An Unstable Container,
2017
Northern Michigan University
An Unstable Container, John Lapine
All NMU Master's Theses
An Unstable Container is a collection of short creative nonfiction essays and poetry, with influences from personal memoir, lyric essays, race and gender studies, and poetry. The work examines the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, and the ways in which language, society, and the human body contribute to the construction of one's sense of self. Through the lenses of language, modern technology, medicine, and genetics, An Unstable Container explores blackness, queerness, masculine identity, growing up in rural Michigan, and the dangers and pleasures of corporeality. The collection also interrogates the social institutions of marriage and religion, gender roles, and …
A Road Out Of Naknek Part One: The Tide Turns,
2017
Northern Michigan University
A Road Out Of Naknek Part One: The Tide Turns, Keith Wilson
All NMU Master's Theses
I make an annual summertime return to Naknek, a town on Bristol Bay where the salmon have made their own annual summertime return for thousands of years. My thesis is a series of nonfiction essays about my background there, both as a commercial fisherman and my upbringing. It is something I consider the “Part One” of a book still under the process of writing. It is a series of essays, alternating these two motifs of the salmon and of my experiences growing up somewhere like Naknek.
I constructed this thesis to read like the tide. Bristol Bay salmon go out …
The Indestructible Man,
2017
SUNY Geneseo
Chicken Feet,
2017
SUNY Geneseo
Where A Boundary,
2017
SUNY Geneseo
Webbed,
2017
SUNY Oswego
Thinking Before You Act: A Constructive Logic Approach To Crafting Performance-For- Development Narrative,
2017
East Tennessee State University
Thinking Before You Act: A Constructive Logic Approach To Crafting Performance-For- Development Narrative, Angela Duggins
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The intent of this thesis was to test the feasibility of constructing performance-for-development narrative using a constructive logic approach. I created an equation which expressed the sum of non-human-elements as the sum of a narrative with each element serving as a variable. I used a review of persuasion literature to provide insight into the selection and manipulation of each variable. I provided my family as a hypothetical example and used my knowledge of their preferences and communication styles in conjunction with the literature and the equation to craft a narrative which might increase pro-school attitudes in other families like my …
The Funeral,
2017
Dartmouth College
Lives Awash In Neon,
2017
Dartmouth College
The Mouse,
2017
Dartmouth College
On Combustion,
2017
Dartmouth College
The Whether And Nots (Excerpt),
2017
Dartmouth
The Storm,
2017
Dartmouth College
Firefly Heaven,
2017
Dartmouth College
Dragon Season,
2017
Dartmouth
Editor's Note,
2017
Dartmouth
Safe,
2017
P.S. 234
Safe, Patricia Lent
Occasional Paper Series
The first four sections of this essay chronicle her attempts to make sense of September 11 in the succeeding weeks and months. The final section—”Corn, Beans, and Squash”—was written to and for her students at the end of the school year.
November 2017,
2017
University of Southern Maine
November 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Calendar 2017
A Refuge For Jae-In Doe: Fugues In The Key Of English Major,
2017
CUNY Queens College
A Refuge For Jae-In Doe: Fugues In The Key Of English Major, Seo-Young J. Chu
Publications and Research
"A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major"
- Author(s):
- Seo-Young Chu (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Subject(s):
- Feminism, Creative nonfiction, Asian American literature, Sonnets, Social justice, Trauma
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- #MeToo, Stanford, women in academia, early american
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/cp82-8f39
October 2017,
2017
University of Southern Maine
October 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Simchat Torah; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Rabbi Darah Lerner Visits; Community Notices
