This dissertation is an ethnographic study of how members of the Indo-Guyanese community traveled from Guyana to New York City, carrying with them distinct understandings of Hinduism informed by their multiple dislocations ...
Lieberman, Gretchen Hughes, 1973-(University of Oregon, 2004-12)
There is growing evidence of an environmental movement within the religious sector. However, this phenomenon, referred to as faith-based environmentalism (FBE), is only present in some congregations. Previous research has ...
The Israel-Palestine Conflict is referred to in modern dialogues as perhaps "the world's most intractable conflict," engendering for contemporary Israelis and Palestinians alike a self- and national-perception that is ...
This essay will examine both Mary Astell’s proposal for women’s education as a protofeminist project and Descartes’ meditations on rationalism and the mind-body duality to understand how Astell’s project functions as ...
Miley, Emily; Meacham, James; Hendricks, Lauren(University of Oregon, 2017)
In order to aid the City of Albany’s Park and Recreation Department (P&R) in the creation and visualization of their 2017 P&R Master Plan and to help serve the growing population, Albany partnered with the Sustainable City ...
Homelessness is a racial justice issue, as well as a social justice issue, and finding
solutions to house the unhoused needs to be viewed through both lenses. Individuals
experiencing homelessness are not one homogenous ...
Daugherty, Joseph C.(University of Oregon, 1952-06)
Stone carving is one of the oldest of the arts. From the earliest times man has used the permanent native materials around him both to help maintain his existence and to enhance his life. Stone, being one of the more ...
Alhazmi, Mofareh(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
My dissertation investigates the loss of morphological case and grammatical gender in the Germanic, Romance, and Balkan Sprachbund languages. Crucial language-internal and language-external motivations are considered. To ...
In-hospital mortality prediction is signi cant for evaluating a patient's
severity of illness ahead of the time. The outcome of the evaluation can
help physicians to identify which patient is at risk and needs immediate
care, ...
Wilson, Katherine R. Bryant(University of Oregon, 2008-12)
The purpose of this dissertation study is to explore and describe the development of political attitudes and behaviors in current undergraduate academic life. By undertaking this study, I sought to add to the understanding ...
Healy, James J. (James Joseph), 1953-(University of Oregon, 2009-12)
The purpose of this study was to learn more about the transition experiences of one group of high school students ( N = 75) as they began attending one alternative pathway: an Early College High School program on a community ...
Ludwig, Kathleen E.(University of Oregon, 2008-06)
This case study identified which of Baker and Richards' (2004) leadership models (compliance, performance, ecological) were used to make data-based decisions in six Oregon schools. Two elementary, two middle and two high ...
The Cassandra Complex is a work in the traditions of critical philosophy and psychoanalysis. In The Cassandra Complex, I examine the intersection of violence, racism, and mourning. I hold that analysis of this intersection ...
Landers, Matthew Worth, 1984-(University of Oregon, 2010-03)
Since 1975, the Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia has been renegotiating
its political and cultural place within Spain. The designation and promotion of places
within Catalonia as World Heritage Sites-a matter over ...
Ruff, Josie; Mundy, Dean(University of Oregon, 2020)
The Campaign Planning class (J453) at the University of Oregon worked with the City of Silverton to develop the following public relations (PR) plan to address the City’s communication needs. The class broke into groups ...
Pearce, Jennifer E.(Department of Planning, Public Policy & Management, University of Oregon, 2008-06)
Experts say that the Oregon coast has a 10-20% chance of facing a region wide catastrophic Cascadia
Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami in the next 50 years. Coastal cities will be severely affected
physically, ...
The purpose of the research is to explore the social media trends and patterns within film festivals and to provide recommendations for future film festival organizers to cultivate a more sophisticated social media engagement. ...
Davidson, Nicholas(University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)
This dissertation uses techniques from the theory of categorical actions of Kac-Moody algebras to study the analog of the BGG category O for the queer Lie superalgebra. Chen recently reduced many questions about this ...