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A Fiction Of Fragmented Falsehoods: Curriculum Of Unwanted Roads Traveled, Katherine Wyatt 2019 Georgia Southern University

A Fiction Of Fragmented Falsehoods: Curriculum Of Unwanted Roads Traveled, Katherine Wyatt

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This is an inquiry centered on lived ‘otherness’ in different social experiences. Fiction and illustrations are both creative outlets that provide opportunities of curriculum growth by offering the viewer realistic portrayals dealing with truth and factors that make us fundamentally human. “Fiction elicits an interpretation of the world by being itself a worldlike object for interpretation” (Dillard, 1988, p. 155). This study uses fiction and illustrations as vehicles of communication to provide an awareness regarding social issues in everyday lived experiences, exposing the reader to the social, cultural and historical realities persistently impeding the shared constructs of human experiences. Structuring …


Chance Wanderer And Other Tales Of Hunger, Camille Goodison 2019 CUNY New York City College of Technology

Chance Wanderer And Other Tales Of Hunger, Camille Goodison

Publications and Research

Goodison's collection explores the lives of a range of people who find themselves at a pivotal point in life, often brought there through unpredictable, unseen forces. The characters are seemingly ordinary individuals -- teachers, shoemakers, shop clerks -- who at some point reveal themselves to be loners, dissidents, artists, seekers and sages; essentially, representatives of traditions under test. The many material fetishisms of modern life never satisfy or replace our individual desires, and so these characters attempt to offer new perspectives, new ways to look at the world that’s already around them. While the stories are told realistically, they sometimes …


The Ghost Of Alvar Street, Daniel Spiro 2019 Eastern Washington University

The Ghost Of Alvar Street, Daniel Spiro

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.


Halfwayish: An Entwined Story Collection, Deanna Duplechain 2019 Eastern Washington University

Halfwayish: An Entwined Story Collection, Deanna Duplechain

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.


No Man's Land, Jesse Daniel Durovey 2019 University of Montana

No Man's Land, Jesse Daniel Durovey

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.


The Gloaming, Alyssa D. Davison 2018 LSU New Orleans

The Gloaming, Alyssa D. Davison

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Creating The Water Clock, Amy C. Laws 2018 University of New Orleans

Creating The Water Clock, Amy C. Laws

LSU 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 American Dream As A Cultural Movement, Thomas W. Raskay 2018 Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

The American Dream As A Cultural Movement, Thomas W. Raskay

English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)

This piece investigates the relationship between the American Dream and automobility through a generational lens, assessing cultural change in each renewal of the American Dream. Comparing generations of Americans exploring and reforming cultural space reveals evidence of the American Dream as a tendency for generations to expand to new frontiers balanced by a duty to reform current social space. Automobility multiplies Americans’ options for exploration and explodes the rate at which modern generations engage with different spaces. Now that automobility is routine, Millenials have expanded to the new social space frontier in cyberspace, but a limitless frontier may disrupt the …


314 East 25th Street, On January 1st, Matthew Brennan 2018 Indiana State University

314 East 25th Street, On January 1st, Matthew Brennan

Westview

It’s moving day—the sun glimmers as dimly as Venus in the morning sky.


Tuesday Night, Amber Thompson 2018 SWOSU

Tuesday Night, Amber Thompson

Westview

The coppery softness of cinnamon sticks to my fingers.


I Remember Rodney, David Vancil 2018 Indiana State University

I Remember Rodney, David Vancil

Westview

You admitted you’d abused your body


The Patience Of Trees, Jill Jones 2018 SWOSU

The Patience Of Trees, Jill Jones

Westview

We compare ourselves to trees, Draw analogies and metaphors for human experience


The Valley, Sheila Cohlmia 2018 SWOSU

The Valley, Sheila Cohlmia

Westview

I wander through a deep narrow valley


The Skaters, Matthew Brennan 2018 Indiana State University

The Skaters, Matthew Brennan

Westview

As in a winter scene of the Flemish Masters, Skaters glide like swans across the surface Of Lake of the Isles


Heterochromia, John Tavares 2018 York University

Heterochromia, John Tavares

Westview

This short fiction, with a dystopic vision, is set in a future Toronto, devastated by social unrest and a nuclear disaster, while the action of the story explores a retired librarian’s conflict with a repressive censorship authority.


For Joe Conley, Ike Godsey On The Waltons 1928-2013, David Vancil 2018 Indiana State University

For Joe Conley, Ike Godsey On The Waltons 1928-2013, David Vancil

Westview

In your favorite episode, you are past your prime


Petticoat In The Navy: My Mother's War, Sheila A. Murphy 2018 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Petticoat In The Navy: My Mother's War, Sheila A. Murphy

Westview

In 1918 Julia Lehan, age nineteen, lives in Roxbury


The Ymca, Cal Castle 2018 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Ymca, Cal Castle

Westview

Feet trampling, Treading upon The hardwood terrain.


Qwerty, James E. Fowler 2018 Univ. of Central Arkansas

Qwerty, James E. Fowler

Westview

What you’ve seen but can’t place, always overlooking


Big, James E. Fowler 2018 Univ. of Central Arkansas

Big, James E. Fowler

Westview

The setting sun casts a Giacometti shadow before me.


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