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Slices Of Life, Julia M. Franks

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In this collection we explore death, loss, joy, love, and life. “Smiles through tears has always been my favorite emotion.” (Steel Magnolias) And that’s what this is, smiles through tears. Everyone is slightly depressed, there are some happy moments in there. A lot of love, and a lot of friendship. Slices of life, little bite sized nuggets of stories I’ve used to mimic my own life.

Victim Impact: The Manson Murders And The Rise Of The Victims’ Rights Movement, Merrill W. Steeg

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Mise En Place, Amie M. Geistman

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Mise en Place is a collection of essays that chronicles the author's experiences working as the lone female line cook in the culinary boy's club of professional restaurant kitchens. These essays follow the author's descent into a wild love affair with food, the burnout and gender dynamics associated with the job, and how she navigates the passion and the stress that the kitchen brings out in her.

Big Infinity: A Cancer Journey, Christy L. Lorio Mrs.

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Gulf Between, Christine Baniewicz

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Great swaths of Southeastern Louisiana are drowning, land giving way to water at an alarming rate. Since the 1920s, Louisiana has lost more than 1,800 square miles of wetlands to open water, an area about the size of the state of Delaware. In the same amount of time it takes to watch an episode of Breaking Bad, our state loses the equivalent of a football field’s-worth of solid ground to the rising seas. My thesis is the first part of an accessible creative nonfiction book that tells the story of what’s happening in my home state. To what extent is …

Nest Morale, Nora Seilheimer

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Nest Morale is a collection of personal essays that explores race through the lenses of education, marriage, homeownership, and parenthood.

Lx: A Life In Light, Glennis Waterman

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The author looks back over a long career working as a stage lighting technician in the American theatre, sharing personal experiences, and providing an insider’s view of the art, history, and culture of theatrical lighting.

Contact, Christine M. Stevralia

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A year after Alyssa Milano’s tweet launched the #MeToo movement, survivors of sexual assault are being called ‘accusers’ in the media, and public opinion is swinging in favor of guilty men. #MeToo raised awareness but not understanding. What is rape? What is consent? As evidenced by the #MeToo movement and the backlash against it, clearly, as a society, we don’t know. Contact is a work of Creative Nonfiction that uses scenes and details from the narrator’s personal experiences to illuminate the micro-negotiations that occur in sex and seduction.

In a world where women are still expected to stay small and …

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?

Japanese Culture In New Orleans, Suzanne P. Tafur

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This text highlights the small Japanese community in New Orleans, along with its cultural traditions.

Open Doors, Meagan R. Baccinelli

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This memoir is about community, family and race relations as the author experiences them in New Jersey, where she grew up, at University of Maryland, where she went to college, in Washington, D.C., during Barack Obama’s presidency, and in New Orleans, where she lands in her late twenties. It is meant to shed light on the possibilities and beauty to be found in diverse, close-knit communities, where people share in each other’s joys and sorrows. It also speaks to the importance of romantic partnerships in which both people share the same values, and explore and grow together.

Sea Stories, Robyn Hoskins

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Sea Stories is a collection of creative nonfiction essays centered around the growth of a young woman through her experiences with water and ships. The pieces trace the origins of the narrator's tie to water from a childhood involving boating with her dad to sailing a brigantine across the Pacific Ocean and then a six-year career as an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard. The narrator's relationship with her father, predominantly viewed through their shared intimacy with water, is a base theme for the whole collection. Other themes explored in individual essays include reckoning expectations with reality, explorations of the …

Wandering Sagebrush, Andrea Cyrus

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Wandering Sagebrush is a collection of eight unified short stories. The main themes of the thesis include: the struggle of identity and how one finds the people and places to call family and home. The stories focus on family we make, family we lose, family we choose, and the decisions one makes in the name of family.

Brief Encounters, Alexandra E. Reisner

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This collection of essays meditates on connection and how it is formed and severed. Several pieces consider lasting or arbitrary connections, like those holding together members of a family or the bridges joining two sides of a city. Some consider more tenuous bonds, such as the chance meeting of near-strangers or the moment shared between a child and a dying mouse. Indeed, many pieces consider the ways in which characters are bound to life – and to death.

The Present, A Thousand Times Deeper, Edie Talley

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The creative nonfiction essays and poetry in this collection explore family survival during the hardest of times--when the desire to give up is at its greatest--as told from the perspective of a woman who is a daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother. These are not stories of defeat. Nor are they merely explorations of death and dying. They are cleebrations of living, of surviving, of loving and being loved against all odds.

Smart Mouth [Stories], Tyler Gillespie

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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From The Back Of A Bus Named Desire, Brenda D. Quant

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Skagway, Robin Johnstone

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Wandering Souls Of The Graveyard, Brandon Rizzuto

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The collection of essays is based on my experiences in professional football while working with the New Orleans VooDoo during the 2011 and 2012 seasons. The collection of stories encompasses my personal journey with football players, administrators, and owners during the two seasons I worked for the team. All the names of the characters have been changed.

Talk Here: A Personal Chronology In Linked Essays, Neva Knott

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Baring It All, Barbie Cure

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This collection of creative nonfiction encapsulates the author’s career as a burlesque performer in New Orleans. The goal of this thesis is to tell her story using the techniques of creative nonfiction – specifically, the memoir. This is not merely a story of her career – it is a piece about her relationships, the author conquering her fears, and how she rises up to meet her goals. Part I tells of how the author discovers this new world and how she finds her place in it. Part II is the author’s personal narrative of her revelation to her family. This …

This Is Halloween, Lauren Underwood

Ellipsis: A Journal of Art, Ideas, and Literature

No abstract provided.

Being A Non-Entity With Soon-Yi Previn, Carl Hugmeyer

Ellipsis: A Journal of Art, Ideas, and Literature

No abstract provided.

On The Immeasurable Worth Of A Penny, Zachary Leto

Ellipsis: A Journal of Art, Ideas, and Literature

No abstract provided.

Three Recipes, Ashley N. Hemm

Ellipsis: A Journal of Art, Ideas, and Literature

No abstract provided.

The American Question: The End Of A Superpower?, Karen Trundle

Ellipsis: A Journal of Art, Ideas, and Literature

No abstract provided.

Something Like "Yes", Laura J. Mcknight Ms.

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Fraser Fir, Josie A. Scanlan

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Before, During, After, Kelly Rose

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Following in the footsteps of writers Mary Karr, Joan Didion, Russell Baker, and many others, Kelly Rose writes about her childhood, marriage, and subsequent divorce from a New Orleans journalist. Her writing is broken down into various sections, which address her writing influences, her troubled relationship with her mother and her complicated divorce. Finally, the author discusses how these experiences have shaped her writing today.

Shades Of Zaida, Rachel E. Pollock

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.