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Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
Strange Beginnings, Lincoln-Abdullah Hasan El-Amin
Strange Beginnings, Lincoln-Abdullah Hasan El-Amin
Graduate Thesis Collection
"Strange Beginnings" is a short story collection consisting of four short stories. Some of these stories go together and some stand alone. All of them aim to evoke something in the reader, whether it be shock, joy, unsettledness, or something more.
The Vicissitudes, Lara Young
The Vicissitudes, Lara Young
Graduate Thesis Collection
On the surface, Julia's life at middle age seems calm and settled. Her children are grown; she's got plenty of friends and family; and her marriage has survived a betrayal. But when she unexpectedly receives a text from an old flame, one by one the certitudes she's come to rely on start to unravel and Julia's is forced to reckon anew with the meaning of her life and her place in the world.
Become What You Are: The Student Handbook To Fighting Nihilism, Jules Shinkle 20
Become What You Are: The Student Handbook To Fighting Nihilism, Jules Shinkle 20
Honor Scholar Theses
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Shadows Of Yesterday, Marlene Liotti
Shadows Of Yesterday, Marlene Liotti
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
The year is 2020, but here we are still living in a male dominated society. We remain constantly reminded and surrounded by the mentality that certain activities and career choices are better suited for men over women. We even endure these depictions in literature, on the big screen, and on television. Action films, war movies and novels, and crime dramas show the protagonists and supporting characters as males. There are rare occasions where you may find a female actress or literary character protagonist, and when this happens, she is not depicted with the same strength, knowledge, respect, or importance. She …
Dee: A Feature Length Drama, Laura Angelyn Mccarter
Dee: A Feature Length Drama, Laura Angelyn Mccarter
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
“DEE” is a feature length drama about a young addict who pursues a career in music in an attempt to keep her brother’s memory alive after his untimely death tears her family apart. The story explores how the characters deal with drug abuse, loss, broken families, toxic relationships, and pursuing one’s dreams. The film will feature original indie rock music for several of the characters who write and perform their own songs. It’s A Star is Born meets Beautiful Boy.
Hedgehogs, Oscar Antonio Moreno Huizar
Hedgehogs, Oscar Antonio Moreno Huizar
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
An anxious college freshman who befriends a party-loving junior girl and both hatch a plan to escape from the border to California, trying to save a mutual friend and escape their dark pasts.
Insomniacs, Kira Mason
Insomniacs, Kira Mason
Senior Theses and Projects
When a high-achieving college student commits suicide, four other high-achieving students must confront their own repressive tendencies and mental health issues. But as they do, their "inner demons" quite literally come to the surface for one haunting and transformative night.
In His Wake: Applying Life's Truths In Fiction, Joseph M. Balderas
In His Wake: Applying Life's Truths In Fiction, Joseph M. Balderas
Theses and Dissertations
The culmination of the creative work and its introduction attempt to delve into the psyche of what it means to lose someone you love. The screenplay explores the grieving process and the coping mechanisms that accompanies it, with an examination on how far some people are willing to go for closure.
To reach my conclusions, I draw from my own life experience, the experiences of others, and a fine amount of research. It also means to shed light on the impermanent mental strain that chaperon’s grief.
True Form Of Greatness, Michael V. Terry
True Form Of Greatness, Michael V. Terry
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
A screenplay that moves through the decade of the 90's while exploring philosophy, love, religion and tragedy in the atmosphere of collegiate baseball.
The Neon Gods We Made, Max Funk
The Neon Gods We Made, Max Funk
Honors Projects
The Neon Gods We Made is a collection of 3 plays and 21 poems. In this collection I explore the concept of religion as an ideology, or as a body of knowledge that has some specific function in society as a whole—while I focus primarily on culture of the United States, there are broader trends in the use of ideology that are applicable to other countries/cultures as well. With this project, I am primarily interested in the links between organized religion, personal spirituality, and the influence of culture on both the more formal and informal aspects of one’s spirituality. Primarily, …
Kingdom Come, Kirk B. Young
Kingdom Come, Kirk B. Young
Graduate Thesis Collection
A secret service agent returns home to reconcile with his wife just as the Rapture begins. His scramble to reunite with her becomes all the more urgent when a violent cult begins terrorizing the city in its final hours
The Dirty Five, Mackleen Desravines
The Dirty Five, Mackleen Desravines
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
No one woke up in the morning and decided, yes, I’m going to take something that isn’t mine. It usually starts with a thought. That thought taps into desperation, which causes the imagination to run wild. When Aqua suggested to us that we take what we wanted, at first it didn’t seem like stealing.
If only the world had been kinder to us. If the world told us the truth about how cold it was and you are nothing until you prove something, maybe we wouldn’t have done it. If we had the virtue of being patient, perhaps we …
The Circuit: An Original Television Series, Grace T. Ding
The Circuit: An Original Television Series, Grace T. Ding
CMC Senior Theses
Between good and evil there's a whole lot of gray: Welcome to The Circuit.
A shady private security firm recruits criminals straight out of prison and sells its services to the highest bidder, saint and sinner alike (mostly sinners). Through the trials and tribulations of a diverse ensemble cast, the show explores some of my absolute favorite themes in storytelling: gray morality, found families, and unlikely heroes. Follow our gritty and guarded lead Shaye as she struggles to tame a group of talented and contentious ex-cons under the shadow of her ambitious and manipulative father, all the while struggling to …
The Casaloma, Justin P. Burnside
The Casaloma, Justin P. Burnside
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The Casaloma was written to challenge held beliefs in what constitutes genre, what constitutes "selfhood," and what constitutes borders.
First, it is an examination of Rimbaud's famous line, "I is an other," which challenges the position of the "I" in relation not only to the self, but the self in relation to the world around it. This I call the poetics of the pre-positional, or prepositional relationship. This poetics is explored and tested through the voices, and the suigenerous nature of the material that constitutes the book.
Secondly, this book is meant to be an exploration of ideas that were …
Group Therapy: A Play, Eleanor L. Earl
Group Therapy: A Play, Eleanor L. Earl
Institute for the Humanities Theses
Group Therapy is a modem drama set in Portsmouth, Virginia, a small Naval town which is part of a larger area called Hampton Roads. Hampton Roads is best known for its Naval shipyards, Naval bases, and historic landmarks. The year is 1994.
The play focuses on interpersonal communication in a setting that serves as a surrogate family. In the play, seven men and women from varied walks of life come together and share their most intimate joys and sorrows in group therapy. Together, with the assistance of a dedicated psychologist, they struggle to confront and overcome depression and anxiety.