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Kayleigh's Australian Adventure: A Story For Children, Diane A. Wetmore
Kayleigh's Australian Adventure: A Story For Children, Diane A. Wetmore
Honors Theses
This is a children's book for upper elementary students (3rd/4th grade) as an introduction to Australian culture
In The Garage, Christopher James Hart
In The Garage, Christopher James Hart
Honors Theses
In the Garage is an audio podcast containing works by student writers at Western Michigan University who read their stories to be recorded. Coalescing stories, music, and connective segues, the three episode series seeks to explore the theme of nostalgia through the works of student writers. In doing so, a cohesive narrative arc is achieved through the use of theme and connection. Recorded on GarageBand, an apple sound editing product, the project endeavors to bring together disparate stories, poems, and essays together into a collective and cohesive whole accompanied by various musical interludes. The author of the project provides introduction …
Chester's Place, Kendra Flournoy
Chester's Place, Kendra Flournoy
Honors Theses
Chester’s Place is a one act drama that follows the relationships between a husband and wife and a father and son. The newlywed couple that the drama revolves around is Eric and Raine who reside in Chester’s Place, an apartment building that has taken a turn for the worse. The grounds are unkempt, the apartments are in need of repair, and the tenants are loud and disruptive. The couple decides that they have had enough and are ready to move into a home of their own where they can prepare for the future. In order to hurry the process along, …
Witness For The Prosecution: Erasure Poetics, Samantha M. Schaefer
Witness For The Prosecution: Erasure Poetics, Samantha M. Schaefer
Honors Theses
My Honors Senior Thesis is centered around the art of Erasure poetics. My definition of Erasure is most concisely stated as: a process of simultaneous poetic addition and subtraction to preexisting text, which results in a product whose creation process ultimately echoes the same revision process that human beings undergo; a process by which a new and beautiful truth is both created and uncovered in a paradoxical manner. I initially endeavored to complete a simple erasure of a collection of short stories by Agatha Christie called Witnessfor the Prosecution; but was soon so inspired that I ended up creating four …