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In The Way Back, Mark Rodehorst

Theses and Dissertations

This is a collection of poems that explores the intersection of place, memory, culture, and identity.

Meigallo, Julia Velasco Espejo

Theses and Dissertations

This work explores the figure of the witch as seen in traditional Galician folklore and in relation to female empowerment and traditional representations of women. It follows two women throughout two distinct timelines (1940s and 1980s) in the region of Galicia, northwest of Spain. The narrative also examines the relationship between social and institutional power, as well as the ways in which folklore can shed light on timeless topics such as gender relations and a community’s interactions with the supernatural.

Elsewhere, Then, Tracie Renée Dawson

Theses and Dissertations

Elsewhere, Then is a cross-generational road novel that traces the sociopolitical and personal narrative of a family through a musician making her way from Savannah to San Francisco. Traditional road narratives have long depicted the lone female traveller as being subject to violence when stepping outside the domestic sphere, which echoes history's larger and pervasive trend of denying women agency through silence and subjugation—in life, as in stories. The novel interrogates how (and by whom) narratives are created, embellished, changed, and/or discarded through the narrator's temporal and spatial journey. A guiding force behind the novel is William H. Whyte's idea …

Grace Notes, Virginia G.R. Thomas

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Solitude, Jared C. Richardson

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

The Night Bird, Samantha A. Siomko

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Restorative Sleep: Stories, Andrew Moreno

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Baby Doll, Abigail L. Hancher

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Alexandre Goes South: A Novel – And – An Essay, ‘The Modern Adventure Novel’, Samima Dindar

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

When asked what sort of novel I was writing, I always said ‘a modern adventure novel’. And then I began to question myself about the meaning of these three words together, the substance and the definition of a modern adventure novel. Does such a thing exist? In my novel ‘Alexandre Goes South’, Alexandre is a thirty-year-old Parisian from a family that enjoy wealth and privilege, facts that provide a setting but play only incidental roles in the events that unfold. Alexandre goes through a series of crises, which propel the journey that launches him onto the road to manhood. The …

Chinese Diaspora And Western Australian Nature (Perth Region): A Study Of Material Engagement With The Natural World In Diasporic Culture, Li Chen

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Based on an ethnographic study of the everyday practices of diasporic Chinese residents of Perth, this project focuses on the relationship between the ecologic environment and diasporic Chinese cultures in contemporary Western Australia.

With the acceleration of globalization, studies in diaspora have increasingly absorbed geographic ideas. Research on the relationship between ecology and humankind has thrown new light on discussions of diaspora. However, there are few in-depth studies addressing the construction of diasporic place and space with an engagement of the material world. Considering the relative absence of the natural world as a serious subject in contemporary diaspora studies, the …

Campus Vol Iii N 3, Lynn Olwin, Terry Thurn, Ralph Gilbert, Jim Marshall, Tom Cooperrider, Terry Thurn, Rod Wishard, Gene Horyn, Jack Mathews, James Gould

Campus

Olwin, Lynn. "The Vacuum. "Prose. 2.

Gilbert, Ralph and Terry Thurn. "Backstage With Home of The Brave". Prose. 4.

Marshall, Jim. "Boy Meets Laundromat". Prose. 6.

Cooperrider, Tom. "From One Room". Prose. 7.

Thurn, Terry. "Evaluation of a Blind Date". Picture. 8.

Wishard, Rod. "The Case Presented". Prose. 10.

Horyn, Gene. "Tug of War With Time Clocks". Prose. 11.

Gould, James and Jack Matthews. "Cigarettes and Coke and Wild, Wild Coeds". Prose. 13.

Campus Vol Iii N 2, Lynn Olwin, Hugh Wittich, Ed Subler, Ralph Gilbert, John Blashill, Jim Stiverson-Terry Thurn, Kenneth Shelford, Dave Fairless, Jack Mathews-George Ducro, Gene Horyn, Don Hodgson

Campus

Olwin, Lynn. "The Picture". Prose. 2.; Wittich, Hugh. "Mister Diablos". Prose. 3.; Subler, Ed. "A Backward Glance". Picture. 4.; Gilbert, Ralph. ""Going Uphill?" Or, An India Ink Indictment of the Drag as the Air Gets Mighty Thin Towards the Top, Mother". Cartoon. 6.

Blashill, John. "Local Man Killed". Prose. 7.

Stiverson, Jim and Terry Thurn. "Sadie Hawkins Dance". Picture. 8.

Shelford, Kenneth. "Night and John Barlow -- A Sketch". Prose. 10.

Fairless, Dave. "'Twas The Night Before Christmas". Picture. 11.

Ducro, George and Jack Mathews. "The Case of the Consumptive Capon". Prose. 12.

Hoyrn, Gene. "Forty-Three years of Progress". Prose. …

How Do You Squash A Cricket? A Collection Of Essays, Kelley Barrett

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Essays include:

• How Do You Squash a Cricket?
• Imagine That
• The Night of Their Lives
• Not A Member
• Coming of Age in a Catholic School Bathroom
• The Perils of Being Pleasant
• Single White Female Seeks Fairy Godmother
• Parents These Days
• Losing My Religion
• A Good Enough Samaritan

Campus Vol I N 1, John Saveson, Glen Bammann, Jean Brokaw, Willy Loranger, Bob Jain, Charles Youngblood, Betty Harman, Jo Alford, Dawn Jackson

Campus

Saveson, John. "Seguille". Prose. 2.

Bammann, Glenn. "Behind The Scenes". Prose. 3.

Thompson, Rolan. "Autumn Nocturne". Picture. 4.

Little, Marjorie. "Three Quatrains". Poem. 6.

Little, Marjorie. "Inland Spring". Poem. 6.

Little, Marjorie. "Triolet". Poem. 6.

Little, Marjorie. "Magic". Poem. 6.

Little, Marjorie. "Invitation". Poem. 6.

Dancy, Betty Jane. "Dad's Home". Poem. 6.

Dancy, Betty Jane. Untitled. Poem. 6.

Brokaw, Jean. "The Responsibility is Mine". Prose. 7.

Loranger, Willy. "Dig and Drive". Prose. 8.

Jain, Bob. "The Bargain". Prose. 10.

Youngblood, Charles. "Have You Read..." Prose. 11.

Alford, Jo et al. "Happy Days Are Here Again!". Prose. 12.

Denison News Bureau. …

Why The Business Of Love Is Bull$Hit, Deanne Gaston

Capstones

This is a narrative piece about the experience I had when I became a love guru/advice columnist.

Link: https://deannegaston.atavist.com/why-the-business-of-love-is-bullshit

American Milk: The Raw Deal, Dan Heching

Capstones

This report takes a look at the difficulty in procuring raw milk, an increasingly desired alternative to processed dairy, in New York City. It also tells the story of one woman's journey to tasting raw milk for the first time, despite reservations.

link: https://social.shorthand.com/MoodyHeching/uyYgLmuoNp6/american-milk-the-raw-deal

How A New York Native American Community Was Polluted For Decades, Tola Brennan

Capstones

General Motors came to the upstate New York's North Country a savior, the bringer of much needed jobs. But after decades of using PCBs, a chemical much later revealed to be highly toxic, it's become the story of one the largest Superfund sites in the country. And the the hardest hit have been the Saint Regis Mohawk whose small reservation is right next door to the now demolished plant. Today, after decades of cleanup, General Motors has capped its liability through a 2009 bankruptcy. With the cleanup set to be completed next year, many Mohawk feel justice was never served. …

Verge, Jessica A. Collins

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This poetry thesis explores the relationship of the Buddhist concept of nonduality to polar mood disorders by employing motifs of bomb testing, war crimes, spiders, and seascapes. A critical preface credits Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, and Mary Ruefle as influences. The manuscript favors free-verse poetry and field composition, though also includes a lyric essay and two formal poems.

What Sweden Is Like, Riccardo Savini

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Collection of short stories set in Stockhol, Sweden. Themes are alienation, bi-culturalism, third culture kids nomadism, fitting in a differnet culture.

The Present, A Thousand Times Deeper, Edie Talley

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The creative nonfiction essays and poetry in this collection explore family survival during the hardest of times--when the desire to give up is at its greatest--as told from the perspective of a woman who is a daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother. These are not stories of defeat. Nor are they merely explorations of death and dying. They are cleebrations of living, of surviving, of loving and being loved against all odds.

The Last Place On Earth, Cameron Q. Todd

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Different Names For Bullying, Marco Poggio

Capstones

“There's all different forms of bullying,” says Steven Gray, a Lakota rancher and former law enforcement officer living in South Dakota. In this look into Gray’s life, we learn about two instances of bullying: the psychological and physical harassment that pushed his son, Tanner Thomas Gray, to commit suicide at age 12; And the controversial construction of an oil pipeline in an ancient tribal land that belongs to the Lakota people by rights of a treaty signed in 1851, which Gray sees as an institutional abuse infringing on the sovereignty of his people. Gray is involved in the movement that …

Time Enough, Lb Kovac

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

One For Mirth, Two For Sorrow, Hananah Zaheer

Westview

No abstract provided.

Grandmother Armstrong, Donna Emerson

Westview

No abstract provided.

Seasons Sewn, Sheila Murphy

Westview

No abstract provided.

The Beast Inside, Steve Cave

Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones

This thesis contains the first seven chapters of the novel Ravenous, the short story “Faithfall,” and the academic paper “From Hellhound to Hero: Tracking the Shifting Shape of the 21st Century Werewolf.” Both of the stories deal with werewolves as a common element, but use very different types of werewolves in each. The werewolves of Ravenous transform through losing control or giving in to their passions, while the werewolves in “Faithfall” change only with the full moon, and retain no control once transformed. Both stories have a gay male protagonist, though also in very different ways. Ravenous follows the story …

Swamp Bandit: The Legend Of John Ashley And Florida's Notorious Ashley Gang, Constance M. B. Briggs

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

This capstone presents the first five chapters of an historical novel about the life and legend of John Ashley and the group of men who make up his alleged criminal gang and reign in south Florida from 1911 to 1924. Considered the last frontier of the United States, Florida during this time is raw, untamed, and just beginning to be drained for land reclamation. Ashley makes local as well as national headlines, several of which are quoted in this story. Known as a “crack-shot” with a gun, he becomes a folk-hero to the local “Crackers,” native Floridians who keep from …

Short Works: Things Gone By, Novel: Creatives, Elizabeth B. Visscher

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

The theme of each short work will portray three life-changing intersections: The first short work will follow a man named, Early Easter, an elderly man struggling with the decision to let loss and age give way to bitterness or accept the ever-changing world and find companionship in Ayotunde, a fourteen-year-old boy. The second work will portray the conflicting paths of Idella, a newly-divorced mother, and Grace, her daughter, who is struggling to navigate this change in her mother’s life; these woman learn that relationships are as deeply rooted as ivy and even harder to upheave, as they toil to rip …

Little Left Of Normal, Nicole Archambault

Master’s Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.