Interview done by Ami Allain with Mary Steward on July 26th, 2007. The interview took place at about 11 o'clock am and it took place at the coffee shop The Gathering Place.
This interview was obtained as I was in there working on other homework and Joan and Nancy asked...
Ideals of freedom, independence, and land ownership helped form and perpetuate the mythology of ranching in the United States. However, stereotypes emerged as a result of distortion from the media and the move away from the land. Social philosophies changed
regarding the environment, land use, and the health and safety...
Interview with Mary Wilkie at Public Health. 7/19/07 11:30 a.m. at the Public Health office in Lakeview Mary's job description is Registered Nurse and Administrator. She has worked with Public health for nine years and lived in Lakeview most of her life. She was in Portland and went to school...
Little is known about how people living with HIV in low prevalence contexts face the challenges of stigma and
discrimination. Low prevalence and rural communities are unique environments in which HIV-related stigma
and discrimination may be intensified due to lower tolerance of differences among people and greater fear of
HIV....
In west Eugene (Oregon), community research indicates residents are disproportionately exposed to industrial air pollution and exhibit increased asthma incidence. In Carroll County (Ohio), recent increases in unconventional natural gas drilling sparked air quality concerns. These community concerns led to the development of a prototype mobile device to measure personal...
This ethnographic study explores the social aspects of agricultural land-use in the Marys River region. The study seeks to understand how farmers define sustainability and how their views on agricultural issues help to define a sense of place and identity in the Marys River region, within the context of the...
The two major purposes of this study were to gather data relative
to the knowledge and attitudes toward sexual expression among sixty-five
to seventy-four year olds and to determine whether or not significant
differences existed between the sexes. The study focused on six
research questions: These were:
1. Do older...
High water temperatures in rivers have detrimental effects on riverine water quality and ecology. In this study, two river temperature models, within the agricultural watershed model Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), were investigated for their ability to simulate water temperatures accurately throughout the year. The original temperature model within...