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The Untold Story Of A Heart Surgeon, Naomi Josiah Jan 2025

The Untold Story Of A Heart Surgeon, Naomi Josiah

Emerging Writers

When it comes to picking a career, many think of money or passion but sometimes it takes an experience to shape your future career. That experience for me happen to changed my entire trajectory on life but it also happened to be the reason I want to be a Cardiac Surgeon.


Coffee Shops And Community, Julia A. Franz Jan 2025

Coffee Shops And Community, Julia A. Franz

Emerging Writers

This paper focuses on the role of coffeehouses as community hubs through a comparative analysis of two locations of a locally owned coffee company in Georgia. It examines how the physical design and values of each shop offer unique forms of social interaction. The St. Simons location encourages spontaneous, intergenerational conversations; while, the Brunswick shop strengthens pre-existing community ties among working families and retirees. The profile explains how, by incorporating local history, sustainable sourcing, and communal spaces, the coffee company shows how design and principles shape social dynamics. This profile highlights how coffeehouses can serve as more than commercial spaces …


The Dirt Underneath My Fingernails: The American Pastoral And 21st-Century Food System Reform, Annabella Isaacson Jan 2025

The Dirt Underneath My Fingernails: The American Pastoral And 21st-Century Food System Reform, Annabella Isaacson

Scripps Senior Theses

The following is an amalgamation of my experiences personally and vested interests academically, and is meant to be read as just that. As a thesis that combines Environmental Analysis and Writing & Rhetoric degrees, this project challenges traditional academic forms by integrating creative nonfiction and poetry with academic writing and analysis. This thesis attempts to fuse the academic and personal essay into one cohesive piece. The inconclusive nature of the narratives and explorations that follow are intended to represent my process in grappling with the histories and significance of American pastoral literature through the ways in which this genre has …


Milk Tooth, 2025, Eddie Anderson, Sadie House, Jay Clark, Ravyn Oliver, Edwin Mayo, Joseph Kettelhodt, Kaitlyn Seibel, Daniel Mcnellis, Elise Fladeboe, Ivy Matejcek, Trinity Johnson, Eve Gwendolyn Hansen, Liz Fisher, Emma Niessink, Hannah Lewis Jan 2025

Milk Tooth, 2025, Eddie Anderson, Sadie House, Jay Clark, Ravyn Oliver, Edwin Mayo, Joseph Kettelhodt, Kaitlyn Seibel, Daniel Mcnellis, Elise Fladeboe, Ivy Matejcek, Trinity Johnson, Eve Gwendolyn Hansen, Liz Fisher, Emma Niessink, Hannah Lewis

Milk Tooth

"Writings by Bemidji State University Students". Sponsored by the Bemidji State University English Department.


Threshold: Stories & Graphic Memoir, Emily Kay Lewandowski Jan 2025

Threshold: Stories & Graphic Memoir, Emily Kay Lewandowski

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

Threshold: Stories & Graphic Memoir, a collection of fiction and graphic memoir, explores the in-between stages of loss and grief. Both the fiction and graphic memoir pieces utilize the technique of the “narrative echo,” coined by John Gardner, to stylistically explore and interrogate these stages of in-betweenness. The final piece in this collection, “I Hope You Find Me On Mars,” is a queer expansion of Octavia Butler’s trilogy Lilith’s Brood. Each piece uses unique voice and styling to contribute to the larger literary community by interrogating manifestations of identity, queerness, and grief.


My Beautiful Scars: Writing For Recovery, Amanda Vineyard Dec 2024

My Beautiful Scars: Writing For Recovery, Amanda Vineyard

Theses and Dissertations

My Beautiful Scars is a memoir written by AL Vineyard. Ms. Vineyard is a recovering methamphetamine and opioid user. She has a painful past and following an injury, fell deep into the world of drugs. Her substance use disorder progressed quickly. After the injury, she was prescribed opioid painkillers. The euphoria provided by the opioids numbed the pain that Vineyard experienced in her life. It became her. Over the years, Vineyard graduated to snorting and then, to shooting up her painkillers. A series of events led Vineyard to quit opioids and start shooting methamphetamine, which took her into a world …


Hit-And-Runs: A Memoir, Alison Cope Dec 2024

Hit-And-Runs: A Memoir, Alison Cope

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The vignettes in this collection are memoir essays connected by the theme of hit-and-runs – i.e., random life encounters in which people share bits of themselves and leave subsequent lasting impressions. Resonating with themes of identity and belonging, overcoming obstacles and taking risks, the chronological throughline visits unique locations around the world, and frequently “hits” historical events, while tracing the narrator’s coming-of-age and spiritual journey from the mountains of Appalachia to the streets of Prague and home to Houston, as she “runs” with carnies and psychics, hurricane refugees, lovers, and predators from whom she must escape. Interspersed in these memoirs …


Arabesque, Zoee Lawrence, Nabila Wilson Jun 2024

Arabesque, Zoee Lawrence, Nabila Wilson

The Echo

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Avocado Heirloom, Jake O'Connor Jun 2024

Avocado Heirloom, Jake O'Connor

The Echo

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I Want To Write, Stephen Turner Jun 2024

I Want To Write, Stephen Turner

The Echo

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Frosted Ground, Ava Shutze Jun 2024

Frosted Ground, Ava Shutze

The Echo

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Ghosts, Anonymous Anonymous Jun 2024

Ghosts, Anonymous Anonymous

The Echo

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Emulation, Grayson Jarrell Jun 2024

Emulation, Grayson Jarrell

The Echo

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Timless, Anna Timbes Jun 2024

Timless, Anna Timbes

The Echo

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In The Eyes Of The Beholder, William Nix Jun 2024

In The Eyes Of The Beholder, William Nix

The Echo

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The Armory- A Building In Duluth Minnesota, Eric Neumann Jun 2024

The Armory- A Building In Duluth Minnesota, Eric Neumann

The Echo

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Liquor Store, William Nix Jun 2024

Liquor Store, William Nix

The Echo

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The Woman In The Garden, Anna Timbes Jun 2024

The Woman In The Garden, Anna Timbes

The Echo

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Gardening, Michael Peeler Jun 2024

Gardening, Michael Peeler

The Echo

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Bighorn Sheep On Mount Washburn, Sophie Ngo Jun 2024

Bighorn Sheep On Mount Washburn, Sophie Ngo

The Echo

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Caper's Island, Karissa Horn Jun 2024

Caper's Island, Karissa Horn

The Echo

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Steel, Ava Shutze Jun 2024

Steel, Ava Shutze

The Echo

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Dusk On The Terrace, Anna Timbes Jun 2024

Dusk On The Terrace, Anna Timbes

The Echo

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House Lights, Stephen Mclean Jun 2024

House Lights, Stephen Mclean

The Echo

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Creature Battle, Sophie Ngo Jun 2024

Creature Battle, Sophie Ngo

The Echo

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Light Work, Anna Timbes Jun 2024

Light Work, Anna Timbes

The Echo

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Flight, Melina George Jun 2024

Flight, Melina George

The Echo

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Chorus Of Murmurations, Aubrey Hume Jun 2024

Chorus Of Murmurations, Aubrey Hume

The Echo

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Olympus, Grayson Jarrell Jun 2024

Olympus, Grayson Jarrell

The Echo

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Carolina Mantis, Kayla Burrell Jun 2024

Carolina Mantis, Kayla Burrell

The Echo

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