The assignment helps students individually build a usable, expanding vocabulary of terms and concepts, enabling each to further contribute to the ongoing, evolving written, oral, and visual conversations centered on the use of and thought about animals for food, clothing, work, entertainment, experimentation, imagery, and companionship.

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Water Damage, Rebecca Rowell Jan 2021

Water Damage, Rebecca Rowell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

This novel explores the nature of good, if flawed, people that are put under intense pressure. Using alternating point-of-view characters, I showed the good and bad parts of Washington, DC and the surrounding area through the eyes of someone that has benefited from privilege and someone that has not. These juxtaposing views change over the course of the novel until both point-of-view characters have become something different than they were at the start, learning humility and trust, respectively. Through the alternating chapters, I wanted to show two viewpoints of the same city and the same set of events, each contributing …

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Thoughts While Brushing One's Teeth, Rebecca D. Beach Jan 2021

Thoughts While Brushing One's Teeth, Rebecca D. Beach

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

Best experienced read aloud with the feeling of the weight of the world pressing down on your spirit.

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