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“One Heart, Two Cities”, Julianne Marie Kellar Jan 2011

“One Heart, Two Cities”, Julianne Marie Kellar

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Nebraska Nights, Karen Baddeley Jan 2011

Nebraska Nights, Karen Baddeley

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The Gospel Of Winter, Brendan Kiely Jan 2011

The Gospel Of Winter, Brendan Kiely

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In Morning Light, Jessica Leon Jan 2011

In Morning Light, Jessica Leon

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Florence In Ecstasy, Jessie Chaffee Jan 2011

Florence In Ecstasy, Jessie Chaffee

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The Significance Of The Other: Stories, Mara Lee Grayson Jan 2011

The Significance Of The Other: Stories, Mara Lee Grayson

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Grunt Of Beauty Poems, Erienne Rojas Jan 2011

Grunt Of Beauty Poems, Erienne Rojas

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Transforming, Krystyna Marlena Sokoll Jan 2011

Transforming, Krystyna Marlena Sokoll

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Two Kinds Of Trouble, Rebecca Minnich Jan 2011

Two Kinds Of Trouble, Rebecca Minnich

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The Markers, Mardi Jaskot Jan 2011

The Markers, Mardi Jaskot

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Bakra, Camille Wanliss Ortiz Jan 2011

Bakra, Camille Wanliss Ortiz

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Yemoja De Pwe Mi O (Yemoja Calls Me), Camille Adams Jan 2011

Yemoja De Pwe Mi O (Yemoja Calls Me), Camille Adams

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Postmark, Brittany Vovan Jan 2011

Postmark, Brittany Vovan

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Four Stories By Donato Silenzio, Domenick Acocella Jan 2011

Four Stories By Donato Silenzio, Domenick Acocella

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Rope, David King Jan 2011

Rope, David King

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The Summer Of Mom, Sonia Valdiviezo Jan 2011

The Summer Of Mom, Sonia Valdiviezo

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Sketchy Etchings: Stories, Jeff Brewer Jan 2010

Sketchy Etchings: Stories, Jeff Brewer

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"From Port-Au-Prince To Hollywood: The Trope Of The Zombi(E) In American Literature", Pitetti M. Connor Jan 2010

"From Port-Au-Prince To Hollywood: The Trope Of The Zombi(E) In American Literature", Pitetti M. Connor

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The Gothic Flip: Using The Supernatural To Fight For Morality, Kathryn Gelsone Jan 2010

The Gothic Flip: Using The Supernatural To Fight For Morality, Kathryn Gelsone

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Midstream, Alena Einstein Jan 2010

Midstream, Alena Einstein

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Luminous Days, Mitchell S. Jackson Jul 2002

Luminous Days, Mitchell S. Jackson

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Luminous Days is a representation of my artistic vision, literary goals, and social influences. Artistically, I intend to create fiction that is aesthetically appealing. This aesthetic appeal includes the presence of a distinct narrative voice, realistically rendered settings, multidimensional characters, meticulous attention to diction, and sentence construction. The literary goal I hold in the highest regard is the creation of a body of work that demonstrates continued growth in my craft.

What I intend to render in my thesis is an accurate portrayal of the effects that drugs on the lives of my characters, and more specifically the relational strains …


Breadcrumbs: New And Selected Poems, Jonathan Kirk Ellis Oct 2001

Breadcrumbs: New And Selected Poems, Jonathan Kirk Ellis

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These poems are grouped as they are in order to reflect a progression, a trail at the end of which my own spirituality is not found, but revealed. A subtitle might be Dilemmas and Destinations, for each poem can also be viewed individually as a struggle or desire to reach this goal. In fact, I label my two sub-sections in precisely these terms. I have organized them not to build upon one another, but to act as "snapshots" that describe my beliefs. My poems begin with family issues and/or characters that have shaped a belief in a multi-faceted God. Several …


Everything Else Is Real, Jay Ashkinos Jun 2001

Everything Else Is Real, Jay Ashkinos

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Everything Else is Real is a story of escape. It begins in Glendale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, where Raymond Gutters is in the midst of a crank binge. The first part of the book deals with Los Angeles nightlife through the eyes of the drug. Among others we are introduced to Gerald, a small-time dealer, and Dana, Gerald's estranged junkie girlfriend, who is also having an affair with Raymond.

Raymond tries to kick the habit, but his on-and-off romantic train wreck with Dana keeps him from seeing it through. He tries to substitute his drug vice for a …


A Search For Peace, Kami Horton Jun 2001

A Search For Peace, Kami Horton

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This is a creative thesis on a personal experiences working for the European peace movement. It reflects the parallel efforts of working for personal and shared peace in order to contribute to both,

After several years as a reporter, I became disenchanted with my life choices and became an intern with the Catholic peace organization Pax Christi International in Belgium. It was a transition that proved both challenging and rewarding.

While I was discovering the physical peace work through Pax Christi I was also embarking on an inner journey to find personal peace with my decisions and myself.

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Four Square, James Raymond Echtle May 2001

Four Square, James Raymond Echtle

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The novel opens with three people in a stolen 300ZX going dangerously fast. There's Kevin Parish, our first person protagonist, through who's eyes we come to learn of the events leading up to the three's desperate situation. There's Hector Malice, the trailer-trash life-long friend and Kevin's rival for the love of Kevin's life, Ginger Lane. Then, there's Ginger, the former Ms. Lewis County turned drug abusing waitress and worse. Revealed are the secrets of the car business and other marginally legal short cons.

The settings range from the fictional rural Washington communities of Pelton and Clark's Bluff to the city …


Seventeen Days In The Cat Bird Seat, Meggin Crom May 2001

Seventeen Days In The Cat Bird Seat, Meggin Crom

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Humor and laughter are essential to the happiness of humankind. Too often we are bogged down in the mire of despair and misery, unable to see the humor in our own folly.

This thesis follows several groups of wacky characters on a cross country adventure. The story begins with the death and subsequent reincarnation of the hermetic genius, Archibald Constable. The recently departed recluse bequeaths his estate to Loretta Pontelli, a loudmouth Italian woman, who feels morally obligated to find Archibald's next of kin. Once she discovers a birth announcement she contacts her ex-husband, J.P. Kittenger, a private detective who …


Eyes Of The Mirror, Margaret Jane Emerson Apr 2001

Eyes Of The Mirror, Margaret Jane Emerson

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Eyes of the Mirror is a memoir of transition. Chronologically, it begins with a kind of death in 1996 when the author was forty-eight. Exhausted and disillusioned, she ended her first life as a successful but financially struggling potter, writer, and T'ai Chi instructor. Over the course of twenty-four years, the strain of following a bliss that lay outside of the economy had worn her out. As a first step in the creation of a new life, she earned a certificate in teaching English and accepted a job in South Korea. After two harsh and challenging years there, she returned …


Heartbeat And Other Stories, Amy Carmickle Feb 2001

Heartbeat And Other Stories, Amy Carmickle

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Would human life be tolerable without love, faith, hope, mystery and wonder? This question seems to thread its way through each of the three stories included in this thesis. As the individual characters in these works, find themselves in crisis, or facing life's darker moments, they are moved to examine their beliefs, confront inner conflict, and with greater difficulty, to trust and depend on the existence and power of that which cannot be seen or held, to aid them in their emotional, physical and spiritual survival.

The first story of this collection, "Seeds", explores the reactions of several women in …


The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle: An Adaptation Of The Young Adult Novel By Avi, Adriane Rainer Jul 2000

The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle: An Adaptation Of The Young Adult Novel By Avi, Adriane Rainer

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Avi, an American writer, has published numerous best-selling books for children. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle appeared in 1990: Avon Books, New York. The book has since been honored with seventeen awards for children's fiction.

Charlotte Doyle is a thirteen-year-old girl of wealth and good breeding. During the summer of 1832, en route from her British boarding school to her family's Rhode Island home, she finds herself the lone passenger and female on board a ship called the Seahawk sailing from Great Britain across the Atlantic Ocean. During the Ship's long and terrifying voyage, Charlotte is caught between a …


Frontiers, Naomi Kristine Ulsted May 2000

Frontiers, Naomi Kristine Ulsted

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Our culture today faces a crisis with our young women. Between the ages of ten and fifteen, young women attempt to define their identities under societal pressure, and in the midst of sometimes overwhelmingly dysfunctional families. F̲r̲o̲n̲t̲i̲e̲r̲s̲ is a play that deals with these issues.

As Eve struggles to define herself as a free human being, separate from June, her emotionally needy mother, she also feels the inevitable entanglement of her identity with that of her family. As she gains artistic and emotional confidence from her grandmother, Helen, she also gains insight into the origin of her mother's cowardice. The …