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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Road Trip"”.
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Are We There Yet?: Mobilities, Shame, and the Rhetoric of the Abortion Road Trip
… of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health, interstate road travel has become a central part of the contemporary abortion access landscape. Thus, this thesis investigates “the abortion road trip” as both a conceptual framework and lived experience of restrictive abortion access. Through feminist …
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Photographs from the road: Inge Morath, Sophie Calle, Sally Mann and feminist road trip vision
… uncertainty pervasive throughout the American road trip photography, film, and writing of artists Inge Morath, Sophie Calle, and Sally Mann. I argue that road travel is central to the content and style of their photographic projects. I reframe these as projects done by traveling women, moving …
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The White Men Are Coming! The White Men Are Coming!: Identifying Navajoness through Reservation Tourism in 30 Days, Jamie's American Road Trip, and Navajo Cops
… docuseries—30 Days (2008), Jamie’s American Road Trip (2009/2012), and Navajo Cops (2012). Situated at the intersection of Media Studies, American Indian Studies, Cultural Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, this dissertation explores the ways in which Navajo identities are constructed by the …
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How to build a home for the end of the World
… End of the World is a magical realist dystopian road trip novel by Keely Shinners. Donny is a carpenter who renovates houses nobody lives in. His daughter, Mary-Beth, is hell-bent on donating her organs to her chronically ill ex-girlfriend, Aida. Together, they go on a road trip across a …
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How to Hitchhike West with a Promise
… takes inspiration from the traditional American road trip novels, while following a contemporary narrative that dives into the main character’s judgmental attitude toward his fellow human. The story highlights his character growth with tips for hitchhiking that Charlie directs toward the audience …
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Izzy and Aster's Guide to Cryptid Creatures
… who have just graduated high school going on a road trip to investigate legendary cryptids such as the mothman and bigfoot. It is a LGBTQIA+ Young Adult contemporary rom-com that explores themes of found family, mental health recovery, friendship, and self-actualization. The narrative is told …
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Catch Chain
… in jails by embarking upon a cross-country road trip. However, the same issues the officer initially wrestled with begin cropping up in different cities, on various highways and in a multitude of states. The excitement and adventure of the open road runs parallel to the recurring …
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North of Sixty-Six
… he feels has been treating him unfairly. The road trip goes badly almost from the start, and the plans begin to unravel. After only a few short days in California, the trio realizes they aren't equipped to survive there and, unwilling to return home, backtracks to New Mexico. Working at a …
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El Niño
… infatuation with her boyfriend, Green, and their road trip trough the South Western U.S. and Mexico. As they travel, their relationship disintegrates into a war of intimate terrorism and they become entangled in a psychodrama of projected hostility, envy and pity. The question that El Nino …
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Road Stories
Road Stories is a collection of three novellas that explore the pull, allure, sanctuary, serendipity, and adventure of life on the open road. The novellas examine how for some, the road holds the promise of a new day, an improved life, a better opportunity, or a deeper love; while for others, it is …
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What Mean Do You Mean?
… the average of scores, miles per hour on a road trip, and so on.</p>
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The Mundane Habits of the Opposite Sex
… unlikely travel companions on a cross-country road trip, and Iowa teenagers resist their own mortality by hanging out in a small-town graveyard. These stories ask the question: if we don’t fully know ourselves, how well will we ever truly know someone else? In settings both dreamy and …
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An eye for vulgarity : how MoMA saw color through Wild Bill's lens
… packaged in the Guide, a faux family photo album/road trip guidebook. It is my contention that, despite their verbal emphasis on the Modernist and universal (rather than Southern) nature of the images, the photographs can be read as being replete with the mythology of the Old South- its decay, …
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More Than Road Trips and Rangers in Flat Hats: Recognizing Millennial Perceptions of the National Park Service to Effectively Engage the Next Generation of Park Stewards
… of natural wonders in the Western United States, road trip destinations. While the NPS is far from only “Western nature parks,” this popular perception permeates the next generation of park stewards. With this in mind, this thesis argues that the National Park Service must actively prioritize this …
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Love in the Fast Lane: Not-so-new Models for American Stewardship and Preservation
… of eight mile-long stretches of paved road across the Midwest, seedling miles, as part of the campaign to garner support for the Lincoln Highway project. In internal memoranda, the company called these seedlings “object lessons.” The seedlings, by creating a physical encounter of the …
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Picturing irony: Making a visual case-study from the work of Camus
… methodology. The creative project, Clint’s Last Road Trip (2014), traces the 1000 kilometre journey that my brother’s body made from his death until his cremation. It depicts the behind-the-scenes of the Western Australian regional death industry with an ironic autobiographical narrative voice …
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Mer
… She and her parents have been on a pan-American road trip since before she was born. In Las Vegas she makes friends with Carl, a homeless Alaskan piano player, and Damon, the son of a Cirque du Soleil performer. Willow leaves River for a Strip-based poker player named Fish. Throughout this …
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The jackal's wedding.
… masquerading as a white Namibian, and her road trip across America and Southern Africa with Joules, one of her three eighteen year old admirers. Following in pursuit for part of the journey is Joules’ concerned father, the bulimic, recently widowed Harry, and Joules’ eight year old …
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Mile Marker : A Material Investigation in Two Lane Travels
… materials like bricks, I-beams, roofing and road signs using jewelry and metalsmithing materials. I memorialize a location and create a narrative as a reminder to the wearer of the decline of the two lane blacktops that connect this country.
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Nowhere Landscape, for Clarinets, Trombones, Percussion, Violins, and Electronics and “The Map and the Territory: Documenting David Dunn’s Sky Drift”
… recordings</p><p>made by the composer during a road trip from Springfield, MA to Douglas, WY along US- 20, a cross-country route made effectively obsolete by the completion of I-90 in the mid- 20th century. In an homage to artist Ed Ruscha’s 1963 book Twentysix Gasoline Stations, the composer …
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