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"Cocky" Pants, Kalena Grey 2020 Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

"Cocky" Pants, Kalena Grey

KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference

This work is a narrative essay I wrote for my composition 100 class about one of the biggest aspects of my life, my Jamaican heritage. I grew up hearing my mom pronounce the color "khaki" as "cocky," and it just so happened to rub off on my vernacular in my younger years, as well as my life now as a 20-year-old. I hope this essay gives a peak into my life and find some humor in it as well as some of its cultural aspects.


Stuart Beal, 2020 Stephen F. Austin State University

Stuart Beal

Barrio Writers

No abstract provided.


Emileigh Chassell, 2020 Stephen F. Austin State University

Emileigh Chassell

Barrio Writers

No abstract provided.


Cameron Daniels, 2020 Stephen F. Austin State University

Cameron Daniels

Barrio Writers

No abstract provided.


Locked Up And Locked Out: True Stories Of Individuals Who Experienced The Intersection Between Homelessness And The Criminal Justice System, Jean Johnson 2020 University of Rhode Island

Locked Up And Locked Out: True Stories Of Individuals Who Experienced The Intersection Between Homelessness And The Criminal Justice System, Jean Johnson

Senior Honors Projects

JEAN JOHNSON (Criminology & Criminal Justice)

Locked Up and Locked Out: True Stories of the Interlocking Cycle of

Homelessness and the Criminal Justice System

Sponsor: Jill Doerner (Criminology & Criminal Justice, Sociology & Anthropology), Heather Johnson (Writing & Rhetoric)

Key locks work when a key made with teeth is placed into a cylinder with a series of pins and tumblers. If you don’t insert the right key one or more of the pins will remain in the way, preventing the key from turning and the lock will remain closed. According to the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, tens of …


The Lantern, 2019-2020, Colleen Murphy, Jeremy Moyer, Adam Mlodzinski, Samuel Ernst, Lauren Toscano, Gabriel Tenaglia, Griffin Banks, Madison McColgan, Ria Malones, Rachel Thornton, Gabby DeMelfi, Liam Worcheck, Ryan Savage, Vanessa Worley, Aviva Schuh, Emily Bradigan, Kiley Addis, Shayna Kushner, Kevin Leon, Tommy Armstrong, Matthew Schmitz, Millie Drury, Jenna Lozzi, Sarah Buck, Cyn Ercole, Morgan Mason, Janice Partee, Madison Rodak, Daniel Walker, Jordan Gagan, Brooke Yanaga, Kate I. Foley, Matthew Li, Zach Brink, Jessica White, Anastasia Dziekan, Jadidsa Perez, Ian Abrahams, Lindsey Reilly, Kalina Witkowska, Kristen Cooney, Julia Paiano, Kylie Halko, Tiffini Eckenrod, Kelsey Gavin 2020 Ursinus College

The Lantern, 2019-2020, Colleen Murphy, Jeremy Moyer, Adam Mlodzinski, Samuel Ernst, Lauren Toscano, Gabriel Tenaglia, Griffin Banks, Madison Mccolgan, Ria Malones, Rachel Thornton, Gabby Demelfi, Liam Worcheck, Ryan Savage, Vanessa Worley, Aviva Schuh, Emily Bradigan, Kiley Addis, Shayna Kushner, Kevin Leon, Tommy Armstrong, Matthew Schmitz, Millie Drury, Jenna Lozzi, Sarah Buck, Cyn Ercole, Morgan Mason, Janice Partee, Madison Rodak, Daniel Walker, Jordan Gagan, Brooke Yanaga, Kate I. Foley, Matthew Li, Zach Brink, Jessica White, Anastasia Dziekan, Jadidsa Perez, Ian Abrahams, Lindsey Reilly, Kalina Witkowska, Kristen Cooney, Julia Paiano, Kylie Halko, Tiffini Eckenrod, Kelsey Gavin

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

Cochlea, Greek for Snail • That Light in the Sky • Overview Effect • The Running Man • Sunset • Rabbits • What Happened While You Were Drunk Last Saturday Night • 21st Century Frankenstein • Passing • I Saw the Veil • Star Crossed • Subtle Hints • Hungry • Basement High • The Night Who Lost Its Stars • Remnants • Nostalgia • I Want to Go to Bed • Wooden Car Blues • Silver Honey • The Breakup • Here's to Losing You • Marfa • Cold Wind Blows • Last Week • 6/12/2019 • These Feather …


Amjambo Africa! (April 2020), Kathreen Harrison 2020 University of Southern Maine

Amjambo Africa! (April 2020), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In This Issue...

ILAP on TPS for Somalia.............p. 2

From Camden to Portland........p. 10

Cultivating Community............p. 14

Amjambo Africa for Teachers..p. 15

FAQ about COVID-19..............p. 16

Food Resources ...................p. 20/21

Miss Muslimah 2020 .................p. 22

US-Canada border crossings ...p. 22


The Memorialist, Lindsey Houchin 2020 Western Kentucky University

The Memorialist, Lindsey Houchin

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The Memorialist is a work of creative nonfiction. In this long-form essay, the author digests the memories and secondhand stories unearthed while exploring the junked, rusted, and wrecked life of an eccentric uncle who was preceded in death by his sister, the author’s mother. Through its associative and slippery structure, it follows the author as she untangles two histories halted—connected, contrasting lives disrupted by death. Meditative and metaphorical, the narrative explores both the beauty and burden of death through the eulogy form in a quest to determine how to memorialize a life defined by what death leaves behind.


Captain America Chopsticks, Jenna San Diego 2020 Parkland College

Captain America Chopsticks, Jenna San Diego

The Diana McDonald Writer's Challenge

In her descriptive essay “Captain America Chopsticks,” Jenna San Diego uses her lifelong admiration of the confidant, patriotic, heroic Captain America to explore her personal struggles with growing up Asian and American in a Midwest town.


Santa Clara Review, Vol. 107, No. 2, Santa Clara University 2020 Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Review, Vol. 107, No. 2, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Review

No abstract provided.


Ivy Leaves, Volume 95, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff 2020 Anderson University

Ivy Leaves, Volume 95, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 2020 edition of the Anderson University journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Emma Morris, Sarah Grace Hoover, Lucy Kirkpatrick, Alli Kennedy, Genevieve Rice, Hayden Dutschke, Cameron Mason, Larisa Crowder, Kristopher Sutherland, Emily Britton, Savannah Smith, Megan Adams, Terra Baughn, Carson Long, David Stancil, Allie Thompson, Taylor Harrison, Meredith Guio, Austin Rusher, Taylor Smith, Ashley Stone, Abigail Timms, Teresa Jones, and Tim Speaker.


2020 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, English Department 2020 Otterbein University

2020 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.


T&C Magazine Issue 21 - Spring 2020, T&C Media 2020 Otterbein University

T&C Magazine Issue 21 - Spring 2020, T&C Media

T&C Magazine

Articles Include: Sincerely, the seniors// Student sound: music to our ears// Not all athletes are human// Ending the stigma// Cards with cool internships// Stereotypes, shattered// Debate debrief// Beyond the diagnosis// Behind closed doors// Remembering 'Big Nige'


Captain America Chopsticks, Jenna San Diego 2020 Parkland College

Captain America Chopsticks, Jenna San Diego

The Diana McDonald Writer's Challenge

In her descriptive essay “Captain America Chopsticks,” Jenna San Diego uses her lifelong admiration of the confidant, patriotic, heroic Captain America to explore her personal struggles with growing up Asian and American in a Midwest town.


Low Textbook Cost Syllabus For Eng 2150 (Writing Ii), Maxine Krenzel 2020 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

Low Textbook Cost Syllabus For Eng 2150 (Writing Ii), Maxine Krenzel

Open Educational Resources

Welcome to English 2150, a writing and reading intensive course that will introduce you to the practice and process of conducting original research. This class will walk you through the research process step-by-step, from drafting an initial research question, to reading and analyzing archival and secondary sources, and eventually mapping out your findings in a final research portfolio. You will learn over the course of the semester that the research process begins with simply asking a question that addresses a topic or issue that impacts you in some way; it is my hope that by the end of the semester, …


Touching The Center That Burns: An Exorcism, Maggie Finch 2020 Northern Michigan University

Touching The Center That Burns: An Exorcism, Maggie Finch

All NMU Master's Theses

This thesis seeks to explore the relationship between language, traumatic memory, and identity. Through a cross-genre creative style of writing and scholarship, the writer engages with trauma theory, performative language theory, psychoanalysis, and literature in order to illuminate how language, in its various forms, is the key to self-reclamation after a traumatic event terrorizes the body and mind. Additionally, through the lens of personal narrative, the writer investigates how relationships with language, the reverberations of trauma, and the tumultuous motion of our formative years can affect the development of identity by way of memory. The scope of the narrative illustrates …


Creative Writers Festival 2020 Poster, Department of Theatre, Dance & Film 2020 Providence College

Creative Writers Festival 2020 Poster, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Smith Center Lobby

Creative Writers Festival 2020

Saturday, March 21, 2020, 7:30pm

Sunday, March 22, 2020, 2pm


The Book Of Red, Stacey Balkun 2020 University of Mississippi

The Book Of Red, Stacey Balkun

Graduate Student Council Research Grants

Overview: A first-year PhD student in the English Department, I am working closely with Dr. Ann Fisher-Wirth, Editor of The Ecopoetry Anthology, on a creative writing project, “The Book of Red.” My project aims to both uncover the environmental damage wrought upon my hometown of Piscataway, New Jersey and to broaden the field of possibility surrounding ecocriticism, especially regarding fabulist literature and fairy tales. In addition to researching the ecological crises wrought upon Piscataway, I aim to examine the myriad ways fairy tales, fables, and other children’s stories have shaped and continue to shape the way our culture views the …


Whose Line Is It, Anyway?: Doing Harm In Disability Memoir, Teresa Milbrodt 2020 University of Missouri -- Columbia

Whose Line Is It, Anyway?: Doing Harm In Disability Memoir, Teresa Milbrodt

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

This paper examines disability memoirs, and the author's responsibility to their community versus their personal story. While telling stories of disability can be a means of sharing one's truth, authors may be wrongly interpreted as speaking for a diverse community of individuals, or they may do harm to other disabled people by devaluing an entire group. Some memoirsts have avoided this potential for harm by expanding their notions of disability and community to embrace intersectionality, but it is vital to read a wide variety of disability memoirs to gain this complex picture.


From Daystart Songflight: A Morning Journal, Brian Bartlett 2020 Saint Mary's University

From Daystart Songflight: A Morning Journal, Brian Bartlett

The Goose

This piece, an excerpt from an ongoing manuscript of plein-air nature writing, is one of forty projected journal entries involving excursions beginning before sunrise, with exploration of natural settings and observations of natural phenomena (birds, plants, mammals, insects, water, clouds, light, the sun, etc.) interwoven with readings about morning in scientific texts, poetry, and other kinds of writing.


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