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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.

Serious Men, Michael Jesse Bass

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a Fiction story collection written in fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans.

Forgotten Diary, Heather J. Richardson

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Dictation From The Moon, Leland Monson

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Much of my poetry concerns twelve-step recovery, brushes with suicide, and other related incidents. With more poetry coming out, there was more recovery and other influences. Some manifested themselves through imitation. Sometimes they came through form. Sometimes inspiration manifested through language. Some came from goodness knows where. An accumulation of all of it, each poem follows one or more of these guiding principles.

The Spinners' Tales, Sierra N. Offutt

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

“The Spinners’ Tales” is a loosely connected story collection exploring the lives of a variety of supernaturally gifted characters, referred to within their own community as Spinners.

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

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Seven Temptations Of The Sea And Eight Other Tales, Greta C. Hayer

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This short story collection is a thesis in fiction written in fulfillment of the Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans.

Infants Are A Collection Of Cells, Helena M. Blanco

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The poems in this collection represent three main themes within the work. The first theme relates to family and memory; how it changes over time and generation. The second theme focuses on music as influence outside of instruments; how poetic voice is a type of music in its cadence and rhythm. The third theme includes pop-culture’s lasting effect on current society and its nostalgic feel on the millennial population. Each theme embodies the poems messages of universal meanings along with abstract topics including certain groups such as geek culture and heavy metal fans.

Keywords:poems, pop-culture, music, family

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.

New Bruises, Katelyn Aquilo

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The following manuscript is a collection of poetry based on experiences. Religious hypocrisy and abuse thread throughout the collection with both first hand experiences and fictional ones. It is divided into three parts: the hometown, the bodily abuse, and then, finally, the religion.

Sugarcane Crossroads, Sean Carrero

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The following manuscript is a collection of lyric poetry that touches on themes of family history, love, and labor in the service industry. It is divided into three sections. The speaker in the work dwells in mostly private spaces and deals with private symbols such as, water, to represent the father figure in the poems.

“To Be Men, Not Destroyers”: Developing Dabrowskian Personalities In Ezra Pound’S The Cantos And Neil Gaiman’S American Gods, Michelle A. Nicholson

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Kazimierz Dabrowski’s psychological theory of positive disintegration is a lesser known theory of personality development that offers an alternative critical perspective of literature. It provides a framework for the characterization of postmodern protagonists who move beyond heroic indoctrination to construct their own self-organized, autonomous identities. Ezra Pound’s The Cantos captures the speaker-poet’s extensive process of inner conflict, providing a unique opportunity to track the progress of the hero’s transformation into a personality, or a man. American Gods is a more fully realized portrayal of a character who undergoes the complete paradigmatic collapse of positive disintegration and deliberate self-derived self-revision …

The Ones Abandoned, Thomas Dollbaum

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Creating The Water Clock, Amy C. Laws

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis will discuss the making of my short film The Water Clock at the University of New Orleans from its inception to its final short film form. Part One discusses the balancing of content and style and explores the relation between time and water as inspirations for story. Part Two details the preproduction process and major crew members’ collaborations and contributions before filming. Part Three describes daily successes, struggles, and direction while in production. Part Four describes every phase of the post-production process as the film is completed. Lastly, I will analyze my personal growth as a filmmaker.

The Gloaming, Alyssa D. Davison

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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 …

The Black Mage Reader, Shaina Monet

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

N/A

Care Forgotten, James M. Norris

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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.

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?

Holy, These Gaps, Elspeth Jeanne Lindner

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Wolf At The Door: A Novella, Thomas Price

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Wolf at the Door concerns a thirteen year old boy, Wilmer, during the summer of his sexual awakening, where he explores the boundaries of his sexuality and his attraction to violence and danger, primarily through an older teenage boy, Bricktone, all while young women from his working class community are being kidnapped, abused, and murdered by a human predator. Wilmer considers what kind of man he will become and whether can escape the influence of the wolf.

I Am Florida, Marian M. Kaufman

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

So Many Stars Fall In July, Jacob H. Reecher

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Fool And The Flood: A Journey, Michelle R. Hoover

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This journey based narrative inspired by the traditional narrative of the Major Arcana cards in the tarot, centers on The Fool and his interactions with the rest of the Major Arcana. The Fool’s journey centers on memory, regaining personal power, admitting and accepting weakness, and creating a personal place in relation to a larger world. This evolution throughout the journey is explored through detailed repeating imagery and symbols drawn from a mixture of traditional tarot imagery and the author’s personal image set created for this narrative.

Debris, Daniel Sutter

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

N/A

If It's Hot, Annelle L. Magnuson

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

You Are Here, Emma L. Carlton

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

N/A

North Of Almost Everything, Joseph Kelly

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.