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Mbiti And Achebe On The Forward Movement Through The Past, Chima Anyadike 2016 Obafemi Awolowo University

Mbiti And Achebe On The Forward Movement Through The Past, Chima Anyadike

The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs

No abstract provided.


Backwater, Jacob M. DeVoogd 2016 Western Michigan University

Backwater, Jacob M. Devoogd

The Hilltop Review

No abstract provided.


Dancing Fire, Helena Alfajora 2016 Santa Clara University

Dancing Fire, Helena Alfajora

Canterbury Scholars

My creative process is like the Hero’s Journey. Wrought with “the call to action,” I felt a call from these pieces to bring them into our material world—the ideas, the moods, the colors wanting to translate from my mind through my hand and now, into this room. Through all the musings of our daily lives, these pieces came to be through different mediums with different mentors and different mindsets. The one constant throughout was my content, my inspiration, my grounding—the Hawaiian goddess, Pele.

Her form takes place in art, dance, written words, life, nature, my family, those around me. In …


"A Bastard Jargon”: Language Politics And Identity In The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, Rachel Norman 2016 Linfield College

"A Bastard Jargon”: Language Politics And Identity In The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, Rachel Norman

Faculty Publications

This essay explores Junot Díaz's only full-length novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, through the theoretical lens of sociolinguistics and examines the ways in which Díaz has attempted to overcome the publishing industry's complicity in maintaining the nation's ethnocentric expectations in regards to English as the only acceptable language of publication. By introducing the work of several sociolinguists into the discussion, examining the use of African American Vernacular and “nerdish” alongside the Spanish, and reviewing Díaz’s relationship with his editors, I provide a more nuanced reading of the ubiquitous code-switching throughout Oscar Wao and suggest that beyond …


Muscle Memory: Stories, Hannah N. Bradley 16 2016 DePauw University

Muscle Memory: Stories, Hannah N. Bradley 16

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.


Leading Through Reading In Contemporary Young Adult Fantasy By Philip Pullman And Terry Pratchett, Elisabeth Rose Gruner 2016 University of Richmond

Leading Through Reading In Contemporary Young Adult Fantasy By Philip Pullman And Terry Pratchett, Elisabeth Rose Gruner

English Faculty Publications

There’s a popular bumper sticker in some areas that reads: “God said it, I believe it, that settles it.” It is sometimes paired with another one: “Bibles that are falling apart usually belong to people that aren’t.” The two combine to suggest an approach to reading and religion that are at the core of my argument in this chapter: they suggest that religious reading is fundamentally anti-interpretive; that reading the Bible or other religious texts provides direct access to truth. In the young adult texts I discuss in this essay, however, the opposite is the case: while texts (of many …


Inherent Vice, Brennan D'Elena 2016 Bryant University

Inherent Vice, Brennan D'Elena

Bryant Literary Review

The sun sets, pages age, leaves wither away.

Glass shatters, candy melts, eggs break, ponds dry.


Monastery, Marc Harshman 2016 Bryant University

Monastery, Marc Harshman

Bryant Literary Review

Inside the cloistered quiet the men dug vegetables

and listened for God


Growing Up, Worlds Apart (August -- December 2014), Daniel A. Harris 2016 Bryant University

Growing Up, Worlds Apart (August -- December 2014), Daniel A. Harris

Bryant Literary Review

"What I didn't understand," you replied

as we talked of our first contacts with blacks,


Letter From The Past Visual Editors, Andrew Bishofberger, Chelsea Palacio, Micaela Todd 2016 University of the Pacific

Letter From The Past Visual Editors, Andrew Bishofberger, Chelsea Palacio, Micaela Todd

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Letter From The Literary Editors, Emily Olson, Sarah Yung 2016 University of the Pacific

Letter From The Literary Editors, Emily Olson, Sarah Yung

Calliope

No abstract provided.


The Mercury 2016, 2016 Gettysburg College

The Mercury 2016

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Square And Compasses, Peter W. Rosenberger 2016 Gettysburg College

Square And Compasses, Peter W. Rosenberger

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


The Golden Spiral, Peter W. Rosenberger 2016 Gettysburg College

The Golden Spiral, Peter W. Rosenberger

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Symptoms Of The Virus, Emily Haase 2016 University of Maryland, College Park

Symptoms Of The Virus, Emily Haase

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity

SYMPTOMS OF THE VIRUS BY DR. HENRY ESQUIRE III MD CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER 1. Severe hunger, often voicing their distress. 2. Chronic moodiness, confusion, sullenness. 3. Irritability, otherwise emotionally unstable. Paranoia. 4. Homicidal tendencies – full takeover of the disease. Handle with caution.

“Making a list of symptoms of the zombification virus. Like, Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3 … except I don’t know what to say about how it’s spread, which is probably what’s most important. Through the air, d’you think?”


Five Degrees: A Short Story, Cassia E. Hinds 2016 University of Central Florida

Five Degrees: A Short Story, Cassia E. Hinds

Honors Undergraduate Theses

An interwoven fiction piece representing four perspectives and its effects on self-awareness. The most effective way to blur the line of self in this structure is to braid the minds, voices, and stories, of each perspective. With a focal point where all the voices eventually drift to being the frame of the story, there will be a unique distance between the stories. This thesis explores the effects of different types of mental and physiological illnesses through fiction, highlighting the effect of perception on fact and the perspective of the mentally ill.


Intertext 2016 — Complete Issue, 2016 Syracuse University

Intertext 2016 — Complete Issue

Intertext

The complete issue of Intertext 24 (2016).


Awakening, Wendy Reynolds 2016 Syracuse University

Awakening, Wendy Reynolds

Intertext

No abstract provided.


Margaret Wise Brown Papers, 1938-1960., Beth S. Harris 2016 Hollins University

Margaret Wise Brown Papers, 1938-1960., Beth S. Harris

Finding Aids: Guides to the Collections

Materials related to the career of children's author Margaret Wise Brown. The collection includes literary manuscripts, correspondence, legal papers, biographical information, periodical publications, sound recordings, ephemera, and clippings


When I Am Away From The Water And You, John Davis 2016 Lindenwood University

When I Am Away From The Water And You, John Davis

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


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