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Home And Away: Imagining Ireland Imagining America, Shaun O'Connell Sep 2013

Home And Away: Imagining Ireland Imagining America, Shaun O'Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

From the Editor's Note by Padraig O'Malley: Shaun O’Connell has lost none of his touch. In “Home and Away: Imagining Ireland Imagining America,” O’Connell juxtaposes two novels: Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy (1998) and Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn (2009) and reveals the parallels and contrasts that enrich the discussion of Irish and Irish American identities. Toibin, an Irish writer, would have us see an America, land of the free, as an open, inviting place but exacting in redeeming promises made; McDermott, an American writer, portrays an Ireland that is magical, a little bit of heaven, but finally a closed and bitter place. …


When Sweet Me Meets Experience And Pink Panther In High Heels, Christina Raiford Jun 2013

When Sweet Me Meets Experience And Pink Panther In High Heels, Christina Raiford

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


The Intertwining In The Museum, Latoya Pickett Jun 2013

The Intertwining In The Museum, Latoya Pickett

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Surfacing, Kelsey Mooney Jun 2013

Surfacing, Kelsey Mooney

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Sand’S Reprisal, Chukwudi Mogbo Jun 2013

Sand’S Reprisal, Chukwudi Mogbo

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


A Hamtramck Horror, Gerald Messier Jun 2013

A Hamtramck Horror, Gerald Messier

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Dogs Galore, Bonnie Kelly Jun 2013

Dogs Galore, Bonnie Kelly

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


David Hershel Johnson, Laci Turner Jun 2013

David Hershel Johnson, Laci Turner

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


The Hidden Truth Of Owensville, Gerald Messier Jun 2013

The Hidden Truth Of Owensville, Gerald Messier

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


A Stranger’S Revenge, Maeghan Bradshaw Jun 2013

A Stranger’S Revenge, Maeghan Bradshaw

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Cancer Spaceship, Christian Powell Jun 2013

Cancer Spaceship, Christian Powell

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Wilma’S Song, Stephen Gillette Jun 2013

Wilma’S Song, Stephen Gillette

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Tree Of Sorrow, Jon Micah Bayliss Jun 2013

Tree Of Sorrow, Jon Micah Bayliss

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


The Virtuous Woman, Anjetta Williams Jun 2013

The Virtuous Woman, Anjetta Williams

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Life Isn’T About Arranging The Flowers, It’S About Controlling The Seeds, Christian Powell Jun 2013

Life Isn’T About Arranging The Flowers, It’S About Controlling The Seeds, Christian Powell

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


The Beast, Stephen Clark Jun 2013

The Beast, Stephen Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Just To Fit In, Stephen Clark Jun 2013

Just To Fit In, Stephen Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


How I Will Live! Before I Bow., Michael Williams Jun 2013

How I Will Live! Before I Bow., Michael Williams

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Catechism, Stephen Clark Jun 2013

Catechism, Stephen Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Ain’T Got Nowhere To Go, Anjetta Williams Jun 2013

Ain’T Got Nowhere To Go, Anjetta Williams

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Late Summer 1912, Stephen Gillette Jun 2013

Late Summer 1912, Stephen Gillette

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Remembering Things We’Ve Never Done: Memory’S Daughters And The Literary Experience, William C. Johnson Jun 2013

Remembering Things We’Ve Never Done: Memory’S Daughters And The Literary Experience, William C. Johnson

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Memory, essential in creative writing, inspires us to weave literary reading into the narrative of personal experience and to seek, through recollection, our psychic wholeness.


Writing Awareness, Gwen Gorzelsky Jun 2013

Writing Awareness, Gwen Gorzelsky

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

The author argues that, by practicing embodied, metaphoric ethnography, educators can revise their roles in classroom social systems and so pursue the goals of critical pedagogy.


In The Name Of The Spirit, Lynn Briggs, Fred Schunter, Ray Melvin Jun 2013

In The Name Of The Spirit, Lynn Briggs, Fred Schunter, Ray Melvin

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

The authors argue that naming experiences "spiritual" is important to an expanded understanding of goals, struggles, and success in their writing center practice.


New Locations For Discursive Agency: The Story Of Anandamai Ma, Mary Ann Cain Jun 2013

New Locations For Discursive Agency: The Story Of Anandamai Ma, Mary Ann Cain

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

This paper aims to relocate our relationship to modes of knowledge that fall outside of Western rationalism and conceptual thought by relocating our understanding of agency through the figure of Anandamai Ma, a 20th century Hindu "saint.


What To Sight And Smell Was Sweet: Flowers And Gardening In Paradise Lost, Linnea White May 2013

What To Sight And Smell Was Sweet: Flowers And Gardening In Paradise Lost, Linnea White

Colloquy Undergraduate Research Journal

Flowers and gardening have been part of human life since God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. In Milton’s epic Paradise Lost, flowers and the act of gardening enhance the meaning of the poem and give insight into life before and after sin corrupted God’s creation. Milton’s use of plant and floral imagery highlights the changes and continuities between unfallen and fallen life in Paradise Lost.


Mother Noose, Mark Smith May 2013

Mother Noose, Mark Smith

Bryant Literary Review

Behind the yard of pumpkins
and blue hubbards, stems


Eros Vs. Logos, David Zepp Lash May 2013

Eros Vs. Logos, David Zepp Lash

Bryant Literary Review

On July 15, 2011 I was diagnosed with a stage IV "double hit" Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a type of blood cancer.


Father, 1970, Julie Danho May 2013

Father, 1970, Julie Danho

Bryant Literary Review

Outside Sip-N-Dip Donuts, he and Drag and Crazy Andy down Cuervo until


After Harry's Suicide, E. G. Silverman May 2013

After Harry's Suicide, E. G. Silverman

Bryant Literary Review

I had not dreamed, so at first I remembered nothing.