Conversations And Educating People About Traumatic Experiences,
2025
Gallaudet University
Conversations And Educating People About Traumatic Experiences, Cynthia Ortega
Undergraduate University Honors Capstones
This Capstone project focused on writing a book for young adults about the different traumas people experience, including generational trauma, domestic violence, substance abuse, and mental health struggles. These difficult topics were often discussed, yet the goal was to encourage open conversations that helped individuals recognize trauma and learn about available resources. My mother, Theresa Preciado, experienced all these challenges, and sharing her story aimed to inspire others to speak up. Her journey reflected the struggles of many, offering relatability, education, and understanding. Readers were made aware that the book included emotionally heavy content. At its core, this project sought …
Ztc Eng 151 Syllabus: College Writing,
2025
CUNY The College of Staten Island
Ztc Eng 151 Syllabus: College Writing, Nicolette Guida
Open Educational Resources
This syllabus provides a curriculum for an introduction to research writing. In this course, students develop introductory skills for academic research writing, work on critical thinking and analysis skills, and build an awareness of the rhetorical situation both in texts read in class and in their own writing. This course focuses on the impact that culture has in shaping behavior and life experiences. Included course texts are centered on the exploration of the different cultural groups that people occupy and the specific cultural norms, values and beliefs for each of these groups. This is zero textbook cost (ZTC) course, so …
What We Don't Say Out Loud,
2025
Kennesaw State University
What We Don't Say Out Loud, Antwan Bowen
Master's Projects
What We Don’t Say Out Loud is a collection of original short stories that explore themes of identity, race, family, queerness, humor, and emotional vulnerability through the lens of Black and marginalized voices. These narratives blend literary realism with elements of magical realism, satire, and personal essay to reflect the emotional truths and unspoken complexities that shape everyday life. Central to the collection is a commitment to portraying characters in their full humanity, often resisting trauma-centered tropes in favor of layered, internal storytelling. From the raw, personal account of Black fatherhood in “The Best Day and the Worst Night,” to …
Art In Itself: The Vision Of Three Female Mississippi Artists,
2025
University of Mississippi
Art In Itself: The Vision Of Three Female Mississippi Artists, Jane E. Thomas
Honors Theses
This thesis is a collection of longform, narrative-style journalistic profiles on artists in Northeast Mississippi. These artists include Carol Roark from Enid and Hannah McCormick and Coulter Fussell from Water Valley. Each profile highlights an individual artist’s work, from her background, inspirations, process and distinctiveness as a creator. These profiles required studio visits and extensive interviews, as well as secondary interviews with clients, gallery owners and art curators. An overarching theme between the three artists is their ability to recognize artistic potential in their immediate surroundings; Roark paints landscapes from her own backyard, McCormick paints scenes from everyday life and …
Red Strings: A Collection Of Creative Works,
2025
University of Mississippi
Red Strings: A Collection Of Creative Works, Natalie Gumm
Honors Theses
This thesis is a collection of creative nonfiction and poetry exploring different aspects of my identity, including my passions, appearance, sexuality, and the places I’ve called home.
When The Siren Sounds,
2025
University of South Carolina - Upstate
When The Siren Sounds, Madelynn H. Morgan
Persimmon Creek
Growing up being the daughter of a fire fighter was not easy. I had a very absent father growing up, and this was due to his work in the fire service. Through this reflective essay, I discuss what growing up as a first-response family was like, and how it has shaped me into the adult I am becoming.
Scramble,
2025
University of South Carolina - Spartanburg
Scramble, Jillian M. Canady
Persimmon Creek
Scramble is an exploration of resilience and the human experience, this essay centers around one powerful word, intertwining memories of family, struggle, and personal growth. It reflects on the choices we make and the messiness of life, capturing the enduring spirit that drives us to keep moving forward. Through storytelling, this piece invites readers to ponder the complexities of existence, revealing how a single word can encapsulate our deepest struggles and triumphs.
Hold It Against Your Bones: On Love, Duty, And Letting Go,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
Hold It Against Your Bones: On Love, Duty, And Letting Go, Lisa Pilar Cowan
Theses and Dissertations
Hold it Against Your Bones is a series of eight linked essays on grief, duty, and letting go. They cover the author's experience of being in the care-taking role for both her mother and her children, the journey of accompanying someone as they die, and the space that is left after care taking duties subside.
Book Review: Local Signs And Wonders: Essays About Belonging To A Place,
2025
Georgia Highlands College
Book Review: Local Signs And Wonders: Essays About Belonging To A Place, Susanna R. Smith
Georgia Library Quarterly
Book Review of Local Signs and Wonders, by Richard Rankin
Sidewindings,
2025
Butler University
Sidewindings, Jeff Marvel
Graduate Thesis Collection
A memoir cataloguing the impacts of my late-onset Type 1 diabetes diagnosis at the age of 26, in which I attempt to realize the ways in which my sense of self, and sense of the world around me, has been altered or disfigured by this hardly-visible disease.
This Body, This Place,
2025
SUNY Geneseo
Oaxaca Stories Along The Way,
2025
Cal Poly Humboldt
Oaxaca Stories Along The Way, James E. Gaasch
Trade & Scholarly Monographs
View the world of a local photographer... a market vendor... a painter... an academic... all through the eyes of an author who has fallen in love. This is not the simple infatuation of fairy tales, but the real love that comes from appreciating the whole. It comes from the beauty of a city and the hearts of its populace...
Untethered And Unraveled: Isolated Motherhood In The Liminal Stage,
2025
Clemson University
Untethered And Unraveled: Isolated Motherhood In The Liminal Stage, Ashton K. Wronikowski
All Theses
In examining Kate Chopin’s The Awakening alongside anthropologic theories of liminality, this paper examines the becoming women traverse as they transition between various social roles: girl, woman, mother. Edna is a maternal character attempting to unweave herself from her roles as mother and wife, and she finds this desire to go backwards to the freedom she experienced as a girl is proven to be impossible. The unmooring of her psyche and her subsequent suicide is indicative of a failure, not of her own accord, but in the social preparation and support she receives within her new identity. Social anthropologists further …
Literature As A Tool For The Introduction Of Mental Health To Children,
2025
University of Northern Colorado
Literature As A Tool For The Introduction Of Mental Health To Children, Kira Ott
Undergraduate Honors Theses
In childhood, literature is a quintessential learning tool, so it is imperative it is used in the introduction of mental health. Around the ages of seven to nine children begin to become aware of their own needs and comprehend others' perspectives (Short et al., 2017, p. 13). At this time non-fiction books can be used to present information when it is organized, accessible, and informative (Short et al., 2017, p. 13). This can be effectively paired with fiction which can help contextualize abstract ideas, and develop self-monitoring skills (Gunawardena, 2023; Short et al., 2017). Mental health, which encompasses thoughts, feelings, …
My Family’S Hands,
2025
SUNY Geneseo
The Stillness We Share,
2025
SUNY Geneseo
Budded,
2025
SUNY Geneseo
Queer Hope And Asexual Desire In Nella Larsen's Passing And Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse,
2025
University of South Alabama
Queer Hope And Asexual Desire In Nella Larsen's Passing And Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, Jeremy Buckner
Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2019 - present)
This project examines Nella Larsen’s Passing and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse together as queer artifacts in hopes of shedding new light on how race and sexuality can be reexamined across national modes of thinking. Although these writers’ backgrounds provide them with different bodies of knowledge, Larsen’s Irene and Woolf’s Lily have much more in common than might first appear. For one, even if racialization is more explicit—and presents more of an obstacle—for Irene, race is an important factor for both characters. Additionally, Irene and Lily both express profound discontent with marriage, Irene in her marriage to Brian and Lily …
Credentials,
2025
DePauw University
Credentials, Audrey Ickes
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
Audrey Ickes is a Senior English-Writing major and History and Communications double minor. Flip to page 31 to see the rest of her credentials or page 23 to find out why she writes whether she likes to or not.
Arrow Rock, Spring 2025, Full Issue,
2025
Lindenwood University
