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Daughterly Narratives In Search Of Voice: Fadwa Tuqan, Latifa Al-Zayyat, And Samar Attar, Rania Bedeir 2023 American University in Cairo

Daughterly Narratives In Search Of Voice: Fadwa Tuqan, Latifa Al-Zayyat, And Samar Attar, Rania Bedeir

Theses and Dissertations

A myriad of pressures and struggles affect Arab women as they are coming of age due to the familial and societal constructs they face. As daughters, they yearn for a voice amidst a plethora of generational boundaries, transmissions, and ideals. The intricacy of the psychological and interconnected structural factors is augmented by their gender in societies that are motivated, and often governed by, the implications of gender roles. While multiple layers of influence such as familial and sociocultural institutions affect how consciousness is formed, generational transmission, through the maternal figure, is paramount. Daughters, therefore, cannot narrate their personal stories without …


Making Then Meaning, Ben Denzer 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

Making Then Meaning, Ben Denzer

Masters Theses

This is an artist talk contained within a book. It is 816 pages and 49 minutes long. Closed captions run across the spreads. A video of this talk can be watched on bendenzer.com/making-then-meaning

At RISD, I’ve been prompted to expand the scope and tools of my practice and to reflect on questions of meaning in my work.

I spend my days making things, but I’ve never really had good answers to questions of why I make the things I make, or what their meaning is. I don’t think there are simple answers to these questions.

I think meaning comes from …


Becoming George Lucas: From Avant-Garde, Auteur, Independent Artist To Studio Executive, Ryan Thompson 2023 The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Becoming George Lucas: From Avant-Garde, Auteur, Independent Artist To Studio Executive, Ryan Thompson

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Because of the unprecedented popularity of Star Wars, George Lucas, the creator of the multi-media franchise, is one of the most well-known filmmakers in history. What makes Lucas’s relationship with Star Wars unique is that because the franchise has continually been exploited rather than left as a single unchanging, static text, its artistic value, along with Lucas’s legacy, is in constant flux and is often misunderstood. In other words, depending on Star Wars’s position in the public zeitgeist at a given time, Lucas is either revered, detested, or considered incompetent as a filmmaker. While there is no denying …


Ugly Feet, Ocd, And Other Intimations Of Resistance, Aymon E. Langlois 2023 Skidmore College

Ugly Feet, Ocd, And Other Intimations Of Resistance, Aymon E. Langlois

English Honors Theses

Ugly Feet, OCD, and Other Intimations of Resistance is a connected collection of personal essays that lie at the intersection of disability and masculinity.


Minnesota Fishing Regulations, Karissa Wehri 2023 University of North Dakota

Minnesota Fishing Regulations, Karissa Wehri

Floodwall Magazine

Winner of the 2023 Gladys Boen Scholarship


Histrionicus Histrionicus Histrionicus: Common Wild Ducks And Storytelling Animals, Kira Symington 2023 University of North Dakota

Histrionicus Histrionicus Histrionicus: Common Wild Ducks And Storytelling Animals, Kira Symington

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.


Slice Of Life, Melanie Schindler 2023 University of North Dakota

Slice Of Life, Melanie Schindler

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.


I Do Not Understand Time., Jaden Rose 2023 University of North Dakota

I Do Not Understand Time., Jaden Rose

Floodwall Magazine

Runner-up for the 2023 Gladys Boen Scholarship


The Birds, Jaden Rose 2023 University of North Dakota

The Birds, Jaden Rose

Floodwall Magazine

Runner-up for the 2023 Gladys Boen Scholarship


Stars, Jaden Rose 2023 University of North Dakota

Stars, Jaden Rose

Floodwall Magazine

Runner-up for the 2023 Gladys Boen Scholarship


Song(S) Of Myself, Aubrey Roemmich 2023 University of North Dakota

Song(S) Of Myself, Aubrey Roemmich

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.


The Saga Of James Wolfe, Ian Ellenson 2023 University of North Dakota

The Saga Of James Wolfe, Ian Ellenson

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.


Tattoos And Chopsticks: My Mother And I, Claire Arneson 2023 University of North Dakota

Tattoos And Chopsticks: My Mother And I, Claire Arneson

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.


The Ideal Deconstructed, Kira Symington 2023 University of North Dakota

The Ideal Deconstructed, Kira Symington

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.


Type 1 Issue, Grace Miller 2023 University of North Dakota

Type 1 Issue, Grace Miller

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.


Ghosts Are Real, Delaney Otto 2023 University of North Dakota

Ghosts Are Real, Delaney Otto

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.


Duane, Danika Ogawa 2023 University of North Dakota

Duane, Danika Ogawa

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.


Reviving Local Journalism And Storytelling: Reporting On The "Oc Weekly", Lauren E. Montoya 2023 Whittier College

Reviving Local Journalism And Storytelling: Reporting On The "Oc Weekly", Lauren E. Montoya

Whittier Scholars Program

In an effort to reflect the importance of local journalism, the following project is a narrative piece reporting on the closure of the OC Weekly, an alternative news source that ended in 2019, which was hardly reported on. This project aims to change that by further demonstrating the severe impact on communities in which these meaningful sources of news disappear, and why they matter. It calls on people to advocate for and change transform journalism into more than corporate-centered news that too often disregards the critical aspect of storytelling. Storytelling brings communities together and is the life of journalism, …


House Of Grief, Megan Eralie 2023 Utah State University

House Of Grief, Megan Eralie

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports

This collection of essays examines how I house the grief for the losses of my religion and my grandfather. My first essay, “Body of Feathers,” looks at my body as a house of shame and how I transformed my body into something that could be mine instead. It explores a series of moments from my life where I felt disconnected from my body, usually because of rules or expectations set by someone other than me. In the essay, I move from feeling like I had no control of my body, to taking back control and experiencing my body as mine …


The Pinocchio Boy: A Collection Of Queer Creative Written Work, Lucas Olvera 2023 California State University, Monterey Bay

The Pinocchio Boy: A Collection Of Queer Creative Written Work, Lucas Olvera

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The Pinocchio Boy is a series of short stories/memoirs and poems about my experiences as a Transgender and Gay man. Structured in five parts, I explore my childhood, young adulthood, and adulthood. My collection offers me an insight into what made me who I am today. There are drastic tonal shifts between the poem segments and the memoirs, I intended to act as the narrator of my story in which the poems and dialogue act as the characters in motion and the memoirs as my direct narration. A tongue-in-cheek fairy tale tone, but coming from a sincere place. My intent …


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