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Huxley College Alumni News, 1995, April, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

Historical Collection of Huxley Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Art Of Confession, Daniel T. (Daniel Thomas) Oliva

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

During my years at the university, I have talked to all kinds of people, from all kinds of lifestyles, backgrounds, and beliefs; in doing so I have made a not-so-surprising discovery: confession is a dying art. Many college students today feel no need to confess; in the search for autonomy they attempt to loosen and throw off the chains of any external dependence. I find this fact quite discouraging, for I believe it is possible, in part, to attribute many of this generation's problems — selfishness, pride, and greed, for example — to the rarity of true confession. I argue …

Extraordinary Language: Impeded Language In E.E. Cummings’ Poetry And Xu Bing’S Book From The Sky, Anna Neher

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

The twentieth century has witnessed an unprecedented interest in formal innovation in the arts. Twentieth-century literary texts are increasingly self-reflexive, breaking traditional literary forms in order to draw the reader’s attention to the linguistic strategies by which meaning is conveyed. Critics as well as artists have become increasingly interested in the quality of literariness, in what differentiates literary language from ordinary, day-to-day language. The Russian Formalists were one of the first schools of literary criticism to develop a coherent theory that identifies specific qualities of literature and their effects on the reader. For the Formalists, literary language offers a fresh …

Bladnoch (Half Of A Historical Drama), Tyee Bridge

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Bladnoch (Half of a Historical Drama) is a creative Honors Project by Tyee Bridge which synthesizes the two main areas of his Fairhaven College concentration, literature and history.

Huxley Hotline, 1995, March 29, Traci Edge, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

Historical Collection of Huxley Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Lake Whatcom Monitoring Project 1993/1994 Report, Robin A. Matthews, Geoffrey B. Matthews

Lake Whatcom Annual Reports

This report is part of an on-going series of annual reports and special project reports that document the Lake Whatcom monitoring program.

This work is conducted by the Institute for Watershed Studies and other departments at Western Washington University. The major objective of this program is to provide long-term baseline water quality monitoring in Lake Whatcom and selected tributaries. Each section contains brief explanations about the water quality data, along with discussions of patterns observed in Lake Whatcom.

Klipsun Magazine, 1995, Volume 25, Issue 03 - March, Ryan Mcmenamin

Klipsun Magazine

Twenty-five years ago, Jimi Hendrix died. Twenty-five years ago, the Beatles sang their last song together. Twenty-five years ago, the United States increased its involvement in Vietnam by in­vading Cambodia. Twenty-five years ago, to reflect the is­sues faced by the students of Western Wash­ington State College, Klipsun Magazine was born.

Editor Phyllis Atkinson and her staff pro­duced stories that showed insight into the twisted minds of collegiate youth by highlighting the students’ concerns. Liberals lost congressional power in the election of 1970, graduates weren’t finding jobs after leaving Bellingham and the school’s purse strings were tightly cinched.

Subsequent issues contained …

Lazutkin Coordinates And Invariant Curves For Outer Billiards, Edoh Y. Amiran

Mathematics Faculty Publications

The outer billiard ball map (OBM) is defined from and to the exterior of a domain, Ω, in the plane as taking a point, q, to another point, q ₁, when the line segment with endpoints q and q ₁ is tangent to the boundary, ∂Ω (with a chosen orientation), and the point of tangency with the boundary divides the segment in half. Let C be an invariant circle for the OBM on Ω, with ∂Ω smooth with positive curvature. After computing the loss of derivatives between ∂Ω and C, it is shown via KAM theory that …

Mortality In A Migrating Mennonite Church Congregation, Joan C. Stevenson, Phillip Mark Everson, L. Rogers

Anthropology Faculty and Staff Publications

Preston's two-census method of demographic estimation is applied to three pairs of reconstructed censuses from the records of a migrating Mennonite church congregation covering the period 1780-1890, The three pairs of censuses correspond to three periods (1780-1790, 1850-1860, and 1880-1890) and to stays in three settings (Prussia, Russia, and Kansas, respectively). The Mennonites' stay in Prussia was a period of hardship. In Russia they expanded their economic base and developed new farming methods, dramatically increasing their productivity. The Mennonites took these skills to Kansas, where they continued to be successful. The increase in life expectancy at age 5 corroborates this …

The Kreisky Era In Austria – Book Review, Harry Ritter

History Faculty and Staff Publications

This group of essays is an effort to "suggest themes and a framework for the first solid scholarly assessment of [Bruno] Kreisky's life and times". The volume is just a beginning, however, for its focus is strongly on only one period of Kreisky's life and times, his chancellorship from 1970 to 1983.

Klipsun Magazine, 1995, Volume 32, Issue 02 - January, Nick Davis

Klipsun Magazine

Welcome to the first issue of Klipsun for 1995. Unfortunately for me, this happens to be my last issue as editor-in-chief, but hey, what an issue to go out on! Both the writing and editorial staffs worked hard to produce this magazine and I think the quality definitely represents their level of commitment.

Klipsun is reaching new levels. With the writing staff digging deep for excellent stories and the editors endlessly tapping their creative juices, the magazine is only get­ ting better. I can only dream of where it can go in the fu­ture. The capabilities are there somewhere within …

The Western States Theatre Review, Volume 3, 1995

The Western States Theatre Review

No abstract provided.

Historical Development Of The Newton-Raphson Method, Tjalling Ypma

Mathematics Faculty Publications

This expository paper traces the development of the Newton-Raphson method for solving nonlinear algebraic equations through the extant notes, letters, and publications of Isaac Newton, Joseph Raphson, and Thomas Simpson. It is shown how Newton's formulation differed from the iterative process of Raphson, and that Simpson was the first to give a general formulation, in terms of fluxional calculus, applicable to nonpolynomial equations. Simpson's extension of the method to systems of equations is exhibited.

Window On Western, 1995, Volume 01, Issue 01, Lori Mcgriff Boroughs, Alumni And Public Information Offices, Western Washington University

Window on Western

No abstract provided.

The Planet, 1995, Winter, Darren Nienaber, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

The Planet

No abstract provided.

Review Of: Breaking The Silence: Redress And Japanese American Ethnicity, By Yasuko I. Takezawa, Kevin Allen Leonard

History Faculty and Staff Publications

From 1983 until 1990, Yasuko I. Takezawa pursued graduate study at the University of Washington and engaged in field work in Seattle's Japanese American community. Breaking the Silence, a version of which was published in Japan in 1994, is the result of these years of research. Like Patricia Zavella's Women's Work and Chicano Families and Sylvia Yanagisako's Transforming the Past, this is a book by an anthropologist that should capture the interest of social historians.

Mongolian Script Fonts For The Macintosh Personal Computer, Wayne V. Richter

Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

The Alternative Of Socially Responsible Investment, Stephanie Lynn Fox

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Free market, capitalist ideology is increasingly becoming the basis of the world economy. Over the past century the economic system of capitalism has proven to be highly effective and profitable, creating wealth and increasing productivity levels. However, the capitalist imperative to maximize profits is often accomplished at the expense of countless social and environmental factors. The ruling forces of capitalism that drive industry to be more efficient, more profitable, and expand to new markets, have left environmental degradation, cyclical poverty and hunger, as well as social strife in the wake of productivity. The social needs of many employees, including decent …

Magnetic Anisotropy Fabrics From The Cascadia Accretionary Prism, Bernard A. Housen, Takaharu Sato

Geology Faculty Publications

Magnetic anisotropy fabrics were measured in 495 specimens collected from the Cascadia accretionary prism to characterize the development of mineral preferred orientation fabrics during deformation. Comparison of high-field and low-field susceptibilities was used to determine the relative contributions of the paramagnetic clay minerals and the ferrimagnetic trace minerals (magnetite, greigite, pyrrhotite) to the magnetic susceptibility fabrics. Sites 888 and 891 have anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) fabrics that are controlled primarily by the ferrimagnetic minerals. Sites 889/890 and 892 have AMS fab­rics that are controlled, to varying degrees, by both paramagnetic clays and the ferrimagnetic minerals. Rock magnetic experi­ments indicate …

Sediment Production And Delivery In The Upper South Fork Nooksack River, Northwest Washington, 1940-1991, Jeffrey A. Kirtland

WWU Graduate School Collection

Identifying sources and timing of sediment production and delivery provides information useful to understanding the geomorphology of a forested mountainous watershed in the western Cascade Range of Washington State. Sediment production and delivery is studied by constructing a partial sediment budget for the upper South Fork of the Nooksack River drainage (South Fork drainage). The period of the partial sediment budget extends from 1940 through 1991 and encompasses the pre- and post-management history of the watershed.

Four major sediment production and delivery sources - landsliding, streambank erosion, sheet and rill erosion and road-related erosion - were identified in the South …

Kinematic Implications Of Paleomagnetic Data From Lago Verde And Northern Isla Chiloe, Southern Chile, Brian C. (Brian Christopher) Steele

WWU Graduate School Collection

Paleomagnetic techniques were used to determine crustal rotations at two locations along the Liquine Ofqui fault zone (LOFZ) in southern Chile, South America. East of the fault zone, near the town of Lago Verde, twelve sites drilled in intermediate volcanic rocks and diorite yielded a paleomagnetic pole at 82°S, 210.8°E (A₉₅=8.3°), which, when compared to a Late Cretaceous reference pole (the mean of Butler et al. (1991) and Somoza (1994) poles) implies 17.7° ± 11.1° of in situ, clockwise rotation. At Cocotue Beach, west of the fault zone on Isla Chiloe, seven sites drilled in middle Tertiary …

Net Shore-Drift And Artificial Structures Within Grays Harbor, Willapa Bay, And Mouth Of The Columbia River, Washington, B. Patrice (Berenthine Patrice) Thomas

WWU Graduate School Collection

Net shore-drift, the overall result of sediment transport in the littoral zone, was studied along the shore within Grays Harbor, Willapa Bay, and mouth of the Columbia River, Washington. The length and direction of drift cells, which are discrete sediment compartments, was delineated using geomorphologic and sedimentologic indicators. Eight drift cells were identified in Grays Harbor, seven within Willapa Bay, and three along the section of the Columbia River shore studied. Drift cell lengths range from 200 m to approximately 6 km with an average of 1.5 km. Net shore-drift directions vary considerably with maximum fetch identified as the most …