of his work. I rely on the work of Eddie Glaude Jr., Sean Kim Butorac, and Joel Schlosser to forward love in Baldwin’s political vision as being...
Eighty-one microbial species isolated from seafoods and other marine sources were examined to determine the extent of interactions among these species. Spot-plates, cross-plates, and concurrent growth experiments at 7, 15, 20, and 30 C indicated that Lactobacillus species were capable of inhibiting other microorganisms. Lactobacillus species isolated from oysters and...
The purpose of this thesis is to argue that LeBron James’ expressions of activism are, in many ways, perceived as insincere, hypocritical or disingenuous to his followers on the social media platform Twitter. Using the theoretical framework of Affect Theory and Plutchik’s wheel of emotions, a close reading was conducted...
This is a set of documents and letters compromising a proposal by James McCauley to bring lobsters to the West Coast. The proposal involved the University of Rhode Island, the OSU Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program, Oregon State University, and the Oregon Fish Commission. The letters are to several people,...
Based on the principle that the history of a discipline is important to the discipline itself, this thesis devotes two chapters to ROBERT HOOKE AND THE FOUNDATION OF GEOLOGY and two chapters to modern geology, viz. THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE OREGON CONTINENTAL MARGIN. The first part of this abstract...
Some argumentation texts require additional evidentiary support to uphold their ethical propositions. A rhetorical critique of eight argumentation textbooks for ethical propositions and corresponding support, reason and evidentiary materials reveals that some texts advance ethical claims without providing sufficient backing. Inadequate support for an ethical proposition decreases the likelihood of...
Although much has been written describing the
various reactions to the origin of Species in America, the Mormon reaction to Darwinism has been largely ignored. This dissertation will recount the history of this reaction as exemplified by the life and works of B. H. Roberts. Roberts's intellectual pursuits early in...
In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce used
the form or structure of his language to connote a meaning which
supported the content of the text. The elements of form he used
most often were sentence and paragraph structure, punctuation,
rhythm, and classical rhetorical schemes....
Pornography remains one of the most controversial topics in our culture. Politicians, religious groups, and special interest organizations tend to focus on the ‘effects’ pornography has on those who consume it, and fear that pornography is a threat to public health. The general discourse surrounding pornography is that men produce...
I tested the hypothesis that there is a correlation between inundation period and net primary production (NPP) in estuarine salt marshes through an observational experiment at South Slough National Estuarine Reserve, Oregon. I estimated primary production and inundation period for selected monotypic plant communities in (1) a naturally restored wetland...
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This thesis discusses the African American authors Richard Wright and James Baldwin, and their views regarding how literature should be written. These views are examined as laid out in a selection of each author‟s essays, as well as through an analysis of the characters Bigger Thomas and Rufus Scott in...
Large barite (BaSO4) structures mark cold seeps in the southern San Clemente Basin. Barium flux to San Clemente sediments is two to three times greater than fluxes measured in surrounding California Borderland basins. Analyses of sediment trap material, water column samples, sediments and pore water indicate that expected bariumbearing mineral...
Populations of an unknown species of Mimulus, herein
described as Mimulus hymenophyllus Meinke, were located
and studied near Horse Creek, a tributary of the Snake
River in eastern Wallowa County, Oregon. The new species
is differentiated from its apparent closest relative,
Mimulus jungermannioides Suksd., by an annual habit, long
petioles,...
Eggs, larvae and adults of the four subspecies of Hy la regilla
occurring in Oregon as given by Jameson, Mackey and Richmond
(1966) were collected and subjected to salt stress in a series of
graded seawaters.
It was found that in all cases adults were more tolerant than
larvae and...
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The purpose of this study was to ascertain to what degree, if
any, there was a difference of opinion among students, parents and
faculty in regard to student behavior as that behavior pertained to
general conduct, drug use, mischief, sex offenses, drinking, cheating
and theft.
The research study was conducted...
Factorization of integers is an important aspect of cryptography since it can be used as an
attack against some of the common cryptographic methods being used. There are
numerous methods in existence for factoring integers. Some of these are faster than
others for general numbers, while others work best on...
In the summers of 1973, 1974 and 1975, I investigated population
age structure and density, and behaviors relating to habitat
selection, predator avoidance and intraspecific interaction in a population
of northwestern salamanders in a lake in the Oregon Cascade
Mountains. The study was carried out by skin- and scuba-diving at...
A sampling criterion which provides a numerical relationship
between sampling rate and worst-case peak error for linear interpolation
of sample points is presented. The criterion, based upon the
second derivative of a waveform, is derived, its properties are observed
for a sine wave, and its applicability to complex signals is...
Beginning with the basic equations from the theory of elasticity
and employing a model of crack propagation based on the concept of
a constant plastic energy absorption per unti of crack extension, the
commonly accepted power law of fatigue crack propagation was derived.
This derivation uses an extension of the...
Diet, nutrition, and foraging strategies of canvasbacks (Aythya valisineria) and redheads (A. americana) were studied by collecting actively feeding birds throughout the reproductive season in 1980 and 1981; samples of available foods were taken each time a bird was collected. Nutrient composition of the aggregate diet was determined for each...
The object of this study was to investigate the possibilities
of tracing aggregational behavior among Bufo boreas boreas
larvae with reference to tadpole development, and to attempt to determine
what aggregational factors initiate and maintain this behavior.
Additionally, an attempt was made to determine the significance
of temperature as an...