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  • Scenes of language

    Creator:
    Duerst, Gretchen
    Abstract:
    In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when I wanted to draw people closer with language, but was unsuccessful. In the twelve stories, I discuss these issues in my interpersonal communication interwoven...
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    alone. "Remember to breathe," the minister added, and Robert and Betsy both rose with their heavy

  • The infinite margin : living in reading

    Creator:
    Kleiman, Alicia J. Alicia J.
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    This thesis, a collection of creative non-fiction essays, explores the nature and influence of reading and school in the author's life. After a brief introduction explaining the title, part one describes the sensory dimensions of reading. Part two discusses the author's work as a student and teacher and the contradictions...
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    Masters Thesis
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    rose in its center. The creases in the waistcoat and breeches were gentle and gradual, the coat

  • The Gospel : according to Matt

    Creator:
    Weber, Joshua D.
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    The Gospel: According to Matt is a novel, told in the first person, simple past tense, depicting the struggle of a young man attempting to make sense of his relationship with his estranged father as he wrestles with a growing crisis of faith. Matt is deeply sincere in his desire...
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    makin' some dough?" Oklahoma lay out before us, flat and wide. A cluster of buildings rose out of the

  • Whitman and technology: a modern romance

    Creator:
    Turner, David N.
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    Walt Whitman looked to the natural world, which he considered an original example of divine creation, for insights into the methods and patterns of the Creative Force; the poet then intuited connections between these divine natural patterns and human existence and spirituality. Convinced of the divinity of the human body,...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The dry country

    Creator:
    Van Handel, Lucinda S.
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    Set in the dryland farming country of Eastern Oregon in the late 1950's, this novel follows a year and a half in the life of a young girl as she comes of age. A water rights dispute, the plight of nearby ranchers, disappointments in her own family and a harrowing...
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    its racks and rose above the truck cab in a rickety stack, like a toddler's block tower. Everything