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Welcome To The Branch, Turia R. Pope Jan 2006

Welcome To The Branch, Turia R. Pope

Theses and Dissertations

Welcome to the Branch is a two-act play that investigates issues of cultural differences in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (or LDS church), more commonly known as the Mormon Church. Set in modern-day, downtown Richmond, Welcome to the Branch follows two very different members of the LDS church as they examine and try to understand both their religion, in the context of its cultural and social history, and their place in it. One is Molly, a Caucasian, middle-class young woman from Utah, in Richmond temporarily for her husband's graduate school; the other is Aina, an African …

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From Below Table Mesa, Cynthia Grier Lotze Jan 2006

From Below Table Mesa, Cynthia Grier Lotze

Theses and Dissertations

I lived in Boulder, Colorado longenough, and I dreamed low-resolutiondreams, sharp only at eyes and slow movinghands.Kate's hair was a cloud of insurrectionon the tarmac, then I would watch the hoursmelt off the wings of her plane as eachstate became not-Tennessee, not-Kansas.I wanted to meet her in the air; Icould will this without a plane, with sadness,with need, I would enter the plane in flightand I would say, "Kate, take me home," and shewould turn the plane around. Everythingwould become not-Colorado, not thisstaticky dream, hard breath miles up from the sea.

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Freedom. – What If? – Still Unknown. – The Actor, Victor Fet Jan 2006

Freedom. – What If? – Still Unknown. – The Actor, Victor Fet

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

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Spectrum, 2006, Northwestern College Jan 2006

Spectrum, 2006, Northwestern College

Spectrum literary magazine

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Kids Will Be, Thomas E. Moran Jan 2006

Kids Will Be, Thomas E. Moran

LSU Master's Theses

This is the pilot episode of a television series, which explores a young girl’s descent into suburban drug culture. In this episode, the main character, Ally, follows her disaffected love interest, Marco, to the squat, an abandoned building inhabited by runaways and addicts.

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A Visitation: A Collection Of Poetry And Fiction, Shelly Criswell Jan 2006

A Visitation: A Collection Of Poetry And Fiction, Shelly Criswell

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

A Visitation is a collection of poetry and fiction created from interaction with other people: strangers, loved ones, and those lost. The theme of visitation is explored in four parts: strangers, impressions, acceptance, and departures. These themes are explored and constructed according to the progress of human interaction using the conventions and traditions of each form-free verse, the sonnet, senryu, the cinquain, the pantoum, the villanelle, the sesitna, the triolet, and the short story.

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Iowa Multiverse: Stories, Darek James Benesh Jan 2006

Iowa Multiverse: Stories, Darek James Benesh

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This work of creative writing consists of two stories, each of which concerns characters in closed communities in Iowa: an apartment building and a small town. The stories play with the concepts of interconnectedness, multiple perspectives, linearity, and "emergent meaning"-that the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts. The first story is comprised of interconnected third-person threads and alternate perspective views. The second story is concerned with multiple first-person vignettes dealing with interpretations of shared experiences. These stories imagine the concept of perspective as a moveable, free-floating "mind camera," able to follow any character at will, viewing …

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Up Wau Hollow And Other Stories, Deborah J. Bloom Jan 2006

Up Wau Hollow And Other Stories, Deborah J. Bloom

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The following thesis consists of five short stories. My work has a regional emphasis, with each story set in Iowa. "Up Wau Hollow" tells about Ginny, a girl whose family lives up Wau Hollow in the Loess Hills of southwestern Iowa. "Cabbie" focuses on a cab driver with an active imagination. He works hard at distancing himself from people and from life. "Letting Go" is the story of a mother torn between her maternal instinct and letting go of her daughter. "View from the Flying Wienie" brings together two characters that might not have met if it weren't for the …

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