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Some Truths, Some Lies
<p>A collection of short stories and nonfiction essays</p>
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Lies I've Told Myself
<p>“Lies I’ve Told Myself” is a collection of essays that interrogate ideas of trauma, identity and memory. What happens when a middle-aged, Black woman leaves her frenetic job and slows down enough to hear the messages that she’s been too busy to notice? “Lies I’ve Told Myself” "explores and …
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The Lies They Hold
<p><em>A fiction story is created by approaching the idea of integrating romance into fiction, as is often omitted in some college curriculums. </em></p> <p><strong><em>Small town. Big secrets. One small chance of survival… </em></strong></p> <p><em>Ella moves back to her quiet, idyllic hometown …
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What hidden lies : a novel
'What Hidden Lies' can be read as a straightforward genre novel conforming to the conventions of the murder mystery form, with a tightly constructed plot involving a police investigation, a range of suspects, planted clues, red herrings and a surprise ending. But the novel also seeks to use this …
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Truth and lies in cinema verite
… This thesis consists of two sections: Truth and Lies, and the making of Everything Must Change. Truth and lies traces several developments made in the evolution of the documentary cinema (both technological and ideological) and explores their effect upon the manner in which the world before the …
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Rapture : excursions in little tyrannies and bigger lies
… This thesis draws on tropes of 'tyrannies and lies', 'defying gravity', 'presence and absence', 'subjectivity', 'knowledge and truth', and 'discourse' itself. These tropes are heuristically derived from the author's professional performance training experience ' with Monika Pagneux, Philippe …
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Everybody Dreams, Everybody Lies: A Novel of Blessing
<p>I can’t make up my mind. It’s been unkempt for quite some time now. On one side (the analytic), there is the desire to write a tome about the father wound. Meaning The loss of wildness, instinct, what happens when men become distortions bent by what women want. About desire and looking for a man …
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21 skin lies & the naked truth : short fiction
21 Skin Lies & The Naked Truth is structurally comprised of forty-two pieces of short fiction varying in both length and subject matter. Presumably then, 21 are lies and 21 are the truth. Some are one-page, somewhat-isolated stories in miniature, but there are also longer, episodic pieces--each and …
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What lies beneath? : a defense of categorical humility
The three chapters of my dissertation develop and defend a new Humility thesis, Categorical Humility. Humility theses tell us there is some fundamental aspect of the world that we lack knowledge of. All such theses share two parts: an existence claim, stating that there is in fact this portion of …
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What lies beneath: Theorizing women in S.T.E.M. intervention programs
As part of a larger research project, this multiple case study seeks to explore the efficacy of Women in S.T.E.M. intervention programs created to redress inequalities between men and women in S.T.E.M. majors. The programs selected for this study are considered strategic research sites because they …
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What Lies Behind: Speculations on the Real and the Willful
This integrated article thesis has three distinct chapters. Chapter One is an extended artist statement within which the following research questions are extrapolated: In what ways can an art practice question both the limitations of human-centered knowledge and issues of ‘the real’? What roles do …
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Linking child care to infant attachment : what lies in-between?
Objectives: To investigate the relationship between maternal separation anxiety, hours in non-maternal child care and security of motherinfant attachment in early infancy. <br></br><br></br>Design: Prospective. Methods: The participants for this study were 67 mothers and their infants enrolled in a …
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White Lies: A Critical Race Study of Power and Privilege
This was a phenomenological study of racial privilege as experienced by White people who have struggled to become more racially aware and socially active in dismantling racism and White privilege. The primary conceptual framework for this study was Critical Race Theory with Transformative Learning …
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How Still the Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense of Naturalness
… 2006 Literature Abstract: How Still the Riddle Lies Robert Baker, Chair Louise Economides Phil Condon The tradition of “nature writing” in the United States draws heavily on the literary movements of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Wordsworth’s meditative walks, Keats’s nightingale, Thoreau’s …
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How Still the Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense of Naturalness
… 2006 Literature Abstract: How Still the Riddle Lies Robert Baker, Chair Louise Economides Phil Condon The tradition of “nature writing” in the United States draws heavily on the literary movements of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Wordsworth’s meditative walks, Keats’s nightingale, Thoreau’s …
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Effective cartel enforcement: getting Malaysia ready for what lies ahead
Cartel enforcement is challenging, particularly for developing countries with young competition enforcement regimes as cartels are illicit in nature and competition authorities are faced with connected firms that sometimes enjoy close links with policy makers. So, why should developing countries be …
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