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Of What She Lets Go, Amber Dawn Garrison

Masters Theses

Of What She Lets Go is a young-adult novel that focuses on the physical, emotional and sexual development of a thirteen-year-old girl named Emily. Emily is faced with the challenges of becoming a self-respecting and confident young woman despite the social and familial difficulties she encounters.

As the story develops, the problems Emily faces proportionally increase her sense of alienation. She becomes increasingly negative and turns outside her family and long-term friendships to establish a relationship with a rebellious sixteen-year-old male named Steve. Steve is attentive to Emily's need for affection and uses it to move the relationship to the …

Calliope: Volume 21, Number 1

Calliope

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My Psychologist, My Psychiatrist, Fred G. Leebron

English Faculty Publications

I could not distinguish between them except by what we did. I was ten, then eleven. I would not ride the school bus. I always slunk home saying I missed it. I made my mother come to school with me every day, and sit in the lobby so I could wave to her during recess and class changes. In the evenings my father would come home from work, hear my mother's report, and storm upstairs, his weight pounding on the hardwood steps. I would be out of breath with crying, my head in the pillow, waiting to feel what he …

Calliope: Volume 20, Number 2

Calliope

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Word Into Idea: The Four-Column Association And The Placket, Stephen W. Fried

Publications and Research

Two aleatory exercises in experimental poetry and prose for face-to-face classrooms are described step-by-step, In the first, a round-robin of word associations provides a lexicon from which first a poem and then a prose piece are generated and optionally shared. In the second, participants compile lists of rhyming words that are transferred to templates that position the rhyming words among blanks to be filled in. The sequence generates first a four-line poem from two triple rhymes, then a six-line poem from three triple rhymes and finally a ten-line poem from five quintuple rhymes. Results are shared on a voluntary basis.

Reflections 1997, Mandy Moonyham, Nicole Hartis, Kevin Binfield

Reflections

The 1997 issue of Reflections is edited by Mandy Moonyham and Nicole Hartis with Kevin Binfield serving as faculty adviser. Cover design is by Tiffany Faircloth. Award winners of the student poetry contest include: Karen Brower, Brandie Brant, and Jenny Rogers. Award winners of the student art contest include: Teresa Carter Shaw, Julie Gantt, and Tiffany Faircloth. Matt Norman is the award winner of the student photography contest.

Horizons, Volume 19, 1996-1997, Sacred Heart University

Vistas (Horizons)

An interdisciplinary, multi-cultural journal celebrating the creativity of SHU students during the academic year 1996-1997.

The Mockingbird - 1997, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University

The Mockingbird [magazine]

Bill Abbott [Philadelphia; Mall Romance]; David Ayers [Bones: A Celebration;]; Roger Blanton [Projectorhead???]; M.R. Brickell [My Last War]; Margarita Casanova [Acanthus; Untitled Photograph]; Sharon Clark [Autumn’s Valiant Flight]; Mike Durham [The Committee]; Eric R. Fish [Fireflies; Her Nap Time]; Brian Fletcher [Anxiety]; Shanda Hayes [Life or Death]; Jeanette Henry [Untitled Photograph]; Scott Honeycutt [Incubus Night]; Jason Johnson [Talkin’ It Out; Echoes In Time]; Sierra Merrell [Uninvited Guest]; Jeff McAfee [To Rosa]; Lori McCallister [The Experiment]; Karen Phelps [Attachments]; Lisa Rogers [Interview With John Bowers]; Michael Roller [Untitled Photograph]; Vince Singleton [Dead Lines]; Bev Steele [Untitled Drawing]; Tiffany Stewart [Wrapped Bird …

Capitol Serets, Tim Randazzo

Theses

Capitol Secrets is a novel about President Mike Adams, President of the United States. When the President's safety is threatened by a member of Congress, he begins to suspect foul play in the death of the previous president. Unsure of who he can trust, he and his Secret Service detail begin to investigate and discover a history of corruption, conspiracy and cover-ups. The more they discover, the more danger the President is in.

President Adams, a former college and professional football star, uses his fame and celebrity to his advantage as he gains election into the Pennsylvania state legislature. Rather …

"Childhood And Other Disabilities", Sandra Beauchamp

Masters Theses

This creative thesis, a collection of personal poetry and critical analysis, explores the experiences of women and children who have grown up in mentally and physically abusive environments, and examines the ramifications such abuse has on their subsequent adulthood. Each poem focuses on one particular individual's struggle to cope with violent or abusive circumstances in her past or present existence. Since the poems are arranged sequentially, mapping a woman's transition from childhood to adulthood, the works deal with various stages in the lives of women. While some of the poetry finds its genesis in my own personal experiences, like the …

Country Of Thieves, Jennifer A. Moro

Masters Theses

Country of Thieves is a collection of poems which examines the many faces of loss through voice and point-of-view. The thirty poems represent devices and techniques employed by American poets from Colonial times up to the present which include Anne Bradstreet, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath. The thesis introduction examines the voices of these poets and the collection demonstrates new viewpoints concerning age-old themes like love, anger and despair.

The introductory essay explores the similarities and differences between my poems and the works of poets already mentioned. These poets each represent different …

Calliope: Volume 20, Number 1

Calliope

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Calliope: Volume 19, Number 2

Calliope

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Reflections 1996, Mandy Moonyham, Kevin Binfield

Reflections

The 1996 issue of Reflections is edited by Mandy Moonyham with Kevin Binfield serving as faculty adviser. Cover designs are by Jodi Baughn and Robbie Freeman. Award winners of the student poetry contest include: Aubry Moore, Jason McIntosh, and Nicole Hartis. Award winners of the student art contest include: Jodi Baughn, Emily Johnson, Tiffany Faircloth, and Robbie Freeman. Award winners of the student photography contest include: Amanda Williams, Karen Brower, and Heidi Gardner.

The Mockingbird - 1996, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University

The Mockingbird [magazine]

David Ayers [Wallpaper]; Randall Bennett [Fallen Warrior (Self-portrait)]; Sean Brickell [Survival of the Humorist]; Sean C. Crymble [The Plunge]; Gary Estes [Onlooker]; Eric R. Fish [The Bartender; Working on the Smile]; Jon Fuller [The 1000-Yard Stare]; K. Melissa Harper [Self Portrait]; Rochelle Harris [Just Me Runnin']; Shanda Hayes [The Fossilized Doll]; Lorie Ann Hopkins [The Elvis Time Line]; P. Susanne Lawson [Catty Female]; Christina Marcum [Portrait]; Tom McAvoy [The Ballad of Graybeard]; Sierra Merrell [Imagine]; Michael Scott Morefield [Darkness and Light]; Prudence Murphy [Lullaby, Athens 1994]; Justy Palmer [Victorian Student; Anorexia at the Beach]; Michael Roller [Naughty Little Boy]; Alex …

Seasons Through My Window, Sandra L. Burke

Theses

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Coming Of Age: A Selection Of Short Stories, Mary Elizabeth Horner

Theses

Coming of age in fiction is a classic genre. Examples of life's hardest lessons learned can be found again and again in novels, movies and short stories. Most of the people in this series are a little older than adolescents, because a lot of the world's most difficult lessons come for many people in their 20s or beyond.

Normally, this type of experience is gained from falling in love, travel, or the death of someone close. Most of these realizations come for my protagonists by finding out his or her worth after the fact. Discovering worth comes from knowing what …

In Pursuit Of A Path: A Collection Of Short Stories About Women, Stacey M. Lafeber

Masters Theses

This collection of short fiction, narration and empathetic characters, through third-person tells the stories of five different women struggling to be themselves, essentially telling the struggle of women and humans everywhere.

These women, who are in the minority--a lesbian, a single career woman, a black woman, an elderly woman and a young college woman--especially represent the wonders and beauties and complexities and difficulties of being a woman. Their obstacles though are society, homophobia, gender, race and age.

However, despite their obstacles and their opponents--themselves, family, friends, co-workers, employers—somehow they reach within themselves and find new strength to emerge from their …

Calliope: Volume 19, Number 1

Calliope

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Calliope: Volume 18, Number 2

Calliope

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Reflections 1995, Mandy Moonyham, Heather Love, Kevin Binfield

Reflections

The 1995 issue of Reflections is edited by Mandy Moonyham and Heather Love with Kevin Binfield serving as faculty adviser. Cover art is by Sabrina Barnes. Award winners of the student poetry contest include: Karne Brower and Charles Freeman. Award winners of the student art contest include: Sabrina Barnes, Mickie Norman, and Yasuhiro Mori. This year the Communications Department has sponsored a photography contest; winners include: Jason Kerr, Brenda Ledford, and Shawn Childress.

Horizons, Volume 18, 1995, Sacred Heart University

Vistas (Horizons)

No abstract provided.

The Mockingbird - 1995, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University

The Mockingbird [magazine]

Robert Beary [The Tree Speaks]; Art Brown [The Babysitter]; Roger Carper [Sins of Autumn]; Brad E. Davis [Blue Ridge Cellar House]; Marty Dean [Body Beautiful]; Meredith Dean [In and Out of Time With WIiiiam Faulkner]; Chris Fiala [Missing Person; Do Not Disturb]; Brian Fletcher [World Aids Day Image; Fool Joins a Cult]; Charles Fontaine [Leprosy--Mental Mutilation; Glimpse]; Judy Gouge [The Column; Synchronicity]; Gregory Grime [The Siphon]; K. Melissa Harper [lce-T; Untitled Graphic; Euphoria]; Rochelle Harris [A Moment of Dusk]; Carol Hilliard [13 Ways of Looking at a Washing Machine]; Gediyon Kifle [Broken Body]; Kevin Lines [Rationality sans Heart]; Thomas McKnight …

The Griffin, 1994-1995, Lindenwood College

The Griffin

A creative writing magazine of Lindenwood College.

Whale, Michael J. Brown

Masters Theses

This thesis is composed of two parts. The first is a critical introduction which explores the influences on the author. The author is interested in the idea of style as a character in such works by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Albert French. This discussion of these authors leads into ideas of space, both physical and metaphysical, in much of twentieth century literature. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is an example. The exploration of space in literature is important for the determination of identity, which is one of the important themes of literature in this century. The author connects Sherwood Anderson's …

Calliope: Volume 18, Number 1

Calliope

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Calliope: Volume 17, Number 2

Calliope

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Reflections 1994, Markell Lynch, Scott Lesley, Brad Southend

Reflections

The 1994 issue of Reflections was edited by Markell Lynch and Scott Lesley with Brad Southend serving as faculty adviser. Award winners of the student writing contest include: Ensley F. Guffey, Gary T. Mitchem, and Heather Love. Award winners of the student art contest include: Scott Goforth, Yoshi Shinaro, and Sabrina Barnes.

Horizons, Volume 17, 1994, Sacred Heart University

Vistas (Horizons)

No abstract provided.

The Mockingbird - 1994, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University

The Mockingbird [magazine]

Gina Bailiff [Me and the Tree]; Jonathan Bullen [Rip Van Morrison]; Roger Carper [Stay In or Out; Of Moon and Sun]; Annie Cicale [Corporate Daycare, Geek Love]; Jennifer Corbett [Contour Figure]; Todd Cregger [Hell, I'll Fix That Thing!]; Robin Ferguson [Eremina]; Randy Gentry [Mushrooms and Troll; The Book of Death]; Darlene Glover [Scene of the Crime; A New Beginning]; Judy Gouge [Summer Nights]; Shawn Grimes [Maryland's Truth]; Jennifer Halli [Western Auto]; Sabine Iser [The Two Germanies]; Greta Jones [Childbirth]; Scott Keeton [Control; A Sign of Life; Microcosm]; Gediyon Kifle [?]; Penny Kuhn [Berry Picking; San Antonio TX, 1993]; Steve Leasure …