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The Great Becoming, Sara L. Blackwekk
The Great Becoming, Sara L. Blackwekk
Theses
Few questions stir as much curiosity and controversy as the question of how and why did man evolve. This culminating project strives to explore that issue creatively. Using a combination of religious overtones, myths and legends, and imagination, this project strives to be an original creation myth- a piece of fiction that answers how civilization, as we know it today, began. The story bas not been written to replace commonly accepted religious beliefs. Rather, it has been written to complement them, to question them, and to explore the very beginnings of religion itself.
The introduction to this project focuses on …
Playing With A Full Deck, Matthew D.J. Kies
Playing With A Full Deck, Matthew D.J. Kies
Theses
This thesis project is a poem series about the spiritual growth of an archetypal messianic figure through his relationship to the growth of secondary characters as interpreted via the tarot deck.
Great care was taken throughout the piece to correlate directly the poetry with the symbol sets represented by the tarot. The individual pieces, for each piece of poetry can be taken individually as each of the cards can be apprehended individually, tie into both the artwork and the interpretation of the card to which the poem is connected. This is straightforward with the interpretations as they are relatively similar …
Nurses, My Family, & Elvis, Cristle Coleman-Griwach
Nurses, My Family, & Elvis, Cristle Coleman-Griwach
Theses
This collection of sh01t stories will focus primarily on nurses from the turn of the last century to the present. Some of the stories are fiction and some are based on experiences of nurses I have known. There two stories unrelated to nursing, one is about bow my father helped launch Elvis Presley's career, the other is about my family.
The goal of the collection is to illustrate the different roles and personalities or nurses. The first story, "A Feather in Her Bonnet" is set in the early nineteen-hundreds. A seemingly innocent feathered bonnet on the head or a frumpy …