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  • Renovations or "Miracles"

    Creator:
    Bravo, Simon Gabriel
    Abstract:
    Renovations or “Miracles” is a collection of poetry that exposes the miraculous within the mundane by bearing witness to where we come from and where we are going. Ranging in style from the lyric to the narrative, the personal to the political, these poems explore the relationship between individual and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Simon Gabriel Bravo for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative

  • There were bears and rumors of bears

    Creator:
    Miftaraj, Andre M.
    Abstract:
    There Were Bears and Rumors of Bears is a collection of stories that explores spiritual injury and recovery using a variety of interior and exterior narrative approaches to depict the profane and sacred, the mundane and non-ordinary, aspects of experience. In each story, the characters encounter situations in the physical...
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    Masters Thesis
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    it was warm and there had been no rain all Spring. He wore jeans and a T shirt and a baseball cap

  • Rose, thou art sick

    Creator:
    McIntyre, Katharine L.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is the first third of a novel in progress called Rose, Thou Art Sick. In the selection, Rose loses her mother in a freak accident in Boston, is threatened by her evil uncle Charlie, and packs up and moves to Kansas to live with her father, whom she...
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    Abstract approved: T. Scribner This thesis is the first third of a novel in progress called Rose, Thou

  • Things I lost in Istanbul

    Creator:
    Bush, H. Takken
    Abstract:
    This thesis is the first half of a novel in progress called Things I Lost In Istanbul. In the selection, Simon Wells, an American expat living in Turkey, is trying to ignore the changes taking place in his life and in Istanbul--his adopted home and sanctuary. The novel tracks Simon's...
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    Abstract approved: Keith T. Scribner This thesis is the first half of a novel in progress called Things I

  • 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

  • Penitence

    Creator:
    Jaramillo, John Paul
    Abstract:
    In 7 composite stories--shifting from the roads of Southern Colorado neighborhoods, the fields and unpaved roads of Northern New Mexico, and the streets of Culver City, California--Penitence follows Relles Ortiz and the bleak peripheral existence of the voiceless suburban people living in disorder and disorientation within the harshness of their...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF John Paul Jaramillo for the degree

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    Boisvert, Simon Bravo, Kim Rasmussen and John Peacock. A special appreciation to Sarah Harwell for her

  • Modern apostles

    Creator:
    Casas, Ruben
    Abstract:
    Modern Apostles actively attempts to blur the line between academic scholarship and narrative fiction for the purpose of satirizing the social and the political assumptions of its contemporary moment. By appropriating the loudest voices in dominant American culture, the inter-textual narratives (1) call attention to the voices that go unheard,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Gabriel García Márquez. Oh, and Chuck Klosterman, whom I hate and love for taking my job before I knew

  • May we all wake up one by one

    Creator:
    Ludden, Jason
    Abstract:
    May We All Wake Up One By One is the beginning of a novel set in the West African country of Guinea. The story follows Sean Wake, a twenty-something American who finds himself working for the Feed the World Program as the country falls apart around him. While his co-workers...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Fath, Quinn Dmitreiv and, the original Oregonian male, John Larrison– they all taught me more about

  • The athlete and two stories

    Creator:
    McDonnell, Peter A.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this document is to display a portion of the work I have completed over the last two years. The Athlete is the recently written opening to a novel of the same name. I've decided not to excerpt a longer section of the novel because the novel isn't...
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    Square Park we'd find a bench in a bolt of sunlight. For a warm week in October we wore T- shirts and