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Tales Of Cherry Blossom Dreams, Kelly Dykstra
Tales Of Cherry Blossom Dreams, Kelly Dykstra
Honors Projects
I studied the writings of Female authors during the Heian era of Japan to write an original work imitating that style.
Voices From Verse: The Power Of Poetry For Seattle's Homeless Youth, Savannah Grace Hadley
Voices From Verse: The Power Of Poetry For Seattle's Homeless Youth, Savannah Grace Hadley
Honors Projects
This paper is a creative nonfiction essay combining research, interviews, and personal experience to discuss how and why poetry is helpful in a therapeutic context, specifically working with at-risk youth. Pongo, a program that provides incarcerated youth an opportunity to write poetry, under the direction of Richard Gold, has found through survey responses that with the Pongo Teen Writing Method “100 percent of youth enjoyed the writing experience, 98 percent were proud of their writing, and 73 percent wrote on topics they don’t normally talk about” (Gold, 21). I came to understand, through time volunteering with the writing groups at …
Digitally Curating Undergraduate Editors’ Voices With The Fuse Box, Alexandra Butler
Digitally Curating Undergraduate Editors’ Voices With The Fuse Box, Alexandra Butler
Honors Projects
The Forum for Undergraduate Student Editors (FUSE) is a national organization focused on creating a community of undergraduate editors. Every year, FUSE hosts an annual conference at a member institution as well as a caucus at the American Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference. Through the rest of the year, FUSE has used their website and Facebook to keep in touch with the members. However, FUSE was not using this digital platform to their advantage, nor were they building a deliberate brand with their online efforts. Because of this, membership gain was only through the AWP Caucus or through word-of-mouth; …
The Keepers: A Collaborative Constructive Narrative Podcast, Shay Carroll
The Keepers: A Collaborative Constructive Narrative Podcast, Shay Carroll
Honors Projects
This is a fictional podcast series that presents a story that is completed through roleplaying. The structure follows that of a video game, with the main characters, or "players," interacting with a set plot while deciding their own course of action. I act as the narrator for the story, controlling the plot and setting as well as non-player characters, or "NPCs." For the purposes of consistency and making sure the characters do not do anything that would be considered too over-powered or unrealistic, I have chosen to use the rule guide and statistics modifier system presented by Wizards of the …