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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Book and Paper"”.
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The Effects of Two Homework Assessment Schemes on At-Risk Student Performance in College Algebra
… schemes. While both schemes assess completeness and accuracy, one scheme was more traditional and one was more nontraditional in nature. The more traditional method required students to complete homework assignments that were constructed from problems found in the textbook that accompanied the …
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Uncanny Bodies
… bits are revealed, sensibilities are questioned, and solid ground morphs into shaky mounds. I delve into how the uncanny challenges traditional views and societal norms about the body. My artwork emphasizes the fluid and often unsettling experiences of physical existence, blurring the boundaries …
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Mother Rind
<p>This collection of poems and hybrid lyric essays explores the links between ancestral history and the natural world. As femmes and woman, much of our history had been lost in violence and war. Much of it is undocumented, untranslated, footnoted. However, the natural world, the land and plants of …
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Optimistic and a Little Flawed
<p>The accompanying exhibition to this paper, Optimistic and Flawed is a body of drawings and objects that explores the liminal space between playful and intended actions. Inspired by the landscape of the yard and the actions that take place within, the goalless play of a child and the laborious …
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The Poet's Corpus: Memory and Monumentality in Wilfred Owen's "The Show"
… consider the suffering of the English soldiers and the brutality of modern warfare nearly a century after the armistice. However, critical readings of Owen’s canonized corpus, including “The Show” (1917, 1918), only focus on their hellish imagery. I will add to these readings by demonstrating …
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Ambivalent Images, Beloved Objects: Building Bridges between Picture Books and the Tangible World
… how pedagogical theories prioritizing objects and direct sensory experiences in early childhood can be applied to the creation of picture book illustrations. In doing so, it positions picture books as educational tools, and advocates for the importance of using them not to recreate nature, but …
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A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place and Narrative in Adolescence
… the literary genre of fantasy, narrative, and comics. These topics are traversed alongside subjects of adolescence and the creation of stories for middle-grade readers. Framed with personal stories, as well as peaks into my process, I investigate these subjects through the lens of my own …
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COHERENCE
… is a series of oil paintings and pen drawings that explores open narratives, or different ways to read artwork. The paintings and drawings showcase harmony, or tension, between ambiguous and representational forms. The visual experience requires the viewer to create their own …
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Meet Me in the Middle Ages: Engaging with fantasy, reality, and collaborative world-building
<p>This critical essay accompanies and describes my thesis project, Medievalia Miscellany, a magazine for middle-grade readers which explores the world of medieval fantasy through art, comics, stories, and activities. Throughout the essay, I use my own term “archaeological upcycling” to discuss and …
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The Infinite Crisis: How the American Comic Book Has Been Shaped by War
… the greatest catalyst for the American comic book medium to become a socio-political change agent within western society. Comic books have become one of the most pervasive influences to global popular culture, with superheroes dominating nearly every popular art form. Yet, the academic world …
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Literacy Revolution: How the New Tools of Communication Change the Stories We Tell
… history. Verbal literacy, or the ability to read and write, is slowly being replaced by visual literacy as a primary tool for human communication. As a culture, we tend to underestimate the creative ferment of our increasingly visual world. The linear, structured pathways of traditional literacy …
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THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS
<p>I am a Midwestern, Christian, and feminist artist. I make work about the beautiful, broken, and absurd ways in which American evangelical culture influences lives, especially women’s lives. I’m dragging everything into the light by deconstructing and critiquing the world in which I live, move, …
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Legends of Light: Crafting middle grade fantasy in the tradition of Catholic philosophy and medieval visual culture
<p>This essay promotes the writing and illustrating of middle grade literature that mirrors the wonder-inducing experiences of leafing through an illuminated manuscript and stepping into a Gothic cathedral. An examination of Catholic medieval visual culture moves into a discussion on its underlying …
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A Plan for Managing the Alexander Graham Bell-Joseph Henry Rare Book Collection in the Smithsonian’s Dibner Library
<p>The Alexander Graham Bell-Joseph Henry Rare Book Collection, housed at the Dibner Library at the Smithsonian Institution, comprises the two scientists’ private libraries and was donated to the Smithsonian Libraries by Bell’s family in 1970s.</p> <p>The prominence of both Bell and Henry in the …
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LEVITY
<p>Why do people—especially lawyers and police—condone sexual violence, refusing to acknowledge the value and worth of survivors’ lives? What does it mean to <em>survive</em>? And to what travesties must we bear witness before collectively taking action to stop perpetuating toxic cycles which harm …