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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)This project begins by asking why so many realist novels of the Victorian period also exhibit tropes borrowed from the eighteenth-century gothic romance—its locales, characters, and thematics. While theorizations of realism ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)Digital games have been used in the international development industry for over a decade, yet they have received little scholarly attention. This dissertation uses the Half the Sky Movement’s (HTSM) digital games as a case ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Vietnamese Americans are the children of refugees. While some are middle-class and upwardly mobile, many are not. As an ethnic group, Vietnamese Americans are often grouped, by the mainstream and academics, with other high ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This thesis investigates the hybrid nature of Augustus’ Actium Monument at Nicopolis, Greece, completed c. 29-27 B.C.E. A commemoration of Augustus’ naval victory over the forces of Marc Antony and Cleopatra VII, the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-05)While musical styles from various parts of the world intermingled in the early twentieth century, Heitor Villa-Lobos sought to promote Brazilian music throughout the classical music world. Instead of presenting only Brazilian ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)This dissertation aims to present a model of sacredness – MAPR – that emphasizes four components to empirically study sacredness: source of meaning (M), experience of awe (A), protection against the profane (P), and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This dissertation examines the role of US legal and administrative institutions in intimate partner violence (IPV) against immigrant women in two instances treated as separate in policy and scholarship: 1) women seeking ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)The HIV/AIDS crisis in Latin America was overshadowed by the late phase of the Cold War, while authoritarian governments promoted discourses reflecting moral and ethical exceptionalism. People with AIDS (PWAs) experienced ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-09)The purpose of this research is to advance understanding of mediated relationships in the form of parasocial interaction (PSI) in local television news branding efforts, particularly the influence of PSI on loyalty and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)English and Latin, though related, are very different languages, Latin with its inflections and small vocabulary, English with its overwhelming word order and expansive lexicon. Any translation from Latin to English will ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)This thesis interrogates the website BlueServo.net through a neoliberal framework with a focus on surveillance theory. BlueServo is a site that registers users as "Virtual Deputies" and allows them to file reports with ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)Conducting field studies for human centric research often demands a significant amount of time and effort. Virtual Environments (VE) can be a potential alternative to reduce such requirements and help scale the field ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)People’s psychological well-being is essential to study since past studies have indicated that negative mood can lead to many other significant health problems. Virtual reality and music therapy have both been used in the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-27)My work explores protracted conflict in DR Congo representationally, considering ways in which conflict is thematized in Western media around sexual violence. I use content and text mining to think through the role of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)Rhetorical communication ("figures") in advertising are "artful deviations", analogous to bold or italicized text, which use style as their persuasive tool over message content. The present research built on theories of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)We live in a rich visual world that we experience as a seamless and detailed stream of continuous information. However, we can only attend to and remember a small portion of our visual environment. The visual system is ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)More than a hundred years after Whitman, vers libre, and the Imagist movement, many poets still have a remarkably indistinct understanding of what it means to write in free verse, as the form is too often defined by what ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)This thesis aims to reexamine images of Korean women as signs that represent the intertwined imperial and patriarchal masculine desires as depicted in the Female Figure Paintings of Korean artist Yi Yu-tae (1916-1999): ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)“Visualizing Erotic Freedom” shows how contemporary Black comedic TV draws on the aesthetic legacy of the Black women’s literary renaissance of the 1970s to re-envision Black sexualities on their own terms. This project ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)Locomotion requires visuospatial attention. However, the role and cortical control of visuospatial attention during locomotion remain unclear. Four experiments were conducted in this study to examine the role and cortical ...
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