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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)This thesis is an ethnography of how children of Holocaust survivors interacted and connected with the March of the Living and Holocaust sites in Poland. This work explores how considering individual perspectives allows ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)The Norton Stage (2500-1000 cal B.P.) of the Norton Tradition is typically characterized as a caribou hunting and fishing culture, an idea developed by James Giddings through his formative work at the Iyatayet Site in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This dissertation studies the intersections of militarism, climate change, and environmental justice in U.S. literature and popular culture since the end of the Cold War. The project identifies different mechanisms enacting ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)In my dissertation I argue that the invasion of Iraq was a part of a larger project by Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to reestablish the unconstrained use of U.S. military power after ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)The Liberian Civil Wars, spanning from 1989 to 2003, represent some of the mostdevastating conflicts in recent African history, dismantling the socio-political fabric of Liberia and leaving a profound impact on the nation's ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)Research in the warnings literature has investigated several factors that may affect motivation to comply with the information contained in warnings. However, little research in this area has examined the role that emotion ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)My dissertation argues that studying literary representations of women’s labor helps us to understand the intersection of racial capitalism and environmental injustice. I examine how various twentieth-century working-class ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)This dissertation examines how writers helped scientists and engineers transform “efficiency” from a mathematical tool for assessing machine performance to an organizing principle for society. Historians and literary ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)Culinary education was an instrument for social reform and commercial enterprise in US industrial society during the Gilded Age. This thesis traces the urban cooking school movement, beginning in the 1870s, and its ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Surface chemistry is fundamental to life. The interface between oil and water is a unique environment home to vital chemical phenomena, from reactions occurring at our cell membranes to the functionality of industrial ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)A more water-coherent approach is postulated as a primary pathway through which biophilic urbanism contributes to livability and climate change adaptation. Previous studies have shown that upstream water retention is more ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)Dry weather dominates several U.S. states, and some of them experience even long-term droughts. Yet, more than 10.6 million swimming pools exist in the U.S., and over 43,000 of them are in greater Los Angeles. Since roughly ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)As HPC systems move towards exascale, the discrepancy between computational power and I/O transfer rate is only growing larger. Lossy in situ compression is a promising solution to address this gap, since it alleviates I/O ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)I do two things in my dissertation. One is to tell the history of academic research on my language from the perspective of a Native person who has been involved in this work as an assistant to non-Native researchers. The ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This paper analyses the emergent voices of young Indians in YouTube comedy sketches. As a format, YouTube comedy sketches have become popular among Indian youth for their ability to critique cultural norms, albeit with a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)The World Bank paradigm of large-scale neoliberal development projects has repeatedly failed to deliver durable and sustainable changes for the world's poorest nations. Although the World Bank and other multilateral ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Keywords: education policy, racial equity, youth, student voice, power relations The confluence of racial equity work – where district policy, students, staff, and administrators converge – creates significant tensions ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)Initially a Mad Max-themed car show, Wasteland Weekend has become a yearly gathering where wanderers of “The Wastes” convene for a week in the Mojave Desert to escape, barter, and celebrate their survival in a post-apocalyptic ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)While the field of historic preservation has successfully preserved numerous significant buildings and sites throughout the United States, the field would benefit from stronger interpretation of these resources. Because ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the communication young adult cancer survivors develop to cope with the cancer experience. This qualitative study incorporates interviews with 16 young adult cancer patients. ...
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