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Indian Winter 1, Michelle Gilligan 2015 Lindenwood University

Indian Winter 1, Michelle Gilligan

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The Promethean, Volume 23, Cats In Zanzibar, 2015, English Department, Concordia University-Portland 2015 Concordia University St. Paul

The Promethean, Volume 23, Cats In Zanzibar, 2015, English Department, Concordia University-Portland

The Promethean

With every new generation it is important to look back and learn from those that have come before us, but it is also essential to redefine the new era on a personal level. Henry David Thoreau, venerated author and philosopher, concluded his novel Walden with the line, "It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar." Thoreau's sentiment was that a change of soul or purpose is more important than a change of scenery.

I speak for myself as well as a lot of other late-teen and twenty-something when I say that …


May 2015, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center 2015 University of Southern Maine

May 2015, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

Newsletter Archive

Contents: Shavout; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; A Bissel of Jewish Maine


Founder’S Rest, Emma Verstraete 2015 Lindenwood University

Founder’S Rest, Emma Verstraete

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Wanderlust, Devin Mitchell Durbin 2015 Lindenwood University

Wanderlust, Devin Mitchell Durbin

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Scarred: A Collection Of Creative Nonfiction Essays, Jason A. Ruiz 2015 Longwood University

Scarred: A Collection Of Creative Nonfiction Essays, Jason A. Ruiz

Theses & Honors Papers

This collection of essays seeks to explore the need for redemption as a necessary element of the Human Condition, by exploring my experiences as a child, adolescent, teen, and adult. Throughout the collection of essays, I, as the central character of the work, am conditioned by my physical deformity (a massive scar on my stomach) to question my life, values, and relationships. I establish for myself a destructive pattern that nearly ends my marriage. These destructive patterns eventually become touchstones through which I finally come to terms with who I am, what I am, and the truth that my existence …


Babel, Anais Dorian Norman 2015 Western Kentucky University

Babel, Anais Dorian Norman

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

babel is a collection of nonfiction essays in which I explore a female twenty-something’s crossdimensional dilemma of spirituality, racism, art, and love in the wake of Bible-belt hipsterdom. I board the train that is human pride, that great metal snake by which we essayists craft our lives, and measure out my stories by cities and coffeespoons—dotted with dark roast, preferably. The train of my collection glides through the first ‘burg and its Godlike aspirations, Babel; travels a ways to Virginia, specifically Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University and Prince Edward County, which was the hotbed of the Civil Rights in Education Movement; …


What Is The True Color, Mai Urai 2015 Lindenwood University

What Is The True Color, Mai Urai

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The Ashes Of A Man I Used To Be, Devin Mitchell Durbin 2015 Lindenwood University

The Ashes Of A Man I Used To Be, Devin Mitchell Durbin

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The Debater’S Clock, Stephen Hawkes 2015 Lindenwood University

The Debater’S Clock, Stephen Hawkes

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“The Bedroom And The Barnyard: Zoomorphic Lust Through Territory, Procedure, And Shelter In ‘The Miller’S Tale’” & Haunchebones, Danielle N. Byington 2015 East Tennessee State University

“The Bedroom And The Barnyard: Zoomorphic Lust Through Territory, Procedure, And Shelter In ‘The Miller’S Tale’” & Haunchebones, Danielle N. Byington

Undergraduate Honors Theses

“The Bedroom and the Barnyard: Zoomorphic Lust Through Territory, Procedure, and Shelter in ‘The Miller’s Tale’” is an academic endeavor that takes Chaucer’s zoomorphic metaphors and similes and analyzes them in a sense that reveals the chaos of what is human and what is animal tendency. The academic work is expressed in the adjunct creative project, Haunchebones, a 10-minute drama that echoes the tale and its zoomorphic influences, while presenting the content in a stylized play influenced by Theatre of the Absurd and artwork from the medieval and early renaissance period.


Driving With The Dead: Stories Of Loss, Journey, And Wonder, Valerie Silver 2015 Dominican University of California

Driving With The Dead: Stories Of Loss, Journey, And Wonder, Valerie Silver

Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects

We humans —across time, cultures, and geography— struggle with the awareness of our own mortality. Rather than accept finitude, we embrace ideas of boundlessness and perpetuity, and perceive ourselves as beings in constant motion, as travelers, in life as well as in death. We rely on metaphors of inner and outer journey to express life challenges and opportunities, and envision our deceased to be similarly en route: crossing over, passing on, ascending or descending, and, ultimately —hopefully— transcending to some higher realm. My culminating project explores the relationships between bereavement and journey, mourning and wonder. It is a collection …


***, Daria Ivanova 2015 Lindenwood University

***, Daria Ivanova

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About To Melt The Sky, Mai Urai 2015 Lindenwood University

About To Melt The Sky, Mai Urai

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10-42, Blake Fields 2015 Lindenwood University

10-42, Blake Fields

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A Day In The Life: The Tale Of Dr. Capitillar, Danyelle Pullens 2015 Lindenwood University

A Day In The Life: The Tale Of Dr. Capitillar, Danyelle Pullens

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Believing, You’Ll See, Emily Bounds 2015 Lindenwood University

Believing, You’Ll See, Emily Bounds

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Danse Russe, Danyelle Pullens 2015 Lindenwood University

Danse Russe, Danyelle Pullens

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Jimmy, Abby Edele 2015 Lindenwood University

Jimmy, Abby Edele

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Edele Family Vacation 2014: Wisconsin, Abby Edele 2015 Lindenwood University

Edele Family Vacation 2014: Wisconsin, Abby Edele

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