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Elementals and other essays
Author(s):Ellison, Courtney
Date Issued:2020
Format:born digital; masters theses
A collection of personal essays that explore the concept of fragmentation and its effects on memory. This collection challenges the belief that life is experienced in a linear way, and instead suggests that conceptually ...
Let me go first: essays on place
Author(s):LaCrosse, Michelle
Date Issued:2020
Format:born digital; masters theses
This thesis is comprised of narrative nonfiction essays on place and immersion memoir intended to answer a broad question about exploration and what does it mean to be a citizen of the world in the twenty-first century. I ...
Tension of writing across the curriculum, a subservient and subversive curricular movement, The
Author(s):Norwood-Klingstedt, Matthew
Date Issued:2020
Format:born digital; masters theses
A Writing Across the Curriculum Program (or proponent or article) that does not seek to transform the classroom into a locus of consciousness-raising and liberating education is not one that is in keeping with the original ...
Junipers, The
Author(s):McCarthy, Geneva
Date Issued:2020
Format:born digital; masters theses
The poems in Geneva McCarthy's thesis, The Junipers, explore intersectionality as a function of sentience-based epistemological and ontological concerns. The pieces explicitly seek to engage the world in terms of connectivity ...
Bringing attention to carceral and criminal justice practices in Ghana: critical discourse analysis of international organizations' texts
Author(s):Dumavor, Roland
Date Issued:2020
Format:born digital; masters theses
The prison and the criminal justice systems in Ghana are fraught with serious challenges that relate to injustice and inhumane prison conditions. Most of the incarcerated people suffer lack of adequate legal aid, torture, ...
Betterment
Author(s):Thomas, Michelle
Date Issued:2020
Format:born digital; masters theses
Betterment explores a possible near future in the Southeastern Michigan town of Harwood, fifteen years into recovery from a pandemic caused by the virus H1X1. In Harwood, neglected infrastructure of pipes and waste management ...
Hope is oxygen
Author(s):Senie, Evan
Date Issued:2020
Format:born digital; masters theses
This novel is about Jeb, Cam, and an unnamed mind character. Jeb is from Cape Cod, and he's kind of a schlub in his mid-twenties who works a job he doesn't like and drifts through unsatisfying relationships with women. He ...
Blue sail come cover
Author(s):Lodge-Rigal, Susannah
Date Issued:2020
Format:born digital; masters theses
Blue Sail Come Cover is a study of love—an investigation of care blurred by fear and gratitude, a searching for sign in world and word, both. These poems explore conditions of loss and fear, and within those wounds, the ...
To smoke a wasp's nest
Author(s):Browne, Margaret F.
Date Issued:2020
Format:born digital; masters theses
This manuscript centers on destroying wasps' nests as a central metaphor for a kind of exorcism of a deep-seated grief. Grief for a time and place in a family's history, for the traumas they experienced that left long-lasting ...
Re/designing the writing center to support technical literacy initiatives
Author(s):Getty, Matt
Date Issued:2020
Format:born digital; masters theses
Technology pervades most aspects of life and a level of technical prowess is all but required to participate in modern society. The increasing emphasis on STEM initiatives and "learning to code" often focuses on functional ...