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The Leadership Of John Mcloughlin In Relation To The People And Events Of Pacific Northwest History, 1824-1846, John David Holliday
The Leadership Of John Mcloughlin In Relation To The People And Events Of Pacific Northwest History, 1824-1846, John David Holliday
Dissertations and Theses
In a day when governments, judicial systems, businesses, and religious and social organizations are increasingly faced with such issues as population growth, crime, political correctness, and economic and environmental instability there is a correspondingly increased demand for able, responsible and inspired leaders. Though prominent historical figures took their stand in an era much different from our own, they faced many problems which share a common root with those of any age. A closer look at such individuals not only illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of their characters but offers valuable insights regarding the nature of their failures and successes. It …
People On The Edges Of Dreams, Francesca B. French
People On The Edges Of Dreams, Francesca B. French
Dissertations and Theses
This thesis is composed of a collection of twelve short stories, varying in length from 2 to 14 pages. Each story contains its own discrete theme, but fits as well within the overarching theme of the collection as a whole. This overarching theme is what gives the collection its cohesiveness. The main theme of the larger work can be found in the title of the collection, People on the Edges of Dreams. In many of the stories dreams, or dream-states, figure in the lives of the protagonists. In addition to the dream-state theme there is a less obvious theme, which …
Botanical Variations, Anthony Bernert
Botanical Variations, Anthony Bernert
Dissertations and Theses
The botanical theme in my art developed from years of photographing the native flora of Oregon with a macro-lens and studying botany and natural history. The appreciation which I developed for the evolution of flora and fauna and for the balances and complexities of the environments that sustain them is reflected in the work that I completed during my two years in the Master of Fine Arts program. The composition of the abstract paintings in acrylic medium which I completed my first year in the program were based on the cycles and seasons of nature. Repetition and variation of pictorial …
Medieval Christocentric Imagery In Selected Novels By Georges Bernanos, Catherine Ann Elia
Medieval Christocentric Imagery In Selected Novels By Georges Bernanos, Catherine Ann Elia
Dissertations and Theses
In the fictional world of the twentieth century author, Georges Bernanos, a medieval spirituality is reflected through Christocentric imagery. This study highlights the Christocentric focus of medieval spirituality found in three bernanosian characters: Donissan in Sous le Soleil de Satan, Chantal in La Joie, and le cure d'Ambricourt in Journal d'un cure de campagne. Two medieval images, the Mirror and the Way, provided a backdrop for considering common thematic characteristics. This study is divided into two parts. Part One comprises two chapters which present background for textual analysis in Bernanos' three novels. Chapter one explores formative elements in medieval spirituality. …
The Love Poems Of John Clare And John Keats: A Comparative Study, Elizabeth Stafford Grodd
The Love Poems Of John Clare And John Keats: A Comparative Study, Elizabeth Stafford Grodd
Dissertations and Theses
This study addresses lesser known works of romantic poets John Clare and John Keats--Clare's Child Harold and Keats's poems to Fanny Brawne--which I refer to as their love poems because the works are informed by intense feelings the poets had for women they loved. Although these works have been the brunt of negative criticism because Clare was considered insane at the time of the composition of Child Harold and Keats was accused of using the poems to give vent to his personal sufferings, nonetheless I argue that the love poems are significant for several reasons. They are a reflection of …
U.S. Military Intelligence In Mexico, 1917-1927: An Analysis, Corbett S. Gottfried
U.S. Military Intelligence In Mexico, 1917-1927: An Analysis, Corbett S. Gottfried
Dissertations and Theses
The Military Intelligence Division (MID) was the U.S. Army's intelligence agency that reported to the Chief of Staff within the War Department. During the years 1917- 1927, the MID routinely conducted surveillance of Mexico, including: espionage, mail censorship, radio intercepts, intelligence gathering, and development of plans for the invasion of Mexico. This study utilizes a tripartite model to evaluate the production and analysis of military "intelligence" by the MID in Mexico during the period 1917-1927. First, the organization and development of the Military Intelligence Division from its origins in 1885 through the year 1927 is explored with sections on institutional …
Bridging The Generation Gap In The Works Of Gabrielle Roy, Camille G. Dean
Bridging The Generation Gap In The Works Of Gabrielle Roy, Camille G. Dean
Dissertations and Theses
Gabrielle Roy's novels are filled with images of childhood and aging, of family, of rural and urban French-Canadian settings, and of Roy's experiences as a young, impressionable teacher. The generation gaps present themselves in many human relationships and thread themselves throughout Roy's works. For this thesis, the generation gaps will be studied in three important relationships.
Part One presents largely the relationships within the microcosm of the family. It explores the gap between mothers and daughters. La Rue Deschambault, La Route d'Altamont, and Bonheur d'Occasion are included. The relationship between the father and child in La Rue Deschambault …
Der 35. Mai -- Ein Sozialkritisches Erwachsenenbuch FüR Kinder, Thomas Bosch
Der 35. Mai -- Ein Sozialkritisches Erwachsenenbuch FüR Kinder, Thomas Bosch
Dissertations and Theses
Der 35. Mai, Erich Kästner's least popular young people's book, has received only little attention by critical reviewers, and is seldom included in comparative studies that deal with the body of his early young people's literature. Due to the existence of only a few critical secondary sources and convincing studies showing the works unpopularity, this thesis wants to add new critical insights and give reasons for the failure of this particular book. Secondly, this examination will question the rather uncritically and quickly affixed label young people's literature that haunts Der 35. Mai until today.
This study reviews Kästner's …
Return To Unity: The Philosophy Of Lo Ch'in-Shun, Paul E. Devore
Return To Unity: The Philosophy Of Lo Ch'in-Shun, Paul E. Devore
Dissertations and Theses
After the fall of the Han dynasty (202 B.C.-220 A.O.), Confucian thought did not become influential again until the end of the T'ang dynasty (618-907) and the beginning of the Sung dynasty (960-1279). Its resurgence in the Sung was accompanied by, if not completely driven by a newly conceived system of metaphysics. Although Sung Confucians honored and frequently referred to Confucius and Mencius, metaphysics was their central concern. Lo Ch'in-shun, a Confucian in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), saw inconsistencies between traditional Confucian thought and the thought of Sung Confucians. He viewed himself as orthodox and thought it was his duty …
Lettres D'Une Peruvienne: An Enlightenment Utopian Novel, Susan Leigh Weir
Lettres D'Une Peruvienne: An Enlightenment Utopian Novel, Susan Leigh Weir
Dissertations and Theses
This thesis examines Francoise de Graffigny's eighteenthcentury novel, Lettres d'une Peruvienne. focusing on the aspects that demonstrate its consideration as a utopian work, or moreover, as a feminist utopian work. The first chapter is developed from the premise about utopian fiction that the author's life must be considered since it is out of his or her "lived social experience" that utopian visions are born. Utopias, many have argued, are born out of reactions to social inequities and injustices. This chapter thus presents and analyzes, Graffigny's life especially where it shows needs for a future utopia. The second chapter explores definitions …
The Hero At Rest, David Tinsley
The Hero At Rest, David Tinsley
Dissertations and Theses
My thesis consists of seven short stories, works of fiction, each of which deals with one or more aspects of human emotional suffering. Most of the stories attempt to examine the lives of either young or middle-aged men who have come from broken families. A number of these men have witnessed in their parents the ravages of alcoholism and yet they themselves have fallen--or are at risk of falling--prey to an identical atavistic fate. Religious faith, whether it be ecclesiastic or secular, plays a key role in their lives, to the extent that none of them have it.
Wanting to …
Dance Of Dreams, Michael Creger
Dance Of Dreams, Michael Creger
Dissertations and Theses
It seems that the world does not exist in the way that we perceive it. Among the reasons for this are both the inaccuracy of the information gathered by our senses, and the cultural and linguistic structures through which we interpret this sensory information. This thesis and this group of sculptures, exhibited in the Autzen Gallery April 17 - May 10, 1995, are an attempt to address these issues and to point in a direction which may lead to greater understanding of the world and our place within it. Using primarily welded steel, and building from a foundation based on …
Alterations, Edith Kay Slusarenko
Alterations, Edith Kay Slusarenko
Dissertations and Theses
My work is not about making big declamatory statements. It's about looking around within my home environment and noticing something and thinking about it. At times (it) is noticed by me as I am passing by a storefront window or browsing through a second-hand store. I never have a clue to what I am looking for until I see it and buy it. Many times I will live with the object for years before deciding to use it as part of my art.
Yet when I decide to use the object(s) I find it important to understand how they have …
In Search Of Roots: A Study Of Camus' Autobiographical Le Premier Homme, Judy Ann Davis
In Search Of Roots: A Study Of Camus' Autobiographical Le Premier Homme, Judy Ann Davis
Dissertations and Theses
Albert Camus' posthumously published novel, Le Premier Homme, shows a new facet of this great twentieth-century writer's art. Intensely personal, the novel speaks of the coming of age of a "pied-noir" (French Algerian) boy and his search for roots as an adult. Simultaneously, Camus endeavors to tell the story of his ancestors, the French Algerians. The purpose of this thesis is to examine protagonist Jacques Cormery's search for roots by: 1) discussing the formative elements of his identity uncovered in the nostalgic voyage in time through an anecdotal construction of his childhood and the history of his ancestors, 2) linking …
Through Women's Eyes: Contemporary Women's Fiction About The Old West, Anna Margarete Boettcher
Through Women's Eyes: Contemporary Women's Fiction About The Old West, Anna Margarete Boettcher
Dissertations and Theses
The myth of the West is still very much alive in contemporary America. Lately, there has been a resurgence of new Western movies, TV series, and fiction. Until recently the West has been the exclusive domain of the quintessential masculine man. Women characters have featured only in the margins of the Western hero's tale. Contemporary Western fiction by women, however, offers new perspectives. Women's writing about the Old and New West introduces strong female protagonists and gives voice to characters that are muted or ignored by traditional Western literature and history. Western scholarship has largely been polarized by two approaches. …
Selling The Body: Representing The Prostitute In Maggie And Sister Carrie, Debra Zoe Gahlhoff
Selling The Body: Representing The Prostitute In Maggie And Sister Carrie, Debra Zoe Gahlhoff
Dissertations and Theses
Prostitutes have played a significant role in society and literature for many centuries, both as subjects of irresistible desire and repentant shame. Although prostitution plays a role in patriarchy, female prostitutes have often defied the conventions of patriarchal society by supporting themselves outside marriage, outside the reign of religious conviction and, more recently, by seeking to continue their professional work with legal sanction. Other groups of women, such as those active in civic reform interests, have yearned for the reformation of prostitute behaviors, powerfully countering the cry from those who support prostitution and call for their legal right to pursue …
From Pietism To Pluralism: Boston Personalism And The Liberal Era In American Methodist Theology, 1876-1953, Amos Yong
Dissertations and Theses
Boston personalism has generally been recognized as a philosophic system based upon a metaphysical idealism. What is less known, however, is that the founder of this school of thought and some of the major contributors to the early development of this tradition were committed members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The purpose of this study is to examine the contributions made by the early Boston personalists to the cause of theological liberalism in the Methodist Church. It will be shown that personalist philosophers and theologians at Boston University ushered in and consolidated the liberal era in Methodist theology. Further, it …
The Effect Of The Ideology Of Motherhood On Women, Shari A. Burke
The Effect Of The Ideology Of Motherhood On Women, Shari A. Burke
Dissertations and Theses
The ideology of motherhood in the United States makes it seem as though motherhood is a natural role for women. The ideology holds mothers solely responsible for the well being of their children. Combined with the ideology of blaming the victim, the ideology of motherhood causes a great deal of guilt in women as mothers cannot possibly live up to the unrealistic expectations set up in the culture.
In this study, I have used two case studies to illustrate the impact of the ideology of motherhood on the lives of these particular women. Utilizing the theories of Michel Foucault and …
Authorizing The Reader: Narrative Construction In Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country Of The Pointed Firs And Willa Cather's My ÁNtonia, Cheri Buck-Perry
Authorizing The Reader: Narrative Construction In Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country Of The Pointed Firs And Willa Cather's My ÁNtonia, Cheri Buck-Perry
Dissertations and Theses
Although Willa Cather's My Antonia and Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs have been highly regarded by numerous literary critics, neither text conforms to conventional expectations for narrative content or structure. Episodic in construction, the novels lack such traditional narrative ingredients as conflict, action, drama, and romance. Furthermore, explicit connections between episodes and stories related within the narratives are not drawn for the reader.
Formalist and structuralist critics have approached the problem of structure in Cather and Jewett's works by employing conventional literary tools of analysis, by "unearthing" the narrative elements that we as readers and critics …
From Promised Lands To Promised Landfill: The Iconography Of Oregon's Twentieth-Century Utopian Myth, Jeffry Lloyd Uecker
From Promised Lands To Promised Landfill: The Iconography Of Oregon's Twentieth-Century Utopian Myth, Jeffry Lloyd Uecker
Dissertations and Theses
The state of Oregon often has been viewed as a utopia. Figures of speech borrowed from the romantic sublime, biblical pilgrimage, economic boosterism, and millenialist fatalism have been used to characterize it. The visual arts also have responded to Oregon's utopian myth. During the nineteenth century, the landscape was a primary focus for utopian art. In the twentieth century, past human achievements, recreation, agriculture, and industry have joined the environment as themes which inspire utopian imagery.
The objective of this study is to demonstrate that twentieth-century art that responds to Oregon's utopian myth has given rise to an iconography which …
Insoluble Ambiguity: Criticism And The Structure Of The Frame Narrative In The Turn Of The Screw By Henry James, Cecilia Rosenow
Insoluble Ambiguity: Criticism And The Structure Of The Frame Narrative In The Turn Of The Screw By Henry James, Cecilia Rosenow
Dissertations and Theses
Since its publication in 1898, The Turn of the Screw has been the focus of diverse critical interpretation. It has reflected shifts in critical theory that include the Freudian, psychoanalytic, mythological, structuralist, reader-response, linguistic, and new-historical schools. The majority of critical interpretations have focused on the governess's narrative and have excluded the prologue, or frame narrative, that begins the novella. The critics who did examine the prologue overlooked James's departure from the traditional use of frame narration and the importance of the structure of the frame in creating a text of insoluble ambiguity. James departed from traditional frame narration in …
Germany, Great Britain And The Rashid Ali Al-Kilani Revolt Of Spring 1941, James Christian Scott
Germany, Great Britain And The Rashid Ali Al-Kilani Revolt Of Spring 1941, James Christian Scott
Dissertations and Theses
There are few events in the history of humankind which have been more compelling than the Second World War (1939-1945). Unfortunately, most of what transpired during this period of history stands obscured by events such as D-Day, Kursk, and Midway, all happenings which popular history has been more than happy to dwell upon.
This study's intent is to, with the use of primary materials, analyze one of the more "obscured" happenings of the Second World War, the Rashid Ali al-Kilani Revolt of April and May 1941. Central to this work is an assessment of the policy responses of both Great …
Motion Picture Exhibition And The Development Of A Middle-Class Clientele: Portland, Oregon, 1894-1915, James Bruce Labosier
Motion Picture Exhibition And The Development Of A Middle-Class Clientele: Portland, Oregon, 1894-1915, James Bruce Labosier
Dissertations and Theses
For about the first fifteen years after its commercial introduction motion picture entertainment throughout the United States was supported almost entirely by the mass of urban industrial workers, immigrants and their families. Beginning a few years before 1910 motion pictures began acquiring regular support from a limited element of the more affluent citizens until by the end of 1916 they constituted motion pictures' primary audience. This paper examines the audience development and conversion as it occurred in the downtown theaters of Portland, Oregon. Motion pictures were shown to two diverse audiences in Portland during the 1890s, regularly on a mass …
A Comparative Study Of The Flathead, Cayuse And Nez Perce Tribes In Reference To The Pattern Of Acceptance And Rejection To The Missionaries In The Mid-Nineteenth Century, Mary Kathleen Branson
A Comparative Study Of The Flathead, Cayuse And Nez Perce Tribes In Reference To The Pattern Of Acceptance And Rejection To The Missionaries In The Mid-Nineteenth Century, Mary Kathleen Branson
Dissertations and Theses
By 1836 both the Presbyterians and the Jesuits had penetrated the Pacific Northwest. The Whitmans and the Spaldings were the first Presbyterians to settle in this region. The Whitmans settled with the Cayuse at Wailaptu near Walla Walla and the Spaldings resided at Lapwaii with the Nez Perce tribe. Although two Canadian priests were working in this region, it was not until 1840, with the arrival of Father Jean-Pierre DeSmet that the Jesuits commenced their missionary work. Fr. DeSmet initially settled with the Flathead tribe in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana.
This paper observes how the Jesuits in Montana and …
A Taxonomy Of Types Of Uncertainty, Byrne Elliot Lovell
A Taxonomy Of Types Of Uncertainty, Byrne Elliot Lovell
Dissertations and Theses
This study considers an expanded meaning of "uncertainty" as it affects decision-makers. The definition adopted is based on a decision-maker who is uncertain, i.e. aware of the insufficiency of her knowledge for the purpose of rationally determining which option to choose. A taxonomy of uncertainties is developed from this definition. The first stage is a Generalized Decision Model, which expands on a standard decision model often assumed in technical works by allowing uncertainty over components of the model that are assumed to be perfectly known in the standard model. These additional potential "subjects" of uncertainty include the feasibility of options, …
A Study Of Two Attempts By President Plutarco ElíAs Calles To Establish A National Church In Mexico, Roger David Gouran
A Study Of Two Attempts By President Plutarco ElíAs Calles To Establish A National Church In Mexico, Roger David Gouran
Dissertations and Theses
In the one-hundred years between 1810 and 1926 there were many civil wars in Mexico. The last of these wars. La Cristiada, was not fought, as were the previous civil wars, by groups seeking political control of Mexico. Rather, the genesis of this war was a question of who would control the Church in Mexico. The war began when President Plutarco Elias Calles attempted to enforce rigorously certain articles of the Constitution of 1917 as well as two laws which he promulgated. If Calles had succeeded, he would, in fact, have created a church in Mexico controlled by the federal …
The Portland Learning Community : A History, Martin White
The Portland Learning Community : A History, Martin White
Dissertations and Theses
This thesis recounts the history of the Portland Learning Community, an experimental institution of higher education founded in 1970 by a group consisting mostly of former faculty and students at Reed College. The Learning Community was funded by the Carnegie Corporation and affiliated with Antioch College.
Learning Work In The Esl Classroom : An Evaluation Of Textbooks Designed To Teach Esl In The Workplace, Amy Taylor-Henry
Learning Work In The Esl Classroom : An Evaluation Of Textbooks Designed To Teach Esl In The Workplace, Amy Taylor-Henry
Dissertations and Theses
A growing number of American businesses are offering ESL courses at the work site; likewise, more and more textbooks designed specifically for teaching ESL in the Workplace (EWP), are being written and published. The need for an evaluation of these new texts with regard to current teaching methodology, the particularities of EWP, and the social implications of EWP is a vital one. A good EWP text, besides serving as a guide and resource for learners, can also facilitate intercultural understanding, increase awareness of workers' rights and unions, and promote participation in training programs for job flexibility and promotion. Most importantly, …