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Creation, Joseph Souder

The Angle

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The Role Of Community In Two Novels By Barbara Kingsolver, Rebecca K. Calwell

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Throughout her career, contemporary writer Barbara Kingsolver has written novels that appeal to both readers and critics. Beginning with The Bean Trees in 1988, through Poisonwood Bible in 1998, Kingsolver established herself as a rising star among contemporary writers. In a review of one of the Kingsolver’s books, one critic said, “It seems there is nothing she can’t do” (Smith 3).

Kingsolver sets herself apart from many of her peers in both her style and her themes. Raised in Kentucky, but now living in Arizona, she has a gift for storytelling. Her dialogue is strong, especially in its ability to …

A Primer For Rearing The American Boy, Ron Brooks

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 4

The Monarch Migrations, Ronald Wallace

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 40

The Blindman Dreaming, Lois Marie Harrod

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 15

Elegy For The Southern Drawl, Randy Blythe

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 42-43

Open Wide, Richard Cummins

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 6

Heat Wave, Jim Daniels

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 7

Welded, Charlene Fix

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 9

Dirigible, Peter Desy

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 8

The Antler, Ron Giles

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 12

Beard, April Linder

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 21

Before Chattanooga, Ed Markowski

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 22

Montauk, April Linder

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 20

Lessons, Lee Ann Pickrell

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 29

Bullfrogs For Nantan Fat Boy, Rawdon Tomlinson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 40

Cartesian Elegy, G C. Waldrep

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 43

Judge, Lisa Demsky

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

A poem.

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Inscape

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Inscape

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The World-Swimmers, Patrick L. West

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis has two main parts. The first comprises a collection of nineteen short stories, entitled The World-Swimmers. The second takes the form of an exegesis, 'Framing Fictions & Fictional Friendships,' which provides a critical commentary on the collection, and on the nexus of text and context. The stories vary in length from approximately 1,000 to over 4,000 words. Various writing styles are used to develop fictional explorations of a range of themes, which include: the relationship between the natural and the human worlds, the imbrication of local place and international space, obsession, entrapment, and desire. However, perhaps the most …

When Winter Dies, N. Andrew Spackman

Inscape

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The Fruitcake I Bury In My Backyard Each January, Q. Woodward

Inscape

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Breakfast Catechism, Jared Pearce

Inscape

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Man Silently To His Wife At The Meat Counter, Alma Christl Call

Inscape

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L.I.F.E., Omar Merideth Headen

Masters Theses

I've written my creative thesis in support of the Chicago Public School (CPS) System's "Character Education" initiative. This initiative is composed of a teaching curriculum designed to develop instructional lessons and activities for students, training for teachers and CPS staff, and information for the community that will serve to reduce racial, ethnic and/or religious intolerance and increase sensitivity, cooperation, and understanding. The purpose of this thesis is to give teenage students valuable lessons in character building and allow them to come face to face with various realities of life (i.e., peer pressure, divorce, death, etc.). But more importantly, this thesis …

Front Matter

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Editor's Message

Zen students, Charlotte Joko Beck tells us, have a job to do, "a very important job: to bring . . . life out of dreamland and into the real and immense reality that it is" (12). The goal and the way to the goal are the same: mindfulness, a return to the clear experience of the present moment, within which the artificial dualism separating self and object dissolves. To be mindful is to be aware, The American Heritage Dictionary says, to hold in the fullness of mind rather than to be destitute of mind or consciousness. Mindfulness is …

Writer Motivation: Beyond The Intrinsic/ Extrinsic Dichotomy, Bradford A. Barry

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

This article articulates and develops a much needed theory of communication motivation which shows how we can nurture in our students rhetorically-based intrinsic motivations.

The Ethics Of Empathy: Making Connections In The Writing Classroom, Kia Jane Richmond

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Kia Jane Richmond teaches composition and ESL at Illinois State University, where she is completing her Ph.D. in English Studies. Her focus is on the intersection between emotions and the teaching of composition at the college level.

The Architectonics Of Information: Ancient Topical Thought And Postmodern Information, Catherine L. Hobbs

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

This paper examines the usefulness of thought patterns from ancient rhetoric as they have been appropriated historically and as potentially applicable concepts for the present and future in today's interlinked electronic environment.

An earlier version of this paper, first delivered as part of a panel at the Rhetoric Society of America meeting at Tucson in May 1 996, was delivered and published as "The Architectonics of Information: Ancient Topical Thought and Postmodern Cognition" in Proceedings of the Mid-America Symposium on E merging Computer Technologies, October 1 996. (The published papers are available in "Information Problems" at http://www.ou.edu/cas/english/agora/). I would like …