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Engl 1302 Composition Ii Research And Analysis - Language And Communication, Ymitri Mathison, Christanna Eshleman, Joy Patterson, Ayodeji Daramola

Open Education Resources

This OER packet contains the course materials for ENGL 1302 Composition II Research and Analysis that introduce you to the ways in which the act of writing has the power to help you make connections between yourself and the world. Writing can help you establish your own experiences or ideas in relation to the experiences or ideas of others. In short, it can help you figure out what you think about things and help you to situate those thoughts in relation to the world and among the multitude of opinions and ideas that exist within it. That’s a powerful tool.

Time To Re-Evaluate Taniguchi Jiro's Pace In Manga, Natsume Fusanosuke, Jon Holt, Teppei Fukuda

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

Natsume Fusanosuke is Emeritus Professor of the Graduate Program of Cultural Studies in Corporeal and Visual Representation, Gakushūin University. Despite his recent retirement from Gakushūin in March, he is still very active in manga criticism and scholarship. Originally a manga artist himself in the 1980s, by the 1990s he began doing more writing about manga, although he often still employs his cartooning skills to assist in his analysis and explanation of his subjects, much like his American contemporary Scott McCloud. It is not a stretch to compare the latter’s Understanding Comics to Natsume's work in the classic How to Read …

Wheels Of Love: Turning Souls To The Saviour, Amy Leah Berry Magaw

Masters Theses

This paper is written to explore the success of The Hallmark Movie Pattern. The famous female-lead romantic-comedy genre shines through their network when set against the backdrop of the Christmas season. Though many critics chastise the network for its cheesy repetitive storylines, the Hallmark Channel continues to hold the majority of the viewers every Christmas season. The franchise has, however, alienated some of their viewership by introducing the gay/lesbian agenda into some of their storylines, opening the door for Christian filmmakers to move into high demand. New Christian film streaming services such as PureFlix can now offer films that exceed …

Explosive Family Dinners: Bipolar Disorder, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy & Me Critical Afterword Convulsive Family Dynamics: When Mental And Neurological Disabilities Entangle And Isolate., Elizabeth Lane Glass

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is a memoir that is about my nuclear family. The themes within the memoir itself include my father’s bipolar disorder, my temporal lobe epilepsy, and how volatile the combination was as I grew up, but also how loving my family was, despite all the issues. It also looks at the ramifications of having temporal lobe epilepsy, growing up queer (bi+) in a time when being queer at all was not accepted and being bi+ was not understood, and the issues I’ve had with my sisters, which were caused in part by my father The memoir is accompanied by …

A Damn Good Time: Vignettes, Poems, And Recipes Inspired By A Life Lived Like Ernest Hemingway, Gabrielle Schenkelberg

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The creative thesis, "A Damned Good Time" is a mixed-genre fiction collection consisting of nine chapters. There are nine short stories, eighteen creative recipes, and eleven poems, all written while traveling and experiencing life like Hemingway. I'm inspired by the way Hem explains travel as a journey of self-discovery, writing deep friendships, tender love stories, and encapsulating his zest for life in his work. The creative sample I've included touches on all of these themes.

Advisor: Timothy Schaffert

Tsiyim, A Hiding, Aaron Lopatin

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

Tsiyim is a collection of poems and poetic sequences that investigate faith, doubt, and the natural world. The poems draw on the stories of martyrs, saints, prophets, and pilgrims, entering a mimetic chain that sets language and poetry as the placeholder for a contemporary faith to take place.

The Little Devil, Stefan Peña

Theses and Dissertations

The Little Devil is a series of moments in the life of a character named Boy. The story follows a loose plot that jumps around different time periods and states of mind of the protagonist in an imaginary town that has elements of both a small midwestern town and a semi-arid desert.

Mr. Crow, a local entrepreneur, and Irene who owns the local diner are both heavily involved in the lives of other citizens and use secrets as a form of currency. However, Mr. Crow uses his knowledge for personal reasons while Irene simply wants to know truth.

Although it …

From The Darkness They Came, Gabriel C. Paez

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.

Hummingbird, Sheala J. Dunlap

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

This illustration can be found on my website: https://shealadunlapart.com/monochromatic/

On my Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAdYFrQn6hd/

And on my Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/sheala.dunlap.art/photos/a.107953577593493/112175557171295

This is my original work and I give permission to Toyon for re-publishing.

El Viejo Guepardo, Luis G. De Felipe Vila

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

This work has been published in the book "Surreal y otros relatos", available in Amazon, and I'm fully entitled to republish it in Toyon

Rara, Short Latina

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

Piece originally appeared on author's blog, but no longer accessible to anyone.

https://www.shortlatinastories.com/

Japanese Humor Through Cartoons, Sarah Pillerdorf

Collage

The following pages illustrate Japanese humor through cartoons.

Tezuka Osamu (1928-1989) was one of the leading animators in postwar Japan. His most famous character is Tetsuwan Atomu (Atom Boy). Son Goku, a monkey/boy hybrid character born from a rock and possessing tremendous physical abilities, originally appeared as the hero of the late-sixteenth century Chinese classic "Journey to the West." Son Goku in his various forms appears in Japan in the Dragonball series and other popular media.

La Peste De La Langue Française, Curtis Plowgian

Collage

This is a tongue-in-cheek essay that I wrote for a class while I was studying abroad in Nantes, France. Our professor told us we could write about anything we chose, as long as it gave him a representative sample of our writing style. I chose to complain about French grammar rules. The title translated into English means, “The Plague of the French Language,” and the plague to which I am referring is the gender of nouns. Now, the grammatical concept of gender does not apply in the same way to the English language, so allow me to explain further.

In …

To Romp The Sky, Katherine Elizabeth Curlee Hamblen

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This is a creative thesis consisting of a collection of poetry divided into three sections. The poems explore themes of womanhood, motherhood, mental health, loneliness, and healing. The first section deals with childhood and family of origin, the second section is about the move into adulthood, individuality, and loneliness. The third follows the narrator into having her own children, creating her own family, and finding healing.

Collected Poems: Summer 2021, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

This is a collection of poetry from the Summer of 2021.

Discovering Caroline, Jon Meyers

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

DISCOVERING CAROLINE is the script for an ensemble, a feature-length supernatural drama, set in 1899. Caroline, presumed dead at birth, returns forty years later to the scene of that tragedy, a university nursing school training hospital, where her birth mother still works as a lunch lady. Surrounded by a dozen other characters (thirteen if you count the pig), played against a backdrop of a handful of supernatural events, this script explores familiar love, romantic love, inappropriate love, truth, deceit, death, and the consequences on others when these life events intertwine throughout seventy-seven scenes. Included here is an introduction as well …

Dorothy Scarborough. 'Supernatural Science' (1917), Arthur B. Evans

Global Language Studies Faculty publications

Introduced and annotated by Arthur B. Evans In its day, Dorothy Scarborough’s book The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917) was considered to be the best scholarly study on the subject. As the author points out in the book’s preface, the sheer size of its corpus was impressive: “the supernatural in modern English fiction has been found difficult to deal with because of its wealth of material. While there has been no previous book on the topic, and none related to it ... the mass of fiction itself introducing ghostly or psychic motifs is simply enormous” (v). Scarborough divided her …

Telepathic Visions: On Alvin Yapan’S An Kubo Sa Kawayanan (2015), Christian Jil R. Benitez

Filipino Faculty Publications

This article considers the practice of encouraged gazing in Alvin Yapan's An Kubo sa Kawayanan (“The Hut in the Bamboo Grove”) (2015) as a possible exercise on revering things. As such, it is wagered to be instructive towards a reunderstanding of vision as a form of material encounter with things beyond their mere objectification. Sense of sight is argued to be a human telepathic ability, that is, a distance (tele) feeling (pathein) with and for thigns, despite and because of their indeterminate materialities. Through looking closely at the rhetorical engagements of Yapan's Kubo with its various …

Where The Children Gather, Sophie Sadat-Ketabchi

Collage

No abstract provided.

La Niña Especial, Amy R. Brown

Collage

“The Special Girl” is a story about a girl who has the gift of talking to animals. Because of this gift, her parents believe that she should not speak with children or anyone who would see her as different. One day she escapes from her bedroom and goes off into the woods where she finds a boy who is injured. She helps him by getting one of her horses to carry him to a nearby village. When she returns home, her nursemaid locks her in her room for disobeying her parents’ wishes. Instead of being upset, she is perfectly calm …

Research

Appalachia

Studies of the damage road salt does to waterways, by Judy Benson. Grizzy bears rebound, by Lisa Densmore Ballard.

Accidents

Appalachia

Incidents include: a 26-year-old experienced hiker dies on Bondcliff on Christmas Eve; a new hiker struggles with his gear and calls for rescue; a man loses his way on icy Mount Lafayette. An excerpt from Accidents Editor Sandy Stott’s book Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the White Mountains.

Supporting A Mountain As It Changes: People, Climate, And The Absence Of Trees, Caroline Ailanthus

Appalachia

A science writer shows how Monadnock’s landscape tells the story of climate change and calamity.

Mount Washington's Quirky Record Holder: A Writer Follows The Intensity Of Alton Weagle, Dan Szczesny

Appalachia

Dan Szczesny chronicles the intensity of Alton Weagle, who invented many strange ways to break records on New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, like pushing a wheelbarrow of sugar up the auto road.

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2018: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2018 - Volume LXIX, Number 1 - Issue #245. Mount Washington: Summit of Extremes: Alton Weagle, the Record Maker; Revisiting a Tragic Accident

Books And Media

Appalachia

“Life in the Big Meh,” in which Sandy Stott reviews John Branch’s long, illustrated piece about Everest in the December 19, 2017 issue of the New York Times. White Mountain Guide by Steven D. Smith. Mount Washington: Narratives and Perspectives by Mike Dickerman (editor). Death in the White Mountains by Julie Boardman. Critical Hours by Sandy Stott. In Wild Trust by Jeff Fair. Adventures of a Deaf-Mute and Other Short Pieces by William B. Swett. Where You’ll Find Me by Ty Gagne.

Sequoias And Redwoods In A Hotter World: When Trees As High As 30-Story Buildings "Die On Their Feet," Something's Wrong, Christopher Johnson

Appalachia

Scientists in two pioneering research projects are examining how climate change affects the iconic ancient trees of California, by Christopher Johnson.

The Continuing Adventures Of Buffalo And Tough Cookie: Sometimes A Family Goes Deeper Than Blood, Janelle Mylott, Dan Szczesny

Appalachia

Dan Szczesny and Janelle Mylott together tell the story of their hiking partnership after the death of Janelle’s grandmother and guardian who made Janelle’s participation possible.

Climbers As Humanitarians: Helping Injured Migrants In Mexico, Lisa Densmore Ballard

Appalachia

A group buys an ambulance and helps injured migrants in Mexico.

The Long Way Home: Encounter With A Hare, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Christine Woodside encounters a hare in the wilderness.