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The Haunting Of Wright Manor, Katherine Holzman Aug 2022

The Haunting Of Wright Manor, Katherine Holzman

Honors Program Theses and Projects

The Haunting of Wright Manor explores the fear of the unknown, and more specifically, the hereditary nature of evil. “The phrase ‘nature versus nurture’ was first coined in the mid-1800s by the English Victorian polymath Francis Galton in discussion about the influence of heredity and environment on social advancement”(Serpell 2013), writes Mick Serpell in the British Journal of Pain. Essentially, “Nature versus Nurture” boils down to a debate of which character traits are inherited and which are the result of external environmental factors. Wright Manor’s protagonist, Victoria Mariano, finds herself struggling with the aforementioned debate. At the age of 12, …


Dead On Arrival, Paige Couture Aug 2022

Dead On Arrival, Paige Couture

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Big Nothing: A Story About Bicycles And The Girls Who Ride Them In The Heart Of West Texas, Keziah Staska Dec 2020

Big Nothing: A Story About Bicycles And The Girls Who Ride Them In The Heart Of West Texas, Keziah Staska

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Their one-way road trip had started the day before when they left their home in San Bernardino for the final time. Paisley was afraid of moving away from the city she grew up in, but not for the same reasons many children her age would be. . So, her social life wasn’t her primary concern when it came time to abandon her home. Instead, she was afraid to leave San Bernardino because she had memorized all the perfect bike routes within a thirty-mile radius. On the other, the fear that their new home would have insufficient routes and roads compared …


African American Literary Traditions In Justina Ireland’S Young Adult Novels Dread Nation And Deathless Divide, Gabrielle Sleeper Dec 2020

African American Literary Traditions In Justina Ireland’S Young Adult Novels Dread Nation And Deathless Divide, Gabrielle Sleeper

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Justina Ireland’s young adult novels Dread Nation (2017) and Deathless Divide (2020) tell the story of a Black girl by the name of Jane living in the aftermath of the Civil War, around 1880.


Cold Snap, Skylar Beauregard Dec 2020

Cold Snap, Skylar Beauregard

Master’s Theses and Projects

For my Master’s Thesis project, I will be writing an original piece of realistic fiction inspired by the “dirty realism” literary movement of the 20th century. This piece of fiction, at the end of these two semesters, will resemble a novella in length and style while focusing on execution and maintenance of profluence as an element of narrative craft. My first semester will be spent conducting topical research on female urban youth and modern sex work in the form of short interviews and field research, closely reading some relevant contemporary “dirty realism” pieces of fiction, and using craft-based handbooks to …


The Collective (A Novel): Part One, Jeffrey S. Davidson Jan 2019

The Collective (A Novel): Part One, Jeffrey S. Davidson

Master’s Theses and Projects

The novel in draft, “The Collective,” is the result of an eight-month effort, which began in one of Professor Bruce Machart’s writing workshops at Bridgewater State University, spring of 2016. It sat for a couple of years of minor edits and revisions while I waited for the opportunity to once again work with Professor Machart. What follows is the first of four sections of the novel, book one of four if you will. The first eighty pages of a significantly longer work, this thesis lays the footstones of a dramatic defamiliarization of the Santa Claus myth. I’ve turned everything about …


The Novel Mystique: Depictions Of Women In Novels Of The 1950s, Sarah Fender May 2018

The Novel Mystique: Depictions Of Women In Novels Of The 1950s, Sarah Fender

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Love You To Death, Kaleigh Longe May 2017

Love You To Death, Kaleigh Longe

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


The Internal Compass, Joshua Dyer May 2017

The Internal Compass, Joshua Dyer

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Birth By Portland: A Collection Of Short Stories By Shay Duchaine, Shay Duchaine Apr 2017

Birth By Portland: A Collection Of Short Stories By Shay Duchaine, Shay Duchaine

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


People Are Oceans: A Novel, Brianna Cataldo May 2016

People Are Oceans: A Novel, Brianna Cataldo

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Fairy Tales Rewritten: Reclaiming Womanhood For Women, Caitlin Rose Bradley May 2016

Fairy Tales Rewritten: Reclaiming Womanhood For Women, Caitlin Rose Bradley

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Saint Jude Knows Us By Name And Other Stories, Abigail Wooton May 2016

Saint Jude Knows Us By Name And Other Stories, Abigail Wooton

Master’s Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Broken Hearts: Short Stories, Angelique Paparella May 2016

Broken Hearts: Short Stories, Angelique Paparella

Master’s Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Reaper In The Rain: An Animated E-Book, Kurt Stilwell Apr 2016

Reaper In The Rain: An Animated E-Book, Kurt Stilwell

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Reaper in the Rain is a short story approaching Novella length in the young adult fantasy genre. The story follows two protagonists, Rebecca Reed, a freshman college student, and Eric Manning, a teenage boy who harnesses the powers of the Grim Reaper to destroy the Temuti mafia and avenge his mother’s death. This thesis explores the melding of genre; the fantasy of the Grim Reaper, the realistic grounding of Chicago, and the visual novel with the addition of animations.


Blood Of The Monster: Book 1 In The Covenant Trilogy, Emily Hayes Dec 2015

Blood Of The Monster: Book 1 In The Covenant Trilogy, Emily Hayes

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


What Carries On: Drafting, Revising, And Attention To Craft In Young Adult Fiction, Briana Mcdonald May 2015

What Carries On: Drafting, Revising, And Attention To Craft In Young Adult Fiction, Briana Mcdonald

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Short Fiction: Ulmus, Ward Heilman May 2015

Short Fiction: Ulmus, Ward Heilman

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.


A Phenomenological Exploration Of Objects In Time Travel Short Fiction, Andrea D. Howe Jan 2015

A Phenomenological Exploration Of Objects In Time Travel Short Fiction, Andrea D. Howe

Master’s Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Rooms Without Men, Kailey Brennan Dec 2014

Rooms Without Men, Kailey Brennan

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


A Series Of Tubes, Timothy Concannon Dec 2014

A Series Of Tubes, Timothy Concannon

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Grafton Ave.: A Screenplay, Christopher Porazzo May 2014

Grafton Ave.: A Screenplay, Christopher Porazzo

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Mom, Dad, And Johnny, John Condry May 2014

Mom, Dad, And Johnny, John Condry

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Smooth As Raven's Claws, Kyle Farnworth Dec 2013

Smooth As Raven's Claws, Kyle Farnworth

Honors Program Theses and Projects

This Creative Honors Thesis titled Smooth as Raven's Claws is a novel that focuses on a young mixed martial arts fighter named Dennis Lopes after his release from prison and his struggle to find a place in the corrupt world he is entering. The piece is populated with many characters whose lives intersect as they form a radical group of young outcasts and misfits that try to create positive change in the fictional Chatgrove City, though not by positive means. Dennis becomes a masked vigilante known only as “The Raven”, and he uses his newfound persona and followers to try …


Reading And Writing Women Of The Middle East: A Story Of War And Recovery, Saide Ranero May 2013

Reading And Writing Women Of The Middle East: A Story Of War And Recovery, Saide Ranero

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


The Emergency Exit, Thomas Porter May 2013

The Emergency Exit, Thomas Porter

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Doomed: A Speculative Work Of Science Fiction, Caitlin Angelo May 2013

Doomed: A Speculative Work Of Science Fiction, Caitlin Angelo

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Songs For The Nightingale, Michael Cotter May 2013

Songs For The Nightingale, Michael Cotter

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Ahead lies four rough chapters of a World War I fiction novel I have started earlier this semester as part of an ongoing English Honors Thesis project. The following pages represent an inkling of the research I have undertaken to start this project, but more importantly, they record the beginnings of my continual development in understanding that fiction is truly based around character. Utilizing the elements of craft I have learned from Bridgewater University’s various writing workshops, I submit four individuals that are the product of my imagination and ongoing effort. Fully conscious of the flaws within, I’m still proud …


Reading And Writing Women Of The Middle East: A Story Of War And Recovery. Chapter Iii: It Was A Dungeon, Saide Ranero Jan 2012

Reading And Writing Women Of The Middle East: A Story Of War And Recovery. Chapter Iii: It Was A Dungeon, Saide Ranero

Undergraduate Review

No abstract provided.


Where Have You Gone, Jack Lorimer? New England’S Moment In Juvenile Sports Fiction, Andrew C. Holman Jun 2011

Where Have You Gone, Jack Lorimer? New England’S Moment In Juvenile Sports Fiction, Andrew C. Holman

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.