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Table Of Contents, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 1995 Jan 1995

Table Of Contents, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 1995

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Refuge, Amy Meadows Jan 1995

Refuge, Amy Meadows

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This task was put before me; to tell of an experience or part of my life that has helped shape my identity. I wanted to make it so you could look past the black lines on this flat page and feel my world; how I touch it and taste it and live it and know it. So here's a trip to my world, taken from my mind, seen through my eyes.

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You Can't Have A Cigarette In Elvis's Bedroom, Benjamin Blacker Jan 1995

You Can't Have A Cigarette In Elvis's Bedroom, Benjamin Blacker

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To tell the truth, I had never heard of an "ethnography." I balked at this assignment. Go somewhere, somewhere populated by a certain prototype of people, and write about what they're thinking. This is difficult for someone whose one regret in life is that he isn't someone else. And so, after hours upon hours of sitting at my desk staring at a blank sheet of paper, drops of blood forming on my forehead, I left for my Thanksgiving break where I went to, of all places, Memphis, Tenn. The following "ethnography" is the result of that experience.

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The Black Family Structure: A Viable Structure Or A Myth?, Elaine I. Sylvester Jan 1995

The Black Family Structure: A Viable Structure Or A Myth?, Elaine I. Sylvester

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My objective for writing this essay on the black family was to examine and interrogate a myriad of stereotypes surrounding this family structure. Slavery and its inception need to be explored because it enables one to acquire a better understanding of the modern day black family. It is my hope that once we achieve this level of understanding, if not acceptance, that we may be able to start the healing process that is so necessary.

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Generation What? An Outcast Of Generation X, Amye Hommel Jan 1995

Generation What? An Outcast Of Generation X, Amye Hommel

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Reflecting upon my writing is one of the most difficult tasks I have ever been asked to do. Looking back upon my work, I realize that this is one of the most important papers I have written. Not only was this piece the first paper I have written for a writing studio, it also enabled me to release some of the frustrations I have with my generation.

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One Young Dog, Sam Szuck Jan 1995

One Young Dog, Sam Szuck

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Autobiography and redundancy are natural associates. Keeping them apart in the act of recalling a life, any life, is no easy task. Given the assignment of imagining my autobiography and writing one of the chapters, I wanted to avoid repeating myself. "Tell me a story." It does not matter that I have lived it before. Telling it again becomes a new act,another page of the story. "Tell me a story," Jane Oberg asked. I thank her for the question.

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Blue Light Special, Kelly Pearce Jan 1995