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Disrupters:Three Women Of Color Tell Their Stories, Dulce María Gray, Denise A. Harrison, Yuko Kurahashi
Disrupters:Three Women Of Color Tell Their Stories, Dulce María Gray, Denise A. Harrison, Yuko Kurahashi
The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal
This essay is an amplified version of the presentation we made at the 7th Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues. Our aim is to story back into the world our first experiences and motivations for investing in suffrage and democratic activism. We are three American professors of disciplines in the humanities, who for decades have taught and lived across the United States and have traveled the world. Yuko Kurahashi’s essay tells the story of how Raichō Hiratsuka and Fusae Ichikawa, Japanese activists in their suffrage and peace movements, helped shape her personal and professional life. Denise Harrison talks about the first wave …
Reading: The Starting Line Of My Imagination, Daniel Sheldon
Reading: The Starting Line Of My Imagination, Daniel Sheldon
Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing
I asked my parents a few questions about how I learned to read. They started with my dad reading to me while my mom was still pregnant, so that is where I started. Between the questions my parents answered and my own memories, I was able to write about how reading was introduced into my life and what happened as a result.
It Crits Different: Analysis Of Dungeons & Dragons And Tabletop Roleplaying Games As An Oral, Collaborative, And Immersive Genre Of Literacy, Olivia Haslett
It Crits Different: Analysis Of Dungeons & Dragons And Tabletop Roleplaying Games As An Oral, Collaborative, And Immersive Genre Of Literacy, Olivia Haslett
Honors Theses
With the introduction of multimodality enhancements to literature, such as e-books and audiobooks, alongside the resurgence of Tabletop Roleplaying Games such as Dungeons & Dragons, there has been little consideration for how these two seemingly unrelated fields marry into a new opportunity for literary development. These games often have a fundamental purpose: storytelling. Storytelling has long since been an oral tradition which has been converted into its literary form: books. Books tell us their story without the need of company and are often written by a sole author. However, with more and more Tabletop RPGs coming into popularity, storytelling is …
Ne Bɛna Maana Bɔ: A Story Will Come Out Of Me, Emmanuelle Spronk
Ne Bɛna Maana Bɔ: A Story Will Come Out Of Me, Emmanuelle Spronk
Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate
Translated from Bambara, the title of this collection expresses the inevitability of stories in human life. These essays explore the origins and ubiquity of stories and the writer’s own beginnings as a lover and sharer of them. Some of the questions explored are:
- Why do we love stories?
- How do stories help us in hardship?
- How are stories important to the Christian faith?