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Last Trip To Disneyland, Freeman Mensa Montaque 2013 Kennesaw State University

Last Trip To Disneyland, Freeman Mensa Montaque

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects

Screenplay. John and Sally Danes are a father and daughter living in desperate times. In order to make ends meet, they're forced to engage in some less than exemplary acts. They soon find themselves way in over their heads once they make a gruesome discovery. Soon after, the police and a trio of killers are both hot on their trail, and they have to tread carefully. One mistake could prove to be fatal.


Lowrider, Phil Quam 2013 Old Dominion University

Lowrider, Phil Quam

English Theses & Dissertations

Lowrider is a collection of interlinking short stories, adding up to a novelistic whole, which follows man in his late-20s, who is left paralyzed after a motorcycle accident. Set primarily in a Virginia Beach nursing home, but also in various locales around that city, the protagonist, nicknamed Youngblood by the members of his wheelchair gang, attempts to rehabilitate himself while confronted with the realities of age and isolation. Several themes are explored, including identity, love, permanence and transience, physical and emotional paralysis, and, ultimately, self-acceptance. The stories also aim to depict aspects of young adult life in America, when societal …


Almost Touching, Almost Free, Dustin M. Hoffman 2013 Western Michigan University

Almost Touching, Almost Free, Dustin M. Hoffman

Dissertations

This collection of stories delves into themes of the working class. These stories of working-class characters range from realism to fabulism to experimental, because the story of working-class people is complex and always shifting. Some of the stories travel backward in time to shepherds and traveling crusaders, while others take on much more contemporary voices, speaking from the point of view of sex workers, carpenters, office workers, ice cream van drivers, and salesmen. If these stories have one thing in common, it is that the characters are searching for identity, for a concrete sense of self that seems to have …


The Poet And The Library: An Interview With Judson Mitcham, Cheryl Stiles 2013 Kennesaw State University

The Poet And The Library: An Interview With Judson Mitcham, Cheryl Stiles

Georgia Library Quarterly

In May 2012 Governor Nathan Deal appointed Judson Mitcham as the new Poet Laureate of Georgia. In this interview, Dr. Mitcham talks about the importance of public and university libraries in his own development as a poet, novelist, and teacher, and he discusses the vital role that libraries continue to play in the cultivation of new audiences for literary works.


Veritas: An Adolescent Novel In A Biblical Worldview Context, Tessanna H. Curtis 2013 Liberty University

Veritas: An Adolescent Novel In A Biblical Worldview Context, Tessanna H. Curtis

Senior Honors Theses

The secular world of literature is saturated with books sending adolescents a host of mixed signals. Contemporary young readers would benefit from literature that in some way reflects biblical truth and conveys a message that glorifies God. Such notions led to the writing of a young adult fantasy novel that introduces themes and plots that do not conflict with a Christian worldview. The protagonist does not simply react to situations around her, but is driven by specific desires that are not so easily obtained. Unlike many modern adolescent fantasies, the world is fully developed and populated by a variety of …


Black Box 2013, Jake Suss, Rosario Resta, Pat Watkins, Kevin Hu, Krypson, Paul Birley, Scott Ikea, Susan Sestak, Adam Olimski, Ryan Thibert, Abdullah Al-Mansour, Eileen Groom 2013 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Black Box 2013, Jake Suss, Rosario Resta, Pat Watkins, Kevin Hu, Krypson, Paul Birley, Scott Ikea, Susan Sestak, Adam Olimski, Ryan Thibert, Abdullah Al-Mansour, Eileen Groom

Black Box

The Black Box is a student-based creative publication serving the ERAU campus. It is our goal to provide a showcase for the creativity and talent of the ERAU students. View and enjoy!


Hush, Valerie Wilkinson 2013 Old Dominion University

Hush, Valerie Wilkinson

English Theses & Dissertations

Hush explores the rural Pennsylvania landscape in seven short stories that strive to slice the characters open and take a brief, brutal look inside. Teenagers lounge on rocks and rattlesnakes twist in cages. Rivers freeze and houses speak. A hunter loses his family and a basketball star loses his shot. And a young girl learns about sex amidst a minefield of guilt and abuse. Story to story, the characters harbor secrets and shame as they search for forgiveness, for redemption, and for some precious measure of grace.


Dark Night Of The Mind, Sabrina Hardy 2013 Liberty University

Dark Night Of The Mind, Sabrina Hardy

Senior Honors Theses

This thesis is composed of five short stories held together with an overarching meta-narrative. Each individual story and the framework narrative deal with the themes of psychological abnormalities and the supernatural. A variety of techniques are used, including first, second, and third person point of views, epistolary formatting, metaphysical storylines, and various dialects.


Phantom Islands A Collection Of Short Stories, Marie Buckner 2013 Portland State University

Phantom Islands A Collection Of Short Stories, Marie Buckner

Dissertations and Theses

This collection of short stories takes its name from various islands historically believed to exist and at one time or other located on maps, sometimes remaining on them for centuries, but later removed after they were proved to be illusory. Reports of these islands usually came from sailors as they explored new realms, mistaking actual islands for imaginary ones or by geographical error. Illusions can persist unchallenged for ages. A similar yet modern illusion is the persistence of vision, a phenomenon by which an afterimage, say, on a screen, is thought to persist on the retina for approximately one twenty-fifth …


Dance Lessons, Kaitlyn Burch 2013 Portland State University

Dance Lessons, Kaitlyn Burch

Dissertations and Theses

August Diamond is left lost after the sudden death of her father. The stories in Dance Lessons explore the themes of loss and grief, retreat and return, and finding your true self. The collection is a novel in stories, each story exposing another layer of August's past, her family, and their complicated relationships.


Purgatory's Cubicle, Jade Sylvan 2013 Rollins College

Purgatory's Cubicle, Jade Sylvan

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


More, Eliza Tudor 2013 Rollins College

More, Eliza Tudor

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Swans In Retrograde, Marvin I. Guymon 2013 Rollins College

Swans In Retrograde, Marvin I. Guymon

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


The People’S Museum Of Musical Heritage, James Brubaker 2013 Rollins College

The People’S Museum Of Musical Heritage, James Brubaker

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Wonder Bread, Smith And Wesson, Jody J. Sperling 2013 Rollins College

Wonder Bread, Smith And Wesson, Jody J. Sperling

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Black Thursday, Melissa F. Miller 2013 Association of American Law Schools

Black Thursday, Melissa F. Miller

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


She Wore Blue, Risa Peris 2013 Association of American Law Schools

She Wore Blue, Risa Peris

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


From The Editors, Bryant G. Garth, Gowri Ramachandran, Molly Selvin 2013 Association of American Law Schools

From The Editors, Bryant G. Garth, Gowri Ramachandran, Molly Selvin

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Advice Of Counsel, David H. Ingram 2013 Association of American Law Schools

Advice Of Counsel, David H. Ingram

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Angels & Ministers, Erin Shirl 2013 Association of American Law Schools

Angels & Ministers, Erin Shirl

Journal of Legal Education

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