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Set Wide The Window, Olivia Tristan Ramo
Set Wide The Window, Olivia Tristan Ramo
Senior Projects Fall 2023
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
Proclivities Of The Common Southern Wasp, Paul Bryant
Proclivities Of The Common Southern Wasp, Paul Bryant
Creative Nonfiction MFA Theses
A hybrid collection of poems and creative nonfiction essays exploring the author's relationship with his father and the American South.
Unless The Lord Build The House, Alicia L. Maimone
Unless The Lord Build The House, Alicia L. Maimone
Honors Theses and Capstones
"Unless the Lord Builds the House" is a work of creative nonfiction about two years of my life as my chronic Lyme disease altered how I had to live and how I thought about my life . There are three major threads that I explore.
The first theme is about losing my old self. There was an old Alicia and a new Alicia, and I explore my frustration at losing the old Alicia. I explore this by talking about building. I see myself as a house under renovation, and I write about my struggle to let go of my past …
I'M Never Fine, Joseph S. Lezza
I'M Never Fine, Joseph S. Lezza
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
ABSTRACT
Title of Thesis: I'm Never Fine
Joseph S. Lezza, Master of Fine Arts, 2019
Thesis Directed by: Nelson Cardenas, Ph. D.
The University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Creative Writing
During the course of my father's fifteen-month battle with pancreatic cancer, and in its oceanic aftermath, I became both intimately and uncomfortably familiar with the phrase "I'm fine." It developed into a practical and efficient tool for bringing about a quick shift in subject whenever my family situation came under question by a well-meaning friend, trepidatious relative and even during an unexpectedly emotional phone call with my …
A Town Slowly Burned: Life And Death In A Small Louisiana Town, Victoria C. Bush
A Town Slowly Burned: Life And Death In A Small Louisiana Town, Victoria C. Bush
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
When Tori Bush’s father died of chemical causes related to Agent Orange, she found herself obsessed with tracing dioxins, one of the main ingredient of Agent Orange in other American communities. She began to visit and interview residents of Mossville, Louisiana, a small town on the border of Texas, which has fourteen petrochemical facilities surrounding the town. The residents also had been exposed to dioxins. Grief and anger connected Tori to this story, but it is far larger—is the right to a healthy natural environment a part of our American citizenship?
Retracing John Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf, Chadwick N. Gilpin
Retracing John Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf, Chadwick N. Gilpin
Theses and Dissertations--English
In 1867, the budding naturalist and future father of our national parks, John Muir, embarked on his thousand-mile walk to the Gulf from Jeffersonville, Indiana, to Cedar Key, Florida. Almost 150 years later I undertook the same journey, retracing the wilderness advocate’s footsteps through the South to catalog all that has changed in a century and a half of progress, to try and better understand the inception of his environmental ethics, and to learn to see the world as he did, harmonious, interconnected, rejuvenating and imbued with a pervasive spirituality. The chapters of this thesis retell selected legs of that …
Smart Mouth [Stories], Tyler Gillespie
Smart Mouth [Stories], Tyler Gillespie
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
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If You Don’T Want To Talk About Food, Don’T Sit Next To Me, Judith L. Polk
If You Don’T Want To Talk About Food, Don’T Sit Next To Me, Judith L. Polk
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
If You Don’t Want to Talk About Food, Don’t Sit Next to Me has as its main characters the same qualities taken from the new philosophy of Le Cordon Bleu: “Aspire, Discover, Flourish, Delight, and Thrive,” and the memories made while a full-time student.
My Made For Tv Life Or How We Survived My Psycho-Killer Dad, Sarah Beth Mcdonald
My Made For Tv Life Or How We Survived My Psycho-Killer Dad, Sarah Beth Mcdonald
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
The critical afterword discusses my struggles writing a memoir after a lifetime of primarily fictional influences, the ethics of truth and memory, and my attempts to find a style that would do justice to my mother s struggles. The memoir began its life as a portrayal of my mother's story, but in the end was the story of a girl growing up with the knowledge of her father's attempted murder, and the strength of her mother's guidance. My story.