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2007

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Coaching The Game Of Life, Jeff Rasley Aug 2007

Coaching The Game Of Life, Jeff Rasley

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Article for Faith & Fitness Magazine about the fundamental lessons a coach should teach.


Foibles, Follies And Fantastic Occurrences: First-Time Teaching And The Composition Classroom, Susan Swanson Aug 2007

Foibles, Follies And Fantastic Occurrences: First-Time Teaching And The Composition Classroom, Susan Swanson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Foibles, Follies and Fantastic Occurrences: First-time Teaching and the Composition Classroom explores incidents that expectedly—and often, unexpectedly—occur in any instructor's classroom, but especially focuses on the first-time instructor. Following the author's journey from graduate student to graduate assistant to teaching assistant, the thesis describes the steps along the way to teaching that many who have written about the subject leave out—how to negotiate the days before classes begin, what to do to appear older than the students themselves, how to create an interesting and creative syllabus. Once classes begin, instances involving student competition, peer review, responding to student essays and …


A Post-Marxist Perspective On Chuck Palahniuk’S Early Novels And The Four Plays Of Incarcerated, Ron Riekki Aug 2007

A Post-Marxist Perspective On Chuck Palahniuk’S Early Novels And The Four Plays Of Incarcerated, Ron Riekki

Dissertations

Incarcerated: a collection of four plays includes the plays Home Schooling, Good Behavior, 2 Mics, and All Saints' Day. Incarcerated explores Foucault's carceral networking and Althusser's Ideological and Repressive State Apparatuses as exemplified in characters faced with such cataclysmic events as the Holocaust (Home Schooling and All Saints' Day) and the degradation/slavery of the American prison system (Good Behavior and 2 Mics). In this RCG-centered working class playwriting, we see how performativity is in inherent in carceral sociology, where each character in all four plays has to take masks and costumes and roles in order to …


The Biographic And Poetic Dimensions In Gary Synder’S Green Buddhism Poetry: Cold Mountain, Mountains And Rivers Without End, And Danger On Peaks, Byoungkook Park Aug 2007

The Biographic And Poetic Dimensions In Gary Synder’S Green Buddhism Poetry: Cold Mountain, Mountains And Rivers Without End, And Danger On Peaks, Byoungkook Park

Dissertations

From the perspective of ecology, many scholars have examined works of Gary Synder, who is an environmental activist, a peasant-Buddhist, and one of the most beloved and significant poets in the East and West. While his poems have been widely read, they have been rarely articulated from the perspective of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism or, which I would call, Green Buddhism. Considering this, my dissertation focuses on Snyder's Green Buddhism poetry and delineates the concept of Green Buddhism and how it has emerged in his Green Buddhism poetry over the past fifty years. According to my research, his poetic dimensions …


Swimming Lessons, Kathy Cole Jul 2007

Swimming Lessons, Kathy Cole

Theses & Honors Papers

This thesis explores different perspectives through the eyes of adults and children and how those perspectives are formed by their relationships with the people around them.” It tries to focus on characters who are struggling to survive by realizing their own value. Whether they are surviving illness, death, abandonment, or midnight car rides with drunken parents, each of these characters tries to make sense of their world and how they fit into it.”


The Golden Dawn, Carlo Alvaro Jul 2007

The Golden Dawn, Carlo Alvaro

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Practical Pieces And Other Stories, Rebecca Lynn Haigh Jul 2007

Practical Pieces And Other Stories, Rebecca Lynn Haigh

Theses & Honors Papers

This thesis is a collection of short stories in which characters look back at the past, at truths they’ve learned and failures they’ve experienced, and look to the future for opportunities to make a better life for themselves and their loved ones. The idea of home plays a vital role in making decisions as to how to move on into a better future.


Ordinary Mermaids And Other Stories, Desiree Sholes Jul 2007

Ordinary Mermaids And Other Stories, Desiree Sholes

Theses & Honors Papers

This thesis is a series of short stories in which the characters are constantly searching for something. The characters learn, grow, and adapt as they experience different life situations and work to find some new meaning for their lives, even if the change is small or subtle.


The Shadowy Other In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: The Ego's Quest For Balance, Imene Belhassen Jul 2007

The Shadowy Other In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: The Ego's Quest For Balance, Imene Belhassen

English Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

This thesis examines the notion of the other in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, in the context provided by Carl Gustav Jung's analytical theory, i.e., his notions of the collective unconscious, the archetypes, and in particular, the shadow. Some characters, such as Victor Frankenstein and the Monster, are shown to function as symbolic representations of ego and shadow. The ocean symbolizes the collective unconscious, while the ship represents the process ofindividuation leading to the emergence of the self.

The narrator is Mary Shelly herself, after sailing the dark waves ofher unconscious. The otherness represented by Victor Frankenstein's creation reveals itself as an …


“Acceptance, Finally” And “In Our Time” (Poems), John Gery Jul 2007

“Acceptance, Finally” And “In Our Time” (Poems), John Gery

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Genre Language And Community In Cycling Feature Articles, Liz Schleeper Jul 2007

Genre Language And Community In Cycling Feature Articles, Liz Schleeper

English Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines several aspects of nine feature articles I wrote about the road bicycling community in southeastern, Virginia from January 2005 to September 2006. Chapter II examines how my preconceived notions of the "cycling feature" genre were reinforced as well as compromised through the process of writing and publishing the articles. Chapter III discusses how the process of composing the articles exposed some of the language peculiarities within the cycling community and how cyclists' shared language is a defining aspect of cycling culture. Chapter IV addresses how the feature stories and cycling webblogs generate action and discourse in the …


Mormon Girl, Angela A. Trefethen Jul 2007

Mormon Girl, Angela A. Trefethen

English Theses & Dissertations

Mormon Girl is a collection of four nonfiction essays in loose chronological order which explores my experiences growing up as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. My essays examine the sexism and patriarchy of the Mormon church as well as the way beliefs and stories of ancestors are passed down and become part of the common truth, even if some beliefs are false or suspect In my essays, then, I weave in stories about the foundation of the Mormon church, the role of women, experiences of my ancestors as Mormon pioneers, and what I …


Still Life With Ant, Susan Hazen-Hammond Jun 2007

Still Life With Ant, Susan Hazen-Hammond

Westview

No abstract provided.


It Was So Sudden, Karla Clark Jun 2007

It Was So Sudden, Karla Clark

Westview

No abstract provided.


The Way Station, Sean C. Hayden Jun 2007

The Way Station, Sean C. Hayden

Westview

No abstract provided.


The American Scholar, Daniel R. Schwarz Jun 2007

The American Scholar, Daniel R. Schwarz

Westview

No abstract provided.


Snowbound, Daniel R. Schwarz Jun 2007

Snowbound, Daniel R. Schwarz

Westview

No abstract provided.


Generations, Daniel R. Schwarz Jun 2007

Generations, Daniel R. Schwarz

Westview

No abstract provided.


Winter, Judith Neuman Jun 2007

Winter, Judith Neuman

Westview

No abstract provided.


Mass, Mark Wisniewski Jun 2007

Mass, Mark Wisniewski

Westview

No abstract provided.


Rosie's Leaf, Darlene Giblet Jun 2007

Rosie's Leaf, Darlene Giblet

Westview

No abstract provided.


A Death Like This, Stephen Germic Jun 2007

A Death Like This, Stephen Germic

Westview

No abstract provided.


The Widow Burden, Caught In A Quandry, Robert Cooperman Jun 2007

The Widow Burden, Caught In A Quandry, Robert Cooperman

Westview

No abstract provided.


Date With Alice, Christine Chen Jun 2007

Date With Alice, Christine Chen

Westview

No abstract provided.


On The Good Ship Lollipop, Elaine Silverstein Jun 2007

On The Good Ship Lollipop, Elaine Silverstein

Westview

No abstract provided.


Tea With Emily, Lokke Heiss Jun 2007

Tea With Emily, Lokke Heiss

Westview

No abstract provided.


At The Gas Station On The Corner, Carol A. Hattrup Jun 2007

At The Gas Station On The Corner, Carol A. Hattrup

Westview

No abstract provided.


At The Mcnay Museum, Bonnie Lyons Jun 2007

At The Mcnay Museum, Bonnie Lyons

Westview

No abstract provided.


Life-Form Under The Overpass, Barry Ballard Jun 2007

Life-Form Under The Overpass, Barry Ballard

Westview

No abstract provided.


Cash Entry Silver Mine, Stephen Lefebure Jun 2007

Cash Entry Silver Mine, Stephen Lefebure

Westview

No abstract provided.