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Asylum story
asylum story is a short literary novel set in South Africa in the year 2019. The protagonist is infected with a deadly new respiratory disease and being held in a quarantine facility near a fictional town in the Karoo. The novel spans a six-month period during which the protagonist becomes involved …
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Sometimes a story is just a story : story collections and the popularization of Buddhism in Japan
This thesis examines the story collections written in the eighth through twelfth centuries in Japan. The thesis questions the traditional scholarly assumptions concerning who wrote the story collections and why. I question the argument that the story collections were written by the Buddhist clergy …
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Stories: A Story
When the history of your people comes from faded and partial records, how do you fill in the gaps? When so much of modern media depicts the lives of your ancestors only in terms of their trauma and not of their triumphs, how do you come to terms with that history? Do you imagine the full lives of …
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Someone Else's Story
<p>The following novel manuscript, Someone Else’s Story, investigates what we can’t explain—inspiration and art, attraction and love, charisma and celebrity, intuition and fear. Pulled between all of these is Madelyn, who at the opening of the novel is having a very bad week. After a childhood …
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The Facebook Story
This capstone is an exploration of the Facebook phenomenon in today's world. It delves into Facebook's creation and evolution; the construction of an identity on online social-networking sites and the nature of Facebook relationships and interactions; and the News Feed controversy of 2006 and other …
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Post Traumatic Story Disorder: The Power of Story Telling and Story Hearing to Heal the Invisible Wounds of War
Beyond the visible physical wounds they suffer, soldiers traumatized by war often experience the debilitating effects of what psychiatrist Jonathan Shay calls moral injury and shrinkage of the social and moral horizon. Shay’s book Achilles in Vietnam argues that soldiers have suffered these moral …
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Their Story, My Story, Our Story: Oral Histories of African American Women Educators Paradoxical Navigation of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
… 1999) as the theoretical framework and oral history (e.g., Armitage & Mercier, 2009; He, 2003; Jefferson, 2008; Scott-Simmons, 2008; Vaz, 1997) as the methodology, I explore the educational experience of my mother and my aunt during segregation, desegregation, and post segregation. I weave my …
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How to Tell a Story: Mark Twain and the Short Story Genre
… relation to major theories concerning the short story genre. Despite his popularity as a novelist and historical figure, Twain has not been recognized as a major figure in the development of the short story genre. This study attempts to show that the short fiction produced by Twain deserves …
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Story Has No Limit
A thesis discussing the role of fiction and language in Helena Maria Viramontes' 2007 novel, /Their Dogs Came With Them/.
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The Story of Riverside
Various newspaper articles, photographs, and other memorabilia related to Riverside (now Sewell Park) mounted throughout thesis.
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Vietnam: A soldier's story
1 PDF file (vi, 169 pages)
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The Lana Lawrence Story
The Lana Lawrence Story is the fictional biography of a deceased B-movie queen, told by her daughter, Natalie. Following her mother's accidental death, Natalie looks for clues to define the kind of woman her mother was. In the course of her search, Natalie interviews a wide assortment of Lana's …
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The Story of Things
Capehart, Lucy, M.F.A., Spring 2011 Fine Art The Story of Things Chairperson: Professor Matthew Hamon The Story of Things examines the power of objects to hold narrative and inspire the emotional responses of longing, loss and desire. There is a tendency among humans to gather and save objects that …
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The Story of Things
Capehart, Lucy, M.F.A., Spring 2011 Fine Art The Story of Things Chairperson: Professor Matthew Hamon The Story of Things examines the power of objects to hold narrative and inspire the emotional responses of longing, loss and desire. There is a tendency among humans to gather and save objects that …
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La Bodega: Junior's Story
… bilingual manuscript, La Bodega: Junior’s Story follows the protagonist, Luis Rodriguez Junior, in the aftermath of his father’s death while serving with the 65<sup>th</sup> Infantry (Borinqueneers) in Korea. “Junior” must then navigate childhood in the rough Bronx, New York streets during …
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Flight: A Story Cycle
Short story collection.
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Living the newsmaker story
News stories about victims of violent crime and their families, controversial social cases (e.g. right to die legislation, abortion, AIDS, etc.), and innovative medical transplants, amongst other issues and events which come to involve elements of privacy, present peculiar problems for the ordinary …
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Unbound: An Origin Story
… enables the work to live between ‘public history and private myth'. I draw from an array of influential Jewish artists who have utilized this strategy effectively, among which are Philip Guston, William Kentridge, Dana Schutz, Will Eisner, and Art Spiegelman. According to Morris, relating to …
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Culturally based story understanding
… include an account of cultural influences on story understanding. The research reported takes a step toward accounting for cultural differences computationally by extending the Genesis story understanding system so as to enable Genesis to model Chinese and American differences in human story …
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