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Bitter Sweet, Valerie Nario Sep 2014

Bitter Sweet, Valerie Nario

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

First-generation college student Valerie Nario narrates her struggle to finance her education and her determination to attend the school of her dreams at all costs.

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I'M Possible, Aszanee Laws Sep 2014

I'M Possible, Aszanee Laws

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

Always seen as the “smart one” by her family, Aszanee Laws is heavily pressured into attending college, which results in a disastrous fail. She drops out with the hopes of being famous, but with no effort or dedication, she sits hopelessly wishing for a miracle, lost and alone in a sea of choices. Coming face to face with herself, Aszanee makes a decision that will change her life forever.

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I'Ll Be Your Friend, Min-Jung Kim Sep 2014

I'Ll Be Your Friend, Min-Jung Kim

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

In this piece, Min-Jung Kim chronicles her struggles as a young Korean-American girl trying to pursue her American Dream to be the first-generation college student in her family.

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The Unseen And Unheard: Details Of A True Love Story, Gabriela Hassan Sep 2014

The Unseen And Unheard: Details Of A True Love Story, Gabriela Hassan

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

A real-life love story: Gabriela Hassan writes about the challenges of balancing her romantic relationship and college life. Her story presents an overwhelming range of emotion and high levels of expectations and demands from her loved ones. As Gabriela’s time at Loyola Marymount University comes to an end, and her adult responsibilities begin to merge in, her world may appear much more chaotic and stressful than the typical college student. With the continuous presence of love and support, however, her happiness is at an all-time high.

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"I'Ve Been Sucked Into American Culture And Look What It's Done To Me!:" The Charms Of Living In The Shadows And The Closet, Diana Sofia Delgado Cornejo Sep 2014

"I'Ve Been Sucked Into American Culture And Look What It's Done To Me!:" The Charms Of Living In The Shadows And The Closet, Diana Sofia Delgado Cornejo

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

Brought to the US from Peru as a young child, Diana Delgado discovers that she is fated to be ni de aqui ni de alla¸ neither from here nor there, eternally straddling two worlds. As her family’s legal status hangs in the balance, Diana struggles to grow up juggling the dichotomies between class, culture, and sexuality, eventually caught between coming out of the shadows to her friends, and coming out of the closet to her family. As her high school career draws to a close, she is forced out of both secrets in the worst way possible.

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Book Review: Letters And Life By Bret Lott, Melanie Springer Mock Sep 2014

Book Review: Letters And Life By Bret Lott, Melanie Springer Mock

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "Lott’s newly published book, Letters and Life, limns and amplifies the themes expressed in “Genesis.” Letters and Life enters into a centuries-old conversation about what it means to be an artist and a Christian, relying on what has already been written about the Christian artist to expand and deepen our notions of faith and art, showing that, like the child-narrator in “Genesis,” the artist in creation imitates God."

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A Poem- Inspired By Alex Katz, Margaret Sargent Sep 2014

A Poem- Inspired By Alex Katz, Margaret Sargent

Colby Magazine

Margaret Sargent '14 wrote this poem last year as an assignment in Introduction to Poetry. The project asked students to write ekphrastic poetry, work that collaborates with visual art, inspired by a piece of their own choosing in the Colby College Museum of Art.

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Psalms For Skeptics (101-150), Kent L. Gramm Sep 2014

Psalms For Skeptics (101-150), Kent L. Gramm

Gettysburg College Faculty Books

Sparked by phrases from the book of Psalms, these poems question and occasionally affirm our everyday ideas about life, mortality, the afterlife, God, family, and belief. In vigorous contemporary language—complaining, lamenting, and wisecracking on everything from Job's wife to baseball, crows to angels, circus elephants to Mary Magdalene—but in traditional form, these sonnets, or little songs, "speak what we feel, not what we ought to say." [From the publisher]

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Westview: Vol. 30, Iss. 2 (Summer 2014) Sep 2014

Westview: Vol. 30, Iss. 2 (Summer 2014)

Westview

No abstract provided.

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Brigid's Peace: An Examination Of The Influences Of The Catholic Intellectual Tradition On One Writer's Creative Work, Marie A. Hulme Sep 2014

Brigid's Peace: An Examination Of The Influences Of The Catholic Intellectual Tradition On One Writer's Creative Work, Marie A. Hulme

Presidential Seminar on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

The genesis of my novel, Brigid’s Peace, which I began in the spring of 2013 coinciding with my studies in the Presidential Seminar, was an interest in examining the need for luminosity, for transcendence, for beauty in the face of dark despair and evil. My work centers on the story of an Irish Catholic family living in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the time of sectarian conflict known as “the troubles,” but more specifically on the impact of events related to that time on one young woman, Brigid Donegan, an artist and one of seven sisters. Through a close, third person …

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The Water Has A Face, Hattie Blair Sep 2014

The Water Has A Face, Hattie Blair

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Cataluyna, William Connor Mcandrew Sep 2014

Cataluyna, William Connor Mcandrew

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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How To Be A Bridesmaid, Emily Hancock Sep 2014

How To Be A Bridesmaid, Emily Hancock

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Killing Time, Jim Easterhouse Sep 2014

Killing Time, Jim Easterhouse

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Enliven, Kaitlyn Koby Sep 2014

Enliven, Kaitlyn Koby

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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The Truth Of Seas, Zeran Lei Sep 2014

The Truth Of Seas, Zeran Lei

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Fresh Air, Kaitlyn Koby Sep 2014

Fresh Air, Kaitlyn Koby

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Magic Tricks, Mallory Hasty Sep 2014

Magic Tricks, Mallory Hasty

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Driving Tioga Pass, Mary Ardery Sep 2014

Driving Tioga Pass, Mary Ardery

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Human Nature, Rachel Higson Sep 2014

Human Nature, Rachel Higson

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Rest In Plants, Zach Manges Sep 2014

Rest In Plants, Zach Manges

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Carmelite, Zach Manges Sep 2014

Carmelite, Zach Manges

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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August 31, 2014: 2015 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference (Newberry Library, Chicago/Deadline: Oct.15), Department Of English Aug 2014

August 31, 2014: 2015 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference (Newberry Library, Chicago/Deadline: Oct.15), Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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Poems, Amanda Nigon Aug 2014

Poems, Amanda Nigon

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Amanda Nigon’s two poems (see)Shell Cracked on Rocks by Gulls and Fistula were written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Losing Innocence. LOSING INNOCENCE by Alison Broderson, Andrea Bruton, Eric Groonwald, Amy Herron, Eric Hoffeiser Josephine Jarvis, Joe Loweth, Amanda Nigon, Jenny Sodomka: This project was inspired by our group’s desire to heighten its social awareness as it explored the loss of innocence resulting from impoverishment. As creative writers we chose to explore this theme through poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction--our subjects ranging from working in a women’s shelter to college life. Because the process …

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Poems, Eric Hoffheiser Aug 2014

Poems, Eric Hoffheiser

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Eric Hoffheiser's two poems View from Ubehebe Peak and How to get Rid of Sorrow were written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Moving On. For our group, Moving On represented the emotional weight in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Moving On implies change, and all good prose and verse possess change. As creative writers, we explored this theme through subjects ranging from the death of a loved one to loss of one’s faith. By focusing on our theme, we examined our own lives and improved our creative writing skills. We attained our goals through observation, …

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8:01 Pm, Jake Hjelmtveit Aug 2014

8:01 Pm, Jake Hjelmtveit

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Jake Hjelmtveit's short story 8:01 PM was written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Moving On. For our group, Moving On represented the emotional weight in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Moving On implies change, and all good prose and verse possess change. As creative writers, we explored this theme through subjects ranging from the death of a loved one to loss of one’s faith. By focusing on our theme, we examined our own lives and improved our creative writing skills. We attained our goals through observation, discussion, information gathering, writing, and revision of creative work. …

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For The Love Of God, Marissa Hansen Aug 2014

For The Love Of God, Marissa Hansen

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Marissa Hansen's short story For the Love of God was written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Moving On. For our group, Moving On represented the emotional weight in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Moving On implies change, and all good prose and verse possess change. As creative writers, we explored this theme through subjects ranging from the death of a loved one to loss of one’s faith. By focusing on our theme, we examined our own lives and improved our creative writing skills. We attained our goals through observation, discussion, information gathering, writing, and revision …

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Poems, Nathan Klein Aug 2014

Poems, Nathan Klein

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Nathan Klein's poems were written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Where we Live. For my part of the project I tied in the theme of Where We Live through a series of poems. The aspects of the theme that I based my poems on included interpretations on where we live mentally, spiritually, chronologically, geographically in the universe, and on earth. I used the theme to pinpoint just were it is that we all truly live; even in those areas were a pin has no place.

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Small Town Changes, Excerpt, Marissa Hansen Aug 2014

Small Town Changes, Excerpt, Marissa Hansen

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Marissa Hansen's short story Small Town Changes, excerpt was written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Where we Live. For our project, group members explored the theme Where We Live in its varied interpretations through fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For my project, the theme Where We Live was addressed through creative nonfiction. I wanted to explore my own value as a writer, to myself and to my peers. The piece I wrote was influenced by my vision of personal events in my own life as well as the objective view of my narrator and her …

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Things To Ponder, Mandi Bingham Aug 2014

Things To Ponder, Mandi Bingham

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Mandi Bingham's short story Things to Ponder was written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Where we Live. For our project, group members explored the theme Where We Live in its varied interpretations through fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For my project, the theme Where We Live was addressed through creative nonfiction. I wanted to explore my own value as a writer, to myself and to my peers. The piece I wrote was influenced by my vision of personal events in my own life as well as the objective view of my narrator and her interpretation …

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