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Introduction To Death, Joan Owen 2015 Butler University

Introduction To Death, Joan Owen

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Death meets each of us some time. But perhaps, the most vivid memory of death springs from the first introduction. I shall never forget the little duck named Ivory, who acquainted me with death.


Two Poems, William Griffith 2015 Butler University

Two Poems, William Griffith

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Poems include: Abortive and To a June Bug


Night Guard At A Mausoleum, Stanley Levine 2015 Butler University

Night Guard At A Mausoleum, Stanley Levine

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


The Linguistic Adventures Of Leo And Neo, Kenneth Hopkins 2015 Butler University

The Linguistic Adventures Of Leo And Neo, Kenneth Hopkins

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The problems forced upon civilization by the development of languages are numerous, baffling, and elusive of solution. These problems, furthermore, have never been comprehensively catalogued, and thus have escaped detection by the masses who labor on, under the resulting handicaps, oblivious of the fact that their every action is molded, inhibited, guided and otherwise affected by language...


Death, Or Return Me, Jack Harris Monninger 2015 Butler University

Death, Or Return Me, Jack Harris Monninger

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The Reparation, Patty Lewis 2015 Butler University

The Reparation, Patty Lewis

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The principle stopped checking the list and looked at his secretary. "Miss Adams, he asked, "isn't Ann Lupesko the girl with the thick, steel-rimmed glasses?"...


Poems, Frances King 2015 Butler University

Poems, Frances King

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Poems include: The Designer, That Year, and The Penitent


Blake And The Child, Sally Forsythe 2015 Butler University

Blake And The Child, Sally Forsythe

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In "The Lamb" from Songs of Innocence, William Blake captured the sensitive imaginativeness, the knowledge and the awareness of childhood in a filigree of delicate language, verse form, and understanding. He lifted the veil of childhood and revealed that period of life in which imagination, not yet restricted, gives the child a pure understanding of God an his relations to Him and the the world about him...


The Peanut Butter Sandwich, Mavis King 2015 Butler University

The Peanut Butter Sandwich, Mavis King

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Precisely at 7:45 a.m. Miss Benson came through the revolving doors of the Squibb building, her long, flat-heeled oxfords clunking solidly on the tiled corridor...


Front Matter, 2015 Butler University

Front Matter

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No abstract provided.


No Absolutes: A Fantasy Collection, Tiffany M. Hughes 2015 Western Kentucky University

No Absolutes: A Fantasy Collection, Tiffany M. Hughes

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Genre fiction, particularly fantasy and science fiction writing, has a mixed reception in academia across the world. The notion that make-believe characters and worlds could not be intellectually fulfilling is an old stereotype that reduces some of the most profound fiction of our era down to children’s tales. This fantasy collection serves as an example of how genre fiction can contain impactful stories that challenge our understanding of traditional values. As the title suggests, life, from relationships to self-identity, offers no absolutes for the future. Humanity faces uncertainty of the past, present, and future every day. These stories reflect the …


Fingerpaint: A Drama In Two Acts, Audrey A. Moore 2015 Liberty University

Fingerpaint: A Drama In Two Acts, Audrey A. Moore

Senior Honors Theses

This thesis is a creative original work taking the form on a two-act drama entitled Fingerpaint. It follows the story of a twenty-two year old artist named Sandy and her older brother, John, who want to paint a city mural as a memorial for their uncle. The primary theme revolves around the idea of finding beauty in tension. This theme is developed as Sandy, an idealist, is forced to deal with difficult situations that will ultimately change the way she approaches life and art.


Orbit, James C. Devlin 2015 Georgia Southern University

Orbit, James C. Devlin

Honors College Theses

The purpose of my thesis is to create a series of connected short stories based around a dysfunctional family. It will take the first person point of view of a different family member each story and them going through the motions in one day. Each character will have a distinct voice to make the stories stand out. The stories will describe how they cope with their problems with in the family and in their everyday lives. Each character will be loosely related to a different Roman planet. The stories will focus around the father, mother, son, grandmother, and aunt. Each …


Red-Faced Man, Austin Wines 2015 Western Michigan University

Red-Faced Man, Austin Wines

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Negative Nancy, M. Andrew Bodinger 2015 Western Michigan University

Negative Nancy, M. Andrew Bodinger

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Perception, Stephanie Lanphear 2015 Western Michigan University

Perception, Stephanie Lanphear

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


What Lies Below, Renée Beaudoin 2015 Western Michigan University

What Lies Below, Renée Beaudoin

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Child Of God, Jared Sebastian 2015 Western Michigan University

Child Of God, Jared Sebastian

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


From The River Jordan, Tyler van Hoorn 2015 Western Michigan University

From The River Jordan, Tyler Van Hoorn

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Behind The Silent Mask, Elizabeth Fust 2015 Northern Michigan University

Behind The Silent Mask, Elizabeth Fust

Conspectus Borealis

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