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  • West of Ellis

    Creator:
    Tafolla Young, Kathryne M.
    Abstract:
    Ellis, a booming mid-sized town in California's Central Valley, is packed with farmers and commuters, and plagued with a dwindling sense of itself and its history. Set against the backdrop of a failed murder-suicide, a secret affair and a wealthy local mogul's attempt to develop the town into something it's...
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    . Abstract approved: Keith T. Scribner Ellis, a booming mid-sized town in California's Central Valley, is

  • Freeway : poems

    Creator:
    Dickey, Eric Wayne
    Abstract:
    This collection of poems focuses on a range of content. They pose many questions that consider issues surrounding driving, cars and independence, as well as masculinity, fatherhood, domesticity and parental identity. The collection consists of three parts, Freeway, Menace, and Control. Freeway contains poems on driving and cars, some of...
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    could do this. I do not cast blame. J, aloof and mum. K kicks it in the shadows with L leaning

  • Steelhead

    Creator:
    Willis, Stephen E.
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    The thesis is the first third of a novel entitled Steelhead. The story takes place in and around a small southern Oregon town in the summer of 1967. The narrator, eighteen-year-old hot-rodding Emil Reese, discovers hippies swimming naked in the river near his house. The hippies, newly arrived from San...
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    Bedrock my hole. My t-shirt was damp with sweat. I peeled it off, looped it through my belt, and walked

  • The wish list of Arturo Chan

    Creator:
    Shum, Michael Shou-Yung
    Abstract:
    This collection of loosely-linked stories explores the lives of a set of characters who exist in the margins of society, but quietly so. In the opening story, "Two-Minute Histories," an ostensibly negative act—breaking and entering, among other verifiable crimes—is demonstrated to lead to some positive outcome such as a moment...
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    , 2011. Title: The Wish List of Arturo Chan. Abstract approved: Marjorie J. Sandor

  • On top

    Creator:
    Richter, Amanda M.
    Abstract:
    This collection of stories spans a range of content: the personal, the domestic, the political, and the downright terrifying. In “Ilka the Flyer,” a young man is faced with his own crisis and that of his veteran uncle. Sister relationships bloom and fade as the entire family deals with changes...
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    : Marjorie J. Sandor This collection of stories spans a range of content: the personal, the domestic, the

  • Beneath this roof : stories

    Creator:
    Carpenter, Claire
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    These stories follow the lives of women in a variety of roles—housewife, deli employee, artist, bird keeper, and sitter for the elderly—and at different stages of life. In “Beneath this Roof,” a young housewife’s life is rocked by a visit from an old friend who has changed in unexpected ways....
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    on May 2, 2008. Title: Beneath this Roof: Stories Abstract approved: Marjorie J

  • Many sparrows

    Creator:
    Gustie, Michael J.
    Abstract:
    This collection of poetry explores faith and isolation while questioning the ability of language to adequately express subjective experience. Gustie has provided a deeply contemplative, though rarely completely serious, romp through the lives of others who, ultimately, are reflections of the self. The three sections of the collection establish a...
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    Thesis.indd AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael J. Gustie

  • Hamilton Falls

    Creator:
    Peters, Patrick J.
    Abstract:
    Hamilton Falls is a screenplay about a young attorney who returns home from WWII, is appointed District Attorney, and begins investigating an old murder. In the course of the investigation, he discovers that his mentor, the former district attorney, may have been the murderer. The story follows the film noir...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Patrick J. Peters for the degree

  • Mirage

    Creator:
    Houghton, Melissa G.
    Abstract:
    This collection of poems spans a range of content. They pose many questions that consider issues surrounding identity, perception, and the relationship between the self and other. The collection consists of four parts. Parts I and IV explore the self and other by using personal experience and persona. Part II...
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    wasn‟t looking. 5 Uncertainty Is it doubtful I have seen your face before? Do I not

  • The spillways

    Creator:
    Rasmussen, Kimberly Ann
    Abstract:
    The Spillways is a collection of poetry investigating a wide range of themes: identity, memory, loss, illness, labor, suffering, and grief. At times, the poems investigate place−in the physical and natural world−as a driving force of the speaker's identity. Many of the poems also consider the role of work and...
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    . 4 W E S T R I V E R A N D B A C K What was it like returning from the prairie along Highway