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No Man's Land, Jesse Daniel Durovey
No Man's Land, Jesse Daniel Durovey
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
Triple Double Diamond: Nevada Stories, Kylie Michelle Westerlind
Triple Double Diamond: Nevada Stories, Kylie Michelle Westerlind
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
In a collection of fictional short stories, Triple Double Diamond explores the relationships and grit of people who dwell in the Nevadan landscape. The stories roam between neon cities like Reno and Las Vegas to small high-desert towns like Wells and Gerlach, focusing on the people who live within these places. The people in this collection are restaurant servers, fur trappers, part- time gold miners, gamblers, park rangers, and veterans, and the stories look at the inner lives of these characters.
Walking With The Wild: Finding An Ethic Of Compassion In Conservation, Jane Hallie Mcguire
Walking With The Wild: Finding An Ethic Of Compassion In Conservation, Jane Hallie Mcguire
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
This collection of five creative nonfiction essays and one poem examines the author's personal encounters with wild life and wild places, primarily through experiences working as a field biologist. Reflections on nature’s fragility, interconnectivity, the autonomy of all living things, and the ethics of conservation are central to each piece. Walking with the Wild invites readers to consider the benefits of integrating compassion and empathy into scientific study, and more generally, into our interactions with the natural world.
To Feel Better: A Personal Account Of My Eating Disorder, Savannah Kate Woods
To Feel Better: A Personal Account Of My Eating Disorder, Savannah Kate Woods
Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts
Eating disorders are complex mental health disorders. The following stories and moments apply psychological skills, knowledge, and perspective to my personal struggles with bulimia. The personal narratives vary greatly in word count. Please be aware some scenes may be disturbing or uncomfortable.
The Kite And The String: Why Philosophy Needs More Storytellers, Mason James Voehl
The Kite And The String: Why Philosophy Needs More Storytellers, Mason James Voehl
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
This thesis seeks to explore the relationship between philosophy and storytelling as grounded in their shared task of instructing readers in how to live a rich and moral life. Using a combination of narratives and the philosophical theories of Martha Nussbaum, Edward Mooney, and Iris Murdoch, I claim that philosophy and storytelling ought to be natural allies rather than territorial enemies as each reveals and attends to separate but equally important aspects of the good life in community with others. I then extend this claim into the context of environmental philosophy, using the work of writer Jason Mark as an …
The Forever Baby, Carlos Javier Medina
The Forever Baby, Carlos Javier Medina
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
Anatomy Of Breath, Melissa C. Phelan
Anatomy Of Breath, Melissa C. Phelan
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
The Work Of The Living, D'Addario, Thomas J. D'Addario
The Work Of The Living, D'Addario, Thomas J. D'Addario
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
Ugly, Odd, And Gorgeous, Joseph Chamberlain Kirk Iii
Ugly, Odd, And Gorgeous, Joseph Chamberlain Kirk Iii
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Ugly, Odd, and Gorgeous is a collection of excerpts from a longer, in-progress work of nonfiction that explores the valences of home, family, and the places we find them.
The Republic Of Catatonia: A Novel, David Byron Queen
The Republic Of Catatonia: A Novel, David Byron Queen
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
My thesis, a novel titled The Republic of Catatonia, is a story of a broken family, and the one man trying to keep their legacy alive. An adrift academic named Miles Cata moves back to Northeastern Montana from New York City, when he learns about the death of his father. When he arrives, it turns out his father isn’t dead, and Miles soon learns of his father’s plan for building an autonomous micro-nation on the property of their Montana ranch. The novel is set in the '90s against the backdrop of the Bakken oil boom, and much of the …