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Section Intro: Facade, Aaqilah Wright, Brandon Belton, Andrew Wallman May 2020

Section Intro: Facade, Aaqilah Wright, Brandon Belton, Andrew Wallman

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Autism Pain, Johanna Chojnicki May 2020

Autism Pain, Johanna Chojnicki

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Pride, Annie Shi May 2020

Pride, Annie Shi

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Being A Minority At Syracuse University, Pamela Flores May 2020

Being A Minority At Syracuse University, Pamela Flores

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Section Intro: (Un)Common Ground, Jung Won Nam, Berri Wilmore May 2020

Section Intro: (Un)Common Ground, Jung Won Nam, Berri Wilmore

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Intertext 2018 — Complete Issue Jan 2018

Intertext 2018 — Complete Issue

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The complete issue of Intertext 26 (2018).


Section Introduction: Echoes, Ryley Bonferraro, Tyler Howcott, Katie Randall Jan 2018

Section Introduction: Echoes, Ryley Bonferraro, Tyler Howcott, Katie Randall

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Intertext 2017 — Complete Issue Jan 2017

Intertext 2017 — Complete Issue

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The complete issue of Intertext 25 (2017).


Tea & Intuition, Wendy Reynolds Jan 2016

Tea & Intuition, Wendy Reynolds

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Semper Fidelis: Always Faithful, Carol Petz Jan 2016

Semper Fidelis: Always Faithful, Carol Petz

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Intertext 2016 — Complete Issue Jan 2016

Intertext 2016 — Complete Issue

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The complete issue of Intertext 24 (2016).


Awakening, Wendy Reynolds Jan 2016

Awakening, Wendy Reynolds

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Traffic Tyrants, Siddarth Senthilkumaran Jan 2016

Traffic Tyrants, Siddarth Senthilkumaran

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A Simple Time, Angela M. Anastasi Jan 2016

A Simple Time, Angela M. Anastasi

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A Father's Smile, Benjamin Fox Jan 2016

A Father's Smile, Benjamin Fox

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Elsie: A Screenplay, Eileen M. Spath May 2014

Elsie: A Screenplay, Eileen M. Spath

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Elsie is a 57 page, one-hour screenplay. A modern adaptation of a true story, Elsie tells the tale of Elsie Whitman, a young housewife unhappy in her marriage and looking for a way out. When her estranged sister arrives, she finally finds the strength to do the unthinkable.

Our story opens with the arrival of Elsie's sister, Marianne, and the departure of her husband, John. Alone in the house together, the sisters relationship grows complex. Marianne begins to see Peter, a young man with a mysterious past. However, when Elsie is wronged by John, she jumps into bed with Peter. …


How To Be Alice: A Feature-Length Screenplay With Production Package, Alison Joy May 2014

How To Be Alice: A Feature-Length Screenplay With Production Package, Alison Joy

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

This Capstone consists of a feature-length dramatic screenplay of 110 pages along with a production package including schedule and budget. The production documents, created using Movie Magic software, detail a shooting schedule of 21 days and a budget of $890,979.

The film centers on a successful magazine editor who loses her job and her fiancé in the same day. Professionally disgraced, financially stunted, and unexpectedly hearbroken, she is forced to take on a “How To” blogging gig to pay the bills while she gets back on her feet. She begrudgingly accepts mentorship from an eccentric older neighbor to help her …


180 Degrees Away, Megan Daniels May 2014

180 Degrees Away, Megan Daniels

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

180 Degrees Away is a novel that started as a capstone project for the honors department and further developed into a work that will later be submitted to literary agencies and publishing houses.

The novel tells the story of eighteen-year-old Ames Treadway, who has been nothing but a punching bag to his father for years. After walking in on a particularly horrifying event involving his father and younger sister, Layla, Ames nearly kills his father before taking his sister and running away. Layla, Ames, and three of Ames’ friends journey from their home in New Jersey to Nashville, where he …


Key 16 The Tower Jul 2012

Key 16 The Tower

Syracuse University Magazine

The Man Behind Mongo

Think of the rich tradition of mystery serial novels and Spade and Hammer are certain to come to mind. But Mongo? That is the moniker of George Chesbro'sheroic protaganist, the dwarf detective with a doctoratein criminology who has starred in seven Chesbronovels. A 1962 SU graduate in special education, Chesbro taught mentally retarded and emotionally disturbed students near his Nyack, New York, home until 1979, when he began writing full-time. He has written 16 books, including the "Mangos": Shadow of a Broken Man (1977), City of Whispering Stone(1978), An Affair of Sorcerers (1979), The Beasts of …


Alligators In Academe Jul 2012

Alligators In Academe

Syracuse University Magazine

Mystery is only one of the genres in which prolific writer Richard Hammer dabbles. lrue, he has won two Edgar Allan Poe Awards, but he has also written about the Vietnam War, politics, the civil rights movement, and other events of our times. He is a former New York Times reporter who has published also in many magazines. He wrote and narrated the film Interviews With My-Lai veterans, which won an Academy Award for best documentary. Both Ed gars came in the true crime category, for The Vatican Connection (1982) and The CBS Murders (1987). Other nonfiction works include Betwem …


Killed Top To Bottom Jul 2012

Killed Top To Bottom

Syracuse University Magazine

Lnle do the well-meaning faculty members of Whitten College understand that TV executive Matt Cobb is, in truth, a high-level corporate snoop and trouble-shooter. Cobb is the protaganist of five novels by William DeAndrea. A sixth is coming soon. The fictitious Whitten College, the town of Sewanka, and some of the characters featured in this story were first created for DeAndrea's Killed \o/'ith a Passion, published in 1983. Other Cobb books are Killed in the Ratings (1978), Killed in the Aa(1981), Passion, Killed on the Ice (1984), and Killed in Paradise (1988; due in paperback this summer). DeAndrea is the …


Penance: A Novel, Rachel Anne Weiser May 2012

Penance: A Novel, Rachel Anne Weiser

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Penance is a fictional novel written both as an Honors Capstone project and as a work that will be further revised and eventually submitted for professional publication.

The novel is set in modern day, in the fictional southern city of Avington. Avington, like the rest of the world, is home to a group of terrifying creatures called the nephilim, a name derived from Hebrew, meaning “the fallen.” The nephilim are humans who once died and were reborn as undead creatures; because of their insatiable thirst for human life energy, they are considered demons with the faces of men. Despite the …


The Gatekeepers Of The Black Press, Sadé Khadijah Muhammad May 2012

The Gatekeepers Of The Black Press, Sadé Khadijah Muhammad

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Crossroads: A Novella, Patricia Ann-Marie Abraham May 2011

Crossroads: A Novella, Patricia Ann-Marie Abraham

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Crossroads is the herstory of Tahaj Marie, a woman-child who comes of age in Brooklyn, New York. The single daughter of a single mother, she rejects the pressures put forth by her strict, cold mother and defies her with a sexual relationship at 16 that leaves her pregnant and alone. Spending years raising her son Amir, and rekindling an unsuccessful relationship with his father leads her to the crossroads of her life. Despite the road blocks, she rebuilds herself to strive towards the woman she seeks to become. As a single mother who is Black, female, and disadvantaged, Tahaj Marie …


"Chance" Screenplay, Simone Laroche May 2011

"Chance" Screenplay, Simone Laroche

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

My Capstone Thesis is a creative screenplay pursuing the complexities of predestination and our innate obsession to control fate. I became intrigued with the idea that our decisions or actions dictate outcomes we may have had the ability to prevent or perpetuate. I recently found it difficult to accept my misfortunes for ineptitude or lack of preparation. Instead I called it “fate” or “destiny” that circumstances were not meant to work in my favor. In hindsight I realized I had allowed my passivity to compensate for my lack of commitment and courage to take risks. Granted, I do believe regardless …


Table Of Contents (V. 18, 2010) Jan 2010

Table Of Contents (V. 18, 2010)

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The Wee Cottage, Amanda Stessen Jan 2010

The Wee Cottage, Amanda Stessen

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Respect Street, Evan Mychal Smith Jan 2010

Respect Street, Evan Mychal Smith

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Pajammin’, Amelia Bienstock Jan 2010

Pajammin’, Amelia Bienstock

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Intertext 2010 — Complete Issue Jan 2010

Intertext 2010 — Complete Issue

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