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Shattered Wholeness, Kassie D. Heisserer

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Other People's Country: A Memoir; And, Developing A Trustworthy Narrator: An Essay, Maureen Helen

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis comprises two interrelated sections. The first section is a substantial piece of creative writing, which l have cailed 'Other People's Country: A Memoir, in the genre of travel memoir, and an essay. The memoir borrows techniques from fiction, drama and poetry to tell a story of a middle-aged, middle-class city nurse, who travels to a remote settlement at the edge of the Western Desert of Western Australia to provide health care for a fluctuating population of around 400 people, for whom English is a third or fourth language.

Writing that includes stories about vulnerable people from another culture, …

Running Stones 02:04am 10/07/2003, Jeremy Jones

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Jeremy now thinks he is a kitten named Bert. He likes to drink milk and mew when doors are closed. He has fleas.

All The Women Of The World Would Flock Here, Laura Clark

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Laura Clark is a senior English Writing major from Greencastle, Indiana. She plans to pursue a career in publishing.

Untitled, Tim Rausch

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

My Heart, Laura Clark

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Laura Clark is a senior English Writing major from Greencastle, Indiana. She plans to pursue a career in publishing.

The Happy Accident, Robert Manning

New England Journal of Public Policy

In "The Happy Accident," Robert Manning's delightful memoir of his early newspaper days in Binghamton, New York, we are brought back to an earlier and seemingly more innocent time when New England — and America — stood on the threshold of change. The moral of going home, it seems, is that as much changes, much never changes — something we should perhaps remember in these last feverish days of the nineteen eighties.

Home To New England, Alfred Alcorn

New England Journal of Public Policy

In "Home to New England," Alfred Alcorn adds a very personal dimension to our ongoing search for the characteristics that define the New England ethic. Visiting his father-in-law's home, built in Chelmsford in 1690, became an experience "a little like touching history itself, the vernacular history of a simple, hardworking and yet cannily sophisticated people."

Refugee In New England, James C. Thomson Jr.

New England Journal of Public Policy

James C. Thomson, Jr., in his vivid memoir "Refugee in New England," shows how our sense of place is central to the way in which we see ourselves and to our sense of belonging.