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Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature
Earth Needs Help, Rhiannon C. Barto
Earth Needs Help, Rhiannon C. Barto
English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World
Humans destroy earth by polluting the atmosphere and wiping out other living things. Climate change is a human created problem that is increasing the rate at which the damage is occurring. The temperature is increasing at the fastest rate that it has in 10,000 years. With change happening this fast, it is hard for nature and animals, including ourselves, to adapt. Climate change is one of the biggest things causing this change and it is crucial to take action before it is too late. We need to stop deforestation, stop CO2 emissions, and stop the use of fossil fuels. The …
(Fun)Ction: Developing Games From A Narrative Standpoint, Julian Barocas
(Fun)Ction: Developing Games From A Narrative Standpoint, Julian Barocas
English Summer Fellows
My goal with this project has been to deepen my understanding of why people play games, how to make games narratively compelling, and what technical methods are effective in play. This has allowed me to investigate both the technical, scholarly assessments of board game dynamics while also exploring their real-world applications, successes, and weaknesses. Building on my research, my project has culminated in a full prototype of an original board game that has both narrative structure and an engaging gameplay structure. I have also produced a reflection paper on the experience and an annotated bibliography of my research texts and …
Another Perspective: Telling The Hero’S Story Without The Hero, Renee Hopper
Another Perspective: Telling The Hero’S Story Without The Hero, Renee Hopper
Honors Projects
Can a YA story be effectively told through the lenses of side characters that typically exist to further the main character’s plot? What gives a side character agency? How do you make a hero without ever getting close to them through the narrator? This Honors Project seeks to answer those questions through a YA-style novella in which four different "side characters" tell their stories, and the hero's point of view is never followed.
Salt In The Deep Marine, Rachel Bollinger
Salt In The Deep Marine, Rachel Bollinger
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT
Rachel Allison Bollinger: Salt in the Deep Marine
(Under the direction of Dr. Christine Butterworth-McDermott and Dr. John McDermott)
The surface tension present between liquid and air is due to the fact that liquid molecules are highly attractive to one another. Because of this, the surface of water acts like an elastic membrane, allowing human hands or light insects to sit or slide on its surface. For a moment or two, the hand or the insect seems to occupy both the water and the air simultaneously. This commonplace phenomenon is explored in the poetry collection, Salt in the Deep …
Estrangement Of War In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, Sophia L. Tornay
Estrangement Of War In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, Sophia L. Tornay
KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference
An application of Victor Shklovsky's Theory of Prose to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.
Adhd: A Personal Struggle, Julianna Vanvalin
Adhd: A Personal Struggle, Julianna Vanvalin
KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference
This paper attempts to show my struggles with ADHD and how not receiving proper care can hinder someone.
Death Is Alive In Letter Writing, Rebekah L. Smith
Death Is Alive In Letter Writing, Rebekah L. Smith
KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference
Language, according to Derrida, is a complex machine that is not just understood between two people, but between everyone.
Teaching The Power Of Pictures, Rachel Speranza
Teaching The Power Of Pictures, Rachel Speranza
KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference
Though choosing sources that have specific copyright that allows for the reuse, modification, and redistribution of pictures is an important lesson for all students of all grade levels, what’s even a more important lesson is that of the power of social media. The perfect picture can spread like a wildfire across all social media platforms. Pictures have the power to change someone’s mood, political opinion, and even advocate for change on the other side of the world.