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Behind Valencia: A Contemporary Play, Emily Charbonneau

Honors Projects in English and Cultural Studies

SYNOPSIS The purpose of this play is to highlight the length that modern females go to in order to maintain a desired appearance, especially across social media. These desired appearances are influenced by the glamorous and unrealistic looks and physiques that are prevalent in the media. Essentially, the primary goal of these characters is to attract the attention of their male counterparts because of the gender roles society promotes. This shallow lifestyle can be completely consuming for impressionable, young females.

Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2017, Musselman Library

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter

From the Dean (Robin Wagner)

Library News

• "You do not have a minute to lose!"
• New Homes for Old Books
• Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (Melanie Fernandes '16)
• Share a Table (Sarah Nelson '17)
• A Note of Sadness (Jay P. Brown '51)
• Not Lost in Translation

Half a Million Downloads from The Cupola! (Janelle Wertzberger)

Revisit The Mercury

Mercury Stories of Note (Jerry Spinelli '63)

More Early College Publications Online

The Spectrum of Art

First German Print of the Declaration of Independence (Daniel DeNicola)

Hidden Beneath: Watermarks in the Early American Document Collection (Tyler Black '17)

Archaeological Students Dig Special Collections

Research Reflections …

The Howl - Spring 2017, Gwendolyn Derosa, Eun Jin Jung, Na Kyung Kim, Youngjoo Kwon, Aileen Lee, Kihoon Kim, Yu-Ling Tsao

The Howl

The Howl is a magazine that is planned, researched, written, photographed and designed by Otterbein University's ESL and international students. The magazine serves to give them a safe space in which to use their voice to share their cultures, experiences and lives. If you are interested in submitting to The Howl, please email your writing or photography to [email protected].

Savages, Randilee Sequeira Larson

CUP Undergraduate Research

Savages is a memoir chronicling my near-immediate expulsion from the Army upon arriving to Basic Training. The story begins with my discharge, made on the grounds that I was “psychologically unstable” and therefore couldn’t be trusted as a soldier. The diagnosis was based primarily on a sexual assault I went through several months before shipping. When I was given my in-processing packet on the first day, one of the questions asked “Have you ever been raped or sexually assaulted?” By opting for honesty and marking yes, I sealed my fate and lost my job in a single pen stoke. For …

New Tricks (2017), John Nelson, Kennedi Ford, Robert Johnson, Luke Reiner, Brittni Shoup-Owens

New Tricks

Another great issue of New Tricks has been released thanks to the hard work of my fellow students, Rachel Bruntz, Brad Hamer, Robert Johnson, Luke Reiner, Brittni Shoup-Owens, and Keegan Struble. The team worked tirelessly to revamp the New Tricks website and in advertising, editing, and putting it together into something we are all proud of.

The 2017 Literary Stunt Dogs extends our deepest gratitude to Dr. John Nelson for his direction and contributions to the magazine, and to DSU's Sigma Tau Delta chapter and the English Club for their help sponsoring and funding the production. Special thanks to Chris …

Hope In An Iv Drip, Gabriel Cheng

Calliope

No abstract provided.

Walking In Waves, Sarah David

All NMU Master's Theses

The following thesis consists of a story collection, the majority of which are flash fiction pieces. The thesis consists of two sections. The first section, “Walking in Waves,” is composed of stories about familial relationships and the balancing act of motherhood. Some of these stories play with unique formats or degrees of speculative fiction. Many are rather lyrical in nature. The second section is a novella-in-flash; entitled “Tiny’s Jazz Magic,” this series of stories tells the tale of a woman and her young daughter in 1920’s Storyville, New Orleans.

Hide And Seek, Ashley Colombo

Calliope

No abstract provided.

Good Looking In The Dark: A Narrative Across Three Mediums, Aimee J. Valentine

Dissertations

Good Looking in the Dark: A Narrative Across Three Mediums is a single story presented in three distinct formats: short story, stage drama, and graphic narrative. This project is an exploration of the creative process and its relation to medium, reader anticipation, participation and response. Reflecting my position that narrative meaning is made primarily in the dark space of the reader’s mind, the story selected for this project is one that takes place almost entirely in the dark. In Good Looking in the Dark, two strangers are locked in a closet and engage one another without seeing the other—just …

With Light, Emily Howell

English Theses & Dissertations

I am a photographer. I’ve spent years training myself to shut out 99.9% of the world, see things with one eye closed through the frame of my viewfinder and stop time for a single instant. With Light is a collection of lyrical nonfiction essays that explore those instants. Thematically, the essays focus largely on place, time and a search for a sense of belonging. In addition, they touch on grief, longing, fear, friendship, art and love. They are steeped in images. They are lyrical. In short, they are pieces from an album documenting my search for home.

New Elegies, Sarah Mccall

English Theses & Dissertations

This manuscript investigates a poetics of desire—how desire manifests in and around the self, the body, and the world. Bearing witness to desire has afforded me an opportunity to develop and refine my own sensibility in my poems, which are deeply personal and narrative by nature, and craft my work around these related themes: Spirituality, marriage, grief, home, identity, sobriety, love, and even racial and environmental concerns. In my work, desire represents a container for a broad consideration of yearning, and wanting—and how to manage such feelings every day, in the world.

Elegy motivates many of these poems, though like …

Healthy Living And Other Electives, Lamar Giles

English Theses & Dissertations

Healthy Living and Other Electives is an excerpt of a young adult novel that follows a sixteen-year-old boy, Del Rainey, as he pursues a romantic relationship with a member of his church’s Purity Pledge class. In addition to romance, Del also seeks a better understanding of manhood through interactions with his peers and father. Along the way, we discover how messily intertwined the church, school system, and lives of teenagers are in Del’s small Virginia town. The novel examines themes of religion, bureaucracy, and toxic masculinity.

Strange New World, Marcus Bowlus

The Tuxedo Archives

The trip between Egypt and Jerusalem had taken hours already, the environmental shielding on his sand skimmer shone a faint orange, the barren wastes flying by below were scattered with husks of tanks and bones, scorch marks still clinging to a battle field no one wanted to remember. ~excerpt from the short story

The Last Lesson, Travis Lyons

The Tuxedo Archives

Transmission sounds like it’s got maybe a day left in it before I really got to take it in. Put it off long enough now; ain’t like I’ve had any spare cash to pay for it. So now the damn thing sounds like it’s had enough. Fucking lovely. Refrigerator blew out yesterday; dropped my last light bulb while trying to replace the one in the kitchen. ~excerpt from short story

Queen For A Day, Kimberly Carlson

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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Kids, Miles R. Hay

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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Landay As The Voice Of Pashtun Women's Passion And Social Life, Fahim Rahimi

Journal of Research Initiatives

This paper explores Landay a form of folk poetry and consist of couplets; the first one consists of nine syllables and the second thirteen. This format of poetry is described by some to consist of one and one half verses. The author of such couplets is generally unknown. Some of them have names of authors or national figures and heroes attached.

In the study of a society various aspects of society can be discussed like historical background, cultural elements, cultural heritage, which are main points of a society. Furthermore, it gives importance to fundamental values and customs along with life …

Growing Pains: An Honors Thesis Of Creative Writing, Angelica L. Santiago Gonzalez

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

Most of the creative writing included in this thesis are nonfiction pieces; there are only a few that can be classified as fiction. They all connect to my own growth and development as a writer, and also as an individual struggling to find and establish my own identity. In the last four years I tried to make sense of my life and my struggles, especially my personal history of trauma. I can confidently say that I am in a much better place than I was when I first started my adventure at LC. Writing has been an important part of …

Making Common Causes: Crises, Conflict, Creation, Conversations: Offerings From The Biennial Alecc Conference Queen’S University, Kingston 2016, Jenny Kerber, Astrida Neimanis, Pamela Banting, Tania Aguila-Way, Ron Benner, Mick Smith, Adeline Johns-Putra, Peter C. Van Wyck

The Goose

At ALECC’s biennial gathering at Queen’s University in June 2016, participants came together to explore the possibilities of “making common causes” from a host of angles, yet all were anchored in an acknowledgement of the diverse more-than-human relationships that make up our common worlds. The following collection of short essays, authored by some of the gathering’s keynote speakers, explores specific aspects of making common causes. In this special section of The Goose, we deliberately invoke the plural of conversation. We understand the effort to make common causes as a process, rather than a “one and done” act. It is multifaceted …

Sitting In The Bush, Or Deliberate Idleness, Sylvia Bowerbank

The Goose

In this essay, Sylvia Bowerbank describes wandering with her two dogs on her land on the edge of Beverly Swamp in Southern Ontario in an effort to cultivate Green habits and attitudes in her daily life.

Autumn’S Fragrant Afterthought, Suzanne Stewart

The Goose

This creative nonfiction essay is an excerpt from a book length study that I have recently completed on the seasons. My manuscript was inspired by the Medieval Book of Hours, particularly its Labours of the Months calendar. This essay is a portrait of November. My setting is northeastern Nova Scotia, where the Medieval model of agrarian labour is still remarkably preserved. The essay is also a reflection on time: the rhythmic, seasonal flow that counters the accelerated pace of modern, urbanized life.

Exile Vol. Lx, Alex Carroll, Jillian Koval, Kurt Grahnke, Matthew Demotts, Nick Holland, Zoe Drazen, Mia Juratovac, Kelsey Hagarman, Autumn Stiles, Tori Newman, Kym Littlefield, Lauren Gustafson, Mimi Mendes De Leon, Emily Carnavale, Emmalee Hagarman, Makenzie Shaw, Huang Szu-Yu, Helene Griffin, Stephanie Arhin, Sam Heyman

Exile

warehousing, Alex Carroll 7

In Search of Suburbia, Jillian Koval 8

Long Distance, Kurt Grahnke 10

[kingdoms], Matthew DeMotts 11

Ice Storm, Nick Holland 12

Coyotes, Matthew DeMotts 20

Honeymoon on Mars, Zoe Drazen 22

Salad, Mia Juratovac 23

Rebirth in Brixton, Mia Juratovac 25

Om Mani Padme Hum, Kelsey Hagarman 26

Between Women, Autumn Stiles 39

A Poem About Why I Don’t Write Poetry, Tori Newman 41

Summer Sweet, Kym Littlefield 44

To Jourdan, Lauren Gustafson 45

Guillotine, Mimi Mendes de Leon 47

Home, Emily Carnavale 54

The Nadir, Emmalee Hagarman 56

May 18th, 1980, Mackenzie Shaw / 57

Exile Vol. Lix, Sara Blike, Nick Borbe, Meghan Callahan, Emily Carnevale, Hannah Chiodo, Lindsey Clark, Abby Current, Zoe Drazen, Danielle Golds, Golzar Meamer, Kelsey Hagarman, Sam Heyman, Mia Juratovac, Lindsay Martin, Brittany Menning, Emily Metcalf, Mimi Mendes De Leon, Leona Vander Molen, Kristof Oltvai, Daniel Persia, Krista Pohlmeyer, Ellen Rosebrough, Allison Scarlott, Makenzie Shaw, Autumn Stiles, Stetson Thacker, Adrienne Violand

Exile

No abstract provided.

Exile Vol. Lviii, Autumn Stiles, Daniel Carlson, Moriah Ellenborgen, Nicco Pandolfi, Abby Current, Maggie Reagan, Natalie Olivo, Julianne Hyer, Mimi Mendes De Leon, Amanda Tangredi, Christie Maillet, Sam Heyman, Caroline Clutterbuck, Shawn Whites, Ammon Hollister, Meghan Callahan, Aaron Bennett, Lindsey Clark, Steph Maniaci

Exile

Autumn Stiles: Biblical Brooklyn 5

Daniel Carlson: A Night Indoors 6

Moriah Ellenborgen: Cradle Drop 8

Nicco Pandolfi: Cardinality 10

Abby Current: Babies in the Snow 11

Maggie Reagan: Chimaera 13

Natalie Olivo: Treading Water 14

Julianne Hyer: Swatch Watch 21

Mimi Mendes de Leon: For Bosnia 23

A. Tangredi: How to Keep from Freezing 24

Autumn Stiles: Bodies and Bread 25

Christie Maillet: The Depth of a Song 26

Sam Heyman: First Kiss 27

Shawn Whites: Five Hundred Miles to Freedom 28

Ammon Hollister: Temptation 31

Caroline Clutterbuck: The Conspiracy in Your Smile 32

Nicco Pandolfi: Sore Subject 33 …

Exile Vol. Liv, Dawn West, Kristine Aman, Lauren Mallett, Jayme Hughes, Halle Murcek, Alex Huperts, Stephanie Chan, Matthew Miller, Katie Berta, Brandon Mcadams, Nicholas Bailey, Luke Gelber, Katie Partridge, Catherine Mehta, Dan Sweatt, Patrick Mcginty

Exile

No abstract provided.

Exile Vol. Lii No. 1, Ezra Pound, Sarah Clapp, Ian Conwell, Zach Walters, Sarah Bishop, Jess Haberman, Katie Berta, Diamond Sankey, Caitlyn Closser

Exile

NOTE: the fiction piece Cerveca Andaluce by Sarah Clapp is incorrectly listed as beginning on page 10 in the published table of contents. It actually begins on page 9.

"All submissions are reviewed on an anonymous basis, and all editorial decisions are shared equally among the members of the editorial board." -53

"Cover Art by Medha Jaishankar: "The Heffner View of Chicago" -53

"Printed by Printing Arts Press" -53

Exile Vol. L, Ezra Pound, Thomas Kern, Sandy Liang, Derek Mong, Meghan Vesper, Nicki Bennet, Sarah Clapp, Lauryn Dwyer, Melanie Vanderkolk, Sarah Broderick, Beth Clevenstine, Rachel Wise, Molly Graber

Exile

47th Year

FALL 2003:

Title Page 3

Epigraph by Ezra Pound 5

Table of Contents 7

Contributors' Notes 32-33

Editorial Board 34

ART

Untitled I by Tricia DiFranco '06 10

Untitled I by Derek Mong '04 16

Untitled II by Derek Mong '04 18

Untitled II by Tricia DiFranco '06 21

Andromeda Chained to the Rock of Doom by Matt Messmer '06 24

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Matt Messmer '06 26

Tony by Erin Saelzler '06 30

FICTION

Inside by Thomas Kern '05 11-15

Dreamer by Sandy Liang '07 22-23

POETRY

Blackout by Derek Mong '04 (Winner of …

Niche By Basma Kavanagh, Vivian M. Hansen

The Goose

Review of Basma Kavanagh's Niche.

Exile Vol. Xlv No. 1, Ezra Pound, Katie Kroner, Bekah Taylor, Jamie Kijowski, Mary Ann Davis, Edward S. Knotek, Seth Ireland, Tom Hankinson, K. Moore, Hillary Campbell, Paul Durica, Emily Vogel

Exile

No abstract provided.