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'When You're A Star, They Let You Do It' To Trump: Or, President Vagina T. Fireball's Executive Order, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a humorous short story about how a star holds Trump accountable for his misogyny.

The Conflicts That Pave The Way For Peace: Lebanese Poet And Philosopher Mikhail Naimy, Suha Naimy

The Journal of Social Encounters

Mikhail Naimy is a twentieth century Lebanese author and philosopher whose writings verge towards the mystical and the metaphysical. Naimy’s philosophy is a synthesis of his own life conflicts and his built premises and drawn conclusions that trivialize materialism, following the steps of Christ. Among Naimy’s first conflicts was leaving of his hometown Baskinta and its highland Shakhroub for Nazareth to continue his education, and the estrangement he felt that was alleviated by a touch of God. Some of the other conflicts in Naimy’s life were the love affairs that yielded to the understanding that true love should be beyond …

Youth Matters: Shedding Light On Displacement In Syrian Girls' Memoirs, Alberta Natasia Adji

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

In the face of war and political crisis, fleeing a country seems to be the best choice to get on with life. Among many refugee memoirs, so far young adult refugee texts have received little attention. This article analyses two young Syrian girls’ memoirs by Nujeen Mustafa and Yusra Mardini to investigate their experience of displacement. I argue that both Nujeen and Butterfly are prime specimens of young displacement memoir phenomena which act as a venue for identity negotiation. This point has much to do with their navigating the tensions between personal and collective selves to disclose their trauma and …

Poems From 'I Look At My Body And See The Source Of My Shame: Ecstasy Facsimile ('My Favorite Saint Tells Me I Complain Too Often About My Soul's Shortcomings' And 'We Own None Of It'), Mark Anthony Cayanan

English Faculty Publications

The poems are part of a manuscript I'm currently working on, which is my attempt to project a mode of disclosure, even as the method of composition--which involves the liberal extraction and combination of passages from several intertexts--works against this seeming tonality. The poems contain passages from The Life of Saint Teresa of vila (1957) by herself, translated by J. M. Cohen.

The Hovde Years: A Biography Of Frederick L. Hovde, Robert W. Topping

Purdue University Press Books

This biography details Hovde’s life and times from his birth at Erie, Pennsylvania, through his boyhood at Devils Lake, North Dakota, and includes his student days at the University of Minnesota and in England and Europe as a Rhodes scholar. In addition, it outlines his career from the time he returned to the United States from England in 1932, as well as when he went back again in 1941 as the United States secretary for American-British scientific research and development exchange efforts. Principally, it covers his twenty-five years as president of Purdue University, his impact on higher education generally, and …

My Amiable Uncle: Recollections About Booth Tarkington, Susanah University Mayberry

Purdue University Press Books

He was twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction: in 1919 for The Magnificent Ambersons and in 1922 for Alice Adams. His play, Clarence, launched Alfred Lunt on his distinguished career and provided Helen Hays with an early successful role. His Penrod books continued the American boy story tradition that started with the works of Mark Twain. In the early 1900s, through his novel The Turmoil, he warned of sacrificing the environment to industrial growth. Yet, since his death in 1946, Booth Tarkington—this writer from the Midwest who accomplished so much—has faded from the memory of …

Richard Owen: Scotland 1810, Indiana 1890, Victor Lincoln Albjerg

Purdue University Press Books

Richard Dale Owen was born in 1810 in Scotland to a wealthy textile manufacturer and philanthropist. The youngest of eight children, Richard grew up at the family estate of Braxfield House, where he received his early education from private tutors. He would later go on to study chemistry, physics, and natural sciences, among other subjects, traveling between Scotland and Switzerland for his schooling.

Owen arrived in the United States in 1828 to teach in New Haven, Indiana, where his father was running an experimental utopian community of happiness, enlightenment, and prosperity. He would later go on to be Indiana’s second …

Edward Charles Elliott, Educator, Frank K. Burrin

Purdue University Press Books

A study of the 50-year career of Edward Charles Elliott is a study of the development of American education. Elliott had experience as a high school and college teacher, school system superintendent, state college system chancellor, and president of a Big Ten university, all during a period of change in American attitudes toward public schooling and rapid growth in education institutions.

As president of Purdue University from 1922 to 1945, Elliott steered the school through years of expansion in size, prestige, and service. Student enrollment, staff, course offerings, buildings, and campus acreage more than doubled; the total value of the …

The Dean: A Biography Of A. A. Potter, Robert B. Eckles

Purdue University Press Books

More than 20,000 engineering students at Purdue University have been touched in some way by the ides or the warm personality of Andrey A. Potter, who served for 33 years as dean of the Schools of Engineering at Purdue, the world’s largest engineering institution.

Awarded the honorary title of “Dean of the Deans of Engineering Universities” in 1949 by his alma mater, MIT, Potter has been a teacher for 48 years and a dean for 40. Among his thousands of colleagues at Kansas State, Purdue, and the professional societies he has headed, he is known with respect and affection simply …

Literacy Growth: Life And Literacy Experiences, Josue G. Ballesteros-Flores

WRIT: Journal of First-Year Writing

Everyone has a different upbringing when it comes to literacy practices. The process I had to go through just happened to be more challenging. I grew up speaking spanish, but as I became exposed to different environments, different factors affected my literacy practices, such as social media, music, and television. I also grew up and learned from my own previous mistakes.

We Used To Be Brothers: Partition 1947, Ukasha Farooq

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Rukmini, Satya Kandala

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Momentum Of The Future, Daniel Affsprung

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Gini, Andrea O'Connor

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Faculty Profile: Gary Lenhart, James Washington Jr.

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Faculty Profile: Christopher Wren, Casey Carpenter

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Meet Marin Sardy, Mals ’07, Sabine Hoskinson

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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An Impossible Time, Julia Ceraolo

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Dark Purple Woods, Xiuqi Huang

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Wild Rice, Amanda Gokee

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Answer Me, Edward Ting

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Trump Ships Out--Without Seeing The Ship, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a short story written in response to efforts to hide the U.S.S. John McCain from Trump when he visited Japan.

New Bruises, Katelyn Aquilo

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The following manuscript is a collection of poetry based on experiences. Religious hypocrisy and abuse thread throughout the collection with both first hand experiences and fictional ones. It is divided into three parts: the hometown, the bodily abuse, and then, finally, the religion.

Soulmate, Susan E. Buice

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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From Creative Writing To A Self’S Liberation: A Monologue Of A Struggling Writer, Ethan Trinh

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

The pressure of being alone in a new country and of surviving in a competitive academia has scared me to death. I cannot find any better way to heal me other than writing. Writing helps me make sense of the worlds and come closer to my true self. This piece is journeying from my own struggles of a Vietnamese, queer, immigrant teacher to accept who I am as a writer. In addition, writing this piece helps me get closer to decademizing academic writing in higher education.

August 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

Newsletter Archive

Contents: Kiddish Levana; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices

Zona, Zachary Williams

Dissertations

This dissertation is a collection of poems written between 2011 and 2019. Zona the title of the book, meditates on themes of precarity, loss, imagination, and transformation. Drawing from both the Surrealist and Deep Image traditions, the book comments on life and aesthetic experience under late-stage capitalism.

Amjambo Africa! (August 2019), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In This Issue...

Welcome Feast........................Page 8

My Life as a Refugee ............Page 11 by Veronica Kaluta

Wedding of Irene Yao & Romeo Adji....................Page 13

Review Of I Heart Oklahoma, Michael F. Russo

Faculty Publications

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How To Break Your Own Heart, Ryan Molloy

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The following collection represents three years of creative work in the Masters of Fine ArtsFiction program at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. These stories attempt to be equal parts humorous, tragic, and mundane.