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This study was an effort to describe and understand the communication function of the Royal Commission of Inquiry in the Somalia Affair in Canada. A major political scandal in Canada, the Somalia Affair was initially marked by the torture and death of a Somalia man at the hands …

The shadow theater has traditionally played a centrally important role in Balinese society. The typical performance serves as a didactic tool for civic regulation, a moral guide for individuals within that society, and an integral part of religious ritual ceremonies. This disser…

My dissertation provides insight into the academic debate concerning the moral message of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron. Although the earlier tradition of critical commentary on the topic tends to disregard the text’s didactic scope, more recent scholars generally point out the…

This thesis examines data from a religion and values survey entitled Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (YARG) conducted in the spring of 2018. The data for this research comes from a sample of college undergraduates from diverse nations, Portland State being one …

This dissertation intends to present how Arab-Islamic character views the socio-cultural image of the northern European character in nineteenth-century Arabic prosaic discourse. Its aim is to provide a new theoretical framework for the interaction and relationship between Arab-I…