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    Creator:
    Dunham, Karen L.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is a collection of six essays with interconnecting elements and themes. Two overriding themes which pervade the collection are the search for spiritual wholeness and the relationships between humans and their environments. The essays document my recent explorations of and experimentations with the "creative nonfiction" genre. have worked...
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    the coast. The park ranger had told us about a large midden out by the beach, deep layers of shell

  • Scenes of language

    Creator:
    Duerst, Gretchen
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    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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    another batch of cookies from the 2 oven. I read the action as hostile. Soon after, Jennifer said she

  • Finding Fantasy : Three Newspapers Tell the Story of Kip Kinkel and Thurston High School

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    Wood, Josie MaryAnne Soules
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    On May 21, 1998 Kip Kinkel drove to Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon. Kinkel killed two students and wounded another twenty-two students. He killed his parents the day before. The shootings at Thurston High School came on the heels of a number of prominent school shootings and Kip Kinkel...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

    Creator:
    Wood, Amy
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    In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
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  • Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

    Creator:
    King, Michelle L.
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    In this thesis I argue that Alice Munro’s work takes part in an ongoing feminist discourse that examines alterations in male and female gender relations, as they have been represented in domestic fiction by women writers since the late nineteenth century. I analyze two short stories written by Munro: “Meneseteung,”...
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  • Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

    Creator:
    Robinson, Tracy Ann
    Abstract:
    Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....
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    practices soon proliferated throughout U.S. higher education. Some of the earliest adopters included