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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)This thesis explores how late-Ming writers interpreted the expression “beauty is ill-fated” (hongyan boming) and how male and female writers constructed and accepted the image of the ephemeral beauty (hongyan) differently. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This study explores the role of public relations in the formation of a collective identity of the activists of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) between 1980 and 1990. CISPES was a radical ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)In a debate significant for both its stakes and longevity, medievalists and early modernists have engaged the question of selfhood and argued about its ostensible “beginning.” Scholars on both sides have imagined the ...
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The Melodramatics of Turkish Modernity: Vurun Kahpeye [Strike the Slut] and its Cinematic Afterlife (University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Proposing melodrama as an aesthetics of victimhood, my dissertation examines the intermedial itineraries of notable feminist Halide Edib’s Vurun Kahpeye [Strike the Slut]. Originally serialized in 1923 and published as a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)The Metamorphosis of Gertrude and Jo, a Chamber Opera is in one act, and is scored for three singers and eight-person chamber ensemble. The libretto by Susanna Payne-Passmore is a queer retelling of the myth of Philemon ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Microrheology has successfully illuminated and quantified the material properties of small, three dimensional fluid samples. It has been less often utilized to examine the two dimensional viscosity of materials such as the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)“The Mixed-Race W.E.B. Du Bois: Historical and Contemporary Insights” unites two conversations in African American philosophy and philosophy of race: a philosophical interest in the scholarship of W.E.B. Du Bois and an ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023)This thesis is a literature review on the effects that emotion has on memory. The influences that emotion has on memory will be analyzed, specifically through the lens of amygdala-hippocampal interactions. Primary focus ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024)Particle collision theory is applied in experimental settings such as mass spectroscopy and other particle fragmentation techniques to gain insight into observed behaviors. The energetic interactions that occur between ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)This dissertation provides a deep exploration of identity. Three chapters present studies of the interplay between identity and various social, cultural, and economic factors from different angles. The first chapter develops ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)The Grateful Dead grew from the 1960’s counterculture and have been one of the most influential bands of American culture. This thesis examines Deadheads and the ritual dimensions of live shows subculture from its inception ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)What is the place of poetry in a postcolonial state? How does the antagonistic relationship between the postcolonial state and colonial language inform the poetics of anglophone and regional poetry? Starting from these ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This thesis examines the graphic design and propaganda generated by the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina. The football tournament drew ever more scrutiny to the brutal repression carried out by the Argentina’s last military ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019)Throughout the course of American history, white supremacist groups have influenced political and social constructions. While many would argue their influence has largely disappeared, political figures, including the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)My dissertation argues that changes in the structures and orientations of religious thought, changes commonly understood as secularization, have provided the intellectual underpinnings for the modern exploitation and ongoing ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024)This thesis explores the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) development into a global brand, analyzing its international business development strategies and their implications for organizations endeavoring to extend ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)High school students depend on school to provide the skills needed to attend a post-secondary institution or enter the work force directly upon graduation. However, high school curriculum standards may not align with the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Studies exploring the first wave of digital performance foregrounded technology by cataloging experimentation and novel interactions between liveness, projections and code. As exercises in medium, these high tech spectacles ...
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The Networked Public Sphere in Moscow: How Young Adults Navigate Social Media and the Online Space (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)In this thesis I examine how social media and the internet function as an alternative to Habermas’ public sphere and their potential to facilitate public discourse in the Russian Federation. Using in-depth interviews ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)The visual system integrates information over space to see surfaces, contours and edges. This integration can be described by a divisive normalization framework in which surrounding contextual information normalizes response ...
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