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Blood Of The Monster: Book 1 In The Covenant Trilogy, Emily Hayes Dec 2015

Blood Of The Monster: Book 1 In The Covenant Trilogy, Emily Hayes

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Please Read, Joseph W. Anthony-Brown Dec 2015

Please Read, Joseph W. Anthony-Brown

Theses and Dissertations

This is a semi-fictional story told through a series of fake found documents. It describes my work and thoughts through metaphor. Machines have the potential to gain self-consciousness through accumulation of errors. Creativity can be confused with randomly generated variety. The acceptance of chaos and loss of control can provide a path to enlightenment.


Verve, Stephanie L. Zahareas Dec 2015

Verve, Stephanie L. Zahareas

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Dissent, John P. Belli Iii Dec 2015

Dissent, John P. Belli Iii

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


A Bedlam Of Shenanigans, Andrew F. Kooy Dec 2015

A Bedlam Of Shenanigans, Andrew F. Kooy

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Sins Of The Mothers, Sylvia Johns Schneller M.D. Dec 2015

The Sins Of The Mothers, Sylvia Johns Schneller M.D.

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In The Sins of the Mothers, the main character, Bridgette, suffers a mental breakdown after the death of her three-month-old baby, Celeste, from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). She develops severe obsessive-compulsive disorder with the delusion that the child is trapped in Limbo because she was never baptized. The delusion haunts Bridgette, and she suffers brief dissociative episodes with visual hallucinations. Bridgette hears of a church in Provence where, according to a seventeenth century legend, children who died without baptism returned briefly to life under the intersession of Saint Pantaleon were baptized and gained heaven. She decides to exhume Celeste’s …


Signs Of Friendship, Kaylee J. Kapalko, Ashley N. Brickner Dec 2015

Signs Of Friendship, Kaylee J. Kapalko, Ashley N. Brickner

Honors Projects

This children's book is about mainstreaming a deaf student into a public school composed of predominantly hearing children, and the eventual friendship between that student and a hearing student. The majority of deaf students are educated in hearing schools and experience high rates of social isolation as a result of the inability to communicate with their peers. In order to create this book, there was collaboration between a communication disorders major and a creative writing major in order to create a realistic portrayal yet creative learning tool for children at a young age. We chose to aim our book at …


Signs Of Friendship, Ashley N. Brickner, Kaylee J. Kapalko Dec 2015

Signs Of Friendship, Ashley N. Brickner, Kaylee J. Kapalko

Honors Projects

This children's book is about mainstreaming a deaf student into a public school composed of predominantly hearing children, and the eventual friendship between that student and a hearing student. The majority of deaf students are educated in hearing schools and experience high rates of social isolation as a result of the inability to communicate with their peers. In order to create this book, there was collaboration between a communication disorders major and a creative writing major in order to create a realistic portrayal yet creative learning tool for children at a young age. We chose to aim our book at …


Gender, Othering, And Loki 2015, Amanda Munson Dec 2015

Gender, Othering, And Loki 2015, Amanda Munson

Master's Theses

With many enigmatic characters and engaging stories, Norse literature and mythology have had a formative impact on English literature from the early Middle Ages in poetry like the Edda and many Icelandic sagas. A lot of scholarship has been done on Nordic myth and literature, including character studies on many figures, especially Odin and Thor. However, it is difficult to find studies of the figures who make up the "other" in Nordic tales, such as the trickster Loki. While Loki plays a significant role in many tales, his position as the "other" in general Norse mythology and folklore is perhaps …


Achieving Relationships, Frederick C. Melancon Dec 2015

Achieving Relationships, Frederick C. Melancon

Master's Theses

These stories attempt to follow John Gardner’s instruction to create a dream that will engage the reader. Mirroring the goal that an author has to create a relationship with his audience, each story in turn focuses on emotional details that convey the characters’ feelings of isolation or, alternatively, inclusion in their communities. In the first story, a young man tries to recreate his father’s king cake. In the next, a middle school girl fixates on her relationship with her sister. Trying to recapture the memory of a lost daughter, a man searches for the perfect nectar snowball. A mom, then, …


Du Témoin Et De L’Humain Chez Gilbert Gatore : Le Passé Devant Soi, Jean-Pierre Karegeye Dec 2015

Du Témoin Et De L’Humain Chez Gilbert Gatore : Le Passé Devant Soi, Jean-Pierre Karegeye

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article revisits Gatore’s novel, The past ahead, in analyzing the idea of witnessing. Some critics estimate that the novel does not make a clear distinction between the perpetrator and the victim. While recognizing the danger, the article extends the debate on the notion of the human beyond the categories of “perpetrator” and “victim”. Without excusing acts of the former, the author of this article affirms that the perpetrator and the victim belong to the same humanity. While they remain extreme and inexcusable, crime against humanity and genocides are not a contingent acts, which opens a meditation on the fragility …


Le Devoir De Mémoire Ou Une Identité Ravalée Dans Cicatrices D’Alain Kamal Martial, Katharine Hargrave Dec 2015

Le Devoir De Mémoire Ou Une Identité Ravalée Dans Cicatrices D’Alain Kamal Martial, Katharine Hargrave

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article examines the construction of identity in Alain Kamal Martial’s novel, Cicatrices. Conceived during a rape committed by a group of militiamen, the narrator struggles against a sense of obligation to avenge his mother’s assault, as well as a need to liberate himself from this event. However, under the onus of being a proxy witness, he realizes that he cannot forget his duty of memory because he embodies the inherited trauma of past generations. The crude and powerful immediacy of this text forces the reader to reflect upon his or her own role in the remembrance of past injustices.


"A Spark" With Critical Introduction "Ore And Lore: Mining, Literature, And Loss", Andrea J. Warren Dec 2015

"A Spark" With Critical Introduction "Ore And Lore: Mining, Literature, And Loss", Andrea J. Warren

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis explores the emotional, physical, and familial repercussions of coal mining in the Appalachian region, especially in regards to relationships within the community. The thesis is divided into two parts; a critical essay in which the objective facts, statistics, and histories of coal mining are addressed, and a short story which shares the subjective experience of the Hicks family.


Atelophobia, Melissa Paravati Dec 2015

Atelophobia, Melissa Paravati

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Bones, Allison Giese Dec 2015

Bones, Allison Giese

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


The Escape Artist, Angela Workoff Dec 2015

The Escape Artist, Angela Workoff

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


An Unnamed God., Luke Cash Mansfield Dec 2015

An Unnamed God., Luke Cash Mansfield

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This creative thesis is the story of a man returning home at the behest of a friend who is undergoing great difficulties in her life. While Docent Americana ostensibly travels home to help his friend, he is also trying to cope with challenges in his own life. He suffers from bipolar disorder and although he is receiving treatment for it the stresses of the experience trigger a manic episode that threatens his personal stability and his relationships with those around him. An Unnamed God is set in western Kentucky, affording a glimpse at the slow decay of rural communities as …


The Boy Who Loved To Dance, Andreyo Sen Dec 2015

The Boy Who Loved To Dance, Andreyo Sen

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Home And Away: Imagining Ireland Imagining America (2013), Shaun O’Connell Nov 2015

Home And Away: Imagining Ireland Imagining America (2013), Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

From the 2013 Editor's Note by Padraig O'Malley: Shaun O’Connell has lost none of his touch. In “Home and Away: Imagining Ireland Imagining America,” O’Connell juxtaposes two novels: Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy (1998) and Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn (2009) and reveals the parallels and contrasts that enrich the discussion of Irish and Irish American identities. Toibin, an Irish writer, would have us see an America, land of the free, as an open, inviting place but exacting in redeeming promises made; McDermott, an American writer, portrays an Ireland that is magical, a little bit of heaven, but finally a closed and bitter …


Nature's Tattoos, Denise Landrum-Geyer Nov 2015

Nature's Tattoos, Denise Landrum-Geyer

Westview

No abstract provided.


Mending, Patricia Heim Nov 2015

Mending, Patricia Heim

Westview

No abstract provided.


Stepfather, John Graves Morris Nov 2015

Stepfather, John Graves Morris

Westview

No abstract provided.


Peeling The Grief Until The Onion Is None, L. C. Atencio Nov 2015

Peeling The Grief Until The Onion Is None, L. C. Atencio

Westview

No abstract provided.


Twins' Birthday, 9/15/13, Paul Watsky Nov 2015

Twins' Birthday, 9/15/13, Paul Watsky

Westview

No abstract provided.


Mary Spillwater, Robert Mcgowan Nov 2015

Mary Spillwater, Robert Mcgowan

Westview

No abstract provided.


Inside Work, Tom Larsen Nov 2015

Inside Work, Tom Larsen

Westview

No abstract provided.


The Woodpile, Marian F. Wolbers Nov 2015

The Woodpile, Marian F. Wolbers

Westview

No abstract provided.


Chestnut, James B. Nicola Nov 2015

Chestnut, James B. Nicola

Westview

No abstract provided.


Before Dawn In Nebraska, John Nizalowski Nov 2015

Before Dawn In Nebraska, John Nizalowski

Westview

No abstract provided.


Time's Needle, John Nizalowski Nov 2015

Time's Needle, John Nizalowski

Westview

No abstract provided.