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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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: alone. "Remember to breathe," the minister added, and Robert and Betsy both rose with their heavy

Creator:: DeTal, Trev
Abstract:: "A Fool's Marathon" is a fabulist novel exploring themes of Platonic love, imagination and its relationship to reality, and psychological coming of age through the exploits of a young Oscar Duplenty. The work-in-progress is presented in two sections: the first a contiguous five chapters from the beginning of the newest...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ,” she offered by way of consolation, and disappeared into her closet. Oscar sighed, and rose

Creator:: Elbom, Emily Rebecca
Abstract:: In Everybody Doing Pretty Here, a collection of eight interconnected short stories, Emily R. Elbom chronicles the lives of a married couple, Max and Willa. Both characters survive various forms of physical, emotional, and social abuse, and seem to stay married because of this connection. In spite of their codependency,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: still smiling. Corrine came back and Max half rose out of his seat. She shook her head. Nothing doing

Creator:: Kleiman, Alicia J. Alicia J.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: rose in its center. The creases in the waistcoat and breeches were gentle and gradual, the coat

Creator:: Weber, Joshua D.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: makin' some dough?" Oklahoma lay out before us, flat and wide. A cluster of buildings rose out of the

Creator:: Finley, Devon
Abstract:: The field of composition studies has concerned itself with the way in which people learn to write and the role schooling plays in writing development. Recently a trend has developed within the field towards exploring writing development outside of the classroom, termed the extracurriculum. Much of the scholarship thus far...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: rose garden contest. One of the ladies won every year and boasted that it was due to her secret

Creator:: Turner, David N.
Abstract:: 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,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Van Handel, Lucinda S.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: its racks and rose above the truck cab in a rickety stack, like a toddler's block tower. Everything

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